Fuwanovel Confessions

[LinovaA]

5 hours ago, Kiriririri said:

Maybe come BACK then.

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You even play Angel Beats yet? www

 

I'm lurking. : ^ ) w

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Pfffft. Of course I have...

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... definitely.

 

 

[Kenshin_sama]

On 4/18/2019 at 11:02 AM, Plk_Lesiak said:

Hope it works out for you. I'm still under strong impression my gaming habits can only be controlled through (relative) abstinence. The only non-VN game I'm allowing myself nowadays is one of those browser/mobile idle MMOs. It's pretty great for my predicament as there's simply not that much to do there beyond a fixed, daily routine and you are rewarded for consistency and planning rather than sheer time investment. And the stream of rewards and possibility of interacting with guildmates are still decent enough. At least it's enough most of the time - my RL friend recently ressurected the WoW account we shared in the past and even though I still really like that game, I felt little temptation to join in, as I know I'd just burn tons of time and end up with huge hangover, while the thing I play now is just way more manageable and guilt-free.

In general, I find my relapses into gaming rarer and less severe nowadays, but that's pretty much only through abstinence. I wouldn't trust any of it just on my willpower or discipline, as I have none.

Hey, remember how I said I had a good method for coping with my MMO addiction? Turns out I was lying to myself. I've allowed myself to become a complete wreck since I started playing Runescape, and I delved even further into madness with Android gaming.  I thought I could manage my addictive tendencies with proper awareness, but I failed miserably (those daily login incentives get me every time).

Just thought I'd let you know in case you had any lingering thoughts of going back. It's not worth it.

[Plk_Lesiak]

1 minute ago, Kenshin_sama said:

Hey, remember how I said I had a good method for coping with my MMO addiction? Turns out I was lying to myself. I've allowed myself to become a complete wreck since I started playing Runescape, and I delved even further into madness with Android gaming.  I thought I could manage my addictive tendencies with proper awareness, but I failed miserably (those daily login incentives get me every time).

Just thought I'd let you know in case you had any lingering thoughts of going back. It's not worth it.

Hah, well, I got into that hellhole (android games) a few times since writing that post. I pretty much always try out those low-maintenance ones and love the daily reward routine (that one I'm playing consistently is much less heavy on that). Of course, even two convenient online games together are way too time consuming with how my schedule usually looks. On the other hand, it's still hard for me to not check out new ones when I feel particularly tired or dejected and want to distract myself - I simply get rid of them as soon as I start feeling I can do something better with my time (usually after a 3-5 days of playing them casually, sometimes including some small in-app purchases).

Didn't even touch "real" MMOs though, or any games in "forbidden" genres (sandbox/strategy/grindy RPGs) - I know myself well enough to not even consider it. I think I tried playing a bit of Medieval: Total War (the first one) early this year, or around December? Just from nostalgia. Got rid of it after two days, with a pretty major hangover left from the experience. Plus some mechanics in it are really messed up, maintaining a large empire is a nightmare... If these games are controllable, it's definitely not in my case and I can hardly imagine any mental techniques changing that, so I'm barely even tempted at this point. Even if stumbling upon Warhammer: Total War sale on Steam makes me sweat a bit, I was never close to actually falling back into this pit of misery. :>

[Kenshin_sama]

2 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Hah, well, I got into that hellhole (android games) a few times since writing that post.

Seriously, those games are an even bigger headache than the PC variants. I was playing those games up until I saw my therapist, and it wasn't until our session was over that I realized how badly I needed to get away from them. I've been off my sleep schedule for about a week now, and I've even put on an entire 6 pounds from overeating and lack of exercise. It was a miserable ordeal, but I just could not convince myself to quit.

Well, that's changing today. I've already deleted the app from my phone, and even took it a step further by deleting my entire account (so that I'm not tempted to go back). I'm also reaching out to a prominent youtuber for Runescape to host a giveaway for both my main and ironman accounts (yeah, I actually made two accounts on a p2w game, and no, it was not cheap).

Edited May 23, 2019 by Kenshin_sama

[Plk_Lesiak]

12 hours ago, Kenshin_sama said:

Seriously, those games are an even bigger headache than the PC variants.

Well, they are designed exactly to capitalize on people's addictive tendencies, so they're literally the worst on that front. Thankfully, I was always way more conservative with my money than I was with my time and live priorities, so the worst I ever did with those was spending like $120 over 4-5 months. Usually, you can spend unlimited money in these games, but unless they're particularly scummy (hello there, Japanese gatcha games and their clones ^^), there are clear lines between where it makes sense to spend money and what is just pure excess. In the game I was talking about (the one I explicitly allow myself to play), Shakes&Fidget, there are two things that are worth buying with premium currency and they cost ~$12 a month. This includes money from my mobile internet, which is pretty much worthless to me (the only thing I use is the bonus data transfer and I have to add money to my account every 4 months for it to not expire). The game also takes up to an hour and a half to manage daily (with no need to pay attention for a longer time at any point) and while there are definitely people that spend insane amount of money to be in the top brackets in it, in the end, consistency in doing daily activities and planning out your progress will always win with money. And consistency is one thing I always lacked, so the way I keep climbing up the ladders there is kind of therapeutic to me. :3

But, anyways, good job on getting rid of the toxic stuff and hope you can get back to a healthy routine quick.

