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    MellowMadman11 got a reaction from krill in Mellow's art contest.   
    Possibly whenever Mellow has the time and money available to do this all again.
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    MellowMadman11 got a reaction from krill in Mellow's art contest.   
    She's soooooo cute! I'm taking her home with me!!!
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to krill in Mellow's art contest.   
    thanx suikashoujo, i had a great time competing with everyone as well, congrats on the silver too i cant believe we three hung in there it became an endurance match at some point lol. also congrats chocolate. loved seeing your stuff as well like your style keep it up both of you and hope to compete in future fuwa contests with you guys. and special thanx goes out to mellow for hosting a fun if not occasionally nerve fraying contest .
     

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    MellowMadman11 reacted to suikashoujo in Mellow's art contest.   
    I-it's not like I NEED to know who best girl is or anything... b-baka.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to suikashoujo in Mellow's art contest.   
    Well, congrats on first place, Krill. Too bad we were going for the same prize. 
     
    Congrats to Chocolat, too- getting into the top 3 was no easy task; believe me, I know.   This was a fun time; I'm glad I participated.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Narcosis in Are you willing to take a ride to possibly the most perverted bloodshed experience?   
    You'd be actually surprised how normal and open-minded most of them are, especially when compared to other average people.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to krill in Mellow's art contest.   
    ok here's the first half of the submission for the final part of the contest. i decided to draw all 4 of use the 3 finalists and mellow as fuwanovel versions of edward gorey's famous gashlycrumb tinies. if you dont know gorey's body of work you should check him out his stuff was a huge influence on my wish to persue inking as a teen instead of sketching or painting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey   i will upload the second half of the submission after its finished tommorow. and edit this post with it .
     
    fuwacrumb tinies
     



     
    for best girl i chose renko hikawa from psycho love comedy (psycome for short)this is unfinished was goona finish last night but my son was up sick all night and as i was finishing the inking today half way through we ended up having to call for a ride to the er for him ill replace this unfinished version as soon as i get home from the hospital , sorry to post something incomplete.
     



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    MellowMadman11 reacted to suikashoujo in Mellow's art contest.   
    Based on previous posts, I decided that Rena was a safe bet for best girl. 
     



     
    EDIT: Aaaand here's part 2. I'm adding it into this post so that I don't end up double posting. 
     
    I probably got everyone's appearances wrong, but oh well, that's part of the fun, I guess. Also, since I thought the pictures on their own weren't very exciting, I added a picture of myself (VERY nondescript, so the other contestants don't know my true appearance ) and made a little logo to commemorate the contest. This is my last entry, after all, so I figured I'd have a little extra fun with it.



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    MellowMadman11 reacted to krill in Mellow's art contest.   
    greatness is possible just choose the right route and don't get the bad end.
     
    http://youtu.be/ta9Kf2kJ2Ss
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Chocolat in Mellow's art contest.   
    Oooh, what a hero! Hurray to Mellow!
     
     

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    MellowMadman11 reacted to krill in Mellow's art contest.   
    im over joyed . the time has come. 
     

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    MellowMadman11 got a reaction from suikashoujo in Mellow's art contest.   
    If that is what you want, that is what you shall get.
     
    But be prepared for this.
     
    So it's just Krill, suikashoujo, and chocolat... hehehe... good.
     
    I'll post the final topic tomorrow night since I wasn't expecting it so soon. you'll get 2 weeks to do it since it will be a much more difficult task than the previous ones.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to DarkSin in Violet Hill (DEMO released)   
    Hello from the Artist
     
     
    Hello, it’s DarkSin, the Team Violet Hill’s lead artist (though that’s not saying much considering how small our art team is ^^’). It’s seems like it’s my turn to do the update post. I haven’t really OFFICIALLY (or unofficially ) introduced myself here before. Basically what I do is the… um the art. Most of it. The Sprites, CGs, maps, some backgrounds most probably and various other things. Yes, it’s a lot of work! D: Oh and I also like to do a little QC’ing and get involved with the idea bouncing, character designs and brainstorming
     
     
    Experience with the Team so far
     
     
    I joined the team just a few months back, and so far I’ve had a great time with them. They are very motivated, ambitious and talented. We chat about all sorts of things, not just the project. Anime, visual novel… fetishes. Yes, all sorts of things o.o It’s pretty fun actually
     
