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I remember the not-insane guy from the documentary about The Pirate Bay talking about why he rather used AFK in place of IRL when denoting anything he did which was not in front of his computer. Recalling the exact quote proves difficult but it doesn't matter as my point isn't necessarily what he meant but how I perceived it. I seem to recall his reasoning being something along the lines of online and digital presence also, technically, being part of real life. It makes sense to me that reality is not exclusive but in fact the opposite; inclusive. Anything that can be at all I would consider part of reality and thus also, if I am involved in it, a part of my own real life. Which leads me to virtual reality. Not VR but the idea of virtuality. As far as I know, European philosophers back in the day (and maybe even now?) sometimes divided reality into the material reality (is actual, has form) and virtuality. Keep in mind that I'm using the term very liberally. Something virtual can be a thing, such as a character in a visual novel, which is not material but according to some people very much real since it obviously exists. If the character did not exist, there would be no way to see or interact with it, even through the UI of the game. There may be moral values connected to the importance of something virtual vs. something material but that is another discussion. However, I don't really buy the fact that distinctions between forms of realities are necessary nor representative of the way it works. This is why I'm just going to say that everything is real, real to the extent that we don't even need the word real as nothing can not be real. Truth be told, I am making a conscious effort not to get trapped in a spiral of semantics, arguing the duality of language, thoughts and symbols such as the word 'reality'. So, in conclusion to this paragraph, let me say that since I consider reality inclusive and non-specific, I also consider reality all-encompassing and so it includes anything that follows henceforth. Since smooth segue is smooth and If I haven't already lost everyone at this point, what I wanted to get to was this: animu and vidya are for realz! In fact, it makes me very satisfied that I can fool myself into believing the equal reality of MMORPG worlds enjoy compared to the one my shrink wants me to be functional in. Ever since I was a wee lad I have enjoyed escapism a lot. Like many of my generation I was at a point completely absorbed in the World of Warcraft, Azeroth. Because, while I love the worlds of my favourite movies, anime, fighting games, visual novels and so on, they are a bit lacking in the world department. With world I mean a traversable landscape which preferably differs enough from Earth to make it interesting. So, for me, what an MMORPG needs to be is a system which makes an as large of a virtual landscape as interesting and exciting as possible, ideally to the point that you start to forget that it is not indeed virtual. My interest in these kinds of games has dwindled significantly for the past several years. I feel they have become more about being virtual landscapes supporting a gameplay system than the other way around. Specifically I'm talking about convenience features which make the gameplay systems quicker and easier to understand. I didn't get into them for that, though. There are plenty of games I enjoy primarily for their gameplay features, such as Street Fighter and Starcraft, but none of them are MMORPGs. Recently I have regained hope, though. On March 11th this year, Visionary Realms streamed over an hour of gameplay from the pre-alpha version of their game Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. I've been skeptical, thinking the game was most likely vapourware until I saw the stream but now, seeing how far along they've gotten, I think it will most likely see the light of day after all. Basically, the game is like any other game in the genre only stripped of what I consider bloat features. It will also be significantly slower paced and focus more on group efforts as opposed to solo play. There will be limited fast-travel, instancing and enemies which can be killed by a lone player. They are promising that there won't be exclamation marks over the heads of NPCs giving quests and combat as well as regeneration of health will take longer than in modern MMORPGs. The graphics aren't exactly state of the art but to me they look serviceable, although I'm fine with playing Dragon Quest (1986) on my Famicom so my standards aren't exactly sky high. Maybe this pitch sounds like a snorefest to you and I completely understand why someone might think so but I do hope that there are enough people interested in this kind of niche to let the game stay afloat. Perhaps you are like me and love to escape to a world of fantasy, be it in a visual novel or otherwise. Perhaps you are like me and happen to have 12-20 hours to kill in front of your computer before you sleep again. Just thought I'd put the word out there in my own construed and needy way. That's all, thanks.

