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On 2/28/2016 at 0:53 PM, Zalor said:
Another aspect I miss about the old Fuwa, was the activity of the old staff, notably Ryoji, Tay and Aaeru. Ryoji has hardly been active since the summer of 2013 but was one of the first users to break 1000 post counts, back when merely having 100 was impressive. I will forever remember him as the Sage of Anime. He had been collecting and following anime since the 80's, and knew a lot about the topic. The only person who was his match was another user name Eldin, and when they conversed with each other we referred to it as "Ryoji vs Eldin". Both of them would talk about the most obscure anime that most people have never heard of, and get into intense debates about said long forgotten shows. It was quite entertaining, and fascinating to watch. Ryoji's wife, Kotomi, was also occasionally active on the site. It was always cool to see when the two of them posted in the same threads. Well, those were my thoughts on Ryoji, onto Tay from 2013.
*points to this topic for example*
wwww digging up old topics is fun...
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On 3/6/2016 at 10:17 AM, solidbatman said:
Many of you know that I used to be a global moderator. Even less of you likely know that I also used to be a site administrator. For that reason, I got to see many of the changes happening to Fuwanovel behind closed doors. I was a part of some of the decision making that led Fuwanovel to where it is now. So, this post will be all about that jazz. This post will not be white washed. It will not be some Fuwa Propaganda. I have made many mistakes in my time on Fuwanovel, and in my eyes, so have other people. Please do not report this post, or censor it because you think I am insulting people. I am keeping this as respectful as possible. Now that the breading of this historical sandwich is in place, how about a little background as to why I joined Fuwanovel.
Pretty sure people forgot I was an admin too lol (and a mod but people seem to remember that somehow)
QuoteThis may have also been around the time as the IRC room AMApocolypse. Snotsuku, a resident troll, decided to intice everyone into spamming the forums with AMA threads. Oddly enough, this marked my early encounter with Zakamutt, as he and Kendjin both were slapped on the wrists for their actions and Snow faced a temporary ban. I do remember helping Tay and Ryoji sort that mess out (it resulted in a dedicated IRC thread, and the beginnings of the Games and Chatter board) but again, I don't remember if I was a moderator yet.
heh the IRC days (also username: Snowtsuku now it seems)
QuoteSteve and I, well, our relationship began crumbling at this time. We both had very very different ideas on how Fuwanovel should move forward. If memory serves, on of the first messy staff arguments was over a NSFW loli image being posted. Another early argument was over whether or not the forums should have links to pirated localized VNs. The loli debate pitted Steve and Aaeru against Ryoji and I. Ryoji and I were similar in that we were crass, loud, filled with profanity. Steve was... Steve. Condescending, and the type to put his fingers in his ears and go, "Not listening!" His walls of texts failed to address issues raised, which only served to make Ryoji and I even angrier. Aaeru just did not seem to understand at times what was going on, or was too timid to jump into the bloodbath.
I remember those arguments. I don't remember specifics but I do remember that you and Steve debated on things a lot (Steve mainly with huge walls of text)
QuoteIt was there the birth of Kaguya was witnessed. From spammer to global mod. Not before getting banned from the IRC for abusing frodo the bot. Kaguya was a crazy spammer. We even caught him liking his own posts to boost his reputation. Baby Kaguya just did not give a fuck, and that was part of his appeal to some I suppose. I don't recall if Nosebleed ever hung out in the irc room. He can let you know if he did. Regardless, some shapign up happened and suddenly boom, global mod
TBH I blame ThatPlayer's bot for having rankings of how much you talked on IRC that got Kaguya, Zaka, etc to ... talk a lot. it was amusing
Then again I sorta talked a lot of SC2 strategy to ThatPlayer and TheWingless (Forgot if Secchan was on IRC or not >.>)
QuoteThings were going somewhat smoothly, until Fuwapocolypse 1 happened. Aaeru kind of vanished around the same time, causing a massive headache for poor Tay. I found myself completely useless in the situation. I believe the problem was that Aaeru had pirated the forum software, and it finally caught up to use with a take down. Tay managed to raise some funds, and we purchased the legit copy that we use today. Nayleen was a huge help around that time, so I stepped down right about the same time he became an admin. I decided I no longer wanted to be staff for Fwuanovel. My constant fighting had helped nothing, and I just wanted to be done.
