AaronIsCrunchy

Somewhere along the line congratulations are in order?
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Congratulations!

MISSION COMPLETE FUCK YESSSS
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Confession: I find @Kiriririri's most recent avatar to be way too cute.

Thank you, @Decay, this is awesome.
 
The first The War on Drugs song you linked grabbed me immediately, so that got picked up.
Listened to a couple Strand of Oaks songs, including the first one you linked, but it didn't quite click yet. Might come back to it later.
EL VY was an immediate fit. I especially love the instrumentation and the production, I think? Production these days often makes it hard to hear distinct instruments through the wall of sound, but everything's incredibly distinct in the song you linked, which gives it a really unique sound. And the instrumentation is great, so it really benefits from it. I listened to the same song twice
Mikal Cronin - good. Nothing specific to say, but I liked it.
Father John Misty - First two songs on the album sound fine, but the lyrics are just a bit weird for me. I enjoyed the third song on the album, but the fourth one completely threw me out of that mood again. I may be too sincere a person to enjoy this.
I've listened to a fair bit of Modest Mouse before, and it's very hit-and-miss for me. Good News For People Who Love Bad News is by far my favorite album that I've listened to (I haven't heard the album you linked, yet), but even on that album I really enjoy only about half the songs ("Ocean Breathes Salty", "Float On", "The Good Times Are Killing Me"); some of the songs, like "This Devil's Workday", I find pretty grating. They definitely do meet the criterion of having distinctive vocals. I'll give that newer album a listen.
Spoon was one of those bands I kept meaning to listen to and never got around to. The song you linked is great; I grabbed the album.
Noise rock is somewhat relevant to my interests, actually - when I'm properly prepared for it, Sonic Youth's album Dirty does a lot for me. But I haven't found much else in this arena that I liked (tried Dinosaur Jr., couldn't get into it even though I like their distinctive guitar tone a lot; even other Sonic Youth albums around the same time, like Sister and Daydream Nation, don't appeal to me much). At any rate, I didn't really like "LIFE" that much, but I tried the album from the start, and I liked "STONEFIST", so I'll pick this up too.
Grimes: this kills.
Neon Indian - weird. But good.
Titus Andronicus - not crazy about his voice, but the guitars remind me of what I like about both Idlewild and Hüsker Dü, and the songwriting especially is very Hüsker Dü-like, which is high praise from me... until it turns into Irish pub music, but that's all right too.
Surf - listened to the first two songs. Amazing. This is definitely happening.
Jamie xx - I agree with the assessment of it being incredibly listenable.
 
I think I'm spent, after responding to this post for the last couple hours. I'll get back to your honorable mentions and the subsequent responses later today or tomorrow. Incidentally, because of this thread I've probably listened to more YouTube ads in the last 24 hours than in the entire previous month.

And my FaceHugger suggestion is looking better by the day :3

This one involves two of my friends and I. How we did it is we lured one of my friends out of the house for a while by telling him that they would buy some games since the other had some credit. Now the one friend who lured him out thought that we would egg the guys house while they were gone but I decided to get them both. I syphoned some gas from a few cars along the street, put the gas all over the house, and set it on fire. Oh the look on their faces when they came back. Priceless. Here's a pic of the house afterwards.
 

I made Fuwanovel more fabulous.

I spent > an hour listening to all the stuff in this thread  and responding (and actually even still I'm not quite done listening yet...). So, thanks, everybody! This is already a huge success as far as I'm concerned, but if anybody's got more, keep em coming!
Nah, Huey Lewis is just good 80s music. Good retro 80s music is Chromeo:
 
I do recall hearing something I liked from Rise Against before - probably in Rock Band? Let's see... yeah, I really liked "Give It All" in Rock Band 2. And I like this song, too - so, thanks, I'll pick up an album!
Generally speaking, I do like some metal, though it's not my main thing - in terms of older stuff, I like Megadeth somewhat, but Metallica I'm not too fond of. More recently, I liked Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil album, especially Sidewinder (dat acoustic solo):
 
Random, but interesting. Their flavor of synthpop reminds me a lot of Leitbur, who seems to be on the road to legitimately making it as a band now, but who I only know of because of their contributions to the OCRemix FFVI album a few years ago (which I rather liked), which happened before they'd put out any kind of album:
 
