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2014-01-30

by shaenon on January 30, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Jay Eff
    January 30, 2014, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Dating Sim… of COURSE…

  2. katrikah
    January 30, 2014, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Nick is the best otome protag.

    I mean, aside from the one with the pigeons.

    • katrikah
      January 30, 2014, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      *who dates pigeons

      I’d give her name, but honestly I can only think of her as Cloaca Mahoney now.

      • terrafire123
        January 31, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

        You’re right. Just like in every other other eroge, I can’t figure out what the girls see in him. XD

        • Khyrin
          October 24, 2021, 8:27 am | # | Reply

          Her. Tosaka Hiyoko, the protag/ Player Character of Hatoful Boyfriend is female.

      • Elly Berlin
        January 31, 2014, 3:59 am | # | Reply

        You’re right. Just like every other eroge protag, I can’t figure out what the girls see in him.

    • SotiCoto
      August 22, 2014, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      Somebody send a message to Tom Siddell to make a City Face visual novel.

  3. Michael Brewer
    January 30, 2014, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    I really hope she’s got a long enough book there. War and Peace, say. Or Ulysses.

    • jdreyfuss
      January 30, 2014, 6:50 am | # | Reply

      I like to assume it’s Nick’s user’s manual. That way, it adds to the joke just by being her choice of reading material while he’s processing the question, and creates a second joke because she presumably wrote it.

  4. BRGR
    January 30, 2014, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil.

    • davidbreslin101
      January 30, 2014, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      Special urtext edition, with all known variant texts of the incomplete Volume 4 presented in English and German on facing pages. With notes. Lots of notes.

  5. Towering Barbarian
    January 30, 2014, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm! In my experience a line like “I would like you to be the mother of my children until Death do us part!” usually serves to get the point across subtly. ^_^

    And in a situation such as this sort that level of subtlety would seem to be required! ^_~

    • mg
      January 30, 2014, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      Well, unless Anasigma froze his sperm—and I’m sure they wouldn’t have bothered—that line would just remind them both that she made it impossible for him to have children. As much as I’m rooting for these two, Nick’s love for Ginny will always have a troubling whiff of Stockholm Syndrome about it.

      • Jay
        January 30, 2014, 2:28 am | # | Reply

        yah, +1 on the Stockholm syndrome vibe.

        They could always adopt, but I’m not sure how a human adoption agency would deal with “Occupation: Helicopter” on the forms. Would he even want human kids, if he’s not human?

        Nonhuman children – well, we haven’t seen a Black Ops Child Services team (if memory serves) but there are a lot of baby cobras looking for a home… and that’s just the start. He’d *really* psyche out the Black Helicopter Review by wearing cobra/nanite/killer-robot/RC-helicopter “My Family” decals!

        • soft
          January 30, 2014, 8:15 am | # | Reply

          SH Vol 4’s bonus story actually dealt with the “Black Ops Child Services”.

          • iburns
            January 30, 2014, 10:32 am | #

            As if I didn’t ALREADY need to buy the books…

      • Ian thompson
        January 30, 2014, 4:52 am | # | Reply

        With all the mad science being flung around willy-nilly, it shouldn’t be too hard for a little to do a quick scan of his organic part and some gene sequencing. As for Stockholm syndrome. The DSM defines insanity as” a persistent disruption of thought” and what is love If not a irrational bias towards one person?

  6. Ian thompson
    January 30, 2014, 4:48 am | # | Reply

    I know Nick’s feelings all too well. 🙁

  7. Eddurd
    January 30, 2014, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, Frank Loesser)

    There’s sweet Doctor Lee!
     (I’m only your thought inside)
    She’s come to see me!
     (I’m only your thought inside)
    This cannot be real!
     (She’s asking you how you feel)
    What do I say?
     (Come on, reply sometime today!)

     I’m trembling from wing to wing!
      (Don’t make her wait ’til spring)
     There’s nothing in A, B, C!
      (Standing there patiently)
     I’m nervous and panicking!
      (Dickhead, say anything!)
     Hey, how can you cuss, but not me?
     (Talk to her, you son of a *B*!)

    So, who then are you?
     (I’m simply your inner voice)
    But what do I do??
     (No multiple-f***ing-choice!)
    This girl is so hot …
     (At romance, you’re rotten!)
      (I’m just your thought inside!)

  8. Andrew
    January 30, 2014, 7:11 am | # | Reply

    My inner voice speaks like Tinkle Bell, pre-Fairies shows. *Tinkle. Tinkle. F—ing Tinkle*

    • JET73L
      March 8, 2015, 7:21 am | # | Reply

      *Tinker. She was named after the little bells on tinker carts that they rang to let people know they were coming, kind of like an ice-cream truck jingle.

  9. davidbreslin101
    January 30, 2014, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Dating sim? These are a real thing? HAHAHA!
    ….are they any good? i mean im asking for a friend….

    • Sindri Suncatcher
      January 30, 2014, 9:58 am | # | Reply

      There are some very good ones. However, the majority range from ‘shitty romance novel’ to ‘monotonous grindfest’ to ‘really creepy porn’. And the english selection is significantly smaller, making the good ones rarer. So if you’re interested, do some research before investing much time or any money in a game.

      • katrikah
        January 30, 2014, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

        I recommend Kiss of Revenge, which combines a proactive, goal-oriented protagonist with an elaborate murder revenge plot on her part that romance only manages to derail in a glorious, glorious trainwreck.

  10. Tetra Valent
    January 30, 2014, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    I can see Nick’s performance review already:

    COMMUNICATION: 5 – Loses those arguments.

  11. GammarayCanon
    January 30, 2014, 10:23 am | # | Reply

    This is the most fitting Inner Voice ever, although the lack of helicopter personality sprites is disappointing.

  12. freddiefreelance
    January 30, 2014, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

    Awww, I wanted his inner voice to be two little V22s with horns on their cockpits.

  13. Tetra Valent
    January 30, 2014, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

    Is anyone keeping a running count of 4th-wall violations, as was done for Narbonic? I’m pondering if panel 3 counts – it’s breaking a wall inside “the” 4th wall.

  14. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 13, 2014, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    It’s funny his inner voice is sencored

  15. Jacob Gritter-Dorr
    January 21, 2015, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

    Reminds me of Super Paper Mario.

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