Something like that, yeah
Nulled forum software.
QuoteAt this time, the original Fuwanovel blog, VisualNovelAer was sort of dead I think. There was the random post now and again, but it was dead and social media outreach was smallish. Aaeru's disappearance left Tay high and dry, and then came the second Fuwapocolypse. At issue was the fact Tay had been threatened with legal action. With Aaeru completely vanished, IP holders went after Tay for being in charge of the site. This resulted in Tay having to lay low for a while and severely limit his itneractions with the site. Cybersteel took over hosting the server and Steve became admin. That was a disaster.
It's been like that because Aaeru was the main person who posted on it then. (I mean doesn't the last 3 characters seem familiar?)
It's also around this time I probably got myself taken off the moderating team list myself (not because of legal action, but because of the possibility of it)
QuoteI will work on this more, adding more detail as I find some older posts with some of this action, and remember things better. For example, Grisaia and Clannad getting western releases caused some issues, and so did the final Loli Battle (which resulted in Steve finally leaving Fuwanovel and Sanah becoming the new defender of Fuwa Lolis ) The rebirth of the blog, the birth of FuwaReviews, the death of torrents, and social media stuff will be covered in Part 2 when I do it. Also look forward to irc explosions, Original Ren's appearance, and other more member centric focused stuff. Maybe I'll even get into Aaeru nearly killing Fuwanovel for good. Was kind of swept under the rug for various, good reasons.
I also remember sanahtlig arguing a bunch with Aaeru though. walls of text debates from the past... I think I was also trying to get Fuwanovel to focus a bit more on oelvn's than torrenting around the time we were deciding if torrents should be around or not.
Also lol the IRC drama.
And now back to
semi lurking/being busy with other projects again... maybe -
2 hours ago, Flutterz said:
Welcome back to the forums! Hope you enjoy your stay!
Who's Aaeru?
Have a moe:
Hidden Content
Hihi
some random person who was admin before Tay was o.o
1 hour ago, Deep Blue said:Welcome back desu
Hello
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52 minutes ago, suikashoujo said:
Not like I knew you either, so we're even
So...@suikashoujo
Hi I'm zhurai o/
どぞよろしくお願いします~
SpoilerAlso @ your username: I like watermelons (as well?)
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Huh well that context is interesting.... (that said, I have no clue who suikashoujo is though, but okay
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As for how active I'll be? idk. Trying to do a lot of things at one time, but I'm just trying to rotate what I do somewhat... (though some of these plans/most of these plans have nothing to do with VN's so... *shrug* one can ask but then again it has nothing to do with this topic lol)
We'll see I suppose o.0
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1 hour ago, Zakamutt said:
Welcome back... I mostly remember you from the IRC, though sorta fuzzily still. May you continue to out-emoticon all and sundry, even in your damn avatar T_T
tbh I will probably change this avatar, im just too lazy right now
Emoticon maybe, but generally lazier now, so the more advanced emoticons will be a bit more rarer...
58 minutes ago, VirginSmasher said:Welcome back. I'm one of these "new faces" you speak of and I haven't heard of you before because I'm a new fag. Hope to see you around.
Hi, well that makes us even, because I never heard of you before too :3 wwwwww
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11 hours ago, Nosebleed said:
Oh man it's been forever. Welcome back!
hihi
10 hours ago, hitoribocchi said:Welcome back~
hello
8 hours ago, Kaguya said:Zhurai! Welcome back!
We didn't talk too much, but I always looked up to you as part of the staff back then!
