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  1. The long-prophesied day has come. Today I'm announcing a shift in the way Fuwanovel works. It's the big "leadership overhaul" I've been referring to, and hopefully it makes working on the site better for everyone. At the least it'll mean project leaders get more control and autonomy so I'm not in their way as often. We have a lot of projects going on in the community. Some are personal, which we're not going to touch, but others are done by or for the Fuwanovel community: social media, the blog, moderators, reviews, etc. Today's changes focus on that second category: projects which are meant to be by the community (like an official project) or for the community. I'm going to call them FuwaProjects for clarity's sake, to distinguish them from personal projects (which aren't co-opted into this program at all). The Short Version: The big change is that FuwaProjects are going to be made a lot more autonomous, and representatives or team leaders from each project will be gathered together in a board here on the forums called the "Leadership Council" (LC). The purpose of the LC is to give each other updates and feedback and discuss relevant site issues before any big decisions are made by myself and any relevant project leaders. If you are part of a project you consider a FuwaProject and it's more than a short-term effort, you are more than welcome to PM me (Tay) and request access to the LC. All project leaders are considered equals on the LC. Nobody pulls rank on anybody else, and discussion is meant to be constructive (since, after all, you can't force a project lead to run the project your way). The primary oversight over a project leader will essentially be me: we'll have periodic check-ins to refine the project's direction, goals, and reasonable activity requirements. The FuwaDirectory will list all of the active projects and project leaders on the site so you know what's going on and who to contact about it. A few more minor details if you're interested: There will be a few jobs in the LC itself to help it function well and make coordination more effective. These are being finalized, and will be included in the FuwaDirectory. I will continue to maintain a controlling vote on community affairs. If the day comes that this changes or I leave the site (on my own or by request), the community will be notified and any changes to site leadership structure will be explained publicly. Global mods are also part of the LC. As part of this change, GM rulings on rule-breaking and respect violations will correspondingly hold more weight. Appeals to the best-two-out-of-three GM rulings will generally be the last word on the matter, though GMs can elect to pass an appeal to me, instead. Final Note: The "Leadership" part of LC refers to the fact that those on the LC are community leaders -- they're running the projects making the community what it is (and making it better). It's not a decision making body, exactly, but it's meant to be the hub of site direction and planning. In the past we often confused the distinction between the real and on-the-ground community leaders, and the badges assigned by our forums software (like the "Admin" badge under my avatar). We need a paradigm shift: forums badges do not a site leader make. The FuwaDirectory shows all the folks working on Fuwanovel, and each of them deserve a corresponding amount of respect. Thanks for your time! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or problems.
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  2. Hey there This year my town's Kendo club organised the annual New Year's Kendo Training Course that's always held on the five days from the 2nd til the 5th of January. It was a great success but I'm going to tell you some of the stuff that happened to me.. Arguably the most important thing to this annual event are the Sensei that teach us during that time. This year, we had two japanese guests. Both teach Onoha Ittouryuu are 7th Dan Kyoshi. I had to pick them up from the airport in Frankfurt (which is 4 hours from where I live). Some info about me: 17 years old haven't had a serious japanese conversation before have been learning japanese for ~18 months I think you can all guess that these aren't the perfect conditions for success. But, whether I liked it or not, I had to be the one to pick them up because someone had to and I'm the poor guy who's learning Japanese lol-- I arrived at the airport. You should know that at that point I was really nervous as it would be the first time I'd have to use my japanese for anything else than my own entertainment. In my head, I had a list of things that I'd practised beforehand. But all I could remember was Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? And the polite word for toilet. (otearai) My nervousness had swallowed the rest When the waiting was finally over -and I was ready to make a run for it- the two walked towards me, searching for familiar faces. I bravely approached them. Three seconds later I had already made more cultural mistakes while greeting them than I'd dare to count. (Like forgetting to tell them my name [so stupid ]) Anyway, they're really nice people and luckily they remembered me from last year so they knew they had to go easy on me with their japanese. I asked them if we (I wasn't alone at least) should carry their lugagge and one of them kindly handed me over his way-too-big and way-too-heavy bag.. I started walking back, trying to remember which way to go to get back to the parking lots until I realized we had walked past the lifts. So we went back again thinking everything would be alright but when we stepped out, none of the doors through which we had come before on our way to the terminal would open. We go back up and try our luck with the lifts on the other side of the terminal. Eventually we made our way back to the car. I believe you're fairly bored after reading this