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    Tyrael reacted to Eclipsed in Love Live! School Idol Festival Thread   
    wb to idol hell Tyrael 
     
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    Jeez, already we're at the next event, and we have a nice 7pm PST start time #nomoreawkwardlystayingupforevents??
    Finally a token event, so some of you might have seen my Full Combo EX spam, I'm pretty pro now i guess  I remember some older EX songs like Anone Ganbare, Pure Girls Project, even Susume Tomorrow being absolutely impossible but ever since getting exposed to Masters they're child's play.
    ...Except Magnetic Today and Binetsu Kara Mystery, the former i still always get at least one miss on the last onslaught of notes and Mystery is just BS where i either pass the two single note spams only to fail the double half moon spam right after or vice versa ._.

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    Here's me FC'ing all the Happy Train Rs at the same time btw. I derped the screen orientation because #firsttimerecording but it's the audio that matters 
     
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Eclipsed in Love Live! School Idol Festival Thread   
    Hey hey guys, since I happen to have a lot more time on my hands right now I decided to re-install LLSIF again, hope to see you all online soon
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    Tyrael reacted to Tamaki Sakura in haven't read a VN in english for like a year. What's been released?   
    Major releases since last summer:
    11eyes (patch) Chrono Clock  Da Capo 3 R  Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony D.S. -Dal Segno-  Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome (otome) Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- (yuri) Hatsukoi 1/1 (patch) Himawari -The Sunflower- Koiken Otome (patch) Muv-Luv Muv-Luv Alternative Nurse Love Addiction (yuri) Princess Evangile W Happiness (fandisc) Rance 5D - The Lonely Girl & Rance VI - Collapse of Zeth Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms Subarashiki Hibi Symphonic Rain The Labyrinth of Grisaia The Eden of Grisaia (all ages only) The Shadows of Pygmalion (yuri) ToHeart 2 (patch) Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ Wagamama High Spec Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na -Brighter than Dawning Blue- (patch)
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    Tyrael reacted to Zalor in Is the increased popularity of Dating Sims a threat to Visual Novels in the West?   
    The question I have is a bit more complex than the title I have, so allow me to give some context. From what I have seen just in my own personal life, otome games in the west have reached a popularity that visual novels are failing to achieve. And while otome games are a sub genre of VNs, their market is completely different from the market of story based VNs. In real life, I have met around 10 girls who I am decently acquainted with who play otome games. When I asked if they played other visual novels, they said no. From the information I gathered from them, they don't care about visual novels as an alternate medium, but only care about dating sims. They like otome games as dating sims. And Otome games are a genre that are growing on the western mobile market. Mystic Messenger has gained a lot of popularity these past couple of months, and with its success is very likely going to bring more otome games into the market. I initially thought this would be a good thing, since if otome games gain more popularity, then maybe those people will expend their interests into visual novels. But from what I have noticed, there is no evidence that suggests that the growth of the Otome game genre is going to benefit visual novels. In fact, I think it might even damage the potential for the visual novel market to expand in the west. 
    By Otome games, I am mostly referring to the shitty dating sim ones that plague the mobile phone market. I know that there are some good story based ones out there, and sadly those seem to be just as unpopular as most story based visual novels. My real concern, is with how Dating sims are overall doing much better in the west than story based VNs. On the male side of things, shitty games like Sakura spirit and Nekopara I think are doing just as much harm to the reputation of Visual novels in the west. 
    The popularity of dating sims is perpetuating the false understanding of visual novels as dating sims. VNs ≠ Dating sims! While I don't have anything wrong with dating sims existing as a genre, I do think it is very important to create a distinction between dating sims and VNs. Just like how it is important to create a distinction between Nukige and story-based visual novels. Just because they use similar formatting, does not mean that they are synonymous with each other. But the popularity that otome games are getting, are going to have more people associate VNs as dating sims, and this will make it hard for actual story based VNs to expand their market in the west.
    Furthermore, Dating-sim oriented Otome games in particular are marketing themselves to a western audience much better than VNs are imo. Developers for these games realize that this genre thrives most on portable devices. And I think it is that realization that is helping them expand their market so well. VNs on the other hand are still mostly just pc games, especially if you only take the western audience into account (since few psp and vita ports ever make it to the west). Not only are VNs limited to computers, but they are limited to windows. They largely exclude mac users, which is a huge problem in the west considering how many people have macs. Few people will do what I did and buy a notably more expensive ultra-portable windows laptop to enjoy VNs on the go like I did. Most people settle for the cheaper mac-books. And for people who are non-gamers and who have not yet discovered visual novels, it is perfectly reasonable for them to do so.  
    Maybe I am in the minority out there, but I genuinely see visual novels as a medium of story telling in the light that books and movies are. Visual Novels can tell many types of stories and can encompass any genre of fiction they want. Hell, there are even some amazing genres like denpa that I think are basically exclusive to VNs. In terms of depth and writing quality, there are visual novels out there that offer the same amount of intellectual depth and meaning that some books do. I fell in love with this medium because I like experiencing interesting stories with the accompaniment of music and art. To see a medium I love getting neglected for mere dating sims just really pisses me off. I would really love to hear what other people think. 
     
