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"word": "external occipital protuberance"
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"Initialism of external occipital protuberance."
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"ref": "2026 July 1, what-if17, “What actually happens?”, in The Visual Novel Database:",
"text": "Generally asking JOPs about anything is useless, though. 9 times out of 10 they prefer being smug, and telling you \"that you can't read it anyway\", and that \"more people better not read it\", over offering any details about the VN in question (besides bragging about the hard to read prose, saying \"look at me, I am so proficient and superior!\"). Most of the untranslated high rated VNs on the site, are that way, because JOPs want to feel like the elite that is high above the \"EOP pleb\", and not because they are actually THAT good.",
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"ref": "2025 April 7, [deleted], “What are some Japanese only visual novels that are top notch?”, in r/visualnovels:",
"text": "People who think these random eroge are the peak of the genre are a minority of basement dwellers who want to feel like for the time spent learning JP they got something over EOP",
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"ref": "2016 January 1, [deleted], “The year 2015 in review - VNDB Edition”, in r/visualnovels:",
"text": "If we take a look at the bigger Japanese releases of 2015, or at least those who were somewhat popular among the VNDB userbase, we see that new releases have small surges, which usually never last longer than ~4 weeks. It seems people capable of reading Japanese like to read their VNs at/around release date. All Japanese VNs with a decent amount of votes are also PC only, so stuff like Steins;Gate 0 fares pretty bad on VNDB. Maybe this does have to do with availability and text hookers, but since I'm an EOP I can't say for sure.",
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"ref": "2023 May 23, u/ihitcow, “A sudden epiphany”, in r/visualnovels:",
"text": "Idk where you’re finding these deep intellectual discussions, r/visualnovels main export is JOPs jacking each other off and shitting on EOPs",
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"ref": "2023 June 29, u/fallenguru, “Call for donations! Support the erogē industry by buying games that you'll never get around to reading in the DMM & DLsite summer sales!”, in r/visualnovels:",
"text": "Topic says it all, really. Note that you can buy games that you'll never get around to reading at DMM & DLsite and support the industry* even if you can't read Japanese. For before the Big Backlog in the Sky, even JOPs and EOPs are equal.",
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"(fandom slang, derogatory) A fan of foreign works (chiefly Japanese) that does not speak their original language and, as a result, has to wait for translations in order to enjoy them."
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"text": "Generally asking JOPs about anything is useless, though. 9 times out of 10 they prefer being smug, and telling you \"that you can't read it anyway\", and that \"more people better not read it\", over offering any details about the VN in question (besides bragging about the hard to read prose, saying \"look at me, I am so proficient and superior!\"). Most of the untranslated high rated VNs on the site, are that way, because JOPs want to feel like the elite that is high above the \"EOP pleb\", and not because they are actually THAT good.",
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175,
178
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"ref": "2025 April 7, [deleted], “What are some Japanese only visual novels that are top notch?”, in r/visualnovels:",
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509,
512
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136,
140
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223,
227
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"ref": "2023 June 29, u/fallenguru, “Call for donations! Support the erogē industry by buying games that you'll never get around to reading in the DMM & DLsite summer sales!”, in r/visualnovels:",
"text": "Topic says it all, really. Note that you can buy games that you'll never get around to reading at DMM & DLsite and support the industry* even if you can't read Japanese. For before the Big Backlog in the Sky, even JOPs and EOPs are equal.",
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