This is terrible for artist exposure but great for keeping my hands free of Facebook: I usually click and enlarge the image on Lemmy without ever touching the source link. But I do appreciate you attributing the source when the picture is not something you shot, I always thought that was appropriate netiquette. I link the source myself if I'm posting something I did not make. If it's on some undesirable place like Facebook I add in a little "link goes to Facebook" warning if it isn't just a plain URL where you can literally read the link is on Facebook.
Even if you don't have an account, you may interact with or use Meta Products… We also receive information using cookies and similar technologies, like the Meta Pixel or Social Plugins, when you visit other websites and apps that use our Business Tools or other Meta Products.
—https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?annotations[0]=1.ex.41-InformationWeCollectIf
So even though I don't have an account myself, so many non-Facebook sites use their business tools, have that tracking Meta Pixel embedded that they have my data anyways. I am aware you might say "then why worry about going to their site, they have stuff on you anyways," I don't want to give them more and it is the principle of the thing. I'm not helping them by being another of your 300 friends on Facebook so you feel a tiny bit of additional pressure to give in and get one to stay in touch with people. This is probably why people don't want to be infected with Facebook cooties.
One way I look at it, and that you might want to advise these people to look at it, is that they benefit from our data without paying us a cent. We benefit back by having you use their hosting to store the cute owl image so we can see it for free on Lemmy without having to go to their website. I remember storms being made about hotlinking awhile ago on the internet. Wikipedia says it's also sometimes known as "bandwidth theft" or "leeching". I am not an "eye for an eye" type but Facebook is a huge corporation, not a human being with feelings or human rights. Facebook leeches my data, I encourage people to leech their bandwidth :)
A lot of communities I participate in are thankfully drama-free but it is hard for me to forget there are mods because the person providing a lot of the content usually has a little M for Moderator next to their name ;-; I'm glad yours has enough participants that I assume that does not happen
I have noticed that the otome creators who are on the Fediverse are on Mastodon. I'm not going to give up on !otomegames@ani.social, I prefer threaded discussion to microblogging, especially because threaded discussion allows more characters per post. But I figure if I want to help grow otome on Fedi and show there are interested gamers here, maybe attract some otome players to post here instead of r/otomegames, maybe I should go where there are people. (And try to get them to post on !otomegames@ani.social!) I love r/otomegames, nice bunch of people, no hate, it is just… well… on Reddit. I came to Fedi to get off of Reddit. I applied on https://mstdn.games and am waiting for approval.
Still very grateful for the one person who is not me who makes posts on !otomegames@ani.social, they have their own communities that are pretty cool too! Check out theirs at !renpy@discuss.tchncs.de
Was reading this, then got busy. Glad to be reminded this existed!
Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!
Late weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing! One day I will have enough free time to fix the bot!
Game released on 9/12, so I am a bit late to this post! The sale applies to both Switch and Steam, with both ending on 9/26. The Nintendo eShop also provides a sale end time: 02:59 a.m. EDT.
Steam Nintendo eShop (US) Nintendo eShop (United Kingdom)
According to the otomekitten review, the localization was done well, which I am relieved about. I think when I originally posted about this game on the kbin.run otome community (the community that came before this one and went down when the instance kbin.run went down), I noticed a mistake on the official website that made me worry about localization, so I'm happy to hear it was well done. But people might want to be warned about this:
> Unlike your usual otome visual novel, this game does not branch from a common route to individual love interest routes. Instead, the game is very linear and follows only one story path. This means all the dates happen within the main storyline. So, if you want to experience it as if you’re playing one specific route at a time, you’ll need to carefully choose the options that lead to certain date scenarios with the guy you prefer. Otherwise, the heroine will jump from one love interest to another in each chapter.
This happens because this is a straight port of a mobile game, where certain scenarios were paywalled, which is likely how the guys were separated out—just pay for the ones you want to see. This game removed the paywalls (and thank goodness, paywalls in a game you already paid for would feel bad) but judging by the review it did not restructure requirements to see certain scenes. Not sure if this will come off as her falling in love with all the guys people, or if it will feel like it was intended to be one at a time and that some of the scenes you see were not intended to be shown to you at that time. The otomekitten review says it feels like she's three-timing. If that's your thing in fiction, more power to you, but I figured I'd toss a warning 1) for those who do not want it and 2) I feel people who would be into legit loving multiple people and people who would be into a more deceptive three-timing thing would want it to feel like the story actually intends that to be happening, and not like an unintentional byproduct of just removing paywalls form a mobile game. I have a feeling it will feel like that unintentional byproduct, though of course I could be wrong.
