(MSN chat log, June 5, 2012)

toraneko strangegreycat says
I just realized - if you reinvision Hetalia with avatars of game companies instead of avatars of nations, it becomes a lot more accessible.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
lol
it becomes neptunia

toraneko strangegreycat says
Close enough.
But Neptunia is more like the game consoles themselves being anthropomorphized.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
and hetalia is countries represented by personalities

toraneko strangegreycat says
I meant something more like, not just consoles
but the game companies.
Studios included.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
ahh...
nintendo would be that cool ex girlfriend that decided to slut up

toraneko strangegreycat says
And Microsoft would be the annoying queen of her social circle.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
lmao
i can just picture that one

toraneko strangegreycat says
She's popular, but doesn't have any close friends~

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
sony is the girl that was perfect, then had ONE issue that suddenly made her all "stop pestering me!"

toraneko strangegreycat says
haha
I can see that, too
Then there's Valve, who is the stereotypical glasses-wearing nerdy gamer chick

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
neo-geo... was the rich girl in jr high... then the nobody in high school

toraneko strangegreycat says
She doesn't run in the "cool" circles, but everyone likes her.
Oh, SNK graduated ages ago, but then got run over by a bus and is now a ward of the state.

FatuousOne says
Sega is the girl who was a genius during her middle school years, but suddenly couldn't understand fuck all once she hit highschool/college level.
She tries really hard, but all her efforts ultimately fail.

toraneko strangegreycat says
And now Sega just rides the coattails of the other girls.

FatuousOne says
Pathetic moe.

toraneko strangegreycat says
Awww

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
particularly nintendo... who back then was her bitterest rival

toraneko strangegreycat says
that works so well that it's sad

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
atari... everyone's gramma, everyone loved her

toraneko strangegreycat says
Except Nintendo.

FatuousOne says
EA is that bitch who tries to blackmail and bully you out of your lunch money.
And makes up these ridiculous scams that work into getting her rich.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
she had herself cloned into activision, and now the clone is a weird social pariah that only appearls to gun otaku

toraneko strangegreycat says
Hmm. Blizzard...

FatuousOne says
Blackmails in that she takes innocent younger girls like Bioware and rape them into being her minions.
It's a corruption/mind break scenario.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
blizzard... she's not that pretty, but the boys like her, and some girls too

toraneko strangegreycat says
@F1: I was thinking that, too.
Blizzard is the school whore.
She doesn't do anything for free, but she doesn't charge much, either, and she accepts anyone with the money.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
she acts like a nun... but it's just a dress

FatuousOne says
Recently though, Activision has picked her up and started pimping her.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
are you sure it's not the other way around?

toraneko strangegreycat says
And Blizz and EA are hardline competitors.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
they are all popularity sluts

toraneko strangegreycat says
EA wants to be Blizz's pimp, but Blizz is doing business just fine on her own.
Partially because Blizz sells drugs on the side.

FatuousOne says
So, wait. Are we equating game sales with sex in this scenario?

toraneko strangegreycat says
Not fully.

toraneko strangegreycat says
Just that that's one indicator of "popularity", and I can't think of any reason other than sex and drugs as to why an avatar of Blizzard would still be popular after all this time of doing the exact same thing.

FatuousOne says
Haha, I see...
Hmm. I guess Atlus would be the good girl who does well, but generally don't really try to excell outside of her branch of familiarity.

toraneko strangegreycat says
Atlus is a science nerd who fails math, I guess.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
EA is like that cheerleader in all those highschool movies... only hangs out with the jocks, but suddenly noticed some nerds are kinda ok

toraneko strangegreycat says
Except EA likes to exploit said nerds

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
of course... the jocks dont really have money

toraneko strangegreycat says
Gives them pity dates, but expects lots of shiny stuff in return.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
im afraid to picture square-enix....

toraneko strangegreycat says
EA is still "officially" with the jock crowd, of course.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
long lost twins... the rich one (enix) decided to bring square back into the family

toraneko strangegreycat says
And has a not-secret thing going on with Coach Madden.

FatuousOne says
How lewd.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
the ame-futo team... the basketball team, the baseball team, the soccer (real football) team

toraneko strangegreycat says
I picture it more like Square was dying after an accident (spirits within), and Enix donated the organ needed for transplant, but Enix didn't survive the operation and now shares headspace with Square.
They're not right in the brain anymore.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
and she still spends way too much attention on zippers

naik112@hotmail.com says
I came back just in time to steal ideas for a webcomic!

toraneko strangegreycat says
haha

FatuousOne says
A webcomic that would likely get you sued.

naik112@hotmail.com says
I mean, hello everyone. e_e

toraneko strangegreycat says
Parody, F1! Parody!

FatuousOne says
Ah, that's true.

naik112@hotmail.com says
A webcomic that would be loved by many and make many people into practicing CF's, you mean. e_e

toraneko strangegreycat says
Let's see, who else...

FatuousOne says
It would be able to operate under the law of parody, wouldn't it?

naik112@hotmail.com says
Yeah.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
natsume... has a farm everywhere

toraneko strangegreycat says
It's basically no different than a political cartoon strip, I'd say.
Just, y'know, actually entertaining.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
capcom... tomboy, loves to fight

toraneko strangegreycat says
And maybe thought-provoking.
@I: perfect.

naik112@hotmail.com says
It'd be a nice four panel. e_e

toraneko strangegreycat says
And now she's getting a bit punch-drunk.

