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It was probably going to be about a 10 dollar difference. And considering you can download the CG gallery from the net for FREE, it’s a pretty decent deal. Yep, the CG gallery and sound mode aren’t worth 10 bucks, and that’s what made the cheap deal a GOOD deal. It wasn’t the deluxe version being ramped up in price, but rather the developers offering a cheaper version at a steal. Eliminating the cheap option wouldn’t reduce the price of the deluxe (NORMAL) version, that’s what people couldn’t wrap their thick heads around. Eliminating the cheap option would just force people to buy the more expensive option. People were crying out about paying extra for content already in the game. Now it’s revealed they were never being asked to pay extra at all. It was a baseless assumption. The developers were arbitrarily making a cheaper version of the game by locking content so they could bring in new customers. That’s a standard practice in the software world. The idea of campaigning on ‘precedent’ is a young person’s crusade, I judge on what’s before me. It may even push the price up. Because they can no longer count on dragging in casual consumers (outside the VN landscape) at a reduced price, they may have contemplated putting up the price of the normal version to compensate for the lower sale numbers. See, this is why we can't have nice things. Also the situation is absolutely delicious. To complain about the cheap version locking existing content, then when it's eradicated for people to complain about the price, it's all too much. I love this. I need more popcorn!

And I need you guys to help me judge the first chapter . Now hold on a second .Before you see this as a pain in the ass to do and skip it for something more fun ,I'm begging you here .I'm not asking for any comprehensive summary of how you found it .If i can't get your attention in the first few paragraphs then that's my fault .If you do read it to the end just tell me what you like/dislike most . Now without further ado...... Oh the name of the book is :The Modern Day Legend Of Gideon . I've also posted it on scribd so here you go https://www.scribd.com/document/330163020/The-Modern-Day-Legend-of-Gideon-6 .It goes all the way to chapter 6.

If you want me to make you a signature by any chance fill out this form: Size: if you don't have one tell me a shape you liked it to be like or for me to choose. Render: If you don't have one say a character Background: don't have it say a scenary or if you don't want a background tell me and I will do what I did with the signature under and used special effects V Text: If you don't want any leave it blank. Font: you can pick any from dafont.com or simply specify a style I am doing this to practice My new signature :3 Accidentally made the size too big since I didn't know users don't get the same size as mods so here is another version with a border I didn't decide to use:

That's the biggest BS ever, being called a derailer by the biggest one out there Now onto the main topic, welcome to Fuwa I hope you have a great time here. It's nice to mee you and hope to see you around.

You have consistently failed to understand what I am trying to say. I don't want to argue about this. I only want the author to improve. So I'll explain it once more for you and never again. I am not advocating longwinded explanations and introductions out of nowhere. I am not advocating that every term be thoroughly explained immediately after it is used. I am merely saying that dumping six different names and/or terms on the reader in the same paragraph and not giving any auxiliary information is bad exposition. But I've probably already antagonized you to the point where you won't listen to me anymore, so here's a video explaining the concept of the dreaded infodump for me: (skip to 5:40)

You forgot @mitchhamilton as well. He derails threads a lot as well. Also, if anybody has any right to call us out on it, it's shouldn't be a spamper like you. Back in topic, welcome to the forums. I hope to see you around.

Thanks, guys. My life is still kind of a mess, but I'm getting there. The medication I'm taking for anxiety is having an effect so far, but I still have nervous breakdowns on occasion. I'm watching anime again and thinking about dropping Runescape for another year till I get things together. I can't ever seem to get anything done when I'm gaming competitively.

I use to think the way you do, but it makes zero sense from a business prospective. The only vns that are guaranteed to have a following in the west are obviously the ones that are already translated. Do you honestly think that a relatively unknown vn would make the same money as MuvLuv or Grisaia on kickstarter? Granted many would probably succeed, but why take that risk when you have a guaranteed payday with a larger title. There are obviously some other factors that you should consider the successes of these kickstarters can influence what future projects are localized. VN companies may use them to gauge the level of interest the west has for visual novels in general. For example, due to the massive success of the MuvLuv kickstarter it has been strongly hinted that other titles such as Schwarzesmarken will be localized in the future.

