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  1. I actually don't know anyone in real life who likes visual novels, although I'm sure there are many out there around where I live. (California) After all, there are people on this forum from california . I think it makes sense that more people enjoy watching anime over reading VNs since most people also prefer movies over books. With that said, visual novel readers will likely always be in the minority, but it's better to have a small group of good people than a large group of trolls.
  2. Hey phoenix I'm not sure if this will help you, but here is what happens when I attempt to run the original rewrite files on a 32-bit computer. (Had it downloaded for a while, but never opened). http://postimage.org/image/n2nq9ga3t/ Taking a look at the files told to run, it seems this is what basically happens. The batch file Run_this_to_make_game_work! tries to run the rewrite_modif registry key. The registry key fails because it tries to search for a non-existent folder on 32-bit computers. (Wow6432Node) If the extra path \Wow6432Node is removed, then it runs fine. Also not entirely sure, but it seems the batch file creates the rewrite_modif registry key in the folder. (Not sure if it was there before, wasn't paying attention.) I do know that it replaces an edited version of the rewrite_modif registry with the original, if anyone wants to test things out. Game runs fine once the registry files are applied.
  3. Nah, its been about two years since I've touched/watched the game. It's a totally different playing field now, which is pretty cool. Nobody was anywhere near as good. I don't think I've ever seen someone try to out-mobilize a zerg before. Terrans would always either build mech and try to do a timed push before the zerg could max out or dropship harass zerg until they won. Also, I've never seen such crazy creep control. Losira did a good job of continuous spreading (with that many queens, he'd better), but Gumiho sacrificing scans and marines to kill tumors in three places at once was something you'd never see two years ago. (It's true he didn't lose many marines due to medivac pick up though. But the point remains. You would expect the terran player to drop and kill drones, not creep tumors.)
  4. Wow. lol. It's been a while since I've watched/played SC2, but that game was pretty crazy. Gumiho's micro is ridiculous. I don't know if people have generally improved in skill, or if he is some inhuman beast that can micro at four places in the map at once. As usual, Tastosis = best casting duo. Glad to see they're still around. Also, about the tank/marauder vs ghost choice. I think the tank/marauder choice was the correct one to make, especially if you look at it from his perspective. His goal was to kill the queens and ultralisk while keeping at least one tank alive, because that's what he needed to win. Marauders and tanks eat ultralisks, and he needed two tanks to make sure the strategy would work. If he only had one tank, then he might not be able to unsiege it before it's killed, and the game turns in to a draw. (unsieged tank also does quite a bit of damage) The ghost was a far riskier choice, especially since it seems he wasn't that used to using nukes. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if you cancel a nuke, you lose the nuke and have to build a new one. So a nuke would be a lot riskier than the strategy he used. (Spinecrawlers can unburrow and run away, and I think queen/ultralisk is self-explanatory.) Was a pretty amazing game though. Was pretty back and forth, although I have no idea how Gumiho managed to survive vs the broodlords. His vikings weren't even hitting the broods, they were hitting corruptors. Ghost snipe = kills everything?
  5. Welcome aboard =). I think you should talk to Steve.
  6. my #8 is what you guys should be doing right now also my listening skills are better cause during the time I took japanese I did fansubbing, so I basically JUST focused on listening, so skits/speeches were hard, and etc TT, so now trying to raise all my skills, but need to work on reading first as that's important to one of the possible things I can do for... well. getting a job x.x'') I'll probably make my own topic about it anyways however, but my main entries if I want to write about it would be put on my own personal blog.. (or maybe some sort of teaser on here with most of the info probably, and then put the full entry on my personal blog with more text...) (actually I have no clue if I'd even post about it anyhow :X) well good luck to everyone on their learning japanese... journey :D/>/> (err what I ment was I can actually translate, but I'd be only focusing on voice, and sometimes it's faulty because japanese speak too fast for me at times... like certain anime I tried to translate -_-/>, others were ok ish/etc) (but I'd prefer not to search every single freaking kanji out there via radicals every time I bump into one) Most of us who have been trying to learn Japanese have reached the same conclusions you have. If you want to be able to apply the usage, you need to learn the alphabets and grammar asap. However, you also need to start kanji ASAP so you can begin building them up in long-term memory. I think that was the idea embodied in this approach. The sooner you start Kanji, the sooner you can start building a repertoire of words you can recognize. With that said, I would recommend starting the kana/grammar soon as well. Definitely before going through all 2200~ kanji words in the RTK thing.
  7. Welcome to the team Ryachu =). The method listed here is really effective for learning Kanji (as I'm sure everyone who tried it can attest.) If you need any help with anything, feel free to ask.
