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Article is up. Why I endorse JAST's censorship of Shiny Days

How boring.

katawa shoujo for me:

Oh wow, this got interesting again... So you like prizes? Little did you know I own 2 of these beauties: Add it to the prize pool.

Invisible Apartment 2: Reasons Cyberpunk visual novel. Sequel to Invisible Apartment 1, part of a series of the same name. Invisible Apartment 2: Reasons is the next chapter of the Invisible Apartment series of visual novels. Set in a future where surveillance and hacking are part of every day life, it revolves around human relations, their dreams and how to lead a normal life. We already produced two chapters in the series. Invisible Apartment (available on iTunes and Steam) is an introduction to the whole series - unfortunately the novel is a bit short but many people liked the setting, the universe, the main characters and told us that they want more. So we allocated more time to the prologue Invisible Apartment Zero; it's considerably longer, includes more choices, routes and introduces more characters. It's currently on Greenlight (please vote for us!) and available on Desura and iTunes. Part 2 includes more characters, places, more timelines and overall a longer playtime. Bad choices no longer result in and immediate bad end and they have a more complex impact. We will be bringing this visual novel to Windows, Linux and Mac and if we get enough money than also Android. Top backers will receive all the DVD of the series as of 2015 including artwork by the illustrator.

The opera drama was the best one xD

Kanna:

Where is this "Sekai Project is the enemy" talk coming from? Peter said a lot of dumb things in that thread, but he definitely didn't say that. Just because he said staff members were against an uncensored release doesn't mean that's the sole entire reason JAST decided to censor the game. The "enemy" is law enforcement and the laws against obscenity it's enforcing. Staff members were upset because they saw what happened to <well known staff member located in Canada> and, understandably, didn't want it to happen to them too. My guess is that was just a convenient excuse Peter made in the heat of the moment to reflexively shield himself from blame. JAST has a track record with censorship; don't think he was dead-set against censorship until his localization team threatened to mutiny on him. That's just ridiculous. Peter is a nice guy, but don't hang on his every word. He's not Bill Clinton. I'm waiting for Zakamutt to wake up and then maybe I can get my post up on Fuwazette. Maybe it'll turn this conversation in a productive direction.

I've spent the last 8 hours writing up a rather extensive post on this issue which I'm hoping to throw up on Fuwazette. Hopefully it'll shed some perspective on the topic.

^The lack of negative there is a bit frightening. And I can't agree with what you said simply because these are fictional characters and there's been loli characters in other games, it just happened that this one decided to get censored. So what if it's got a stigma? You're saying it's better to just comform to a system rather than try to make changes and bring consumers a full product? Cutting out an Hscene and keeping the rest of the route to pretend a game is more morally correct just proves how shallow this whole thing is. I understand why they did it, but i'll still call them out for being overzealous for doing it.

"Reading is the key to good writing" and "a large amount of reading results in a good writer" are two completely unrelated. Reading is considered key because of exposure; reading books across different genres exposes you to many different ways to express an idea or thought using the English language. However, without practice, a person who has never written in his or her life will never become good at writing because of a lack of experience. Reading builds the lingual base you need, and practice builds the experience base you need. I don't think that reading a lot results in the overuse of cliches; lazy writing does. Writers don't come up with ideas out of nowhere (though some do write by the seat of their pants), and writing is nothing like making a collage; you are not cutting out characters or scenes from different works and slapping them together; you are taking a core idea that the plot is based around, whether that be a character or synopsis, and building on it. That is not a cliche. A cliche is just an idea overused to the point where it characters, scenes, and even plots can be predicted in advance. Good writers do their best to recognize and avoid cliches. As for whether or not VNs, light novels, films, or other works of expression can help a person improve his or her writing, of course they can. But this is heavily dependent on quality; if memory serves me well, translated works have a rep for have sub-par writing in the form of adjective and adverb abuse, as well as unnecessary filler and a lack of effort to change from passive to active voice. Films are a bit different; while visual media does not help you with reading, it does contain a lot of dialogue, and that can expose you to verbal cues and tics. I do agree with your friend when it comes to books and imagery; A book uses only words to present a story. Light Novels and Visual Novels both use CG, with the former also having music, while films have actors to play the characters and don't need to be read. Only in a book will you, the reader, be forced to create a mental image of the characters, the scenes, and even the worlds by yourself, which none of the other mediums do.

My time has come! Dark theme... Darkness.... Night.... The Dark Knight

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Look at it this way, at least yours wasn't 100% turbulent. I knew I was emotional, but that was a surprise.

More like, read a lot, write even more. Not everyone is a born writer; some people have it easier, but everyone can write. The key lies in developing your own inner voice and a set of tools. There's also imagination, which plays a huge role in everything you pour down onto paper, but isn't necesarilly tied to anything. The rest is a matter of constant practice. You'll know when it happens, because it's magic that often changes your life.

