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    Kosakyun reacted to Adze in Hi, I'm Adze   
    As the title says, I'm Adze. Unlike most of you, I'm actually pretty new to weebery and I'd never actually watched any kind of anime (except for Pokemon because what 90s kid hasn't?) until I was in my 20s. In fact, it was visual novels that got me into Japanese media altogether, and I only got into VNs because someone convinced me to try out "the cripple dating sim made by 4Chan." So yeah, my entire involvement with this community is essentially a happy accident resulting from a misunderstanding.
     
    I'm also a small-time Youtuber who focuses on critical analysis of video games and VNs, though I don't want my presence on this site to be just shameless self-promotion. If you've seen anything of mine, it's probably either my Touhou video that went viral or my Muv-Luv video that made the rounds on VN Twitter. I feel like it'd be in poor taste to drop links here, but you can find a link to my work in my profile if you'd like.
     
    Aside from that, I like video games, reading actual books (most recently, I read through the Lightbringer series and aside from some weirdness towards the end, I absolutely loved it. Highly reccomended), and interacting with like-minded people online. Just today, I was involved in an impromptu group discussion on worldbuilding on Discord and it was absolutely incredible. Hopefully I can become friendly with some of you here and have some good fun with this niche interest of ours. Despite my staggering backlog, I'm always happy for more recommendations.
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    Kosakyun reacted to littleshogun in Nekonyan Announcements on AWA 2022   
    Announcement 1 - Ore no Cupid ga Ponkotsu Sugite Kowa~i.

    Announcement 2 - Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate

    Announcement 3 - Baka Moe Heart ni Ai o Komete!

    Announcement 4 - Uchi wa Mou, Enki Dekinai

    Announcement 5 - Shinsou Noise ~Jushin Tantei no Jikenbo~

    I'll try to comment on those announcements later.
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Sharing My Music and Sound FX - Over 2000 Tracks   
    Greetings!

    The buttons issue on my website has been resolved and everything is working perfectly.

    Enjoy!  🙂

    soundimage.org/
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Sharing My Music and Sound FX - Over 2000 Tracks   
    Greetings Fellow Creatives,

    If you find my free music helpful, please consider making a small donation on my website to help support my efforts.  I don't allow advertising on the site because I feel it would be distracting to my visitors so I pay for everything myself.  Support from the community is literally what makes this possible. Thank you in advance!  🙂

    That said, this week's new free music tracks are:

    On my Funny 8 page:
    "MONSTER MERRY-GO-ROUND "
    https://soundimage.org/funny-8/

    And on my Sci-Fi 12 page:
    "CYBER STREET MARKET"
    https://soundimage.org/sci-fi-12/

    Enjoy, stay safe and keep being creative!
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    Kosakyun reacted to Happiness+ in Palinurus is available today on Google Play!   
    This is the new remastered Android edition for the classic 2015 visual visual from Watercress Studios.
    Presented with:
    a new mobile-first GUI, a music box, new galleries, a bonus scene, and higher quality graphics. Feel free to read this on your tablet, your phone, and even on your television.
     
    A drifting traveler boards a one-man space shuttle destined for Alpha Centauri. This shuttle is piloted by Budapest, an artificial intelligence program designed to serve humanity. She is a hardworking, diligent program, just a little naïve to the ways of the universe, and intensely dedicated to her directive. But when disaster unexpectedly befalls their ship, the two of them are sent careening through uncharted space, left with dire prospects for rescue. Stuck in a floating cockpit drifting through the empty ocean of stars, they have only each other to rely on. Between interesting discoveries both old and new, Budapest quickly develops new traits and quirks beyond her programming. As she attempts to navigate her own troubled seas, the passenger discovers that there is more to this program than previously expected.
     
     


     
     
    Click Here to read Palinurus
     
     
    P.S please don't forget to leave a review

     
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Sharing My Music and Sound FX - Over 2000 Tracks   
    Hey everyone,

    I have a couple of new music tracks to share on my Sci-Fi 11 page:

    "OFF WORLD SUNRISE" – On some faraway planet? What would it look like?

