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  1. I wish to share my pain, comrades. This transcript is slightly edited.

    <Zakaaeru> >can't find bluetooth mouse, begin search

    <Zakaaeru> >places where I put stuff are messy as fuck

    <Zakaaeru> >search entire house, move messy stuff around

    <ohiowar> maybe cleaning you house would help you find it

    <Zakaaeru> >pick up the thick layer of debree in my room for around 1h30,m

    <Zakaaeru> >notthere

    <Zakaaeru> *did find ATH-M50 carrying case in most unlikely spot ever*

    <Zakaaeru> >mom comes out of her bedroom from the noise

    <Zakaaeru> >ask if she knows where my bluetooth mouse is

    <Zakaaeru> >she comes back in 15 secs with mouse

    <Zakaaeru> >she thought it was her own

    <Zakaaeru> nvejiwnvhoudhy8bavidnwjancvduhohvuwaonvhdwasdf

    <hotsauce2000> lol

    <ohiowar> lol

    I+feel+you+bro+_c348de8ec3c4bee27f1379f2

  2. I don't think that memories define people. As Kamijou Touma says in Index Volume 16, "'Though I can't remember the events from before, even so, it is because of them I'm able to stand here. The 'me' from the past still motivates the 'me' that can't remember anything today. What he left behind isn't in the 'head', but in the 'heart'. So, it doesn't matter if I can't remember, I still understand what I need to do.'" Basically, it's kind of like muscle memory.

     

    Yeah, I prefer to think practically about things.

     

    Then what about Schrodinger's cat? Or is that not a physical paradox? 

    I was mostly just arguing based on what the other person believed. I honestly don't know what could possibly make a person, well, themselves. If you think it's the person's body, then start replacing body parts with artificial ones. At what point does the person stop being themselves? Or are they still themselves when you copy all their memories into a completely artificial body? Then what happens when you start replacing the memories like I described in the last post? And once all you have left is a new body with totally different memories, can that still be called the same person?

    Sorry, I got a bit philosophical there. :P

     

    As for Shroedinger's Cat, I think it's only a paradox from a common sense standpoint. Everything makes perfect sense if you look at it from a quantum mechanics standpoint. At least that's what I've gathered. I'm not a quantum physicist, don't quote me on that.  :D

  3. As entertaining as the reactions could be, I think the goal is to attract new members, not scare them off by thinking they wandered into a blood cult

    You know, considering how many eroge heroines are virgins, you might be on to something with the "blood cult"...

  4. I'm using Tae Kim's guide right now, too.  It's so good!  Are you liking it?

     

    The publication of Katawa Shoujo (full version) is probably the most important event on this planet since LUCA got its self-replicating machinery running.  I assume you liked it?  Have a favorite heroine, or memory? 

    Yeah, I'm basically just reading it when I used to read VN's - during my bus rides to and from uni, but even so I'm learning a lot without having to take notes. Once I've finished it, and I'm on page 284 I think, I'll go through it again and copy down some of the most important points, and then I'll hopefully be good to go reading VNs with ITH and the like.

     

    I downloaded KS on a whim after reading an article about it somewhere, and only got around to playing it a few days later. I was told that it was something like Persona but without the RPG part. Before I knew it I got sucked into it, but because Persona was the closest thing I had played to KS, it completely skipped my mind that it was 18+, so when Emi's first H-scene came my parents were in the room. >.> Thankfully neither was looking at my screen before I instantly alt-tabbed.

  5. I see a person as a personality and memories. Even if a person has a different body, if they have the same exact personality, memories, traits, and habits, I could still see them as that person. Of course, a face really helps identify someone as well.

    What if you start changing someone's personality and memories? At what point do they become a different person? Are they a different person if they lose/gain a single memory, are they a different person when every memory is replaced, or something in between? ;)

  6. Sounds like a really good idea, if I had a something like that when I started reading VNs, my first VNs wouldn't have been so all over the place. And while I was fine reading Cross Channel as my second VN right after Katawa Shoujo, I'm guessing some people could be put off by something of the sort.

     

    You say first step should be a process that can take years, instead of just picking up English translated VN through a torrent included on the main website and withing an hour start playing the game? If there was a way to be figured out using which people can learn Japanese in one hour, it would surely be the right way, but I am yet to see a "knowledge injections" that would give you that.

    So the process to get people to actually get interested in VNs to actually want to learn Japanese is to first introduce them to VNs in English because those are the VNs they can actually read.

    And "bit of Japanese" is not enough to read VNs, not comfortably anyways (without machine TL software). Even after a year you will not be able to read like you would in your first or second language which you already understand for 10+ years (that's for second language, first language you already know since you were born obviously xD).

    Most people using fuwanovel never studied Japanese (because it is not even easy, in Europe there is very few universities that have any asian language class, and in my country there is not a single high school that would offer such language).

    So those people mostly only know their first language and English, you can't expect them to read Japanese VNs in a year or less, not like they would read in English - that's why English translation exists.

    This, if someone told me a year ago that I should put in the effort to learn a whole new language for the sake of something that might just end up being a passing interest, I'd call them crazy. And yet here I am, now able to understand the most basic of Japanese sentences, but only after I was sure that this wasn't a passing interest and that I actually wanted to put in the effort.

  7. "I have to say that I love this place very, very much. But soon everything changes. Well, at least it does eventually. Fun things...Happy things... They'll all eventually change some day, you know? But can you still love this place?"

    - Nagisa Furukawa (Clannad)

     

    That's all I can think of that hasn't been posted here yet.

  8. Ef is pretty much entirely Slice of Life. It also ignores a lot of opportunities to explore conflict between characters, so I found it to be a bit of a dry read.

    Possibly because the cover art made it look kind of epic and made me recall Illya's clothes, I thought it would be more action-y. But as long as it's entertaining it should be fine.

  9. Alright, let's see how this goes.

    1. Clannad

    2. Steins;Gate

    3. Ever17

    4. Little Busters

    5. Muv-Luv Alternative

    6. Cross†Channel

    7. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

    8. Umineko no Naku Koro ni

    9. Symphonic Rain

    10. Rewrite

    11. Fate/Stay Night

    12. Grisaia no Kajitsu

    13. Saya no Uta

    14. Katawa Shoujo

    15. Air

    16. Kanon

    17. G-Senjou no Maou

    18. Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo

    19. Planetarian

    20. True Remembrance

     

    Everything past number 5 is a 9 on VNDB, and while I tried to sort them, it ended up being pretty arbitrary. :P

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