I would want to say yes... but definitely not I'm still hiding the fact that I'm playing these Chinese porn cartoons from everyone, except for one of my friends Maybe one day

The day I see some VN Club at some skoo is the day Tay reveals himself to be Okami.

*facepalms internally and externally* I'm pretty sure that's the worst thing you could have done...

Can confirm anime conventions are a decent place to talk about VNs, although even there most of the people won't know what you're talking about, or often will have certain preconceptions about "porn games". Additionally, MangaGamer representatives, if present on the show floor, will do their best to reinforce the aforementioned preconceptions.

Confession: I am still alive but I have like 18 days left for exams which are 23 days long..... And I wanted to say that I got a gf huehuehuehue On a more serious note: it felt really sad when I wanted to check this thread over and over again and didn't have time to even open fuwa in my usual time aka before I sleep ;_; With time, I ended up just barely finishing what I have to do then collapse from fatigue. I hope you guys are doing okay ^^

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Nice to finally talk to you all! I'm ready to have a bad time... whoops, sorry, habit of mine... I'm ready to have a good time in this community! So, I've been a fan of japanese stuff for what, about 3 years now? I'm always thorough with my hobbies, so I've spent about 2 of those years trying to learn japanese like crazy I think I'm pretty average now? I can read moeges without ITH help, though I avoid them because I get bored pretty easily if there's no thrill. My first VN was Umineko, and it is still one of my favorites, tied with Totono. And I'm currently reading Oretsuba. LN is still my favorite format, though. I'm currently reading the 8th volume of パパ聞き. And the japanese stuff is just one of my maany interests. I'm also a gamer, since I was a little chubby prick. I also watch many Western TV series, e.g. TWD, The Big Bang Theory, PLL (little sister introduced this to me, most of the fanbase is composed of teenage girls, but it's pretty good.) And if you couldn't tell already, I'm a huuuuuge sucker for Undertale! Now, I will spare you of my absolute love story for this game, I'm sure you've got better things to do That's about it, I guess? I wanted to say more stuff, but I forgot what I wanted to put in. Anyway, I hope I can get along with everyone, and I hope it doesn't take me too long to absorb all the inside jokes...