    "THE MIND OF THE CITY" – (Looping) – Perhaps cities of the future will have their own “minds” to run everything.

    https://soundimage.org/sci-fi-11/

    Please don't forget about my Ogg music packs. They enable you to download all of my tracks at once for my most popular genres. A huge time-saver.

    https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-packs-2/

    Enjoy!  🙂
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    Kosakyun reacted to auntwitch in Introduction!   
    Hi everyone! I'm AuntWitch. I came up with that name as a reference to me being an Aunt, who likes witchy stuff. Anyway, I'm 24 years old and I got into visual novels when I was a young kid exploring Newgrounds like an oblivious fool and found weird games that parodied popular visual novels/anime, except with a bucket full of dark humor to them. Probably inappropriate for me to have read, but it started my love for visual novels. Sadly, at the time there wasn't much to read! Ended up taking a break from VNs until I found out about Dangan Ronpa while it was being fan-translated on a forum. Katawa Shoujo was the first VN I played through by myself, but I believe Dangan Ronpa is what got me motivated to play them properly.
    Anyway, with that said......it was a slippery slope. I don't know what happened, but now I have a metric ton of visual novels in my steam catalog. My favorite is probably the Nekopara franchise for how easy it is to read when you're down in the dumps, but I also love Fata Morgana and the Grisaia series. Still need to finish Eden of Grisaia and then start the Phantom Trigger series.   I like both bishoujo games and otome games, though I have a preference for bishoujo games.
    It's nice to meet you all!
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    Kosakyun reacted to WAIA in Alicesoft Thread   
    I had a very nice time so far with the rance titles. I think rance IV is my favourite game in the series so far.
    still kind of slugging through Kichikuou Rance but I'll get there one of these days..  
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    Kosakyun reacted to solidbatman in Gnosia: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Amogus   
    A friend last year recommended the VN Gnosia to me. I, being who I am, resisted for a while. VNs had hurt me. They had abused me. Pancaked my love for storytelling. But then, I saw the artwork for Gnosia and said "Screw it, letsago." 

    I grabbed it for the Switch and went to town playing it. It is the perfect type of VN to play in short bursts. For me, that meant before bed usually for 20-30 minutes a night. For those that don't know, Gnosia is a social deduction VN that plays out a bit more like Town of Salem than it does Among Us. For starters, the game's story is told in loops. You wake up at the start of a loop on a spaceship, assigned a role. The ship AI has detected a Gnosia may be on board. These parasitic aliens seek to infect each crew member and make it to a space port to continue spreading as far as they can. The goal of those not infected to to find the Gnosia and put them into cold sleep where they can spread no more.

    Each character is assigned a role on each loop. Some may be engineers that can find out who the Gnosia is each night. There may be a doctor who can discover the identity of anyone put into cold sleep. Those with Guard Duty are those who never left the ship and therefore cannot be Gnosia. AC Followers worship Gnosia and do everything they can to help them. Then, anywhere from 1-4 characters can be Gnosia. They can lie, cheat, and steal their way to survival in order to either put every crew member into cold sleep, or kill each person. They can select one person each night to kill.

    The main bulk of the gameplay is made up by debates, where characters discuss and vote on who they must put into cold sleep. Engineers and doctors share their reports, though Gnosia and AC Followers can like about their role to muddy and confuse the debate, or convince others that the true engineers or doctors are in fact Gnosia. Each character has stats that dictates how they will act during debates. One character, for example, who hates lying and is super perceptive, may be able to immediately tell when someone is lying, but has low charisma and as result, struggles to convince others of the truth.  You yourself also have stats that go up against other characters stats to see how convincing you are, or how trustworthy.

    The story is told in between the debates, as you can visit parts of the ship to talk to characters. Under certain conditions, you may get character events that shed more light on their character and their story. As you are only one of two people aware of the looping, you must discover as much information as you can to find a way out of the loop. For me, this took about 130 loops. Later in the game, you will be able to alter the starting conditions to better set up the conditions needed to trigger character events. And the game will auto-set them for you to nearly guarantee the character events as well if you so choose. 

    The game is addicting, pretty to look at, and the story quite engaging. It is the type of game better suited towards short bursts rather than hours long sessions as the loops can feel repetitive as you try to trigger events. As each loop normally only takes 5-10 minutes, playing for 30-40 minutes at a time can net a solid 3-6 loops which I think is a solid amount for a single sitting. 

    To sum up my thoughts, allow me to simply state, Setsu masterrace please play gnosia do it for setsu 

    thoughts?

