HYPE

>>42621437

You shake your own head, still giggling underneath your breath. N-no! No, you're fine! You're not...you're not overwhelmed! It's just...you can't believe you missed something so obvious! Something that was staring you right in the face all along!

Ignoring the concerned looks your two companions continue to give you, you shake your head again, before rifling in your inventory. Mami herself gave you a spare pair, just for occassions like these...ah, there it is...!

"Midori? Midori, come on, you can sit down right here beside me, and then we can--" Your sempai starts, but she stops cold as she sees what's in your hands. Watching you with a sudden, captive attention as you unfold the accessory, turn it around, and then - with infinite care - place it right where it belongs.

Where it had been missing all this time.

Finally removing all doubt from your soul about whether or not this person in front of you is in fact who she says she is.

You stare down at Chiaki as she looks up at you through her glasses, her own eyes wide behind the crimson-rimmed lenses, her mouth open in surprise. An expression that you would've liked to stare at a bit more, had not unbidden tears began fogging your vision up, at the same time that your breath started to catch in your throat. Making your reply - the only way to reply to her greeting - come out in a querulous sob despite the big, tearful smile you've forced yourself to give.

Despite having practiced greeting her again over and over in your mind when you finally get her back from the nightmare she'd found herself trapped in again.

"K-kept...kept y-you waiting....huh?"

[1/2]

>>42621461

And just like that - without you even being able to stop yourself in time, or at the very least check your advance - you simply and utterly break down. Your mental floodgates that had held back every panic attack, every stab of despair and hurt and anger at what Fate had decided to deal the only person you called your own finally buckling, then bursting under the pressure of it all. The pressure - and the overwhelming, exhausting relief at getting your sempai back again. Back in one piece.

You don't even hear yourself crying. You don't even FEEL yourself crying. All you know is that you're making an awful, embarrassing mess of yourself, something that your sempai should never have to see ever. You want to bury your face in your hands, to try and conceal yourself from the one person who had already suffered so much and you know will suffer even more in the future - but you can't even manage that.

You're too tired, too drained, too exhausted to. All you can do is stand there and cry it out and hope that Wendy wouldn't give you too much grief about it. ...She would, though. If you knew the American Callidus at all, she wouldn't pass up an opportunity for another scathing insult, or at least a grumbled snark.

To your surprise she does nothing of the sort - all you hear from her is something approaching a mumbled apology, before you felt your own sempai step forward and take you into a hug of her own. You immediately fold into the embrace, unable to do anything else but to slump forward and lean your frame against hers. Your arms wrapping around the smaller, shorter Magical Girl - burying your face into her shoulder to muffle your cries there.

"It's okay, Midori. It's alright. You did great." Your sempai whispers soothingly, lovingly, one hand rubbing your back. "That's two I owe you now. Thank you. I don't think I'll ever be able to pay you back for all this."

N-no! No, she doesn't owe you anything...! You just wanted her to be okay, that's all!

[2/3]

>>42621487

...is what you would've said, had you not been rendered completely incoherent by your little nervous breakdown. Instead you hold her tighter, your nails digging into her back, as if worried that the moment you slacken your grip is the moment your sempai slips through your grasp again. Something you will never let happen ever again.

Never again. Even if you have to actually kill someone this time, you don't care.

"Alright, alright, I get it." Chiaki laughs gently, squirming gently in your arms but not exactly making to extract herself. "I'm not going anywhere, Midori. ...Not yet, anyway, but certainly not right now. So just...relax, alright?"

You nod tearfully, while still keeping a hold of your new sempai. The action making you headbutt her shoulder in the gentlest and most pathetic kind of way. She laughs at this again, before you feel her turn her head towards...someone behind you. ...Wendy, probably. You don't know. Right now you don't really care.

Another moment, and you feel a hand take your shoulder, grabbing it in a friendly squeeze before pulling away. At the same time that your sempai, still keeping a hold of you, gently and slowly leads you to what feels like a bench. A bench set just a few feet from your sempai's vantage point, overlooking the skyscraper in the distance still being laid siege to by her pursuers.

You feel her take the seat next to you, her shoulder against yours. Once - way back then - the proximity may have embarrassed the both of you. But not now. certainly not now.

"It's getting really rare, isn't it?" She says out of the blue, as soon as you manage to settle down enough to look at the girl sitting beside you without spraying her with tears and snot. "Times like these, I mean. Just to take a breather and enjoy each other's company. It always feels like bad things are happening right after another, right?"

How do you respond?

>>42621516
>[X]"Y-Yeah, they just keep playing us like a damned fiddle."
When are we gonna shoot her?

Will decu ever improve his useless to useful words ratio?

>>42621551
Can you have too many MGS references?

Of course not

>>42621551
More like gut with a knife, considering the weapons Midorin and Burgerbutt use.

Well this "Chiaki" is pinging my paranoia meter like hell so

>>42621516
>How do you respond?
"That may be true, sempai, but together, I know you... WE can take on anything"

>>42621516
[x]Check your soulgem connection. Homura with glasses looking like Homura with glasses is not a reliable test. The dolls should be around Chiaki and we haven't seen them.

[x]Once we are absolutely sure she is Chiaki, tell her to take the gun from where we keep it.

