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    Cali reacted to nohman in Would You Sacrifice Yourself For Another You?   
    I think what a lot of it is going to come down to is semantics and personal interpretations of vague things like 'I' an what makes 'you you'. Personally speaking, I feel a very large disconnect between 23-year old me and 15-year old me. So much so that I'd even say that that the person I was during my adolescence is like a stranger or entirely different person. Depending on how you look at it, you could say a lot of individuals are born through a single person's life.  Maybe 15-year old me is dead and I'm just borrowing the life experiences from him and learning from them, like reading a book written by someone else.
     
    This is a fun exercise to play with, though. I'd be interested to see any other scenarios you come up with.
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    Cali reacted to solidbatman in What I Think of Fuwanovel   
    I joined Fuwanovel on November 20th, 2012. It was a long time ago. The Bruce Wayne dating sim that I suggested in my intro topic never came to fruition (a fact I'm mildly depressed about). When I first joined, this place was very very different. I really did not post much at first, and was blissfully unaware of how evil the VN community was overall. I did not know that I had to patch VNs myself in many instances and thanks to this place, I was able to play VNs without having to worry about that sort of thing. The forums looked quite different as well, with each hosted VN having it's own sub board if I recall (it was a mess). The forums were quickly re-organized into something close to what we have now. There was no walkthrough section, no FAQ section, no games and chatter section. Just a few forum boards. Slowly the forums grew, and I began posting more.
     
    For what ever reason, that in all honesty still baffles me, I was eventually promoted to a moderator position. I became fast friends with Steve as we frolicked through fields with our mutual agreements on everything. I love, and miss you Steve (just please, no naked Hachikuji pictures). I really enjoyed helping out around the forums. Everyone was friendly and we rarely had any issues with behavior. Fuwanovel was a tight knit group that just loved VNs. Ryoji and Eldin would have epic battles over old, obscure anime that the original production studios probably forgot they even produced, Steve was having a field day posting loli pictures and trying to convert me to the lolicon side, Skeith was regularly posting walkthroughs, Harry Kinomoto was being amazing as usual. It was an awesome place to be a part of and I loved every second of it outside of the staff forums. It was a place where everyone respected one another, and everyone respected what Fuwanovel was (save a few people). A place to make VNs accessible to the west. 
     
    Fast forward to today. Fuwanovel has grown immensely. We have a ton of active members on the forums, and out library of VNs continues to grow, as does the scope of operations. Nayleen has done wonderful work, and Tay did a great job of holding things together during the hosting outage. But despite that, I've felt a growing disconnect between myself, and a lot of the newer members. None of this is meant in a negative way. The newer guys have changed the forums a lot. We have so many random topics now, that have found a good home. The forums have been re-shaped to your guys liking. I said Fuwanovel was a family, and you guys sure have banded together. Sadly, I feel like part of the old guard, and find myself irritated with the place. Some of the things I used to love about Fuwanovel, the things that separated us from the rest of the VN community have begun to slowly crumble away. There is more mean spirit here, more rudeness, and just more of a 4chan-esque environment. The group of people I used to talk to all the time is mostly gone now. I still enjoy talking to you guys, but I find myself feeling less enthusiastic about the place than before. Perhaps what Fuwanovel is has become diluted with more members. Perhaps its just growing pains. Maybe we've grown big enough to drag some of you guys out from the dark places of the internet. (As yusa used to say, "I'll reform you"). 
     
    I still enjoy this place. And I don't hate anyone here. I just wanted to put out there what I couldn't really put out there when I was staff. I want this place to remain friendly, towards everyone, and I want everyone to be treated with respect, like we had just 4 or 5 months ago. My year here has been enjoyable, and I'll continue hanging around because visual novels. So this is a request from me to everyone here: Lets make this place more of a friendly place and respect everyone. Staff respect the members, members respect the staff, staff respect staff, members respect members. I've made my share of mistakes on this, and I want to correct them. I want Fuwanovel to be the place it was a year ago. I want it to be the friendliest place on the internet again. 
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    Cali got a reaction from douggle in Been on the irc for a while finally decided to hit the forums!   
    Welcome Douggle we shall proberly meet on irc soon then
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    Cali reacted to Nayleen in Hello   
    Please do, it's getting out of hand.
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    Cali reacted to Mephisto in LOLIS: Linked Organized Library Interconnection System   
    All I'm going to say is, of course it is trollable.
     
    Anything is trollable.
     
    That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. The entire objective behind Fuwanovel is to provide Visual novels for people, and get more people interested in the medium. Attaching this to help people find more visual novels that will appeal to them is worth any possible trolling.
     