DISCLAIMER: All that I mention represent my views mixed with basic scientific theories floating around. To 'Love', and to be 'In Love' I believe these two to be different. One does not necessarily love those they are in love with, and one is not necessarily in love with those they love. Sound confusing? Allow me to elaborate. To make this as clear as possible, let's take "romantic feelings" out of the equation. Would you say you love your parents? Or that you are in love with them? Maybe both expressions work for you? The way I see it, one (generally) loves their family, yet is not in love of them. To be in love with someone is the sort of feeling you have towards a crush, that almost irrational slight obsession and redirection of your thoughts in their general direction. Perhaps your heart will beat faster, perhaps you will become slightly euphoric, perhaps you'll get embarrassed; all just by being near the person in question. What I've just described most certainly does not apply towards your parents (unless you're into some really weird nukige). But you still love them, right? You act kind towards them, you are affectionate with them, you take their presence for granted and would sacrifice immensely for their sake. Mayhap, this even applies to your friends? Friendship love. You see it all the time in manga, girls loving each other, but not being in love with each other. You care for your friends much like they care for you. Finally, for all you older folk out there, if you're a parent: would you say you love your children, or that you are in love with them? Because if it's the latter, that would make you the worst kind of scum in the eyes of society. Only when it comes to romance do these two things get interwoven together. Love is a complicated mess, which I will now attempt to arbitrarily classify in a way that makes sense to me. All the previously mentioned situations represent love, yet they are different from falling "in love". As you know, or should know, humans are animals, they are living beings whose purpose is to live. All animals, all plants and all living beings have that very same objective, and they evolve and adapt in order to make sure their species continues to live. One important thing about being a living being is our instinctual desire to reproduce. If we didn't reproduce, the species would go extinct - Giant Pandas are the resident experts on the topic. In order to compel the race to reproduce, our body releases various hormones impelling us to do various things. Falling "in love" is one of these. You'll find that often, the person you develop romantic feelings for, is not one that is particularly close to you. This is what I believe being "in love" is. When you develop feelings for a person, which serves as the selfish catalyst that leads to romance. Having fallen in love, we humans do a bunch of silly things involving spending time with our pleasurable partner, which makes us happy (due to the hormones), and containing our sexual desires, which are also stimulated by the hormones. Probably not the most romantic way of looking at it, but "falling in love" is a mere boost towards romantic love, but I do not think it is romantic love itself. On the contrary, trying to resist this "in love" feeling is, quite literally, against our instincts. Thankfully, human beings are, for the most part, able to resist their instincts given that their conditions are favourable. If everyone ended up marrying their first love, society would be rather different than what it is right now. Now then, I keep mentioning "romantic love", as if it weren't influenced by hormones. Really, you can say that just about anything is influenced by hormones and this is no exception. The usual situation will be for one to develop a romantic relationship with the one they fell in love with. In turn, this "in love" boost will eventually die down leaving you only with a person that you are intimate with, that you share your flaws with, that you care for... and your sexual partner. Sex is yet another source of rather pleasurable hormones, and one important for long-lasting relationships. After all, a proper relationship requires sacrifices, and most of us selfish humans wouldn't be all that interested in maintaining a relationship for little reward. This is, of course, another of our instinct's plans. If a couple doesn't stay together and does not reproduce, then the whole "falling in love" business will end up having been useless. All this said, let us surmise: Because of our innate need to reproduce, we fall in love. Falling in love gives us a boost and creates an easy path that will lead to loving someone. Eventually, this boost dies down - at this point, a good couple would love each other as is (or else, divorce. Good lord, today's society...), with the help of sex. The pleasure sex provides creates hormones that increase our affection for our partner and that generally makes us interested in sex, connecting directly to our species' main goal: Children. The way we look at it today, everybody wants to be with those they're in love with, and lose interest when the magic of "falling in love" dies down. I, however, firmly believe that people are able to love even those they are not in love with... provided the circumstances aren't dead set against you. The main example I wanted to tie this uncultured rant to is this relationship I saw in Ao Haru Ride... I'll elucidate you right off the bat: I didn't like Ao Haru Ride as a story. This does not, however, mean that it was bad. In fact, it gave me enough food for thought to write this whole pointless blog post because of it. In Ao Haru Ride, because both our protagonists fail to act on their feelings in a timely manner because "emotions", they, despite loving each other, end up entering a relationship with someone else. Spoilers ahead. Futaba is our main protagonist, and she clearly falls in love with Kou in the first few chapters. This Kou fellow is the main love interest, who is also in love with Futaba, but who, due to circumstances and "emotions", rejects her advances. Seeing this, another boy, called Touma, felt bad for Futaba, and this kickstarted his feelings, leading him to fall in love with her. Eventually, Futaba, seeing Touma's dedication and depictions of love, enters a relationship with him and tries to love him back. Given this scene, Kou, jealous, surpasses his "circumstances" and "emotions" and tries to win Futaba back. Futaba, on the other hand, doesn't want this. She is not aware of Kou's feelings and really wants to love Touma back - something I consider a most earnest and great wish. However, because that's just the way things are, Futaba is unable to love Touma whilst in love with someone else, and she wouldn't stop being in love so long as Kou didn't stop - and he had no intention of stopping. Therefore, Futaba breaks up with Touma and gets together with Kou. Happy end. This entire turn of events depresses me. I dislike when a main character enters a relationship which just wont last. Totally not the kind of stuff I read manga for. I really hate how she spent most of the manga dating someone who is not the main love interest and the one she'll end up with. Yet, it does bring something to the table I really admired, and those were Futaba's attempts at loving Touma back, even when she wasn't in love with him. People these days always seem to think that they should marry someone they're in love with and whatnot - when I'm a fervent believer that anyone is able to romantically love even those they aren't in love with. Still, even still, we're wired in such a way that we're rather likely to fall in love with those we attempt to love, anyway, so it's almost a moot point. I believe that what Futaba tried to achieve is one of the most idealistic, selfless and admirable forms of love - though that's precisely why it doesn't happen often. It is, after all, much more convenient to just love those you are in love with This is why historical romances interest me so. They're about loving the husband or wife that was arranged for you by your family and not by your hormones (who choose based on what amounts to a whim). But then again... what the hell do I know about love?

