Mephisto

What does one define a troll as?

I get called a troll because I just do whatever I feel like doing rather than what people want me to do. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzzo_1MQ5i0

Unfortunately I don't use Atlas or TA helper, so I'm not entirely sure what you are referring to :3. It seems to be pretty clear that the problem is related to how \ is a special character reserved for coding. (it appears as the yen symbol in japanese)
 
Your best bet will be talking to people who are more familiar with using atlas / how translation aggregator handles the \ character. 

true ends are true because that's how the story is meant to play out according to the person directing the story. they aren't necessarily "good" since most true ends are pretty dark. 
 
True ends tend to have an actual ending, and an actual plot to follow, while games without a true end tend to just kind of meander off in to "be nice to chicks, get laid". 

A point brought up in a conversation with clephas a few days ago in the differences between fan translating VNs and anime is that translating VNs is a lot more solitary without people to chat to. 
 
Chat doesn't directly help the project complete, and may even slow down progress (maybe?), but I think it would decrease fall off rates (wishful thinking probably) 

One of the most valuable things required to succeed in fan translation is motivation, and chance of success is related to how much a translator cares about getting that game released. 
 
I really have no faith in the "job bulletin board" concept, and don't think it applies at all to a field where there is no incentive except for one's personal motivation. It may have some lucky hits here and there, but as a whole is kind of outdated. The minimum requirement to get this kind of concept to work is to create some kind of demand for wanting to be a translator that is not immediately overwhelmed by the supply of things to translate. 
 
I'd even go as far as argue that this very "job bulletin board" model is also why there are so many failed translation projects. (Of course, I can't argue that it increases the amount of failed translation projects, since the reason there would be less would be because there are less translation projects in general, and a translation project not started is technically a dead project) 
 
Well, enough ranting. The state of fan translation is pretty difficult to change, and I don't think it will ever get to the level of anime/manga simply due to how much harder and less rewarding translating a VN is. 

I got nothing, you win the internets batman.

I like when H-scenes don't appear until far in to the route, due to story/circumstances/ect. actually being important, and then when the time comes for the H-scenes, the protagonist is unable to erect, resulting in a failed attempt at having sex. 

I like when H-scenes don't appear until far in to the route, due to story/circumstances/ect. actually being important, and then when the time comes for the H-scenes, the protagonist is unable to erect, resulting in a failed attempt at having sex. 

I like when H-scenes don't appear until far in to the route, due to story/circumstances/ect. actually being important, and then when the time comes for the H-scenes, the protagonist is unable to erect, resulting in a failed attempt at having sex. 

Pretty much during every sex scene. 

Jeez Steve getting my posts deleted after giving an accurate representation of the project. 

The obvious problem in why visual novels can't gain that much traction is the language barrier. I joined this website due to Tay's post about learning Japanese since I figured that would be a pretty cool thing to do. I think if another thing like that happened, in which we had people working together to learn Japanese, that would open up a lot more possibilities for the future. 
 
There actually is a basically fuwanovel skype chat related to learning japanese (we started out as a group to all play the same game so we could talk about it, but that didn't end up so well. Worked for a few weeks, but real life commitments and different reading speeds kind of made things weird. Also motivation about the game in question too I guess. There has been quite some success in talking about games we've mutually played/encourages each other to play though) 
 
Obviously we talk about the language as well and work together to answer each other's questions, which is the true benefit. We're not so experienced to be able to know everything, but we're pretty damn good at figuring things out. 
 
tl;dr: fuwanovel japanese learning stuffs, maybe english learning stuffs too? 

The obvious problem in why visual novels can't gain that much traction is the language barrier. I joined this website due to Tay's post about learning Japanese since I figured that would be a pretty cool thing to do. I think if another thing like that happened, in which we had people working together to learn Japanese, that would open up a lot more possibilities for the future. 
 
There actually is a basically fuwanovel skype chat related to learning japanese (we started out as a group to all play the same game so we could talk about it, but that didn't end up so well. Worked for a few weeks, but real life commitments and different reading speeds kind of made things weird. Also motivation about the game in question too I guess. There has been quite some success in talking about games we've mutually played/encourages each other to play though) 
 
Obviously we talk about the language as well and work together to answer each other's questions, which is the true benefit. We're not so experienced to be able to know everything, but we're pretty damn good at figuring things out. 
 
tl;dr: fuwanovel japanese learning stuffs, maybe english learning stuffs too? 

The obvious problem in why visual novels can't gain that much traction is the language barrier. I joined this website due to Tay's post about learning Japanese since I figured that would be a pretty cool thing to do. I think if another thing like that happened, in which we had people working together to learn Japanese, that would open up a lot more possibilities for the future. 
 
