Hey, I'm Djerikou, and I am honored to be here.
Long version:
I started playing visual novels when I was 15 back in late 2007, which is also when I first got DSL instead of dial-up, got my own computer, and stopped playing console games. My interest in VNs was sparked by watching Welcome to the NHK and reading early Megatokyo. My first visual novels were Yume Miru Kusuri, followed by Bible Black, Fate/Stay Night, and Discipline: The Record of the Crusade. Following this, I started getting laid in early 2009, and have really only averaged one visual novel every other year since then.
After stopping playing videogames in late-2007, I started playing again in 2018... I was pretty stressed IRL, so I went over to a friend's place to become intoxicated, he showed me the Wii, and my mind was so completely blown that the next day I went out and purchased a Wii-U and all of the games they had in the store... However, as I played Xenoblade Chronicles X, I couldn't help but think that it was shit, and I wanted a decent JRPG. Thus, I decided to give PC gaming a go, as Nintendo home consoles are not exactly known for their adult-oriented JRPGs.
At the time, I was planning on getting just one JRPG, then calling it quits. I was really stressed out, I wanted to just turn IRL off for a week, become totally immersed in a good JRPG, finish the main story, then emerge rejuvenated and get on with my life and forget about gaming. And so, I installed Windows/Steam and proceeded to purchase Final Fantasy XIII. Because it's Final Fantasy, and as far as I was aware, Final Fantasy was always reliable quality.
So, after eight hours of wandering down a dark hallway fighting uninspiring battles listening to melodramatic whining, I was fed up, and realized that I needed to purchase another game and spend more time carefully considering it.
Prior to this, I'd heard of Steam, I was kind of vaguely aware of what it is, and I'd even had it once when I was younger, but I'd never used it before. When I initially left gaming, Steam was just some bullshit that you needed to play your physical copy of Half-Life 2. Anyway, when I went back to the Steam store after realizing that FFXIII was a flop, I looked around a little bit, and lo-and-behold, what game had just been released on Steam? Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. Once again, mind=blown. The most recent game I'd played prior to that was Dragon Quest VIII, which was the only game I'd played with jiggle physics before. But, despite my mind being blown, I found a few good games, played them, and then IRL called and I forgot about gaming for a while.
Then, in 2019, I was working as an Alaskan fisherman, and after many weeks of working in the freezing cold Bering Sea 112 hours/week stinking of fish, I finally had some shore leave and some time off. I didn't have my gaming computer with me, just a shitty laptop and a phone. I made it to a restaurant that had fast wifi, incredibly rare in Alaska, and got on my phone to get some phone games... And it was International Women's Day, and I was greeted by games by/for women, and the app store was in full yay-women mode. Something about dating several feminists in my late teens and then working 112 hours/week for much of my early-mid 20's has left me rather put off by International Women's Day. Still, thinking I was acheiving my goal of purchasing a quality game, I proceeded to download the Shin Megami Tensei "game" for the iPhone, having never played or even heard of a gaccha game before. Soon after, repressing my urge to toss my phone into the ocean, I was venting my frustrations about these subjects into DuckDuckGo, and I encountered a wild One Angry Gamer. Down the rabit-hole I went, and now my Steam library contains over 270 games...
Which brings me to the now; As a result of Corona-chan, instead of being up to my eyeballs in Southeast Asian prositutes right now, I'm sitting at home alone playing videogames... And after downloading all of the porn in the world, I realized that I once again need to combine my two hobbies into one, and start playing some games designed to be played with my organic joystick. So, off of Steam I went, onto JAST I went, and as I was researching the games available, every single search led me here... And as I browsed this forum and saw what you guys are about, and then realized you guys have OPEN SIGN-UPs... My mind has been blown yet again.
Due to a myriad of life circumstances, I've had very limited access to the internet over the past decade, and I've been sad to see as most of the sites from what were my golden years on the internet (2008-2012) have closed shop. I was once a member of Luelinks, What.cd, BakaBT, and Cinemageddon, but sadly, the former two are gone, and the latter closed my accounts due to inactivity. This is my first opportunity to be a part of a high-quality niche sharing community since 2012, and I am so incredibly humbled, honored, and appreciative to be here.
I don't know if I'm going to have anything to contribute to this community. I can do basic scripting in BASH, Python and Perl, and I pick up other scripting languages fairly easily, but C/C++ goes right over my head, and I don't speak Japanese. I once had a perfect score on the English section of the SAT, so maybe I could proofread? That was a long time ago though, and I also tend to confuse American and British punctuation rules. Other than that, I don't really have any skills that I could contribute. I guess, I can follow a tutorial quite easily, nobody's ever walked me through anything complicated with computer before, if someone could explain how to do something to me, I might be able to replicate it in other situations. I guess, I can be a donor at some point? I'd rather have skills than money, but unfortunately, I ended up with money and no skills.