    The way I imagined the implementation is someone writes a review on the game, and then at the end of the review there is a box where you can recommend another game that people may like if they like this game, and attach a short comparison between them. This small recommendation box will be the one people see under 'recommendations'. The full review will be under 'reviews' for the game. Users can then choose to "agree" or "disagree" with the recommendation, and the agree/disagree will be shown.
     
    I don't know what this has to do with VNDB at all. We aren't "rating" the games themselves, although maybe it'd be a good idea to add a rating section in the review portion. The well written reviews will naturally rise to the top, and help people get an idea of whether they'll like the game. (If a review is trolling, anyone reading it will skip over it anyway)
     
    I personally don't think trolling is a huge issue here. There aren't an awful lot of trolls on these forums, and if a group of people try to do coordinated trolling, I guarantee it's a lot more work for them to organize and troll than it is for us to shut them down.
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    Cali got a reaction from Feiya in Hiya!   
    Welcome Feiya! Have a look around if you havn't already, loads of good and interesting topics
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    Cali got a reaction from Ragnar Matryoshka in Steins;Gate Limited Edition Giveaway   
    OK ATLEAST i tried to draw batman correct... jezzz. 
     
    My creativity is like an empty tear gas grenade, if there is anything left it still hurts your eyes.
     



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    Cali reacted to Nosebleed in What is your motivation?   
    It's interesting to see how everyone has plenty of different reasons and yet they can all be together in one big community that is the anime community.
     
    As far as myself i don't want to get too emotional or share some deep personal story so to summarize it.
    I've pretty much been non sociable in the 3D world for as long as i can remember, even communicating with my parents is a hassle. After  discovering the internet around the age of 13 (I didn't have a computer or laptop before that) i sort of had my own place where i could look for stuff i liked and enjoy myself to some degree without much effort. However i never really had what some people would consider a hobby, sure you can consider being on the computer one but to me it wasn't since everyday there was something different to do and nothing really made me feel fullfilled. Around the age of 17 (It was early march 2012) i was browsing through my TV (Mind you the cable providers here don't have any channels dedicated to anime or anything of the sort) and found a service with a bunch of fanmade channels and a lot of them were anime related. Me having nothing to do and being a hormonal teenager started looking at the ecchi ones. Needless to say i enjoyed them thoroughly at the time and i kept looking around for more. This was the turning point where i started becoming interested in anime. Soon enough instead of using the TV i started browsing anime on my computer and found a lot of shows that would possibly interest me, even non ecchi and eventually i starting growing my own personal tastes in genres. I got very into romance anime and other bright themed shows. For me anime became my personal hobby, it became something i can watch wether i'm bored or just want to relax, the variety and amount of genres is infinite, there's so much to watch and i always find some time to watch some and for as long as i can remember it has kept me entertained and happier than the 3D world has where nothing really goes well for me. It's been over a year now and i've seen over 300 anime and i'll keep doing so until the day i die.
     
    As far as visual novel goes they are an extension of me being interested in the anime culture. I got very interested in Little Busters after watching the first season of the anime and i was in love with Kud (Yes i was already a lolicon at the time) and that made me want to download the novel so i could see an ending i would find befitting which would be one with Rikki and Kud and after playing the entire novel i realised how great of a work it was, how beautifully designed it was and how entertaining it was. I realised that reading the novels instead of watching the anime can still be a fullfilling experiment that i wasn't aware of since i was never the reader type. After that i became interested in more novels like Little Busters that share the same qualities and depth and here i am today enjoying anime and reading visual novels in my spare time.
     
    No matter the reasons we all have the most important thing is how we can all share likes for the same things, that's why i never regretted becoming into the anime culture or the japan culture even, i feel like other people with the same tastes understand me more than most people in the 3D world would and i don't think that is any sort of a failure.
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    Cali reacted to Mephisto in Greetings, humans   
    That makes it sound as if the H-scene was really powerful, and important.
     
    Anyway, I agree, and I find H-scenes really annoying if there are too many of them.
     
    Since everyone is giving suggestions, here's a few of mine :
     
    G-senjou no Maou - it's a great VN and should be read, lots of suspense/mystery. The MC is great.
     
    Grisaia no Kajitsu - This VN is pretty much a masterpiece. It has a badass MC, five extremely well written characters, and an odd, but believable situation. It's a character focused novel, which are amazing when well written.
     
    Hoshizora no Memoria - Apparently this is a mandatory if you like Lolis, and it's even better if you don't like Lolis. The main character is decent, not as good as the two I listed above, but the scenario/heroines are a lot of fun. Romance/school-based.
     
