Story Ore Blog: cute anime things

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

cute anime things

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Characters are typically cute anime girls of original design as seen in the sample screenshot, accompanied by a small monster or pet of some sort. However, a variety of other subjects exist on the sidelines, from video game characters to 2channel memes to humorous depictions of Hitler. Most importantly, they "talk" (in Japanese). What they "say" is shown in a speech bubble. Also, they have variable facial expressions (called "surfaces"). In the sample picture, a part of the dark gray balloon is seen at the upper left, and the surface is number 7 (that is, an "angry" face). The "main" character (her metaname is Sakura) and her companion (his metaname is Unyū) may talk to the user. For example, they might say "It's 3. Are you still awake?" at 3:00. Or, when the user is rebooting, they might say "Oh, are you rebooting? Okay, Seeya." But usually, the two chat to each other, and the user can read their conversations (in the balloons). The protocol it uses to communicate with other (local or remote) programs is called SSTP (Sakura Script Transfer Protocol). Ports 7743 and 9801 are officially assigned by IANA for SSTP. The port 7743 is not actually used for this protocol. The original Ukagaka listens to port 9801 while SSP (see below) uses the port 9821 by default. Ukagaka, or its compatible platform, usually comes with its default ghost. It is possible and usual to have more than one ghosts on the same platform, when the ghosts are switchable (that is, the girl the user selected from the menu appears on the user's desktop). An additional ghost, including its shell, is usually provided as a single .nar (Nanika Archive) file, which the user can easily install by drag-and-dropping onto the running shell.