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Plk_Lesiak

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  1. The thing is, I enjoy making people uncomfortable and crashing their worldviews more than I enjoy porn as such. Academia works great in this respect.
  2. I've talked about it in past a bit, my Master's Thesis was about My Little Pony fan porn and since then I've had a few opportinities to talk about R34 fanart and fanfiction during various classes and seminars, showing milder examples. Also my thesis has some NSFW attachments. It's in part possible thanks to my proffessors being a pioneer of sorts for porn studies in sociology, but it's definitely something that rekindled my enthusiasm for academia after an early disappointment. I'm now making a project on VN fan translations, but I'll surely get one day to the conflicts over h-content and censorship in VN localisations.
  3. You can also become a porn scholar like myself, you'll be able to show-off hentai on campus and people will thank you for it #lifehacks
  4. Welcome to Fuwa, I hope being here will make your adventure with VNs more fun.
  5. Anime pics can tell more than a thousand words though and they often don't need translating.
  6. Well, it's mostly the fact that people who came here or became more active here in last year or so had very few opportunities to actually interact with Sanathlig and more opportunities that anyone would want to encounter my stuff. Plus blogging and the avatar. I never suggested there's an actual resemblance (apart a few very vague ideas mentioned above), simply that I've found the notion highly amusing. Well, I have a bad habit of browsing Fuwa constantly on my tablet in public places, I definitely had a few of those "no, don't open the pics thread while poeple can see your screen, you idiot!" moments.
  7. Heh, I think I've seen people biased against OELVNs much more than someone can be biased for them. It's one of the reasons I find writing the blog this satisfying, there's a lot of unfair assumptions and simple lack of curiosity about the western-made stuff that I try to fight with through my posts. Well, you did it: https://twitter.com/PulkownikLesiak Please don't judge on the brony stuff, I'm way too lazy to manage a few separate accounts.
  8. I great movie with an incredible atmosphere IMO, but a very slow one. I hope you'll enjoy it, it's one of the more memorable ones I've ever seen.
  9. Thank you! I'm glad that someone feels encouraged by my posts, as an OELVN dev you're probably easier to convince than some of the die-hard JP-VN fans around here that I'm trying to convert, but still, this makes me happy. ^^ And no, at the moment I don't have a Twitter account set up for this use, but I might have to do something about that, you're the second person asking this question.
  10. It's not really something anime fans came up with, it's what the anime industry and broadcasters do. They release new series within the winter/spring/summer/autumn cycles, with most of them being either 12 or 24 episode long (that is, lasting for a single season or two). I think it didn't matter in the past because we didn't have simulcasts (that is, an anime reaching the western audience was only vaguely related to when it came out in Japan).
  11. I was wondering if it's even been out in Japan back then... But it was. Barely. This might be some kind of record when it goes to necroposting on the forums.
  12. We're always here if you want your ideas to be shut on and possibly refined through borderline-abusive criticism. More seriously speaking, I have a lot of respect for your approach to VNs, but honestly, if I would risk constant disappointment though my contact with some medium, it would drive me insane. At some point, I would most likely have to avoid it completely. In perspective, having a shitty taste like mine and being able to casualy enjoy all kind of VNs seems like a blessing of sorts.
  13. If that was your point, I think you've simply chosen a very poor way of presenting that. Your post didn't really make me feel you simply ask for "different" VN writing, but rather suggesting that VN writing, apart from a few hidden gems, is absolute shit, and you want much-higher quality, and more serious stories. Considering how big and varied the VN market is, even if we just look at the OELVN scene, it's a position that for me feels somewhat hard to defend - unless you have a very, very specific taste that Japanese media simply don't fit into. But then, why VNs in the first place? I'm not asking this out of spite, I just wonder why would you bother with a genre you generally don't enjoy?
