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    Zodai got a reaction from Funyarinpa in [Giveaway] Love At First Sight - Steam Key   
    ~The girl with the lone eye.
     
    ~~~
     
    "Hello!  Is anyone there!?"
     
    The roaring fires light the hall.  Pillars of smoke rise to the top of the building.  The burning heat assaults my mind, and beads of sweat run down my face.  Male, 17 years of age.  This wasn't supposed to happen.  It's just an ordinary weekend.  This wasn't supposed to happen!  The full moon shines brightly through the window, like a glistening silver high in the sky.  A fleeting light in the darkness.  My heated footsteps pace up the stairs.  Chunks of wood collapse to the ground, and the apartment's floor begins to crumble beneath my feet.  A cold air rushes through the building, only to feed the flames brighter and brighter.
     
    "Answer me!  Where are you!?"  A thousand stars shine brightly in the night sky, laughing at the man who would dare to go back.  "What do you think you're doing, shithead!?  There's nothing important in there!  Go home!"
     
    Wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong!  The burning heat assaults my mind, and beads of sweat run down my face.  Like a repeating hell with no end in sight.  The clouds of ash rush at my eyes, like a toxin of the air that threatens to bring me to the ground.  The pillars of smoke rise high in the sky.  The sound of sirens can be heard on the outside.  But, they can't get near.  There's too many people evacuating.  Too many people concerned only for themselves.  Too many people who would hurt another to save themselves.
     
    "Please!  Where are you!?  Answer me!"
     
    The infinite depths of the night pour into the sky.  Who knows what lies in the unknown?  An infinite crowd looks into the sky.  The pillars of smoke rise high as ever, higher and higher.  But, they do nothing.  Walking along to more important matters.  Are they scared?  Do the flames push them away?  Or, maybe it isn't anything very important to begin with?
     
    Her room was empty.  I passed it long ago, nothing but ashes remains.  She wasn't there.  She couldn't have been there.  She would have ran by now.  But, she wasn't there.  Why wasn't she there?  The crowd of survivors lies beneath.  But, she wasn't there.  "What do you think you're doing, shithead!?  There's nothing important in there!  Go home!"  The stars laugh.  Laughing at the man who would dare to go back.  Their screams assault my mind.  Laughing at the man who would dare to notice.  Laughing at the man who would dare to do anything.  Like a clown dancing along with the freaks of nature.  My eyes shine through the night.  Like a brilliant silver, high in the sky.
     
    "Where are you!?  Sachi!"  The burning heat assaults my mind.  Beads of sweat run down my face.  This wasn't supposed to happen.  My heated footsteps pace up the stairs, like the drumming of a piano in a symphony of death.  Chunks of wood fall to the ground, and the floor begins to collapse beneath my feet.  A cold air rushes across my face, only to feed the flames stronger and stronger.  The glistening silver shines high in the sky.  The laughter of the stars assaults at my mind.  The infinite depths of the night pass along with only a glance.  Pillars of smoke rise high into the sky.  The ashes in the air rush into my lungs, like a toxin that threatens to bring me to the ground.
     
    The scenery blends before me.  My vision blurs itself to an decrypt cipher.  Like a repeating hell with no end in sight.
     
    A faint breath is heard.  Among the raging flames.  A painful breath, like their lungs could collapse at any second.  Female, 16 years of age, my heart tells to me.
     
    "Sachi!  Where are you!?"  My eyes scour the scenery.  A repeating hell with no end in sight.  The flames blur my vision, the hall stretches into infinity.  First room, nothing.  Second room, nothing.  A faint breath is heard.  Third room, nothing.  Fourth room, nothing.  My vision blurs itself to a decrypt cipher.  Like a repeating hell with no end in sight.
     
    Fifth room.  A river of blood runs down her face.  The girl with the lone eye.  The burning heat assaults my mind.  Beads of sweat run down my face.
     