>>42621585
She doesn't sound or act like Chiaki at all, not even the old one. Especially not the pre-dildo Murderface. But Greenhair Macgee would never shoot her.

>>42621585

Same here, I'm thinking that this is like Siberia again, with the four different fragments and all that.

>>42621589
This.

In Siberia, there were four fragments. Here, we've seen three and "Chiaki", so it won't do to let our guard down just yet.

>>42621516
>[X]CHECK THAT SOUL GEM YO

>>42621607
Lets verify then.

>>42621516
[x]Check your soulgem connection to verify its really Chiaki. You still remember Siberia.

>>42621516
[x]Soulgem captcha required

>>42621516
>>42621589
Seems smart.

>>42621516
>Paranoia. This still seems a bit too easy somehow. Check SG. If suspicions prove to be correct, ask wtf is going on. These weird games aren't making any sense, at all.

>>42621634
>please select all pancakes

>>42621680
>Images are one pancake, two waffles and six street-signs.

>>42621693

>you must select more than one picture

>>42621715
>The correct images are two waffles and a street sign

>>42621693
>>42621715
>>42621720
Come on, guys. Captcha is stupid, but not THAT stupid. You only have to select one pancake, and the rest can be wathever you want. See? Captcha acknowledges that you now what a pancake is, and the rest... well, pancakes are not all in life

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>>42621749
I now wanna see MGNQ version of this.

>>42621516
Hand her your soulgem.

>>42621516

This >>42621589

We're sure not out of this round of bad things yet.

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>>42621749
>pancakes aren't real

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>>42621749
>pancakes are not all in life

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>>42621792
Also butts!

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>>42621749
>well, pancakes are not all in life

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>>42621566

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Seeing the current votes and posts this image seems relevant.

>>42621768
Select all who did nothing wrong ?

>>42621807
Why is mad Chiaki so hot?

>>42621808
>Those belts. Extremely uncomfortable? Or Extremely Kinky?

>>42621803
I want to stuff that butt.

>>42621845
Extremely tacticool

>>42621845
That is perfectly normal climbing harness.
It's more towards the uncomfortable side.

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>>42621437
>>42621461
>>42621487
>>42621516
STANDING
ON THE EDGE

>>42621900
This... oh my God, it´s fucking perfect!

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>>42621900
I actually laughed.

>>42621900
Dammit, Dan! I now have juice in places where juice isn't supposed to go and it's your fault.

>>42621900
Kind of meh really.

>>42621900
Dan, know this: for all you've done, we'll never scatter your sorrows to the heartless sea.

We'll always be with you.

>>42621900
FUKKIN HELL DAN

>>42621900

>languages: Kikongo

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>>42621928
>I now have juice in places where juice isn't supposed to go

>>42621900
Amazing.

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>>42621900
>>42621900

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>>42621943

>>42621949
To secure the booty, of course

>>42621928
lewd

Well, I suppose the voting period is over already

>>42621981
It's probably been over for 20 minutes or so, but who's counting?

>>42621928
Is it bad that I literally thought she got really wet with girlcum before realizing that it meant spraying their drink out of their mouth?

>Select all bodies of water

>>42621997
The secretaries don't seem to be here today, yeah

>>42622007
That's too lewd!

>>42621900
* click save *

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you feel it too don't you

>>42622034
This made me laugh

>>42621997
>>42622009

I'll do banners from the next voting period on.

I m

>>42622013
>too lewd!
I don't understand.

>>42621900
You're pretty good.

>>42622007
>she

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>>42622056

>>42622007
It isn´t bad, it simply means you are a fucking pervert, that is all

>>42622067
More.

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>>42622076
>>42622007

>>42622076
>Implying we're not all fucking perverts.

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>>42622081

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>>42622007

>>42622117
10/10 would tentacle rape

>>42622096
You only exist because of lewds.

>>42622117
No, not that.
More of that cropped drawing.

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>>42622151

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>>42621934
Thanks for that, Boss!

>>42622174
Go on...

>>42622174
While this is some quality trolling, there's image hosting for lewd ya know. C'mon, share the wealth anon!

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>>42622181

>>42622192
Teasing, Anon, it's called teasing.

>>42622198
Come on.

>>42622225
Post the pic of Mami with a box of dildos and I'll link it.

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>>42622141
A beverage made for moments like this...

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>>42622250

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>>42622273
http://imgur.com/o2ucnDX

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>>42622067
>>42622174
>>42622198
we are onto something here

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>>42622250

>>42622279
Like most futa pics, the full image is a lot less exciting than its individual parts.

>>42622279
When is Decu going to post all the pictures from that stream?

>>42622298
That wasn't even the one I was thinking of.

>>42621900
HAMBURGER
HELMET

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>>42622306
>Astolfo
>Futa

>>42621516
>Check SG

We seen this kinda stuff before and the 4th one was the most dangerous, so never hurts to be too careful I guess.


I hope this posts before voting time ends.

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>>42622279

>>42622342
I see two penises on that picture, Anon. It is not yet truly known whether the second, larger penis is of female origin or not.

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>>42622332
Too bad.

>>42622359
That is Nero's futa dick on a trap.

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>>42622306
>futa

>>42622370
See? That's much better.

>>42622363
S-she's eating beans off of Homura?

>>42622363
Don't stop.

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>>42622373

>>42622391
the bean is figurative

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I wonder how decu feels reading all this.