While there is plenty to like here watching your faerys heal things that have only taken 1 damage and then running out of charges on your heal just as you get to the point where you actually need them is so damned frustrating.

every route in yandere.

just started playing grisaia thanks to my wonderful imouto who got me hooked on it. So far, Sachi is the best girl ,nya.

I will become the slave to anyone (even sex slave who gives him blowjobs everyday) who gets me the physical copy of katawa shoujo , koskos nya I am poor nya ;-;

I only ever saw good things about it, but I myself have not given it a shot. Maybe tomorrow after work, I'll read through real quick. I'm glad the feedback was good enough to justify the second part.

I am extremely suspicious now of the pretty unbelievable amount of 20's drawn. My drawing is now delayed as I decide if I feel you guys were honest with this.

So anyone experience the first one, any feedback?

And now for something completely different

ok i haven't checked fuwa much recently and haven't posted since the switch to . net but this is the kind of news that i just cant resist, KS was my intro to visual novels, it got me hooked and im very happy to see that its getting a physical release even if its japan only. congrats 4leaf.

It sounds like you're asking for an offline copy of VNDB, plus some extra stuff. A lot of the stuff you talk about for RPG Maker doesn't seem feasible, simply because of difficulties obtaining a copy of said game and disk space reasons... But as far as the offline VNDB side of things, that is very easily solvable: - In addition to the API, VNDB also uploads nightly database dumps: https://vndb.org/d14. So there's no need to scrape the data from the API. Download it, unzip it, and done. - Moreover, VNDB is open-source, so you can pull down all the source code and run a local instance: http://g.blicky.net/vndb.git/ Then it's just a matter of adding the features you want. For instance, adding an additional column to the database for "file location" or whatever, and then making that a clickable link in the local website, would be easy.

A suspicious amount of 20s and 21s being hit.

No, but not because of this stupid outcry over not being able to see 13 year old girls getting fucked, but because Down hated School Days and School Days seems like shit anyway so why would this be better?

Confession: So remember that party I went to where I was confessing about wanting to get drunk because I don't like my coworkers? Well there is one coworker I really like and I spent most of the party chatting with him. ... yesterday the police came by our workplace and told us he'd been caught driving drunk. Anyone who knows the drunk driving laws in Japan is wincing as they read this. Yeah. They came around asking questions and taking statements like it was a murder investigation. They're going to put the poor guy's name in the papers and maybe even on the news on TV. He's also not my coworker anymore. Driving drunk in Japan is social suicide. If you get caught you may as well move because your life in that community is over. They're so strict here that you can get arrested even if you weren't actually driving, but say after drinking with you one of your buddies drove off. If you didn't stop them you could be charged as an accomplice basically. So drunk driving not only screws up your life, but there's a possibility it could screw a few of your friends too. We're worried now that the papers are going to print who he was at the party with and it'll ruin the reputation of my workplace as well. TL;DR DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE IN JAPAN

In my opinion, it's a scene which helps move forward the plot in some way, not just an excuse for porn. Of course, this only applies to story-focused stuff. In a nukige, for example, a good sex scene is (do remember that my opinion is the objective truth) heavy S&M play that doesn't sound too ridiculous.

https://vndb.org/v8900

Should i join n troll for u Ren? at least u got somebody to talk.....

I enjoy anything that tells a good story, regardless of theme. It's like asking 'do you like watching this section of the news' or something. So for this case, as long as it makes use of these themes to their fullest extent.

D.C. ~Da Capo II~ Licensed by MangaGamer Takes place approximately 50 years after the original D.C. ~Da Capo~ game. The story revolves around Sakurai Yoshiyuki and Otome & Yume, sibling granddaughters of the original D.C. ~Da Capo~ protagonists Jun'ichi and Nemu. ***Ending Guide*** There are Four main routes, Anzu, Nanaka, Koko and Minatsu. Otome and Yume have routes as well however, they are locked until you finish 1) Anzu or Minatsu's route!! 2) Nanaka or Koko's route!! You must do one of each to successfully unlock Otome and Yume's routes. Then, after all of these are completed, Sakura's route will be unlocked. Trust me when I say, it is worth the effort. Below is a step-by-step walkthrough to help you along. ***Route Walkthrough*** Anzu Nanaka Koko Minatsu ***Bonus Routes*** Otome and Yume's Routes can only be unlock as described above. If you have not completed the prerequisites, you will not be able to continue. Just restart game and you will see D.C. in the Main Menu. Click that and continue on. Otome Yume You must finish all above routes to unlock Sakura's route. Sakura ~~