My blackout curtains have white on the other side I am not sure much about the science behind them but they make it cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. They’re quite dark on the inside. I got what I paid for. I don’t think all curtains are made equally.
This might sound funny, but I swear the four walls help. When I lived right off the water a dehumidifier helped with the high-humidity. Black-out curtains help keep the sun out, but they also keep the sun out if you catch me. Outside of that, I’ve heard ventilation. Don’t forget to drink water, keep your electrolytes solid and take care of yourself.
It is clean, organized, and essentialist. Many moons ago it was a beautiful den, after that an art gallery. Right now, it’s just whatever is easiest to decode, clean and enjoy.
No, not really. While I am not white, I am American through and through. I don’t really prefer to be something else. I just think we should fix what we can. Preferably while we can.
The funniest part is DIVI-DEAD was the one that was calling to me the most. Probably because the way you praised it. I figured I would give it a watch to see what’s going on with it, and go from there (gotta track these guys down you know?) I think vis-novels are probably the easier of the bunch to get going. Holy jam, Kamidori is set @119 hour playtime? Jesus Christ, that’s not a VN, that’s War & Peace.
Pumpkin Eater I played once, and have thought of as the grossest VisNovel I have ever read. It’s kind of like sad family splatter-punk. It is kinetic however, it’s kind of like paying for a show or something. Doesn’t bug me, but I do know people are like “Where’s the game!?” Speaking of good games (I see you there!) I love those two very much! They capture the frantic joy of flash games to me. Which I think Jars does as well, as long as you’re not against grinding in a puzzle game. It’s just so cute, a little “spoopy” and has such a fun OST. Right now, I am currently playing Look Outside, which is a RPG Maker game with a lot of love put into it. My most recent play however was Sanitarium which champed it’s way through the whole thing on my laptop. I played it with headphones and heard stuff I had never heard before. Was a great game, is a great game. It’s Adventure based however, in fact none of these are VisNovs, just spoopy games. They’re what’s been on my radar as of late.
I was wondering this very thing. As some fossils were preserved whole, as others were not. I believe though, the whole ones, or even the ones that captured large contiguous chunks of tail could disprove this. Not sure, just was having a guess.
*Not due to soft tissue being found but more so signs of trapped decay of some sort.
I did some hoping, and some seriously long looks at the list. Thank you for these! I was gunna toss you some back if you don’t mind. I realized none of them are JP, but they are all vis-novels.
Mediterranea Inferno Giallo, Homo, Death Game Pumpkin Eater Kinetic, Vomit Fest, Trauma Grotesque Beauty Ito, Dream Realm, Monster We Know the Devil Counter-Culture, Queer, Great OST
Idk if you would like any of these, but they’ve all been nice games to “play.” Some are less interactive than others.
Oh my god, you guys are killing me.
I don’t think it was social media. To be honest with you, this is the worst thing I have ever said. Seriously! I swear to god, it was once the “normies” got on the internet. I think “normies” are socialized to be cruel, and they took that cruelty to the internet. I loved it when it was for the freaks and the geeks. It was the best of the best!
It took my favorite activity (reading) and turned it into a social one. An educational one too! It was amazing. There’s still bits out here. I mean look at us. But there’s a lot of trash on these sites too. Just filter, enjoy your echo chamber, and be open to people entering it with opposite opinions. In fact, be open to opinions all over the place, even in person. Just saying, I use this as reprieve. I don’t need to work myself up, I want to chill and cool down with it.
Oh, that’s really cute! I never thought about it, but it’d be a really fun game to play in Japanese. I have met my fair share of games East/West that load up on Proton and then close. I tend to return them, unless I know someone in my family wants to play them as well. I am the only one on Linux, tbh.
*No worries! I play pretty much exclusively pixel/text based games. I am not hurting. I can also emulate consoles, so I figure I am winning. I love desktops though. They’re just hard to move, and I like to travel light nowadays.
