elevown posted:

I don't think this site is a good choice for trolling.

Not gonna speculate on whether they were actually trolling or not but it's not too difficult to feel bad for him. She did say yes only to turn around and subsequently reject him shortly after. That's a lot worse on the person being rejected than simply being turned down to begin with.

DrMario posted:

Suggestion:
Resized images often look pretty bad on this page. Take for instance this page:
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/secret_honeys_absolute_territory
When you resize this page, ugly Moire patterns start to appear (especially in the black hair, but it depends on the resolution you're using). This is caused by poor resampling. If you download the page and open it in a (decent) image viewer, the quality will be much better.
Of course, having no webdev experience, I can only offer limited input on what to do about it. If this were an app I was writing I would simply implement a better algorithm, but CSS doesn't seem to have good options for this, apparently. What one could do is store all images in several resolutions and display a version that is close to the desired one. Then any artifacts caused by poor sampling algorithms would be decreased in visibility (I think). It should also save bandwidth, especially on mobile.

CSS is less limited than it used to be but it's still very limited in terms of resampling. Even now the only real options are point rescaling or the default. It'd technically be possible if the pages were an image drawn on a canvas instead but that'd be a lot of work to implement.

And since I'm not directly involved on the site myself this is purely speaking from my own personal experiences with hosting websites but a lot of hosts give you a disk space quota. If they have to worry about something like that then multiple sizes wouldn't really be viable.

Orangey posted:

Can't remember what her friend is called, but she still seems cool.

Pretty sure you're talking about Alice. Dunno why but it's a name that really sticks in my head, lol.

DrMario posted:

EvilDevil, I really don't think this thread is the right place for these announcements. How about you just create a new topic for that?

I'm fairly sure Drpepperfan or one of the other staff mentioned a page or two ago that it'd be better to just make a new upload request for the page updates.

Well that was kinda unclear and difficult to understand. It felt a lot more like a series of very loosely related shorts than one cohesive story.

captainfail posted:

I know. It is a joke used to represent the eyebrow touching in a negative light by 'jokingly' compare it to stuffing finger's into people's eyes with no warning. It is an exaggeration of what SJ did but in doing so, it implies that what she did is not acceptable since you make it seem like it is a lesser version of another unacceptable act.

Of course, what really happened is that SJ did it with warning, after QT agrees, and is merely affectionately touching QT where she thinks QT is cute.

It's not implying anything at all. It's making a dumb joke and nothing more than that. You should strive to not live up to your username.

captainfail posted:

I dunno bout you but it's common practice to complete misrepresent facts in order to twist perception of something in a way that one prefers. See? I can do it too. Although to be honest, this is actually a common practice called rhetoric. It's even taught in high school.

It's also common practice to not miss blatant jokes. You might try that out.

rincewind posted:

Magical Diary was nice too, but having only two females routes (and I only really liked Ellen's route) was a letdown.

What was the other route? Ellen's was the only one I was aware of.

Chantelune posted:

Density as its finest... I'm almost surprised she realized she got confessed to, considering... Though that girl really had to actually spell it out so it get into her thick skull.

Even then she's still not even sure according to what she says near the end, lol.

Koveras posted:

You do realize that for some people, it's about pushing their beliefs onto others rather than living their own lives according to them?

Well those people should learn to stop being moronic. If it doesn't harm anyone then what's honestly the problem with someone liking something you don't?

yukito posted:

Guro needs to take a lesson from Gease Howard AND DIE FOREVER

You do realize that if you have a problem with it nobody is forcing you to read it, right?

KcaT posted:

So I read more in between the lines...remember her big problem was that her best friend that she started to like knew her so well that she knew she liked her that way, so she notices when she acts strange, and then trys to re-assure her with the love umbrella...that doesn't work so she clumsily confessed by way of metaphor, and ahem an invitation to taste her since they're alone ^_^ (so lewd <3 )
And the clumsy scarf, and hand holding followed by a happy go lucky kiss at the end is a reflection of their intimacy after becoming true lovers(i mean they have been dating a month already)
But maybe im reading too much into it o.O heh ;)

This is basically exactly how I interpreted it as well. Though it's a bit too subtle/worded a bit ambiguously so it's easy to misinterpret it.

june-monkey posted:

i mean... i kinda liked it. i dunno, maybe it was the body horror lol

Personally I found it a lot more interesting than horrifying. Uziga Waita has far more horrifying stuff so it turned out far better than I was expecting. Though the gory aspects bother me a lot less than they might other people. I enjoy reading stuff like Franken Fran and Junji Itou's mangas when they're both very body horror-filled.