I checked with FuwAccounting, and it appears that I have, indeed, made the prerequisite amount of drivel posts to qualify for the 500 mark. As such, tradition dictates that this thread be borne into the world. Being an old man (rivaling @Rookefor the title of Geezer) I clearly love tradition. First off, if I don't mention you specifically, don't take it personally. I don't dislike anyone here and your non-mention is likely due to my receding memory. Or you just didn't make enough of an impression. It's almost the same. (Those are totally not the same.) Secondly, this thread is here for you to roast me, ask me questions, tease me, taunt me, etc. Anyhow... checking out the boards here has become something I look forward to daily, as you get older it gets even harder finding people in the surrounding zip codes who share your interests. The internet is great because it allows me access to you guys and gals. For that, I thank you for your continued existence. @CeruleanGamer- thanks for letting me copy/modify your posts when I was feeling unoriginal... or at the very least not killing me over the interwebs for it. @Flutterz- I believe you were the only one to actually email me when I offered way back in the day. And you continue to listen to me while about FGO gacha. I still say you should shave your head and grow a goatee. @OriginalRen- I enjoyed the couple times you live-fed the new posters and stuff you ordered. Still waiting on the poster I bought from you. Not mad. @Kaguya- Hey, you put up with me being an idiot, so you should at least get mentioned. @Jade,@Rose, @Maxel, @Mugi- The FGO thread crew that deal with me the most besides Flutterz. @12kami- who would keep my silliness alive. There's a lot more... I'll make a part two later. Or inquire inside. Anyways, thanks for helping me get through the day.

The fair fight you call for isn't gonna happen because in order to be fair both versions would need to have an equal amount of marketing, and AA versions go to Steam so they have an overwhelming advantage. The reason why AO versions have modest sales at best is because information about them only circulates within certain communities that, in total, amounts to a vanishingly small pool of buyers compared with the Steam market and the gaming market at large. The only ways to get out of that slowly expanding but still fairly small group is to either go to Steam, which an AO version can't do, or exist in the larger gaming press, which so far has superbly ignored visual novels, especially AO ones. What Mangagamer shows though, is that it's very possible to make profit out of AO titles that only sell to a niche audience. Mangagamer doesn't sell a lot but sells at a decently high price and enough to keep running, whereas Steam dictates a race to the ever-smaller prices which completely deregulates normal price practices and perceptions and probably endanger those who can't hope to sell billions of copies even at a small price. In other words Sekai Project should probably be able to make some profit out of AO versions. Whether they want to or not is up to their strategic choices. But it's not comparable with selling AA versions anyway, the market's fundamentally different.

I actually think "romance" is an essential part of Higurashi. And I don't think it's strange that nearly every Visual Novel has some romance in it. After all, they are stories about humans and humans seldom work without emotions like affection for each other.

I've waited almost a year for this. Finally. I'm sure it'll be glorious. Now then. This year, I'll celebrate Easter by sharing my genuine and honest opinion of many Fuwanovel members. Mostly those I happen to remember. You can also request it yourself if I don't mention you by default. A fair warning, whilst I don't often think ill of someone, there are some I might. A thousand apologies. Besides that, I also have a little game (some of you may remember it, I tried it our last year, but due to circumstances, was unable to finish it). I've updated it a little (though most characters are still out of date), and this time I do have the solutions! If you've been pinged in this post, you're probably in there, unless you aren't. Can you find yourself? Each image represents a member (or two). Can you guess them all? GUESS WHO: Anything you say about this must be in spoilers. Many things can be seen as clues, so I'm adamant about this. Besides that, onwards to opinions. These are in a brainstorm thoughtspill format. Not coherent. Too bad. For you. OBJECTIVE OPINIONS OF FUWANOVEL PLEBS: Most of those people are in the egg. Some people in the egg aren't there. This all said, here's the solution, but be sure to at least try first. Even though some are pretty much impossible to guess. EGG SOLUTION: Now I'm off to have lunch and realise I forgot something really important. Happy Easter, people!