    "Sachi!"  I run to her side.  Piles of rubble keep her pinned to the ground.  The red liquid stings at her iris.  For the moment, her sight is gone.  I press against the rubble.  It won't move.  The blood rushes through my veins.  The beating of my heart pounds at my soul, like a bone-shattering punch with each step.  It hurts.  My strained bones threaten to break in two if I push them any farther.  I don't care.
     
    The burning heat assaults my mind.  Beads of sweat run down my face.  The girl's blood drips to the floor.  A faint breath is heard.  Her warm brown hair.  A gentle smile.  Greater than any before it.  The crying of the stars assaults my mind.  Laughing at the man who would dare to go back.  "What do you think you're doing, shithead!?  There's nothing important in there!  Go home!"
     
    Wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong!  The laughter continues.  Like a cruel joke.  An assault on all that is precious, carried out by the thousand stars in the night sky.  The burning heat assaults my mind.  Ten-thousand times over.  Like a repeating hell with no end in sight.  The rubble is pushed off of her and comes crashing to the floor.  Her leg is broken.  The faint, gasping breaths leave her no room to speak.  Each so precious that removing a single one could cost a life.
     
    I haul her onto my back.  Her half-conscious body weighs down on my soul.  It's heavier than I thought.  The burning heat assaults my mind.  Bear it.  The night is almost over.  My footsteps pace down the stairs.  What floor am I on?  I can't tell.  The burning heat assaults my mind.  The scenery outside the window blurs into the same mess.  A thousand stars in the night sky, laughing at the man who dared to go back.  The infinite depths of the night, walking by pretending not to notice.  And, the glistening silver that hangs in the night sky.
     
    The floor collapses under our weight.  My leg falls through the gap.  I scream out in pain as it gashes into my skin, I feel the sensation of my blood crawling down my leg.  The pain intensifies as I pull it out from the floor.  Keep moving.  Don't stop.  There is more than one life at stake here.  I walk forward.  My muscles rip and tear as the blood flows down from my leg.  The burning heat assaults my mind.  Keep moving.  The burning heat assaults my mind.  Clouds of ash cover the building, the pillar of smoke rises high into the air.
     
    Flaming embers float across the air, and the raging flames turn my vision a bright red.  Sachi's weight presses onto my back, nearly unconscious with a leg twisted beyond recognition.  Blood flows from her forehead and down the side of my back.  My breathing is in frantic gasps, as each step nearly breaks my body in two.  The clouds of ash corrupt my lungs and send blood gushing out of my leg.  It's a miracle I can even stand.  I lose my footing on the steps, and my head comes crashing down to the floor.  It feels like my skull is split in two, as the torrent of blood comes flowing down my face.
     
    The crying of the stars assaults my mind.  Laughing at the man who would dare to go back.  Faceless ghouls who would mean to harm another.  Running away from the shining gold of the sun, hiding just out of sight from the glistening silver of the moon.  Wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!  A thousand times over!  Let thine accursed light vanish into the abyss!  Disappear into the endless sea, never to return to the mortal plane!  The blazing heat tortures the air, as the building is slowly brought to its knees.  The pounding of my head crushes my soul like the beating of a drum.  The red liquid drops from my body like a thousand bloody rivers.  The eyes of a thousand stars, visible in the soul of the raging flames.  The silent laughter tears at my sanity like a thousand roaring fangs.  Burn!  Burn away in the repeating hell, with no end in sight!  Rejected by angel and demon alike, too weak to fight the strong and too weak to move forward!  Those who would hurt another because they're too weak to do anything else!  Burn away for all of eternity!  Let thine accursed light vanish into the abyss!  Let nothing save you, your time has come!
     
    I charge forward, screaming into the night.  The weight of a single life brings down on my body like a thousand souls, and the infinite laughter claws at my mind like a thousand fangs.  Let thine corrupted soul burn away in the raging flames!  There is no salvation for those responsible!  The swarming inferno strikes at my body from all directions, and my heart warns me of death at every instant.  Tears burst forth from my eyes, only to vanish into the flames on this cold, cold night.  Sachi's arms wrap around my neck, like a warm noose of the finest rope.  The infinite depths of the night pass on, pretending not to notice.  A thousand stars laugh at the man who dared to turn back.
     
