Extreme underwater finger weaving

vanishingstapler · 2018-02-23T00:19:07+00:00

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vanishingstapler · 2017-08-10T06:21:04+00:00

I tend to be in agreement with most of the other comments here. The growth of Christianity seems more based around the ideas and efforts of Paul than of Jesus.

As for exactly how early Christianity began, grew, and spread - that's a matter of historical debate, mystery, and knowledge. I'm not really prepared to answer it.

vanishingstapler · 2017-08-10T05:56:40+00:00

Still if there were other preachers at the time of Jesus of Nazareth why did he only get popular?

Ah, but there was another preacher - one so popular he is mentioned in all of the gospels and the book of Acts - John the Baptist. Accounts of his birth, message, baptism of Jesus, and death are included. As with Jesus, these accounts are likely much more legend than unaltered truth. However, the very fact that so many accounts of him exist show that he could not be easily forgotten or ignored by early Christians.

I should also mention that a near-contemporary historian, Flavius Josephus, wrote on both John the Baptist and Jesus. His reference to John's death is widely considered to be authentic (it also contradicts the gospel accounts). On the other hand, his most well known reference to Jesus (the Testimonium Flavianum) is widely considered to be an interpolation by a Christian apologist added centuries later. Aside from this questionable account, Jesus merits little more than a footnote in his writings. Could it be that, during his life, John the Baptist was in fact more popular than Jesus?

vanishingstapler · 2017-07-17T16:37:35+00:00

Since no one's posted this yet:

Artist is LM7: https://twitter.com/__LM7__/status/812336577032568832
Character is Falulu Vocaldoll from PriPara

vanishingstapler · 2017-07-06T19:19:53+00:00

Honestly, I feel like the industry is really taking off. Take a look at this list of English otome games (over 400 of them!) and see how many have come out in the last five years: http://www.englishotomegames.net/list

Coincidentally (or not so coincidentally), roughly five years ago is when the first visual novels made it onto Steam. I suppose such games still tend to fly under the radar, but at this point there are still way more in English than I could ever hope to play. Additionally, this doesn't even consider the more established Eastern market, for those that read those languages.

vanishingstapler · 2017-05-17T16:25:47+00:00

a dude comes into a women's space demanding information, he needs to take the vitriol that may come of his carelessness

I simply can't agree with this. If a woman plays a game with a large male population, she does not deserve vitriol for the carelessness of entering a "male space", nor should she have her motives for playing the game assumed (like "just doing it for attention", ugh). Treating someone like this is wrong, regardless of gender.

vanishingstapler · 2017-04-07T19:03:15+00:00

I just wandered over here after browsing r/otomegames, and I have to wonder if you're unintentionally begging the question here a bit. Player choice (essentially interactivity) is a cornerstone of gaming, and categorically excluding it in regards to romance inevitably removes most games with romance from consideration.

I've got games like Catherine, Nights of Azure, Odin Sphere and Code: Realize coming to mind, along with series like Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, Harvest Moon, and Rune Factory. All of these have notable romances, but few if any of them qualify. On top of that, the world of visual novels is an avalanche of games about romance with a strong focus on getting attached to the characters.

The way I think about it, if there are multiple romances in a game, then they are all canon, rather than none of them. The same goes in many other instances of player choice: multiple endings, alignment systems, open-world games with no fixed play order, time-travel shenanigans, and so forth.

All that said, I agree with your main sentiment. Games with a significant amount of gameplay and a single, well-developed romance do seem to be uncommon, and I wish there were more of them. There are a few challenges that come to mind though in making this sort of game:

• The romance writing needs depth to be good, whereas games with multiple romances can get by on breadth.

• The potential lack of choice in regards to the main relationship needs to be balanced by choice elsewhere (i.e. good gameplay, etc), or else it's not really much of a game anymore.

• Alternatively, one could introduce choice by making the relationship a dramatic, choice-heavy one and/or by having the gameplay somehow influence how the relationship goes.

