Recent content by The Lyre

It's exactly like every other forum, except it has anonymity, so people directly insult each other instead of veiling it in smug condescension. The people who post on /b/ and /v/ - in my opinion, the worst boards by far - are exactly the same kind of people who post on boards like this. The...

If you find your opponents frequently taunt you online, it's probably because you; A) Stand at the age of the screen spamming projectiles. B) Lie motionless on the floor because you're thinking the opponent is going to be stupid enough to let you sweep him. C) Are playing the same...

The same way I feel about most of my favourites VN's - I'd think it was unnecessary and somewhat out of place, but ultimately inoffensive and something I can just skip over and ignore. It's what I had to do in Dragon Age and Mass Effect, but those awkward, poorly animated cutscenes didn't...

Honestly you're really crippling yourself there. Most of the best visual novels I've read have had some sexual content. I'm not really sure why - they're otherwise fantastic novels in their own right, with one scene per story shoved in rather awkwardly. I guess it's partially for...

Since the OP's answer is Berserk, I'm going to assume that manga is okay, too. Munsu, from Shin Angyo Onshi - by far my favourite protagonist of all time. It's hard to concisely explain why, though, without spoilers. In anime specifically? Kiritsugu Emiya, from Fate/Zero. I'm not...

This is quite possibly the most hipster your requirements could possibly get, but I'll give it a shot. I can't really tell what is or isn't obscure though - so, if it doesn't have a Wikipedia entry, I'll assume it isn't well known. Manga; Hoshi no Samidare and Sengoku Youko, by the same...

You're genuinely the first person I've ever seen say that they preferred the manga to the movie. Not that that's...bad...it's just an unusual opinion. The only harm I can foresee is that, in a couple years, when someone brings up Oldboy, more people around the table will have probably...

It's not really satire when the supposedly 'absurd' occurrences are pretty commonplace. Geek-chic is still a thing - a ridiculous thing, where men now try to dress as some bizarre idealised version of the same tiny bespectacled kid we all laughed at and even bullied for no reason in school. I...

Half-Life 3 won't help Valve sell lots of HATS or SHINY TRADING CARDS - it's probably more profitable for them to just keep making smaller titles like Portal and let the absolute fanatical maniacs that comprise their fanbase keep on trading collectibles. Every now and then they'll put some...

Schrodinger's Cat is the paradox that many-worlds resolves. Inside the box, the absurd notion is presented that the cat is aware of both being alive and dead at the same time - sound familiar? The problem with Bioshock Infinite is that the many-worlds interpretation is meant to be the...

I don't know, I just can't think of any other reason for giving them the same prize money. The only argument I can think of is "We put the same physical effort in, relative to how much effort we physically can put in". It really doesn't matter how you answer this question; either way...

Five minutes of genuine, pathetic hatred, most likely. Just five minutes of calm, composed whining about how horrible and shit everything is. Not with any specific goal or agenda in mind. I certainly wouldn't claim to represent anyone or anything good and righteous, or even poignant - I...

The difference is that the announcements in prior years was that the game was being developed in a conceptual sense - the ideas were being fleshed out before actual production. As unlikely as it would have been, at that point it was still possible that Persona 5 might not happen, or that, say...

It was meant to be meta. It's a fourth-wall-breaking nod to storytelling. Sort of. People like to claim that it's related to the many-worlds elements of the plot, but it isn't. It can't be, because as you yourself pointed out, there isn't always a man/lighthouse/city. It was tripe...

When stories like My Immortal go viral, they have a massively negative impact on people's perception of fan fiction. It doesn't help that most people don't know My Immortal is bad-fic, intentionally written as is for the sake of humour - though, if you tell someone that, it sort of ruins it...