Nobody quoted DEARDRPOPS yet? omg

One Mr. Insemination, Lord of Escalator Subs or something of that nature, exhibited great progress in his undertaking of this translation (which some sources that I cannot name say went from Chinese to English), and in a spree of unlimited magnanimity, even went so far as to bestow upon us the partial patch of which you spoke. Thereafter he endeavored to translate some other routes, and, as it would appear, completed all but that of one Mr. Miu. Presumably, Mr. Insemination then came to the prompt realization that Mr. Miu does, in fact, hold fascist inclinations, and thus decided that it would act against the interest of his people to disseminate this particular aspect of the production. However, the other routes remained complete according to the progress page, and after a period of prolonged unrest, he announced that these would be made available to the public on one Mr. April 1st of 2016, in the year of our one Mr. Lord Jesus. Thus, it would seem that you have only a few days to wait to see whether the truth of his proclamation shall manifest itself.

That doesn't add up, you got an order of magnitude wrong here. Most people read between 150 and 400 words per minute. 10 000 words should take you between 25 minutes and an hour. Even an unskilled reader wouldn't be much slower. To give a figure easy to picture, an average book in english would have around 400 words per pages (around 40 lines with an average of 10 words per lines). That of course varies a lot depending on font, language, format, etc but let's settle with 400, 10 000 words make a 25 page "book". The 40 000 words limit Rooke mentioned would make 100 pages, which sounds reasonable. A 10 hour long VN is more likely to be, for the "average" reader (which is only a statistical entity, the dispersion is large), the equivalent of a 150 000 words / 375 pages novel. Visual novels are REALLY long. Of course the comparison is not very good, because I'm using a lot of averages and assumptions, the method of delivering the text is different, etc...

Congrats Now hopefully your luck in FGO starts to surface soon

So I finished G-senjou no Maou after a pretty long time reading it. (No real spoilers here, but just in case I'll put it in a spoiler tag:) Anyways, now that I'm done with this I will take a small break from long titles and wait for Tokyo Babel to come out. Currently reading Lucy - The eternity she wished for. Haven't gotten far, but I am really enjoying it.

Nah you arent discussing. Youre insulting those who enjoy the game. Leave out all your gaijen shit talking and you'd be perfectly fine

It would be more weird if you loved Finland after visiting it

?????????? good shit go౦ԁ sHit? thats ✔ some good??shit right??there??? right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self ? i say so ? thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ? ?? ?НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??Good shit grats val

Hello guys, I have great news... The visual novel One Thousand Lies is OUT!! You can download for free from Itch.io: https://keinart.itch.io/one-thousand-lies There's also the official website: http://onethousandlies.weebly.com Of course, is totally free. I hope you guys enjoy reading One Thousand Lies.

I'll exchange for video games But yeah~ in case anyone's wondering. I'm not dead, just been busy with the 3D world. I haven't even been able to complete Fire Emblem: Birthright yet, noooooo. (Currently on chapter15!) I hope everyone is doing well!

The writing is about on par with your average fan translation. Maybe a bit better? Well, the fruitbat guys were all fan translators and not super spectacular ones at that. "Thankfully" I've grown used to this level of English. The VN actually does seem pretty interesting and this is the type of game that will fly under a lot of people's radar. There's not much fervor for doujin all-ages chuuni games. The biggest problem it will run into is that it's releasing on the same day as Tokyo Babel. Ouch.

