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by Ramidel
Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:32 pm
Forum: Works in Progress
Topic: Phoenix Season [GxG/B][Historical/Fantasy/Romance]
Replies: 13
Views: 2933

Re: Phoenix Season [GxG/B][Historical/Fantasy/Romance]

I have a question. Is Tasmina a potential LI?
by Ramidel
Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Games with agendas and propaganda games
Replies: 21
Views: 2851

Re: Games with agendas and propaganda games

One necessary but slightly irritating meme in a dating sim or ren'ai game is that having a relationship is good, and by extension, non-relationship is bad. In the majority of such games, ending up with no one is a Bad End. Unfortunately necessary to the medium, but it still reinforces a somewhat ugl...
by Ramidel
Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:01 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Pearl Pink 3DS
Replies: 10
Views: 3056

Pearl Pink 3DS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-AkEwPwn54 My gut is telling me that Marketing is talking down to girls again (and this particular invention will nuke itself six ways to Sunday), but my brain (or at least the part that's into conspiracy theories) tells me that it's actually being marketed to parents...
by Ramidel
Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:33 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Starting Anime Club*
Replies: 31
Views: 4813

Re: Starting Anime Club*

I remember that my HS anime club used Slayers. Lodoss War would also be a good one.

Tenchi Muyo! and Ah! My Goddess might also work.

Stick to the classics for your initial shows.
by Ramidel
Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:11 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Last game you played?
Replies: 380
Views: 96718

Re: Last game you played?

LOL @ xkcd. That was pure win.

My newest game? Golden Sun.
by Ramidel
Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:15 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Anime is dying, ㅋㅋ..
Replies: 65
Views: 10759

Re: Anime is dying, ㅋㅋ..

The section of anime that's dying in the gutter is the shonen fighter. A lot of the people who were fans of DBZ and Naruto when they first came out are now thoroughly disenchanted with them, and they aren't drawing as many new teenage boys as they used to. That said, when you look at the 00s, you se...
by Ramidel
Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:59 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Japanese Honorifics Question
Replies: 13
Views: 2707

Re: Japanese Honorifics Question

"-kun" from a teacher to a female student is not unknown usage, albeit not strictly correct usage either. You (the OP) are the writer, so think of how the teacher would act; if the teacher is strictly formal, she might use -san for everyone. Using -kun for a new student indicates a classro...
by Ramidel
Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:26 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Best non japanese cartoons?
Replies: 60
Views: 9251

Re: Best non japanese cartoons?

* Code Lyoko
* Avatar: TLA
* Batman Beyond
* Tom & Jerry
* X-Men (the old cartoon with more yellow than the sun)

Never did get into the ponies.
by Ramidel
Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:07 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Why, IMO, it's hard finding a game to like as a female gamer
Replies: 313
Views: 35635

Re: Why, IMO, it's hard finding a game to like as a female g

If you want freedom of speech, that comes with the right to say offensive things, and the right to be offended by them! The corollary to that, however, is that there's the right to ignore people being offended by you. The ability to let people shout in the wind so long as cash keeps coming, or to s...
by Ramidel
Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:44 am
Forum: Other Story-based Games
Topic: Princess Maker
Replies: 24
Views: 5701

Re: Princess Maker

Princess Maker is made by Studio Gainax...

And yeah, there's no difference between abandonware and warez, legally speaking. (IANAL and all) There may be situations, however, where nobody can sue over a piece of abandonware because nobody owns the license.
by Ramidel
Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:47 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Why, IMO, it's hard finding a game to like as a female gamer
Replies: 313
Views: 35635

Re: Why, IMO, it's hard finding a game to like as a female g

That's called sexism. Well, there's your problem then. But if sexism is the root of the problem, I'm curious how you think that females proving that they can be a market too will change that. At best, VNs might seriously break across the Atlantic, and I'm skeptical on that score; the gaming industr...
by Ramidel
Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:17 pm
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Why, IMO, it's hard finding a game to like as a female gamer
Replies: 313
Views: 35635

Re: Why, IMO, it's hard finding a game to like as a female g

The idea that gamers of any stripe "should" be able to communicate with the larger companies is, unfortunately, somewhat idealistic. In the modern gaming world, the objective is usually not to make a game that gamers want , but a game that Marketing thinks it can sell . Fanbases are notori...
by Ramidel
Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Stop SOPA - USA members, please read
Replies: 159
Views: 21935

Re: Stop SOPA - USA members, please read

Okay, who spiked the punch on Capitol Hill? Fess up! The world owes you!
by Ramidel
Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Magical 18 or Adult Age
Replies: 21
Views: 2744

Re: Magical 18 or Adult Age

Sexuality isn't in the logic; a person, no matter their gender, shouldn't be made to be a parent at such-and-such age. =P Though I do realize there are holes in this logic to begin with. It would ban all sex under the limit, I believe. Heterosexual sex is somewhat more likely to lead to pregnancy t...
by Ramidel
Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Magical 18 or Adult Age
Replies: 21
Views: 2744

Re: Magical 18 or Adult Age

how old does a person have to be before you're allowed to impregnate them/make them a parent? Logically, then, the homosexual age of consent could be lower because you can't get pregnant that way! :) (I know at least at some point in England the opposite was true.) Age of consent laws differ betwee...