Green Melon posted:

I actually enjoyed it alot! (as in the symbolisms...not actual guro)

Way to be boring, lol.

Minutoh posted:

Holy fuck. I knew this would be super fucked up, but that was somehow even more fucked up than I thought it'd be... Interesting read though, I suppose...

It wasn't even remotely as bad as I was expecting considering the author. It was just more weird than I was expecting. Also unexpectedly interesting in the end all things considered.

schuyguy posted:

More contradictory evidence: the aunt she imagines seems to be both her guide and her tormentor - "showing her the way" to deal with Suu-chan, but also criticizing her love for Shio-chan. That may or may not be how her aunt was in life (I tend to assume she's dead), since when Satou hears another person's voice inside her head, she's just hearing her mind's reflection of them (though the author uses this technique quite liberally, and it might mean something different in the context of the story). But her reaction does indicate that her aunt had a profound and lasting impact on her, one way or another.

This isn't really contradictory though. Abusive guardians are all too often like that. Both guide and tormentor. That's one of the reasons people who suffer through that sort of thing end up so messed up and likely to perpetuate it. Due to their own experiences they struggle to know what the proper methods are since that's all they've known. (This isn't talking only about sexual abuse btw, I'm including emotional and physical abuse.) Though people who have suffered abuse in that sort of capacity are also far more likely to go out of their way to try not to perpetuate the problem as well.

schuyguy posted:

That really surprised me as well. Started laughing when I finally realized what she was "confessing". But it makes sense. To Satou, saying she loves someone other than Shio is way worse than murder. Notice how miserable she was after her encounter with Suu (washing her mouth out, freaking out, hallucinating her aunt, etc.), but when she gouged the eyes out of those fools in the park in chapter 7, she was back to her regular, cheerful self right away.

I liked this chapter because it shows that Satou isn't sociopathic. She was so haunted by the guilt of "betraying her love" that she forced herself to confess, even though she was afraid it would make Shio hate her. One of Anti-Social Personality Disorder's key indicators is the absence of this same kind of remorse. Thus, she has a moral system and feels empathy, just in a very selective, alien way. At the same time, she might understand how to manipulate people who are guided by their selfish desires, but she has very little insight into Shio.

It really just seems like Sato's psychologically fucked up because of her aunt but really just wants nothing more than what anyone else wants; to be happy. Just in her case that seems to be tied directly to Shio. Honestly I kinda feel sorry for her more than anything so far.

I am really curious about how she ended up with Shio though. And despite the fact Shio's considered missing it doesn't really seem like she misses her family at all so I'm kinda curious about that too.

Minutoh posted:

Ah, another one of those "doing sexual things to gain power!!" kinda things.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't it at all. It looks like they have to touch things to impart their power on it and their power is stated to stem from the heart so it makes sense that that's where you'd place your own power.

Orangey posted:

If she's a decent person I will be pleasantly surprised and take back my initial negativity! I have become far too used to the "oh here comes a love triangle! SURPRISE this new girl is awful, so you still cheer on the main pairing!"

It's why I really, reeeeally don't enjoy it when they bring in an ex-girlfriend, or a new girl with a crush, as they are usually outright terrible and its just nothing new

At the very least it seems like she knows Hana pretty well judging by the very little we've seen from her so far. That's not really enough to make a judgment either way though.

drpepperfan posted:

Also google. Google exists.

What's a Google?

bachou posted:

what's a HET mean ?

It stands for Hemorrhoid Enriched Titanium. It's a new building material.

Nezchan posted:

The latter is a good reason NOT to click links. =D

At least unless you actually like wasting several hours clicking links.

Alextasha posted:

But as you can see, not everyone click links xD

What kind of weirdo clicks links on the internet?

Hazukish posted:

Well that was sort of an insterting read, now excuse me while I puke from what a horribly selfish and perverted character ms.man was. He should have just stayed away from his family, what a peice of human garbage.

So what exactly was wrong with Kashiwa?

Chantelune posted:

-Finally, could you tell us about your plans for the future ?

Right now I'm supposed to be working on a sequel to Magical Diary, which I've been promising to do for years but one thing or another always gets in the way. Beyond that, who knows?

Oh, is that finally happening? Magical Diary was my first game by Hanako Games and it was pretty good. Interestingly it was part of my introduction to the yuri genre too since the only character I actually found all that interesting was the one you can get in a yuri relationship with.

karp posted:

Oh, huh, I had no idea she ran Hella Yuri.

I completely forgot about that, lol. That's the only curator group I even follow on Steam.