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  1. 間 (ま) here refers the natural or unnatural gap during words in a conversation. so this speaker is being conscious that there's an awkward pause right now. Edit: read the context. Here the pause has obviously occurred because HF couldn't answer, so the narrator concludes that she had been waiting a long time.
  2. Glare (use a walkthrough if you get stuck, instead of guessing) (http://akimasanari.sakura.ne.jp/) It's a really quality AI story. Also the herione is the only tsundere character that I've liked ever. I'd also sort of recommend the author's other work ayakashigami.
  3. The fact that they didn't try for the same thing makes me excited about the author.
  4. That's really nice to hear. Cafe is a seasoned translator who has done other dark stuff like Aoiro rinne, so the project has a good chance of reaching completion.
  5. I think you can take premises. If there are six thousand billion shounen fanfictions, there can be two VN's which involve dating people with disabilities.
  6. Best: Karenai Sekai to Owaranai Sekai (Haven't gotten far enough to speak of the story, but the moe is sublime) Worst: ??? Maybe Ryuukishi Bloody Saga for most disappointing. Wouldn't say it was bad, just disappointing. Most hyped: Ayashigami (doujin)
  7. Wahoooooooo! .................. I'm feeling a little bit mixed.
  8. Patriarchy. I'm already done with culture appropriation. Basically boils down to 'be considerate when drawing from other people's cultures' and 'someone will always be offended, and that's okay.'.
  9. So when you say 'Don't assume someone's gender', it's not because the assuming itself is particularly wrong, but because of the additional pressure it could cause a different gendered person, given today's state of relative non-acceptance. (If being differently-gendered was widespreadly accepted, assuming without ill intention, while it would make breaking the truth harder, would not be a huge deal.) Honestly, I did not see this nuance until now. Now I think that 'Don't assume someone's gender' is ill-suited as a opening statement as it leads people to think that you are saying 'assuming makes you wrong' and 'you must stop prematurely using pronouns to resolve this issue'. Talking about in practice, if the person does not tell me that they are different-gendered, it's not practical for me to treat everyone as a third class until I get confirmation (which the person might not give because they aren't comfortable). What does "treating like a third class" mean, anyways? What is the objective? If the objective is take considerations in ways we can towards different-gendered people living in this age, then I propose the following: Not unduly assuming. Referring to someone using the label 'he' has a good reason for it. Assuming gender qualities about them besides from strictly how they act is unnecessary and a good example of something to avoid. If you suspect a friend might be different-gendered (etc.), you could slip in a remark or few that would reassure the friend that you would be accepting and confide-able, if such were the case. Basically, what I was trying to say is that people who are differently-gendered should be aware and try to avoid doing this. And other people should be more tolerant of different gendered people who display that behavior, since, it's basically the same human flaw we see in lots of people. Even more so, they should try to not treat other different gendered people badly because of bad experiences they have had in the past (it's also the case that the 'attention-seekers' are disproportionately visible) I suppose the reason why I felt the urge to say #1 was because: I've seen one cross-gendered person on facebook who was clearly seeking attention From looking briefly at gender-fluid forums, and also having seen a few people introduce themselves online. About online introductions. Regarding those people, they usually draw too much attention to the fact. For this, tone is important, too. Like others have mentioned, in a forum environment, we usually don't really visualize gender while assessing people, which is why it appears unnecessary and a little baffling that someone would spend more than a line or two talking about their gender. Of course, that's just our impression. I can't say I know. I, mostly unashamedly have not given much thought on people with such mental disorders. Well, what exactly is equality? Looking at wheel-chair parking and accessible buildings. Somebody has decided and today's community agrees that we want to do this. The driving reason being that those people would be severely more disadvantaged otherwise. I suppose you could call this 'for equality'. These are concessions supported by the majority, for the benefit of the minority. Adjusting to someone with Asperger's Syndrome would be also be a concession, requiring personal effort and perhaps having to bear unpleasantness. I wouldn't doing it once out of courtesy. But most people avoid contact with those people because it is less desirable (more effort, natural human revulsion to disabled people). I suppose we apply our social standards, which are "we choose who we hang out with, and it doesn't matter if someone is left alone". As a nation, we do hire some special aid workers to assist these people in learning and life, so that they aren't severely more disadvantaged, at least in matters of education. Everyone using non-gendered pronouns before confirmation would help other-gendered people. But it's not a concession people would want to make. Thus, saying "to reach equality" in this sense is obscuring the fact that this is really a concession/benefit problem, which is why I don't like it.
  10. Certain things are glamourized in this world. Saying we should include fat characters in our generally idealized stories is basically saying we as a society should shift the set of things we glamorize so that it makes a minority feel better. Atm, what we as a society glamorize is mostly depends on what the masses like, and what companies try to propagate to forward their brands and ventures. IMO, ideally, you should train people to recognize these societal glorifications for what they are, which is just things to be enjoyed, not reflections of the truth. You shouldn't advocate for a different set of glorifications in order to lull fat people to thinking the reality is some how kinder for it. The reality is what it is. I think there was a line of criticism against LN's for glorifying being living an otaku lifestyle. If there was a parallel universe where such otaku-glorifiying LN's didn't exist (that was like 15 years ago), that would be fine, too. I'm sure there were and are a lot of otaku who felt pressure (both external, from people's opinions, and internal, from lack of validation) from the type of lifestyle they chose/fell into. The main issue with fat people is not the difference of preference (that should very much be allowed), but existing prejudice. Fat people shouldn't be bullied in school, or insulted anywhere. But those are difficult challenges that revolve around human nature. If your fat and some asshole insults you based on that, that's because they are an asshole, and not particularly because you are fat. Or they have a prejudice. The prejudice, and more importantly, how people act on that prejudice, is the more productive and realistic issue to tackle.
