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Melancholic

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  1. Still haven't got an answer from you, sent you a friend request on origin. :(

     

     

    Sorry about that. :( I didn't get any notifications at all until Origin updated itself a minute ago. It is, evidently, a marvel of technology.

     

    All is well now!

  2. Doujinstyle should have working links for all the official games, as well as many fan games and a lot of arranged music albums.

     

    Keep in mind a lot of the fan made stuff is of dubious quality because it's, well, made by fans.

  3. Hello all. ME fanboy reporting in to say ME3 is pretty great until the ending tears down the universe with a sledgehammer.

    I'm an avid supporter of the "retake" campaign, but also a believer in the ability of BioWare to make things right in the extended cut.

    It's really depressing the bitterness over the ending overshadows what is fundamentally an excellent game.

     

    If anyone in Europe wants to farm credits in gold play multiplayer, add Melancholic2 on Origin. Just don't expect me to have a mic.

  4. I'm not nearly affected as much by large scale tragedy (war, genocide) as I am by small, personal drama (a death in the family, a love torn apart). I'm also completely unmoved by catastrophes in the news, unless they affect me or those I care about personally. I guess it's easier to empathize with individuals than with large groups of people, or I'm just apathetic.

     

    ... Why must this show remain unnamed? :eek:

  5. This "emptiness" always overcomes me after I finish something I got emotionally invested in. I'll spend entire days just listening to the soundtrack, browsing fan art and boring my disinterested peers by continually bringing it up. I don't understand how so many people are instantly over the emotional impact of a work of fiction when the credits roll. I've watched shows that nearly brought me to tears with friends, and they would casually pause the video during a critical scene to get potato chips (and loudly eat them). I get frustrated when someone brings up something utterly mundane (yes, your grocery list is amazing!) immediately after witnessing something soul crushingly depressing or amazingly epic. If your mind is wandering so soon, you're doing yourself a disservice by not properly enjoying your entertainment.

     

    I'm just weird, though.

  6. I can heartily recommend Spell Force 2. It's an RPG with RTS base building and unit recruitment that should be good for a hundred hours of fun, especially if it includes all the expansions.

    It's quite well made, but it never got the attention it deserved because it was made primarily for the German market and wasn't marketed properly in the rest of the world.

     

    Bonus: much of the armor for females is of the chainmail bikini type, so you can whore around while you save the world.

  7. Dōjin (同人 dōjin?), often romanized as doujin, is a general Japanese term for a group of people or friends who share an interest, activity, hobbies, or achievement.

    In Japan the term is used to refer to amateur self-published works (Dōjinshi), including but not limited to manga, novels, fan guides, art collections, music and video games.

    Doujin is not a genre, but a term for self-published works. Think of it as analogous to "indie" in the west.

     

    So Touhou is a series of doujin shooting games, Umineko and Tsukihime are doujin visual novels, IOSYS and TAMUSIC produce doujin music CDs, Homunculus is a doujin hentai mangaka, etc.

     

    Since it's just amateurs making things as a hobby with no financial backing other than their own pockets, it's unreasonable to expect a doujin circle to meet the production and sales of a major publisher. ZUN has to practically burn every game he sells to a CD himself, and that is why his works are not available in major retail outlets. This has nothing to do with any kind of lack in demand (on the contrary, physical copies of Touhou games are frequently sold out).

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