The Hangout: I like Chopin Brokoly.

[Cyberxion]

Eh, is hype a deciding factor for some people? Sure it is. Society is full of people who buy into shit because the people they're trying to impress bought into it first. It's how society has worked forever, and you all should know that. Unless you weren't paying attention at any point in your existence, in which case you've probably got such an idealistic world-view that you don't even know what the word hype or the term peer-pressure even mean, you sad fuckers.

So yeah, I'm not saying hype isn't a factor here. Simple everyday understanding will tell you that there's a pretty good chance that at least a handful of people are going to buy this game because they want to impress upon someone that they too are part of the in-crowd.
It's not an issue specific to Nintendo, a fact to which similar discussions surrounding the releases of hugely anticipated 360 and PS3 games aptly attest, but more importantly the matter of hype is dragged out so frequently, largely as a means to help self-absorbed jackasses work out how or why someone might be driven to like something they don't. So let's wake up, smell the coffee, and stop being such colossal fucking shit-nuggets about this already, shall we?

Sometimes people just like what they like. I know it's a touch concept to grasp, being that so many of you sad fuckers seems to operate on the idea that he or she is the center of the known inverse, but it's really sometimes that simple, and doesn't mean a fucking thing more than that. I know, it's crazy, eh? Yet it's so true too.

Really, I'd love to think that Destructoid members on the whole would be above such petty nonsense such as all that, being that the site is full of intelligent people. However, the only comprehensible difference between the D-Toid community and that of say GameFAQs is that people are using bigger words to say the same stupid shit. Whatever happened to STFUAJPG? Fallen by the wayside in favor of the same old douche-baggery and fan-boy bullshit.

DToid, where a higher class of asshole resides.

[Evans]

Make that about a dozen times. I'm gone, need to turn shit off before it blows. Bah

[Jetsetlemming]

Hee. Would it be worth lying and saying that I play lots of hentai games, I wonder? I wonder what kind of reactions I'd get?

No, I found out about it from the series. Back when I first got my computer, and realised that I had both the space and the processing speed to download big movie files, I dabbled in a lot of different anime. And acquired quite a good knowledge of some of the more famous love adventure games from adaptations like Kanon, To Heart, and Tsukihime.

I actually played the game of Kanon, too. But it was the all-ages Dreamcast version. ^^;

I'll admit to having played a couple hentai games. I absolutely loved Yume Miru Kusuri.
Learned my lesson when I played Cresendo, though. Good lord.

[Cyberxion]

Hmn. Randomly hitting control+v yields interesting results.

[_M_]

Damn busy server messages.

Be back tomorrow morning.

[Raype]

They do it to save time.

Why go to the effort of adding things to a game when you can remove them and still make the money.

Masters of their craft, they are.

Artists probably draw porn of their characters anyway.

This way, they get PAID for it.

Agreed. I'm not especially prudish, and I can handle sex scenes in media if they serve to further the plot or develop the characters, but imagining them in Kanon is...wrong, somehow. It just doesn't fit for me, not with the relationships between the characters, nor with the tone of the story.

*prepares massive Kanon HCG dump PM*

No, I'm not THAT cruel.

Lost power nearly twice... Dammit. As if I weren't bored enough already. >__>

And those fucking busy error!

It's the end of the world!

[Tanthias]

It is weird when Elin's a guy.

*ring*

Oh hold on.

*picks up phone*

Alright, fine.

*hangs up phone*

That was some equal rights group.

I have to retract my statement.

You're "normal" now.



So you DO watch porn?

30 GB? That it? Ha!



Electric snowstorms.

Sounds like a new "freak weather" movie



In the ass?



I'd say something, but we all recall last years april fools.

We're suckers.

Big 'uns.

Hey, Elin likes cute things, so I thought he'd like that. I am straight by the way.

I think it's sweet.

Take that as you will. It is me, afterall. ^^;

I respect your opinion.

What's wrong with that?

Make that about a dozen times. I'm gone, need to turn shit off before it blows. Bah

Bye man Hopefully when you come back it won't be a busy error...

[Raype]

I'll admit to having played a couple hentai games. I absolutely loved Yume Miru Kusuri.

*hi fives JSL*

...

What?

I plan to get around to playing that soon.

(Don't look at me like that)

Learned my lesson when I played Cresendo, though. Good lord.

What's the matter, too INCEST for you?

[Elin]

So you DO watch porn?

30 GB? That it? Ha!

I don't know about 'watch', which implies that I gave it any sort of attention. Nor 'do', which implies some sort of regularity. But I have seen porn. Mostly via my 'friends' in high school, who were either pretty depraved, or simply very normal teenage boys. I don't have enough experience to tell you either way. Also, I googled it a few times during my teens because I thought that that was what someone my age was supposed to be doing. In hindsight, I really did a lot of things for reasons like that.

Nowadays, though, it's really just via web banners and misleading links that I come into contact with it. Sorry to disappoint you~

[Cyberxion]

Good night.

Too dead for me.

[Elin]

Hmn. Randomly hitting control+v yields interesting results.

Indeed indeed. *reads*

[Raype]

Hey, Elin likes cute things, so I thought he'd like that. I am straight by the way.

Getting pretty defensive there, aren't you?

(I kid, I kid!)

[Elin]

Good night.

Too dead for me.

Night night, Cyber. Sleep well~

[Raype]

Mostly via my 'friends' in high school, who were either pretty depraved, or simply very normal teenage boys.

I'm going to go with "normal".

Of course, keep in mind I went to high school in the town that gave the world ME. And was surrounded by like minded individuals.

So take that as you will.

[Elin]

Seriously, just because I wanted to buy Elin a cute, frilly pink dress with purple ribbons doesn't make me a freak.


I think...

It sounds much cuter when you think of me looking like Tooru, the girl in my avatar~ The reality of it would be decidedly less so.

...

Though I'd still take it.