Idk, because there are games that were Western ports without any Japanese in them. But also I don’t really care, because what I want to play are now probably all considered “retro” games and I just emulate them instead. That works fine.
I am not a major gamer anymore. I play whatever I want to, when it catches my interest. But I pretty much play simple stuff. When I want to play games with “fancy graphics” it tends to be Japanese based. I like the stylized higher-end graphics of Japanese games over other countries. Even Chinese based ones. There is just a nice beauty to them. I don’t know studios like that anymore, which is why I didn’t go through the list. But equally, it really isn’t important to me personally - so I don’t have recall on them. I just know I tried a series of different Japanese games that I had both in my library already, as well as have purchased over the past couple of years. I have had consistent crash issues. I don’t think Japanese studios care that much about computer ports. I can’t even run Elin on my damn computer. I don’t care, because there are many games out there. I can also emulate many of the games I am interested in. The money doesn’t go to the developer, but I can’t help that if it is impossible for me to play it.
The biggest intention I had in saying what I said - is that I wanted people to know it’s not all roses. Even using Wine to emulate wonderful programs that I loved on Windows, Black Ink for example (my most used Steam product) is absolutely abysmal on Linux. I gave up, and switched to Krita. 10/10 would rather use Black Ink. I can dual boot, but Windows is a CREEP. I would rather lose accessibility to items, than continue to work in the Microsoft environment. I just hate when people show only the good sides of things, especially social media content/influencers, when in actuality there are issues which must be addressed and in turn stop the casual user from utilizing something they want to. I am sure there are hoops someone can jump to gain whatever they want. I will jump those hoops for exceptional things. Most things, I will lay to rest. This, I laid to rest. I have had issues with Square Enix games. I do not play their new stuff, so that could be it. Also, just because something is Deck Verified doesn’t mean it’ll work outside of there. Even when checking Proton.db.
This isn’t some “Wuhan flu” stuff. This is me bringing my valid experience while using one of the most commonly sold graphics cards. Just to let others know that while things are great, they’re not perfect.
I don’t do studios like that anymore but I will say that I have had trouble. Also, as someone who is Japanese, I am not out here trying to bash Japanese games specifically. I just know that I have explicitly had issues repeatedly with Japanese games. Which is why I want to warn people. Because I am not going to go out of my way to play them. I know there are other people who are migrating who are in the same boat. I hate when people say “Oh, everything is peachy” because it’s not. There are issues, and people should be aware of them.
I can’t imagine playing any VisNovels would be difficult, as those I have played from time to time. I am pretty much talking games which require graphics cards. The only Japanese title I have not had trouble with to be honest is Soul Hackers 2. Which people panned, so I don’t think people are clamoring to play it. I have had issues playing games from other countries of origin, but have consistently had issues playing Japanese games to the point of noting it. I just emulate instead.
What psych-horror VNs do you play? I love horror and like VNs.
Hatoful I’d say is potato-esq but I haven’t played it in a long time so idk how it runs on Linux. I think VisNovels would all be pretty easy to run. I get the font issues. I think often it’s some weird resolution issue, maybe with the videos or animations or something. I know it’s not just me, as all the titles I see (like No More Heroes) are just plagued with people claiming they crash. Soul Hackers 2, I got working. Yaiba crashed like crazy. Neo Atlas was a crash-a-thon. Some other ones that I had hanging around crashed. I saw consistently it was Japanese games crashing out. I figured there had to be some issue with support, so I gave up. I like older games anyways.
p.s. - Nvidia, partners old gaming laptop. Three series, if that’s how you note it =P! Either way, I don’t like laptops, but I hate waste more. Would rather have Ryzen, and a desktop.
Just a heads up, if you play a lot of Japanese games. I have had incredible trouble playing pretty much any Japanese game that isn’t potato-esq since switching to Linux. I figured I’d get that out there. I gave up on playing them, which stinks because there are some very interesting games out there to play. If I can emulate, I do. But anything from Steam would just crash, within 10-20 minutes of playing them.
Hehehehehehehe!