sirjabberwock

I'd love to hear some more about Dark Souls' "spiritual successor."

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Welcome , who's your favorite heroine from KS?

Hello there and welcome to the forums, Sirjabberwock (I LOVE your name, btw. Through the Looking-Glass <3).

From my experience with "learning Japanese", I can only tell you how utterly simple yet time-consuming the whole process is. Though, this depends on if you aim to 'master' japanese, or if you want to become 'accustomed' to it instead. If it's the latter, then you'll only have to spend a few months at most with a lot of free time. Mastering japanese takes years, however. My method for getting used to it was (enough to read it pretty well, but not to write/speak it effortlessly); taking in the entirety of Tae Kim's Guide on Japanese Grammar whilst at the same time reading various untranslated eroge using ITH+TA with Mecab and JParser (no machine translation). There are, what I feel, several perfect-tier guides on this whole process (Aero's Guide), and it can help you tremendously... both for boosting your psychological motivation going through the process, and just generally making it quicker to learn japanese. You'll get to gradually learn the language as well as reading some of the truly wonderful, yet untranslated stories within eroge out there.

I really hope this helps you on your road to success in the Japanese language, and if you don't particularly mind, I could even give you some suggestions on what to read (though there is a 'picture guide' for that, which would be far more suitable, tbh). =)




 
Wish you luck with your endeavors. ^^

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The Abilities of Clephas, the Infinite Stomach
 
'Infinite Stomach'- Clephas' Creation ability.  It allows him to force those within the area of effect to recognize the reality that they exist within his stomach on an absolute level, causing their very existence to be 'digested' and turned into nutrients.  Since this ability essentially just reveals the truth about the multiverse, it is basically a really, really powerful illusion-breaking spell.  Spell Chant:  肉、肉、肉！　この世界は肉でできている！　われには食べないものはない！　食べるとは愛であり、憎悪であり、そして敬意でもある！　われは捕食者の神、弱肉強食の王、すべての世界を食べるものなり！　創造、無限胃袋！
 
Absolute Existence- Clephas' constant-effect ability.  If his avatar is destroyed, another one will simply manifest at the same time in order to prevent the paradox of the universe existing without him. 
 
Stomach Creation- The ability to manifest new worlds, dimensions, and universes to Clephas' convenience within his infinite stomachs.  Most people devoured by Clephas end up in one of his many stomach-worlds.
 
World Devour- Clephas periodically devours newborn universes, adding them to his infinite stomachs. 
 
Clephas' indigestion- Has unpredictable effects, such as tears in the fabric of reality, earthquakes, volcanoes, supernovas, black hole formations, and big bangs.
 
Clephas Spits- Clephas can instantly summon anything existing within his many stomachs by spitting it out.
 
Cannibalism is Love- Clephas' sealed ability, which, when released through excessive hunger, causes him to devour anyone present, brainwashing them into Clephas Cultists in the process, adding them to his armies of lovingly hungry followers.
 
Clephas' Boredom- When Clephas becomes bored, iron spikes begin to randomly impale lolis manifested from thin air, demon cats start playing with human heads, and for some reason, the blob behind the bar begins serving drinks.

ooo I like this thread. If I had to pick a "superpower," it'd be omnipotence. It carries with it immortality of course and the thing that intrigues me most about having the power of a god is actually quite nerdy. I'd love to know the statistics of the universe. You know how people are always doing polls on the percentage of people who [insert something here]? I'd love to be able to know the exact stats of the world offhand.

I wasn't here when you were active on fuwa, but I wish you luck in your endeavors! It's great that you're in a better place today as losing someone really close to you can fuck someone up for much longer than 4 months if they don't have good people around them to be supportive. Once again, welcome back!

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