     
    Progress this Past Month
     
     
    We’ve been doing a lot this past month. The team has begun pushing harder and allotting more time to the VN for the v.3 demo release and it’s shaping up pretty nicely. Things are coming together bit by bit. The script has been polished to a glaring shine (and then some ), art assets are progressing nicely, new music compositions by Vok have been added.
    Helv and Choco have been hard at work with the script. Choco, the idea guy’s, suggestion for using Google docs was a big help and considerably sped up progress. The QC’ers have also been helping out.
     Vok made some beautiful music tracks for us and.. is off to Japan for some months xD He’ll resume work on the soundtrack when he gets back. And I myself have been pretty busy with 2 universities, but I’ve been working on the VN in almost all my free time.
     I’ve completed two sprite packs so far.  I probably went a little overboard with them, though Two many variations. I wanted the characters to appear more alive, so to speak. Our editor Choco is even doubling as our photographer, providing us with some beautiful imagery. We want everything in Violet Hill to be original.
    As said before, the visual novel has taken on a professionalism and aims to reach the level of any good commercial Japanese visual novel. Extra effort is being put into maintaining a standard.
     
    What’s Coming
     
     

     
     
    Additions to the Team and Wanted Positions
     
     
    Please welcome the newest addition to our team, Mat!  Mat is our QC’er/style checker. He helped out in the polishing of the demo script.
    Kaskade has rejoined our team as well. He will also be QCíng.
     
    Wanted positions are as follows:
     
    . FMV animator  -  Needs to be able to animate short 2D scenes, using whatever software(s).
    . Background artist  -  Must be warned there are many backgrounds in this VN. And also a certain quality standard will be expected.
    . A co-editor  -  Should be proficient in English, and have writing experience.
    Please note, if you’re skilled in any relative area (art, music, QCíng), or if you just want to genuinely help out, feel free to contact us. There’s always some room for fresh blood enthusiastic volunteers. This is a community project and we want the support the community
     
     
    The Corner
     
     
    And lastly, an art piece by our artist, er… me ^^’

    Rin looking at our logo; Red Lattice Studio.
    Our logo design by Helv:

     
     
    That's it from me. See you next time. Don't forget to keep giving us your support!
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Chocolat in Mellow's art contest.   
    Out of the night,
    When the full moon is bright,
    Comes the dude known as Mellow
    This bold renegade
    Carves a "M" with his pen,
    A "M" that stands for Mellow~

     
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to OriginalRen in Fuwanovel Logo Contest   
    Here is my submission for the contest:
     

     



     
    Adjusting the hair on the side so it doesn't get cut off is an easy fix by the way.
     
    Anyways, fun contest. Thanks for hosting!
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Darklord Rooke in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    Good to see you Naomi-san :3
     
    For the record, Rooke agrees with everything Naomi said
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    MellowMadman11 got a reaction from Sieg in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    I actively support the VN industry by buying what gets localized as much as I can, and i'll continue to do so (and soon japanese language VN's as well) regardless of what happens with Fuwa. 
     
    That being said, i'm in agreement with those who believe Fuwa should keep those two torrents. When I first joined Fuwa, I was new to VN's and like most of you probably were, I was looking for a site where I could find more of them to enjoy. As someone who is pretty behind the curve when it comes to technology, I had never used a torrent or anything like that before so it was a new experience for me. I wasn't really sure about all of this, then I read some statements written by Aaeru on the subject of copyright and all of that and I have to say I agree with a great majority of her statements on the subject.
     
    I likened it to my own beliefs as an artist. As some of you probably know by now, i'm a huge supporter of anything that can be called art. I also do some work myself and while i've been away from all of it for a while, i'm slowly getting back into it. I have had quite a few talks with some fellow artists as well as others who just enjoy art and one thing I often get asked is if I would like to make a living creating art. My answer is always that the though has never crossed my mind. I would gladly make a living teaching it, but not selling it. I believe art is at it's best when it is made for the sake of art itself and nothing else. I plan to become a teacher down the road, and if I do teach art I will try my best to convey this idea to my students.
     
    That being said, i'm not one to support forcing anyone to agree to anything, I think it's wonderful that there are so many people with differing opinions and perspectives in this world. It would be a shame if there weren't, as I find it makes life more interesting.
     
