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At first the contenders were many, lining two entire Forum Pages with their cries of challenge. The Steins;Gate Limited Edition Giveaway appealed to many, though it was only a few that survived till the very end, clawing their way through tasks unmentionable under the gleeful gaze of their Host, Solidbatman. Some would call him a visonary, others a tyrant, though all agree that it was by his hand and his hand alone that so many hopefuls fell by the wayside, their dream of a better future crushed beneath his iron boot. Historians believe that Week One was designed to lull potential prize-seekers into a false sense of security. Indeed, the word "simple" featured for all to see and the phrase "If you have any questions at all, ask" might seem innocent enough at first glance. What many didn't realize, however, and still don't, is that every single contender to ask the invited question mysteriously disappeared by the time that fateful final week had come around. There is no proof of foul play, of course, but given Solidbatman's actions so far we can only speculate on what may have befallen those poor souls. Nevertheless, excitement abounded in the posts that first week; an excitement that would soon give way to something more...sinister... Week Two was the first real warning sign, though this was not apparent to many. You could see the sadistic glee in each of Solidbatman's keystrokes. Unfortunately for many contestants the Host was crafty and clever, choosing two relatively innocent mascots to represent his grim game. Yet even in that action, the careful observer could see the underlying madness. Batman, a crime-fighting hero, and Hachikuji, a young ghost with something more than a chip on her shoulder, together? Innocent to many, damning to the trained few. Knowing that it all rested on this week, that the more intelligent of the lot might see through him, the Host included a mythical three bonus points. Not a soul realized he already had them wrapped around his finger. Some gave the contest their all, others used their meager "copy and pasting" skills to slip their way into the next round, many fell and were never seen again. By Week Three it was too late, and Solidbatman knew it. The hopefuls had come too far to turn back; it was time to turn up the heat. One challenge per day was not what anyone had signed up for, but none dared voice their opposition. In the Steins;Gate Limited Edition Giveaway, the Host was Law. Conjecture, Poetry, Literature and Mind Games were the weapons of choice for this week. It is believed that at this point many of the challengers remained oblivious to the foul machinations of the Host, unaware of the death rattles sighing forth from the ones they once called "friend". I would like to think that someone, anyone was aware and had decided to beat the Host at his own game; lest despair claim even this humble historian. The tricks employed continued to make a mockery of common decency, with Batman's inclusion once again serving to blind most to what was really going on. As a mere observer, I had already begun to question the motives behind the Giveaway by this point. Despite my misgivings, Week Four served to throw me back into the dark. Solidbatman had given the contestants free reign to create musical parodies or tributes relating to any subject of their choice. Surely a malicious soul wouldn't allow such a breath of fresh air to revitalize his pawns? Looking back, I once again curse my foolishness, and i'm sure the survivors do the same. The details should have alerted us. Bonus points abounded; this was what could turn the battle around for many! Their excitement encouraged them to play even further into the hands of the Host. I now know that they were merely being toyed with. Energetic subjects are the most entertaining to watch, the most amusing when they realize just how hopeless their situation is. It chills me to my very core that I can follow the cold logic of that sadist. A token congratulation marked the opening of Week Five, presumably to placate those who were beginning to have misgivings. "Ever closer to the end" Solidbatman claims. I'm sure that for the remaining contestants, a lifetime still lay between them and freedom. Once again fully aware that everything could fall to pieces at this critical moment, the Host sets his opponents against one another. You may question my use of the word "opponents", but by this point it should be clear that that has been the case from the very beginning. The prospect of bonus points for the top three performances shatters any final hope there may have been for resistance. I wonder if anyone saw their downfall written large between the lines of that challenge. My apologies for the change in writing style. The conditions under which I write this are...not ideal. Week Six, the point at which even the Host admits feeling strain. I too, am not feeling at my best, admittedly. In a sick reversal of positions, the Host implores the contestants to lie, mislead and betray him. I can only imagine how that must have felt to those who had only just realized. This week only one could claim the prized points. In a completely unexpected move, a brave contender voices his discontentment. Solidbatman allowed him one more day of life, a glimpse of hope, before he, too, was removed. The Host spoke of pride to begin Week Seven, another set of daily challenges. It was his final chance to toy with the unfortunates attracted by the Giveaway. Two sets of simple questions, a cryptic puzzle requiring a sharp mind and forced repetition of the participants' "favorite" previous challenge. My heart goes out to those involved in that final week. Unfortunately, it looks like that is the last thought I will be allowed.