  14. The last person that made a similar question around here got trolled in a pretty nasty way, be wary. ;] Hirugashi is licensed to MangaGamer, you should probably ask them. It's unlikely anyone would start a fan translation project for it now. For the other two... There some project listed on VNDB on Harem Tengoku, you can search the web for more information. Mirai's otome titles seem to be completely untouched both by the fan translators and by the western publishers, so I wouldn't expect them to show up around here anytime soon.
  15. Hello there! Seeing a new OELVN project coming to Fuwa is quite an exciting thing if you ask me. Hope you'll have fun around here and good luck with your game.
  16. I know that pain, I know it so well...
  17. Fifty Shades of Grey is literally bad fan-fiction. Slightly edited to insert blatant product placement and remove all the leftover Twilight references. I don't think anyone argues that it's good, only that it's entertaining. :> But there's another good point to make here - the fact something is bad doesn't mean you can't enjoy reading/watching it and discussing it with others. That's another problem with the snobbish approach to media, inability to understand that people's enjoyment is not in any strict way connected to definitions of good writing/art conceived by literature professors. ;p
  18. I have to fully agree with Thyndd. There's a good rule saying that "90% of every medium/genre is shit" and I'm pretty sure it also applies to stuff created by people active on 4chan's literary board. I also don't have any confidence that someone who's able to write a decent novel will automatically be able to write a good VN script. It's a different medium, requiring different skills and approach. What that first post represents is simply an elitist delusion of an "actual writer" frustrated that mass audience does what mass audience always did, rather than appreciate his awesome craftsmanship. And there's a lot of niches within VN audience, I don't think I've seen many "greatly written, but completely unappreciated titles". Especially with the still small westers market, if something is really good, it will find its way to the consumers, regardless of the masses of people consuming cheap, trashy porn VNs. Also, DDLC is not an empty meme vessel. It's a well-crafted and well-though-out VN, made by an author with a lot of talent and passion for the medium. Feel free to hate it, if you have to, but don't try to put it in one row with Sakura games, it's just distasteful. EDIT: And just as a sidenote, Narcissu was downloaded by close to 400k people on Steam. That's just 70k less than Sakura Spirit and it's a game about dying of terminal illness (which is the reason I'm postponing reading it for years and years now). How exactly is it ignored?
  19. I... I don't know what you're suggesting. More seriously though, I think Sanahtlig's ideas on public discussion and ways to form an educated opinion are very close to my own - being rational, open-minded and actively exploring different ideas is something I'm always aspiring to. So, while we most likely disagree on more things than not (h-content, OELVNs), what he did with his blog and posting around here is more or less where I want to be at a few years from now. Without giving up on obnoxious shitposting though.
  20. I actually have it the same, as I still live with my family, but I don't remember ever turning it on on my own volition. Older people are used to it though. Plus the device itself has its uses when combined with a console or a blue-ray player. I've once even remodeled my living room to set up my PC with the 50 inch TV there, when I was going to be alone for two weeks. Was fun.
  21. 2006-2008 - I was a semi-shut-in high school student, wasting time on random video games and not achieving anything worth mentioning. 2008-2009 - I became a college student and failed miserably at my first years thanks to my earlier isolation from real life. Failing to get my shit together twice back then is the reason I'm still a student, but I guess it led me on a quite interesting path. Now I'm trying to get a PhD in sociology and while I'm still a pretty crappy student, at least I've managed to become a somewhat-functional human being. I've also met my current girlfriend in 2008, it's crazy to think it'll be a decade soon that we're a couple. I've watched some anime during those years, but my real adventure with otaku media started much later. Something I quite regret in perspective, because my hobbies back then were pointless and autistic as f***. So yeah, not really a time I have much nostalgia for, apart from the relationship stuff.
  22. I've never played the game because I never had a PS console, but I've seen some let's plays of it and man, it's a piece of art if there ever was one. It's also an anti-VN of sorts, telling a memorable story without any text and with barely a few spoken works during the whole thing. ^^
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