Art is definitely gorgeous here. Good eye, Rooke

That sounds like a great idea! In other to be completely fair I've made a list of every single member on this website and numbered them. Next, I've brought up a random number generator to decide who to get a gift for. As it turns out, my name came out! Entirely randomly and fairly. Guess I'll have to buy myself a gift them. Oh, of course I count.! I used a random number generator and I'm a person on the internet. That absolutely makes me a "random person on the internet". Ah, curse my short attention span! I didn't get to read the bolded statement before buying myself a gift. I guess it's too late now. As for those extra years, feel free to have them! I always give to the needy, and you clearly look like you need as many extra years as you can get, at this point. I won't elaborate too much, but I'm mostly referring to how Sekai, to the most part, isn't looking to cater to the Eroge Fanbase at all. They're trying to get the steam crowd, a perfectly valid target, and most of those care not for H-Scenes (and would actually be repulsed by them... probably, I don't really know). This present Fuwa loves their H-Scenes. How dare Sekai put the H-Scenes on the backburner?! How dare they make an All-Ages version for those who prefer one?! In a different topic, how dare they use kickstarter as a method to gauge interest! Those bastards who keep reinvesting their money and then making kickstarters. They must be filthy rich by now, greedy rascals. I'm exaggerating, of course. Even from my point of view I think Sekai's business decisions are not always sound, but I'm wholly against how everyone around here seems to hate on them or their kickstarters. Nobody's managed to convince me they truly are evil incarnate yet. I just think it's too easy convincing me. Every argument I get into I find myself agreeing to the other side's point of view or just saying "Well, that's subjective, so I can't really deny it.". I never get anywhere when I argue. I will keep it in mind that I should maybe think about getting into an argument sometime, although I wouldn't hold my breath. Unlike you, I don't go on the internet in scholarly pursuit of knowledge or enlightenment.

why are you talking about fate route here?

Hello I'm rains. Now that my life has stabilized, I'm looking to refresh my Japanese basics by tutoring one person basic grammar over skype. I will do this for free (of course) though I cannot guarantee that I'm going to be a super good tutor. I have finished tutoring two people awhile back: Nosebleed and Grieviious (Keaton). You can ask them for feedback. Details: I'll be following this book ---- Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication. But I also reference Kanzen Master N4 and Taekim for topics. I will ONLY cover BASIC Japanese grammar. I won't be covering vocabulary, kanji, listening or speaking. The aim is for you to be able to get a good grasp of how Japanese sentences work and what to look for. Overall goal is for you to start being able to understand sentences in a Japanese Visual Novel. I personally want this to only last around 4-6 months (well I just don't want it to drag). I'm mainly looking for beginners and people who are into VNs. I personally learned Japanese to be able to read VNs and I've read them in Japanese, watched animes raw, and played games raw. I want to share the experience around. Requirements: Be passionate and motivated to learn the language. Have skype Know basic English grammar terms like "noun / verb / adjective / adverb / direct object" since I use that to explain stuff. Be able to do skype sessions (of around an hour maybe?) at a minimum of once or twice a week. Be able to coordinate with my schedule. I work full time on Central US time hours, and mostly free at early evenings CST (6-10 pm). You need at least to be able to read hiragana and katakana. Basic kanji knowledge is preferred. Process for selection: I will personally choose you. Either post on this thread or PM me. I mainly want to see what you're planning to do with the knowledge and your plans with the Japanese knowledge. Since we're in a VN forum, I obviously want to see people interested in reading VNs / eroges or translating later on. Add whatever you think is interesting. P.S. For the people who know, I still have my youtube series on hold. I should be getting back to it soon.

This would be very bad for people like me that live in countries where the dollar is expensive, honestly the regional pricing of Steam is almost a bless for me. If I had to buy in dollar the price of Nekopara would be enough to buy Grisaia on Steam, if I had to buy in dollar the price of Grisaia would be enough to buy two copies of Clannad on Steam. With patches the price is significantly low what is already something more affordable.

Yay, you're finally reading Lucy <- would've been a Lucy emote if @Nosebleed made one. I'll race you!!

Ah, sorry, I thought this is a discussion thread, you know, because it's called a "Discussion Thread" and OP said: Didn't know actual arguments are forbidden and only blind worshiping is allowed.