World of Warships Discussion Thread Anyone here play this? if yes what server? do you have any clan for this forum there or something? I am meaning to start playing it but not sure what server to join XD NA SERVER: FuryTomic - FuryTomic41 EU: Blanc - Akico

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Well, no, they won't spend a ton of money on a "decent marketing campaign" if they can't expect to earn that money back. That would just be stupid. If they could expect to make that money back, then I'm sure they would happily do it, who doesn't like more money? But are you suggesting that they should just throw money in the garbage because they can? I'm sure the backers would like it more if they spent that money on something more tangible, or at least not on a potential boondoggle like a marketing campaign. They'll probably pay for a few banners ads here and there and produce a promotional trailer or two. I'm not sure how much more you're expecting. Although I get the feeling that you are underestimating the costs of literally everything involved here. Reward fulfillment is surprisingly expensive. This is the one thing that shocks most indie devs who use kickstarter. They plan out and budget for reward fulfillment and then suddenly it's literally twice as much as they expect and is the biggest cost in their entire KS. I have seen this happen enough times to be convinced that most of that extra $400k will actually be spent on reward fulfillment and they won't have much left over at all. They also upped the scale of retranslation considerably from when they originally budgeted the kickstarter, increasing their localization costs by a large amount. Before, you get the sense that it was just going to be a dude or two breezing through the scripts before giving them the okay, and now it's a very extensive process involving many people.

That was you ustreaming them? Thank you, it's really nice to actually be able to watch them instead of just reading summaries.

We will be fine if you won't be like a Undertale fan like ''ALDKASKLJFDKLDFJ UNDERTALE HOW CUD U SAY IS BAD BITTCH BITCH FUCK FUCK FUCK U KILL URSELF''

Hello Sanzy! It's always good seeing new faces around here, since this community is pretty niche. I'm actually a fan of undertale too (not as much as you, though) and I remember that in order to beat Sans I spent more than 6 hours in front of the screen for two days ragequitting the game several times. Let me ask you a question, since I do it a lot: Are you interested in translating or being part of the Fan Translation community in the future? Anyways, nice to meet you and see ya around. Oh, and have this picture I just found, its badass.

Well, if all goes well I'll post videos of the panels like I did last year. Hope you can handle my shaky camera skills.

HOLY FUCK HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING FUCK I'M THE FIRST IN THE TERM FOR ENGLISH IN THE SECOND SEMESTED I DID IT I ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING IN ACADEMICS

Come to mine there is yuri waiting for you choose the ghost side I could make one in my fapanese uni but too lazy + sickness so welp More seriously, it depend of the importance of the VN "market" (which isn't really a market outside Japan but I used "" so it's okay, right? ). Also I think it's the other way around, given few enlighted human found the worth in VNs manage to create a solid group/association, sooner or later it will draw attention and other human may recive the enlightenment, and once they grow enough a new group as solid as the first will be born, which in turn will enlight other human, spreading the VNs teaching faster and faster, always faster, never stopping, never ending, always growing, like a snowball rolling down a bottomless snowy pit. Also to answer the question it seems that there is one here, in France (namely KawaSoft)

Welcome aboard SS Fuwanovel! You should totally swing by the chat sometime, where we chat about bullshit, ded chat, and occasionally actually talk about visual novels. I've had Pretty Little Liars recommended to me before, but I'm waaaaaaay too lazy to catch up on it. (Too lazy to watch TV. This world, eh.)

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too! Yay, thread derailers! I can finally use this: And thanks for the pic! I tend to like lolis more than plot stuff. Hi, nice to meet you! Hmm, not yet, I keep my backlogs on .txt files like a true noob I might make one someday! Nice to meet you, see you around! Nice to meet you, see you around!

Another new user here, so here's another cliche word "Welcome to Fuwanovel, and hope you enjoy your stay here". For inside joke, I think you'll probably knew about salt thing in short time if you keep browsing here. I didn't watch many western TV series though, but I knew Umineko VN at least. Also hope we could get along here too.