    Yumina the Ethereal/Aselia the Eternal - Two different games, but made by the same group. They are RPG games, and Yumina has a better combat system, but Aselia has a better storyline. Keep in mind since it's a JRPG can feel a little grindy at times.
     
    Kamidori Alchemy Meister - The most well known RPG, contains a TON of grind, but the game is pretty fun/addicting, and the story is okay-ish I guess.
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    Cali reacted to Eldin in What is your motivation?   
    not that old.
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    Cali reacted to nohman in What is your motivation?   
    I don't really watch much anime, but what keeps me motivated to keep playing visual novels is that it offers a catharsis that no other medium matches. The format simply offers more room for investment and release than movies, television, and books.
     
     
    I've got a pretty bad case of this.  I always get a little... uh, apprehensive towards the end of a really good show or novel.
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    Cali reacted to Stanleys in What is your motivation?   
    That's what I love about this place. There is no one that will mock you for what you do (seriously mock, there is always someone messing around with you). It's a place for people with the same interests to gather and make friends. I know that no one I know IRL plays VN's or watches anime, and I'm also sure that if I told them about it, I would just get mocked about it. But here, you can talk about whatever you want with everyone and be treated with respect (mostly), and I consider most of you here as friends.
     
    Anyway, to the topic at hand, I play VN's and watch anime because the story and characters are usually much better than most tv shows, movies and books. The writers seem to connect with their characters more, which in return causes the characters to feel more alive. And every once in a while, I will find a character that I really connect with and begin to care for deeply.
    I think I may like VN's just a little bit more than anime because with VN's, not only do you get to choose which character to follow, the story can be expanded upon without the time crunch that comes with anime. But that doesn't mean I don't like anime. There are plenty of anime that I have seen that had characters and a story that I begin to care about, and sometimes the actual visuals helps with the story better than most still images from VN's. And above all else, they are an escape from reality. It's not that I have a bad life or anything like that, but I'm extremely introverted and shy, so it's hard for me to connect with most people. I have no one that I can consider a close friend, so I like to watch anime and read VN's to escape from everything, and I like to came here to talk with people of similar interests.
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    Cali reacted to Okami in What is your motivation?   
    It is very simple for me, Anime and VNs give me enjojmemt like nothing else can,  they give me feelings that I would newer feel otherwise. To tell you the truth I am very bored with real life, before I started watching anime or reading VNs I was doing alot of different things in life, from trying out many different sports, hanging out with friends, going out, having GF etc. But not matter what I would do, what things I would try out doing nothing really give me satisfaction. In the end I would always feel like I just wasted time, and with the time passing by I become totally emotionally dead I didn't feel anything and I didn't care for anything. I couldn't find anything to do that I would enjoy doing so eventually I stopped doing anything and I become one of those people who never leaves home and spend all their time on the computer. I spend all my time reading books, watching movies and TV shows, and playing games, true most of it has been just to kill the time I found that in some best of them I would actually enjoy. But as I spend all my free time doing these things and back then the situation was that all my time was free time, and even before I cut the ties with the real world and started spending all my times on the computer I have watched a great deal of movies, TV shows, played alot of games etc. Pretty soon I have run out of those really great movies, TV shows, games, books that I would enjoy. That was when I started watching anime, and then I found out that I really enjoy it much more than anything else, unlike when I watch movies where I enjoy only when I watch some of the best of them I would enjoy even when I watch an average anime. And what surprised me the most was the fact that I really cared what happens in the anime and what happens to the characters which was quite the surprise as in that time it has already passed few years since the last time I cared for anything or anyone. Right now one and a half year have passed since I started watching anime and I have watched 200+ anime and I still enjoy watching anime like the first time I started watching, maybe even more, and with the exception that of VNs that I also enjoy as much as I enjoy in watching anime there is still nothing other than that I enjoy doing or that I care for or that can make me feel anything. To tell you the truth I myself don't know why am I like that or why I can't enjoy doing normal things that normal persons enjoy doing I just know that I can't. And with that said it is pretty obvious why I continue watching anime and reading VNs and why I will never stop.
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    Cali reacted to Kaguya in What is your motivation?   
    Hm. I guess it's time to tell a bit of myself to more people.
    So, I'm somewhat of a hikkikomori. The Brazillian government blessed me with a slackjob that I can do at home (it's basically organizing files and sending emails), and because of very personal reasons, it would be somewhat insane for me to go outside of my own free will.
    I use supermarket delivery when I want something, so I don't really go out. Until not so long ago, there was a certain idiot that forced me to go out, but that person is not here anymore.
     
