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Me and my friends recently did a podcast about common routes, and I thought I'd get the discussion going here. I'm interested in knowing what the general consensus on common routes is over here. Here are some of the questions that were asked in da podcast:-
What are your preferences in a common route? Long vs short?
What is the best way to do a common route?
Are VNs without common routes better for it?
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Quite a (surprisingly) good discussion going on here, I'll just pour in some different perspectives on how Sex was considered in recent history:
Arabs were a particularly conservative and jealous lot. Sex was restricted to be only between wife and husband, and husband and slave. Note that this was a cultural identity among Arabs that existed way before Islam, and Islam mostly strengthened this nature.
However, you can see that it's quite different across other Muslim people. In West Africa for example, Ibn Battuta (an Arab traveler during mid-evil times) described the people's nature there as:
"Conditions among these people are remarkable, and their way of life is strange. The men have no jealousy. These people are Muslims, yet their women have no shame for men and do not veil themselves. Women there have friends and companions among men outside the prohibited degrees of marriage, and in the same way men have women friends in the same category. This is despite them being very pious, and many go out of their way to memorize the Quran. A man goes into his house, finds his wife with her man friend, and does not disapprove."
Hehehe, category.
But that's only one part of the world, it's really impossible to generalize on a global scale regarding this topic.
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Yeah, I was looking forward to it. I'm mostly pleasantly surprised. It's very flashy and really goes out of its way to look good, which it does. Getting use to all of the cards and the power level of the game really is daunting tho, it's going to be sometime before people figure out what's broken and all w
Currently mainly focusing on the priest girl, I really like the idea of playing little countdown cards that explode in value in future turns
The most thing that's currently annoying me is that it's only on mobile for now. My phone is quite shitty and after a few games it gets stuck in the middle of a game, having to close the game and open it all the time is quite the chore...
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A bit of an odd question, so let me spell it out a little: Are the things we consider to be right or wrong in our every day lives, also right/wrong in an online environment such as an MMO? This may sound like an easy question, but I can't really think of a satisfying answer. Let me show ya'll an example that happened to me once:
In the very first MMO I played, I was trading with this one fella I randomly met. It was a very expensive and rare item he had, and he gave me quite a big discount (almost 50%). During the transaction, he accidentally clicked "accept" when I'd yet to give him any money. So I ended up with a rare item and he had nothing. He immediately begged me to give him the money, and since it felt wrong I just gave it to him. Later, after I told my other online friend about this incident, he laughed at me and said "why'd you apply your morals to an MMO? It's just a game. You're ok with raiding a party and stealing all their equipment, but this is too much for you?"
I... Didn't have much of a response at the time and just dismissed it as two very different scenarios. But when I thought more about it, I realized that people do tend to create their own online "moral code", especially those who've played for a large amount of time in a particular game. I'm mostly familiar with Hearthstone, but you have stuff like stream sniping, in which one player runs into another that happens to stream, opens the other's stream to see his cards and predict his moves. Many have called it "wrong", but is it really? You can simply use the "it's just a game" justification here too. Who can really decide what's wrong or right in a game other than the creators themselves?
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... For a second there I thought it was a 4/10
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It actually comes from this VN. I love seeing people's reactions when they realize it actually comes from a VN
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H-scenes are the biggest problem with VNs, and if you like them you're literally
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2 minutes ago, Tiagofvarela said:
have you tried getting into hers?
Somewhat, but not much considering she doesn't do all that much now. She seems to enjoy Disney movies movies in general a lot, and they feel really childish to me. I don't mind watching one every now or then, thing is I never know her own schedule and the only response I get from asking is "not now".
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Been a while since I made a thread over here, let alone a serious thread... But any who, as the title suggests, I currently have a lot of trouble getting along with one of my siblings. In particular, my sister.
To give you a bit a of a backstory, I've been closer to my sister than to anyone else in my family, probably to anyone else I've ever met. She's a year older than me, and since I was little I would depend on her for pretty much everything. A friend (my only friend at the time) to play with, a walking-talking wikipedia, an emotional bank to listen to all my problems-you name it. We've always had almost identical taste and interest; she watched what I watched, she read what I read, and vice versa. Sometime around middle school however, things started to balance out. She entered her "teen" years way before me, but ya know, girls are girls: This period of time is much harder on them. She started complaining and confiding in me way more than I would in her. At first I found this rather refreshing, considering I was the younger one. It felt like an honor just listening to her problems (God how silly that sounds to me now lol). For some reason, her stories never bored me. This is just your average girl drama; she doesn't like me, she didn't say hi to me, what did I do brah?!?! And things along that line. She was a little cranky now and then but the fun we had together greatly outweighed her temper tantrums.