Welcome! Hope to see you around. Do you have a VNDB and/or a MAL page to link to your profile?

You'll get used to the inside jokes soon enough Just keep calm and I don't derail threads, that's all on you three I also like the Big Bang Theory, by the by

Hey, welcome! Nice to meet you! Hmm, you'll have to deal with some inside jokes from time to time. Look out for @VirginSmasher, @DarkZedge and @Arcadeotic. They tend to derail threads, completely without my influence. Erhem. Anyways, here have a picture of the best girl:

True, they're all adaptations of Stephen King novels I hope cos otherwise I look a righ tit Next person likes the smell of lavender.

quite easy, it is really straightforward

why would you even ask, of course you should read it.

表れ is like a manifestation, a symptom in which a normally hidden property shows itself. 「あっ、ほんとだ！　なに、親しみの表れってやつ？」 Ah, you're right! Would you call that, a sign of their closeness?

This is like "There's no such thing as paper."/"There's no way there'd be something like paper." The なんか is strengthening the statement compared to かみがない Same here While grammatically the たりする does mean "do things like this and that", when people use it in the negative, especially with just a single action, it's main function is as a strengthener: "I won't do something like sell myself" (note the strong, emotional tone) For the pun maybe you could go: "Paper, it doesn't exist." (God, he doesn't exist.) Nowhere. Basically like a TL note without actually saying "TL note" Not really related, but man what's with the forums having huge spacing between lines?

Is it the Nep invasion all over again? The avatar's still cute though, 7.5/10

Happy Birthday, @john 'mr. customer' smith! I hope you have a great day. I love your name, btw.

If things go according to Clannad, you'll end up happily ever after with her twin sister.

Tay, or should I say Aaeru, or should I say SolidBatman, or should I say Nayleen, or should I say Okami ... that Tay? Wow, I wouldn't be surprised if he's half the forum in disguise at this rate ...

Well, TI 2016 battle pass is out.... http://www.dota2.com/international/battlepass Look at all of these Hats..... I have to say the terrain is gorgeous looking though. Especially the Immortal Gardens. My eyes are very pleased....

Happy birthday @john 'mr. customer' smith, I've seen you a couple of times in chat and another couple in threads, but I can tell you're a nice guy. Have a nice day

Those are commonly refered to as ukagaka, or desktop agents. You can read more about them here. I guess SSP is still the most popular engine out there.

Heh, I have something slightly similar now I think about it. I measure the duration of some events in 'Shreks', Shrek being a 90 minute film (more or less). I have been known to describe exam lengths as '1 and a third Shreks'.

you dont get to decide what is art and whats not.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always associated the word trick with a colored oval. Very inexplicable.

From what I've seen, you can either do a TL note or make up your own pun :). For the lines at the bottom, it goes along the lines of : Because I value myself, I won't sell myself out for the sake of the world. Also, instead of saying I, myself, am valuable. I would say I value myself.

Guys, pls, I am being serious.

I already posted this over in the "Recent (Japanese) stuff you bought" thread, but here's my modest VN collection: Most of that is probably unreadable, and I'm way too lazy to take a bunch of close-up pictures, so here's the legend for the map: (top row, left to right) G-Senjou KonoSora Swan Song (hidden by camera angle) F/SN + F/HA Cross Channel MajiKoi Kanon Air Little Busters! Rewrite Angel Beats! 1st Beat first 3 Steampunk Series Symphonic Rain HoshiMemo Complete KoiChoco Grisaia (Sekai Project release collector's box - so it only has Fruit of Grisaia, at the moment) Ever17 White Album 2 Clannad (second row, left to right) Steins;Gate OST Grisaia OST Clannad OST Kanon OST Million Star single from Angel Beats! 1st Beat F/SN OST Comyu OST Symphonic Rain "Rainbow" vocal album To Heart 2 Comyu Like Derg, a fair number of my VN purchases are digital.

Happy Birthday @Monmon and @hsmsful Haven't talked to both of you that much, but hey, whatever Congratz