Once upon a time, there was a man named solidbatman. He decided to troll the forums and start a seven week long contest that would test the entrants' wits, guts, and determination. At first he thought this was a great idea. As time went on, he realized he had made a horrible mistake. With so many people participating, he would actually have to get the prize and make sure someone wins it. If not the backlash would be crazy. So during the seven weeks, he made different events and contests that required the participants to do really hard or embarrassing things so that he could at least laugh at their misfortune. As time wore on, he got more and more bored with the contest and decided to put in less and less effort. As the home stretch was approaching, he thought he would try to be the terrible host that makes guests do things that were not only repetitive but also annoying enough that they would have to put in effort. Even if he wasn't able to get what he wanted out of the contest, he could get some laughs and watch the poor contestants suffer. As the final days approached, he thought he would make his entrants write a story about the contest. Maybe they would write about their struggles, maybe they will praise him, or maybe just maybe, they may come to love him. However, he did not see shcboomer's post coming. All he thought was that shcboomer was lazy and put in very little effort, and he wanted to make sure he was tripped up by having to write a realistic story of some sort. He was wrong on a lot of counts, no one would have seen this post coming. Who would think that someone would post about the contest and try to figure out solidbatman's intentions. Even with that, it was not enough, solidbatman had to take full control of the situation. In order to do so, he made sure that there were bonus points and no way of knowing how to actually obtain them. Maybe if he hid some points, he could make sure that everyone would be tripped up, that or he could arbitrarily assign points. This way the leaderboard could be as skewed as he wanted it to be. As day six drew to a close, he knew that he had done the right thing and that everything was working out just as planned. Even this post was part of his master plan and nothing would stop him from accomplishing his goals. His entire intention was to raise his likes count on his profile by having more people like his posts. One thing he could not have imagined was that people would only like one of his posts and that the rest would be ignored by the mass majority. Before he knew it, he had not only failed in getting likes, but he was also outed to the entire community. What would he do now? The answer was simple, he would pretend this was not the case and move on with his merry life.

Well I have another game up for giveaway, this copy is from Greenman Gaming, so you will need Capsule (GMG download client) I'm not gonna set a challenge, simply post in the topic if you are interested, I will randomizer from all the people tomorrow at this time. Enjoy REQUIREMENT: Must have 10+ posts.

Even though i already read about it i still would love to own a copy.

I figured I would share something else that happened a fairly long time ago. When Battlefield Bad Company 2 was the newest battlefield game, my brother and I were regular players. One match we get into a tank and for no apparent reason, my brother fires off the main gun just in the distance, I guess he was hoping he would hit something? Naw, he just magically placed a helicopter in the line of fire, no but really, he just randomly fired off a shot, and a helicopter was just taking off and rose directly into the shell, obliterating the pilots and passengers. He got 4 kills while I got the assist points as well.

Cows are notoriously unsexy, this is a niche market for sure.