much so I'll make the rest short lol The hour that followed was filled with questions about me and the location of the training course which I tried my best to answer in reasonably good Japanese. After that they just fell asleep. They were a bit shocked when we told them that my coach had invited us all to spend New Year's Eve at his house. But they didn't mind anymore after I told them that there'd be fireworks^^ When we arrived, all the nervousness and uneasyness seemed to be washed away and we gradually came to understand each other better and better. Even though I still made a lot of mistakes, the conversation didn't stop anymore and it was a great time for all of us. I fell ill after that due to an allergic reaction and Asthma so I wasn't able to participate in the actual training but I showed up every day to say hello and I met a japanese boy who is an exchange student here in Germany. I wanted to exchange email addresses so we could keep in touch but unfortunately, I didn't meet him again. I learned a lot in that time but I also realized that I still have to study a lot to have a proper conversation. I'd like to hear about your first experience with japanese if you've had any. Maybe we can all share our stories with each other
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  3. Well as Nosebleed said. Welcome to the rest of the world. Everything isn't circling around the US. My country got licensing limitation for a lot of show on Crunchy last time I checked. That's why fansubs exist. What is wrong with fansub by the way? A licensed work isn't automatically better.
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  4. Update: 03-26-15 Finished almost all "basic" grammar with Nosebleed and Keaton. Congratulations for graduating Nosebleed and ~ Keaton (Grieviious). lol..... Best of luck for your retention. Topics I covered can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ku-5p27HxMlWySQAqBvZygwhQp8Z1EHFY-oYE-KdBlg/edit#gid=0 Happy Year 2015 to you~ You can call me rains Do you have a strong motivation to learn Japanese? Can you spend a fair amount of time on learning? If you are a beginner and have interests in reading untranslated VNs and/or eventually becoming a part of the translation culture, then this thread might be for you! I’m looking to help someone become self-reliant in Japanese. That means being able to: independently seek out resources, form your own self-study sessions, and most importantly --- be able to read from VNs and learn from them. I will serve as the guidepost, giving you tips on what to tackle next. I will devote time to seeing your growth as long as you devote your own time to invest in learning Japanese. My approach will be purely on grammar. You’ll have to do all the vocab/kanji learning on your own. My goal for you is to get you to understand how Japanese sentences work. How do all the words relate to each other in the sentence. I’ll try to get you to learn from patterns and examples. From then on, you can try to read manga/VNs and put the piece of the puzzle yourself. Scheduling will be entirely reliant on you. You should create your own schedule. Try to learn it first, then come to me with questions and clarification. If I have time I can teach you the new topic myself. You can contact me anytime I’m free. It is imperative that you try to create a study routine --- keyword: routine. It needs to be a habit; it needs to be a lifestyle change. Ideally, if you want to learn Japanese fast, you’d want to have full immersion. You’d want to have your free time devoted to anything related to Japanese: be it Anime, JP Manga, Drama, TV shows, VNs, etc. If you have questions or interest, reply to this thread or pm me. Unfortunately, I am but only a single person so this offer is only for one or two people. Keep in mind I am Eastern Time Zone (EST)… My weekday schedule is EST evenings. What are your long term aspirations/goals? What are your short-term goals? Which VN would you like to read eventually? How much Japanese do you already know (if you do)? How much time can you devote? If you’re selected, I’d like the main correspondence to be through skype (rains90), it’s the best way (and the only way really..) you can contact me during my free time. If you’d like, I might also throw you in a very small group of other people who are trying to self-study. I’m planning to select someone by January 8th. Extra Sources: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/3801-good-vns-for-starting-reading-it-in-jap-with-help-from-mecab-and-jparser/ https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/2792-learning-japanese-useful-resources/?hl=%20japanese%20%20learning http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar Taekim’s grammar guide. I might base the grammar sequence on this. https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/7625-why-japanese-is-easier-to-learn-than-you-think/ Picture from a youtube video of Steve Kaufmann (a polyglot)
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  5. I'm nearly done with Never7, and I'm looking for a sci-fi VN with many plot twists, preferably also time travel (which is usually a spoiler, so don't mention if a VN has it in the comments) I've read 999, Muv Luv, Ever17 and Steins Gate. Loved all except Muv Luv. What VN would you recommend? I/O? Chaos; Head? I can only read translated.
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  6. interesting read and quite funny to if i may say so. This is only mildly related but last week i found out that my country ( Netherlands) and Japan have a more than 100 year old treaty for free work and living trafic between the country's. To bad it seems as that my country managed to forget that one as it was found out while trying to resolve a case of illigal working by some japanese in the netherlands. That also managed to put a smile on my face about the funny things that just seem to happen in life.
    1 point
  7. Clephas