>>42622484
One of the two.
A deep sense of pride for the community that gathered around his story, or complete and utter shame

>>42622501
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

slut

>>42622534
Your momma

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>>42622534

>>42622534

Wendy

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>>42622567
I hope so.

>>42622580
>dat blush

>>42622580
>No burger on head

Now I wont be able to imagine Wendy any other way. Thanks Dan.

>>42622580
What color do you think that bra is?

>>42622604
It looks white to me.

>>42622600
>on her head
>not a direct part of her head
Murderface has a stack of pancakes on her head, Salaka a cake, Kyobro has a box of pocky/a molotov cocktail, Midori a bowl of ramen, Wendy a hamboigah, etc.

>>42622604
green

>>42622604
I think it is white

>>42622604
Purple. For remembrance.

>>42622604
Brown with yellow lace like a cheese burger or Mumi x Wendy

NYAN NYAN!

NYAN NYAN!

>>42622534
Arwen

NIHAO NYAN!

>>42622534
Kota

GORGEOUS!

DELICIOUS!!

>>42622636
I figured it was pink.

DECULTURE!

DECULTURE!

ONE JOB!!

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>>42622534

>>42622775
Fuck you, cat.

>>42622775
That seems unhygienic.

>>42622775
>Heather pleasures old men for money!

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>>42622844
That seems like a useful skill in the job market.

So is decu kill?

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>>42622862

>>42622900
No, but I am surprised he is taking this long, considering that he wants to finish this arc in this thread

>>42622965
decu wanted to finish this arc for last three threads

>>42622965
This arc will NEVER end! Never!

Ahahahahaha!

>>42623006
And he will never finish it as long as he keeps taking 6 paragraphs to describe how Midori cries about shit nobody cares about.

>>42623028
this + 2/3 posts per thread = MGNQ is the slowest quest of all time

>>42623028
I'd say that weird asspull plot tweests are a bigger issue than giving depth to characters that were made important by the players themselves.

>>42623043
Some of us like the slow, comfy pace.

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>>42622965
>MGNQ will end this year t. decu

>>42623069
And some of us like hand holding

>>42622965
We're probably in for another all nighter

>>42623104
What about slow, comfy hand holding?

>>42623069
Well, some of us would like for Decu to speed up the post and threads updates

Mmmmmm, pizza. Captcha, you know what I want, you kinky little bastard

>>42623028
Well, he's the one writing, and he's having fun while doing so, so... whatever ?
I would rather wait for five more threads than having the end of this arc rushed anyway.

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>>42623069
This statement made me irrationally angry that people like you even exist in this world and have the nerve to open your mouths to share such shit opinions with the world, as if you deserve to be accounted for.

I was okay with waiting for 2 hours for a single update, but this. This is unforgivable. I will commit sudoku in your honor, just so that one of us can stop experiencing the presence of the other.

>>42623102
>>"MGNQ will end this year" - decu 2013
FIFY

>>42623066
>giving depth to characters
Restating the obvious two times in a row doesn't give any depth, honky. And he's stating exactly what the reader should be thinking anyways. For a direct example;
Most of the first half of >>42621487 is just plain padding. The entire first three paragraphs can easily be shortened into just one and give the reader just as much information and detail.

>>42623159
Different anon. Well, yeah, what you say is true, but there are times when longer descriptions add drama to the story. And anyway, it mostly depends on the writer style

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>>42623142
Do you need some cheese to go with your whine?

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>>42623144
I think I've figured out who Decu is.

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>>42623131
And I would rather have this dumb arc concluded in a timely manner without describing the inner "turmoil" of our favorite fat waifu bait over and over again in 18/20 paragraphs in the entire thread, two of which are actually interesting.

>>42623191
I agree, slower and more detailed descriptions may add tension. This, however, is neither a tense situation, neither does the description of Midori's fee fees add any tension in this context. Building up tension is a good idea in this context, yes, but none of these descriptions do it.

>>42623232
How would you have done it, then?

>>42623199
that's cute as hell

>>42623232
>>42621516
mm. I usually read through all of a post, but that one just kinda blurred together for me, it was so long and overdone.

>>42623232
Well, I understand your frustation about it, but Decu is the one writing, it has always been this way.

And at least it's not one of thoses parts when he try to be 2edgy4u so hard it's cringy.

>>42623261
That's kinda how it's been for me for the last...several months, I think? I just skim through threads these days, just to get see where the plot is going.

>>42623244
Midori's fee fees get cut down and replaced with quicker sentences that rather describe the length of time than each individual action. Unimportant actions don't need to be described in detail, such as
>"Another moment, and you feel a hand take your shoulder, grabbing it in a friendly squeeze before pulling away. At the same time that your sempai, still keeping a hold of you, gently and slowly leads you to what feels like a bench. A bench set just a few feet from your sempai's vantage point, overlooking the skyscraper in the distance still being laid siege to by her pursuers.

>You feel her take the seat next to you, her shoulder against yours. Once - way back then - the proximity may have embarrassed the both of you. But not now. certainly not now."
can be shortened down to
>Moments later, your sempai is sitting next to you as you watch her many predecessors besiege her believed location.
or something like that.
Some of the dialogue is unnecessary as well.

This quest would probably go faster if Nasu was writing it.

