Hi there, I'm Enthalpy. I actually registered a while back under another name, but due to a spontaneous brain failure I interpreted the AFTER 1997 people as older than BEFORE 1997. So I was hit by a COPPA form, and I made this account. Whoops, sorry about that. I rarely post on forums, but I decided to say hi anyways
I'm going to talk a lot, but I suggest you just skip to the tl;dr.
So about me...
I'm a junior in high school right now. I think the best way to describe me would be that I'm a tinkerer. I've done a variety of things on the internet since my fascination with computers in 9th grade: I've fansubbed a few dramas (proper subtitles, not the hilarious SubRip ones that look as if they've been run through a translator on those Korean drama websites), scanlated manga, make the printer display INSERT COIN, learned proper usage of HijackThis, ROM hacked games... And I secretly plan to major in computer science and Japanese someday.
As to why I'm here trying to learn how to make visual novels when I should be out there doing volunteer service to look good on college apps. I live in the Bay Area, and I attend one of the top public high schools in the United States. I'm just another Chinese kid in this school that comprises of over 80% Chinese and Indians. Naturally, our school is cutthroat in the competition to get into Stanford or Berkeley or [insert Ivy League school here]. Here, the typical kid that doesn't want to end up going to community college is officer of at least 3 clubs (two of which are self-started), part of the track and badminton teams, editor of the yearbook and/or newspaper, takes at least 3 AP tests a year, and left skews the SAT score distribution. At this point, I'm going to say that I'm none of these things because the way my peers suck up to teachers and cheat on homework and tests for the 4.0 GPA disgusts me, I have no intention of doing that, and that makes me one of the "loners." My parents immigrated from communist China, so they insist on holding my hand for everything as they systematically design my life plan like a Sims project. This is a problem because I don't ever do anything I wouldn't enjoy, so now I'm stuck with nothing to do, and there are pissed parents behind me.
My friends are in track, club meetings, and summer programs for the apps. Even though they admit to not enjoying the activities. I'm not. But I'd feel behind if I just stuck around playing Cave Story all day, so here I am. I'm going to make a kinetic novel that documents my own wry experience of Mission life (there, now you have a clue which high school I attend). If not for anything else, I'll do it just because I enjoy doing something for the sake of doing it, whining about how BF Skinner was right and the nature vs. nature debate is dead, and it's not something I'm pressured into doing FOR THE APPS. When I finish this, I can stand up proud with my friends knowing that I've done something special too, however trivial.
tl;dr Hi, call me Enthalpy. I'm going to make a kinetic novel because I think it'll be great fun, and I don't have to say it was for the apps. In it, I will whine about how contemporary kids at Mission disgust me, how my parents disgust me, how degenerate today's school crazed students' morals have gotten, and how psychology has fabulously predicted everything about human nature and behavior by random sampling trillions of people and then standardizing the results into a highly structured procedural algorithm that relies upon theoretical analyses that people breathe in as gospel one day and then laugh at their ludicrousness the next (which has already been anticipated as hindsight bias. I see what you did thar). I'm new to the visual novel scene, so I hope that you forgive me for any newbie problems that I may have. I have the bad habit of talking way more than necessary so... ummm. SoYeah. Hi
I love curry, potatoes, retrogaming, and TvTropes. Anyone else?
I really like the visual novels here and I hope that I will learn and finish making one too ^-^