    A small Reality Check

    tbh, I'm more disgusted by the fact that their parents signed off on making that kind of stuff...
    1 point
  8. I desperately need to share this with everyone since its from a manga that I won't expect to have this kind of plot twist...
    1 point
  9. Tyrael

    What are you playing?

    Finished Michiru's route in Grisaia No Kajitsu Welp, this route made me cry more than any of the routes in clannad.
    1 point
  10. My stalking got me here~ Welcome to fuwa, i will stalk you 24/7
    1 point
  11. HMN

    Greeting from Australia!

    WELCOME TO FUWA NOMNOM!!! HOPE WE CAN BECOME BESTIES HERE!!!! HERE HAVE A JINPOU IN MIZUGI BECAUSE WHY NOT?
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  12. No need to feel silly at all . I just took a look at the screenshots, and wow, they went for a completely different style there .
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  13. Confession- Reading Tiago's About Me: "Perhaps you read it as "Tiag of Varela", but that's utterly incorrect and you should stop doing it before you get into an "accident" yourself." I'll admit, the very first time I ever saw his username I read it as "Tiag of Varela"
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  14. Kosakyun

    Fuwanovel Confessions

    ...You broke Kud? How rough. Confession: Fuwanovel takes away a lot of my time.
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  15. Still surprises me that people don't know about this. You don't need to cd into anything. Go into the folder where you need the CMD, hold shift and right-click in the folder, and you can use the "Open command window here" option. You don't need to specify your python install location if you have Python in your PATH, which it should be by default unless you disable it. It's easiest if you just move the python script into the game folder (or the .rpa into the same folder as your python script, but sometimes other files might be required), then you can just run it like: unrpa.py -m -p Out data.rpa
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  16. the video quality is usually horribad for one , for two inconsistency in the the sub titles
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  17. Number 3 is what I call the fishing stance.
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  18. LiquidShu

