Nyx

The game doesn't normally work with Windows 8 (or 8.1 for that matter). 
 
A fix has been posted on this forum before though (in a thread):
 
Link for the fixed .exe
 
Credit to Luch and Dragonclaw.
 
On an unrelated note, I think this fix might have been the reason I came across this forum...

Adding to this for any future peeps, the Fuwa version of Ever17 should contain both the normal EXE and the 8.1 EXE.

So if you're using Windows 8 or 8.1, just use the ever17PC_Win8.1.exe



I spent the longest time ever trying to get Ever17 to work during my noob days cuz of not noticing this.

Vanilla being Vanilla  

And then there's Miyako being Miyako, great as always as well  

Kokoro in normal clothes

She's always cute as fuck though.

TheSw1tcher aka Super Best Friends Play.

The Zaibatsu! 

TheSw1tcher aka Super Best Friends Play.

So we all know there's multiple ways to help us read Japanese VNs by now. All Japanese VNs have text you can grab and display, which makes them an easy target for practicing reading. There's one downside though, visual novels are typically incredibly long, especially if you are a beginner (yes, even the shorter ones can take a while to read if you're inexperienced). I always thought this downside affected lots of people that wanted to practice reading but didn't have the time/energy to read through an entire VN in Japanese to start with.
However, other mediums like manga and LNs are much more difficult due to requiring you to either constantly look at a dictionary or just know all those kanji from memory (with the exception of manga that have furigana, but those are usually aimed at younger audiences and might not be the most interesting). It felt unfair that such fun media couldn't be used as easily to study Japanese.
Well luckily yesterday I was talking to a friend on discord and fanboying over the Monogatari Series with them and they ended up showing me a few tools they used to read LNs, and after that I myself looked up for ways to read manga in Japanese, and thus we come to this thread in which I'm hoping to share something useful with those of you who wish to read these mediums as a way to practice Japanese.
Note: If you know any other/better software, please by all means share it!
Kanjitomo
Kanjitomo is an incredibly useful software to read manga on your computer. It detects kanji/words by simply hovering over them with your mouse. But not only that, it gives you the reading/meaning of those words/kanji. And lastly, if it fails to show the correct kanji, it shows you a list with similar looking kanji for you to browse, it also lets you edit the individual kanji contained in the word in case it guessed the 2nd or 3rd characters wrong, thus always letting you pick which is the right one.
Some screenshots: 


Advantages:
Easy word lookup Very customizeable Let's you actually import images and scroll through multiple images in a single folder. Also supports Chinese Disadvantages
Can get laggy sometimes (mostly on startup) The zoom feature can get somewhat annoying to control Although it lets you import files, I found the file viewer annoying to use and prefer to just use some other software to open the images Download (requires Java to be installed): http://kanjitomo.net/
JGloss
This software is primarily geared towards books. What it does is it lets you import .txt files (or copy text) and open them in the reader. After that it places furigana on top of all the words, and also creates a glossary of words on the right for you to look up if you need. One feature I really appreciated in it was that it only displays furigana for the first instance of a word only, forcing you to memorize the word after that (although if you want to, you can select the word and it'll look it up for you regardless).
Now you might be thinking, doesn't Translation Aggregator also do something similar? While TA does indeed have these same functions, TA is mostly practical for smaller chunks of text, not whole sections of a book.
Screenshots:

With translation enabled:

Advantages:
Easy way to read large chunks of text with furigana Can use different parsers. Can also place the English translation underneath the words if needed Creates a glossary of words for an easy lookup Pretty costumizeable interface (you can change the font/size/colors/etc.) Also works with German Disadvantages:
Requires you to copy the text or have a text file of the book you're reading, which doesn't always happen. Parsing is not perfect and you may find some weird results at times (but that's the same for any Japanese parser). It seems to have a certain limit of text it can display (I kept running into an error when I imported a lot of text), so you may not be able to import whole books but instead have to copy multiple chunks (they're pretty big chunks though) Download: http://jgloss.sourceforge.net/
Yomichan
Yomichan is an Anki add-on that lets you read text and look up words while simultaneously being able to create an anki deck for the words you want. This tool is incredibly useful if you want to study and read a book at the same time.
Screenshot:

Advantages:
Lets you read entire books at once (you can also copy the text) Very easy to create an anki deck with the words from the text Disadvantages
No furigana on the text itself  Requires you to have the book in a .txt file More useful for studying than actually reading Download (requires anki to be installed): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/934748696
Capture2Text
Capture2Text is a simple but intuitive OCR (Optic Character Recognition) program that lets you select a part of your screen to convert into text. It's useful to grab whole sentences from a specific bubble of text or a sentence from a book and automatically copy them to your clipboard, which you can then use to do whatever. If you're a translator, it makes the script writing process much easier since you don't have to manually input everything.
(I don't really have any screenshots since all the software does is grab and copy text.)
Advantages:
Easy way to grab text from an image and paste it onto your clipboard (or someplace else) Works well in conjunction with other software like TA. Disatvantages:
The recognition can fail pretty hard depending on the font used (you can easily end up with scrambled jibberish) Download: http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/
 
I know it's not groundbreaking and it might not even be as appealing as just grabbing text in a VN, but I find manga and LNs very fun and less tiresome to read and so these tools come in really handy for that purpose.
Think of it this way, do you want to start practicing Japanese by reading an entire visual novel with more than a thousand lines from the get go, or would something smaller like a 20 page manga chapter be a little easier for starters? Of course, this doesn't mean you shouldn't try to read visual novels, they're great practice, but I think a lot of people lose themselves when starting off with them and perhaps these tools will help keep the focus on studying and memorizing things a bit more instead of just reading.

How long, or how many days are you listing to this: https://cerx.pw/megumin/
ps: I'm on my 3rd day without a break 

Edit: all stretch goals (900k) reached 70 hours before the end. 1M$ reached 45 hours before the end.
EDIT: Kickstarter link.
 
Base goal of 250k$ reached in 7 hrs.
 
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http://gematsu.com/2015/06/degica-kickstarting-muv-luv-muv-luv-alternative-localization-this-summer
 
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mfw:
 

How many times has fuwanovel gone down and we're not sure what's happening?
Not only that, but we're left with no way to shitpost our memes and spam the forums. Things just can't stay this way.
Well I have come up with the perfect solution for this problem: fuwanovel.rip !
fuwanovel.rip, if it were to exist, would be a tracking website that lets you know if fuwanovel is down.
"Can't you just use sites like this for that purpose already?" well, yes, you can, but fuwanovel.rip is not JUST a tracking website.
Here are the features I believe would truly make fuwanovel.rip something we MUST obtain:
Every time you refresh the page, a random fuwanovel meme image appears. This is to ensure fuwanovel members can get their meme fix even when fuwanovel is down. There will also be a random quote from forums showing up, to remind you of how great fuwanovel is. Post selection will be done with the help of fuwanovel_txt In case there's no sign of fuwanovel being up, there will also be a selection of great videos that will randomly appear so you can be entertained while you wait. More features can be added with the input from our community as well so we can make fuwanovel.rip a second home when fuwanovel.net is down.
Let's not let our memes be dreams, let's make them come true. I'm sure @Tay and @Nayleen can understand how vital the implementation of this idea is.

Third sign up passing by! I am unranked in 1vs1 but my highest rank is Prospect 3 in Doubles.

http://www.fate-sn.com/hf/
 
(Starts breathing in a loud, creepy way. ) Proud fanboy, if it wasn't clear
Still, shame it's 2017 but at least we have a date.

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Forget about that other Fate Stay Night movie, THIS is something to Hype About 
FATE EXTRA ANIME IN 2017!!! 
http://fate-extra-lastencore.com/

I never play more than one VN at once because I want to stay focused on that one VN and finish it before starting the next one.