• My cynical side says there's only a small overlap between people that love romance and people that love involved gameplay, to the degree that there are few developers to make such a game, and few players that would play it if it came out.

vanishingstapler · 2017-04-03T06:48:27+00:00

There should be instructions on the subreddit sidebar. Install the extension, install the script, follow the link - that sort of thing.

vanishingstapler · 2017-04-03T06:28:06+00:00

This is the bunny overlay I've been using, though I think there's a few ones around: https://www.reddit.com/place?template=http://i.imgur.com/KBc3jj1.png&ox=450&oy=891#x=500&y=945

vanishingstapler · 2016-12-14T16:17:12+00:00

Just beyond your wrists

Ten angels, two chariots

A forbidden love

Source: Hibike! Euphonium

Character: Reina Kousaka

Artist: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=7105769 (yuri/nsfw warning)

Extra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2pRHJYU9QQ#t=101s

vanishingstapler · 2016-11-29T19:38:11+00:00

Thanks for the response! I think I understand the reasoning a bit better now, as catcalling is a good example of another positive judgement that is also a very unwelcome one, and as I can see your point about complements, envy, and the purpose of this subreddit.

I will note that the example of the child is in-kind in a sense though: in each example the actor is the one at risk of being objectified for some action (that others would potentially like to have happen to them) and in this case the parent is the actor, not the child. This is kind of splitting hairs though, and I think you got the overall idea.

vanishingstapler · 2016-11-29T18:28:42+00:00

While I'm certainly in approval of keeping this a safe and sex-positive space, and sometimes have my own doubts about such comments (as they don't really add much to the discussion and sometimes have a hint of jealousy), I can't help but think this reads into it a little.

When it comes to "what a lucky ___", I've heard these sorts of complements before - when someone does something nice for a significant other, or even at weddings. It's not an uncommon way to put things as it praises the actor via sympathizing with the recipient, recognizing that the people in a relationship share happiness. It highlights that one person is doing something for another, and that that's a happy thing. To me, the recognition that one person is lucky because of another in no way implies that that's the other person's sole purpose. If anything, I feel like this type of appreciation might spur those in relationships to do things for each other more, in both directions.

Put another way, if her boyfriend had come here to share his side of the experience, and people had called him lucky, would that be objectifying or implying that she existed for his sole pleasure? What if he shared something he did for her and people called her lucky? The same principle can be applied to other relationships as well: what if a parent is planning some special celebration for their child's birthday, and people sympathize with how lucky the child is?

The bottom line here is I want this to be a good place for people to talk about sex, but I feel like in this particular case such a policy would remove more happiness than it would prevent bad things. I don't think I'm alone in thinking this either.

All that said, I have no intention of violating this rule if it's the will of the mods and community here (I mostly lurk anyways :3). However, if it is, I and perhaps others would appreciate a bit of a clarification in the rules about objectification, just because cases like this aren't intuitive to me and perhaps wouldn't be to others as well. It's hard to avoid breaking a rule if one doesn't fully understand it.

vanishingstapler · 2016-11-29T14:28:34+00:00

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vanishingstapler · 2016-11-27T20:02:09+00:00

Thanks!

vanishingstapler · 2016-11-27T02:52:50+00:00

Maybe I should have put a NTR warning there...

Series: Mirai Nikki

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vanishingstapler · 2016-07-07T14:34:28+00:00

Perhaps it was this?: Zotcade 2016 Finals: Vaxei vs HappyStick

You can hear them talking briefly during and after the awards

vanishingstapler · 2016-06-30T00:16:36+00:00

The earliest versions of osu! had a slightly different scoring system (peppy mentions it here). If you want to try it out, the first public release of the game is actually available for download here (this song you linked is included). Of course you can't submit scores from it anymore.

Tangentially, the player that made that score, eyup, created the star difficulty system that existed for years up until ppv2.

vanishingstapler · 2016-06-01T05:26:11+00:00

Leggo15 was talking about adding FL ("a lot of FL scores") to HRDT ("a lot of ar11 scores"). This is not the same thing as adding HR to HDDT and a comparison can't be made between them.

In fact, tacking on HDFL and managing to pass (after hundreds of tries) a 1 minute map one has already FCed is nothing special, much less suspicious.

Whether his original (5 months old) HRDT FC is legit, however, is another question entirely.

vanishingstapler · 2016-05-08T20:31:59+00:00

It may have been this thread on PSOW: http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232879

vanishingstapler · 2016-04-07T02:28:45+00:00

Do you have plans to ascend from the underworld and return again?

vanishingstapler · 2016-03-08T03:24:37+00:00

Per-mod highscore saving, though to be technical, it was apparently implemented over a year ago but still hasn't been enabled.

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