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[GamerKnight]

I have decided to start making my Facebook updates into DF combat logs:
just posted:
The flying *sleep* strikes AlexScaraban in the head!
AlexScaraban is knocked unconscious!

That actually sounds funny. Might try it one day.

[fqllve]

I have a level where beyond its just damn ridiculous, not even romantic.

Bleh, the ones with the most H usually don't even try to be romantic. Though there are a few games that were so ridiculously over-the-top with it that I almost quit playing them, despite their being otherwise well-written.

[Tellemurius]

I have a level where beyond its just damn ridiculous, not even romantic.

Bleh, the ones with the most H usually don't even try to be romantic. Though there are a few games that were so ridiculously over-the-top with it that I almost quit playing them, despite their being otherwise well-written.

Even in pronz there must be balance
I like the romantic stuff just no desperate girls damnit.

[fqllve]

Honestly, I'm mostly in it for the romantic stuff.

Overly desperate girls are vaguely sexist and definitely not romantic though.

[Solifuge]

I totally intend to watch the Hunchback of Notre Dame musical, but I must finish the novel first. Also, Bright Moon is Bright.

Ah, super-pornographic ones?

Nah, those make you go O_O!

Spoiler: P.S. Ugh, Visual Novels... (click to show/hide)

My experience with Visual Novels began and ended with one a coworker recommended. I forget the name now, but the plot started off... okay, and played like a supernatural mystery of sorts. However, he decided not to tell me that about midway through was a bunch of Surprise Horror-Porn; it literally forced you as the protagonist to attempt a rape, and did so completely out of the blue, which caught me way off guard and was utterly Squick-Inducing. I haven't bothered with any since.

I know they're not all that way, but it was just... blergh, why?

[ein]

Can't stop EUIII...
Bluh... damn you Denmark, your reign of oppression won't last much longer...

[fqllve]

It wasn't Tsukihime was it, Solifuge? I haven't played it but that sounds what it's supposed to be like.

Ugh, why would someone recommend something like that for a person's first VN? Great way to turn people off them. I usually recommend Narcissu as a first because it's free, relatively short, and family friendly (even though it is rather sad).

[Vector]

I totally intend to watch the Hunchback of Notre Dame musical, but I must finish the novel first. Also,

In that case, I'll try to wait a little bit so that you can watch with everyone else, too~  It'd be nice to watch all together.


This visual novel seems pretty fun so far, but I'm not so sure about the genre in general.  Maybe I like it, maybe I don't... I'm not sure yet.  The main character has a cute personality >_<

I also finished The Name of the Rose this morning, as I've been trying to do for a number of weeks.  That was pretty fulfilling.  It's a much more entertaining novel than I thought it would be, and it seems to have all kinds of bonuses if you know enough about religion and language.  I only caught one, but it seems to me that it would be nice to know about the rest as well.

What to read next... I don't know, but I'm going to start The Tempest soon.  I'm kind of embarrassed--I'm 21 and consider myself well-read, but I haven't read much Shakespeare at all.

[Tellemurius]

*nods*
Well at least you're enjoying it, and i took me 3 runs to figure out the whole story XD

I honestly can't read Shakespeare, yet i read from Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

[Vector]

Haha, I've solved the first two puzzles 100% correctly thus far, I think.  I hope.

Twain is pretty easy for me, but Dickens is... tough.  I've read A Tale of Two Cities two or three times and A Christmas Carol maybe five times, but nothing else.  Of course, it helps that I really don't own that much Dickens.

[Tellemurius]

My father owns a leatherback gold trim of David Copperfield and i swore i saw Oliver Twist somewhere in my closet of equipment and junk all over the place. Dickens is tough but for someone stuck to reading the bible and reciting it during 3-5 grade, i was to read ridiculous books at a very young age >_>

[KaguroDraven]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVTSofKjyM&feature=feedf
This video.
Note:May not be completely safe for work.

[Solifuge]

Shakespeare has always been tough for me to read too... I've probably been spoiled by frequent visits to see plays performed at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Reading suits literary analysis of his work well, but it's never had the same impact/comprehensibility for me when read, as opposed to performed. Speaking of Twain too, I've been meaning to check out the Memoir he set to publish 100 years after his death.

Oh, and please don't hold up the play on my account. Besides, it's a good incentive for me to read, since it's been sitting, bookmarked, in my bedside book pile for most of the Winter.

It wasn't Tsukihime was it, Solifuge? I haven't played it but that sounds what it's supposed to be like.

Maybe... I can't remember the VN's name, and I frankly don't mind. As for my friend, I think he thought it would be a funny thing to recommend, since he had an impish sense of humor. I might also be giving him too much credit, as he was also a socially maladjusted /B/tard.

[Tellemurius]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVTSofKjyM&feature=feedf
This video.
Note:May not be completely safe for work.

XD it works

[Vector]

My father owns a leatherback gold trim of David Copperfield and i swore i saw Oliver Twist somewhere in my closet of equipment and junk all over the place. Dickens is tough but for someone stuck to reading the bible and reciting it during 3-5 grade, i was to read ridiculous books at a very young age >_>

I mean... yeah, it's not about the difficulty of the words at all.  It's about having read my last Dickens as a sophomore in high school, so I couldn't get as deep an understanding of it then as I can now.  The other thing is that I really hate reading self-insertion Mary Sue fanfiction, even by someone like Dickens.  That bit with Charles Darnay and the girl who looks exactly like the actress he was lusting after at the time... not cool at all, man, not cool.

Dickens always makes me feel sort of like my chains are being yanked.  He isn't the most honest writer in certain respects.

Shakespeare has always been tough for me to read too... I've probably been spoiled by frequent visits to see plays performed at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Reading suits literary analysis of his work well, but it's never had the same impact/comprehensibility for me when read, as opposed to performed. Speaking of Twain too, I've been meaning to check out the Memoir he set to publish 100 years after his death.

Oh, and please don't hold up the play on my account. Besides, it's a good incentive for me to read, since it's been sitting, bookmarked, in my bedside book pile for most of the Winter.

Ah, I understand Shakespeare much better when it's read, and I usually find it more moving because I can hear and see the actors in my mind, rather than sometimes watching them and thinking "Ugh, this person doesn't know what he's doing."  Somehow, the play seems much more fluid and lively to me in its written form.  I don't really know why, either.

Well, I'll compute the time you'll need to be done by soon >_>  Just keep an eye out on the thread as it moves around, hey?