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*looks innocent, even as he flips suspicious-looking steaks on a wire net over a coal stove*

Actually, I think name-changes aren't a good idea, though title changes are fine. If you (Tay) were to suddenly change your name, I wouldn't know i wanted to listen to what you had to say. In reverse to the more common line of thought, I think that people should be able to change their names... up to fifty posts. When they pass fifty posts, they should lose the ability to change their name, in exchange for the right to change their title. That way, they can exercise their creative urges without confusing people who want to be able to identify them and their posts. Stipulation: If the name itself is somehow problematic or becomes offensive later, allow them to change it on a case-by-case basis.

Dude, there is no way I can say anything about this game without giving it away. It's a nakige, but If I go into the details I can guarantee you'll want to kill me later. Just enjoy it. Don't look at it like one of Key's games though... for one thing, it isn't very comedic. I don't recall laughing much during the course of the game, though I do remember crying. I remember it as an emotionally-moving story, especially the shinigami's path.

It is a good game. Have fun, yall.

*uses a magical beam that turns the loli into your standard kyonyuu osananajimi* Welcome.

*wonders if aliens taste good with garlic* Welcome... *licks his lips*

*plants a seed in the loli's hair which turns it into tendrils of vines that seek to suck the life from anyone who gets close to her* Welcome.

Glad you found joy here. You never know what is going to break the ice for you, but when it does crack, you shouldn't hesitate to recognize (in the sense of actively considering it) it for what it is, even if only inside your own mind. Also, one of the main reasons I can't stand a lot of religious types is because that instant switch to judge/jury when it comes to sexual issues and that tendency to think that it was the woman's fault for getting raped. It is always the man's fault, as he is the one who decides not to resist the dominance impulse that most males of our species possess. That decision to only regard an individual as a tool to satisfy one's urges (sexual and otherwise) is dehumanizing and unforgivable. The decision by a community to get up on a high horse and regard the girl as being at fault, while ignoring their own faults is a sign that not one of them actually took to heart their own savior's teachings on compassion. I'll stop here, because I find less... judicious words coming to the fore. I'm not a very nice person, but I do know better than to treat a victim as if they were the assailant.

*injects the loli with a mysterious substance that causes her to grow tentacles* welcome.

Jingai Makyou it is. For those awaiting their tlcs, I've been working all day for the past few days, save for a few breaks, so I haven't had time. I'll be able to finish them sometime tomorrow, so I appreciate your patience. (Edit: I'm currently smashed by rl issues, so I'm going to delay the next entry until next week... I have six papers to write, three tests to take, and a ton of work to do.)

Romance VNs are one thing you'll never run short of... I suggest Komorebi no Nostalgia if you can read Japanese.

*dances the welcome dance in sync with the rhythm of the song, laughing maniacally for no particular reason*

A Fuwanovel forums member introduction thread. *looks at solidbatman incredulously, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world*

*summons succubuses to possess the lolis, then sets them on the dwellers of the thread*

*dances the welcome dance, wailing loudly while juggling the severed heads of cloned lolis*

Eustia, blech. *vomits*

Get on #fuwanovel I'm pretty sure there is a group connected to Fuwa that was looking into working on a Saga Planets game but wasn't willing to do Hatsuyuki because another group was already doing it. I'd suggest you call out to the people there and ask them to merge with your group, since they apparently have a translator.

lol... well, good luck with that. Look on the bright side, your first one in Japanese wasn't Jingai Makyou, like mine was. That game was a nightmare for a first-timer...

mmm... if you get desperate, you might resort to visual novel reader, though VNR is as clunky as hell to get to display romaji and it only does it over the kanji, as I recall, with no dict function.

lol... I don't remember the last time I had to highlight it... but I remember doing so at the beginning. It is a tool that I only ever used for technical jargon... so I guess I'm not quite there on understanding how others feel on that issue. Basically Hime and Izumi (I think that's her name) are the only humans at that school, and because humans started and kept the war between the worlds going for so long, they are the subjects of persecution by the rest of the school. The exception is the dragon-loli, who loves the protagonist and a few others here and there who admire their willingness to keep on in the face of all that hatred. I think they might have mentioned that the dragons have an incredibly low population due to their high death rate during the war and that the demons and gods are in a sort of uneasy peace mostly predicated on the efforts of the legendary hero. Hime can't use magic (for reasons that will become evident shortly), but Izumi is a specialist in speed and wind magic through the use of her ritual weapon (a pair of twin katanas). Hime makes up for his lack by thinking ahead, sharpening his skills with a sword, and predicting his enemy's moves... but he is still lowest in the class, pretty much.

Basically Jparser is integrated into Translation Aggregator... let me give you a pic of my screen. Basically, close all the windows inside TA except Jparser, then use the config menu for it (the wrench sign) to set the furigana size and what you use for them (hiragana, katakana, romaji). Attach ITH to the game itself as well (not forgetting to run both as administrator if you are using later-version Windows) and make sure to highlight 'auto copy to clipboard' in options.

Dude, use translation agg and jparser (I assumed you intended to do so, since you'd have to have all the commonly used kanji (at least eight hundred) to be able to read it without it. No matter how much kanji you know, it isn't enough. There will always be kanji you don't get. Also, Tiny Dungeon is about as low as you can get (well, besides Draculius) without the game being pure crap. Only nukige and Feng-style moege can get away with being 'lighter' than that linguistically... and both defy the idea of a good vn. Also, set jparser to romaji. If you know the grammar you shouldn't have any problems.

And October's winner is... Walkure Romanze More&More (http://vndb.org/v10983). Normally I wouldn't choose a fandisc as game of the month, but the original game was a decent seishun drama and charage with an interesting setting that made a good case for loving each of its heroines. In addition, this game followed in its footsteps quite well by giving three new unique routes that maintained the quality of the original (in addition to two of the heroines being ones everybody wanted in the first one, lol) while not trying to copy the original's paths. For this, I felt confident that I was right to view this game as a game in and of itself, capable of standing on its own within limits. For those who want to ask about Cocoro@Function, I decided not to choose it for a very simple reason... they shafted two of the heroines with non-paths that turn them into sub-heroines put there only for loli h-scenes. It hit one of my major pet peeves (if you aren't going to have a main heroine whose route beats all the others in quality, then all the heroine routes should contain roughly the same amount of content and depth of story). However, if you stick to the other three routes, you do get a decent quality charage with nice - if not great - individual heroine routes. For those interested in Usotsuki Ouji to Nayameru Himesama, check my comments thread on vndb. Standard Whirlpool fare does not equal worthy of game of the month, in my mind. For those who were interested in Chiisana Kanojo... think your typical shallow moege that is almost a nukige and you will have a picture of what it was like. The Monobeno fandisc is your standard fandisc, unlike the Walkure Romanze one, and, as such, it wasn't a serious candidate.

*gives the lolis his usual loli-yuri aphrodisiac and locks them in a room with cameras and a one-way mirror*

I uninstalled it quite some time ago. I have a tendency to extract to notepad any scenes I take a particular liking to linguistically, and I'm drawing from those for my selections so far. It isn't that far in (basically, its the point where the protag takes the irreversible step of accepting his fate, like all chuuni protags do, lol). Basically, after you see a cg of a girl carrying around a decapitated head, you will be there by the next scene. If you are interested, that is.