>>42623372
It'd have more mollusks in it, too.

Bah, Decu can't please everyone, the audience is just too varied, on one hand, and on the other, the most vocal people are usually the ones that don't like stuff.

>>42623356
Well, you're free to start your own quest.
With blackjack
And hookers.

We will even borrow you NECO for the starters.

>>42623298
Do you understand the concept of critique?
That's what I'm doing. I want Decu to improve and to see this quest finally end some day in my own lifespan. I want his writing to improve so we all may have a better experience. At this stage, I just skip through over half his writing, through all the obvious padding and through all the tiring introspections. It's been like this for this entire Midori arc. Decu's strength really does lie within writing action.

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>>42623372
something about mollusks

>>42623372
Are you sure you want lewd scenes talking about shellfish and action scenes interrupted by nonsensical magic theory exposition?

>>42623388
"You just don't like what I like" isn't much of a response to >>42623397 's critique...

>>42623394
...and neither is "If you don't like it then go away"...

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>>42623434
>...and neither is "If you don't like it then go away"...
But he is right.

>>42623434
The second point wasn't "You just don't like what I like". It was "There are a lot of people and they all like different things." which is an undeniable truth no matter how you look at it.

Just like there's a huge split over write-faggotry, or waifus, or everything really. No matter how Decu writes, there will be people that will be displeased. If he'd go faster, there would be people that would feel that the quest is 'being rushed'. If he'd skimp on the details, there would be people that would think that this or that was pulled out of nowhere or that it doesn't make sense. So on and so forth.

The point is, literature, and writing in general, is an art, not a science, there's no such thing as the perfect, logical approach.

>>42623397
I do understand it. But to my opinion, the things are just fine as they are. I'm having more fun with this arc than with sereval others in the past. If anything, I'm more annoyed by the constant postponing of the threads, thought. I understand your point of view, I just do not share it.

>>42623483
But if everyone followed the "if you don't like it then go away" "rule", the economy would collapse.

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>>42623142
You can always fuck off?
I highly doubt anyone would miss you.

>>42623498
>It is art, therefore it cannot be judged or objectified in any way
Sure, buddy.

>>42623514
It's all just anon here, anon, there's never more, never less, just anon, forever.

>>42623514
>>42622373
>>42622441
Get outta here, Shmion. Nobody likes you. You're the danger.

>>42623514
I would miss him.
I would, however, not miss you in any form.

>>42623507
>I don't understand capitalism

>>42623507
The economy is not a piece of fiction anon, but nice try.

>>42623523
That's not his point, his point is that there always will be judgement or objectification BECAUSE writing is art and not science. He's making an observation and a connection.

What makes your opinion anymore valid than that of an anon who likes the current pacing (thread postponements not withstanding)?

>>42623547
>I don't understand product improvement

>>42623483
Maybe, but, I've been following MGNQ for a while. I'd rather see it improve than just ditch it.

>>42623498
While the argument that "you can't please everyone and not everyone likes the same thing" is worth thinking about, it's not something we should use to just excuse low-quality writing.

Take a shitty movie, like, I dunno, Manos: The Hands of Fate or something. It's unfair to say that the movie's flaws (which are many) aren't flaws at all because the director can't please everyone.

Getting close to 3 hours between updates, this is the longest decu has taken hasn't it?

>>42623574
Product improvement generally happens when the guy making a bad product goes out of business and several people try to replace him, of those people most of them will have awful ideas that deserve to go out of business and if we are lucky someone will actually have a good idea.

But recently they just exploit loopholes in the system.

>>42623372
>Wendy's anus... her dirtiest part is right in front of me...

>>42623621
>recently

>>42623604
Part of me wants chikuwa to happen. For the logical extreme end result to finally occur.

We get a thread, and the entire content is just the opening post. Anon spends the next ~290 posts talking about it and shitposting about waifus.

I want it to be this one, even. So our entire thread is just a post describing Midori's being stressed. That's it.

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>>42623604
>this is the longest decu has taken hasn't it?

>>42623604
He's not being paid for this shit y'know. Which is why I don't think that we get to be all that picky about quality. Cuz y'know, this is time in which he could have been doing something more useful or relaxing for his life rather than writing for ungrateful and impatient anons.

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>>42623541
Yeah I Know that you would miss yourself.

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>>42623570
What makes my opinion valid is its noncomformity. The anon that likes it the way it is right now would likely see no difference if the pacing improved, because he cannot view Decu's work from a different point of perspective. The pacing can improve yet not impact people's enjoyment of the story in any way. It's the same way with other forms of art. For example, in a realistic portrait of a woman in a room, the anatomy may be wrong, the perspective of the room may be off by several degrees and the lightning may be confusing in several areas. You can improve all three of these areas and thus make your painting "better" in the eyes of any complainers. Improving any of these aspects wouldn't anger those who liked the painting even past its faults, because they either couldn't see them or found something much more important in the painting that overshadowed these issues. If it does anger them, then they are plain objectively wrong because the focus of realism is to depict objects and people the way they look. That's why there is plenty of other areas of art.

Thing is, I don't think Decu is a post-modernist writer. I also think Decu got discouraged by all this critical banter. Time to post blondes or whatever.

>>42623712
>What makes my opinion valid is its noncomformity.
This is what hipsters actually believe.