    And, the full moon, a glistening silver high in the sky.  Watching over all that exists, for as long as it can.
     
    A long, long hall.  The exit lies on the other end.  The raging flames tear at the walls from every direction, and the far-off sirens blare in the distance.  Charge forward.  Onward!  Faster than anything of the mortal plane.  Faster than the repeating hells with no end in sight, stronger than the infinite laughter of a thousand stars.  The torrents of blood cloud my vision, and the beating of my mind threatens to collapse me at any second.  Break through the earth!  Anything that stands in our way!  Rush into the sky, where no stars can reach us!
     
    The building creaks under the burning flame.  The sound of the blaring sirens echoes through the sky.  A thousand floors collapse onto the surface.  My silver gaze looks to the crumbling flames.  My silent scream shrieks across the earth.
     
    And then, the world turns to black.
     
     
     
     
     
    The sun pours in through the open window.  My breath is hollow, and my vision is blurred.  The hospitals walls are a dim shine, and an assortment of rags covers my body.  My arm is wrapped in endless shells, and I can feel the bone shattered in more places than I can count.
     
    "Um...Patient 427.  I'm afraid I have some bad news."  The doctor speaks to me.
     
    "We...were unable to repair your left eye.  Would you like us to find a donor?"
     
    Sachi lies resting by my side.  "No,"  I said.
     
    The sun flows brightly into the room, a shining gold of pure harmony.  Sachi begins to wake up.  A golden shine gleams from her eye.
     
    "I think I like it better this way."  From my right eye.  The glistening silver of the full moon.
     
    And so, life continues.
     
    Like a repeating hope with no end in sight.
     
     
     
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    Zodai reacted to Down in VN translators on Twitter counting down   
    Dies Irae confirmed!!!!
    Or maybe not.
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    Zodai reacted to littleshogun in VN translators on Twitter counting down   
    Interesting, and by the way thanks Rooke (I couldn't access reddit because it was blocked by my own internet provider). About the countdown, guess we'll see if it's leading to something big (ie translation announcement) or only the translators boredom curing activity (ie nothing will announced) this Saturday I think. Either way looking forward to announcement.
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    Zodai reacted to Kaykeiokay in Long time lurker reveals itself!   
    It's probably long overdue, but here it goes! Hello everyone! I've been lurking the main Fuwa site for years now obsessively checking fan translation statuses, and December of last year I made an account on the forums thinking I'd totally join the community only for me to end up lurking even harder. hehehehe.........My anti-social tendencies are far too strong.
    My first visual novel was Fate/Stay Night, waaaaay back in 2009. To be honest what guided me to visual novels was the shitty DEEN adaptation, the wasted potential of the series bothered me deeply. How could they set up this interesting premise and barely scratch the surface of that potential? (The me of 2009 would've loved Fate/zero) My bothered self then read some reviews on MAL to validate my impression on the series, through that action I learned that the source of the narrative was something called a "visual novel". With that knowledge, and few Google searches later I had Fate setup on my shit Windows ME. The Fate route didn't really impress me much since I had just finished the anime days earlier, but once I got to UBW that's when things got interesting. The premise wasn't built upon in the way I expected, but I felt that it didn't necessarily have to because what it built up to was very satisfying and entertaining in its own special way.
    Those moments where the script, visuals, and music all came together, got me absolutely hooked on visual novels as a whole. Even though, these moments always seem to be buried in heaps of slice-of-life fluff. I've been reading them ever since and loosely following the fan translation scene. I must say watching this fandom grow and flourish, has warmed my cynical heart. Back in 2009 I couldn't even imagine some titles getting official releases, let alone them raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through crowd funding alone.(Proud contributor to the Clannad, MuvLuv, and Double Root kickstarters)  Such short turnaround from original Japanese release to English release would've been a dream back then when waiting years (2+ at least) for translation was the norm. ( I waited 6 years for that Hollow Ataraxia translation, it's a miracle it came out at all really.) There are probably people here that have been into this much much longer that can easily recall scarcer times and that alone earns my respect, because your foundation allowed many others to experience this medium that otherwise would've faded into obscurity. Man, I'm already sucking up to my senpai and I haven't even legit talked to any of you yet.
    If I set them up properly, feel free to look into my scrub levels.
    If not here are links to profiles, where you can proceed to judge me in every way, shape, or form.
    MAL: http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kaykeiokay
    VNDB: https://vndb.org/u48090
    Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Kaykeiokay
    I'm also a video game collector and it seems like quite a few of you are gamers too, so I'll just leave my Grouvee account here. https://www.grouvee.com/user/kaykeiokay/
    I'm open to recommendations from absolutely any genre (okay, maybe not hardcore loli. I don't wanna go to jail) , so GIVE ME YOUR WORST!
    Oh yeah, Call me Kay if someone already claimed that then call me Kei. Okay?
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    Zodai reacted to Deep Blue in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Confession: I bought dark souls 3 from greenmangaming (it's 16% off) and then saw in another page that they were selling it around 40% off (gamesplanet) so I asked for a refund and they intermediately gave it to me, I was expecting a really shitty response from them since their refund policy is a bit strict but hey it ended up really well, pretty happy with GMG  
    EDIT: I'm an idiot those are not euros they are GBP  (I didn't buy it)
    Confession 2: I'm an idiot, confirmed.
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    Zodai reacted to Rose in Are there any English VNs with exceptional prose?   
    https://keinart.itch.io/one-thousand-lies
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    Zodai reacted to Dergonu in Funniest visual novel you have played?   
    RIP. 
     
