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New title takes away the incredible " subtelty" previously present. I'm against the change.
But then we'd have sacrificed all this delightful commentary / flaming.
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Huh. My friend and I saw "anime adaptation of a mobile game" and immediately dismissed this show. Maybe we should revisit this?
You should give it a try. Don't know if you would like it or not but it definitely won't feel like a waste of time according to my extrapolated confidence (although I think you've already been spoiled by now). It's not a masterpiece but it still is an enjoyable show.
I can assure you I haven't been spoiled.
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Huh. My friend and I saw "anime adaptation of a mobile game" and immediately dismissed this show. Maybe we should revisit this? Didn't realize that this was from the makers of Zankyou no Terror, which we liked quite a bit.
Also, just a tip: in general, you'll attract more attention to posts like this if you include an appropriate image in the header.
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Based on reader feedback, I've decided to modify this post. I appreciate everyone's comments on the very important matter of post title.
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Learning Japanese really isn't all that hard. It does take a bit of time, though.
My first-year Japanese language college course was probably the hardest course I've ever taken--and I'm working on a PhD. I can't recall another course that required 5hrs of dedicated study a week in addition to class time (1hr per 1hr of courses). After all that I was nowhere near where I needed to be to even read a simple sentence. Now I can finally read some simple phrases unassisted--10 years later.
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Meh. I'll stick with not learning Japanese.
If you care about your time or have any sort of life, that's probably the best call, and it's certainly the most popular decision.
There seems to be a similar theme to your answers, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is. I think you’re being a little too subtle...
Common solutions for common problems that you have full control over. That's what it means to be a problem solver!
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neither of whom ends up having sex with the main character.What if they have sex with the antagonist who steals them away from the main character?
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Thought I'd inflict some non-fury into the thread...
Decay can claim whatever emotional state he wants. My title was meant to reflect the discussion in the various threads I was following, mainly the JAST thread.
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I think the problem is the same in every part of the video games market, VN fans will rareky buy eroges and VN's and the ones who are brought to this world won't pay for something that they can get for free. Another problem is the culture shock that will cause the sale of eroges in places outside japan, korea and maybe china. But still, i respect how you try to bring new people to this forum
I'm positively taken aback that you made this your first post here. Thanks for the support! Even if you can't legally buy the games I talk about! o.O
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For Furious vs Outraged, iuuno. Who are you furious towards? JAST. What are you furious about? In direct response to them delaying the game. It's not a far jump in this context. The envisioned fury's cause is trivial to pindown: the notion that there shouldn't be a reason JAST should be delaying the game. Which fits snugly a state which to use the word outraged.
Denotically they may be somewhat different, but here words are applicable and seem to point to the more or less the same state.
That's just it. *I* wasn't really all that furious. In the discussions I referenced, I was one of the cooler heads I think (Decay seemed more "upset" than I was). You've leapt to the conclusion that I was referencing my own state of mind. I wasn't.
That's the point I'm trying to make. Rather than scratch their heads and just say "What are you even trying to say?", people just flamed me for holding an imagined point of view they disagreed with. Is that my fault? Perhaps. Is it also their fault for leaping to conclusions? Yes!
As for the cause of the fury, again you inserted your own logical leaps and came to the wrong conclusion, all the while calling it "trivial" to deduce. People were upset not so much about the delay, but because JAST waited to tell people until the release date in BOTH instances. It may sound silly, but rabid fans rearrange their lives around this sort of thing. And JAST just kept faking them out. That's not courteous. It's also not professional.
My actual opinion on the subject can be found here.
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I will recognize one Achilles Heel with my methods: they fail the categorical imperative. If everyone did what I did, the world (and less broadly, the VN community) would be a worse place. In fact, I do what I do specifically because others aren't. That's essentially my excuse. If everyone did what I do, the need for what I do would dissipate, and the negative effects would accumulate. My argument is essentially that there's a balance to be stricken here, and right now there's a need for potentially disruptive behavior like affiliate marketing. To the extent possible, I try to walk the fine line of leveraging the benefits while minimizing the negatives. I certainly feel I haven't committed the worst offenses attributed to affiliate marketers, for example. I have a friend who argues that people like me are scum, which helps.
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Fair enough about the shifted memory. But both statements are ambiguous in the same way.
They're not. "VN fans" implies what you say it does. "Fans" implies fans eagerly anticipating Shiny Days. Not the same at all. Also "furious" and "outraged" have very different meanings. "Furious" implies undirected anger that may or may not be justified. "Outraged" implies a directed reaction to a perceived slight or wrong. As a writer, I actually choose my words sort of carefully (though I have a tendency to give no particular extra attention to titles and headings), and what you're showing here is that this isn't being recognized. People are just jumping to their own conclusions, basically. Well, that's people for you.
Activists and Community leaders are both heard. The difference is that the community recognizes the goals that the community leader is heading for, agrees or at least respects their stance, and trusts the leader to lead/implement a plan on their behalf to realize those goals.A community leader is simply the "in-group" version of activist. Any effective activist is probably both, simply by definition. But you're right--no one nominated me to do this. Then again, I usually don't claim to speak for anyone either. When I do, I tend to do so in an objective manner: referencing information and events that support my interpretation of others' positions. I don't just assume everyone agrees with me.