We reached the peak of our bro/sishood in high school, when neither of us was an idiot anymore and our hobbies were still pretty close. I started spending a little too much time on games in this period, and less time with her. Our tastes also started to differ slightly, I started finding trouble enjoying the over-emotional drama novels she seemed to love, while she found my fantasy epics tedious. But we were still super close, and I felt nothing could ever pull us apart.
Then university happened.
University was beyond anything we, in particular she, had expected. My sister entered medicine, which as you may know pretty much saps every last minute of your everyday life. She no longer had the time to even have much drama in her life, let alone having any to tell me. Her free time became extremely limited, and she preferred spending it on her own interests that had grown ever so far from mine. During this period, I developed a rather abnormal love for animu and eventually, visual novels. Silly and dumb as it may sound, the generic 2D girls on the screen telling me their silly everyday problems eventually filled the void I had. I use to struggle to find time to chat and have fun with my sis during her early uni days, but now... I no longer felt the need to.
After about a year of this being the status quo, I felt bad for kinda ditching my sister for a bunch of virtual girls, so I tried to bridge the gap between us during the summer. I tried to get her into anime, and the results were really meh. About one out of three shows I'd suggest, she would like, the rest she'd distaste with vigor. This really got to me for some reason. I thought I at least knew my sister's taste, but apparently I was wrong. After a while I got fed up of her trashing all muh animu (it got to the point that I was beginning to dislike them for no reason myself), so I tried to get her into VNs.
Yup, I tried to get my sister into Japanese adult visual porn books.
Without getting into the embarrassing details, it failed. Big time. At this point I felt exhausted, and finally gave up on trying to get her interested in any of muh stuff. At that point it felt more like I was forcing my interests onto her, so I stopped. I accepted the fact that our interests have grown separately and that we no longer have much to enjoy together.
Then it dawned on me that she really wasn't interested in regaining the strong relationship we once had. This was a hard pill to swallow, but eventually I accepted it as well. Her not caring made it a lot easier for me to not care too. Problems between two sides can only be fixed if both are willing to fix the problem.
... And that leads us to our current status. The status of, well, almost no relationship at all.
So the question is more or less, is this a problem that should be fixed or ignored? I've tried what I could, to no avail. I really dislike the current, extremely shallow relationship we have, but I don't think it's in my power to change it.
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Do you dream that one day your podcast will rival mine's in popularity?
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You also should share your vids on as many related websites as possible, such as Fuwa. I've spammed this site quite a bit myself with my own videos and they don't seem to mind
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Uh, @DarkZedge , @john 'mr. customer' smith and @kingdomcome, the dude did not say he was going to make a let's play channel. In fact he specifically gave the examples of:
8 hours ago, yasuokirito said:like a weekly VNs translation updates or any new VNs coming out
Which are far from let's plays. I would recommend you check out Rockmandash's channel, since it seems to be the closest to what you want. The current VN youtube scene does have a few notable names, but it's desolate enough for a new channel to gain recognition with enough quality videos. Good luck!
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But how can Al'Akir be created by dark peddler...?
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5 hours ago, arakura said:
dafaq
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Well, the first part of the deal is a bit extreme. Not many people can even imagine giving up their own language and cultural identity, you're basically giving up a big part of who you are. As for my top 3 languages to learn, Japanese is a no-brainier, second I'd go with Urdu and then probably Turkish. I do meet a lot of Indian/Pakistani people on a daily basis, and they're kinda everywhere in the world lel, so learning Urdu definitely sounds like the best idea. I'm also really interested in Turkish culture and the history of the Ottoman empire and that kinda stuff, so I'd probably learn Turkish despite how unpopular the language is w
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+1 to whoever added that to the title
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1 hour ago, solidbatman said:
I always love it when foreigners try to explain away the US political system so ignorantly
Welcome to the internet. Let me say that for once, I know where you're coming from. As a guy living in the Middle East, I can't help but sigh when I see people overseas suggest ridiculously stupid solutions to the problems this region of mine faces. "Just nuke ISIS/Saudi/Iran/all za Middle East while you're at it" seems to be the general consensus at times. And surprisingly, I also agree with you on "the masses are stupid" point, and am rather surprised to see this new critique of democracy that is getting more and more prevalent over the internet. A few years back, especially around the start of the Arab spring, democracy was the divine way of a modern country to function that none would dare question, and anyone even considering something else is "Hitler". It's rather refreshing to see a little more open mindedness now.