>>42623695
No, but for any work--professionally made or not, made for free or made to make money--the audience isn't obligated to like it, either.

I sympathize with Decu having a rough time with things, and it's always demoralizing to make something that several people find unsatisfying, but that won't stop me from thinking gratuitously padded-out writing is gratuitously padded-out writing.

>>42623695
>He's not being paid for this shit y'know.
Not being paid doesn't mean you cannot be critiqued. If you took this to heart, you would be no better than the countless underaged sonic fanboys on deviantart.

>>42623695
But he kind of is.

>>42623695

I'm well aware of the fact he is doing this with no benefit towards himself, I was just asking a question. I have nothing else to do until my shift is up besides wait for him to post.

>>42623735
>the audience isn't obligated to like it, either.
See>>42623483

>>42623725
I don't know how else to put it. Critical thinking? Critique instead of conformity? Altruism more like autism? Higher standards? You're waifu a shit?

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>>42623742
> you cannot be critiqued

What grounds do you have to assume that your critic is accurate and/or needed in the first place?

>>42623764
See >>42623589

>Maybe, but I've been following MGNQ for a while. I'd rather see it improve than just ditch it.

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>>42623770
>You're waifu a shit?
Too far.

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>>42623761
But he is doing it with benefit. It's a thing he wants to do and enjoys doing, at least I hope so. He's getting plenty of love from us.

>>42623807
Then deal with it.

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>>42623805
What grounds do you have to assume that critique needs to be accurate or needed in order to be allowed?

>>42623805
>On what grounds do you assume that your critique is needed?
Presumably because MGNQ is not absolutely 100% completely super-perfect

>On what grounds do you assume that your critique is accurate?
Presumably because anon has perceived what he thought were flaws, and now he is voicing his displeasure

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>>42623807
>This thing I am interested in has to conform to my standards/demands

Wow. Its like Im reading the same shit SJWs say.

>This game is sexist, change it for me
>This quest is written In a way I dont like, change it for me

>>42623830
>I think something is flawed
>Literally my only options are to go away or sulk in silence
>I can't offer constructive criticism

>>42623888
>Criticism = SJW

Ok

>>42623820

True, guess I should have stated no physical benefit. I certainly enjoy this, and would like for it to continue for quite some time. Also, why do I get the feeling he is waiting for us to stop arguing with each other before posting? He probably is going to need a second thread with how this has filled up.

>>42623820
That's debatable.

Sometimes, what you said is accurate.

Other times, you run a quest, or write some piece of fiction, or draw a webcomic or w/e, and it's fun. You start getting some fans, maybe just a few, maybe a lot, it's hard to tell on the Internet sometimes. You start feeling at least a little pressure to please them as much as possible. Sometimes you're aware of it, sometimes not... and if you're not careful, it stops being about doing the thing you enjoy, and it's all about not disappointing the people that follow your work.

Then the fun ends, if it gets that far.

I dunno how many of the people here have been on both ends of this situation, but I've been there. Which is why I prefer to be gentle when it comes to critiques, no matter how many 'hurr durr have a thicker skin' comments I see.

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>>42623712
>What makes my opinion valid is its noncomformity.
>mfw you think going against the grain is by definition a valuable contribution

As for an actual reply:

People are not so much criticising Decu's writing technique as they're criticising his decision to spend significant time and attention on Midori's emotional state.
And that is not an objective matter of technical quality, but you're free to think Midori isn't worth the time, or to think detailing a character's feelings so extensively in general isn't worth the time. As long as you acknowledge that not everyone agrees with you on that, there's no problem.

I'm not sure how to feel about Midori's introspection, but neither do I think it is an objective flaw.

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>>42623888
No, you are more alike the SJW here. You purposefully overexaggerate others' arguments so you may peddle your own unrelated opinion in. Nobody has said or implied
>>This thing I am interested in has to conform to my standards/demands
in any way.

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>>42623853
Oh look Babbys first troll

>>42623854
>and now he is voicing his displeasure
And thats okay.
However trying to mask his displeasure as some sort of professional criticism is pants on head retarded.

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People are so upset today.

>>42623921
The problem is, this quest format is directly centered around pleasing the audience. Guess how far this quest would've went if Decu ignored all the votes and just railroaded it all away? No, it's not just about pleasing everyone that gets you down. It's about pleasing majorities with completely polar opinions that ends interactive stories, and so far we didn't really have that, only to minor numbers. It may get worse over time, oh yes, and speeding up the pace just might avoid it completely. Might.

>>42621900
great!

>>42623986
too much time without a thread can do that anon

>>42624025
Too much time inbetween posts makes it much worse.

>>42624000
>>42623960
>>42623925
>>42623922
>>42623921
>>42623912
>>42623911
>>42623888
>>42623854
>>42623853
>>42623986

Clearly, the only thing we can all agree on is that we'll always disagree. Now let's get to posting blonds, asses, legs, or whatever Decu's into right now to summon him rather than this endless, pointless argument.

>>42624025
>>42624038
>What can change the nature of an anon

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>>42623986
This board's quality gone way down since a certain event happened, and now there are people who think that more detailed writing is bad here. I hate to sound like a fanboy, but that's retarded.