    For me it has to be Majikoi, hands down. 
    Each one of the characters has their own hilarious personality that makes spending more than 5 minutes in the game without laughing quite a feat. 
    One thing I loved was that it´s not just the main characters, but the big supportive cast also has some brilliant characters. Like:

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    Zodai reacted to AaronIsCrunchy in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Somewhere along the line congratulations are in order?
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    Congratulations!
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    Zodai got a reaction from AaronIsCrunchy in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    MISSION COMPLETE FUCK YESSSS
    :DDDDDDDDDDD
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    Zodai reacted to Nimbus in Miitomo App - Discussion and Friend-Making   
    We'll see if that holds true by weeks end 
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    Zodai reacted to Makudomi in How do you capitalise letters while using a computer?   
    EVEN WHEN I TYPE LIKE THIS, I hold Shift.
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    Zodai reacted to Deep Blue in Clickbait - My Greatest Confession   
    HuniePop sucks ass and Audrey too 
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    Zodai reacted to Flutterz in Language Accuracy Importance Example   
    I don't really get the point of your story, people might think things that look like food are food even it says "soap" in their language, but I know that the name of the movie "Love is a Four Letter Word" was translated literally into Russian when it came out there... the only problem is that "любовь" has 6 letters, not 4.
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    Zodai reacted to OriginalRen in Language Accuracy Importance Example   
    I heard a very interesting story on the radio today on my way home from work. China recently held a marathon for runners who, upon finishing the race, received gift bags with scented soaps. Each one of the soaps had English labeling on them. It turns out that a lot of runners are very hungry and thirsty after completing a long marathon of over 10 miles (16 kilometers). It turns out they ate the soaps assuming they were some form of food. A lot of the runners got sick and threw the soap all over the streets, half eaten.
    I found this story interesting because it seems to me that China (which can also relate to Japan) doesn't seem to understand the importance of properly labeling things if you are using foreign words. I connected this with the poor use of English all over the country and why Japan specifically doesn't care how bad they butcher the language in anime and other material. I just don't get it: what is so cool about English anyways? We treat Japanese like a gift of the gods, yet Japan falls head over heels for English.
    Sure, it's just soap, but getting sick because of poor labeling is just sad. Is that the full reason? Probably not, but had the packaging been in Chinese or had this been addressed to the participants of the marathon beforehand, it could have been avoided. We care so much about the accuracy of TLs in the English community, yet it seems to be the opposite around the world. You'd think there would be a little more common sense being used in this example. Better yet, who gives people scented soaps as a marathon reward? Seriously.
    Anyways, thoughts? Not specifically on this story, but language accuracy in general.
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    Zodai got a reaction from Silvz in Miitomo App - Discussion and Friend-Making   
    I think you can visit their houses and ask them that way, too.  It's just random that way xD
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    Zodai got a reaction from Silvz in Miitomo App - Discussion and Friend-Making   
    Part of it is the question-answering.  I think it's supposed to tell people more about yourself and bring up topics for conversation.  If you tap on your mii head a bunch more will come up.
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    Zodai reacted to Nimbus in Miitomo App - Discussion and Friend-Making   
    Guess it's time I finally made a Twitter account. 
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    Zodai reacted to solidbatman in SnowSakura++ - A port of Snow Sakura as a demo to the March22 Engine   
    The word Sakura is ruined for me now. I legit thought you were porting a Winged Cloud Sakura game for some reason and was going to put up a stupid "I never ask for this" meme. Anyway, good luck with your project! Getting some of these VNs to run better for everyone is never a bad thing 
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    Zodai got a reaction from Tay in Miitomo App - Discussion and Friend-Making   
    I can't figure out how to make friends.  >.<