Absolutely great to have you here!
hiya
8 hours ago, 12kami said:hello and welcome back
8 hours ago, Nimbus said:Welcome back.
hihi
4 hours ago, solidbatman said:the emoticon master returns o7
lol ( ^▽^ )'
1 hour ago, OriginalRen said:The whole family is returning.
:3
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1 hour ago, SilverLi said:
Welcome back zhurai. Enjoy your stay again.
49 minutes ago, Dergonu said:Welcome back!
Hihi
58 minutes ago, Arcadeotic said:I've never seen you, but I can figure that you're an old face
Welcome home, zhurai.
I've never seen you either, XD
but hi :3
56 minutes ago, Emi said:Welcome back zhurai
Hi, I think I recognize you (your username that is)... o.o
4 minutes ago, Nayleen said:Oh damn. Hey, long time no see o/
Hiya~ :3 I'll probably catch up with you on skype later I suppose o.o
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Hi all~ ...I'm not "new" per say, but I haven't been around for about 1-2 years (used to be here back when aaeru was still around lol o.0)
Granted it's been a long time since then, and there's a lot of new faces....... (technically a different domain and different theme I see too :d) so I figured I should make an intro post again
so. hi
(I really don't know what to put here right now, so I'll leave it at that)
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A new episode of the community podcast!
https://www.mixcloud.com/OriginalRen/get-to-know-your-community-episode-9-feat-ouraibaa-hjyuraa
Enjoy!
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thanks for the birthday wishes! I was out of town and really just busy until now, but thanks!
Happy Birthday
Zhurai!
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Hope you have a good one,
Zhurai!
Whoops. A bit late in my timezone, but happy birthday to Zhurai!
To have the same birthday as Nagisa-chan... How lucky.
Or is it?
Sorry for being a day late myself, but belated Happy Birthday, Zhurai, thanks for the list of gaming threads back when we created the board, it helped a ton
tbh I'm more surprised people remember me though somehow... *shrug*
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I don't want to actually change my avatar (as I don't think I'll remember to change it back for months...) but I'd think it'll be hilarious if there was santa hats on it
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So you are not Yu-Gi-Oh fan Zhurai?
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yugioh was okay
yugioh gx was okay
yugioh 5ds got sorta weird but oh okay
yugioh zexal was like...wait wat the...and then I sorta gave up looking into the yugioh anime stuff
yugioh arc-v same
it's sorta like kamen rider:
den-o was okay
kiva was nice/okay
decade was nice
w was like hmm okay
ooo's was like errr what? uh okay
fourze was like hmm *shrug* and then come back to see the end ish
wizard was like interesting....and then went to what the hell (at least plot wise) is this -_-?
gaim was like wtf is this shit...
drive's like really....REALLY what the fuck is this -
Guild Wars (Stopped atm)
Guild Wars 2 (Will start soon again)
Wartune (Kabam-113, Kabam-115)
wartune's f2p but has serious issues obviously with p2w and sucking time out (as is how f2p works anyways, change your schedule around it) but I'm playing it cause some concepts are interesting and you don't really NEED to pay honestly if you don't want to be competitive (although I do because.) also because of my guild (part of which aren't cashers. I'm only a semi/moderate casher)
trying ddtank2 because it sounds hilarious (gunbound?)
tried league of angels and didn't like that it was based too much on a char (the angel) that you can't control very much anyhow
tried bladehunter, not too fond of it yet, but who knows~
never played WoW
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NA is having another godfest on saturday
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as for me @JP
mainly just run rsonia (dark based, although I can switch to fire if I feel like it with hera-ur + shiva)
used to have a mono fire to deal with normal farming, but since rsonia beats it anyways I generally don't anymore
leveling up before I do anything:
- athena (light/wood+gods)
- healer spike (normal) - although mainly for the above build I said about raphael later really it's currently light/water based atm
- Byakko spike - used this for spike until rsonia was up, although I could make this the standard byakko type, or byakko-devil spike with king baddie, or dark row enhance, or dark row enhance+devil similar to my rsonia build, but too much work for grinding normals when I'd rather play lots of games rather than grind out one.