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When Otaku Bookworm posts his reviews on VNDB. He just posts a link to his blog post and that's the entire body of the post. I hate that. It feels like the sole existence of that post is to generate more hits for his blog, and not to spur community discussion.
I don't think he started doing that until I did. So yes, the blame for that would probably lie with me.
Here's the main arguments for doing this (other than the obvious self-serving one).
- Having one centralized place where information is stored makes upkeep easier than several. Think of this from a database perspective. If I want to make edits (and I almost always do), I want changes in one place to be propagated everywhere the content is posted. That only works, in this case, if the actual content is only hosted in one place.
- Different sites have different formatting rules. For a large article the reformatting between sites is non-trivial. It saves time to just post a link.
- I put effort into my site's layout. In some ways, I think it's superior (for the specific content I provide) to the layout that the sites I'm posting on use. You're free--and encouraged, in fact--to comment on the site where you encountered the article, as to be honest my commenting system still isn't very good. I haven't found a good solution to this issue.
- Analytics. I love data, and the sites I post links on don't give me much (or any at all, in some cases). I want to know how many views my content is getting, where views are coming from, whether people click and actually read or just hit the back button, and how many people actually buy stuff after reading my content (showing that I'm making a difference). This is important for helping me improve and target my content, among other reasons.
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It doesn't matter what you were trying to do, it matter that you used a title like that. It rubs myself (and probably a fair amount of other people) when you say "visual novel fans" are "outraged", when, most of the community doesn't even have an opinion on the matter. Since everyone in the community falls under that label it feels like you're either implying that they are outraged too, or that they should be.
That's a classic case of selective memory. Here's the original title: Fans furious over yet another delay of Shiny Days. Notice how the actual title doesn't have the implications you assigned to it in your memory (or rather, you cemented an ambiguous title in memory in a non-ambiguous way that fits your interpretation).
In general, content with an agenda stick out like a sore thumb anywhere.Yes. That would bother me too. But well, you can't get anything done without a goal, right? See the title of this piece.
Also, while sometimes I have an agenda, sometimes I just want to start a conversation. I think sometimes people can't tell the difference, and they assume an agenda where there is none.
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A more carefully written post which eased readers into the subject and gave more context to each link would probably have been received somewhat better.
The whole point there was that I just wanted to link to Decay's post and be done with it. I didn't want to write an article to introduce Decay's essay. That's a lot of effort just to present someone else's ideas. I suppose I should've just left the topic alone if I didn't want to write it up properly--which is kind of sad since I don't really think others on Reddit put a great deal of thought into what they link to.
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This is a nice resource.
What's a good J-J dictionary I could use with Translation Aggregator?
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There's optimal/faster ways to learn languages. But if you don't actually want to do it, it doesn't matter how optimal the strategy you're using is. I chose to learn primarily by reading VNs because I couldn't motivate myself to learn any other way. I started with machine translation and slowly worked my way up over the course of 10 years or so. 10 years of slow progression is better than a few weeks of fast progression followed by giving up and no progress at all for 10 years. For me, I had to achieve my end goal (playing Japanese VNs) WHILE I was learning or I would never make it to that goal.
More details of my journey on Reddit and my Facebook timeline.
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I played Sangoku Hime 1 and dropped it after 10hrs or so. The battle system was terrible, but the story had been interesting. It sounds like 4 is a complete disaster story-wise. Replacing serious story with moe fluff is basically unforgivable.
I was thinking of playing Sangoku Hime 2? Is that one worthwhile? Like, say, compared to Sengoku Hime 3?
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How would you rate the language difficulty of this game compared to Venus Blood Hypno?
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My first game was a moege. I started with this type of game because I heard around the forums that moege is the easiest type of game. But it was not easy.Moege aren't easy at all. They tend to have slang and weird comedy which doesn't translate well.
My goal is to enjoy visual novels without tools.
Good luck with that. I'm not even sure Clephas is there yet. I've tried without tools a couple times because the games wouldn't hook, but while I could sort of follow the dialogue the narration was still beyond my skill level.
Also, one should not rely too much on Jparser.It's a flawed tool, but it's good enough until I can find a Translation Aggregator plugin that'll let me do my own parsing. Also hoping to find an easy to use Japanese to Japanese offline dictionary that wouldn't slow me down too much. What's important here is efficiency. If you get bogged down looking up words you're wasting time that could've been spent playing and reading.
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Alright, I see what the problem is. You CAN post without registering with Disqus, but the option doesn't appear until you place your cursor in the signup text box. Essentially the interface is obscuring the option. That's unfortunate. I'm not sure what to do about it though.
Weabooism: The experience, its causes (in Westerners), and tempering it with doses of reality
in Clephas' VN home
A blog by Clephas in General
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I don't necessarily like Japanese culture. I like the Japanese *counter* culture as expressed in the otaku subculture. It's key to distinguish the craziness you see in anime and eroge from what it's actually like to live, study, and work in Japan. Otaku culture is no more representative of Japanese culture as a whole than Hollywood movies are representative of American culture.