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Atario wrote:

SpunkySix wrote:Proprioception? Man, now that I can't imagine. I think having normal clumsy person lack of spacial awareness sucks, I really don't think I could handle not knowing where my limbs are at all. Kind of reminds me of object permanence issues. I wonder if they're related...

Wait, maybe I was unclear. Proprioception is the sense, not the lack of it.

Oh. OH. Good to know.

And Atario, that mental image man...

My favorite is Akira.

Also, Suzu is fucking worthless, people need to drop it, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. She is not nor has she ever been special.

poopooface wrote:Also, Suzu is fucking worthless, people need to drop it, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. She is not nor has she ever been special.

Well then. Aren't a divine, civilized chap.

You might even say he's a doodoohead.

poopooface wrote:Also, Suzu is fucking worthless, people need to drop it, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. She is not nor has she ever been special.

But Snoozu!

SpunkySix wrote:

poopooface wrote:Also, Suzu is fucking worthless, people need to drop it, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. She is not nor has she ever been special.

But Snoozu!

The great poopooface has spoken. Lets pack it up everybody.

Oddball wrote:you're upset that one topic that was just page after page of bad jokes got shut down.

They weren't all bad jokes. And that's besides the point: the point is that there is absolutely no harm whatsoever in having a thread specifically for nonsense and light-hearted joking. As far as I know, the only person who had a problem with that thread was Cook.

I get that forums need mods to shut down people who are impolite/huge jerks to other people on the forum. Nobody wants a forum swarming with trolls/flame-warriors, but if a thread isn't actually causing any problems, why shut it down? Why not just laugh it off, shake your head and leave the participators to be as silly as they like?

Someone brought up a certain web-comic a page or so ago, so I'll leave you with this.



...Getting back on topic, I didn't mind Hideaki once I started getting into Shizune's route, but found him a little annoying in Lilly's route, particularly when he starts question Hisao about his condition, and when he makes absolutely no effort to hide how bored and disinterested he is. He's weird and detached in both routes, but I gained a little more appreciation for his subduedness after encountering Jigoro. Little more character depth does wonders for sympathy.

Still not my favorite character, but certainly an interesting one.

@someguy: Dunno. Go ask Cook.

And Hideaki is best girl.

Potato wrote:And Hideaki is best girl.

I'll admit that one art piece with him having feminine hips got to me a little. Not as much as it got to you prolly tho.

"Rev up the deep fryers, because this potato is about to go McDonalds fries, with Hideaki on the side."

someguy1294 wrote:He's weird and detached in both routes, but I gained a little more appreciation for his subduedness after encountering Jigoro. Little more character depth does wonders for sympathy.

That's why I shake my head every time I see a fast-forward-fanfic where Hideaki turns out to be a manly-man stud. Kinda undermines the kid's whole rebellion M.O., y'know?

Atario wrote:

someguy1294 wrote:He's weird and detached in both routes, but I gained a little more appreciation for his subduedness after encountering Jigoro. Little more character depth does wonders for sympathy.

That's why I shake my head every time I see a fast-forward-fanfic where Hideaki turns out to be a manly-man stud. Kinda undermines the kid's whole rebellion M.O., y'know?

The whole "X in the future is still X, but totally different in every way" concept has potential, but I feel like it tends to fall completely flat because you're essentially using a character in name only unless there's a really good reason for said changes.

SpunkySix wrote:

Atario wrote:

someguy1294 wrote:He's weird and detached in both routes, but I gained a little more appreciation for his subduedness after encountering Jigoro. Little more character depth does wonders for sympathy.

That's why I shake my head every time I see a fast-forward-fanfic where Hideaki turns out to be a manly-man stud. Kinda undermines the kid's whole rebellion M.O., y'know?

The whole "X in the future is still X, but totally different in every way" concept has potential, but I feel like it tends to fall completely flat because you're essentially using a character in name only unless there's a really good reason for said changes.

The one exception in the whole KS canon is Hideaki; he's essentially pre- or early puberty during the story and things change a lot from then to full-blown adolescence—in fact, it's very common. If he has Jigoro's genes, he'd have a big growth spurt. Then it comes down to what he feels he can do with that; after all, the son v father dynamic is also very common. And because he is temperamentally very different, he might be a more thoughtful and controlled Jigoro.

(Edit: that is, not a manly-manly stud, but a very effective 'manly man' nevertheless.)

brythain wrote:The one exception in the whole KS canon is Hideaki; he's essentially pre- or early puberty during the story and things change a lot from then to full-blown adolescence—in fact, it's very common. If he has Jigoro's genes, he'd have a big growth spurt. Then it comes down to what he feels he can do with that; after all, the son v father dynamic is also very common. And because he is temperamentally very different, he might be a more thoughtful and controlled Jigoro.

(Edit: that is, not a manly-manly stud, but a very effective 'manly man' nevertheless.)

I can see that... it just needs to be handled well, and the writer there is walking a very thin line between meaningful transformation and tracing paper thin gag prop.

Proprioception, eh? It has a word, that's good!
"Lack of Spacial Awareness" just sounds more like a criticism than a disability.
Congenital Proprioception Loss? How could I phrase the lack of it?

Atario wrote:

And I just call proprioception the sense of flailing, because you couldn't flail effectively without it.

Mmm, I dunno, I think maybe lacking proprioception might make flailing more effective. Or at least less predictable. (Now I'm picturing Aoi and Keiko flopping around like rag dolls clipped to a paint mixer, accompanied by appropriate wacky cartoon sound effects )

I was snickering until I got to 'wacky cartoon sound effects'. At that point, I full on lol'd.