    But those are just my thoughts on the issue, I will continue to support VN's and art in general regardless of the decision, as well as supporting Fuwa.
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    MellowMadman11 got a reaction from Cyrillej1 in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    I actively support the VN industry by buying what gets localized as much as I can, and i'll continue to do so (and soon japanese language VN's as well) regardless of what happens with Fuwa. 
     
    That being said, i'm in agreement with those who believe Fuwa should keep those two torrents. When I first joined Fuwa, I was new to VN's and like most of you probably were, I was looking for a site where I could find more of them to enjoy. As someone who is pretty behind the curve when it comes to technology, I had never used a torrent or anything like that before so it was a new experience for me. I wasn't really sure about all of this, then I read some statements written by Aaeru on the subject of copyright and all of that and I have to say I agree with a great majority of her statements on the subject.
     
    I likened it to my own beliefs as an artist. As some of you probably know by now, i'm a huge supporter of anything that can be called art. I also do some work myself and while i've been away from all of it for a while, i'm slowly getting back into it. I have had quite a few talks with some fellow artists as well as others who just enjoy art and one thing I often get asked is if I would like to make a living creating art. My answer is always that the though has never crossed my mind. I would gladly make a living teaching it, but not selling it. I believe art is at it's best when it is made for the sake of art itself and nothing else. I plan to become a teacher down the road, and if I do teach art I will try my best to convey this idea to my students.
     
    That being said, i'm not one to support forcing anyone to agree to anything, I think it's wonderful that there are so many people with differing opinions and perspectives in this world. It would be a shame if there weren't, as I find it makes life more interesting.
     
    But those are just my thoughts on the issue, I will continue to support VN's and art in general regardless of the decision, as well as supporting Fuwa.
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    MellowMadman11 got a reaction from sarayne in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    I actively support the VN industry by buying what gets localized as much as I can, and i'll continue to do so (and soon japanese language VN's as well) regardless of what happens with Fuwa. 
     
    That being said, i'm in agreement with those who believe Fuwa should keep those two torrents. When I first joined Fuwa, I was new to VN's and like most of you probably were, I was looking for a site where I could find more of them to enjoy. As someone who is pretty behind the curve when it comes to technology, I had never used a torrent or anything like that before so it was a new experience for me. I wasn't really sure about all of this, then I read some statements written by Aaeru on the subject of copyright and all of that and I have to say I agree with a great majority of her statements on the subject.
     
    I likened it to my own beliefs as an artist. As some of you probably know by now, i'm a huge supporter of anything that can be called art. I also do some work myself and while i've been away from all of it for a while, i'm slowly getting back into it. I have had quite a few talks with some fellow artists as well as others who just enjoy art and one thing I often get asked is if I would like to make a living creating art. My answer is always that the though has never crossed my mind. I would gladly make a living teaching it, but not selling it. I believe art is at it's best when it is made for the sake of art itself and nothing else. I plan to become a teacher down the road, and if I do teach art I will try my best to convey this idea to my students.
     
    That being said, i'm not one to support forcing anyone to agree to anything, I think it's wonderful that there are so many people with differing opinions and perspectives in this world. It would be a shame if there weren't, as I find it makes life more interesting.
     
    But those are just my thoughts on the issue, I will continue to support VN's and art in general regardless of the decision, as well as supporting Fuwa.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Zakamutt in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    I think the line of only providing fan tls (whether localized later or not) is okay. Meh.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Darklord Rooke in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    Indeed, that seems to be the case. However, it is also true that Aaeru wished to develop strong links with the English Visual Novel Community. She wished to aid with the production of visual novels in the West, and attempted to establish links with the English community back in 2012.
     
    And from some of the crowd, we might be able to attract new talent to the creative side of things. ... The thing is, I know next to nothing about what the OELVN community need. I only know I want to promote their work and attract new people to join their ranks. ... I want to leverage that increase in popularity to attract more attention to VN creation. - Aaeru 2012
     
    Her overall goals were not hidden, or questioned. She wanted to make VNs popular in the West, which meant popularising fan-tls, and OELVN creation. 2 sides of the coin. However, you cannot aid in the production of visual novels with such a sloppy attitude regarding copyright. It was a lesson she quickly learnt two years ago, creators of works largely have different expectations and viewpoints than consumers. It was why her efforts were rebuffed in 2012, and it is why no progress has been made on that front in the past two years.
     