Top 32 Name/Feels Train (PART 2) in Umi Score Match Round 17: As promised, here’s the PART 2 of the Name Train which involves more players using the same center. Some players may not have Snow Halation Rs even after trying and spending tons of Friend Points but still couldn’t get them so they will be using Wonderful Rush Rs instead. As for the Top 4, their centers are SDS Movie Promo Umi and Yume no Tobira Eli, Honoka and Nozomi respectively. (Reasons why they were chosen are very obvious.) That’s not all! Besides changing their name and center, we have also requested them to leave their farewell messages in their profiles. It can either be dedicated to the corresponding μ's member/line they were assigned to OR the μ's members that they like. Do check them out although some of them are still currently updating in progress as everyone is in different time zones. This is currently the longest name train record! Previous Name Trains I’ve coordinated were when /u/cychun87 (Nicocchi) retired and during Nozomi's Birthday. Lots of new event records have been broken so congrats to everyone on their respective achievements! This took me a long time of planning, asking around for suggestions, and then compiling them for players to vote for the best choice and lastly, executing the plan. I’ve encountered several issues along the way and had to find solutions to solve them but I’m glad everything turned out smoothly in the end. We, on behalf of the Love Live! EN Community, hope you will like this farewell gift as there are only a few days left till the Final LIVE! To those who are going, enjoy and have fun! *Holds back tears* The next Name/Feels Train will probably be next year for their 1 Year Anniversary. I would like to thank everyone in the Top 32 (Except Kintolesky, well at least he said beforehand that he wasn't interested to participate so we shall respect his decisions) for their participation and cooperation to make this a huge success! This would not have been possible without them. Name Train Captain/Organiser/Coordinator: Zehel (Me) Quotes: (Suggested by me) 1. Snow Halation Quotes (English Version) 2. Making Dreams Come True Together! 3. Farewell μ’s; We Will Always Remember You In Our Hearts! Song and lyric chosen: Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari (Kanji with their names in it and center sequence according to the Movie) - Suggested by Jazz Special Thanks to the following volunteers/helpers: (Helped with the planning and gave suggestions) 1. Makiss 2. Chishantee 3. Kiddlecorn 4. OTK*Lucina 5. artonico 6. hpulley Credits for the Name Train: (* denotes that it is a tie in event points) 1. Making (SDS Umi Center) - DiCi 2. Dreams (Yume no Tobira Honoka) – PizzaDino 3. Come True (Yume no Tobira Eli) - Time Tame 4. Together! (Yume no Tobira Nozomi) - Coolguy 5. Kintolesky - (Pretend this is a space/black/period) 6. Ahほのかな (Honoka Center) - luckyssl 7. 予感から始まり (Honoka Center) - @Lucina *8. Ah! 希望が (Nozomi Center) - Kotocchi/StreamBIG *9. 星空駆けて (Rin Center) - Zehel 10. 花を咲かせる (Hanayo Center) - artonico 11. にっこり笑顔は (Nico Center) - piapiabird *12. 小鳥の翼がついに (Kotori Center) - Annamarie *13. 大きくなって (Kotori Center) - hpulley *14. 遠くへと広がる (Umi Center) - baconator25 *15. 海の色暖かく (Umi Center) - Byaaakuren 16. 夢の中で描いた (Eli Center) - ♡MOMOCHAN♡ (Does not have Snow Halation R) 17. 絵のようなんだ (Eli Center) Maidable 18. 切なくて時を (Maki Center) - otakunopodcast 19. まきもどしてみるかい (Maki Center) - Pusheen 20. いまが最高! (Honoka Center) – umibrow (Does not have Snow Halation R) 21. Farewell - MVI_μ's 22. μ's, - ★Vanille★ 23. We - Celestia 24. Will - /u/arqeic 25. Always - tama@真姫推し 26. Remember - YiffMeUmi 27. You - Ninja 28. In - Kotolinsky 29. Our - μ'6-Chiaya 30. Hearts. - sonodank 31. μ'sic - OTK♡Samiha 32. Forever! - Vycksta

Well the tag was only created 8 months ago so it is probably missing from some titles But mostly all the VNs are focused on romance because #endlessmoeges

Welcome back to the forums! Hope you're enjoying your stay! Always nice to see old members coming back rather than leaving~ Have a moe:

hehehe you said it solidbatman

Well, judging by Japaneses VN sales rankings like Getchu, the Japanese are certainly the last ones that should blame anyone else for wanting moeges...

