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[toskarin]

As a complete novice to vns who has never read one but is interested, what vns would you consider a must read?

Fate/stay night is remarkable for being both an amazing entrypoint and a star in the genre. a fantastic and emotional piece of fiction that, to this day, remains widely respected as one of the best vns out there. Hollow Ataraxia, the pseudo-sequel, is also an extremely high recommendation

Higurashi and Umineko! albeit maybe not as your first, since Higurashi can be a bit of a slow burn. Umineko is a love letter to mystery novels, written as a mystery that interrogates the very nature of mystery and narrative itself, asking "what makes us want to know the truth in the first place?"

this one is strongly not recommended as your first and manages to tick nearly every conceivable content warning, but Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is a gutwrenching tragedy about justice, self righteousness, fascism, and mecha samurai with jet engines strapped to their backs

similar notes for Subarashiki Hibi, which is an incredible existentialist nightmare wrapped up in staring at a beautiful blue sky. definitely put it on your list, but maybe not as your first foray. or do! who knows what you're looking for better than yourself?

there are honestly lots more, but I'm typing this while cooking, so it's gonna be a little scatterbrained

[sublimated-mother]

[pazlascabezas]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[girldraki]

[boeing747]

nothing in the world is mundane someone spent years of their life studying and thinking about culverts and building upon the countless work of others and our historical collected knowledge of fluid dynamics and construction materials just so that your shit doesn't get flooded all the time and you dont even think about it! have you ever considered the culvert really? and its like. fucking everything is like this

[escuerzoresucitado]

[ether--net]

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[andwhatexcellentboiledpotatoes]

I am so sick and tired of having to charge stuff every day of my miserable life!! My phone, my watch, my headphones, my vibrator, my backup vibrator, my emergency vibrator, the ancient cursed amulet of darkness that whispers to me....it's too much!!!

[dailyhatsune]

you'll never be anything like me

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[irondive]

[wannabemumma]

“Hey store manager from the hit movie Elf, what is the primary group that celebrates pride month and, more importantly, when does it start?”

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[ironlily-art]

Clinye the Succubus has a knack for picking duels, and she hasn't failed yet.

[ironlily-art]

Clinye is my only non-human fantasy character. While I’ve moved from fantasy toward European historical aesthetics, succubi remain one fantasy race I still love.

Succubi to me represent the idea of a woman who can do almost anything. beyond the seductive beauty and initiative traditionally associated with them, they also have powerful and resilient physical traits in most ttrpgs.

Imagine when succubi having all of that then added proper training and discipline on top, they'd be just about perfect being.😤