Edited May 23, 2019 by Plk_Lesiak

[r0xm2n]

The Ramshorns snails in my tank are kinda doing poorly (meanwhile, the ones from Mum's place, that originally came from my tank, and are the same age, are doing very well).

It's some sort of Calcium deficiency.

Yesterday (and earlier today), I tried in vain to feed them Spinach leaves (damn things wouldn't sink!). Scratch that then.....

Now I'm going for egg shells (snails can graze on them for Calcium, and it won't disrupt the fish I have in there). Hopefully these will sink....

 

Future plans include buying pellets designed for Shrimps and other crustaceans (would have bought some today if the pet store wasn't closed). As well as a DIY Snail Jello recipe (I've found 2 different recipes).

 

Many people consider Ramshorns as pests. But I think they are cool pets (apparently they come in various colors)

And here's some baby ones....

[GXOALMD]

Confession:

I'm not actually a Shuckle, I just pretend to be one on the internet.

[Plk_Lesiak]

Confession(?): Google stats told me that someone reached my blog today by searching "succubus yuri lolicon visual novels" in Bing. I'm a bit sad that probably they came no closer to finding their fix by checking out my posts and I most likely have no means of directing them to Lillium x Triangle. I always respect people with tastes this specific.

Edited June 2, 2019 by Plk_Lesiak

[Thyndd]

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Edited June 24, 2019 by Thyndd
Lame post

[Plk_Lesiak]

Confession: I've just learned that there's is a large subreddit (and more broadly, a large community) of femcels, that is more or less female incels, but them and male incels hate each other with a burning passion (instead of, like, hooking up and cancelling each other's problems?). If this doesn't represent perfectly how screwed up modern society is, I'm not sure what does.  (+ crying inside)

EDIT: And funnily enough, I think the lady that introduced me to the fact of femcels being a thing is the same person that made this memorable Bing search I mentioned in my previous post. She went to /vnsuggest subreddit today looking for "yuri lolicon visual novel" and got downvoted to hell, but her nick, "femcelforever", sparked my curiosity.

BTW, that's probably on my top 5 list of saddest nicks anyone could use online. 

Edited June 3, 2019 by Plk_Lesiak

[Funyarinpa]

1 hour ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Confession: I've just learned that there's is a large subreddit (and more broadly, a large community) of femcels, that is more or less female incels, but them and male incels hate each other with a burning passion

I'm losing my shit 

That's so stupid but makes so much sense at the same time (hint: the incel identity isn't just about being lonely and wanting a partner)

[Dergonu]

I like dark elves.

[Alcorin]

It's been a while since I've visited this place, mostly due to life being kinda crazy lately... So what made me visit today? An e-mail notification about a PM I've apparently received from a pornbot. Like I didn't have to deal with enough of this crap on Tumblr, what the hell -,-"

(Hope y'all are having a good time, btw. Can't wait to have the time to read and rant about some VNs again )

[Funyarinpa]

Confession: This is my last post on Fuwa.

 

[Dreamysyu]

13 minutes ago, Funyarinpa said:

Confession: This is my last post on Fuwa.

It was nice to know you. Good luck in your future endeavors.

[Plk_Lesiak]

3 hours ago, Funyarinpa said:

Confession: This is my last post on Fuwa.

 

Not sure if you're even going to read this, but take care. If I remember well, you have some big changes/challenges ahead of you, so I hope you find a good path for yourself. o/

[Plk_Lesiak]

Confession: For some reason, I decided to destroy the last pieces of human dignity I possessed and started researching Japanese idol groups. After checking out songs by a few supposedly popular ones I nearly died of cringe, even with my anime-induced resistance. However, whoever produces stuff for Keyakizaka46 (I think this group was the direct inspiration for Quasar in Shining Song Starnova, with the fan elections for choosing the center and all? - I guess AKB48 also do fan elections, but this group still kind of fits the image well?) definitely knows their stuff.

BTW, can anyone recommend me some Japanese pop from 80s or 90s? There's a lot of pretty awesome, jazzy JP music from that period that I occasionally stumble upon (in vaporwave remixes for example), but don't really know how to even start looking for it...

Edited June 19, 2019 by Plk_Lesiak

[adamstan]

Welcome to the dark side

38 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

However, whoever produces stuff for Keyakizaka46 (I think this group was the direct inspiration for Quasar in Shining Song Starnova, with the fan elections for choosing the center and all?) definitely know their stuff.