  8. Seems I missed it too, happy birthday Ryoji!
  9. Any download links for the above? ^ I think I found Flyable Heart, but no luck with the others. (Kanon already has an english patch i think ) It seems a lot of those are mainly animes (or I could only find anime versions). I'm looking for stuff that will run on Visual Novel Reader, not the annot player. (It's too hard to learn from watching anime for me @_@) What I meant by "learning kana without the kanji" was basically learn the pronunciations (or at least how to type them out in romaji). The sooner I stop naturally going to chinese, the better.
  10. If by 'ax' you mean the anime convention or whatever in san jose, I'll likely be going there with people from my school. Would be my first time going so I need to figure out the logistics first though.
  11. The 90% figure is probably misleading. It is based on how much I remember when I review on the kanji.kooji website, not how many that I can actually apply to reading things. The results from this are inherently biased since the words are all seperated in to sections (I can remember which primitives are in each section) and I'm testing from english -> japanese kanji. My Japanese -> english is significantly slower and slightly less accurate. For an example: 訓読み(Kun'yomi) I've learned both of the kanji here, but it took me a bit to figure out what it meant. I had to remember a stream of words = instruction and words that are sold = reading. Would also be cool if anyone wanted to fact check this, but I think Kunyomi = instructional reading (+mi?) idk what the hiragana does Heisig's method is actually quite effective at remembering the kanji's themselves. Oh yeah, Tae Kim's thing is pretty great. Going through it slowly though ;_;
  12. Week one Update Kanji Status: Around 500 Kanji words studied. Retention rate of around 90%~ Starting on monday, I cut down the Kanji's per day to 50. I also began working on learning Kana. Hiragana Status: Estimate around 70% complete. vowels/k/t/r/s/n are all good. h/m/r are mostly good. Transformations are being worked on, but changing soft sound to hard sound isn't that much of a change. (Exception Ja/ju/jo sounds since it doesn't turn the vowel in to a y. working on that) Katakana Status: Barely starting. only really have vowels down. Reflections: Heisig's theory of teaching reading/writing separately makes learning to recognize the word and the english meaning much easier, but it provides no means to learn the reading of the word. I haven't learned how the grammar works yet, so this may be a pointless concern and maybe you only need to know the meaning of the kanji, but it bothers me. That's why I'm going to attempt learning the kana and grammar before focusing on kanji again. I'll still continue at a steady rate in kanji, but not as quickly as planned. As per Steve's suggestion, I downloaded annot for reading visual novels. I think using that to help make sense of the grammar and finding out the meaning of words I don't recognize with a dictionary will help me learn in a way that will complement what I'm doing right now. Most importantly, it'll allow me to learn the meaning of words written entirely in kana with no kanji. I was wondering if anyone had any untranslated VNs to start doing this? The annot player only recognizes 'galgames' or something, so I wasn't sure what fell under that category. Mental Status: Monday was actually pretty bad since I was pressed for time. That partly factored in the decision to drop the daily kanji to 50. 100 is really a bit much each day since that results in going through a ridiculous amount of kanji a day without fully capturing all of them. It would have been a lot harder without knowing what the general meaning of most of the words meant in Chinese. As of right now, motivation is still high. I've finally lost the childish exuberance that one attains at the start of a new adventure, so I should be able start seriously learning the language. I am currently reading through Tae Kim's grammar guide, and working on Katakana. @zoom Why isは read as wa in that sentence? Saying it aloud it makes sense, but I was wondering if there were any rules.
  13. Now that I remember clearly, the first one I played was clannad. I had just finished watching the anime for clannad, and was amazed by how good the writing was. Then I don't remember how or where, but I remember someone posting something about a clannad open voice thingamabobber ( didn't know what VN's were at the time. I thought they were mangas, and I don't like mangas). So I torrented clannad. Found out about what VNs were, and then I DLed G-sen. My fate was more or less sealed at that point.
  14. Favorite Route: UBW Route with best writing: HF Best Heroine Ilya Most badass character: Kotomine Kirei That reminds me, I need to go watch fate zero. Oh yeah. Theorycraft. The protagonist is a girl, and she summons the servant of King Arthur who's a guy, instead of Shirou being protag and summoning saber. Go.
  15. I see, so you break the kana into words you know and try to work from there? I'm no so optimistic about the kana. I have a solid basis when approaching Kanji which lets me work through them whereas the kana is uncharted territory. The only redeeming factor is that there are a significantly smaller amount of kana to memorize.
  16. itsuka ra ita mekaha, wakaranai. I've no idea how the breaks work, but that's what I guess it'd sound like. Is it saying something like "one of them is itsuka, I don't know the other?" Although people say it's easy, kana seems pretty complicated.
