/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>18372294
>And then when it runs it has 4 processes.
I still don't understand how it's possible for Japan to have such shit coding in VNs.

Every sane programmer in the world could run a static hi-res background with a few dynamic images on an IBM machine from the 80s, but Japan apparently needs hundreds of megs of RAM to do the same thing.

To date, I don't think anything touched me deeply like Umineko did, in any medium, visual or otherwise.

I just cared so much about the characters, the story, just wanting to know what would happen next, wanting to know what end everyone would meet.
The magic ending had me bawling, full on snot-and-tears grade emotion, I was just so touched, seeing it, even without knowing exactly what it would mean or its implications. It was just so beautiful.

I understand the criticism towards Chiru, but at the same time I think it speaks a lot about the kind of reader who disliked the "genre shift", as they deprecatingly put it.
Even though more details were given out at each turn, even though we got more development for every single character, even though any part of the story you could name was expanded, just because it wasn't pure mystery and sterile new 'material' to dissect, it's regarded as shit by a certain slice of the readership.

I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to find the solution to a riddle, but if during Chiru the only thing you could think of "Oh, come on, when's the next REAL bit of story?", what the hell?
Are you just speedreading past any white text until you find some red?
Is the only thing you got out of the whole experience "There's a murderer and I got to know who it is, to hell with all the rest"?

I honestly don't get how you could even finish Umineko if your only driving force is a sterile desire to say "Yep, that's the culprit alright" and give zero fucks about anything else.
Umineko is long. Like, REALLY long.
It's beyond me how anyone could sit through the whole thing if they didn't enjoy anything about it that wasn't "who dunnit".
Maybe that's why people are so vocal about Chiru being shit.
They forced themselves through it just for a payoff that nobody was even caring, nor expected to give.

It's like driving 500 miles to a sushi place just so you can tell everyone that it's complete garbage because they don't sell burgers.

I got a physical mahjong set.

I was so excited to play it, after months of playing online, and even teaching my flatmates and friends.

We did a test game.
Flatmate1 and his girlfriend quit after two hands to watch Sherlock, saying it was 'just a pause'.
Then, two hours later, it was too late to actually keep playing.

I'm not blaming them, I'm aware that the number of people seriously invested in this game must be abysmal outside of Japan, but it still felt kind of lonely, being the only one who cared.

At least I can keep being a shitter in 7447