REM is one of my very favorites , so you just went up a notch in my personal Fuwanovel user rankings (no, they don't actually exist) for bringing them up right away . I love Document and Murmur, especially.
Hard-Fi, I liked a lot; although the band sounds completely different, the singer's voice reminds me quite a bit of Bloc Party's (though it really might just be the accent...).
Tried Blackmore Night and ... didn't like it.
Will listen to the rest of your suggestions shortly.
Picked one at random on youtube, since it seems the link you provided is blocked for the US because record companies suck. The one I picked was "The Girl In Byakkoya", which was weird, but interesting. I'm not sure yet if I like it or not - usually, for me, whatever the topic, the "not sure if want" reaction means that if I get used to it I'll like it a lot, so I'll keep listening.
Unfortunately, it seems Ben Howard's voice isn't my favorite, but it turns out I love his songs and the way he sings, so I'll keep listening until I get to like the timbre as well. At any rate, he went straight to the top of my list of stuff to pick up. Thank you!
Listened to "You". Sold.
Pop-punk is 100% ok by me, generally speaking - I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoy all four Fall Out Boy albums I've heard (and I didn't realize they had an album last year, or I would've picked that up too). I listened to "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" and it didn't really click, though, so I'll probably pass on this band for now, unless you have a song to point me at that might grab me more.
Now that works for me.
It turns out you like metal but don't realize that it's metal - @FruitsPunchSamurai can probably offer you some good pointers
Actually, I hadn't heard them before, but Xandria's singer does have a crazy voice that I really like, so I'll give that some more time to see if I can get myself to enjoy the instrumentation more and enjoy it. Orchestra-backed metal usually sounds a little too cheesy for me, but hey, I actually like Northern Kings, so nothing is impossible.
 

Oh, I love the scent of my wife's hair. But then, you know, she sort of signed up for it when she said the vows.

If you like Sufjan Stevens and that sort of thing, I cannot recommend Ben Howard enough, particularly his latest album. Keaton Henson too. If you haven't heard them already, that is...
I also recommend Brand New if you're not familiar, they're kinda pop-punk but they have a real emotional draw (The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is my favourite). If you like them, then check Captain We're Sinking's 'The Future Is Cancelled'.
 
There are several, in fact. Rate Your Music is probably the best one as it's an utterly comprehensive library - down to some really obscure stuff. I use Sputnikmusic cos I'm a fairly active member of the community there, but RYM is pretty much objectively better if you're looking at music cataloguing.

I tried to watch the stream but my connection is far too bad for it to be worthwhile
However, I managed to catch a few horribly jerky moments of what I think was Alice being drawn, so it's cool to see where that fits into the cover art! Love the work done on the dress in particular.

The team has been very, very busy lately, both with the game and life situations.  We do apologize for not updating this thread lately.  Though we do have good news!  Our sprite artist has been working on remaking our sprites and recently we've re-introduced three of them on our social media pages: Emil, Harlan, and Rory.

Exactly
Degenerates, spoiling the pristine moral integrity of Fuwanovel!
Confession: I thought giving someone a 'mention' using the @ symbol was easy. 3 tries later, and I think I'm just gonna give up

>morals
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Exactly
Degenerates, spoiling the pristine moral integrity of Fuwanovel!
Confession: I thought giving someone a 'mention' using the @ symbol was easy. 3 tries later, and I think I'm just gonna give up

Exactly
Degenerates, spoiling the pristine moral integrity of Fuwanovel!
Confession: I thought giving someone a 'mention' using the @ symbol was easy. 3 tries later, and I think I'm just gonna give up

@AaronIsCrunchy Pls

It's been over two years now since I played Katawa Shoujo last, but Wiosna still hits me in the loolies:
Also, Scab from the Grisaia soundtrack I find is particularly effective (notably in Amane's 'cutaway' section). Unfortunately this rip sounds like total arse, but it's the only one I could find:
 

Sometimes that's all you need

Hello everyone at Fuwanovel! 
Just sharing my current project since it might interest you guys and gals; an open-source C++ VN engine and a port of Snow Sakura to go with it! 
It's not going to be the world's best VN engine, but it's completely open-source so anyone can contribute/modify it as they see fit!
The Snow Sakura port can be watched from the Github page: https://github.com/Slynchy/SnowSakuraCPP/
The engine itself can be watched from the Github page: https://github.com/Slynchy/March22/
 
 
And here's a video showing its basic VN capabilities, since a picture tells a thousand words!
I'd also like to shoehorn in a thank you to Kelebek1 for helping decompile the Snow Sakura scripts into a more usable format, and frc_ for giving some tips to improve the code  
If you also have anything to contribute- be it feedback, criticism, code, etc.- then please use Github or post here  I welcome it!

From the manga I've read, a lot of it seems to be the infamous black line, or the 'region' is totally whited out. I doubt that the latter would work particularly well in the glorious technicolour of visual novels, so blacklining that shit would have been what I've have said. Yours is definitely a better idea though.
As for dick drawing (something I'm so pleased I've been able to say on a forum ) and censorship... It's weird, but whenever I see an uncensored scene in a VN nowadays, it normally features me hiding behind a chair and throwing gifts of appeasement to the noonie goods is quite jarring, to be honest. It sounds daft, but for myself the censorship is an important part of the experience.

Can't go wrong with Tsumiki
8/10

In tanks and doujinshi the censorship is different, that's where you'll find all the black bars and white outs (in digital manga, mosaics are more common and are sometimes even applied over the already existing black bars) but magazines like Comic LO implement the type of censorship i'm talking about.
As far as nukige goes, what I think works best is when the genitals are selected carefully and the mosaics are only applied to the necessary areas and don't overflow into the background, this way you can still make out the shape and it doesn't feel too intrusive. It also depends on the mosaic size, if they're too big it looks like shit regardless.

Confession:The emote I use the most most likely is
I am a very sad existence, I know