We are all rooting for you to find this VN

It is not fully translated yet. Some new people recently banded together to finish the translation. You can read more about it in this thread: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/2060-majikoi-miyako-route-translation/

Go to Control Panel -> System and look here:

The man known commonly as Solidbatman was on his computer one night. In one tab, he had the Fuwanovel forums open. On another tab, he had the JastUsa Steins;Gate preorder open. Before he clicked purchase, he opened another tab and checked his bank account. He looked through all three tabs, comparing their similarities and their differences. He then chuckled, added a copy to his preorder purchase, and began a post on the Fuwanovel Forums. Then he sat back, getting comfortable, as he saw streams of emails come in. "Oh, my tights and leotards are so ready." "And so it begins..." "Does this count as an answer?" The applicants came rolling in. Soon there became too many. He had to think of something quick. Then, he hardened his resolve and added 2nd and 3rd place prizes. Sitting back, Solidbatman looked at the screen and laughed; he laughed like a mad scientist, because it was so cool... The first challenge came. Solidbatman demanded a picture of Batman and Hachikuji Mayoi interacting somehow. "Let the games begin." He said as he clicked the send button. Those who hadn't seen Bakemonogatari, and those who couldn't draw to save their life, cringed at the challenge, but they still drew. Week 3. He carefully selected his favorite picture, and awarded extra points. No doubt this increased morale dramatically. He needed to up the challenge. Then it came to him; daily challenges! Day one: People's lives were adapted into an anime by :Production I.G, Sunrise, Inc, and UFOTable Day Two: Poetry appeared out of thin air, as the challengers tried to figure out what rhymes with Batman and Hachikuji Mayoi some managed, some quit. "I'll resign from the giveaway." Day three: All the challengers were somehow arrested. Some for robbing a bank, some for playing G-Senjou no Maou on a far too large lcd screen in one sitting. But they were all somehow bailed, by their favorite fictional characters no doubt. Sakuya, G-Man, and Kyousuke came to save the day. Day Four: Tapping into the Lusts of a bunch of visual novel fanatics, Soildbatman set the challengers up on an impossible to be held date. Giving them only one line, challengers spouted pick up lines, spoke Japanese, and even talked about time machines for no decerible reason. Day Five: "Point deductions," Solidbatman deducted,"That's what's been missing this entire time." Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? It couldn't be the cookie monster, there's an S in monster. The deductions from the missing letters of B, H, P, L, or S completely derailed the challengers, Pictures, bad grammar and false accusations flew through the air. "Yo creo que you ate it." "Everyone" "Fuuko did, fuuko took a cookie and tried to run in zig zag on your car, fuuko didn't make it, after a minute fuuko got tired and tried to take one more cookie" Day Six: Looking at the Day Five Posts, Solidbatman felt as though he had been to harsh, and decided to give a free day. As long as they said "Anything" They would get points. Day Seven: Suddenly Batman. Solidbatman awoke the challengers, by asking them to introduce his favorite crime fighting super hero into their favorite stories. Batman soon appeared in: Crime and Punishment, Lord of the Flies, and Batman even became Conan the Barbarian. With daily challenges over, Solidbatman had to devise a challenge that would be both difficult and amusing. He had to have them singing and danceing for them before it was over.... "Singing eh...? He thought as he wrote the post for week 4. That night when the challengers were told to create an album, a cover, and sing for bonus points, the creative juices overflowed. With such great hits like: Solidbatman's Returns, The Command Seal Of My Heart, and Let's Watch Anime; only a few singers rose up to the challenge. In fact, some felt like they had to resign from the competition entirely. "I give up. Not trying for it anymore~" Two days til Halloween when the week five challenge arrived. The challenged, Solidbatman had decided, was the compose a fan fiction, of five characters trick or treating. "Should be easy enough," Then, he thought that those out of the top three needed a boost and added. "My favorite will get 10 bonus points; 5 if the winner is in the top 3". After clicking send he watched the submissions come in. Stories ranged from Batman, to Cthulu, to Mario , to Link, to Tinkerbell. The stories came piling in. Solidbatman was so pleased to see the determination, and the creativity that shown in these tales. One week later, while Soildbatman was counting product in a grocery store, he came upon a slight heaache. Soon the headache grew into the night. At first he thought he was forgetting something; Then he