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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Akshay in School graduates, doesn't reading vns with school settings make you feel kinda lonely?   
    Ahahahahahaha, you're not wrong about that.
    I recently graduated college, so I've began thinking that without classes and stuff, it feels really weird reading the stories of people who are supposedly "in the height of their youth" and stuff being in high school and stuff. Consuming stories like these makes me think back to my time in high school and makes me ask myself, "Why are their experiences so colorful and stuff when I just toiled over my 12 hour schedule and bulky assignments?" I sorta realized the answer to that at some point, but I find myself still wondering about that every now and then.
    In a way, it makes me feel lonely and sorta sad that I didn't make as much of my time back then like what these people are doing in these stories. But the feelings don't stop there. If anything, loneliness that comes up from memories of high school almost always comes up with vague nostalgia for me, regardless of being able to directly relate with the events in the story or not. I guess it's because more than 'making use of my experiences to the highest extent', I've began to realize that at some point in time I've worked as hard as they have for a certain goal, bantered with my friends so much that it made my stomach hurt, and grieved over something that I deem trivial these days. And that makes me feel good even if just a little, knowing that at some point, I was also living my own kind of story to the utmost extent that I can manage to. The loneliness ceases to come from not being able to live life to the fullest, instead coming from a sort of yearning for those times that have passed.
    But hey, I also use it as leverage to launch myself forward! If I haven't managed to do my best for the days that have already passed, then I'll do it for the coming days in the future! If I did live my days to the fullest ever since those times, then I'll continue doing so, even if the days currently feel stagnant! If it happened in the past, then I'm sure I can make it happen again. HS settings do make you yearn for those colorful experiences, but they also remind you that you can have those experiences, even as early as high school! Better late than never, you know!
    I hope you find these stories to be ones that remind you of good memories as you gain more years on you. 
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from adamstan in What are you playing?   
    Started playing KoiChoco. Was initially interested in it because of how beautiful the art was, but was a bit weirded out with the combination of themes in its title. I've been reading for around three hours, so I haven't gone far enough to really get into depth with any of the story elements.
    Yaoi sticks.
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    Kosakyun reacted to Fred the Barber in AX 2019 Schedule and Announcements   
    The kai script is approximately twice as long as the vanilla 02 script (which, as I understand, is identical to the original Rance 2 script).
    Edit: Also, it's a pretty substantial rewrite, from everything I can see; definitely more of a rewrite than an addition.
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    Kosakyun reacted to Mr Poltroon in AX 2019 Schedule and Announcements   
    Well, announcements are announced, so let's see how they look... The order in which they appear more or less reflects my interest in them.
    Excited:
    Interested:
    Indifferent:
    Won't Play:
     
    Now, let's do a counter for each publisher to see who had the most interesting stuff for me.
    So yeah, this was a good round of announcements! Good thing I'm part of the casual pleb audience that actually makes these publishers some monies.
    If you didn't like this convention then... sucks to be you!
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    Kosakyun reacted to kokoro in Recommendations of Visual Novels to Read for Depression   
    Yume Miru Kusuri tbh, if there's anything I learned from it is that footjobs can cure your depression
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    Kosakyun reacted to Cardinal in Recommendations of Visual Novels to Read for Depression   
    Since you ask for something with a good story, i will focus on that.
    If you already have seen steins;gates anime, maybe you can enjoy is sequel, as steins;gate 0. They have anime too, but is really bad, anyway if you dont have seen the first one, you can enjoy the both titles.  https://vndb.org/v2002 https://vndb.org/v17102
    They have a really good story, with drama, sci fi and mystery. Without +18 content and only focus in the story+drama.
     
    In other way, this is one of the lasted VN i played, Rance VI Collapse of Zeth. I know, i know... Rance is bestial +18 title with h-scenes in every stage and full of rape. But if speak about the story... well, rance VI is one of the best story i eved played and i really enjoyed the time i played this title. https://vndb.org/v2047
     
