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Stink Billyums posted:everybody in japan had flip phones that were pseudo-smart phones like 7 years before smart phones came around, so outside of otaku and tech enthusiasts they kinda skipped over home PC usage. back then a lot of websites didn't even have a desktop version, or if they did there wasn't much effort put into it as they assumed most people would be viewing the site from a phone. you can still see the legacy in ugly japanese web design today, it's highly influenced by what worked on a phone 20 years ago.
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I think half of the PS3 Yakuzas still used flip phones, too. I know 3 definitely did, probably 4 and Dead Souls also but I'm not sure about 5.
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I think there's also the aspect that Japanese living spaces tend to be smaller than what we're used to in the west, so a lot of households don't have space for a desktop computer unless you're a turbonerd who makes space for one.
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Kild posted:Rewatched Mugen Train but the anime version. Still good. Still powerful. Rengoku ftw i liked the little rengoku character building episodes at the start
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I'm reading Fire Punch. It's cool so far.
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pentyne posted:I read somewhere that the reason VN novels always included 1-2 hardcore sex scenes is the PC gaming market was so small that it was the easiest way to guarantee a certain minimum amount of sales to make your money back. tbh i'm sure this was the case for some games but more and more i end up wondering if that was actually that widely the case or, people just feel a need to cover for things they like because the western internet views sexual content in japanese media in a fairly derogatory way and wouldn't be receptive to talking about using that sort of content to explore sexuality the way you'd see in vns like welcome to film house, seven days with the ghost or fate/stay night: heaven's feel
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I'm reading Fire Punch. It's cool so far. post when you've finished please, don't want to risk spoiling
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nakinyko is a global treasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKjAj9Lc674 e: theres just so many really good ones marumaru fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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its seriously really good lol
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Kild posted:Rewatched Mugen Train but the anime version. Still good. Still powerful. Rengoku ftw Wait, there's a live action version?
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They meant the TV anime, which recut and expanded on the movie.
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Mister Facetious posted:Wait, there's a live action version? it was a movie, then in the show
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The Colonel posted:tbh i'm sure this was the case for some games but more and more i end up wondering if that was actually that widely the case or, people just feel a need to cover for things they like because the western internet views sexual content in japanese media in a fairly derogatory way and wouldn't be receptive to talking about using that sort of content to explore sexuality the way you'd see in vns like welcome to film house, seven days with the ghost or fate/stay night: heaven's feel when fluffdaddy finally sends me the pm im going to ban handwringing
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Mister Facetious posted:Wait, there's a live action version? the TV version adds a couple episodes to flesh out rengoku a bit more
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saying that eroge has sex slapped in to sell isn't really accurate since older titles in the genre were very much focused on sexual content and later games that were mostly focused on plot outside of that were a distinct shift into a new subgenre, but one caused by creators who actively chose to work within that space for various reasons (largely creative freedom wrt subject matter). so for say, TM, it's just that nasu wanted to work in the doujin and eroge spaces since he found what you could do in them compelling, and this probably has to do with the kinda stuff he always wanted to write about since KnK, Tsukihime, and FSN all deal with sexual themes as irremovable core beats. otoh working in such niche markets means that you're very much beholden to the genre expectations of your potential customers and their potential for backlash, so there's def stuff in scenario-focused games that you can argue is mostly there because of market driven expectations.
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marumaru posted:post when you've finished please, don't want to risk spoiling I just finished it. 
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I just finished it. hayai what did you think of the ending? i really liked fire punch but a lot of people hated the ending.
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I feel like it really couldn't have ended any other way tbh. I didn't mind it at all.
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the ending being something hateable is odd to me, my only real complaint then was the series just feeling like it didn't cohere to a strong point as i would like
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considering america is the inventor of the "prestige television sex scene" im just gonna call it projection on our part
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i only get mad when a sex scene seems like it's purely for sales, so it's bad on prestige tv but good in romance novels
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whats the it is a car metaphor smilie code i cant find it
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Sex scenes own imo, I love them no matter the medium
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Sex scenes are ins anely sexy and also reference an important part of most peoples lives
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i could do without reading nasu's sex scenes ever again i think
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It's important to take a poo poo every day but that doesn't mean I have to see it
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Don’t check your pms
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kirbysuperstar posted:i could do without reading nasu's sex scenes ever again i think They are treasures. Awful, terrible treasures.
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Namtab posted:Don’t check your bms
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SEX!!!!!!!!
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Stairmaster posted:SEX!!!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmFbT8DPX8
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a couple of cuckoos is currently up to like, a love septagon at this point. but the oneshot did advertise this as the shoujo with the world's dumbest premise or something like that, and so far it's delivered lol.
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Loid Forger and Yor Briar are pro-tier Japanese Dude Tries to Invent Western-sounding Names names. I especially like Yor Briar because it reminds of one of the all-time great bad movies.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Loid Forger and Yor Briar are pro-tier Japanese Dude Tries to Invent Western-sounding Names names. I especially like Yor Briar because it reminds of one of the all-time great bad movies. I originally had the name as Lloyd Folger until the company told me to knock it off. Although apparently a 'loid' is a way of opening locked doors and 'forger' can obviously refer to the fact that he's forged all his documents. So I've come around to the idea that his name is supposed to be Lockpick McFakename.
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I just binged through all of Ranking of Kings. I was pretty positive on the show as a whole, I think the pacing got away from it a bit, but there are some real shining moments and characters. I hope they make more because it seems like they really set it up to lean into the elements that made it great going foward.
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