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Sekai Project has boldly launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund merchandise for upcoming title Chrono Clock. I summarize my initial reaction. Sekai Project launches Kickstarter preorder store for Chrono Clock

LewdGamer's interview with Nutaku was at times oblique and opaque. I cut through the smoke and mirrors with highlights and critical analysis. LewdGamer's Interview with Nutaku: Highlights and Analysis

You might find it helpful to consider these common cognitive distortions that lead to depressive thoughts. Discussion of these is often the basis for cognitive behavioral therapy, which seeks to break the negative reinforcement loop that perpetuates depression. Focusing on objective assessments of oneself and one's place in the world is one way to mitigate such depressive episodes and regain a more balanced perspective.

If you want to employ irony correctly, I'd suggest following some basic writing principles, like not starting a new paragraph when the line directly depends on context from the previous line.

Where does this assumption come from that Corona Blossom sold well in Japan?

Regime collapse doesn't mean that military posts are abandoned. It just means the government is no longer in control and central military command may be disabled. Regional commanders are more likely to be acting independently. The US has the overwhelming power, especially air power, to conduct shock and awe tactics, striking before the enemy has a chance to react in several places simultaneously. If India invaded, the Pakistani military would see them coming and would have a chance to react. If the US invaded, they might be caught flat-footed. Even if they weren't, they'd be less likely to reflexively launch at India as their world came crashing down around them. MAD only works on actors who have something to lose and have the presence of mind to realize this. Do you think Hitler would've hesitated to launch nukes, if he had them, as the Russians closed in on his bunker? Chaos opens up possibilities that a stable regime wouldn't contemplate.

India invading by ground to confiscate the nuclear weapons of its arch-enemy. What could go wrong? That was by no means a quick transition, and wouldn't have been even without US military intervention. If one of the sides had nuclear weapons, that could've been a catastrophe.

It's in the release notes on VNDB, which I mirrored in my list of censored eroge.

SteamSpy reports a range of 900-3300 estimated sales for Tokyo Babel. On the low end that's "failure", and on the high end that's "reasonable". The uncertainty is too great here to make any real conclusion based on this data except, "Tokyo Babel did poorly, relative to its length, compared to other MG titles sold on Steam." And MangaGamer already told us that, as Decay pointed out.

I don't understand why you're so confident of this, especially after the military coup in Turkey. The potential for a North Korean regime collapse is a source of great concern to the US. The current leader does not have as strong a grasp of the reins of control as his predecessor. Some may cheer the notion of North Korean regime collapse, but it would likely not be a cheerful matter in practice. I know less about Pakistan, but there's a tension between the secularists and Islamists and this could explode into conflict. How would the regime collapse? I imagine a scenario similar to Syria, where Islamic radical groups purportedly seized control of chemical weapons and used them.

You make a very important assumption that a violent regime collapse will be immediately succeeded by a functional new regime. That's a dubious assumption at best. I mentioned China and India as example nations that the US would rely on to stabilize the situation if the US did not get involved. India and China are fairly stable nations that wouldn't be likely to spectacularly collapse as described in the premise.

In the wargame linked in the OP, it was determined that 100,000 ground troops would be required--just to secure the nuclear weapons. Securing the weapons would take these troops nearly 2 months, and 200,000 additional troops would be required if stabilizing the country was also part of the mission.

The premise here is that the collapse is violent (as it likely would be). In addition, the nations being discussed include one that has known connections with "terrorists" (Pakistan) and one whose populace has been brainwashed to hate the world and told that their enemies must be purified in a nuclear firestorm (North Korea).

I don't really get that. Attack on Titan was an immensely entertaining, gripping human drama. Re:Zero can be rather bland at times and the setting is fairly generic, while the protagonist is Joe Everyman. It's a good show but not outstanding.

Once the weapons are used it's too late to prevent the damage. That's the premise for action. Likewise, proliferation is difficult to rollback once it's occurred. And if organizaitons specializing in asymmetric warfare get ahold of such weapons, the consequences could be dire.