If my book isnt at least 200 pages long, it isnt a book. Its just a short story. Get over yourself. Dovac is calling all the people fussing about 18+ releases out, saying if you want them, show us. Just from what I hear, 18+ releases, that are not nukige, have been selling like absolute shit, not just from Denpasoft, but also from Mangagamer. The market is louder than the money it spends. I guarantee you, a steam release of a VN will sell better than the 18+ version. Because people will find another excuse, and another excuse, and another excuse to not buy the VN. As for Grisaia, with the sheer amount of meddling that Frontwing has been doing, it would not shock me to see that be a situation out of their hands, and if not, a separate release is likely due to them using two different labels for their All-ages and 18+ stuff. Unfortunate, but understandable as they want to protect the money wing of their operation, Sekai Project, from the "throwing scraps to the muh porn" crowd wing of their operation. Also, he hasn't announced the 18+ stuff. Expect to see it later in the summer. The stuff he tweeted is like, 3 days old, and con season is just getting started.

I love how Raymond asks us to prove AO can be more profitable while releasing AO versions of their VNs several months after the AA versions. Sounds hypocrtical to me. Release them on the same damn day and let's find out who win. We are not counting Nekopara. No offense to fans of the series but I don't even consider it to be a visual novel. If a VN is less than 10 hours long I personally don't even consider it to be a visual novel. At best it's a visual short story. Release Grisaia no Meikyuu AA and AO versions on the same day. Have there be no patch to add AO content to the AA version so people have to choose to buy 1 or the other. Advertise them equally and don't try to hide the existence of the AO version. Do this and we'll see which one turns out to be more profitable. Raymond also mentions they have some AO only titles in the wings but VNDB doesn't show any of them. Anyone know what they are? Are they real Visual Novels(not over 5 years old), crappy low budget Nukiges, Visual Short Stories, or even worse OELVNs?

Umineko is magnificent. Play it. It's longer than 150 hours but there's nothing, nothing quite like it. It's unique.

Very nice read I never really got into MMORPGs myself, a large part being the time you have to put into them and the discouragingly large overworlds nd landscapes. Pantheon does seem like a nice twist on the formula, although I most likely won't enjoy it.

• Hana to Hebi (seriously now read this one faggots, watch the movie, or go for its book) • Shin Mikagura Tanteidan (setting harmonizes pretty well with its partly rough ero-content - its been a pleasure) • Kisaku/Shuusaku (raw, ugly & incredibly erotic) • Fraternite (feeling of serenity after letting oneself go to the fullest, non wasting a thought on what´s to come, btw reaching the point of joyous, selfcentered nihilism) • Yabai! (pretty much self explainationary) • Virgin Load (voiced protag, hillarious dialogues & (brutally good looking) heroines getting verbally ridiculed, btw alittle slapped into shape to ones own liking) • Almost any other of amagasas titles (non generic & awesome art, content that´s non restricted by the laws of mainstreamity, lovely & charismatic cast, whores. lots of. basically every women is one due to them being born a female, simple as that) • Kusarihime Euthanasia (nothing better than the moment ones soul starts resonating with nothingness, caused by various elements of grave misfortune/wrongdoings) • Atlach Nacha (everything. lost gallons of bodyfluids. seriously) edit: as for manga i could recommend Hiiro no Koku.

I don't think that's necessarily true, especially in the eroge market. Eroge developers don't get into the business to get rich, and the best writers, voice actors, and artists could likely make more money in other industries. They generally stick around because of love for the craft, their colleagues, or their fans. Nitroplus didn't nitpick every single detail of Demonbane's English release out of desire for profit. No doubt such attention to detail is extremely cost-inefficient. No, they have a proud brand image and very high standards that they hold themselves and their partners to. In a word: they're professionals. A self-respecting eroge company doesn't cut content simply because it's convenient. They consider their mission, their goals for overseas release, and the audience they wish to appeal to. They consider how to appeal to the widest audience--and that usually means having a non-adult version to market at the sea of casual users on Steam, and an adult version to serve the core fanbase. In addition, there's a difference between a low-risk, short-term revenue venture and a dedicated effort to build relationships and cultivate good will over the long haul. Ditching your core fans out of expedience is usually a poor way to establish a lasting foothold in a new market.