    To finish, but not for that, less important... i can present you... Utawarerumono saga! This is one of the best sagas i played in my life, really good, with a amaising story and drama/sci fi content. With a bit of adventure and rpg gameplay style. (like disgaea)
    The saga has 3 games, the first one is for PC, but the others can be played in psvita or ps3/4.  (Only the first game have h scenes )
    https://vndb.org/v3 https://vndb.org/v7721 https://vndb.org/v18717
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Infernoplex in AX 2019 Schedule and Announcements   
    Praise the Lord for more Rance announcements! I don't mind waiting (as long as it doesn't reach Sumaga levels of waiting), so news like this always excite me! Can't believe we'd be at this point where most of the titles have translations. Arunaru and Maria really were the saviors!
    ...Might give Funbag Fantasy a try, just because the artist commented on how it could be the next Rance or something. It better be that good, because my only experience prior to reading the visual novels related to it is its H-OVA. 
    All the other announcements, I'll read someday... When I get a stable source of income....
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Mr Poltroon in AX 2019 Schedule and Announcements   
    Praise the Lord for more Rance announcements! I don't mind waiting (as long as it doesn't reach Sumaga levels of waiting), so news like this always excite me! Can't believe we'd be at this point where most of the titles have translations. Arunaru and Maria really were the saviors!
    ...Might give Funbag Fantasy a try, just because the artist commented on how it could be the next Rance or something. It better be that good, because my only experience prior to reading the visual novels related to it is its H-OVA. 
    All the other announcements, I'll read someday... When I get a stable source of income....
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    Kosakyun reacted to Clephas in Fate/Grand Order   
    Mm... I probably won't ever skip it... even if it is a dupe or a junk SSR, it is still a guaranteed SSR.  I'll probably bombard the Scathach limited summon at the beginning of next year for my favorite character in THIS game... I won't be able to resist.  I've been able to resist most of the recent summon campaigns, because, thankfully, there haven't been any really good ones.  However, I do have weak spots for evil women Servants and badass female Servants in general. 
    Edit: I buy about two or three less VNs a month now than I used to, so if I feel like it, I have the budget... but most Servants aren't worth it, lol.  I'd rather just build up the free ones (edit: saint crystals) and buy ebooks on Kindle instead.   Games like this eat at my collector's soul, so if I want to actually enjoy this game rather than just being obsessed, it is pretty much a basic requirement that I don't spend on any but the ones I want the most... or when I'm guaranteed a result, like today.
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    Kosakyun reacted to Infernoplex in AX 2019 Schedule and Announcements   
    I was never disappointed by any of AX convention announcements so far. Maybe because I am a type of reader who enjoys reading everything (except BL and Bara I guess). From every publisher, I have at least one title to get hyped about. Amatsutsumi is definitely the biggest announcement from Sekai. And they somehow got Feng (although they didn't pick up the titles I want from them). I'd argue that Eiyuu Senki Gold is a fine announcement from JAST (I didn't play the first one yet, but I intend to play it at some point). MG announcing more Waffle nukige is great, and I am quite hype about Mugen Renkan (darkge, give me more quality darkgeee!!!). And Sol Press didn't disappoint me either. They got 3 Windmill titles. All medium to long sized. I don't know much about the titles themselves, but I don't think they are bad at all.
    In short, I am not disappointed at all.
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Emi in Post pics you like (Powered by Jun Inoue™)   
    I like Durex ads.
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    Kosakyun reacted to littleshogun in AX 2019 Schedule and Announcements   
    No surprise that all of earlier Sekai announcements (Amatsutsumi, Bokukotsu FD, Nekogami, Victory Project, and Nine 3) got the 18 version announced by Denpasoft, although too bad though that there's still no word in regard of Baldr Sky 18+ version (Perhaps they prefer stealth release for 18+ version). There's also some new announcements from them though, and some of those are hentai manga. Let's see what their new VN announcements here.
    Their first VN is Seikii trilogy, although they just announced the first part so I don't know whether they already have the other two licensed or not. Apparently feng (Seikii's developer) was famous for Hoshizora Kakaru here, although as far as Seikii goes it's small one though. The first part here featured tsundere childhood friend that allow the MC to become her butler because of the misunderstanding, and that Eri Sendai will voicing the heroine. Almost forget to note that each part only have one heroine with the exception of the third part that have two heroines. As for other announcement, it's Glass in that if we knew did have some controversy at VNDB. Namely that the author did use strong word in the mail to the fan translator and ask him to stop rudely. I don't have much comment for now other than at least I can see why people did think that the art is pretty. It also announced together with the sequel as well (New Glass). I guess that's all for Denpasoft's announcements, and like previous two I'll update the opening post here.
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    Kosakyun reacted to Tadzio in yo   
    yeah forums really do have hard times it seems, whatever the topics they are about (i'm inother communities who used to have really active boards which just ended up dying or being closed by lack of activity , that's a shame )
    for the moment i'm re reading stuff i liked to review them more accurately ,so mynext two reads are Kara no Shoujo and Saya no uta ( french + english versions , so i can make a comparison between the two patches ) but yeah i'll be sure to come a you all to ask for more stuff once i'll be done with them
    thanks for the kind words
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Building a Free Library of Images for Everyone   
    Happy July!

