/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11382891
>Too bad Kokoro and Satoru acted so fucktarded a lot of the time to advance the plot.
I can understand complaining about Kokoro, but when did Satoru ever act 'fucktarded'?

No description. What the hell, VNDB?

So who is the most intelligent VN protagonist? I'd say Satoru ranks up there quite highly.

>>10178527
I'd say he's pretty good.

>>10002431
No, even if you compare high-profile badly translated games they don't get another chance. (Clannad comes to mind; though not machine-translated, it's very badly translated, but nobody's retranslated it despite it being one of the most acclaimed VNs of all time.)

The lines themselves might not be gibberish - they rarely are even in the case of an edited machine translation - but the story as a whole becomes gibberish.

To give a rough idea of how damaging machine translations are, I ran 16 lines of Remember11 through Google Translate, edited them to make sense, then compared them to the real translation: http://pastebin.com/yXYezcrC
The result is 10 lines being significantly mistranslated, and more importantly, the entire point of the scene being missed (which is a vital plot point), as the machine translation does not translate it correctly and context suggests it means something else than what it really means.

Reading only the "translated" text it may seem fine, but in practice you are completely butchering the original text when you're machine translating it.

/jp/ is a lonely path. It is also the ultimate humanitarian path. We forgo social interaction in hopes that someone out there in the world will take our share. Such is the sacrifice that we must endure when we take up the banner of /jp/. Our path is a solemn path. We do not expect to experience happiness. We do not expect companionship. We do not expect any interaction with the opposite sex. Instead we live our lives through the eyes of the protagonists in visual novels. Once we see through their eyes, we cannot turn back and hope to experiencing those things through our own mortal flesh. In becoming one with /jp/ we shed our fragile bodies for the eternal body that is a VN protagonist.

>>9761863
>The people who read it don't even know what the fuck is going on.
That is entirely their own fault. The endings themselves are very clear if you have been paying attention and thinking along with the characters. The parts left to discussion are all unsolved mysteries regarding 'the bigger picture'. The main story itself (the 7-day Akakuradake and SPHIA stories) are fully complete and explained, just the backstory around it is never confirmed.

>>9650688
Taking all factors into mind...

Theory #1, magic. Although over the centuries many have believed in the existence of magic, rational people of all times have concluded that no such thing as magic exists. Anything thought to be magic is merely a misunderstanding of the flawed mind, interpreted as something otherworldly. This rules out presented theory #1.

Theory #2, trick. At first glance, it would be reasonable to assume that such an impossible act could only be a trick. That is what I, too, thought at first. However...

Back when she showed her left hand, her left hand 'was empty'. When she opened her right fist afterwards, it 'was not empty'. At some time between the 'showing of the left hand' and the 'showing of the right hand', the status of the left hand turned from 'empty' into 'unknown'. Conversely, the status of the right hand turned from 'unknown' into 'containing a candy'.

How did the candy end up in the right hand? Did the witch have the candy in her right hand all along? Was she carrying it with her all the time, in the case that she might be asked to conjure a candy? It would seem rather unlikely, as there was no guarantee that the asker would ask for her to 'create a candy with magic'. What if the asker had instead asked for her to create a pen with magic?

From these points, we can deduce that the witch had advance knowledge of 'the request for candy'. How did she know? Does she have powers of precognition, being able to perceive the future? Or, perhaps, could it be a conspiracy where the asker had planned out with the witch in advance that he would ask her to 'create a candy with magic'?

There are still too many unknown factors. At this point, the truth remains hidden under a layer of evidence that has yet to be uncovered. I should go back to ADV mode and go on with the plot to get more information.

>>9629278
Wrong. You clearly have never gone in-depth about Remember11's plot.

First of all, in Remember11, True Satoru set up the loop as part of the experiment. The intention was not to 'break out of the loop'.

According to the infinity timeline, the goal of the experiment was
1) To save the survivors; and
2) To trap Self in this time-space plane

The infinity timeline also says, at the end of Satoru's route, that the shadow who pushed Satoru off the clock tower (all but confirmed to be Self) is already trapped in this time-space plane.

In other words, unless some theory pops up that convincingly declares that the shadow is not Self, the experiment was a total success.

One thing I still haven't been able to figure out (most likely due to some assumption I make being incorrect, hence the need for some way of checking the answers) is what 'Kagome Kagome' means, and why anyone influenced by Self starts to sing it.