    Furthermore, it is an undeniable fact that the state of the visual novel industry in the west is in trouble, both here and in Japan (for different reasons obviously.) You cannot make visual novels popular in the West without having a visual novel industry in the first place. Anybody with such a wish would also be required to wish for the prosperity of such an industry. If you have no prosperous visual novel industry, you have no visual novels with which to spread. This requires funds, therefore to wish for visual novels to be popular in the West is to encourage the FINANCIAL SUPPORT of such an industry. Increasing the fanbase is only part of this, the other half is to encourage the fanbase to support the official developers. If you do only part of this, then you are lax in your duties.
     
    Following Aaeru's wishes or goals doesn't mean following her method. I want what Aaeru wanted back in 2012, but her method was not the way to achieve this.
     
    And this brings me to my next point.
     
     
    That's a nice little anecdote, unfortunately I don't roll with anecdotes. I roll with facts and figures. All I see from the fan-tl community whenever this issue arises is the tired argument that an expanding fanbase will mean an increase in sales. Well, let's look at the facts, shall we?
     
    The fanbase has expanded exponentially from where it used to be, but where's the pay-off we've been promised? The influx of 'true fans'? JAST doesn't sell enough copies to remain afloat without being propped up by J-List. MG can barely sell enough to keep it's doors open, and the only way they can acheive this is to release a ton of nukige that only take a few weeks to translate for quick dough. They've had to resort to pleading with the fan-tl community to wait a couple of weeks before uploading cracked copies online, because as soon as you guys do their sale figures plummet. The truth of the matter is the vast majority of the VN community still can't be bothered to support the industry. And you are part of the problem Steve, because you don't actively encourage the final step. You automatically assume that expanding the fanbase will result in a flock of new fans willing to buy the product. Well, there's jack all evidence to support this. It's a naive point of view. If half the people who downloaded and enjoyed the damn game would pay for the product, the industry wouldn't be in the dire straits it is now. And maybe if you encourage the practice, more people would buy the game. 
     
    Like I said before, MG's bestselling games were around 2,000 copies before STEAM. It took a DRM platform to move a respectable number of copies. 5 times as many copies as their previous best-selling game.
     
     
     
    Welcome to reality Steve, where fairness and justice are playground illusions. There will never be a perfect solution for all, there will never be fairness for all, and if you think there can then you're naive.
     
    The feelings of the creators who poured hundreds of hours into making the damn game, and the condition of the industry – an industry we all love, trumps the rights and feelings of those souls who want the game for free. Because at the end of the day, if we don’t encourage the financial support of such an industry, there’ll be fewer VNs for everybody. Then nobody gets their VN fix.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Steve in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    This is going to be long so take a seat.
    And don't you dare skimming through it or not reading any of the linked articles.

    1. Misinterpretation of Fuwanovel mission statement

    I will start with this as it should be simple to explain.
    The portion of the mission statement that is used in the forum logo (and forum logo only) is just part of the whole mission.
    As you can notice on the main website, the main logo there actually describes the website differently.

    "Fan translated visual novels repository"
    And if you browse the website and visit the mission statement section, you can see the mission is actually different from what the forum logo says, it is:
    "Visual Novels for the World"
    As even included with the logo of the section:


    Following up in the mission statement, three main objectives are mentioned there

    There are three main objectives, they are:
    1) Make visual novels popular in the West.
    2) Promote fan translation
    3) Create a community that celebrates fan translation and fan sharing.


    When the forums logo was made, only the first part of the mission statement was put there, because otherwise it would be too long. And many people misinterpret "West" as "America", where as it just states the general mission statement Visual Novels for the World but with different words.
    West in that case means outside of Japan (where Visual Novels already exist), so basically the rest of the world.

    What I am getting at is that nowhere on the whole website it states anything about promoting Localized copies, ensuring sales of Localized copies or celebrating success of Localization companies and commercial market.
    Instead it focuses on fan translation, fan efforts, fan sharing, fan creations and fan improvements to the original version.

    The only reason Fuwanovel doesn't share licensed versions was out of Aaeru's "good will".
    She decided not to include those releases as a gesture of friendliness to the companies.
    How those companies responded to this good will and attempts to build a friendly relationship is a different matter entirely.