     
     
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Tyrael in Old user looking to reconnect with my pals here   
    To be fair, that number's been there before we even disappeared. Proof of a rather unhinged self in the past. I'd like to think that I'm already mellowed out though.
    Btw noticing your signature, if you're curious about Roach he's still alive and well. Just actually a super normie now. 
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    Kosakyun reacted to HatchWashere in Monster Girl Content Megabundle! "Season of Monster Girls"!   
    We've teamed up with creators Silumansoft and Azurezero to release a bundle full of juicy monster girl content! It's 18 different IPs available for a ridiculously affordable price, so check it out if it strikes your fancy.

    https://itch.io/b/1538/season-of-monster-girls-mega-bundle
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    Kosakyun reacted to HataVNI in Award-winning EVN creator Mado becomes PR staff at VNStudioÈlan   
    So, something very interesting happened today. There is a creative, multi-talented indie solo developer called Mado who had recently been publishing their first big game. It's a dark and suspenseful tale about a lot of girls that are in something akin to a Promised Neverland setting where they cannot leave from a paradisical location called the Haven. The game is called Bad Faith and it's very high quality.
    Bad Faith by Mado (itch.io)
     

    Well, surprisingly this developer just got hired as a PR staff at VNStudioÈlan. They are known to have created mostly Yuri-oriented games such as Heart of the Woods, Highway Blossoms and their newest title Please be Happy! (Demo) These are some of the few EVNs that even the most boneheaded JVN-only players can agree on that they have plenty of quality. 
    Congratz to Mado for her achievement! 
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Plk_Lesiak in What are you listening to right now?   
    I am completely smitten with Enna Alouette's voice. It's like love at first sight again. It's all I've been doing and listening to the past few days.
     
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    Kosakyun reacted to mitchhamilton in V-tube General Discussion Thread   
    congrats to ironmouse fo all the records she broke with her like 2 month long straight subathon! 
     
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Building a Free Library of Images for Everyone   
    Greetings Creatives!

    I have some brand new textures to share...100% free to use in your projects with attribution, like my 4000+ other images. They live on these pages on my site:

    VEGETATION - Artistic (Tile-able)
    WOOD - Artistic (Tile-able)

    You can access them from here:
    https://soundimage.org/images-home-page/

    Enjoy...and please stay safe.  🙂
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    Kosakyun reacted to RedSorel in Until The End : Palliative care theme visual novel.   
    Hi everyone, first i want to apologize to all about my english, i'm not really fluent and my translator isn't available at the moment. 
    Until The End has been release the 1st Septembrer 2022 on steam, it's a original game, everything is hand made (without musics, they are from a little french studio).
    The strong point of the game is the unique theme. It's not only an hospital game, it's a palliative care one. 

    Don't be afraid about it, you don't need to be a doctor or a nurse to play it, this kind of service is really "human relationship based on".
    It's not a sad game too, even if you will have to face death, it's part of the job !

    There are for the moment 4 differents ending, 2 bad, one neutral and a true ending, the game is a short one that you can one shot easily. 
    It's all about feelings, that you will follow in english or in french for the moment. 

    To finish, i would like to thank you for your time, reading me. I made it short, i have many things to say and will keep an eye on the topic. I can understand you, don't worry, i'm just not sure to be really accurate in my answer, but if needed, i will ask my translator who is an IRL close friend.
    Have an nice day ! 
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    Kosakyun reacted to Aureus in Roadwarden [Fantasy/RPG Elements/Pixel Art] [Full Version Released!]   
    This is it. My last ScreenshotSaturday before Roadwarden's release. Can't wait to bring you the good news on Thursday!   I estimate it's a 30+ hours campaign, but completionists will spend even more time completing the large, world-changing quests. And since all quests are optional and most of them can be completed with varying outcomes, various players will have a completely different experience, further altered by their character class, personal goals, personality, and the allies they'll choose.   In Roadwarden you can't make everyone happy. There will be sacrifices.  
     
     
     
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Sharing My Music and Sound FX - Over 2000 Tracks   
    Thanks...I hope some of my tracks are helpful!
    Greetings Everyone,

    Another hectic week...ugh...but I did manage to create a couple of cool new tracks to share:

    "TUNNELS UNDER METROPOLIS "
    "TUNNELS UNDER METROPOLIS _v001"

    You'll find them on my City/Urban 3 page. Here's a link:
    https://soundimage.org/city-urban-3/

    Other News

    Glad to see that my Ogg music packs are coming in handy! They should be a huge time-saver...plus you can create your own playlists and listen to them to audition tracks while doing other things.