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>>42623911
>WAAAAH I DONT LIKE THING =/= constructive criticism

>Presenting your opinion as fact
>Not SJW behaviour

>>42623925
>You purposefully over-exaggerate
Wow. Sounds just like that you did when you claimed your criticsm was objective. Funny how that works, huh?

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>>42624043
Way ahead of you.

>>42624086
That's not a girl!

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>>42623922
I'm criticizing the pacing, it's just that I currently cannot find an example that does not include Midori in some way because we were at this green-arc for months.
I dislike all the introspection, and it may affect the pacing, but it isn't my argument. There are many ways to speed up the writing process and the writing itself without sacrificing much, if any quality at all. But for that we might need a closer look into Decu's writing process.

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>>42624067
>This board's quality gone way down since a certain event happened,

>>42624099
Considering some of decu's art, I think a cat-boy trap is fine too.

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>>42624108

>>42624067
>now there are people who think that more detailed writing is bad here.
Who the fuck said that?

>>42624108
>>42624130
BUT THAT´S FORBIDDEN LOVE!!

>>42624137
>tfw Nagisa gets no kiss

>>42624067
>>42624124
also forgive my ignorance but what is the certain event you talk about?

Looking at Decu's twitter, why do all the other girls look so good in Kyouko's normal attire?

>>42624067
>>42624124

okay - I'll bite:
what the hell happened!?!?!

>>42624152
A whole lot of trolls.

>>42624201
moot quit, we're ruled by a conclave of janitors now

>>42624216
Why don't they cuddle closer?

>>42624211
Where?

>Inb4 "Decu is kill, thread next week"

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>>42624200
It´s a very revealing attire, and all the girls in PMMM have a nice figure. Hence, it looks good on them. If, for example, the guy from the picture was the one wearing it, it wouldn´t look that good

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>>42624201
>>42624192
I'd tell you to lurk more, but the fact is that you're most likely going to be spoonfed. Spoonfeeding makes you more susceptible to being told what to do in the future, and makes you into a person who, rather ask other people for info rather than make an effort yourself.

>>42624252
If you don't know, you're not interested in the threads it happens in.

>>42624201
>>42624201
mod changing into an asshole
sjw influx resulting from mod banning discussion of the topic
gamergate reaching here resulting from sjws being here

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>>42624137

>>42624070
Ok, then what's an example of constructive criticism? "The pacing is too slow" sounds like valid constructive criticism to me.

Otherwise, it's starting to sound like criticizing anything for its flaws = presenting opinion as fact and therefore SJW.

Example: "Midori's internal monologuing is padded out" = either objective criticism (which can't exist because muh art) or subjective opinion (and therefore SJW)

>>42624201
If we tell you, a bunch of people will claim it was the best thing that ever happened and it was worthwhile.

These are the same people who try to get threads banned regularly for not being their version of /tg/.

Critiqueanon is one of these.

>>42624265
Some people have better things to do than paying attention to 4chan drama, or to 4chan in general outside certain select cases like this quest.

Like playing porn games! Which I'm doing right now.

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>>42624282
Sooo anyway, Hat, working on anything particular right now?

>>42624273
>>42624201
Moot leaving resulting from gamergate
4chan becoming lethargic resulting from moot leaving
less OC being made resulting from 4chan being lethargic

Take your pick.

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>>42624287
Stop responding to the shitposter. It has no purpose.

This is the perfect summation of the internet. Nerds screaming "NO YOU'RE THE SJW" forever.

>>42624318

Someone asked for a drawing of Midori pulling Chiaki's face into a smile.

I also want to do an Oktoberfest drawing for Midori, I think.

>>42621589 >>42621644

You would've replied then. You agree wholeheartedly, after all. Even despite the leaps and bounds that the both of you have made in terms of your progress as a couple - it feels like the universe itself is conspiring to rip your relationship apart in the most horrific way possible, even going so far as to line up event after catastrophic event to do so. Bombarding the both of you with emergency after emergency, disaster after disaster. Each one proving more horrible than the last.

As if you didn't have enough to worry about already. As if neither of you truly deserved even a moment to yourselves, or at least something more than just one night.

But you don't. With you slowly coming down from that exhaustingly-draining high that your cathartic nervous breakdown had set you afloat on - you start to wonder if you didn't pre-empt yourself here. A traitorous little thought worming its way from the depths of your brain, reminding you that this isn't exactly the place to be complacent. To be so trusting. To be so painfully naive that you'd automatically trust someone with your sempai's face - simply because they bothered to match her haircut.

Newsflash, Miracle Midori - literally everyone who wants to kill your sempai right now has looks like her. They don't even have to do much to get her haircut, either! I

So instead of elaborating on what you felt about the universe continuing to squat over you and your sempai's attempts at having a normal relationship, you instead sniff loudly and nod, hoping that your companion would mistake your silence for emotionally-drained speechlessness rather than anything else.

And it seems to work, with the raven-haired girl beside you reaching over to place her hand on top of yours, before giving it a squeeze. Seemingly completely unaware that you've surreptitiously manifested your Soul Gem in your other hand, the bauble and its tell-tale glow blocked from sight with your own body.

[1/2]

>>42621900
That balloon isn't enough lift for Midorin.

>>42624352
FINALLY!

>>42624321
Blame it on moot all you want, if you compare otherchan's populace and thischan one in terms of OC, you can safely say that everyone fucked off to live a better life.