    2. Piracy vs Sharing

    The whole word "Piracy" is just wrongly used since the beginning of the internet.
    If you imagine piracy in a pirate movie, they invade a ship and deprive people off their possessions.
    But in the case of games, movies, music - that is never the case. "Piracy" on the internet just stands for "Sharing", but people for some reason needed a word that sounds evil.
    Instead of taking away possessions of someone else, you are being offered a shared copy of what someone already has. You are being offered a flower seed out of unlimited supply to grow your own flower and ultimately build your love for flowers to the point you want to support the people who originally imported these flowers from different parts of the world.


    Aaeru and Fuwanovel was always for "Sharing" and as so you could say also for "Piracy" since they are the same thing.

    The stuff about flower seeds and building love for flowers is much better explained in the "Spreading culture does not decrease supporters. It increases it." part of fuwanovel About section.
    Please read the whole article if you haven't already done so.

    You can notice there the part of why true fans pay money.



    "Your labour IS the scarcity not the copies, for it cannot be pirated."

    And are you going to argue that it doesn't work? Even the mentioned Steins;Gate release says exactly the opposite, many of the fuwanovel staff bought the copy even though we still direct people to the shared copy.
    It is not because they had to buy it, they wanted to buy it, partially thanks to the fact that the game is popularized thanks to Fuwanovel.

    The article mentioned above wasn't directed at localization companies however, it was mainly directed at Japanese developers and why Aaeru decided to share the copies with the improvements of additional language version.

    You can even see similar examples here of people buying a Japanese version if they liked the fuwanovel copy. I can even say it for myself - I am struggling to make a living and pay rent, but after finishing Iroseka (shared torrented version), I became true fan of FAVORITE, It is one of my dreams that once I solve my situation and get some more money, I will not buy some expensive food or a car or any other pleasure like that, I will buy the games with all the stupidly overpriced little perks in the box, because I want the companies to make more of it.
    But in the meanwhile, all I can really do is spread the word of how good the games are, link people to the Fuwanovel Hoshimemo page, praise Iroseka and make more people try to play it in Japanese now, make more people interested in translating it for even wider audience - because I know that I can find people who will fall in love with those games just like I have and maybe they will have the funds to afford the support to the companies. I was able to talk to a Japanese FAVORITE fan yesterday in pso2JP, uniting together we can get more and more fame to the company that deserves it, even though the Japanese person can buy the game with earnings from an hour or 2 of his time, and all I can do is spread the word. But I am willing to spread the word for many hours, writing reviews and comparisons, because that is all I can spare, my time.

    If I haven't "pirated" the games in the first place, I would never be able to do this, I would never be able to extend the fandom because I would never be able to play the game.



    3. Localized releases vs Fan TL releases

    So as mentioned above, we are still trying to carry Aaeru's good will of not sharing localized copies, a good will even after all the things the companies have done to her in response. The good will might weaken in times of controversy we can sometimes see, but since we believe that evil should not be repaid by evil, that eye for an eye is just the wrong approach, we still continue this good will and are not sharing English licensed releases of games.

    But there was never such will for Japanese releases, as with those, following the points mentioned in point 2 of this post, the creator will have more success in building fandom and true fans.

    And as such we are sharing Japanese copy of Planetarian, a game Aaeru added to the website, improved by a collective fan effort many years ago. It is the same version a lot of you (Including me) were able to enjoy for free, thanks to the original fan effort and Fuwanovel sharing service. And the same version, translated out of passion for the game, shared between fans of Key to make their games even more popular.
    Without this fan copy and all the other fan translated Key games, most of us would not be able to enjoy them. Without the effort of fan subbing, lot of people would not be able to enjoy Key anime.
    And without that the English Key fandom would not become what it is today, a fandom that is able to organize a giant project like Key 15th Anniversary Letter.
    A project that will even be collaborating with Sekai project to deliver their letter, signifying their dedication.
    A project full of TRUE fans who will buy the official Sekai release even though they have probably played Planetarian several times.

    And you are asking us to simply remove all that from existence so only you and other people in the past were so privileged to enjoy it for free and become a fan. That new people cannot join the club anymore, become a fan of a free version to later potentially evolve into a true fan supporting Key by buying figs and games all over the place, just like many Fuwanovel members do.

