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    Would like to see a summation of the article's points tho, if one would be so kind.

    As far as the Syrian conflict is concerned, I've always wanted to yell at America to pick on someone their own size. The only reason the conflict has lasted so long is because of world powers supporting their own interests, be it Russia, China or Iran etc. Intervening directly and supporting your own faction is clearly wrong and the current leaders seem to agree on that, but how about stopping other countries from doing what they like? It seems to me like the US is ready to jump on most Middle Eastern countries without much hesitation, but shies away when there's a big country like Russia involved.

    All things considered tho I liked Obama's approach a lot, maybe mainly because my only comparison was between him and his predecessor. With Trump being Trump and America being America right now, I think I'll look back to this age, the age where America wasn't the dickiest country in the world, as a golden age of sorts :P

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    >Nice

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    In all seriousness tho, very interesting post. Would read more. After the torrents got removed I don't think there's even much history to be had so I don't know what else you're going to put in part two, but eh maybe there's more behind da scenes stuff that I've never seen. That Aaeru bate in particular sounds really interesting, so please elaborate as soon as possible :sachi:

  3. Where do you even start...

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    Alice from Monster Girl Quest in both Human and monster form:

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    Yes, I have a thing for magic girls, although I prefer it when they're mature and elegant rather than the popular childish stature. Elemental Master is one of Aisha's forms in Elsword (an MMO), and her design truly captures my preference

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    9 hours ago, Rooke said:

    Also @Down, can you lock Bab and Ren in a room together until they learn to get along? Throw away the key as well, it'll be most amusing to see them forced to shake hands through gritted teeth only to discover you no longer have the means to let them out.

    Pfffft, as you can see I haven't replied to Ren's last post nor will I, It's one thing to call someone out on exceptionally despicable behavior, but I ain't turning the thread into another Ren vs Fuwa thread, there's enough of those out there. 

    Although I will say that I consider simply being nice to be the most thing that binds this community together. We may disagree on how to make VNs popular in the west, Piracy and torrents, how good KEY is, but the one thing we've seemed to always agree on is keeping a nice, welcoming atmosphere. We don't tolerate elitists going around and making fun of/humiliating newbies, nor do we tolerate hostile behavior and to an extent, foul language. Things that every community I've been in- Be it Reddit, game forums, or youtube comments- seem to fall prey to those eventually, and while we haven't quite reached that point I feel people are slowly drifting in that direction.

    I may just be making a big deal out of this, but after losing torrents, I don't want to see Fuwa lose the only truly valuable thing it has left.

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    This is Fuwa!

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  5. 35 minutes ago, solidbatman said:

     

    chilll he said he hopes he doesn't die, just that his stories are shit. Acting like you suddenly like someone just to match popular sentiment is nothing but lying to look good. I hate Maeda too, and I too hope he does not die, and can continue writing shit VNs for me to get salty over for many years to come. So lets not take the high horse and act like people who don't like him and say as much are "disgustingly childish". Far from it, I ffeel that people who suddenly act like they like someone when illness happens are the childish ones

     

    If Ren came out and said, "Good, I hope this worthless, talentless, uncreative piece of shit writer dies a slow and agonizing death in his hospital bed," then you might have a point. 

    That's the thing tho: No one said you have to like him or hate him. The people who are actually calmly wishing Jun Maeda gets better aren't praising the crap out of him either, they're just wishing a writer who's work they've enjoyed gets better. The purpose of this thread was to notify everyone of what's going and to check up on any updates. The problem isn't with "Pretending to like someone" or whatever it is you're saying, it's with going out of your way to remind everyone you hate this guy. That's what Ren said, not just that his work is bad, but saying fuck you to a guy's who's just been hospitalized is beyond any level of acceptable joking that I know of. It's just blatant, shameless and disgustingly childish hate, and Fuwa has always been the one place on the internet that doesn't have it.

    And I don't want to see that change anytime soon. 

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    6 hours ago, OriginalRen said:

    All right fine, I'll just be honest with myself and won't beat around the bush with what I'm trying to say:

    Fuck Maeda. His stories are shit. I hope he doesn't die.