Hey everyone. For those of you who don't know, I freaking love playing Rocket League, and watching it too. I've been wanting to do this since I bought the game a while back, and seeing more Fuwa people on my friends list playing has given me hope that it might work. I plan to hold a small 1v1 Rocket League Tournament in the near future, and want to gauge interest. Don't worry, I will not be competing in the tournament, but will be live streaming and casting it. The tournament matches will be best of 3 for the first and second round, and best of 5 for the finals. 
Right now, the goal is to get 8 people signed up. If we have more than 8, I will make it work. 6 is the bare minimum I will use to go forward with this. 
If you are interested in taking part, just reply to this thread with your name, and your current Competitive Play rank, so that I can make sure first round match ups are fair. 
 
To see an example of how exciting Rocket League can be, take a look at this video from early competitive play when Cosmic, the clear #1 team in NA was upset by Kings of Urban in an MLG tourney 
 

Look at you guys, bonding and what not. Meeting in college like real nerds. How cute.

Well that's an easy one
 

The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of exploring our options in creating an original Fuwanovel mascot character. As promised, here is a thread for people to put their suggestions up for this character. Before we do that though, I'd like to lay down a few ground rules, and note a few things to make this as painless as possible. 
It is a Fuwanovel tradition to have a huge argument over things, and take everything personally, along with fighting to the death over minuscule details. To avoid that, let me get this out of the way now: Not everyone is going to like whatever is decided on, and the Fuwanovel staff (mostly Tay I assume), not users will ultimately make the final design decisions. This thread is to merely brain storm and get the process started so I know what to officially propose to Tay in the very near future.  The purpose for the mascot character is marketability. This is not a process to select your fetishes to represent every aspect of Fuwanovel. This is to pick a character type that represents Fuwanovel as a whole. This is bigger than just the forums. The new mascot character will be on all social media accounts, with the logo, along with (pending approval) making appearances on Fuwazette and FuwaReviews. This is a branding, not a time to shove your favorite character build/type onto everyone else. The character design will ultimately be a design that can proudly represent Fuwanovel in its entirety, and needs to appeal to the average otaku nerd. In short, nothing sexy. Think cute, not sexy.  Regarding Lolis: Do not fight over lolis. I will go ahead and admit, it is highly doubtful, unless a great case can be made that a loli best represents Fuwanovel as a whole, that a loli will be designed. That said, still make a case for them, just don't argue and fight over them in this thread.  
With that out of the way, the thread is open to suggestions. Please keep shit posting and jokes to a minimum. Serious responses only, please. And finally, before posting, please consider this one question and respond to it.
"If Fuwanovel were an anime/VN character, what would it look like?" Remember to keep in mind all aspects of the site, and the 3 notes I listed above. 

Clearly we need a generic male visual novel protagonist from CG scenes as our mascot. The one with the same haircut in every game that covers his face. Typical school uniform, too.

hahahahaha I work on weekends. Go fuck yourself you patriarchy scum. You are triggering those of us who have to work on weekends. I cant even

Disregarding that overused meme, welcome this is something like a project I'll be doing.
I'll be honest: I'm somewhat of a spastic avatar changer and editor, so I thought what would be better than enhancing my skills as an editor than with taking requests and making them for you. This way both me and you will gain something from this.
"But Mr. Meogii made this kind of thread already" I know, but this has nothing to do with him. I'm doing this because I want to, and you can join this if you so desire. And Meogii's thread is somewhat dead now, and he himself might be as well.
Anyways, here are some things I've made on Fuwa.
My avatars:
Note that I have made ~30 profile pictures, but these are from Fuwa
 
My personal signatures:
Commissions I've made:
Be it signature pictures or avatar pictures, I most likely can make it, as long as you give me some points to work with.
So, request away, I'll be looking forward on reading them.
Just rember to mention when you get your signature/avatar pic to avoid any bigger hassles

So a friend of mine gifted me Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc on Steam

I've recently completed the wild ride of Undertale and Jet Set Radio.
Other than that, I'm currently playing Sleeping Dogs as a crazy mascot who sings karaoke and drop kicks people in the streets.
I fought the law and Wei won.