Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4715:BA3D:24AA:238A:D635:93AB-20191028123425

That happens when too many people read tabloids and politicians are like 150 years old. Reason? Science? To heck with that. At least that's the motto in general. Maybe in the US, games have a stronger lobby. Here in Germany, there is none. The only lobbying that was done was by normal people who also organized a LAN party for politicians even. Can you "grow out" of something in an instant? "Growing out" implies it's a longer process, right? I would think it has more to do with interests. Like, suddenly the doll you played with can become completely worthless, even though you had played with said dolls for two years straight. No idea how that works but it's generally how it is with kids. So they don't get slowly bored with it, they are just "done" at some point. Hm, content creators can always go for a different crowd instead. If they didn't diversify...then that's their own fault. Same here. I always put the CDs back in the cases, as it should be. As did my best friend. Otherwise, the drive would just unnecessarily access it from time to time. MIDI sound on a CD? Are you sure? That would have been a really backwards studio then. When CDs were popular, they really tried to fill the space with all kinda stuff. Proper music only did so much, so they often used video sequences for no reason, just to fill it out. Yeah, I do remember some games giving you the option what to install. Those are always the best, obviously.

They do? Never seen those. But I guess it's been a year or two since I've been on a bookstore...and I wouldn't go to the part where they sell those kind of books, haha. Depends. A tear in the shrinkwrap is still damaged and the item can't really count as new anymore as a shrinkwrap is part of the product. At least that's the general definition around here, in stores, ebay and such. So if you replace, remove or damage the shrinkwrap, it's by definition not "new" anymore. Granted, in Japan they use the term "unused" for things they sell on YA etc. Amazon should be different though. Just send them back to the villages. That should work plenty fine. Japanese also are just at work, they don't actually work all the time (there are exceptions of course). I prefer doing 8 hours of straight work and then going home over doing 8 hours of work in a span of 12 hours or more. But hey, can't go before your manager, right?

Interesting. The one I used, you could use the search engine for several stores and for ones not listed, you would just give them an URL and they would register there and order it for you. So you had basically access to everything. My new one should work like that too...at least I will try to make them pre-order the next Alicesoft game from their official store...when that one comes back up again or when they change it or whatever they will do in that regard. Doubt it. I would write in Japanese obviously though. Yeah, proxy services seem to be making decent bank at least.

Also, Sugura-ya has really everything, just used. Took a look at their Alicesoft stuff and wow, tons of books, old hint disks, option disks etc. Though, you needed the 68k version of the Rance II hint disk, rather than a different one, right?