    Man, even when he's sick, all you can do is show hatred...? I know not everyone's a Key fan over here, but going out of your way to show your malice to a sick author is... Disgustingly childish at best. You've had some pretty low times Ren, but I didn't think you'd drop this low. To think you were once a community leader, that once people actually looked up to you... Well, rip OriginalRen. I shall not confuse that man with this... Run 4chan spawn thing

  7. You also can't really generalize neither the ancient world nor the one we live in today. It varies quite extremely between different places at the same time. I remember Ibn Battuta (a traveler during mid evil times) went to some islands to the south of India where people were so peaceful, they all fainted when they saw someone's hand being chopped off. Yes that's not from ancient times, but we know so little about those times that I would hesitate to make such a large claim as "Ancient times were more peaceful/less violent than now". Our knowledge of those times is mostly restricted to parts of Europe and the Middle East, I'm surprised Rooke even mentioned the Aztecs/Incas (although I'm not sure how old those Civilizations go :P)

  8. I think it's interesting to mention a seemingly unrelated, ancient example to this [inter-Race-here]-washing: A Thousand Nights and One Night, sometimes referred to as Arabian Nights (the movie Aladdin was based of this book).

    It's considered by pretty much everyone to be a part of Arabian culture and mythology, while in reality it's not. The author was an Arab adviser of sorts who traveled a lot around many different kingdoms, mainly located in India and Persia. From these regions he took most of his stories, wrote them in an Arabic book, gave the characters and cities Arabic names, and walla. Any Arab could tell this considering how extremely un-Arab the stories from that book are (I'm an Arab and I've read it so I can personally attest to this), Indian and Persian cultures are extremely different from Arab culture, and yet this book is the major reason why many cultural aspects of these regions are confused together.

    That's kind of what's happening here? I don't really expect much from Hollywood and Western media in general, the majority have always had a disgustingly biased and anti-anything-that's-not-white theme to them so yeah, casting white actors everywhere is no big surprise.

  9. This is actually a legit problem. I can't get a friend of mine- Who has shown quite a bit of interest in VNs, playing the free steam ones and also a few Sekai Project stuff- to try the real VNs like GSNM, Clannad or Grisaia because they're so God damn expensive.

    I can't really demand the prices get lower, it's just rather sad :komari:

  10. This is an interesting discussion. Another great example of how to use a perfect character well: One Punch Man. Yes, you're probably sick of people praising that show left and right but it's worthy of praise. Saitama is a character that can beat anything and anyone by one punch, that's about as lame as it gets. If the story was just watching villains show up and get punched, it would be a bad story. But the story cleverly creates a new conflict: Saitama climbing the ladder of heroes. Despite his strength, Saitama's considered a very low ranking hero, and struggles quite a bit to get the recognition he deserves. Pretty much most of the good parts of the anime revolves around this struggle, and it's where the show shines the most. So the problem isn't perfect or "Mary Sue" characters on their own, it's how stories use them

  11. I agree that the front page has kind of lost it's purpose with the removal of torrents. Suggestions of what else to do with it have already been made so I won't go over those, although I do think there should be more focus on the existing parts of Fuwanovel and integrating them more, especially the blog, Fuwagazette and the forums.

  12. So yeah... It's been a bit over 4 months from our last episode, so I thought I'd take this as a chance to readvertize give the newbies a chance to check out za podcast. Me and a group of friends use this podcast as an excuse to talk about VN stuff, and if ya'll want to listen, you now can! While we've always had a specific topic to talk about, we couldn't really come up with one for this podcast so I hope that doesn't annoy anyone >_<

    What did we actually talk about, you ask? Well, a lot of stuff... The main question was "What have you been reading lately" and we basically got sidetracked approximately a spitzillion times. VNs talked about include Comyu, Rewrite (spoilers included, BUT I added an annotation to skip it so YOU'RE WELCOME), Grisaia, Monster Girl Quest, Hoshizora No Memoria, Shikkoku No Sharnoth, Kamidori Alchemy Meister, and whatever Zaka was reading. As for actual topics, I guess we talked a little about metric systems (kek), OELVNs, RPGs vs VNs, which then went into a dispute over what a is a game? (is life just a game?!)

    Here's the actual podcast:-

     

    Here's all da podcasts:

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    PS: If you're planing to watch the podcasts from the start, DO NOT watch the first podcast, the quality was shiet then. I'd recommend not starting earlier than the 3rd episode.

     

     

     

  13. So this is happening. What classes will benefit the most? Which will get bitchslapped? I think aggro and zooi decks in general will get pretty nerfed without a lot of the popular aggro tools, like mad scientist and haunted creeper. I wonder if rogue will see the light of day without loatheb and sludge everywhere. Guess we'll have to wait and see

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