Nuclear warfare isn't part of the premise of this scenario. The nation with the collapsed regime has not threatened to launch / use its nukes (yet!), and neither has the US or other nations. But the nation is in chaos and there's no telling what could happen in the coming hours and days.

The scenario I'm envisioning here is "chaos". Either a coup or popular uprising, possibly both. Rioting, plundering, cities in flames. They have fissile material and the means to detonate it on neighbors. That fissile material could easily be handed off to units that specialize in asymmetric warfare (commonly known as "terrorists"). A weapon like that almost certainly can't be mounted on a drone. You're expecting the firepower of a tank on the equivalent of a humvee. Then the mission is no longer "occupy the nuclear facilities". It's "neutralize all Pakistani air defenses, occupy the nuclear facilities, and decimate any military forces that so much as look at you funny." Then you have to consider whether airlifts would be appropriate for introducing the necessary firepower to accomplish all of this. Maybe tanks and armor would be more appropriate? Those can't be easily airlifted, especially without control of airfields. Because regimes tend to act in a way that is self-preserving. Non-regime forces are less predictable. Especially "terrorists", who are more interested in causing as much damage as possible vs. self-preservation.

Do drones carry the necessary firepower to "collapse" the sorts of hardened concrete bunkers where these weapons would be stored? If you were a Pakistani officer in charge of an anti-aircraft battery or aerial fighter division, how would you respond if you saw helicopters or troop transport planes carrying US special forces or paratroopers passing near your position? If you were an American commander, would you give this Pakistani officer the opportunity to shoot down such elite units?

Elaborate on this. What's a "drone strike"? What weapon would it use? What would it target? By "takeover" are you implying targeted incursions by special forces, followed by occupation of the facilities by US ground forces?

A coup or popular uprising has just occurred in the nuclear hotspot nation of the moment. Rioting, plundering, cities in flames. Total chaos. The US military is contemplating intervention to secure the nuclear weapons. You're the US President. Today, right now, you must make a fateful decision that could determine the course of history. Some US officials, including Vice President Biden, consider "loose nukes" to be one of the most dire security threats facing the US and its allies. I was reading an old article in the Atlantic and this scenario came to mind. The Atlantic: Pakistan, The Ally from Hell The US has also modeled similar scenarios in war games. ABC News: U.S. Wargames North Korean Regime Collapse, Invasion to Secure Nukes Comment on your choice below.

Gematsu: Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- Death or Kiss launches for PS4 and PS Vita on March 23 in Japan Those looking for a VN-retelling of the source material (perhaps with additional routes) are going to be severely disappointed. The synopsis isn't even coherent.

What are you even trying to say? Generic protagonists are the standard in VNs, most of which ultimately are escapist waifu fantasies (the reason why most VNs have multiple routes that focus on one of several love interests). The protagonist is simply a vessel for the player to interact with the world, and thus too strong a personality could rebuff players who can't easily get behind a character with a fundamentally different personality than their own. Thus we end up with generic "blank slate" protagonists who are mostly defined by their interactions with other characters and by the events that transpire.

I saw this on Reddit and I'm dumbfounded that it's getting so much attention there. It's just been announced (it'll be quite a while until release) It'll be in Japanese, with only a small chance it'll be released in English There's no telling if the game will even be any good (visual novel adaptations of other source material tend to be inferior to the source material)

That's an entirely different matter but also not a good situation. After JAST's recent QC failings I can't really blame anyone for not wanting to pre-order anymore. Have to wait for reviews to make sure there isn't something wrong with the game first. And then wait some more because no one reviews titles that aren't major releases or the flavor of the month. Even Flowers doesn't have an in-depth review 9 days after release, and that had gotten a lot of attention. Sakura Dungeon had site reviews within 5 days.

JAST's stance has evolved over time. They're more willing to release games with lolis in them these days (e.g., Saya no Uta, Littlewitch Romanesque, Shiny Days + unofficial patch). I talked to JAST recently about an adult release of Aselia, and they said that while it was possible, it wasn't enough of a priority to warrant putting additional effort into a new release of an old game. In other words, the window of opportunity to make this happen was missed.