remembered, the weekly challenge. He put up a post claiming the challenge to come 12 hours earlier than he promised the next day. "Convince me," He said, "To purchase the worst game you can think of." He said that the challengers could lie, cheat, and mislead him to make the best sales pitch of the worst game ever. Soon ads for Duke Nukem Forever were revamped with " How could anyone possibly not want to play something that has been called vaporware for so long." Big Rigs Over The Road Racing, was introduced a second time into the market with the claim "Push forward, unaffected by any change in the terrain. This is meant to mark a more positive look at the human condition: our ability to overcome and face adversity head on." And Superman 64 got the annoying salesperson treatment "All of these reason add up to prove that the gameplay experience of Superman 64 is seriously the best game playing you will ever partake it.". If the challengers were the original advertisers for these games, they would have probably sold better. Although some participants couldn't take their jokes, or take the challenge. "One invests time and money developing a game, overcoming obstacles, debugging and refactoring, and wants to see his effort rewarded, not mocked and made fun of." Solidbatman was reflecting on the last seven weeks. He had issued about 13 challenges, and was nearing the end. He thought "How can I make these moments last forever?" Then he remembered week 3."Daily Challenges....Yesss." He said, fingertips together. And thus, the final seven day challenge per day began. Day One: After reflecting the past seven weeks, he implored the challengers to do the same, having them pick their favorite challenge, get some feedback. Some chose a complicated one, some chose a simple one, but none were expecting their choice to make a difference down the line. Day Two: Hidden Messages, and Alphabet stories. Solidbatman told the challengers to look back to their kindergarten years, and had them use the alphabet to create a story. Then he said "a clue regarding the Day Three Challenge is hidden somewhere in this post." The story was the easy part, but the hard part was the clue. Then the next day; Bizkitdoh, a challenger, found and released the secret message to the public. Meanwhile, Solidbatman was far too busy playing Long Live The Queen, and killing his queen with poison chocolates, to write up the challenge. About an hour later, he saw he was late for the challenge, so he got up, posted the vague challenge, and went back to his game. Day Three: The challenge was invisible. Literally. Panic swept the players, they looked all around the post; but then they remembered, Bizkitdoh posted the hidden clue, and upon highlighting the post, the challengers were given a cryptic clue. "it is somewhere in this post. Maybe not where you'd think. Rorona might know...". The scouring of the post began, looking, finding connecions to the message. Rorona was Solidbatman's avatar at the time. Then the looked; under the signature. "Pm me for points." At that moment, anyone smart enough to figure it out sent Solidbatman a private message. But, unfortunatly, some players had a harder time than others figuring out the challenge. " I really hope this isn't something Dr Pepper related...we don't even have Dr Pepper >.< I'll just have to think about it some more." "Bats can't be my waifu anymore." Day Four: "A questionnaire was in order", Solidbatman thought, "What do you think?" He asked, the challegers three questions, these questions were similar to that of a surveyer. The answers came in all slightly different. By this point in the challenge, there were only 6 posts entered. Day Five: The Devil touched Solidbatman's heart, Week Seven Day Five's challenge, was to complete the favorite challege, that they had announced, on Day one of Week Seven. All some had to do was say "I'm In." Some had to write, a couple unluckly ones had to sing. 6 posts and 24 hours later, The Week Seven Challenge Six was enacted. Day Six: Solidbatman was a man who obviously enjoys literature, because this is atleaset the 5th time the challengers and I had to write a story, only now it's about real people, this contest, this fun little (But long) contest, where people came for the reward, but would relish the journey. I sit down at the computer, play some epic music and begin writing. Hopefully Solidbatman has a good sense of humor, because as I write this up, I put all my effort and feelings into it.

Forgot to say this in the post regarding how delivery of the prizes will work. I am but a humble blue collar worker with many expenses. So the First Place winner will get priority. S;G will be purchased right after I get the shipping info from them. Second and Third Place winners should get their prizes shortly after (no more than two weeks later). Those are digital prizes and will be delivered via PM or email,

Editing sounds interesting. What do you need to do if you're gonna edit some translated scripts?