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According to Wikipedia:

Timing of ero will depend on setting and plot. Remember, the ero should serve the story and the story should serve the ero. In general, I'd say there shouldn't be much full-blown ero until mid-game. Sprinkle in fan-service scenes to help build the sexual tension. You don't even need separate CG necessarily; even descriptions of the protagonist's viewpoint and thoughts can work. Of course, if the game concept revolves around sex, then early sex scenes may make sense. In that case, the early scenes should be setting up later drama. I generally stay away from "nukige" that are a series of loosely-connected H-scenes. Such scenes tend to lack the immersive quality--that attachment and emotional investment--that I'm looking for,

I like games where ero is an integral part of the game concept, yet the ero-scenes themselves are only a small part of the experience. Good ero-scenes require developing a bond between the player and the heroine, together with appropriate buildup of sexual tension. The story and ero should synergize, not exist independently or be at odds. School Days HQ is the example I'd hold up of this synergy of story-driven drama and erotic scenes in action.

I was thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm Are you contagious?

Denpasoft responded to my Twitter rant. I responded as follows:

Somehow I don't think Winged Cloud's next title will be 'Sakura Cuckold'. I could be wrong.

Clearly to embarrass Sekai Project. I suppose they're being paid to advertise for Winged Cloud. Or maybe they're paying Winged Cloud to host an ad for a popular title in their store? Not sure anymore!

The decision point in the OP doesn't make much sense, but I take it this in an attempt by Winged Cloud to gain more Patreon subscribers? So the game is probably distributed for free with nag messages to subscribe for extra content (probably H-scenes)? I'm not fundamentally opposed to this model if you can assess at a glance, before you download the game, how much you'll need to pay to get the experience you expect. In this case, if that's a straight $30, that's much more than I'd be willing to pay for a short throwaway indie title from the likes of Winged Cloud. But as long as I don't feel "entrapped" into sinking more money than I expected, the payment model doesn't particularly bother me. If it encourages people to pay rather than freeload and doesn't disrupt the gameplay (e.g., by offering gameplay incentives), then have at it. Edit 1: I checked Denpasoft's store page and while the game is distributed for free, they don't even mention that there's in-app purchases. Sasuga Sekai Project. Way to blindside your users. Seriously? Looks like they're taking pointers from Nutaku! Edit 2: And here's what comes up when I click the 'download' link on the Denpasoft store page. Seriously, Sekai Project? Seriously? You're really letting Winged Cloud do this to you? Are you out of your minds?

Did anyone else notice the Engrish? Not good. A Korean publisher for a Japanese company? What? Is this what Steam has come to be? A dumping ground for those who don't understand English well enough to care about basic diction? So Japanese companies just hire the cheapest contractors they can find to shave localization costs to a minimum?

Take the skills that are the biggest upgrade first. After 5 chapters you should have a pretty good grasp of the system. Make sure Naya has Flame Shower. That's about all I can remember from that period. The game isn't so hard that you need to fuss and worry about optimal upgrade choices. Myself, I leveled my entire team equally in both Normal and Hard Mode. In the latter, my forces were consistently 5 levels below enemies in Hard Mode, and I still had no trouble pulling off SS ranks when I had my full party.

They surely want to cross-promote their titles though. That's the whole purpose of a shop environment: to encourage you to browse other titles.

How would they even change that without sequestering the nukige in their own section or not promoting them at all in their shop?

That doesn't say all that much. Violence is relatively well-tolerated in the West. Lolis are not. Kouryuu suggested in the past that titles like Monobeno were off the table. It's quite possible MangaGamer would've or even did turn down Lose over Maitetsu. No further than Maggot Baits indeed.

It seems like you're mostly concerned with appearances. You don't want to give the appearance of undermining democracy, even if the net result is the same. Said like a true politician. I'll buy this.

I never even got past the first investigation in KnS1. The voice patch had been announced and I stalled my playthrough to wait for it. After that, I never got the urge to start playing again. MG basically lost me because of their clunky handling of the voice licensing.

I don't think I've ever come across someone with such a terrific grudge against a particular game. I also don't think I've seen anyone else ranting about Kara no Shoujo 2.

HongFire is where the H-code creators tend to hang out, but I suppose Fuwanovel has a couple people who are knowledgeable about creating H-codes. Also, I prefer ITHVNR. It's Windows 10 compatible and has a nice minimalist interface. For machine translation you can't really go wrong with Visual Novel Reader though.