Still, I'm so thoroughly pleased to be here, and it's a pleasure to meet you
Anyway, tl;dr;
I'm Djerikou and I like titty games
Long version:
I started playing visual novels when I was 15 back in late 2007, which is also when I first got DSL instead of dial-up, got my own computer, and stopped playing console games. My interest in VNs was sparked by watching Welcome to the NHK and reading early Megatokyo. My first visual novels were Yume Miru Kusuri, followed by Bible Black, Fate/Stay Night, and Discipline: The Record of the Crusade. Following this, I started getting laid in early 2009, and have really only averaged one visual novel every other year since then.
After stopping playing videogames in late-2007, I started playing again in 2018... I was pretty stressed IRL, so I went over to a friend's place to become intoxicated, he showed me the Wii, and my mind was so completely blown that the next day I went out and purchased a Wii-U and all of the games they had in the store... However, as I played Xenoblade Chronicles X, I couldn't help but think that it was shit, and I wanted a decent JRPG. Thus, I decided to give PC gaming a go, as Nintendo home consoles are not exactly known for their adult-oriented JRPGs.
At the time, I was planning on getting just one JRPG, then calling it quits. I was really stressed out, I wanted to just turn IRL off for a week, become totally immersed in a good JRPG, finish the main story, then emerge rejuvenated and get on with my life and forget about gaming. And so, I installed Windows/Steam and proceeded to purchase Final Fantasy XIII. Because it's Final Fantasy, and as far as I was aware, Final Fantasy was always reliable quality.
So, after eight hours of wandering down a dark hallway fighting uninspiring battles listening to melodramatic whining, I was fed up, and realized that I needed to purchase another game and spend more time carefully considering it.
Prior to this, I'd heard of Steam, I was kind of vaguely aware of what it is, and I'd even had it once when I was younger, but I'd never used it before. When I initially left gaming, Steam was just some bullshit that you needed to play your physical copy of Half-Life 2. Anyway, when I went back to the Steam store after realizing that FFXIII was a flop, I looked around a little bit, and lo-and-behold, what game had just been released on Steam? Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash. Once again, mind=blown. The most recent game I'd played prior to that was Dragon Quest VIII, which was the only game I'd played with jiggle physics before. But, despite my mind being blown, I found a few good games, played them, and then IRL called and I forgot about gaming for a while.
Then, in 2019, I was working as an Alaskan fisherman, and after many weeks of working in the freezing cold Bering Sea 112 hours/week stinking of fish, I finally had some shore leave and some time off. I didn't have my gaming computer with me, just a shitty laptop and a phone. I made it to a restaurant that had fast wifi, incredibly rare in Alaska, and got on my phone to get some phone games... And it was International Women's Day, and I was greeted by games by/for women, and the app store was in full yay-women mode. Something about dating several feminists in my late teens and then working 112 hours/week for much of my early-mid 20's has left me rather put off by International Women's Day. Still, thinking I was acheiving my goal of purchasing a quality game, I proceeded to download the Shin Megami Tensei "game" for the iPhone, having never played or even heard of a gaccha game before. Soon after, repressing my urge to toss my phone into the ocean, I was venting my frustrations about these subjects into DuckDuckGo, and I encountered a wild One Angry Gamer. Down the rabit-hole I went, and now my Steam library contains over 270 games...
Which brings me to the now; As a result of Corona-chan, instead of being up to my eyeballs in Southeast Asian prositutes right now, I'm sitting at home alone playing videogames... And after downloading all of the porn in the world, I realized that I once again need to combine my two hobbies into one, and start playing some games designed to be played with my organic joystick. So, off of Steam I went, onto JAST I went, and as I was researching the games available, every single search led me here... And as I browsed this forum and saw what you guys are about, and then realized you guys have OPEN SIGN-UPs... My mind has been blown yet again.
Due to a myriad of life circumstances, I've had very limited access to the internet over the past decade, and I've been sad to see as most of the sites from what were my golden years on the internet (2008-2012) have closed shop. I was once a member of Luelinks, What.cd, BakaBT, and Cinemageddon, but sadly, the former two are gone, and the latter closed my accounts due to inactivity. This is my first opportunity to be a part of a high-quality niche sharing community since 2012, and I am so incredibly humbled, honored, and appreciative to be here.
I don't know if I'm going to have anything to contribute to this community. I can do basic scripting in BASH, Python and Perl, and I pick up other scripting languages fairly easily, but C/C++ goes right over my head, and I don't speak Japanese. I once had a perfect score on the English section of the SAT, so maybe I could proofread? That was a long time ago though, and I also tend to confuse American and British punctuation rules. Other than that, I don't really have any skills that I could contribute. I guess, I can follow a tutorial quite easily, nobody's ever walked me through anything complicated with computer before, if someone could explain how to do something to me, I might be able to replicate it in other situations. I guess, I can be a donor at some point? I'd rather have skills than money, but unfortunately, I ended up with money and no skills.
Still, I'm so thoroughly pleased to be here, and it's a pleasure to meet you
Anyway, tl;dr;
I'm Djerikou and I like titty games