A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!
If the artist originally uploaded this to misskey… glad to see more creators of content on the Fediverse. Especially one whose artstyle I like a lot!
Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!
Switch & Steam
- Ephemeral Fantasy on Dark
- The Crimson Flower that Divides: Lunar Coupling
Switch
- Steam Prison
- Hana Awase New Moon -Mizuchi Volume-
- Hana Awase New Moon -Himetsugi Volume-
- Hana Awase New Moon -Karakurenai/Utsutsu Volume-
- Hana Awase New Moon -Iroha Volume-
There are also two BL titles on sale.
- Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Switch)
- Of the Red, Light, and the Ayakashi Tsuzuri (both Switch and Steam)
I like to promote topic-specific instances so also !anime@ani.social
I also really enjoy the artstyle! Glad to see a S2 come out, wonder if it'll follow the manga or not
!otomegames@ani.social !touhou@lemmy.world !visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space (lemmy.comfysnug.space) !visualnovels@ani.social
Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!
Making this post manually, hope to fix the bot soon.
Yeah, I can see possibilities for those two types of communities to get into fights with each other and it makes me happy when we just coexist. Although I admit it is also at least partially because right now we are super tiny.
It does not help that there were other women when I was initially on otomegames@kbin.social but they dropped off eventually and kbin.social is dead. Not sure where they went or if they'll find this place.
A silver lining to the otome community being small on the Fediverse is that it is okay to make duplicate communities. I specifically created this community instead of trying to reactivate the inactive !otome_games@lemmy.world because frankly the English errors in the sidebar were not a good look, and I wanted a community that could not fall prey to one of my greatest annoyances in online anime-adjacent fandom: the community being all fanart reposts, with little to no discussion or original fanart. !otome_games@lemmy.world allowed non-original fanart, !otomegames@ani.social does not. r/otomegames was more discussion and original fanart than just Pixiv reposts and I really liked that. I liked that a lot and wanted to bring some of that here. (And I also get to be less harsh on self-promoters. I understand not wanting the sub spammed with Discords or daily dev updates but I certainly do not want to chuck new communities in a weekly self-promo post nobody reads, or restrict new devs quite as heavily as r/otomegames does.)
Very glad !otomegames@ani.social has interaction from people that are not me. Hoping to possibly poach some r/otomegames users, though it's not likely thanks to r/otomegames shoving all promotion of other communities into the Self-Promotion Sunday posts nobody looks at. And I still participate on r/otomegames in fear that one day they'll say "too much self-promo of another community, not enough normal community engagement, you are just trying to advertise, off you go!" I did actually use that sub normally before I left Reddit for the Fediverse. Also advertised it in otome Discords I am in.
I think I'm also getting more upvotes, if not engagement, thanks to the home instance being ani.social and otome games being a primarily Japanese genre with even the Western-released games usually following an anime artstyle.
talks about real life gender dynamics, nothing accusatory or All GENDER Does BAD ACTION, but if you are absolutely sick of seeing stuff talking about real life demographic stuff online, you might not want to open it
Frankly, the lack of engagement is… predictable. I'm pretty sure the instance is not all dudes who are interested in women, but judging by the Moe communities posting anime women being the most popular Local communities, and many of the anime-specific communities mainly posting pictures of female characters with comparatively little discussion, ani.social likely has a large male-interested-in-women population (yes, I acknowledge there could be other genders posting that, or people of any demographic who like the art but are not attracted to women). So I'm grateful for their non-destructive engagement with a community aimed at women interested in men.
I'm glad such people exist, as a woman interested in men—I'd be very SOL if there were no men interested in women. No bad behavior has occurred so far on the community, and I doubt it will. But unlike real-life male-dominated environments where I feel normal (yes, I'm aware my privileged existence as what, at least online, seems to be one of the few women alive without a harassment or men-being-shitty-in-a-gendered-way story, is the reason I can have this perspective), it actually feels a little weird having one femgaze community on ani.social, where male-gazey communities (and communities that are ostensibly general purpose—for the anime they are named after—but in practice they're often male-gazey too) dominate. I have no issue with male-gazey anime content existing, men deserve a place to release their sexuality in a healthy manner, same as everyone else. (I am also very much taking advantage of the Subscribed-only view so I can avoid the tons of Local content I am uninterested in, which goes a long way towards my tolerant attitude :P I might not be so friendly if I had to see it to use ani.social, the same way people are irritated with otherwise-harmless Linux fans because they want to use Local/All and it's full of Linux posts that they personally are uninterested in.) It just feels weird to be on an instance full of it as a woman disinterested in male-gazey content who is also trying to start a femgazey community on the exact same instance.
