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The dip-pen with metal nibs is actually really cool if you can afford the time to clean up afterwards. Every time you dip it's like using a brand-new pen---thick, clean line, no blotches. Brushes give a really nice, wavy line with varying sizes, although you need to practice a lot to get good with t...

Mikey says:

The Eiffel Tower is very hard to pass for anything else.

Hold on, here. Are you implying the Tsuina blonde gal in black dress the Eiffel Tower of OELVNs?

Wow. She's monumental.

Miriam: Oh, don't mind me. I just spent a long time in graduate school. Mikey was talking about how there needs to be some hidden information in an AI. At a very high level, and I'm going to abscond with his thought and talk a little bit about the field of "believeable agents". Believeable...

Minor note: Eliza is from 1966, not the 80s. It's old-skool. As Miriam correctly noted, human langauges (and not just English, also Korean and all other human languages) are imprecise by computer standards. There are lots of impossible parsing canards, like "The horse raced past the barn fell&q...

I believe we are mostly agreeing here, but it's fun to check in with nuances. Hang on.. You have to believe me though, this wasn't my way of thinking when writing it. I just wrote it ... But sure, it does really start with the sex scene. Well, then you're a born storyteller. :-) You instinctually cu...

Let's restate the rule 1 little, because I see some weaseling about "well, maybe not EVERYONE because everyone is a lot of people." 1. You get one shot at every person walking up and checking out your art. If they don't like it, they WILL move on, so you have to design your stuff to have i...

Running Win2K, at first complained of missing dlls (why aren't these included with game?). Looked at this thread to see what's wrong. Realized it must be .net missing. Installed .net 1.1, then .net 2.0. With either one, game would declare an unhandled exception and the pictures are be missing and it...

Are they old enough to take control of their lives, or are they under the control of their parents? (Yes, some adults live with their parents, but that generally implies a different personality and backstory than living with parents as a minor does! It's important to KNOW if they're adult-with-pare...

I'm male, if that matters in this discussion. Makeup: If you're 20 and have good skin, makeup is an insult. Otherwise, your results may vary based on how much you want to cover up/emphasize, and whether or not you'll be under really bright lights. Big makeup in normal lighting is a mistake unless yo...

I wrote a long post here, but let me sum up. World War II was a time of extreme sexual liberty. I don't know which WWII vets you're talking to, but go hit the books---it was a crazy time with STD rates that would knock your socks off. If you actually turn back your history books further, Western sex...

This conversation got pretty weird. Why no OEL porn: In general, westerners go for elaborate cheescake (See: Pussycat Dolls, Miss USA pageant, legions of college cheerleaders) but cut-rate pornography. VNs are definitely more elaborate. Gal-revenge games: There are a number of movies that explore th...

We've had some discussion about this before: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1194 I suggested some books there, and I stand by them: Orson Scott Card, "How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy" Syd Field. "Screenplay" Algis Budrys, "Writing to the Point: A...

One could argue that VNs, although very cheap to produce, actually have a very short lifespan. Ignoring issues of fashion, they are bound to software, which is notoriously hard to keep running without constant updates. For a commercial product, keeping one of these things running would take some kin...

Yeah, Photoshop is the jack-of-all-trades. The academic version was nominally cheap, but I needed a fast machine to make it perform on large images. It can kind of do anything, but it takes time to get good at it. If you've ever taken drawing classes with lots of different kinds of media, think how ...