I don't claim to know much about American internal affairs so I can't comment much on it specifically. But I do think that this odd belief that Westerners in general seem to have, the belief that "democracy is the objective best thing ever", is rather... Troublesome, to say the least. It naturally demonizes every other alternative without much of a reason. If I were to ask most people today why Democracy is "good", the average answer will be something along the lines of "well, at least it's not fucking communism". Personally, I don't think there's a global, all-righteous and correct way to make a functioning government. While democracy has been relatively successful in the West, that is not the case for the rest of the world. If you look at the Middle East for example, you would find that monarchies are much more economically successful and progressive, and politically stable than "democratic" countries.
In other words, "what might work for you won't necessarily work for everyone else". Whoever becomes president this time, there is going to be a very large segment of the population that won't accept the result. In my opinion, when the biggest Democracy starts not accepting the results of its own system, it's a sign that it's not working any longer. And that's really why systems are a thing: To make things work. If Democracy works in a certain place for a ceratin period of time, then it's the "correct" way as far as anyone can say, not for any deep philosophical reason. If it doesn't, then maybe a new way is better
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6 hours ago, Kaguya said:
Anyone else has plans for this season?
I haven't gone much up in rank in quite a while, but with the new fresh meta and cards I think I'll push to at least rank 5, despite me being in the middle of exams. There's N'zoth Rogue, control priest and beast hunter, all which I currently have a lot of fun playing. There are still a lot of decks I want to try out, like combo priest and n'zoth paladin, so I actually want more dust and the 400 guaranteed dust of a golden epic is very alluring.
Overall, it's a wonderful time to play hearthstone.
SpoilerI may be a bit too optimistic
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Just read it, and I must say the writing has improved quite a bit. The characters feel a lot more... Distinguishable and unique, with their own quirks and attributes rather than "dude X with swords and Y with Mace" which is what the first part kinda felt like. I'd like to see more of that.
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Well, would you look at that! I actually made it to this far, and I didn't even read the last few issues because I was quite busy during that time. Seems I have a lot to catch up on, but hey I even killed someone before getting killed, so I'm more than happy with any conclusion w
Looking forward to the final!
On 4/24/2016 at 3:58 AM, Nimbus said:(Babiker, I'm going to give you the haunting of a lifetime!).
Spoiler
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RAGNAROS THE FIRELORD
I was pretty happy I got that, he was definitely the coolest legendary in the set, if not the best in terms of performance. I'll probably have trouble trying to fit him into a deck that does hi justice, but I'm looking forward to playing some kinda reno control paladin in wild
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After watching blazing teens, I was super into Yoyos, although that was when I was a kid. No idea how good I'd be now
Was a pretty good show btw. Most of their tricks were legit, with a bit of effects added in cuz y nut
Also I must say, your skills are pretty next level. You'd probably beat the finalist in this show in a super saiyan/draon/fire move or something
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"Don't choose the job you love, but a job that'll keep you alive to do what you love".
ofc if the job you love also gives lots of money, then you got the best of both worlds. But for the rest of us regular people, I think this saying is a good one to live by.
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Well, I'm not sure what else there is to say, Batman already seems to realize the problem with the score system, although I am curious as to what would suitably replace them. For the reviews themselves, a summary at the end will probably do the job. I'd say a summary is much better than a bunch of numbers. When you try to think of the suitable number to summarize your opinion of a VN, you end up either having to give every aspect of the VN a suitable numerical weight, such as giving the story, characters, music and art 25%, if you want to be all professional. Or you just go with what number feels right. Both methods vary a lot from one person to another, which makes the top rated thing on the sidebar feel extremely inconsistent.
Speaking of the sidebar, I think we should either implement our own community scoring system that everyone can vote on, as to more accurately represent the opinions of the forums, or simply borrow the numbers from VNDB. You could ofc just do both. I kinda like that since it does give a relatively consistent and accurate evaluation of the VN in question, and would in no way affect the opinion of any review since the reviewer himself has nothing to do with the score. One would look and see Clannad, for example, on the top and think "Huh, that's rated pretty high on the list, I wonder what a review would say about it." The review would serve as a more in-depth look at the VN, one that does not necessarily support the score but at least justify it's opinion smartly and wittingly, like a review should.
I suppose the main con to such a system would be that OELVNs would probably get shitty scores and have a harder time getting seen, but I'm afraid someone has to be at the bottom. Work hard, OELVN devs, and prove yourself worthy of this community's praise
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Wrong thread, I think this belongs to "how to piss of Fuwa in one sentence".