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I'm still in the denial phase myself, after being in the game for the last 16 or so years.

In some cases, only their entire life.

Today felt like the plot of some bad TV show.  At work my boss call everyone into a meeting room and gave everyone personalized chocolate hearts.  Everyone except me... 
With everyone looking at me embarrassed and awkward she tells me "Don't worry I have something special for you."  She then hands me info on the available severance packages.
 
 
But hey, chocolate is on discount tomorrow! 

Goddammit internet. In my day, you had to actually walk up (20 miles in the snow, uphill both ways) to someone you wanted to assault and punch them in the face.

Oho, 100% legally assault if you can prove intent ... would be my assessment. If the image was just for lulz though, no.
But stupidity on the internet is causing us to rapidly move toward a future where there will be a concerted effort to curtail the freedoms and the consequence-free nature of the internet. Didn't have that in the 90s when people were more sensible, now every idiot can get on xD

Honestly I'm a huge no no on censorship for games, HOWEVER, that's for games where the publisher/company does not let us know why the fuck they are censoring whatever the fuck they are censoring. Atlus giving us an explanation and it making sense is basically all I ask for a publisher before I buy a game. I've not bought, or bought from 3'rd party as to support the 3'rd party but not the publisher, a censored game in quite awhile unless it is explained why it was censored. It isn't hard Nintendo :|

I came here only to say - it's really a missed opportunity to not bring VNs (maybe smaller, older titles?) to mobile phones.

Hi everyone! I want to let you know that Unhack 2 is finally out:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/444170
Unhack 2 turned out to be the most challenging project I have ever produced. I ran into production issues that caused delay after delay. Several of them were my fault, but I learned a lot from them and will carry these lessons forward. The game has mixed reviews so far, so we will see if it turns out to be well or poorly received.
Thank you !

Do they have an operator who asks which best girl is on the big ass pillow and then directs you to another person who yells "YOUR WAIFU IS SHIIIIIIIIT" at you?

"Hello Backers,
This will be a short update as we've been focused on getting The Labyrinth of Grisaia 18+ version ready. However, we're not able to make our last month's "End of December" release date due to the holidays.
However once the holidays are over we will continue to focus on getting the game ready for release.
We will keep everyone updated on future developments in 2017. We hope everyone has had a happy holidays."
 
to be fair, christmas did come out of no where this year. who could have predicted it?

I played Hanako's and liked it quite a bit, but couldn't stand the thought of wading through the early stuff again right away.  I picked it up a few months later and did Emi's route and didn't really like it.  Picked it up again a few months after that and did Rin's route.  I barely made it through her route.  I think I even dropped it for at least a month partway through, but maybe not.  I picked it after about a year and tried Shizune's.  I dropped it when they visited her father.  That was about um... 2 years ago.  Haven't had any urge to go back and try Lily's route.

Ok so I have finished the game. As for my opinions on it:
 

Don't worry, my reply was just a test. It's now confirmed, TexasDice officially hates Christmas.

This time of year once more, I see.

i have little time but ill try to make one real quick

As in previous years, it's time to embolden our avatars with a Christmas theme in order to combat the secular liberal elite.
Unfortunately, I am busier now than before, so while I can offer the below image containing a good sample size of hats, I cannot accommodate requests to place one on your avatars with my madd image strats. But you can still, like, I dunno:
look through the previous topics in case you still have the same avatar and I already Santified it. copy&paste your own damn Santa hat. wait for somebody else to, as in previous years, inevitably do the image editing in lieu of me (this is why I voted for Trump you job-stealing immigrants). So here's the shizzle:

If you're using MS Paint, ensure that your selected secondary color is the default white, enable transparency with the select tool, and then you can select and drag the hat with a transparent background. If you're using GIMP or Paint.NET or something, then, well, you know what to do you fancypants nerds.
Merry whatever

Guys can we at least avoid throwing personal insults at dovac? Criticizing his job decisions is one thing (although I disagree with circlejerking over it but alas), but name calling is something I'd like to avoid seeing. Dovac is a real human being, please keep that in mind before commenting.

I don't get the point of this thread. Digging up a month old livestream so the community can shit on him some more doesn't seem very productive.
He does indeed have some health issues and I hope he gets better soon.

MangaGamer is currently translating two fandiscs, Princess Evangile W Happiness and The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence (which is itself a combination of two Fata Morgana fandiscs). They've already released the Edelweiss fandisc, the KiraKira fandisc, the combo KiraKira + Deardrops fandisc, and two (1) (2) Da Capo fandiscs.  They don't seem to have any aversions towards fandiscs, so I think the idea that we're never going to get any more is quite overly pessimistic (this is coming from a pessimist).  If anything, we won't get the Gahkthun fandisc because it sold like crap, not because "the west hates fandiscs".
If you said, "JAST isn't going to translate any more fandiscs ever again", I wouldn't disagree, but that defeatist attitude towards all fandiscs is rather unreasonable.  SP might start doing some as well, although there's no indication that that'll happen.  They haven't outright said that they won't, unlike JAST.

