Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-80.144.146.207-20200716120200

Nah, I meant it in the way that if you want other people to read it, you have to do it that way. _I_ want other people to read it, not something like "I'm doing it for you guys". So you are doing it for yourself, for selfish (not meant negatively) reasons basically. While it may sound like a small difference from a certain point of view, it's actually a large difference psychologically. As such, motivation etc comes from totally different places. Always depends. There are enough times where you are so bored to do anything at all. At least that's often the case with me. If I'm busy with X things, I'm more responsive to Y things. I guess it's some sort of balancing. That's why if you are doing nothing, there is no balancing needed. Hm, interesting. It's always kinda funny in the sense that I own the things but since they are all new, I can't ever check them personally.

Most definitely. For some reason though, they are focusing their English translation efforts towards voice stuff and some games. I don't get the voice stuff, I see no worth in it. It's not even audio dramas or anything...oh well. I skimmed though DLSite English to see if there is anything interesting to buy but when it comes to games, it looks kinda bleak. I would only buy things that aren't available physically and ideally it has good ratings and even more ideally, it has some PC-98 (or other PCs around that time) look. The latter is basically impossible to find, even on Japanese DLSite. Man, I haven't written in a while. Alicesoft also opened a "booth" which is connected to Pixiv somehow. Doesn't seem like they got all the goods DMM/FANZA has though.

Also, seems like there was a bit of "news" today regarding Dohna Dohna. Looks like the webpage will be up next month. Game still looks...weird. They also made a reference to the overseas expansions. You have probably seen their English Twitter account, right? Will be interesting what comes out of it. If they release physically here and if that is based in Europe (and not the US), I will maybe double-dip. It really depends though. The Japanese goods tend to be way better than non-native ones. Not to mention that Alicesoft isn't nearly as good as they were back in the 90s. By the way, they should set up a proper website here. It's stupid how they limit themselves to Twitter users only (which I am not, of course).

Haha, you tell me. I've browsed through all their PC-98 games before and some of them really have ridiculous prices. Same with some walkthroughs I checked out. Definitely. It's a shame Elf died along the way. But better die a hero than see yourself become the villain aka better die a glorious company then become one that produces lots of mobile titles (Alicesoft *cough* Alicesoft). I mean, it's not even a large package. Paper is just that heavy. I'm currently looking into getting a cheaper option regarding all those artbooks. Hopefully, something will come out of it.

And then there was some bad news today. Remember when I said I shipped my package with cool things where the proxy service wrote nonsense on the customs papers? Despite that, it still made it through. However, DHL apparently did an awful job and whoever was supposed to deliver it didn't bother. So I got no notification of anything and the tracking of the package didn't give me any information (except that they tried to deliver on the same day it was at customs in Frankfurt which is utter bs of course). So today, I learned that they send my package back to Japan....yesterday. It was apparently waiting in the same city for me. So, wasted time and wasted shipping costs...great. I'm pretty annoyed... I also got the follow-up package which was sent exactly 14 days later two days ago. It had four games from Suruga-ya inside. I had shipped Dalk from them earlier to see how the quality is and whether ordering Suruga-ya stuff is worth it. Dalk was in good condition, so I went ahead any bought more. Turns out...it's not that rosy. First game has some weird deformation on top (not the cover) of the game box. Looks like the material was heated up, a bubble appeared and burst. I have no clue how it can look like that, especially because the material isn't made to look like that at all and can't be forcefully arranged that way. What was inside was good at least. Still, the game box though (ah yeah, it was Super DPS by the way)... After that, Rance III. The game box was nice, the inside was nice, even had that foam thing inside. All in all, really good. So I was hopeful that the rest will be like that too. Unfortunately, Toushin Toshi was super dirty, coffee stains on the front, below the plastic protection too, dirty inside, overall, really bad. And the last one, Dr. Stop, was slightly better but also had several issues. So 1/4 was worth it. Not good. I still have one more game from Suruga-ya at the proxy which I will have to ship. Don't think I will order more from there and stick to things which I can see on a photo (although they are often pretty awful on YA). I might still order simple magazines, books or something like that, which can't be _that_ damaged. Although I will probably burn myself there too, haha. And well, lots more packages to come soon. Trying to send one per week now. One was sent today, then hopefully the next one in seven days and so forth.