More like they couldn't translate all the rape scenes because they didn't want any backlash.

Same here master, good and rich stories are so good

I think the silent majority never even realizes that content was cut in the first place. They're not given the chance to react. Raising awareness was half the reason for my project to document censored eroge.

Steam releases make more money. Until the companies are proven otherwise buy everyone buying 18+ only, they will release all ages versions on steam. Plain and simple. I'm confident its a case of a silent majority that doesn't care about ero content being cut with the vocal minority being the ones that do.

You really should re-edit the english lines, there are some major flaws that could throw off some people from reading it.

I think what makes an OST amazing is what is going on during the scene, so the story adds a background to the music and that's why we get so attached to it. It makes us relive those feels. Edit: I just realized your VNDB list. It seems you already played some of these.. Little Busters!: G-senjou No Maou has some epic memorable music too: Sharin No Kuni:

Being on the same group as Palas and Zalor, do I really deserve such honor? Happy Easter mate.

Aye. A year of equal devastation and opportunity. As the world was recovering from the apocalypse the year before, those with the prowess to lurk without mercy got to read lots of posts while the weak were busy getting drunk and making Harlem Shake videos.

Thank you guys for the interest. I have chosen Kawasumi. I will potentially keep doing this in the future if everything goes well.

omg, that's so true, what the hell happened to our favorite Rain x Cyr Cyr last log was Feb 23, RIP, prob busy w. the 3D world and Rains is actually still active 'round the forums, so it just means he ditched this thread too-cool-4-you-scrubs style

^ Pretty much. Thing is: I don't post a lot, I'll give you that. When I do it's mostly silly stuff or in one of the chatter threads, but mostly because I don't really have anything to contribute to one of the core sub-forums or threads. I don't develop VNs (yet), and I've read pretty much everything I wanted to read (which is not a whole lot), so there's nothing for me to talk about. I like spending time with the community members, and opt not to moderate too heavily, because that's what the moderators are there for, right? Wrong. If I went around swinging the ban-hammer I might as well call it Lucille (props to whoever gets the reference), because thing's turn bad, people used to and feel entitled to the fluffiness that is the normal moderation flow; You can get away with pretty much anything, as long as you don't bitch about it and tone it down. That's when I like to make an appearance, to remind each and one of us that some things are not okay, and while the moderating team is tripping over their own feet trying to figure out how to go about a particular issue without offending anyone, I just do. I'm here to remind people that there are other, very real people sitting in front of their computers, that you think you can talk down and feel bad about whatever happened to make you so angry that you'd probably think twice about in your everyday life to throw a tantrum like that. People would call that out, and rightfully so. I'm the priviledge check that comes ringing bells, and reminds people that some things are just not okay, and shouldn't be tolerated. When I do, things have usually gone way past sour already, so lately I've been trying to keep an eye on a few things, topics and certain people. Which is not favoritism or persecution, but just the plain reality: Some people will get people on edge, no matter what they do. I'm definitely one of them, which is why I tend to stay in the background. We're here thanks to the creators and the people who built this site, and I think it's disrespectful to feel entitled about any of it - without them, nothing would be here. Without interested and motivated people we'd probably still be torrenting VNs left and right, instead of seeing some actual quality being put out, both from established companies and indie groups. I'm fighting for them, and I think everyone who's dealt with me in the past can confirm that I do so consistently - heck, I even fought my then-girlfriend back in the day when shit hit the fan over one of the very, very rare bans, that I of all people thought was uncalled for. Anyways, and that's why I wanted bitfatround0 to back off of OriginalRen: The guy's fighting the good fight, no matter what happened to any of the files. Back off, and leave the guy be, enjoy your time on these forums or reddit, but god damn people, stop it with the entitlement. I know it's rough waiting on something you're really interested in, but it's not your place to bitch about any or no progress being made, unless it's your own project, and then you're in charge, so take matters into your own two hands. With that said, peace.

NP. Hahaha, trying to remember all this from memory since it's been a month since I last played the game.

other osts i like ^My ringtone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrmHUmxyBU ^epic