    So, my motivation? they provide me a life. I gave up on 3D completely (again, for very personal reasons), however, I genuinely have fun with animes, VNs, mangas and such. 
    They provide me the sort of fun and entertainment that I would never be able to have normally, considering my issues. I specially like seeing incredible protagonists and imagining myself as the heroine. "I may not be able to  fly, but someday someone who can may take me with him".... I know better than anyone about how that is just a fantasy, but I can't really give up on it. I guess I'm quite the childish one, huh~
     
    Well, there is still much of the Otaku culture for me to brave, and I'm already doing this since 7 years ago. I still feel like I'm just at the beginning. Since they provide me an incredible amount of happiness, and since I pretty much only keep learning and entering more and more at this culture, I guess that in the end, I must be one of the happiest people on earth. I spend over 14 hours of my day with a smile in my face because of it, after all.
     
    So, that's my answer. They make my life worth living~
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    Cali got a reaction from Tay in SiglusEngine Problem (a new one..)   
    Here is what i did:
     
    1.Downloaded game from Fuwanovel's torrent
    2.Copied the hole folder with the game inside it to another harddrive (so i could play and seed it at the same time)
    3:Opened the folder and ran "Make_Rewrite_Work2.bat"
    4:Ran the "rewrite-r4.exe" patch.
    5:Opened up "region and language" went to the administrativ tab and changed system locale to japanese.
    6: Reboot and opened "SiglusEngine.exe" worked like a charm. 
     
    Run both the bat's and exe's as Admin.
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    Cali reacted to Ryoji in Rewrite   
    Rewrite
    Rewrite is set in the fictional city Kazamatsuri where treeplanting and afforestation have caused the city to become overgrown with trees and flowers in much the same way that other cities are filled by buildings. However, while most of the city appears to be rural, there are many traditional city elements as well. While set in a modern setting, the city also gives off a strange sense of nostalgia. The basis of the story is set in a high school setting. The first half of Rewrite primarily consists of the characters interacting in many everyday, enjoyable scenes. The latter half, however, is more serious, emotional, and carries a sense of mystery to the plot. As indicated by the title, rewriting is the theme of the game's scenario.

    The tagline for the game is, "Could it possibly be rewritten, that fate of hers?".

    Suggested Walkthrough Order!!

    Ending Guide
    As far as I can tell, absolutely nothing in the Mappie segments influences which of the five heroine routes you end up on (if any), not even the parts where one of the heroines accompanies you. So they're ignored in this section.

    I don't try to list every single choice you should make for each route, because a lot of them probably don't matter. Instead I try to list only the important choices, the ones I think are enough to guarantee you get the route no matter what else you do.

    Warning! Bad Ends are included.
     
    ***Game Routes***

    Kotori

    Chihaya

    Lucia

    Shizuru

    Akane
    ***Bonus Game Routes***
    Moon
    Terra


    Oppai Ending

    Friends and Quests
    This is meant to be a step-by-step guide to completing all quests and finding all friends within a reasonable number of playthroughs, so that you don't have to come up with a plan of you own based on the rather large amount of information in the lists below.

    Playthrough 1

    Playthrough 2

    Playthrough 3

    Playthrough 4


    Quests List

    Friends List

    This Walkthrough is from Eroge Download
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    Cali reacted to Nayleen in A long overdue introduction   
    Subtitled: How Fuwanovel/Aaeru saved my life.
     

     
    Hello dear Fuwanovel community,
     
    Many people around the forums and IRC already know me under nicknames like "the Fuwanovel coder", various variations of my alias like "Naynay", "Naylicious", or simply "the German" (because I'm the only active German person on IRC as far as I know). In real life I'm called Timo by coworkers and family and "Dieter" by very close friends who know the origin of that nickname.
     
    I'm working as a professional web developer for a few years now, but have been creating web sites for various purposes for more than 10 years already, mostly for private servers for Ragnarok Online and Lineage 2 back in the day and later guild homepages and forums when I was actively playing World of Warcraft.
     
    Not too surprising that I signed up here and immediately PMed Aaeru back when she was asking for PHP help for the site as I have just been waiting for this opportunity. Many people ask what keeps me going for me to invest quite a lot of time, even going as far as reworking the entire backend and quite a lot of the frontend AND introducing many new features to a site I have absolutely no relations with.
     
