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What are some good recommendations for adult VNs?
Hmmm, if you just mean adult as in it has R18 hamslam action, I've got those. But I'm gonna assume you mean "VNs that are definitely aimed at an adult audience".
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is the big one...along with all of Nitro+'s other VNs. You can't go wrong with Saya no Uta or Kikokugai. In my opinion, you should start with something shorter and to-the-point like Saya. Muramasa is great but it's huge and you probably won't want to read something of its length if you're starting out (this is just what I'm assuming.) These stories have action! Philosophy! Conflicts of ideals between characters! And cute girls!
Umineko is fairly unique, complex, and has a 10/10 soundtrack. Some things in it you'll probably see differently as an adult compared to reading it as a teenager/young child (which is what I did, I should probably go reread it).
Suda51's games (The Silver Case, Flower Sun and Rain, etc) I also recommend heavily. They are awfully stylish and have great presentations. You can really dig into the games if you want, like some people do.
I will personally recommend Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO because I love that game to death. Amazing soundtrack, CGs, plot, and one of the most ambitious games of its time.
who is the LEAST bastard-like hot anime mans you would go for
In middle school I really liked Will from Umineko and thought he was totally hot. Will is a nice upstanding member of society, probably VERY far from being a bastard man.
But most of the dudes I like and would totally hit are just bastard men. I think even as a elementary schooler, I really loved Marx from Kirby. So my love for bastard men goes way back...
If you were locked in the room and have to have to play a dating sim where the two option were Sirroco or haze from anonymous agony who will you choose?
This is a hard choice because I'd definitely want to date Scirocco but also it'd be really embarrassing and I'd spill my spaghetti hard. At the same time, dating famed pedophile killer Haze from Anonymous Agony would be incredibly funny. But I'll have to go with Scirocco on this one, because I don't want to pass up on the chance of being able to date Jupiterman.
Fuck forgot to clarify that I'm mostly worried about other people finding your account through mine if you don't want the jam people to find you because i have a single internet identity that i use thats linked to twitter and the jams. Sorry if this doesny make sense its 4 am and i got high
Didn't want to freak you out but I actually found ur twitter awhile back while touhou was trending and instantly recognized ur oekaki art but didn't follow u bc I assumed u didn't want to be found. Read ur twitter again today because I haven't seen u post on i lately and saw the tweet "had a dream an artist found one of my posts and followed me" and was like maybe if I tell them they won't be creeped out then? srry for txt speak word limit
Huh, I wonder which picture of mine you saw?
Well, it's not a huge secret, considering I post all my oekaki drawings onto my Twitter. They can probably tell from other things on my page as well (lol). And it's not a big deal either, I'd just really not have people shitposting about whatever nonsense I post there. Maybe I'm being too paranoid about it, but I'd be uncomfortable with people talking more about me as a person and not the things I make. But no, go ahead and follow me.
What do you eat and drink for breakfast I love watered down lemonade and microwaved chicken
I don't actually eat breakfast all that much these days because I only start eating around 3 PM. But in the morning, I usually get myself a 16 ounce Americano. So, for lunch, it's a tossup between a burrito and a sandwich. For burritos, I usually get something with pork in it, and for sandwiches, I like getting Pastramis and Reubens.
If I could pick what I had for breakfast every day, I'd probably eat salmon, natto, eggs, rice, and some form of very light soup... when I went to Japan, I had this exact same breakfast in the morning (without the eggs) and it was pretty great.
I love you Chen
OK which evil dude's dick do you wanna ride the most
well... lately it's been Scirocco. I didn't expect to fall in love with him when I watched Zeta but I really, really, really like him a lot. He's so deliciously smug and arrogant in the best way possible. See, when his plans don't go his way he very smoothly goes "ah, oh well" and starts scheming even harder. And he handles other people with such grace... He can gaslight me any day and I'd thank him for it. Both of his uniforms are pretty sexy too.
If you asked me a few years back it'd be Kotomine Kirei. What I love about him is his struggle to be an ethical person and to find meaning in his life... of course, you see how that goes. I love seeing characters struggle with their innate desires.
This is an odder pick: I also, for a period of time, loved Mephistopheles from F/GO. I don't think a lot of people know this about me but I think clowns/jesters are very cool. I love his wacky/bombastic personality and his flamboyant clothing.