Polls are based on models of voter behavior derived from past elections. These models appear to have failed to predict Trump's rise, so we can't be sure they even correctly model the current election given that Trump's candidacy may attract people on both sides who don't usually vote. A model applied outside of its intended context is just systematized speculation: it makes a good talking point but doesn't necessarily have any predictive value.

As others have said, focus on grammar. Learning kanji is a very long grind that can be mostly bypassed nowadays with automated parsing and dictionary-lookup. To some extent, optical character recognition (OCR) can even automate this process for text that can't be hooked. Focus on hiragana, katakana, and radicals, and leave the kanji grind for later after you've mastered the grammar. The quicker you pick up the basics (grammar, hiragana, katakana), the quicker you can actually start reading untranslated VNs. It's possible to get to that point in less than 3 months (1 year of Japanese courses or 400hrs of intensive study). The courses are useful if you actually want to be able to speak the language someday and not sound like an anime character trying to speak broken English with a crippling Japanese "accent".

I find that the Atlantic (usually) runs articles on politics that have suitable perspective. They take sides but do so in an even-handed manner, without going through the motions of trying to be "objective" when objectively one argument is superior. In the end, "objective" journalism isn't about giving every side a fair shot, it's about appealing to the lowest common denominator (appealing to the widest audience possible by not offending either side). It's a business model; nothing more, nothing less. People should not fall into the trap of false equivalence. Objectivity is not treating all arguments equivalently, but rather giving equivalent arguments equivalent consideration. Trump and Hillary are not equivalent candidates, unlike every other US presidential election in recent memory.

The system isn't "rigged". It just so happens that the two major parties agree fundamentally on most issues (despite rhetoric emphasizing differences), and simply have differences in preferred implementation. Both parties have always agreed on basic liberal democratic principles--at least until now. The stability of American democracy is a feature, not a bug.

The general consensus among political strategists seems to be that the Republican party was heading for a crisis either way all across the ballot. They were faced with two bad options when Trump won a plurality of the delegates. The likely result of either choice was the fragmentation of the entire party.

It's not quite fair to blame party officials for a candidate that was imposed on them. But that's exactly what voters will do. How exactly does Trump represent the Republican party when the Republican party didn't choose the candidate? Is it fair that those most affected have little or no say in who is their spokesperson? If not, should some "votes" count more than others? The US Constitution is silent on the matter of how political parties should select their candidates. One could certainly argue that if you disagree with a given party's selection process, then you should vote for a different party, run as an independent, or start your own!

Should the Republican party be able to veto the choice of primary voters (second poll question)?

Donald Trump's US presidential campaign has grabbed international attention. Love him or hate him, he represents a new brand of politics. Political analysts have forecasted that the success or failure of Trump's campaign will have wide-ranging effects on the fortunes of the Republican party candidates sharing the same ballot. They speculate that a failed Trump campaign could have disastrous consequences for the entire party in the 2016 election, causing them to lose the Senate and possibly even the House of Representatives. Established analytical models show that voter turnout and decision-making during a presidential election year is heavily influenced by the appeal of the presidential candidate for each party--even for unrelated races such as for state and local positions. If a candidate is particularly toxic, voters of that party will stay home, voters of the opposing party will be mobilized to vote in higher numbers, and/or independents will vote in a more partisan manner (choosing the opposing party in every race instead of choosing a mix of candidates from each party). These observations imply that people, especially non-partisans, hold the entire party responsible for the words and actions of the presidential candidate (either consciously or indirectly through their actions). Essentially the party is a brand, and the presidential candidate is crucial for establishing that brand image. Should a political party be held responsible for the words and actions of its spokesman? In particular, should the Republican party be held responsible for Trump's campaign? Keep in mind that Trump was ELECTED to represent the Republican party. Party officials did not choose him. Party officials were expected to endorse him or face the wrath of their constituents and their peers. Should party officials be held responsible for the words and actions of a candidate they did not select? If so, should party officials intervene and disregard the choices of voters if voters select a candidate they don't want to represent them? Would allowing party officials this power undermine the very tenets of democracy? These are important questions that are at the heart of what it means to be a democracy, and I haven't seen much discussion on this topic.