    Edit: After discussing it out a bit, I realize that my problem is not with Otome games per se, but with Dating sims as a whole.
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    Tyrael reacted to InvertMouse in Thank you for helping me cope with my dad's passing :)   
    Hi everyone . Thank you for helping me cope with my dad's funeral earlier.
    About a month has passed since his death. I am back at work and things are generally okay. Our family stuck together during Christmas and had a great time, though there is a sadness in the background because we all know someone is missing. Work helped to distract me from these thoughts, but I felt sad again during the Christmas break. Still a bit up and down.
    We have been given a recording of my dad's cremation ceremony. Turned out I didn't have to press that button to send him into the fire. I actually wanted to, but they closed the curtains after the ceremony ended, and I never got to see the casket again. Next time I dropped by, they handed me the urn with my dad's ashes in it. I guess they believe it's too cruel to make loved ones press that button.
    No one in my family wants anything to do with that video, but I copied the file onto my laptop, and I'd click through it once in a while. I'm not sure if that's healthy, but I can't help it. It's not like I watch it 24 hours a day. Maybe a skim once every week or two. The video doesn't make me sad, but just kind of empty.
    Another confession is, I regret not taking a photo of my dad in his casket. The casket is closed the whole time during that video, so I'll never again get to see him in his final state. I know it'd be so inappropriate to take a picture during a funeral, but I got to spend some time alone with his body in the hospital, so I could've done it then, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.
    If I had taken a photo, I'd open my phone once in a while to stare longingly at a picture of a dead guy. Not sure if that's messed up. I admit sometimes I open his photos on my laptop, and I touch my screen as if I can somehow remember what it feels like to touch him. A lot of things that might seem cringe worthy, but I can't deny I'm doing them.
    I put all the old videos of my dad into a folder as well. When he first died, I watched through all the clips almost right away, yet now, even though I feel like I've recovered, I can't bring myself to click on those videos. Somehow, I can watch that film of him in a casket, but not ones where he's still alive and moving. If I hear his voice again, I'll mistakenly think he's come back to life, and that will just hurt far too much.
    I had a dream about my dad recently. It's Chinese New Year, and my relatives came into the house to spend time with us. My dad followed them in when I opened the door. I freaked out, but no one else seemed to notice his presence. He was all smiles and well dressed. Since he spent his final years quite ill, I had not seem him this happy in a long time. When our eyes met, he gave me a winking, "don't tell anyone" sort of look. After that, he didn't look my way again, and he didn't say a word throughout. Instead, he just looked around the house, acting excited, a bit childlike.
    I woke up straight after that. The Chinese people believe spirits can communicate with us through dreams. I have no idea if that's real, but the dream brightened my day. Chinese New Year is coming in a few weeks, and our family agreed that when our relatives visit, we will leave the door open for an extra second or two.
    Thank you everyone .
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Spartan977 in Post pics you like (Powered by Jun Inoue™)   
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Infernoplex in Show yourself off (RL picture thread)   
    You look great dude! Who's the girl in the first picture? Your sister? Or one of your many conquests? You playa you 
     