    This week we have more new fantasy textures to add to my 4000+ images:

    A bunch of new fantasy ground images here:

    TXR- Ground
    https://soundimage.org/txr-ground/

    Here's a new charred-looking fantasy brick texture:

    TXR- Brick -Seamless
    https://soundimage.org/txr-brick-seamless/

    And a new fantasy stone/brick texture:

    TXR – Rock/Stone - Seamless
    https://soundimage.org/txr-rockstone-seamless/

    All are free to use with attribution. Attribution information is here:
    https://soundimage.org/attribution-info/

    Have a good week!
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    Kosakyun reacted to EricMatyas in Building a Free Library of Images for Everyone   
    Hi everyone,
    I've been building a library of images that you are welcome to freely use in your projects. They are all original...all my own work. I think a lot of them could be made into cool textures for games.  All I ask is to be attributed as indicated on my homepage:
    http://soundimage.org/
    The images are on my "TXR" pages.  
    I'm adding new ones all the time, so be sure to check back often. I sincerely hope that some of them are useful. Any and all constructive feedback is welcome and always appreciated.  :-)
    All the best,
    Eric
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Tadzio in The fastest you've ever dropped a VN?   
    Cosplay Fetish Academy, 10 minutes.
    The name should have been enough to drop it.
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Plk_Lesiak in What are you playing?   
    Huh. I forgot to post about it, but I finished Hate Plus.
    What can I say, @Mr Poltroon was right. That's hella good. Better than the first game. It was interesting how screwed-up things that led to the first game were.
    Also played the two LoveKami games on Steam.
     
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from alpacaman in What are you playing?   
    Huh. I forgot to post about it, but I finished Hate Plus.
    What can I say, @Mr Poltroon was right. That's hella good. Better than the first game. It was interesting how screwed-up things that led to the first game were.
    Also played the two LoveKami games on Steam.
     
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from Mr Poltroon in What are you playing?   
    Huh. I forgot to post about it, but I finished Hate Plus.
    What can I say, @Mr Poltroon was right. That's hella good. Better than the first game. It was interesting how screwed-up things that led to the first game were.
    Also played the two LoveKami games on Steam.
     
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    Kosakyun reacted to ittaku in Where to find old Visual Novels (1990s)   
    Whilst not download and play on your windows, Jast allows you to play its classic games in a browser for free
    https://jastusa.com/classic-game-archive/
    Asenheim has heaps more also web based.
    https://tss.asenheim.org/
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from aliciarune in Should I Read Higurashi Arcs 1-6 and/ or Umeniko   
    I think they're both worth giving a try. If your main gripe is the game assets itself (from what I'm assuming via NVL writing style and backgrounds), there's a mod out there made by fans that transfers the PS3 assets to the Steam game to essentially port the PS3 game experience. It's by 07th mod, and they're really easy to look up. Just type 07th mod, and their homepage should come up.
    That's why I follow up this recommendation too. Holding off on reading both though until CH8 is out for Steam.
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from rawsan in Which Older Title(s) Would You Hope Was Translated In English?   
    Maybe you can try applying for those in the Translation Projects section under Development Boards. You can also try to start a project of your own there if you'd like!
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    Kosakyun reacted to adamstan in Your favorite voice actors/actresses?   
    Ah, right, it seems I got my Ries mixed up . AFAIK, some people claim that those characters are new subgroup - tsunderie
     
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    Kosakyun got a reaction from adamstan in Your favorite voice actors/actresses?   
    Nah that's Kugimiya Rie, the tsundere queen.
    She also has other prominent roles like Louise from Zero no Tsukaima, Shana from Shakugan no Shana, and Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist. For those who play Granblue Fantasy, she also voices Vyrn and Vampy.
    For my favorites, gotta be Hanazawa Kana. I'm a sucker for her moe roles, particularly those of Onodera Kosaki from Nisekoi and Sengoku Nadeko from the Monogatari Series. Because of her famous roles, she's being given a lot of roles per season, so I understand if people say they're kinda sick of seeing her in every damn seiyuu casting. I would too, if I was watching seasonal shows.
    Another would be Sakamoto Maaya. To be honest, I kinda started noticing her after I began to like the characters she voiced in Granblue Fantasy (Arulumaya and Dark Angel Olivia), but her roles in different anime are pretty good too. I really liked her portrayal of Haruhi from Ouran High School Host Club and Oshino Shinobu from the Monogatari Series.
    For male VAs, definitely Takehito Koyasu. Can't go wrong with Dio Brando's VA. Also noticed he voiced Excalibur from Soul Eater too? Goddamn that's beautiful. I like how his voice flows. So manly. Jun Fukayama is excellent too. I like the kind of characters he voices (Lelouch from Code Geass, Joker from P5) and how different they are in contrast with his character in Granblue Fantasy (Quatre). Can't begin to imagine what kind of vocal cord shredding happens when he shouts his lines.
    Not too familiar with VAs in eroges, tbh. I didn't take notice of them too much. I find it fascinating that some of them (like Kadowaki Mai and Asakawa Yuu) can be found in a number of games though lol. Looking forward to playing more eroges with Kadowaki Mai in them.
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