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  1. I think a reviewer's job is to write about what was interesting about said work and what was bad. You can write whatever you want, in whatever fashion, artistic freedom and all that. Frankly I find that rather pointless when I am reading a review. I want to get something from a review. If the reviewer hates the genre of said work. And produces a long review about everything he doesn't like about the genre he sees in the work. His review is quite useless. Who wants to read something like that? Aside from the bashing fun. If you actually put some effort into being objective you will make something that is more practical for others. You can never be completely objective and neither should you try to. Rather gain the insight that you will see things in a different light. In addition to your personal view.

  2. This is such a weird thread. The most important thing that makes you choose what to learn is practicality and interest. If you those are your only requirements and interests we will just say some random languages. You might choose one to study some and drop later, prbly never using the language again. Wouldn't you like to use your time more beneficently?

    18 minutes ago, Nosebleed said:

    I always thought German is a pretty cool language, but I do not see how learning it would be useful to me and so I am not spending years learning it and am instead investing my time in things I know will be useful either right now or in the future. You can argue learning something is always useful, but languages take a lot of time to master, and you can never learn all of them, so you'll always have to make a choice of what matters most to you.

    Exactly. That's why you should learn Fapanese! So you can enjoy freedom without murica (English) in porn novels. Because if you read fapnovels regularly. Why not do it in fapanese! Thus getting nice fap material all meanwhile enjoying learning the language at the same time. Yay! Peace Peace!:Teeku:

    More seriously though. You should learn Icelandic. That way you can read the Edda saga and Norse mythology in the original language. This is very interesting stuff (Because then you can read いつか、届く、あの空に and actually understand what is going on it.):Teeku:

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    1 hour ago, EdwardWongHPTIV said:

    While certainly some of mechanics of dating sims apply in principle, the actual methods used are over simplified or over the top. Remembering details about what you talked about on your dates is certainly important to most women but it's more of a minimum requirement imo. Sadly a nebulous concept like chemistry is probably the most important and then just having experience dating and/or talking to the opposite sex. I'm not talking about the over the top shame/embarrassment routine in Japanese games. I just mean knowing how to avoid potential land mines during conversation.

    Incidentally getting involved with someone married is often a quick path to the goal. The forbidden nature tends to amplify the lust factor, but... drama.. complications.. and probably not the first choice with the average moral compass. But never say never. These things happen. Live and learn.

    But getting back on topic I'd say 99% of VNs I've read have completely unrealistic portrayals of love. At least when it comes to initial chemistry. At least VNs don't suffer as much from "will they or won't they" as manga tend to do.

    I feel visual novels are usually too nonsensical to provide any realistic portrayal of love. I might end up loving the characters. But I can't actually think of the story and the love development as realistic. To be honest. I think Visual novels are even worse to at reflecting real life than dating sims are. Even the thought of it is so far out there. I find it hard to point where it stands.

    Although I think the concepts of dating sims are overly simplified as well. I do have a certain lack of faith that some people might understand this. For an average sociable guy I guess it won't be much of help. But a person who has never understood social settings. Or perhaps never really had much normal social contact with people. Perhaps It would be in some sense worthwhile? If actually dating sims makes people understand some social concepts, I can't say they are useless. Hopefully the people playing will have some hobbies or interests to talk with other people as well. Rather than just talking about dating sims, or the weather. 

    52 minutes ago, Flutterz said:

    I'd still say "no" because beer tastes like shit :Teeku:

    Alright. Then I'd just say. "Then I'll give you Flutterz a glass of cognac." And you will be like:

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  4. Might sound weird, but I wonder if the video is onto something

    I haven't actually played any dating sims as far as I can remember, aside from vn's in general. But if you believe the statistics from the video and the concepts it spurs. The sims does actually promote the basic concepts of dating. But not in that you should try to imitate how dating sims work. But rather understanding the concepts that dating sims have and the similarities they have in real life. The nuances of language, communication and relations to others. Knowing the difference between saying "how's it going" compared to "hello". "Do you like the taste of beer?" means more than just liking beer. Rather, saying yes to it. Would mean yes I'd like to drink with you as well. These should be might obvious for any functioning human being. But I am afraid for some people they aren't.

    That sims have a value is based on that those statistics in the video are actually legit/good.. Their reliability aside. Actually talking to people is the only way to will actually become good at it. Also trying to randomly use dating advice without knowing how your actions work. Frankly is retarded.

  5. 10 hours ago, Chronopolis said:

    I read through most of the first title and wasn't impressed. The pacing was nice, and moo-chan the main girl is likeable...but nothing really appealing in the first game. Relationships and characters  feel quite anime-like, in a bad way. Basically everyone staunchly say it gets better though, so I guess you can be sure it does.

    The CG's were nice, I appreciated them being of consistent quality with the sprites.