There actually is a basically fuwanovel skype chat related to learning japanese (we started out as a group to all play the same game so we could talk about it, but that didn't end up so well. Worked for a few weeks, but real life commitments and different reading speeds kind of made things weird. Also motivation about the game in question too I guess. There has been quite some success in talking about games we've mutually played/encourages each other to play though) 
 
Obviously we talk about the language as well and work together to answer each other's questions, which is the true benefit. We're not so experienced to be able to know everything, but we're pretty damn good at figuring things out. 
 
tl;dr: fuwanovel japanese learning stuffs, maybe english learning stuffs too? 

The obvious problem in why visual novels can't gain that much traction is the language barrier. I joined this website due to Tay's post about learning Japanese since I figured that would be a pretty cool thing to do. I think if another thing like that happened, in which we had people working together to learn Japanese, that would open up a lot more possibilities for the future. 
 
There actually is a basically fuwanovel skype chat related to learning japanese (we started out as a group to all play the same game so we could talk about it, but that didn't end up so well. Worked for a few weeks, but real life commitments and different reading speeds kind of made things weird. Also motivation about the game in question too I guess. There has been quite some success in talking about games we've mutually played/encourages each other to play though) 
 
Obviously we talk about the language as well and work together to answer each other's questions, which is the true benefit. We're not so experienced to be able to know everything, but we're pretty damn good at figuring things out. 
 
tl;dr: fuwanovel japanese learning stuffs, maybe english learning stuffs too? 

This topic has been a bit of circle jerk for obvious reasons, but I'm not entirely sure why everyone thinks that this will have no effect. 
 
One of the major causes of piracy is lack of a legal method to obtain the material in question.
 
Another major cause is that the price tag is some obnoxious amount. 
 
If the Japanese government is going to be providing legal methods to obtain such material, and going to make it actually affordable, then this IS going to affect piracy.
 
I'm not saying that is going to "stop" piracy or anything like that, but I would be very surprised if it won't at least curb the growth, if not outright eliminate some piracy sites.  

This topic has been a bit of circle jerk for obvious reasons, but I'm not entirely sure why everyone thinks that this will have no effect. 
 
One of the major causes of piracy is lack of a legal method to obtain the material in question.
 
Another major cause is that the price tag is some obnoxious amount. 
 
If the Japanese government is going to be providing legal methods to obtain such material, and going to make it actually affordable, then this IS going to affect piracy.
 
I'm not saying that is going to "stop" piracy or anything like that, but I would be very surprised if it won't at least curb the growth, if not outright eliminate some piracy sites.  

Playing through some more Mahoyo and decided to post some pictures of best heroine ever.
 

 
She has a shit ton of poses. 
 

 
It seems I forgot to take screencaps at most of her rage moments... the downcast/super rage ones are pretty awesome too

 
Well anyways, 

 
Off to read more, need to remember to take more pictures ;_;.
 

Playing through some more Mahoyo and decided to post some pictures of best heroine ever.
 

 
She has a shit ton of poses. 
 

 
It seems I forgot to take screencaps at most of her rage moments... the downcast/super rage ones are pretty awesome too

 
Well anyways, 

 
Off to read more, need to remember to take more pictures ;_;.
 

please tell me fuwanovel is joking
 
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/5681-tell-me-japan-is-joking/
 
is this another loli thread? 

Sakura Spirit was in the top 10 for sales on Steam on the day it released. Is it bad? Yes. Did it still sell a ton of copies? Yes. 
 
You can argue that Grisaia is in every way better than Sakura Spirit, but there are a few elements that Sakura Spirit has that Grisaia doesn't. 
 
1. monster girls (plays to a fetish)
2. rampant fan service (please, we all know this sells, or anime and VN producers would've stopped doing it)
3. moe
4. is short
5. is cheap 
 
All things that will sell. 
 
What does bringing in VNDB have to do with anything? Nobody said this game was any good. 

The michiru one is by far the best, the shinku one is lame, and people are just following steve. It really isn't visually appealing at all and is actually difficult to look at. 

http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h
 
P.S: Even if it's fake it was interesting to read. 
 
Edit: Yeah after thinking about it for a while, this definitely has to be fake. It just doesn't make any sense. If you keep "banning" publishers who are making you money through ads, then you lose these publishers. Where are you going to get ad money from now in the next year/future? 

/thread
 
There's some fancy arguments that you can't not be racist. I won't post them here to avoid walls of text, but it's not something I wouldn't particularly worry about unless there is hate crime involved.