Takeda Akane from Hanachirasu, I couldn't figure out my feelings about him but I realized it's less sexual and more "I highly respect this man and everything that he stands for". Well, he's a little bit amoral, but that's fine. I think the way he lived his life and died was very beautiful, to carry out one desire like that so single-mindedly.
thoughts on rance? (game or character)
I only played Sengoku Rance a long time ago and I enjoyed it. I don't think I got very far, though. I'm hoping to go through the series. I highly respect Alicesoft, but I honestly haven't played much of their titles. The only Alicesoft game I've finished is... Atlach=Nacha, which was very good.
As for the character, I think he's a funny guy with funny teeth... If you changed a few things about him, he'd definitely fit right into a shoujo manga (with Sill being the self-insert girl).
Do you think KKK from the dies irae series is overrated?
I don't know, I haven't read it or Dies Irae.
But if you're really asking, I'll roll a die and see what it says:
1~2 - Underrated
3~4 - Fairly rated
5~6 - Overrated
Well, it's apparently FAIRLY RATED.
do you recommend muramasa?
Yes, I can highly recommend Muramasa to just about anyone. There's a lot of different elements of it to appreciate: the huge cast of (strange) characters, the battle scenes that are described with point-device precision, the alternate history setting (also described in incredible detail), the atmosphere, the themes... I think Muramasa is definitely one of those VNs you have to play if you have any interest in the medium, even if it doesn't look like something that's 'up your alley'. I think even if it doesn't meet your expectations, it's a very ambitious work that will definitely leave you with a piece of it. And so on. (I'd recommend YU-NO for the same reason)
Who's your favorite deranged/delusional man?
OK sorry for the 2 month late reply, I saw this question right before I went to visit my friend over at another city and decided to spend the weekend there just thinking about the question... eventually I just forgot to answer it. But I have been thinking... It's just so hard to pick one! So I'll tell you about a few.
I really, really like Dostoevsky's dudes. No doubt people know this if they've talked to me for a while. I think I may have posted about them once or twice on certain places.
From Crime and Punishment is Svidrigailov, who has a huge list of crimes associated with him... He's a very fascinating and enigmatic character despite of how much of a degenerate he is. Well, more like he's fascinating BECAUSE of how much of a degenerate he is. In my eyes, he's supposed to reflect the "extraordinary man" that Raskolnikov describes and wants to be--somebody who is permitted to kill people, even in the dozens, no, hundreds. Svidrigalov is one such man, having almost no conscience and an incredible charisma around him. Whenever Raskolnikov is confronted by Svidrigalov, he's always disgusted by him, in spite of how Svidrigalov is more or less his model of an "extraordinary man". The chapter where he has a long fever dream before he ultimately commits suicide is amazing, as well as the chapter where he confronts Dunya, backs her into a corner, puts his arm around her waist, and asks her if she'd ever be able to love him... When she says "no, never", he's utterly crushed. And to think just moments before, he was completely unshaken by Dunya pointing a revolver at him. I think about those chapters occasionally. Dostoevsky definitely gets it.
Then there's the Underground Man, from Notes from Underground. A pathetic character, but one I could empathize with (for better or worse). When I first started reading that, I thought to myself "yes, this guy gets it! he understands!" in response to him going on a 30-page rant about how humans are irrational creatures that shouldn't be treated as mere numbers. Then, in the second half, you see this guy stumbling around, making a fool of himself in public while simultaneously feeling like he's better than other people because he's educated, etc... I could understand his feelings. In the very end of the book, when he's given one chance at genuinely connecting with another human being, he rejects it (out of fear?) and decides to remain an Underground Man, completely isolating himself from other people... That really got to me.
For something completely different: Lou Zhen Jie from Thunderbolt Fantasy, or just Di Kong when he's in his monk form. There's something about the way that Urobuchi writes about love that picks at my heart. Lou himself is a character archetype that I love, just somebody so utterly removed from normal human values and is suffering because of it (Kirei is another good example). When he meets his "princess", a bloodthirsty sword who charms whoever looks at her, he goes full murderhobo mode and reveals his full power! The man breaks a sword with his KNEE! He goes around happily slaughtering people in the dozens, all in the name of pleasing his beloved princess... and to think, he'd spent most of his life without any meaning. Most yandere characters suck but I can get behind something like this.
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