    Also, I feel like I must return the favor, so here ya go:
     

     

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    Tyrael reacted to solidbatman in PSA: My Name Change   
    The only comedy act here is his taste in VNs 
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    Tyrael reacted to Flutterz in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    Or should I say ¯\_(き)_/¯
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Funyarinpa in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Confession 1: Fear me, for I have returned.
     
    Confession 2: Messaged a girl I've been talking for months on end now to finally ask her out and she suddenly stopped responding to me. This feeling must be true despair.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Kenshin_sama in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Confession 1: Fear me, for I have returned.
     
    Confession 2: Messaged a girl I've been talking for months on end now to finally ask her out and she suddenly stopped responding to me. This feeling must be true despair.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Flutterz in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Confession 1: Fear me, for I have returned.
     
    Confession 2: Messaged a girl I've been talking for months on end now to finally ask her out and she suddenly stopped responding to me. This feeling must be true despair.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Caio000 in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Confession 1: Fear me, for I have returned.
     
    Confession 2: Messaged a girl I've been talking for months on end now to finally ask her out and she suddenly stopped responding to me. This feeling must be true despair.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from FruitsPunchSamurai in Fuwanovel Confessions   
    Confession 1: Fear me, for I have returned.
     
    Confession 2: Messaged a girl I've been talking for months on end now to finally ask her out and she suddenly stopped responding to me. This feeling must be true despair.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Mugi in Love Live! School Idol Festival Thread   
    That's too bad... Don't forget to check the giveaways on http://otonokizaka.org, you might get something there
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Ceris in Love Live! School Idol Festival Thread   
    The scouting goddess Ceris has blessed me today


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    Tyrael got a reaction from Velociraptor in Goodbye to one member, OriginalRen and what you remember about him   
    Honestly, Ren has left and come back to Fuwa so many times that it has basically become a meme at this point.
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    Tyrael reacted to sanahtlig in [Rant] Over priced? What? Grisaia   
    Value is relative.
    This is a Steam gamer's perspective: "I can buy AAA budget games deep discounted for $10-20 1 year after release with 50-100hrs of gameplay, that cost much more to develop.  Why should I pay the same or more for a low-budget title of the same length or less?"
    The answer: You pay a premium for niche content.  AAA games have a large budget but also a large customer base to disperse those costs over.  VNs are niche with a smaller customer base, and therefore they have to keep prices somewhat higher in order to recoup costs (as niche content also tends to have a more inelastic demand curve; as price decreases, sales volume doesn't increase quite as much).  But mainstream AAA games are limited in the types of content they can feature, as they must always have broad appeal.  Can't have hardcore ero in a mainstream title, for example.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from akaritan in Ozmafia true route walkthrough?   
    To quote Carl Sagan:    "There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question".
     