I even spent my custom Steam Awards nomination slot on it!

Yes, Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning
You should buy and read it. Right now
Go

Don't jump to conclusions. MoeNovel and YumeHaven are two different companies with different ownership. AGM owns YumeHaven, Pulltop owns Moenovel, this isn't disputable. AGM has done web design and promotional work for MoeNovel and possibly left that in by accident despite not being directly involved in the production or translation here.
edit: If there is any shared staff between translations, it would never be that MoeNovel are responsible for Shuffle's localization. AGM is a huge localization firm who would have been the ones contracted to work on MoeNovel stuff, not the other way around. And they're big enough with enough staff that you can never tell what you're going to get from them. It is exceedingly unlikely that the same exact people responsible for IMHHW would be working on these new projects.

Groups like MoeNovel are why I hate the mindset of "any official translation at all is good, no matter the quality.  We should support them to show that there's a market for visual novels in the west", because then we get steaming piles of crap like IMHHW, and then other companies like Debonosu and Co. see that people are willing to buy anything with cute anniemay grills no matter how shitty the translation is and how ham handed the censorship job, and want in on the mad rush to reach the bottom.
I mean, Jesus, look at what MangaGamer and SP alone have announced this year.  We don't need to give every random company our money in the hopes that the industry will grow and we'll get more translated VNs.  If anything, we should be pickier about who we give money to now, if only so that we can prevent more Konosoras from happening.  Accepting and rewarding garbage in the hopes that we'll eventually get something better is moronic and counterproductive.

Okay, so I try to find this out on twitter and all I get are people saying because characters are gay, or its super edgy, or nonsense. I've played half of the first game, and I think its a god awful game with very few redeeming qualities. The characters are one dimensional and predictable, the investigations are bland and dry, the trials are an absolute mess with 30 different types of gameplay mashed together to create some ungodly mess of a classroom trial. The trials are just utter chaos. Poorly done music beat game, shooting random words down, shit all over the screen, its damn near impossible to play and know what the hell was going on. I found myself just mashing buttons until things worked half the time. 
 
The fact that so many people like it shows that, clearly, I am the one in the wrong for thinking this is a terrible game/series, so I ask those who like it, sell me on this game. What exactly am I missing? I'm not looking for a response telling me that, "the game just isn't for you." I want to know why people who like it, like it. I've yet to actually see people explain why they like it, aside from the, "OMG THESE TWO ARE SO SHIPPABLE!" type stuff. 
 
Posted in this board because I expect this thread to get as messy as the game is. 

Hi!
Recently I have been creating a new world to set stories in. I am creating a series of shorter games and comics exploring this world.  While I am not completely done, I feel as though your feedback would be very much welcome. I want to include you peeps in the development process. 
What is it?
Rooted follows a town built on top of a giant creature wandering through the world. 

The town is mostly self sufficient - they grow crops and trees on the creature, harvest the giant fur to sew clothes and other materials, and mine the horns of the creature to create more sturdy things such as weapons and foundations.
Every once in a while, the creature ceases its endless trot to slumber. For a short while, the giantfolk can visit the ground to trade and mingle before the creature wakes up. 
To the people living on the creature there are two worlds. The familiar and constant soft and furry world of the town set in the fur of the creature, and the ever changing, moving world of the ground. The world of the ground is always different , forever changing as the creature continues walking onwards. The creature folk are forever moving this way, but also forever rooted to the creature.
Intent
I want to explore how life on the creature is. To explore their world and use that in context of my own worldview to gain a better understanding of myself. 
Does the townfolk ever feel trapped? Do their youth run away to the unknown ground world? Does the town traditionally reproduce with people from the ground world to increase their gene pool? What does the ground world think of the creature? What if a city is trampled down, does people get angry and what do they do about it? What happens when they meet another creature with a townt? What if their giant is a predator, for example a spider? 
Those are some potential plotlines set in this world. For now I am still creating the world and establishing just how it works though!

View from a small settlement on the edge of the giant. 
What do you want from me?
I am involving you in the development of Rooted, if you would like to! 
Here is how it works;
Every week or every other week, I will post a new update on the project. I will give you guys a script, a comic, a prototype or simply some artwork. In the same run, I will provide a feedback form, you will hopefully give feedback, and based on your feedback I will pivot accordingly! 
While I have a vision, I believe it is important to listen to your audience and iterate from there. If you’re into it, I would love to take your opinion into consideration. 
Okay, let me join!
You can leave some feedback and sign up as a tester here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs_tElhyRJ2VJ0tuiVjBKdcRynAH2Zihld8DfQm_xjpVZe9Q/viewform 
Who are you?
My name is Sebastian Larsson. I am a game design student from Sweden. I am into creating things ranging from games, to comics, to stories. I have been working on Rooted independently for the past couple of weeks.  
You can follow the development of Rooted here - http://rootedstory.tumblr.com/
..or hit up my twitter here https://twitter.com/Mnniska
Thanks a ton for reading, let me know what you think :)