  11. Played some of 竜騎士BloodySaga and am pretty disappointed. The VA, bgm, and art are all solid, and the heroines are cute enough, but the dialogue's so unremarkable. It's pretty much what you'd expect for a harem plot. It doesn't seem like the writer is trying to tell a dedicated story either. A let-down at the end of the year.
  12. This is the cutest little issue I have ever felt disturbed by. It's pretty great that we take VN's seriously enough to discuss them like this.
  13. Youjo Senki, since the LN is well received. And Granblue cause I want to have fantasy without playing a moba-ge.
  14. This is no mere story. This is the actual background of the Nekopara series. Wake up, people. There was a contest to make depressing backstories for happy novels, this was one of the top entries. I enjoyed it. That was fucking daaaark.
  15. https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/5gjm8l/himawari_contest_voting_thread/dasrsnk/ Clephas is... I think he mentioned that before, although I'm not sure how serious he was.
  16. Oh shit, I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, rock!!! Wait a minute...
  17. Noooo I missed this byeeeeeee! Hope you have a good year.
  18. That's why I disagree with telling people to be ask people for pronouns. It's an action that catches people's attention (and scoff), but isn't really the important one. It's not really practical to wonder forever (that someone could be any gender-orientation), so I suppose the take-away is to not to unduly assume. But people's environment is affected by their decisions. Also as a person, you can influence yourself by the lines in which you choose to think. I mean, probably not for gender and sexual orientation, but that could shape the finer things. It's possible that a person couldn't help but becoming the person they are. It's also possible that, they had a mental want or desire that influenced their mind, actions, and thoughts, and eventually lead to a different identity. In a way, these people came to possess that identity because doing so makes them feel comfortable. This would sort of be their choice. As an outsider, we have no way of knowing whether it was that person's choice. In a ideal world, we should respect people's choices regardless, but to the modern person's sensibilities, there is a big difference between 'choice' and 'had no choice'. People react differently: they are a lot more sympathetic if the person 'couldn't help it'. Just a thought, maybe those two shouldn't be treated as differently as they are now... Anyways, I agree that one shouldn't have to change who they are (besides the extreme case of not being able to coexist), even if choice had an effect on that part of their identity. No, I don't think others must always understand nor do I expect that to happen. People don't need to understand to respect something. It's like atheism. I didn't mean 'significantly understand'. (I agree with what you said in the atheist example, and the acknowledgment part after. I guess I get the impression from the people that present this information, that they are seeking "learn and propagate" out of you, rather than "acknowledge". The way I take what you said was "people must make these courtesies/adjustment for these minority groups". To be able to do that, you'd have to know a something about of what those groups entail. I suppose the purest form of disadvantage minorities have is a lack of understanding. Spreading information (strictly information) in the hopes of increasing awareness, is not a bad thing. Though it's not the the outsider's responsibility to learn about every minority. Some assumptions are necessary or preferred. I think the minority groups should acknowledge this, and recognize the other person's perspective. The fact is not that these people are special, it's that they are different and they should be allowed to be different. I see consideration from the other side as: Not acting like you're special. (Ideally, this is the same as doing so without the gender/identity elements.) Not telling me how someone must treat you differently. (This is different from an atheist leaving in a religious family, as it's not like the other person isn't rejecting who you are or treating your worse for it. Beyond that, I really don't think one should act like people should adjust to you, as that is an effort on their part.) Then it's up to the other person's to be open-minded and not to reject that person's identity. This is what I think should be the goal.
  19. Your second blog post disappeared, so I'll go reply here. Firstly, two reasons why people react warily to people who announce the unusual state of their identity, or preach in a SJW manner, is that those two actions can be driven respectively by people seeking attention, and, people wishing to attach themselves to a Great Cause, making themselves feel better by perceiving the rest of the world as 'uneducated' or 'wrong'. Now actually on to my reply. The reasons why I don't ask people their pronouns: 1. By current sensibilities, it feels silly 2. Inertia 3. In the current socieity, doing so will lower many people's impression of me. The third reason is the largest reason. If it was acceptable, after getting over the change, I wouldn't mind saying that as a courtesy. Though imo that's all it is, a courtesy. The issue I take with how you present otherkin (thank you google-sensei), etc. is that identity is a lot of things. Going off of personal experience, there are things I really liked, that really meant a lot to me, so much that I would consider the state living while 'rejoicing or revering' them part of who I was at that given moment. Heck, there was a time where I thought all characters of a series to existed to me. I'm pretty sure that counts as something spiritual. I think there's some other forum members who for this kind of thing holds true too. What I'm saying is that identity is who you are at this given moment. None of it is worthless, of course. What I disagree is giving such thing a label and elevating it to being something that others must always understand. Your basis of elevation is that for that element of your identity, you did not choose to become that. I'm not sure I agree with that. I think identity in this context is often a process of exploring areas until you find something which feels right to you. When you say "I was meant to be like this \ I'm sure this was how I was born", you really are just attesting to how right it feels, which is a subjective feeling. To take a part of one's identity and share it, and tell people to acknowledge it, is basically putting oneself as a topic out there and wanting people to notice you and share (by understanding) in that part of your identity. However, doing this outside the appropriate times is still a social faux paus. Understanding someone is requires time and effort by the other person. It's inconsiderate to impose that on people automatically.
  20. Okay, I'm listening. I warn you that, having stated that you are open-minded (a surprisingly hard thing to be, additionally so when you have a mission), if that turns out not to be the case, I'm going leave the discussion immediately. I personally, can't stand people who do that. Also welcome to the Fuwanovel.
  21. Interesting. Guess there's no magic in eroge sales.
  22. I played a bit of it but not that much. Didn't like the graphics as much as I thought I would. Personally, I was looking for something epic.
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