    So enjoy...and as always, please stay safe and keep being creative.  🙂
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Sharing My Music and Sound FX - Over 2000 Tracks   
    Greetings Fellow Creatives,

    I have a new music track to share with you:

    "THE GRUNGE MEISTER"

    As always, it's 100% free to download and use with attribution.  You'll find it on my Funny 8 page.

    https://soundimage.org/funny-8/

    Enjoy and please stay safe.  🙂
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    Kosakyun reacted to littleshogun in Tsurezure's New Project - Gin'iro Haruka   
    Ginharu is now fully translated, and yes you didn't read it wrong in which it's obviously meant that all of 10 sex scenes from Yuzuki's route were finished. What I can say is that for someone who claim that Yuzuki is not exactly the translator's favorite, he can keep up with the good pacing like back on Mizuha's route. Granted it might be faster if he translate Yuzuki's route at the same pace as Mizuha's route, but the pace for Yuzuki's route progress is still reasonable so no problem. Also it help that he find Yuzuki's route is a great one even though he said that the sex scenes is quite a slog.
    That said though, just because we have Ginharu fully translated doesn't mean that we'll going to have Yuzuki's patch released (As much as I want it to be like that) seeing that there's still some works left, such as translating the ending movie, artbooks contents, background images, and so on. Of course though the most important next step is editing in which it'll be Irru's job, and considering that we still not see Mizuha's patch being released yet easy to say that the editing process may took some time to be done.
    Lastly while I can understand the critic toward Trip (And I also want to question his own stance in regard of Yuzuki), I agree that without him wanted to translate Hoshiori we may never have two tone work's VNs (And Tsujidou) being translated so at least we should thank him for his work on those VNs and of course for translating at least majority of Ginharu here. That's all for the update here, and hopefully the next update can be in regard of Mizuha's patch release or even better Yuzuki's patch release.
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    Kosakyun reacted to HataVNI in There has been a fan translation brewing for Re: LieF ~Shin'ainaru Anata e~ and barely anyone knows about it!   
    I kept browsing the r/visualnovels and 4chan areas and it seems that the fan translation for the game Re: LieF ~Shin'ainaru Anata e~
    - that was literally advertised nowhere besides a single isolated corner on Steam - has been completed.  Apparently, it was announced in the guides section by a guide called "abarax" and has been happily brewing with a couple people being excited for it since May 2022. 

    The patch maker also included instructions how to install the game. I'm still a little flabbergasted, but have fun!

    Steam Community :: Guide :: Re: Lief English
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    Kosakyun reacted to HatchWashere in Dark Waters: Gino and the Witch of the Black Swamp (Commercial Game) [18+] [Horror]   
    Story
    "You are Gino Castallo, a young man tortured by his own mundane existence. Your off hours are occupied reading books about urban legends and going on expeditions to the sites of alleged hauntings. There has to be more to life than... this, right?
    However, you always seem to end up empty-handed, and today is no different. But this time you stumble upon a swamp during the long trek home from yet another pointless journey. A woman who claims to be some kind of benevolent witch offers to show you her magic.
    This is the proof you've been waiting for... isn't it?"
     
    About the Game
    "Gino and the Witch of the Black Swamp" is a short horror eroge that places you in the shoes of an occult enthusiast named Gino Castallo. You quickly become lost after another failed expedition, but find yourself soon spending three nights in the company of a swamp witch named Cuca Rivers. Try as you might to make sense of the world you occupy, a happy ending is unlikely. Still, you should enjoy the sensations of this experience while they still last.
     
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    Note: This game is a horror eroge and is absolutely not for children (or those who are easily disturbed).
    The game can be found on Itch and Steam and the JAST Store.
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    Kosakyun reacted to HatchWashere in Hello eroge-enjoyers! (18+ Eroge Dev and Fuwa Newbie) (NSFW content)   
    And now, for something new and a little bit strange.
     
     
     
    I'm Hatch, the creator of "Outis Media," an eroge-producing brand determined to raise the bar of quality of the eroge produced in the West. I've been working on making this type of content for roughly 10 years, though it's only over the last two that we've finally begun to gain traction. I am someone who is generally disappointed in the low-quality eroge Westerners produce, and it has become my life's mission to change this and co-opt as many competent people as possible to help me in my crusade.
    There's no obligation to pay for our content, but it would be wonderful if you could at least keep an eye on us to see if you like what you see. We're on Twitter, Subscribestar, Newgrounds and Itch. We produce doujinshi, short VNs and LNs at the moment. We're in the process getting into other forms of game production, too.
    I generally don't go on about this sort of thing, but my biggest influences are the early Type Moon Works (I haven't really consumed much post-Fate), all of the 07th Exp catalogue and the Infinity Series (especially Remember 11). If you comb through our catalogue, you may pick up on those influences in some of our longer-form content. I really enjoy interacting with fellow enthusiasts, so if you have any strong opinions about anything by us feel free to leave a comment. I personally read through every response we get.
    I was invited to post here by a committed member of this community and I'm happy to keep my ear to to ground and see what kinds of things come from this community, as well.
    Thank you for your time, eroge-enjoyers.
     
     
     
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from HataVNI in What are you listening to right now?   
    I come back to this every few days. 
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