I'm only here for quests anyway.

>>42624352

Stupid, you inwardly berate yourself. You should've checked first before going into theatrics like that. Literally the first thing you should've done upon seeing her. But no, you just had to break down like that, didn't you? You just couldn't wait to celebrate finding her, when you could've held on for a few moments longer instead. Especially with someone who acts so differently than the one you know. Instead, you just hugged her and broke down and accepted her as your sempai, all without proof.

Now you have to do this. Now you have to find out if she's on the level, hoping to hell that you won't get the result you're dreading.

Because it would be just the shit cherry on the shit ice cream sundae if the girl you were all but blubbering all over earlier was someone you actually needed to kill to get your real sempai back.

But anyway. With your Soul Gem in hand, you gather what little composure you have left, and try to figure out just where your sempai is again. Forcing that small ray of light to appear again, hoping against hope that all it would do was to point int the direction of the girl quietly sitting beside you, still holding your other hand like it's the most natural thing in the world.

Please, you find yourself inwardly pleading, not just at your own Soul Gem but towards the girl sitting beside you. Just....please. Please turn out to be sempai.

Please.

The thin crimson beam shines from your Soul Gem, pulsing in time with your heart beat --

--before it quickly and decisively points towards the same girl holding your hand.

Nearly making you collapse for the second time in the overwhelming relief of it all. The smile from earlier returning to your face, at the same time the tension that had locked your muscles in a panicked clinch began to bleed away.

[2/3]

>>42623888
Just jumping in here as I read the thread —
it doesn't have to conform to his standards, he's just describing what he sees as weaknesses, and ways the author could fix said weaknesses if he agrees. Not everything's a demand, you can just give opinions.

>>42624287
Constructive criticism also includes the merits of the thing it is criticising, so that these merits can be exemplified, further advanced, and pointed out to the benefit of the writer. Unless you can point out the good and the bad in equal or at least amounts that do not equal zero, then what you are doing isn't constructive, just cherrypicking flaws to point out to everyone.

What anon was doing was pointing out something that he doesn't like and suggesting ways to correct that under the guise of constructive criticism, which is not what it was.

>>42624386

It's also here, though, that your sempai - your verified 100% genuine sempai - turns to look at you. You immediately perk up at this, now fully prepared to enjoy your stolen bit of personal time with her - when the slightly-disappointed tone in her voice makes your heart freeze inside your chest.

"...I know I'm acting differently than what you're used to, and I should really have expected as much, considering that we're in some place where you can't just take things for granted, but..." She shakes her head, a small smile curling her lips. "...Well, a part of me was hoping that you'd be able to tell right away that I was for real, Midori. Even without checking our attunement."

She...she knew? That's...but how? You made sure she didn't see--

"Let's just say I was really looking out for it, okay?" Chiaki laughs again, in her disarmingly-clear and completely-unforced giggle. "I was going to point it out, but you were just so tense that I thought you'd snap in two if I did. So I just let you do it." She shrugs. "But it's really me, Midori. Even if I'm talking without years of alcohol and nicotine damage to my vocal chords making me sound like a blender pureeing gravel and buttermilk. Even without all the scars, I'm still me."

But...why, then? If she's the real Chiaki, then why the drastic changes...?

The raven-haired girl that is your sempai looks at you, before shrugging again. "We're going to be here all day trying to straighten it out, but let's just say the decisions I've been making have been...complicating things. Something about...dead timelines suddenly having parallel, alternative ones that are still dead, but can hop over the other ones. It's all..." She puffs out her cheeks and gesticulates with her hands. "Just one giant big pile of tangled shit that even the Incubators won't be able to figure out. Really. I'm not even going to bother."

[3/4]

>>42624422

She sees the confusion in your face, and she shakes her head. "The...the closest thing to an explanation I can probably give is that I'm...well, I'm not the Chiaki you know, but for all intents and purposes right now, I am Chiaki. Kind of like the armored fragment back there," She gestures to the door behind the both of you, where you encountered three fragments of your sempai's psyche. "She's from what we call an alternate timeline. Kind of a different flavor of the dead ones. ...But you see where I'm getting at, here?"

You nod. Sort...sort of, yes. So she's an alternate version of Chiaki, just like the armored fragment. But...if that's the case, then where IS your sempai? Where is the original?

"Right now? Well, you're looking right at her. I don't...yeah, I don't get it either, but apparently I'm standing in for the both of us. ...Me and your original sempai, that is." Chiaki smiles at you, rather awkwardly. "I believe it's only a temporary setup, though - the moment I touch that awful thing you brought along with you is the moment I vanish back into the ether, with the sempai you know and love coming back in one piece."

A-ah. Well, that's a relief, but...

Wait. She's vanishing?! But that means--

"It means I'm given one opportunity to do what I need to do." Chiaki says firmly, but gently. "Don't worry about me, I doubt I'll even remember all this myself. But right now, I'm just thankful that I'm given this shot to do what needs to be done, before it's too late."

[4/5]

>>42624422
Still doesn't sound a bit like Muderface, dildo or not.

>>42624473

She glances off to the side, and you follow her line of sight to see Wendy. The American Callidus clearly trying her best not to look at your direction, furiously puffing away at a cigarette, with spent and discarded filters littering the ground by her feet. ...She's far enough that you're not worried if she's eavesdropping or not, but you couldn't help noticing how she seemed to quickly look back at you a split second before you turned away.

