05-02-2025, 02:01 AM
never give your ASL on a public anywhere, but I can cheerfully say that I pretty much grew up on and with the internet. I was there, GandalfSaturn, when fandom was personal websites and then the collection websites that sprung up after that to consolidate everything into one place instead of scattered everywhere, webrings, email rings, email lists and forums.
It was absolute full of cliques and camps and people yelling at each other over the dumbest things, but if one place blew up into grenade fragments over some inter-personal issue between the two people running the place, there was always somewhere else to land, even if you had to build it yourself.
[pointedly looks around the bare walls]
Hah, I remember one ... I wanna say it was an email ring for fanfiction in the anime I was into - and you could get yourself banned for daring to write anything painting the one lone female character as anything other than besotted with the main lead. you'd get banned AND tarred AND feathered if you dared suggest maybe she was lesbian and didn't much care for any of the guys at all. ah, good times. You could write slash fic for the two male leads, but it had to be the webmistress' level of 'tasteful', lord knows what that was.
Please hold back on the absolute spoilers, like "this happens and then your character says this and then he says that and this proves that really, he's definitely foreshadowing this other, upcoming event and anybody that can't see that is brain dead". But general "character" stuff like which general archetype each boy falls into, or what vibe you think fell flat somewhere is fine for discussion although I'm not going to be able to contribute much until I get caught up and maybe have differing opinions worth hashing out.
I guess err on the side of caution, I don't need to know everything now! Some of the fun is definitely in the confusion and suspicion. I am really pleased to know that the boys aren't just cookie cutter nice all the time. I am REALLY pleased that you're wondering about if the game is rated correctly for its content! Honestly, seeing some of the ads where the love interest actually kisses you kind of made me want to play, back in the times when I just couldn't due to technical limitations. Its nice for once to actually have an "adult" romance that isn't restricted to G rating and implied hand holding.
I mean, jeez! Xavier GRABS you in the first two minutes! Color me bemused and happy.
It was absolute full of cliques and camps and people yelling at each other over the dumbest things, but if one place blew up into grenade fragments over some inter-personal issue between the two people running the place, there was always somewhere else to land, even if you had to build it yourself.
[pointedly looks around the bare walls]
Hah, I remember one ... I wanna say it was an email ring for fanfiction in the anime I was into - and you could get yourself banned for daring to write anything painting the one lone female character as anything other than besotted with the main lead. you'd get banned AND tarred AND feathered if you dared suggest maybe she was lesbian and didn't much care for any of the guys at all. ah, good times. You could write slash fic for the two male leads, but it had to be the webmistress' level of 'tasteful', lord knows what that was.
Please hold back on the absolute spoilers, like "this happens and then your character says this and then he says that and this proves that really, he's definitely foreshadowing this other, upcoming event and anybody that can't see that is brain dead". But general "character" stuff like which general archetype each boy falls into, or what vibe you think fell flat somewhere is fine for discussion although I'm not going to be able to contribute much until I get caught up and maybe have differing opinions worth hashing out.
I guess err on the side of caution, I don't need to know everything now! Some of the fun is definitely in the confusion and suspicion. I am really pleased to know that the boys aren't just cookie cutter nice all the time. I am REALLY pleased that you're wondering about if the game is rated correctly for its content! Honestly, seeing some of the ads where the love interest actually kisses you kind of made me want to play, back in the times when I just couldn't due to technical limitations. Its nice for once to actually have an "adult" romance that isn't restricted to G rating and implied hand holding.
I mean, jeez! Xavier GRABS you in the first two minutes! Color me bemused and happy.
