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"Fuwanovel will make a raspberry PI devkit for making VN characters come to life." using the doll here: http://www.dollfiedream.tokyo/en/dollfiedream/dddy_th2_sasara_wg.html/ using the talk program here: http://www.infiniteloop.co.jp/blog/2013/02/raspberry-pi-yukkuri/

I seem to remember that one of either MPC or VLC, can't remember which one, will let you override the sub font But if you're going to keep the show, you might as well edit the subs to your liking. It's easy. You can experiment with a single line (of normal dialogue) in Substation Alpha to look the way you want. Then you can do seearch and replace to change a whole bunch at a time You don't even have to mux the subs back. You can be lazy like me and leave them separate. As long as your .ass in the same folder as the video with the same filename, it will play back OK.

mine from "this one test". I'd advise you not to look, it's not pretty

I have an electribe, so I got the rhythm if somebody got the rhyme

I understand.

You're not missing much these days The last worthwhile console from Nintendo was the SNES (unless you count mobile gaming, which I don't)

Yes, because I've always stuck with classic video games. Because of anime and because of emulation. My gaming days started with the NES and Super Mario Bros. But I was also aware of the popular computer games and arcade games of the 80's, even the pre-NES ones because were still around--people hadn't started throwing them out yet. Then, you know what was happening with video games of the 90's, everyone was thinking 3D is state of the art, let's go 3D, and 3D hardware acceleration was also taking off. But I had already discovered anime at that point, was already playing games with anime characters--and most of them were 2D. Occasionally someone would do an anime style game in 3D, but because 3D at the time was an ugly cardboard-cut-out-looking polygonal mess, they never really looked right. So I ended up on the other side of the 2D/3D divide for a long time (probably until Idolmaster for 360 came out--I looked at the performances on youtube and said to myself, This, this is the proper use of 3D). Meanwhile I really was impressed with the prospect of real-time software emulation. I was one of the early adopters, buying the Williams Arcade Classics for PC, and locating Dave Spicer's arcade emulator. I was particularly impressed with MAME, because of the relative ease at which they seemed to be adding games--much faster than I expected once it got rolling. I wanted to find out how the emulation really worked, so I joined the MAME project for a couple of years, working on sound drivers for some of the 80's games. Anyway, before I knew it I was caught up in the emulation stuff. Through emulation I got: -a chance to thoroughly play the arcade games I could never really afford to as a kid -games for systems I never had the chance to buy before they went out of production -most importantly for me, access to Japanese games that never made it to the U.S. at all. Also, there's one important thing about classic video game designs: they need minutes to play, not hours. You can spend hours playing them on days when you have the time, but you don't have to spend hours just to feel like you're getting into it. I shudder every time someone mentions a game where they do "grinding." Finally, I have managed to almost completely avoid the mobile gaming market. I just can't understand "gaming writ small"...

(Sigh)...I knew this was coming when I saw the title of the thread

The Screamer (had to look it up, though; I don't know PC98 games very well)

My favorite quotes are always the Engrish

Or you could look at Ikoku Meiro no Croisée You still get plenty of cuteness, and more of the "person in a foreign country" feel

Yes it is worth watching. Although, I liked it the least compared to Gochuumon and Non Non in terms of humor and art At first I thought it would be the best of the 3, but I was misled into thinking the whole show would be taking advantage of the Japanese/Western culture combo: instead, after the first few episodes, they seemed to abandon that uniqueness for just "girls being cute" humor for many episodes. Love Live was better than any of them IMO

I guess To Heart. (I've played several other bishoujo games from the 90's, but they weren't VNs...)

Well Japan is cranking out anime like there's no tomorrow and there's already more anime from years gone by than you can shake a stick at so if you want to keep up with the Joneses you're gonna have to burn the midnight oil and watch anime like all get out.

Have to raise an eyebrow when people are talking about Rie Kugimiya and tsundere and not mentioning Iori Minase (Idolmaster) or Kurumi Hazuki (Twin Angel) !!

I got a few things at the 1999.co.jp store Don't forget good ol' amazon.com I remember once I was looking all around the japanese shops for a certain t-shirt, they were all sold out, but a small store selling through amazon had one

Yup...resistance is futile... another successful victim client of my song recs By the way...I sang along with it too while I was watching the show

Hey, I finally got around to watching Futari wa Pretty Cure. Another great wrong has been righted. And I will compare this show to the recent one I saw, Onegai My Melody, seeing as how they are the same kind of show, by saying that I like the girls better in Pretty Cure, but I definitely like the critters (Maimelo, Kuromi, Baku, etc.) better in Onegai. Every support character in Pretty Cure annoyed me. Mippuru, meppuru, Porun, Wisdom...

What's wrong with the first laptop? Since they both have problems, which one works better, the first or the second?

I just realized, the letters it give you are not nearly as useful as the bar graphs...if you're close to the center then you can say there's some margin of error one way or the other...but if it's way off to one side then you're obviously way out of whack

Here's mine. "Defender." is a cool title. It reminds me of the game.

If there is anything provocative in it, it's suggesting that there is an anime (regardless of which one) that everyone should watch, when in fact there is no such thing. Just as there is no game that everyone should play. So in my opinion, it was a waste of time for you to watch K-On out of some misguided sense that you ought to watch it even though you don't like it. (The epitome of this lunacy is of course the "50 visual novels you should read before you die" list, assuming one takes it seriously)

Are you sure it's the Pulltop Yakuza, and not the Chinese Communists?

This has happened to me before when watching in a group, too. I just quit looking at the subs, and worked on my listening skills. Whatever I missed didn't matter if I didn't really care about the show anyway; I figured I was turning a waste of time into something practical. Also, it's interesting to talk about "the" anime being Evangelion. Is it only one show at a time? In the club I went to, they always had 3 different anime series going, plus a movie night.