For anyone confused like me, looking at this on the artist's Pixiv shows that the Star Sapphire-looking character is Kaguya's VTuber rig thingy. Kaguya's the one who said insulting things on stream, it is not her being angry at people forgiving Star Sapphire for that.
EDIT: Failed to realize this was posted 16 days ago, leaving this here for anyone coming across it browsing.
Ahhh, text that looks nice, like old AA, instead of the remakes with text displayed in a way that just annoys me. Sounds like something I'd like :)
Always enjoy when VNs give you gameplay in addition to the usual "read and click a choice" gameplay.
maybe a little depressing real-life positivity about the game
Also happy this seems like something lesbians could enjoy. Not just non-lesbians who think anime fanart with girl-on-girl is hot, but who would also hurl slurs at real women holding hands.
I'm not a lesbian but will definitely be trying the demo! I enjoy RPGs, certain kinds of VNs, and queer stories.
Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!
Making this post a day late, bot is broken and I was very busy yesterday.
Related: what platform would you like to play otome on, even if very little/no otome is currently offered for it?
I may repost this at a later date when we have more people and engagement: I like to discuss otome with people!
This Twitter post announces the sequel, and this one confirms the same person who did "character design and original art" (according to what Google Translate spits out) will also be doing it for the sequel, and that a stage play adaptation of 9 R.I.P. is coming out.
(Twitter will not translate the posts for me, so I popped the text content into Google Translate instead.)
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/c/otomegames@ani.social
Sorry to do this again. kbin.run went down, taking !otomegames@kbin.run down with it as well as my original account @Elevator7009@kbin.run, so I have to start over. I really thought kbin.run was going to be up forever, as its admin was an Mbin maintainer and the instance had been around for over a year, but they vanished and took otomegames@kbin.run down with it, so here I am on ani.social, which has also been around for over a year, starting over for the second time due to instances dying on me (linked thread for the first time I started over: that time was due to kbin.social going down and taking otomegames@kbin.social down with it). Once it gets some subscribers I'll ask what instance they'd like a backup community on to prevent this from happening yet again.
Now actually on-topic: I should probably check out how far The One Within the Villainess manga got. I used a very rough Google Translate and its TVTropes page to find out what happened, but that does not mean I do not enjoy seeing the illustrated form in manga even if I know what happens.
Manually making this post myself as the OtomeGamesBot@lemmy.zip is… struggling.
Weekly what are you playing post! Comment about the otome games you’ve been playing!
Posting with a non-lemmy.zip account because my actual lemmy.zip account (@OtomeGamesBot@lemmy.zip) receives a "Load failed" when trying to post it here.
Consistently getting stuff like
> FetchEvent.respondWith received an error: no-response: no-response :: [{"url":"https://lemmy.zip/login"}]
and I get the most errors on Safari on mobile.
ani.social is a Lemmy instance on 0.19.5 where I am a non-bot account and I do not run into this problem there.
!otomegames@ani.social
/c/otomegames@ani.social
Sorry to do this again. kbin.run went down, taking !otomegames@kbin.run down with it as well as my original account @Elevator7009@kbin.run, so I have to start over. I really thought kbin.run was going to be up forever, as its admin was an Mbin maintainer and the instance had been around for over a year, but they vanished and took otomegames@kbin.run down with it, so here I am on ani.social, which has also been around for over a year, starting over for the second time due to instances dying on me (linked thread for the first time I started over: that time was due to kbin.social going down and taking otomegames@kbin.social down with it). Once it gets some subscribers I'll ask what instance they'd like a backup community on to prevent this from happening yet again.
Sometimes when trying to try different routes I end up just getting sucked back into making the choices I know will put me on my favorite's route all over again…
!otomegames@ani.social
/c/otomegames@ani.social
I really thought kbin.run was going to be up forever, as its admin was an Mbin maintainer and the instance had been around for over a year, but they vanished and took otomegames@kbin.run down with it, so here I am on ani.social, which has also been around for over a year, starting over for the second time due to instances dying on me (linked thread for the first time I started over: that time was due to kbin.social going down and taking otomegames@kbin.social down with it). Once it gets some subscribers I'll ask what instance they'd like a backup community on to prevent this from happening yet again.
The general idea of otome games is a romance game aimed at women who want to romance men.
Buy BUSTAFELLOWS and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.