    And the same goes for Grisaia, we are sharing a Japanese version of the game improved by fan translation, a version that was able to build pretty big fandom of its own. A favorite game of many thanks to the free fan translation and the free availability on Fuwanovel (among other places).
    A fandom built thanks to a collaborative effort of not only translators and other people on the project, but also seeders on the torrents, page creators, article writers, even people just saying "I loved this game" in a public place - all those efforts however important or hard they might be created what Grisaia true fandom today is and as such tons of them will be able to afford the steam release, while others can keep sharing the word and original fan project for free, to get even more people on the board to be able to spend their money, time or effort or combination of those to further support their beloved game.


    And in the end by removing the original fan translation patch you are not only depriving newcomers of things you were able to have yourself, depriving them of the sun that used to shine on you.
    But you are also undermining all the efforts of the people trying to share and make the game as popular as possible with the means available to them. Some people have money to import the game from Japan or later buy the game on Steam, some people only have words.
    But power of the words might in the end turn out more powerful than power of money. By sharing a VN and making more people be interested in it and talk about it, you are essentially trading words for words - effort and words of the original creator for the good words and effort of review writers or simply people telling their friends to play it. And in the end this trade will result in a profit for the creator, as more and more people will be interested in the words the creator has to say in their games, more and more people will want more of those words and become a true fan, patron and supporter, trading their currency for more words.


    4. Fuwanovel as a negative profit website

    Since this was already said, I will keep it short.
    But Fuwanovel, unlike many other sharing websites such as nyaa, generates ZERO profit of any of this. Quite the opposite, running website and fees connected to this actually costs money and we rely on charity of people, paying their money to host and run the website, offering their seedbox so we can spread the game torrents as quickly as possible.
    And even the times when many of us together collected the money to buy the forum software, with whatever we could put aside at that moment.
    And still there is not a single ad on the website, not a single cent was generated on Fuwanovel and that is how it is going to remain.
    Efforts of all the people working on maintaining the website, work put into coding and additional features, forum moderation, creating new pages for newly released projects, maintaining good upload speed by seeding - all those efforts are done with 0 compensation and 0 profit.
    And as such everyone can expect everything on Fuwanovel be equal to everyone, whether you came a year ago or now, you will have access to the same games for the same equal price, 0.
    That's because 0 is the ONLY price equal to everyone in the world and even though $1 might seem equal to all Americans, it is not equal to everyone in the world, only 0 is.

    And as the mission statement goes, Visual Novels for the World.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Stanleys in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    There is no need to start to get hostile with each other, that's not going to do anything but rile everyone up.
     
    While I do give my support to the Industry and creators, I do not support the alteration of content in a VN. Once a translation project has made the decision to alter the original content, even if it is something as simple as removing some content to drop the rating from 18+ to all-ages, that translation becomes a separate entity than the original content. I understand that when there is a fan translation, there will also be the loss of a meaning that the original creator intended. That just come naturally when you translate to another language. 
     
    Now then, as for my response to the removal of the torrent, I believe that we should continue to host both VN's in order to keep the spirit that I have felt from Fuwanovel, spreading VN's to the west and allowing free access of all our VN's. I have never once viewed Fuwanovel as a site that gives its full support to the localization of VN's, especially when that localization comes with the alteration of content, as shown with KonoSora. While the main site only has the restoration patch available to download, It certainly doesn't take much time of searching or posting on the forums to get a hold of a copy, be it the Moenovel version, or the original Japanese version.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to shcboomer in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    I'll chime in here, this at the very core is a Fuwan issue. It really defines what Fuwan is and should be something dealt with in a serious manner. Considering the track record until now, the best option is to remove the torrents since they are now licensed.
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    MellowMadman11 reacted to Nosebleed in Request: Removal of Grisaia and Planetarian Torrents   
    "Opinion of the staff" is relative here. I've already voiced myself with the staff but to keep it short i am also for taking the torrent down.

    Let me make it very clear i love all the torrents and i can't financially support the developers at the moment so i won't have an official copy anytime soon. That sucks and i hate it and in reality i would like to have a free copy available anytime i want.

    But that would imply denying what fuwanovel is and that's something i personally don't like. Even if not having the torrent pains me i still know i'd be doing something right by not distributing something Sekai Project brought to the west with their own effort and harming their sales as well as possibly harming the future of more vns being localized.

    This is of course if fuwanovel is pro localization, if not then what i just said is pointless. But i believe localization is a big part of making vns popular in the west.

    That's my personl opinion at least.
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