    You're welcome
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    Tyrael reacted to Zakamutt in Tae Kim's Grammar Guide And The Yet Unfulfilled Need For Exercises For It (+ rambling)   
    Learning a foreign language will never be easy, but there are certainly ways of making it easier. When it comes to Japanese, there are two main recommended resources for the VN community: the Genki textbooks, and Tae Kim's guide to Japanese grammar. In this thread, I'll be talking about the latter, and some of the problems and advantages to learning with it. Oh, and the actual reason for this thread: it doesn't have a lot of exercises for repetition.
    While you can get by through just reading the guide and kinda fuzzily remembering where to look up concepts when you encounter them, I know people who had serious trouble learning much since it would just slip their mind. The exercises could potentially help these people out a lot, but I think they could benefit most people that don't have reals good memory faculties. It'll also feel nostalgic for >20-year-old neets who enjoyed school, a demographic that may or may not be overrepresented in the VN fandom. I may be projecting.
    Tae Kim, as you'll hear the guide called, is not without its flaws. However, its pure focus on grammar drew me to it far more than the Genki series of textbooks which has a more general approach. Also, you can get it without either paying for or pirating it, which may be relevant to some of you.
    Here's a sample of some stuff I actually wrote to help my own studies this one time when I really wanted to tryhard whilst studying:
    If it seems a bit barebones that's because it is; nicking some exercises from Imabi might be viable, though that's even more #effort and the guy who wrote the (somewhat overly inclusive) Imabi lessons might object. I wouldn't really care about that, but I'm sure some of you will. However, I think it's quite possible to write more general questions on the grammar concepts present in Tae Kim. Do feel free to post any complaints below; after all, I'm very open to any suggestion that work may not be required of me.
    I'm pretty bad at following through with anything requiring effort (actually writing this thing would take like an hour or more per lesson for me. I could be reading VNs or translating porn or something during that time!), so me actually completing this kind of project is extremely unlikely. With that said, it's 5am here and I felt like writing this shit anyway, so why the hell not? Maybe I'll spark something. With that said...
    Does there already exist something like this (for Tae Kim specifically)? There's not much point in making something that already exists, though obviously my version would be better because I'm super good at everything :makina:. Oh, and would you actually use it? Kinda pointless otherwise.
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    [Things actually relevant to the thread]

    Can't actually think of anything, but I'm passable at the fine art of editing my own posts.
    [Shitposts]

    Well, as long as they're quality shitposts...
    [Shitposts by FSJPG circlejerk]

    シットポーストに逢うてはシットポーストを切る。多分。かもしれない。その。。。うち。。。に。。。。。。。
    ^let the Fapanese memes flow through you
    [Unrelated questions as to why I'm great]

    I have an Ask.fm account gathering dust; you can find it linked in my signature. Ask me about why Utena is 5/10!
    Since you're never going to write this anyways, what can I use to learn in the meantime? I'm looking for a bit more meat than what you've linked already.
    A somewhat relevant post is literally stickied in this very forum section.
    Why'd you use "Fapanese" up there?

    I've been forcing this meme (that I made!) for so long that it's become part of my idio(t)lect. I even made some other people start using it. You should, too!
    I'm completely uninterested in this subject but your writing mesmerised me and I must have more!
    Read my VNTS commentaries on the Fuwazette. When I write them, that is; I didn't do anything for this last one as of 22/06. Also, I hope using that date format triggered some of you USians.
    tl;dr
    I felt like writing an overly long post about the need for exercises for Tae Kim's guide to Japanese grammar and asked whether anyone would be interested in having some written, and whether there would be a point to doing so. This is the result.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from akaritan in Ozmafia true route walkthrough?   
    This website has the full walkthrough on it: https://welcometowonderland.me/2016/04/29/ozmafia-caramia-walkthrough/
    Hope this helps
    Also:
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    Tyrael reacted to Black Sands Entertainment in Dharker Studios is planning to make 8 games this year?   
    Anime isn't the only style acceptable for a VN, specially if the content fits the style.

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    Tyrael got a reaction from Valmore in Fuwanovel Mascot   
    Tbh I always thought Ren was our mascot
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    Tyrael reacted to Valmore in Dharker Studios is planning to make 8 games this year?   
    Dharker Studios = rebranded AJTilley.com
    So yes, I'm certain he can release 8 terrible VNs in 2016.
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    Tyrael got a reaction from Valmore in Dharker Studios is planning to make 8 games this year?   
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    PS: If I can get my hands on a review key for these games I'll smash review as many as I can.
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