/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[spoiler]Well, here goes nothing: http://jpvn.dyndns.org/
Submissions are now being accepted.

For people too lazy to follow links:
>THE PROJECT
>Writers will submit short stories, which are then voted on by the community. The highest rated stories are then scripted into visual novel style, and artists and musicians create art and music for them. These mini-VNs are then released together as a single visual novel.
>The aim of the project is to create short and simple VN content. The plot does not need to be unique, the writing does not need to be brilliant, and the art and music do not need to be really pretty and detailed - just try your best to produce something. If people like it enough, it'll be included, and if not, at least you've made something and you'll probably learn from the process and criticism given.

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/jp/er with 'actual friends' here. There is no objective definition for "friend". Even if you call certain people "friends", your relationship with each of them is very different. What I can discuss, what I can't discuss, what I can or can't ask or talk about varies per friend.

Online friends aren't all that different from offline friends. The biggest difference is that you can't always avoid offline friends, so you have to be more careful around them, limiting how free you feel in what you say to them. That said, I can't really consider '/jp/' as a friend. You can't really get a bond with someone if there's no way to identify them - it's repeated interactions that make you familiar with the person, leading to "friendship".

As for real life social interaction being superior, I strongly disagree with it. Even for real life friends, the most meaningful conversations I've had were over the internet. For social failures like most of /jp/, many things are better expressed in text than in speech. The ridiculously fast pace and complicated etiquette of real life speech seriously impedes your ability to have a good conversation. The best kind of conversation is a 1-on-1 IM conversation, where you can properly prepare whatever you have to say, and the lack of external distractions makes sure the conversation remains meaningful as long as both participants are interested.

>>7436791
Aside from convince items (pots, warp stones, pet food), there doesn't seem to be game breaking items in the cash shop.

>/jp/

Japanese girl reading /prog/

Somebody give me a brief explanation of what the red text is all about. Which spam came from "Sharecash"?

Apologies for the terrible thread, but the front page is already covered with /b/. I'll post sluts or something to make it up to you.

Japanese girl reading /prog/

Japanese girl reading /prog/

Typical /jp/ poster

Japanese girl reading /prog/.

http://scrawlfx.com/2009/08/final-fantasy-xiv-famitsu-wave-interview-pours-information


>Final Fantasy XIV revolves around character growth. There will be no experience points or leveling system this time around, and a new system will come in to play. Square Enix wants to deliver an experience where new players have the freedom to try out any quest and many different things, growing naturally from their experiences. A deep story will be in tact in Final Fantasy XIV, including cut-scenes, but they're going beyond that by also delivering a wider variety of stories and quests. They want players to enjoy the process of character growth.


FFXIV: Mabinogi ripoff?

>>3043205
More like 6.001x better.

Japanese girl reading /prog/.