    There are two reasons for that, one is very simple while the other is quite complex, the first and easy one being that I was looking for a project like I did 10 years ago for quite a lot of time; Now that I'm professional and not just a random script kid I really wanted to start making a name for myself, so I loved the idea on working Fuwanovel because it's a site about something I hold very dear, Visual Novels.
     

     
    Now the other one is quite complex and reaches back about as long as I can remember. I've got crippling depressions and anxiety issues, bad enough for me to feel too powerless to even leave my bed save for basics like eating, drinking and sanitary needs. Most people don't even notice it except when I vanish for weeks at a time - because I may be shy and pretty reserved, but I love getting to know people and am fairly talkative once I warm up to someone, so they can't even imagine me being depressed. I'm introverted (meaning social interaction expends energy for me) but generally love being around people I know and feel I need social interaction to function properly.
     
    This is also why staying at home also depresses me even further, until I either snap out of it or it spirals completely out of control like it did last winter, where I stayed at home for a whole five months. Which, as most people can imagine, is long enough for my medical attests not being enough for me to keep my job.
     

     
    So I was depressed, missed social contact - my best friend who used to force me to go out with him when I was feeling down was working in the US, so he wasn't around to save me from the downward spiral I was in - and about to lose my job (which wasn't perfect, but had its fun days and at least paid the bills), spiraling everything even further out of control.
     
    All I did during that time was sleep, eat, drink, shower and read. I read the Visual Novels I torrented earlier that year but never came around to read because of work and other stuff leaving me too tired to even read in the evenings. It didn't take me too long to either finish or tire of them, I simply didn't have enough; Going through the hassle of searching VNDB for new translated Visual Novels that interested me and then having to torrent them, find and apply the TL patch was too much of a hassle at the time.
     
    I was seriously considering just ending my life right there, because reading Visual Novels made me tear up and feel for the characters, it's the most touching medium for me because of the combination of graphics, music and writing - especially the songs in some of them and acted as kind of a substitute for all the social interaction I was missing out on because of my depressions.
     
    That was when I found Fuwanovel and its easy-to-use interface, most VNs were prepatched so everything was pretty easy for me to work out. I started and finished HoshiMemo, G-Senjou no Maou and the MajiKoi partial patch and began reading Rewrite. They kept me going long enough for the worst to tide over, for me to finally pick up the broken pieces of myself again and start getting back into life again, get back on medication and search for a therapist to work this out once and for all, as I was having these downtimes annually.
     

     
    Fuwanovel literally saved my life; It was my main motivation for wanting to help out when Aaeru was asking for help on the site and it still keeps me going today, 3 months and thousands of lines of code later; I owe this site so much, and I love the community and working on new features with everyone involved.
     
    A special shout-out here to: Naomi, Aaeru, Tay, solidbatman, shcboomer, Kendjin, Rakushun, DrKleiner, Lewycool, Zakamutt, ThatPlayer and Mephisto - and everyone else I'm forgetting to name explicitly. Please stick around so I may never lose interest in the site.
     
    I hope everyone who reads this enjoys this small, very personal write-up. I'm looking forward to continue working with everyone to keep this site running and become even more awesome, complete and more widely known with each passing day. I love you guys.
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    Cali reacted to Stanleys in Hi!   
    Welcome to the forums!
    Down to earth comedy huh, I can usually bring up some good comedies. The most normal ones I can think of are Acchi Kocchi, GJ-bu, K-on!, and maybe Yuru Yuri. But above those, I would recommend Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo. It is a little more weird than the other ones I listed, but it's nothing over the top and I personally loved it.
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    Cali reacted to Yukiru in Hi!   
    i can't realy recommend a VN since i usually play nakiges and katawa shoujo isn't really like that.
    but if it's about anime i recommend Nichijou, nichijou is one of the funniest shows i've ever seen, i also recommend Chu2koi but that's more of a romantic comedy.
     
    anyways, welcome to the fuwanyan paradise 
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    Cali reacted to solidbatman in What Video Games Are You Playing Right Now?   
    I played about 4 more hours of The Last of Us. Maybe I'll finish it, maybe I won't. Good game, but stops short of being great at this point. 
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    Cali reacted to shcboomer in Hi!   
    Hey there, welcome to the Fuwanovel forums, I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.
     
    Maybe give Grisaia no Kajitsu a try, people kind of compare it to Katawa Shoujo.
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    Cali reacted to Tay in Hi!   
    If you enjoyed Katawa Shoujo, I'd recommend going for Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo.  I think you'd enjoy it.  Many of the other "classics" are also good suggestions, too.
     
    Katawa Shoujo was my first VN and I loved it.  Many VNs have similar themes -- was there a part of KS that you especially loved?
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