- u&y / ra / horus <-- I'm too lazy to do ra, and horus seems like a deadend because even though it's flexible, its active is crap
[ I have the dark indian god 2.0 that's an opposite kirin, but I'm not really using it as it's active is also sorta meh, I guess fine but bleh ]
[ u&y's only problem is that blue basis makes it harder in wood based dungeons, but maybe that's what rsonia is for.... or maybe the answer for everything is rsonia... I'm actually working on this one. both a standard version and a blue row enhance version -- probably the blue row enhance though]
- bastet - I use this for 2 different times
1) troll: bastet/kushi/anubis, dl yomi, fl suzaku, dd byakko, wl meimei, bastet/kushi/anubis
2) weekend dungeon: basically a completely wood team with subtypes for fire/water, that way I can just match about 6-7 and sweep by matching at least 3 wood orbs. laziness here again, it also does have grass row enhance so there's that too...
u&y + rsonia are probably gonna be my lategame builds. although I do have satan and I can move to that from rsonia too I guess...
but like I said I have lots of options myself, I just need to do lots of +egg grinding, skillup, and just get them all high enough lvl
but grinding is sorta boring in other respects too if I'm playing lots of games... thus I do that rotation /shrug
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I agree on needing better leaders, although I must say my meta friends let me do T6 consistently without problems. I was considering building up a dark devil team but am unsure if I could run descends with it. I'll check on the pad forums for good team comps regarding that (although I heard the team cost is pretty high for devils in general) Maybe I'll roll sth good next godfest :3
I'm really not talking about your everyday farming team to grind normals/T6.
You could probably do meta multiplier team on descends too, but you need a LOT of +eggs for hp. if you want to do that...go ahead I guess
that said it depends what your box/what you have + what you roll in the future
personally there's an amusing tech you can use if you got it, since you're based in healer spike
Get raphael and get it to it's ulti as it gets healer
full board to heal -> heal_to_light
it also has light row enhances
probably not as the lead (although you can do a funky stall team based off it), but helps
Not that I tested it, I have the stuff for it on JP but I'd rather focus on rsonia as I have a lot of friends who run it (also I previously was using a mono fire team to spike through/grind normals before my rsonia team was fully ready)
dunno
I thought of u&y based, but that's sorta off color
what lead do you have for the dark devil team for descends?
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Yo guys, I'll be joining in ^^
My ID (NA) is 334,232,310 - I usually have an ADKZ (63) and a Valk (69) up.
added.
So I started playing not too long ago, a little longer than 100 days to be exact (10 bonus ms ). The valk I pulled from my first roll (I didnt know about rerolling back then, so super lucky I guess ^^) pulled me through my mid game.Currently I'm rank 157, soon to hit that 100 stamina ~.. at the moment I'm farming T6 fodder for my Berry dragon - lucifer descend tank team and leveling a CDKV for the Zombie dragon descend.) I picked up some handy monsters from the collabs that were on since the batman (I joined during that, so I didnt think of getting a bane, but I've got a darkseid for that now :3)
I'm rank 156 on JP 130 something on NA.
I think you need to get better leads
while valk builds work (although there's better leaders now. e.g. sandalphon/metatron, but harder obviously), you do need a LOT of +eggs to make them work
and obviously atm you're relying on luci, but to me that turns the game into a grindfest, and while it can be tweaked to work... feels ehhh
Personally my farming routine when I play P&D JP is to basically do weekend dungeons... or any way of getting coins (the highest one available gives you almost 1/3 of what you need to run king's carnival for 1hr)
If there's any urgent dungeon (namely any of the enhance dragons) then I do that instead
Or if I just want to use my stamina but don't get a lot of EXP/gold then I just grind hera's dungeon [so my lvling has been slow (as I haven't really been playing frequently for about 1-2 weeks... been at my rank for quite awhile as a result of just doing coin dungeon + hera dungeons 1-2 times a day...)]