"Anyway, enough about the doom and gloom for the moment. Talk to me, Midori." Your sempai lets out a sigh. "And forgive me for bringing this up, because I know that this is going to be really hard to talk about, considering just where we are and what you've just been through. But...well, are you having second thoughts?"

You blink at her. Second thoughts about...what?

"About us."

How do you respond?

>>42624416
That's fair, though you and I seem to be running under different definitions of "constructive criticism". I, personally, would say that constructive criticism is any statement made with the clear intention of improving the criticized work--this includes both what you described and what the other anon was doing (cherry-picking flaws).

I figure, pointing out the perceived flaws in something is valid critique since doing so helps draw attention to potential issues in the work, even if the critic does not also point out things that are done well.

>>42624473
inb4 she has to shoot wendy or whatever

>>42624473

Oh, she is who was supposed to be in the 4th mirror when we first talked to the Stooges.

>>42624503
"No. Not in a million years."

>>42624503
"No."
And just leave it at that.

>>42624503
>[X]"I've been thinking of a polyamorous relationship with Wendy." with more stuttering.

>>42624503
>[x]"I think you should have a harem. You deserve it. Also I want to fuck Wendy."

>>42624534
Seconded

>>42624503
>How do you respond?
"After all the shit we have faced, I am very clear with my feelings: I love you, Chiaki Matsuda, and I want to be with you to the very end. Althought, I wouldn´t mind adding another factor to the ecuation... (look at Wendy)"
"Also, you know something about me being an sleeping agent? Your other versions mentioned it"

>>42624503
>[X]NO! Never! I didn't have second thoughts in Siberia, I'm not going to start now! No matter how many times you fall apart, I'll always try to be there to help you pick up the pieces.

>>42624503
"No. Not in a million years."

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>>42624503
[x]''Eeeeeh?''

>>42624503

"No. Never."

>>42624503
>>42624547
Backing

>>42624503
>[x] drop spaghetti
>[x] apply hugs
>[x] mumble you've been worried that Wendy will steal her away

>>42624503
[x]"I don't have second thoughts about Chiaki, I don't trust you though." Pull out the gun and shoot her.

No touchy feely, she is the selfdestructing Homu from the fourth mirror, time to give her what she deserves.

>>42624503
"What? No. Where the fuck did that come from?"

>>42624503
We are totally getting shot by her now aren't we.
Make things right. Do the thing that has to be done.
Green hair is danger.
Yeah....

>>42624611
Yes.
Let it happen.
This is the end of Green.

Guys, while I'm all for the threesome... Now is not the time to bring it up, especially since it's not all that IC for Midori, not now anyway.

>>42624503
No second thoughts. It's just that Wendy is not as bad as we initially thought and in dire need of someone who cares for her.

>>42624503


>>42624534
Thirding.

>>42624634
In that case, it wasn't at all IC for Muderface to fuck Midori in the first place.

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>>42624611
>>42624630

>>42624503

"No. No second thoughts. I wouldn't be here otherwise."

>>42624503
>"Not at all. If I did, I wouldn't be coming out here for you myself, now would I?"

>>42624503
>NO!

>>42624503
>[X]"Why, yes, I've been getting addicted to Mami's huge H formula stiffy."

>>42624672
The difference between joke and paranoia is who gets to laugh about it.

>>42624661
If we're going to go that far, Chiaki would be foreveralone.jpg, period, and Wendy wouldn't have happened 'in the past' either.

>>42624510
You can't claim even the slightest amount of objectivity if you can't honor the good things as well as the bad. At least by doing that you admit there are good things and that your opinion isn't based solely on the idea that the thing you're criticizing is shit.

>>42624699
But wouldn't that be just better in every way?

>>42624697
Shut up Wendy

>>42624672
It has to happen. The monster that is Midori has to go.

>>42624503
>[X]FLESH OF THE FALLEN ANGELS

What is with all these "How do you respond?" choices? It's getting kind of old.

>>42624740
Why would you consider Midori a monster? Let´s be honest: so far, she has been one of the most trustworthy persons Chiaki has known and a very valuable ally

>>42624776
Trustworthy? More like obsessed to a fault. Obsession leads to doubt. Doubt leads to betrayal. Betrayal leads to no pancakes. Remove obsession.

>>42624503
No I just want to add a third.

>>42624754
This is a point with many options: would you leave things as they are? Would you aim for watermelon ending? Would you reject Chiaki, seeming as she is too dangerous to be with her?

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>>42624583
>>42624547
Get out, Cooldown. You already lost the Murderbowl.

>>42624503
>>42624565
Liking this one.

>>42624805
Then, the next time the soul-fragmented-shit happens (because we know it will happen), who will save Chiaki?

>>42624776
She died once, got respawned by basically Pinky in a good mood and is now her vessel. I think that speaks for itself.

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>>42624503

That concludes the current voting period.

Thank you for your participation and patience.

>>42624265
you have spend way to much time in /a/ anon
I have being lurking for some time but I don't stop to see every thread and every drama and now people are unlikely to talk about the event in question so there is little chance of learning what it was other than asking anon
so you claims of spoonfeeding makes little sense

also
>>42624315