Yeah, Keyakizaka46 is good. I personally also like many songs by AKB48. Both groups (and many others in "48 group") share the same producer (Yasushi Akimoto), who writes all the lyrics. Music is made by various people/bands. OTOH most of the Hello!Project idol groups (Morning Musume etc) were rather meh to me - maybe those were the ones you found in the beginning.

38 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

BTW, can anyone recommend me some Japanese pop from 80s or 90s? There's a lot of pretty awesome, jazzy JP music from that period that I occasionally stumble upon (in vaporwave remixes for example), but don't really know how to even start looking for it...

As for '80s/'90s pop - I absolutely love all CDs by Aya Hisakawa (久川綾). Some songs from Seiko Matsuda (松田聖子) from late '80s/early '90s are pretty good too. There's also ton of great songs on the Sailor Moon related CDs (not all were used in the anime) - they can all be downloaded at sailormusic.net - that's what was my gateway drug into japanese music Songs for Slayers and Magic Knight Rayearth are great as well.

However it turns out that most of my japanese CD collection is from '00s. The great thing is, that they still keep many features from earlier years - it isn't like in the western pop, where new style comes and almost completely wipes away the old. When trying to 'date' japanese song, you can only say "not earlier than" - if there are for example instruments/sounds used that weren't used before. But you can find many songs recorded recently, that could as well be released 20 or 30 years ago - that's what I like about japanese pop the most. They don't discard the past - they build upon it.

Some of my favourite singers / acts (apart from the ones mentioned above):

Anri Kumaki ( 熊木杏里 ), Ai Kawashima (川嶋あい), Miyako Hasegawa (長谷川都), Maiko Fujita (藤田麻衣子), FictionJunction / Kalafina and other Yuki Kajiura's acts, Ayako Ikeda (池田綾子), Kayoko Yoshizawa (吉澤嘉代子), Minako Kawae (川江美奈子)

Most of those are singer-songwriter type - quite different from idols.

Going back to the '80s, I have also compilation CD of Mami Ayukawa (鮎川麻弥) - some nice songs there, including pretty good cover of Modern Talking's "You're My Heart, You're My Soul"

Not sure which ones/how many of those will you like, but at least you have some names to put into YT search to check out

For ultimate cheese, sounding like straight from the eighties, check out girl going by stagename KOTO (not to be confused with Dutch spacesynth band ):

I love how they nailed perfectly every aspect of '80s aesthetics (including both beatuiful synth sounds and horrible visuals )

Edited June 19, 2019 by adamstan

[alpacaman]

35 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

BTW, can anyone recommend me some Japanese pop from 80s or 90s? There's a lot of pretty awesome, jazzy JP music from that period that I occasionally stumble upon (in vaporwave remixes for example), but don't really know how to even start looking for it...

There is this genre called City Pop that was popular in the late 70s and 80s that might fit your description.

 

[Plk_Lesiak]

1 hour ago, adamstan said:

OTOH most of the Hello!Project idol groups (Morning Musume etc) were rather meh to me - maybe those were the ones you found in the beginning.

Yeah, I think those at least were among the groups that repelled me after 30-40 seconds of listening. ;p

1 hour ago, adamstan said:

However it turns out that most of my japanese CD collection is from '00s. The great thing is, that they still keep many features from earlier years - it isn't like in the western pop, where new style comes and almost completely wipes away the old.

Yeah, I also noticed that while browsing Spotify, was quite surprised to find some very fresh songs in the style I was looking for. But still, it was a pretty tedious search without good points of reference, your response fixes this problem in an impressive manner, so huge thanks for that. ^^

[Yuuko]

5 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

However, whoever produces stuff for Keyakizaka46

It is me.

 

Also song from 80s covered in 90s

 

[Plk_Lesiak]

1 hour ago, Kiriririri said:

Also song from 80s covered in 90s

That's a neat song. But the original is so gloriously 80s! 

 

[alpacaman]

Or else you can always search rateyourmusic.com (basically vndb for music) by making custom charts. Here is one I made listing the best rated (non classical, non soundtrack) 80s albums by artists from Japan. Elvis Costello seems to be living in Japan right now, so his albums are in there as well, but there are still more than enough interesting artists. Right now I'm listening to this, which sounds like Scary Monsters David Bowie made an album together with Kraftwerk while on a very bad trip:

 

[Plk_Lesiak]

6 minutes ago, alpacaman said:

Right now I'm listening to this, which sounds like Scary Monsters David Bowie made an album together with Kraftwerk while on a very bad trip:

I dig it! Very trippy indeed, but I like this kind of stuff. ^^ I'll definitely use your advice too.

Confession: I totaly derailed Fuwanovel Confessions thread into a retro JP music one. 

[Kosakyun]

Confession: Since playing through Huniepop four years ago, I started to find moaning done by English VAs hot.

Edited June 20, 2019 by Kosakyun