  17. Hmm.. Just to lay out possibilities here are the time's that people posted they would be studying at torbin12: 15:00-16:00 (US) (Not sure EST or PST) (possibly busy) Vax: 8:00? (??) Ryoji: 20:00-21:00 (??) Tay: 6:30-7:30 (US) (???) thrvmn: 19:00-22:00 (??) CartmanJr: 22:00-24:00 (??) Mephisto: 16:00-22:00 (PST) As you can see, there are some severe problems with the list I attempted to make. I think it'd be pretty cool if we could seriously organize a way to work together on learning. Just to cover all bases, other people learning japanese/know japanese: Steve Mikel Bolverk Down Daeyamati zoom909 jun SakuraFreak DayLighter Tief Blau zhurai Aaeru That's a pretty strong list, and I'm sure some way could be figured out to help eachother.
  18. Day Three Update Kanji Status: Around 300 words studied. May be more since the flash cards deviate from the pdf of edition 4 of Heisig's book. Reflections: The Kanji is progressively getting harder, as expected. There are also many potential problems developing. The first problem has to deal with my short term memory. Whenever I remember a Kanji word after looking at the English description I can't be sure whether or not I actually know the word, or if I am only forming the connection due to working with the word recently. Part of this problem arose from the fact that I divided the 100 characters I planned to study in to smaller groups of 20~. This problem will likely fade once I have a larger vocabulary base to draw upon and a temporary measure I plan to use is to cover all the characters I want to learn for the day all at once. A problem related to that is pattern recognition. It's not the good kind of pattern recognition that will help me learn, it's the bad kind that makes me think I'm learning when I'm not. Basically, it is occurring due to the small base of words I have to draw upon right now. It's allowing me to narrow down the possible answers like a multiple choice question, which although useful for test taking, is not particularly great for understanding. When my review burden increases, this problem will likely fade away slightly. An interesting note is that the flash cards that appear and are not in the pdf file I am using actually help break the pattern, if only for a short period, which is very helpful. Narrowness/lack of fluidity by sticking only to RTK. Don't get me wrong, the book is useful and I like the flash cards, but it would be a lot better if I had other resources to draw upon as well. The thing with the other sources though, is that they assume you learn the kana first before the kanji. It's not a huge issue right now, but may be later. Motivation Level: Still in the green. It'd take something really drastic to stop me right now. (Think inertia) From here on out: At the moment I'm not suffering any severe mental strain from intensive forced studying, so I'll continue with my usual routine. I may attempt to learn the Kana earlier than expected since it may help me learn more efficiently. (Kana is used a lot and whenever I see it my mind just shuts down. I thought the language was going to be mostly kanji, but it's really a combination of all the three writing styles. The sooner I learn Kana, the sooner I stop thinking in Chinese.) If anyone is interested and has time, it would help a lot if someone could type a sentence in Kanji (without kana), although it's probably impossible from what I've seen. Failing that, reviewing with someone else also learning Kanji would be helpful as well.
  19. I wasn't even aware Beethoven had a version of Turkish March as well, I also learned the Mozart version. It was quite fun to learn at the time. I also don't play much classical anymore although for different reasons. A majority of the music I'm playing now comes from things I hear online that I want to play, and I usually end up trying to learn those instead of learning classical songs. (And yeah, they do take a lot of work) By synthesizer do you mean a keyboard? Depending on how old it is, you might need a MIDI to usb cable to connect it to a computer/laptop(new ones have direct USB to USB), and then you run a MIDI program on the computer such as ableton.. and that's about all I know. I never really looked in to working with a synthesizer although I have a keyboard that I use occasionally for fun. It looks pretty complicated though, so it'd be great to find someone who knows how to work one to show you the ropes. That "reward" factor you mention is pretty interesting. I think it's definitely a large factor in the choice of whether or not one continues with their studies in a certain field. How did you use computerized look-up?
  20. Yeah I understand where you're coming from since I thought of it from that angle as well. The greatest danger is if I let the massive amount of work swallow and consume me. As it gets closer to the end (or even the middle section) I will likely have to slow down, but at that point I should be more aware of my limitations. Thank you for the support as I am sure I will come to rely on it in the near future (especially for assistance in reviewing. I think it'd be awesome if I could find someone to review with. It'd essentially be the other person typing out the kanji character via skype or some other chat relay system and then the other person responding with the english translation. It can go both ways as they trade places, and it would cover or at least assist in learning how to read the characters, instead of just writing.)