    Linked the twitter but how do I find everyone else's?  And it seems painful to organize mutual follow-ization and all :<  There's so many!
    Edit:  Here you go!  o/  https://twitter.com/Zodai_Stryde
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    Zodai reacted to Kawasumi in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    >morals
    >integrity
                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                       
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    Zodai got a reaction from Vorathiel in Funniest visual novel you have played?   
    Definitely Majikoi.  I started playing it again during a drive after switching to a new laptop/losing old saves and I found myself unable to resist laughing even though I already read the whole common route.  That's one of the strongest proofs of quality I have.
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    Zodai reacted to Ayana in Agobarrier, the writer of shuffle Passed away   
    The Shuffle series was quite honestly my childhood and one of my first ever Eroge besides TM stuff, so I'm kind of rattled by this news.. :/
    I want to revisit the series at some point for the nostalgia, but now I want to do so also in commemoration to the creator and his wacky fun piece, Shuffle. It was silly/ridiculous and insane as a production, but to the me back then (and maybe even now somewhat) that's what was attractive about Eroge.
    Rest in peace.
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    Zodai reacted to Kawasumi in Agobarrier, the writer of shuffle Passed away   
    The writer of shuffle and tick-tack! passed away today, I dont know the details and cant find anything about what happened from the tweets I have been seeing, but im gonna post the announcement below.
    I know a lot of his stuff wasnt good according to a lot of people, but people like @ChaosRaven seems to have enjoyed his work greatly.
    Its always sad to see people go never the less.
    Rest in peace.

     
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    Zodai reacted to Pierrou in you can delete it   
    Hi
    I don't often sing up to forums but FuwalNovel helped me a lot 
    So, we're a french team and we're tanslating some BL games : Togainu no Chi, DMMD, Sleepover, Bacchikoi, Omerta, ... some of them are already done.
    But if i come here today it's because we're losing too much time with big projects like Togainu no Chi, DMMD, ...


    The engine of those game doesn't accept our french specials chars (é, è, à, ç, ù, « », ...) due the SHIFT-JIS. We tried to encode the scripts in UTF-8 but it doesn't run after. And we don't even know how to compile the scripts. I can extract but that's all i can do with those engine...
    So, to make those games in French, we wanted to make them with Ren'py, it means to re-make the whole game in Ren'py... It takes so much time... If i'm here it's to try to find someone who knows how we can do to use those chars. I know it's possible to replace those chars in the font (ie : ☆ = é) but i don't like this solution because our scripts will look like : "J'ai aim☆" it too weird x)
    A french guy has done Saya no Uta (it's quite the same engine for Togainu no Chi and DMMD) in 2010 but his website is down and i found an email address but i'm always waiting for an answer since 2012
    Yes... I'm trying to find a solution since 2012... 
     
    Thank you in advance !
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