Now, what can we discuss in this thread then? We could post out teams and monster boxes and discuss them I guess...sure why not.
@JP: I mainly run rsonia in everything atm as I'm lazy but I have a metatron/valk build (underleveled), I'm setting up a u&y team, bastet for weekend, etc
@NA: I don't play it atm, but I had a godin rcv build, luci build, and valk (but valk was based on black, so I had a weird backtrack moment), I do have an rsonia build there but underlvled obviously compared to JP..... 1 rsonia that's actually fed, but the other 2 are new oh-it's-a-godfest-on-na-let's-just-roll-three-times-oh-I-got-2-rsonias-what-the .... still not going to play on it though, as I'll have to grind normals more and lvl everything up and I'm lazy. so I'm still gonna just play on JP but it's entirely possibly that I go back to NA
Haven't been playing NA really for quite a long time...ever since I went to JP almost
As such I guess if I stuck with NA I would've been around rank200 or 230/250+? idk who knows but w/e.
I also like having the jp only stuff so there's that too....
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It theoretically changes many opening builds. Especially for zerg where extractor tricks are used to get that extra drone out.
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it won't be considered "cheese" anymore in the current sense, as you start with 12 workers now... and max saturation is 12. cheese is mainly cutting economy in order to do an early attack... mainly in the early game
that said it's interesting they are testing with 12 workers at the start, that way the game gets started quicker, but it lowers the strategic depth of building your army early on vs building on econ early on
that said 1 base would then be considered all-in/cheese if you don't expo kind of thing instead, as you'll probably want to expo quicker (as you're already max saturation)
however, if you start with 12 workers and immediately go into 4gate or 3rax for example, and the opponent goes into econ, it COULD mean that "one base all-ins" (which I guess at this point you can consider cheese) would become strong
but then again that'll "work" until the econ builds react to it and build in say for terran, a quick bunker, but then again these attacks might come early enough that it'll still bust... but as the max saturation is lower in sc2 lov - unsure if resource collection is the same - but if so, then that might gimp the one base builds in a way that if the 2 base builds survive their attack, the 1base build may run out of resources and have to expo (similarly to how it currently is in SC2 wol/hots, but possibly at an accelerated rate... as in games could end quicker if the cheese attack fails, but it becomes a coinflip in that respect)
that said there's way too many unknowns and someone good with math needs to do charts and so once the beta invites go out
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I'm not sure what to think. It is too early to make any judgments but I have a few thoughts anyway. The new terran units seem to have a unique niche and I'm interested to see how the herc will fit into a bio army with firebats and all. I'm skeptical about making banshees start off with cloak but they do need a buff in all honesty.
I am even more skeptical about making immortals lose their hardened shields. It kind of makes the immortal lose what made it unique. I am also not sure about how the new protoss unit will work. It sounds a lot like a different version of the widow mine with that protoss touch. The carrier change looks great. Now the interceptors don't miraculously blow up when the carrier dies. The nexus having 14 supply is something I am curious about. How it will be utilized and all.
Zerg... the lurker is back.
It seems they changed the swarm host to compensate. The infestor got stronger, and the nydus changes are great. The ravager... wow. I actually really like how that unit works. Giving the corrupter that ability seems to move that niche a little.Anyway, these are just my first impressions. Well, I just want to see how everything works out by the release.
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solidbatman's Discord Channel
in Members' Lounge
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Another part of Discord is how they cloak the IP Address
Portions of the gaming community trolls tend to like to find people's IP Addresses (ESPECIALLY through Skype) and then DoS/DDoS them. (The same trolls I suppose also like doxing people)
... Skype in particular is the worst offender of it
That's another part of Discord that professional gamers/streamers/etc like/prefer it over the alternatives.
EDIT: (also heh, it looks like slack... but targeted towards gamers)