  21. Heya all, didn't actually notice everyone made a seperate post until now, so setting it up now. Goal 1: I want to learn Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana, as well as the grammar for it within two months. (Basics of course, not full in-depth madness) Goal 2: I want to be able to read a full Visual Novel that has not yet been translated in to English Goal 3: I want to improve my abilities enough to be able to assist in a translation project before Summer ends I am aware that all of these are extremely lofty goals, but I find that I learn most efficiently by forcing myself to aim high. Of course, I also plan to make them happen! Study Time: Weekends I have pretty much all day, from when I wake up to when I go to sleep. Only breaks for meals. Essentially, a language-learning marathon every weekend. I'm sure I will occasionally get distracted, (such as by this forum) but there aren't any major distractions for me right now. (Hiatus from VNs until I make significant progress). On weekdays, I have to attend school, but I'm one of those annoying kids that get through the basic school material extremely quickly in most of my classes and can do whatever I want the rest of the time. (The exception being difficult AP classes where I need to pay attention). I'll be able to at least bring my notebook that I'm using to take notes to school, and look over them during class. After school (about 3:00 P.M) I have all the time until I fall asleep to study, which is awesome. (The only after school activity that I'm involved in at the moment is Journalism, and the paper comes out on the 14th. After that, I'll have the full 3:00 P.M to about 10:00 unless I stay up longer.) Also, february break is coming up in two weeks, which is right around the time I should be having to review around 1200~ Kanji words a day, as well as learn new ones. It's timed perfectly. Where I'm at right now: I started yesterday and went through around 100 words. I plan to be doing 100 Kanji words a day with the help of basic chinese, and more on the weekends when I have more time. So far there hasn't been any huge reviewing done since I just started, but I plan to overwhelm that by throwing vast amounts of time at it. I apologize for the writing of this sounding like a kid with something to prove, but unfortunately that's what I am right now. I hope to phase through it quickly as I know it's extremely tiring to deal with, but I hope you guys can bear with me and help me when I need it. (I'll definitely need help when I get to grammar)
  22. Thanks for the welcomes! @Down yeah, I'm aware that two months is definitely a optimistic estimate, but it's in the realm of possibility. Setting a goal like that just forces me to work harder to make it reality, which is always good motivation. @Tay Just to clear up misconceptions, those videos aren't of me actually playing (although I can play the first one pretty well now and almost there on the second one) and as mentioned a bit earlier, favorite is definitely Steins;Gate @Tief The actual death waltz or the touhou song that is referred to as the death waltz? Regardless of which, it's no to both. The first one is ridiculous and written for an orchestra, and the second one is ridiculous and written for someone with 8 hands.
  23. Ohh, that does make sense. It actually is the same in chinese, as the pronunciation of certain words do change based on the sentence. That fits in perfectly with context-driven pronunciations, thanks.
  24. Hiya zoom, Piano-wise it's mostly whatever catches my fancy that I can find sheet music for. I learned how to play Innocence from Katawa Shoujo since I really liked it, but the piano portion is kind of empty without the violins. Recently I've finished Eikyuu no Kizuna ( ) <- a video of someone else playing it and I'm currently working on Gate of Steiner ( ) <- someone totally amazing playing it. I'm nearly done with gate of steiner, I just need to get the arpeggiated portion down. (It's the part that sounds the most difficult.) I have all the chords and the rest of the stuff down already, and the general musicality. (I hope so at least. I have it divided in to "phrases" and it starts soft at the beginning of each phrase, increasing in volume, and then near the end it falls back. It's not how it's exactly supposed to be, but it's somewhere to work from.) I actually haven't played a lot of traditional music. I've learned Fur Elise and Turkish March (Although I've forgotten most of Fur Elise except the obvious memorable intro). I've also worked on Canon in D and I've finished the intro and what I consider as basically a piano "solo", but the ending is really tough for me due to all the jumping around. I can't seem to connect it together well enough. Some stuff I'd love to be able to play is the intro to Angel Beats. I've tried it, but I've never managed it yet. My left hand is extremely weak compared to my right hand in ability, and that song needs a particularly strong left hand. (Or at least it seems like that to me.) I think I can finally play the intro right before the chord, but it falls apart shortly after that. The Kanji is actually pretty fun, since it helps me refresh on Chinese as well. I can understand how confusing some of it can be though, and the more complicated words will definitely slow me down a lot. I think it's pretty awesome that you managed to learn an asian language without some prior knowledge in it though, because it really is extremely difficult. @Daeyamati If you mean what my first VN was, I honestly don't remember. Now that I think about it, I probably played VN's before I realized what they were. I think it may have been Katawa Shoujo or Clannad (After watching the anime), but I can't be sure. My favorite is still definitely Steins;gate (Science nerd, loved all the physics although I can't understand the significance of a Kerr Black Hole that has a visible singularity or something like that.) Will check those out, as I don't particularly hate kinetic novels as long as the stories are interesting. (Utawarerumono was kind of dissapointing though, after an amazing beginning) @batman Clannad is amazing. I remember touching the VN after watching the anime, and Sunohara was absolutely hilarious in the VN. If I didn't lose my save files due to having to replace my laptop's hard drive, I would probably have cleared all the routes.
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