    K - POP Fuwa fans

    I'm not sure how credible they are but here are some lyrics . Normally I don't even look up lyrics because to me music is something everyone interprets differently and has different meanings. So when it's untranslated you can let your imagination soar Also when I listen to a song so many times and I decide why not look up the lyrics I typically have what I think its about pretty close to what it actually is Guess I just listen to a lot of Korean music! Also when a song has CC for the video I typically tend to read them but that doesn't happen a lot of the time.
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  19. I should start thinking about constructing a temple about worshiping my voice. I certainly seem to have the followers. On another note, and more importantly, I have a thread to save. If by tomorrow evening this thing isn't ready I'll edit everything together, whether it looks good or not. And I'll write the dumbest [insert whatever part is missing here] you'll ever see!
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  20. Welcome to my life, I see that all the time. It's one show, not the end of the world.
    1 point
  21. I personally wouldn't want to experience a VN through Youtube Let's Play because it would feel like I am messing with the relationship that an author and reader have. It would be like adding an unnecessary layer to an already complicated relationship. I already give my consent to the author to allow him/her to alter my emotions in some way and take me in a certain direction. I don't particularly need another mediator to finish the conduit for me. Whether it be fiction or non-fiction, the path I take when I read a story is one I walk alone. Sometimes my hunger for a new story supersedes my pride, and in that case I only go for the unvoiced video so as to get as close to my preferred experience as possible.
    1 point
  22. Finally finished downloading it. ...This better be lewd.
    1 point
  23. The last part of the article made me kind of uncomfortable. I had no idea the top floors of Sofmap had younger girls in the swimsuits. That for me is going overboard and is not acceptable.
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  24. Some funny stuff from BlackPeopleTwitter
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  25. astro

    "Real" choices in a VN

    The most significant choices I had to make were: >Cum inside >Cum outside
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  26. You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work.
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  27. Generally speaking, learning a language is much easier if you make an effort to shift your thought patterns into those native to the language inasmuch as it is possible to do so. I wouldn't have gotten so good at comprehending Japanese if I hadn't discarded the preconceptions born of my American/Texan upbringing in order to gain a better understanding. The unfortunate side-effect of that is that my thought patterns in Japanese tend to be irreconcilable in some ways with my English thought patterns. I weird out some of my relatives with the way my personality shifts depending on which language I've been thinking in more lately. Edit: Incidentally, if you happened to ask me which 'me' I like better... it is definitely the Japanese-speaking me. He is a lot less arrogant and more considerate of others' views. The English-speaking me is a pragmatist and efficiency-freak who despises wasting time and energy on anything outside of his interests, and who is stubborn to a fault at all the wrong times. Edit2: Also, my English-speaking self is a lot more misanthropic and gloomy... lol. The only thing that is common to both mes is my sense of humor and a general intolerance of excessive stupidity. Edit3: If I weren't such an introvert, I probably wouldn't notice the degree to which language reshapes my reactions and thought patterns. I developed a habit of trying to look at my own thoughts objectively at a young age, utilizing cues from other people and my own reactions. That tendency only gets stronger as I get older... since I get more misanthropic as I get older (my misanthropy is general to the whole human race, including myself, lol) Edit4: Human beings are surprisingly malleable, given the right stimuli. Proof of this comes in the phenomena of 'going native' and Stockholm Syndrome. Switching between languages is enjoyable for me in the same way flipping a light switch over and over again was as a kid, lol. Edit5: Anyway... as an answer to the question I tacitly asked in this thread... is it possible for two cultures so completely different in so many fundamental ways to understand one another? The answer in my opinion is a qualified no. We can change the surface levels of our cultures, to give a facade of similarity, and indeed, the westernization of Japan has blurred the lines in some areas. However, the fundamental differences in ways of thinking are still evident and the lines created by them are difficult to see for both sides. To be blunt, every time I think I understand the Japanese way of thinking, I hit another figurative roadblock.
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  28. Glad I could help!
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  29. Whoa! Don't worry! I fixed it. 1)Download English patch from Translator's Website A Profile English Patch 2)Uninstall original Patch with engpatch_uninstall file in the Game folder of A Profile 3)Open the English patch that was downloaded from the Translator's Website 4)It will ask you for non-ero patch to be installed. Make sure the box is unmarked. 5)When It asks about where to install the patch, click browse and locate the game folder, click on it. 6)Install 7)Go to the Game Folder 8)There should be a folder named with some japanese letters. 9)Go to the folder 10)In it should be some files including a engpatch_uninstall file 11)Right-click and Cut ALL the files 12)Go back to the main folder. Paste the files. 13)Enjoy game with enabled H-Scenes. Thanks for the help
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