    I have the same opinion as Chrono. The series are in essence very simple, or anime-like. The characters act and story develops like that in average anime. So the characters are hardly that deep. The setting and story is interesting at first, but it's only used in simple ways. The story does get better as the series progresses. But err, it's hardly muv luv extra and muv luv alt in difference. In a anime, simple characters and story that would be perfectly fine. But in a visual novel? I find it hard to praise that.

    That aside though, I did find the vn enjoyable. Looking at it as a more simple vn with anime characters. It does have it's charms. It has high production values, easily readable, MOE and Mookooooo. Don't go expecting a magnum opus though.

  6. 2 hours ago, littleshogun said:

    For @Bolverk, happy 22nd birthday. I just remember that I sometimes saw you in some forum, and I just checked your profile by the way. But I think it's till nice to said happy birthday.

    This was a pleasant surprise. I didn't expect to get a nice greetings from anyone. Thanks!

  7. 1 hour ago, Dergonu said:

    They are awesome games indeed. 

     

    Well it's been a little while since I read it... I'd say he surivived because: Protagonist armor :makina:

    Yeah. I'd say it was due to his fitness and luck. So, protag armor haha.

    Although I did enjoy the 2nd and 3rd main story routes. It was very... Hollywood action like and such. I had a Yuuji-boner at the time I read it, so I was just bliss while reading. But in afterthought, some of the stuff that was did in the series I find rather questionable.

  8. 1 hour ago, ChaosRaven said:

    This was actually irritating me a bit in Conjuerors VN contest. I had the impression that many voters thought that Hatsusaku is just a light hearted moege. But most comments I've seen from people who actually read it implied more that it's a more sophisticated and mentally exhausting VN, maybe even comparable to the true route of ef. You hardly need a 'recovery VN' for a feel good moege.

    Hatsuyuki sakura is a weird vn because it's a bit all over the place in terms of genres. It has quite some normal charage and moege elements (shirokuma's route especially). The depressing utsusge feels is very hard in some routes as well is in the background overall. It also has some chuuni like parts, although they aren't really good.

    Anyhow, it's not a moege. prbly something like a charage-utsuge.

    Conjuerors VN contest honestly is more a test to see what people think of vn's they haven't even played. As the majority of the voters can't read jp, or haven't played all the titles. Making the results rather funny, although interesting.

  9. 7 hours ago, Tawm said:

    I don't recommend reading anything you'll want to enjoy one day with better comprehension, though.

    I think this is a really bad advice honestly. It's more important to read something you enjoy. You are bound to miss some stuff your first time around. Reading something you don't like or reading something really easy might seem like a good idea. But it will make the reading experience horrible. It's outright horrible to read say a moege slowly when you don't like them in the first place.

    Read something you are motivated to read. But keep the language a manageable level of difficulty. Finally there are more good jp vns around to read than most of us will have time to read regardless.

  10. Understanding and getting a feel of Japanese is the hardest early part. Afterwards it turns into loads of memorization and some grammar learning. Because you just add and add to your knowledge. Feels like any other common foreign language you might learn, Spanish, German etc.

    It's similar to programming I suppose. Learning how the syntax and logic is used takes effort and practice. But afterwards you can easily learn how to use external libraries and modules without much effort. Because it works in the same framework as you've learned before. You just have to learn how to manipulate the library.

  11. Due to the lack of torrents, the frontpage has lost its previous purpose. It should include the currently active parts of fuwa. Showcasing the blog, forums and reviews. Easily dragging you to try other parts of the site you might not usually read. The blog pages does this pretty nice. The frontpage should go for the same imo. Or some kind of integration so that the frontpage, forums and blog doesn't give of feels of being different sites.

  12. 3 hours ago, Valmore said:

    Though why anyone would get angry about a black Stormtrooper is just fucking stupid.

    I did find it rather hilarious honestly. Because I thought of the stormtrooper in the same line as clone troppers. All being white clones. Yada yada. Capturing children and brain washing training them doesn't sound like the greatest idea. But neither did the majority of the movie, haha.

    Funny though. He was practically the most alive and captivating actor in the entire movie. Compared to the woman main character. His character felt real, She just felt like actor robot. Also that lightsaber fighting scene at the end. So horrible, I don't even. My god.

    As for the US.. It being racist is nothing new.

  13. 11 hours ago, Kiriririri said:

    Don't feel so bad :miyako:

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    My Monday wasn't that better either. Woke up before 6am to go to work at kindergarten + I have a flu.

     

    Kindergarden!?

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    That's like loli paradise

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    Just without the lolis

     

     

  14. Imabi has some on it yeah.  Seems like a good place to start. Afterwards you should prbly find some jp written textbooks on it. No idea how much interest you have in literature. But reading the old classics in original is good practice I imagine. I haven't had much interest for 古文 so far. So haven't looked any into it honestly.

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