FatuousOne says
She also finds her fans annoying, so she intentionally trolls them for fun.
toraneko strangegreycat says
So... Mike Tyson with tits?

naik112@hotmail.com says
Ah~ That mental image~

FatuousOne says
I wouldn't say no to a brown girl.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
used to have a lot of toys (blue bombers, crying devils), but then she broke them or gave them away

toraneko strangegreycat says
Now she just spends a lot of time hunting.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
namco... has multiple personality disorder

toraneko strangegreycat says
And ranting about the upcoming zombie apocalypse.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
one day she's a hot babe barely wearing clothes, next day she is all cute and introverted, might be yandere

toraneko strangegreycat says
Namco and her cousin Bandai have a but of an untoward _thing_ going on.
*bit of

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
but it's yuri, so no one really bothers
except bandai is a mecha and sangoku/sengoku otaku

toraneko strangegreycat says
(that's Koei)

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
oh yeah... tecmo-koei

toraneko strangegreycat says
Koei is the nerd's nerd

FatuousOne says
Bandai is the manager of a toy store on the side.

toraneko strangegreycat says
Koei: small circle of friends, and tends to go on and on about the same subjects to the few people she knows will listen.
Mostly history.
And robots.

FatuousOne says
Oh, god.
That makes me think of Yoshitake's history club in Genshiken.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
has recently expanded to anime (saint seiya, one piece)

toraneko strangegreycat says
I really need to get around to actually reading Genshiken one of these days...

FatuousOne says
You should.

toraneko strangegreycat says
And Bandai, I picture as basically being Anime Tenchou, just female.

FatuousOne says
Haha.
That's perfect.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
team ninja

toraneko strangegreycat says
Team Ninja is Koei's imouto.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
rampaging yuri?

toraneko strangegreycat says
Basically, yes
Puts her hands in inappropriate places at every opportunity.
Also has a thing for Capcom and Sega.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
her dream is to open up a sushi bar with hawt almost nekkid waitresses?

toraneko strangegreycat says
Well, she spent part of her trust fund on a beach resort, but that fell through and ruined her reputation.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
she called it a volleyball tournament

toraneko strangegreycat says
And Konami is the goth chick.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
goth chic, was a military otaku for a while, then got into the vampire thing

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
in her youth she was into sports, but nothing really clicked
her guilty pleasure... music and dancing... it's her shame and her claim to fame in certain circles

FatuousOne says
As a small off and on hobby, she star gazes.
But she hasn't done much with that recently...

toraneko strangegreycat says
what's that reference, F1?

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
think konami kode

toraneko strangegreycat says
Konami used to have dreams of being an astronaut and saving the world, but grew jaded and gave it up. (Gradius)

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
then she took up baseball in the states, but didnt go too far there

toraneko strangegreycat says
Without Irem around to keep her competitive, it just wasn't fun anymore.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
NIS

toraneko strangegreycat says
NIS is the raging weeaboo.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
says she's into the dark and occult

toraneko strangegreycat says
Wait, no, sorry - that's her cousin NIS America.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
but we all know she's just playing with miniatures and plushies

toraneko strangegreycat says
NIS and Atlus are BFFs.

FatuousOne says
No.
It's Suikoden.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
108... derp XD

FatuousOne says
Yes, she has 108 favorite stars.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
Konami: she was into sports, then astronomy before she became the military otaku and got that vampire fetish she still hasnt been able to shake

FatuousOne says
Sounds like Bella from Twilight. Oh god.

Ignacio A. Cervantes says
NISA is the raging weabo... doesnt hurt that her almost twin sister-cousin enables her

toraneko strangegreycat says
Well, Konami at least hasn't had any creepy-as-hell love affairs.
Which is more than can be said for most of the rest of the cast, come to think of it.

FatuousOne says
I suppose Rare would be the golden girl genius who suddenly died from a wasting disease during middle school?

toraneko strangegreycat says
And she had such a promising veterinary career ahead of her, too.
But then she was killed off by someone from MI6 for knowing too much.
Microsoft tried to take care of her, but she just couldn't hang on.
So sad ;_;

FatuousOne says
It was a break the haughty moment.
But Microsoft got over it.

toraneko strangegreycat says
And Sierra was the cute nerd everyone used to like, but she died of lupus in middle school.

FatuousOne says
It wasn't lubus.
lupus, even.

FatuousOne says
The doctors just didn't know what to diagnose it as.
Thinking on it, this group of girls is full of tragic deaths like that.
What a horrible school system.

toraneko strangegreycat says
And here I am, having barely even played Katawa Shoujo.

FatuousOne says
It was decent, but not spectacular.

toraneko strangegreycat says
anyway, hmm
Oh, this is set in a private academy.

toraneko strangegreycat says
All the doujin soft plebs get to go to a low-budget public school.

FatuousOne says
Haha.
And the Indies get in through a scholarship set up by Microsoft's family?

toraneko strangegreycat says
Microsoft's, and occasionally Valve's.
Sony likes to throw in her support after the indies prove a little bit popular, but she's not fooling anyone.

FatuousOne says
Haha.