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A video letting everyone know how thankful I am (seriously) for everything people do. Not only for me, but for everyone on and around this site. Even if your name is not in the video, it does not mean I don't appreciate everything you do. Thank you so much for being such awesome friends.

Today I have the unfortunate duty to announce the death of the Reviews Hub's community-submission system. If your review is currently being processed by the team, you should be hearing from them shortly, but unfortunately we aren't going to put more time/energy into this process right now. The reviews hub is otherwise unaffected, however, so all of the external blogs as well as our official team reviews are still up and active. Here are the two major points I want to convey: I'm still determined to make the reviews hub work I'm still determined to keep experimenting, even if this one didn't work out If you're upset about this change, I'll try to understand where I'm coming from (maybe that'll help): the stars simply never aligned for this particular sub-project (experiment, really) inside the hub. Despite my good intentions and a lot effort, nobody really caught the 'bug', and the program ended up only making everybody cranky. I've received something close to forty meaty rants about the program (or the hub in general) since the beginning of April, and, frankly, I'm just tired of it. When people you respect start complaining constantly about a project, something has to change. The day may come when this program is rebooted (or just retooled), but today is not that day. Image of casket used in my header image was taken from here

Does that mean I can post Clover Day's lines here and the person below will have to translate them for me??

Lies. We don't know this guy. WHO ARE YOU?! D:

Hello there people of Fuwa, My name is Linkman19 (call me Link) and I'm one of the Beta Testers/QCers of Violet Hill. The reason as to why I haven't introduced myself previously here is mainly due to 2 reasons. Firstly I didn't have an account on here until just recently and Secondly Real Life has been a pain recently what with exams so I fell out of contact for a while with the rest of the team, but fortunately now I'm back and up to date. Please look forward to more content from Red Lattice Studio in the upcoming future (Should hopefully be another update coming soon~)

Each post should contain the following elements: 1. Discuss something in Japanese. 2. Translate the post above your's from Japanese to English. 3. (Optional) Point out an error in the Japanese or English translation of another post, or clarify a misunderstanding resulting from one of your posts if you can't address it in Japanese. Please put all English in spoilers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 俺はｓａｎａｈｔｌｉｇです。英語の字は面倒ですから、サナもいいです。俺の名前の古事来歴を知りたいですか？ｇｉｌｔｈａｎａｓの逆走です。とてもオリジナルですから、ウェブけんさくには便利です、ＳＥＯもいいです。

Spaced out alot doing this but, 2:00 Nayleen- coder for site, TS 2:50 binaryfail- #1 VN hacker 3:59 Cool site people: 4:20 Mr. Meogii- signatures, helps Ren with his projects 5:00 TheMajor- you already got your own shoutout but thanks for everything 5:24 Eclipsed- ditcher, thanks for passing me in post counts. Does alotta random things for the site (polls, BM work) 6:16 Clephas- VN reviews, blogs. 7:00 TiagoFVarela- we don't get along but you do good for the site and are a pretty cool guy. 7:55 Emi- dedicated fan of Ren, front site design; 8:35 Projects for the site people: Helvetica Standard- Violetta Hill Diamon- Lucid9 Invert Mouse- Without Within + others zoom909- Nursery Rhyme translation + others; japanese help for people 9:43 Ren's personal shoutouts: 10:05 maki~chan- nicest person ever. by far 10:36 suikashoujo- thought you were a dude until you sang "found out you were a guy" <- fail 11:30 flutterz- used to get along, no more TS, you annoy me sometimes, but longstanding friend, happy birthday/post count 12:07 stray cat- didn't talk much, but games+activities 12:26 zenophilious- cool, kind guy 12:48 Rooke- thanks for listening to me 13:20 arakura- LoL, fun 13:40 Rose- JP buddy, come back sometime! 14:06 cloudy12- sweest person ever. sorry for forgetting about your PMs 14:42 Cyrillej1- active, tries to join things, congrats on Clannad, thanks for being cool individual 15:07 CLuBLioN- disappeared from the face of the earth, Nozomi best grill. 15:30 Fiddle & Keisuke- Thanks for Hinata shit, good luck with Noble Works 15:56 Palas- thanks for being around for all of Ren's stuff, for work on Violetta 16:21 'Other Fuwastaff' 16:37 solidbatman- eternal rival of love 16:48 zakamutt- english rants, Fuwazette awesome, 17:06 ryechu- nukige chats, following Ren + podcasts, awesome reviews, not ashamed to say 'i play porn' 17:33 Ren's secret orgy club Ren's Besties 17:49 Nosebleed- thanks for being my friend, i'll visit you in Portugal one day, I j**** on your prizes. 18:29 Down- JP friend, awesome French, fantastic, respect immensely 19:02 Ceris- thanks for being my friend, really nice person, Rin sucks, ball thing 19:44 GetterEmperor- really young 19:51 astro- 'you know what' will put some spark in our love(?), want to meet you one day 20:32 nohman- you disappeared but when you were around you were awesome 20:46 mephist the godfathers of OriginalRen 21:32 Tay- DESERVES THE MOST RECOGNITION OUT OF EVERYBODY LISTED /thread <-jking

Looks like Rance 03 will have gameplay similar to 01. Also that Lia and Satella tho. Game is looking really great. Here's all the CGs, Characters and gameplay images for those who can't access the alicesoft site. Also looks like TADA wants to make a remake for 4 and re-remake for 02.

What would probably happen to me (original comic):

Hello FUWA! Guess what? An old member who had been busy is now free and has returned to us! Can you guess who is it?

Lacks a hat and sunglasses/10 Includes my older sister in a reflection!

Recently, a spirited argument erupted in the Monobeno -Happy End- project thread regarding the perceived poor quality of translation samples. As this a topic of general controversy in the fan translation scene, I decided it might be worth addressing on a general level to those who might not care about this particular title. Please don't take this post as an invitation to reignite controversy in that thread; post your comments here instead. Fan translation is as much about the journey as the destination. While the audience may only care about the final product, for the translator the journey may be even more important. This is an opportunity for a translator to improve both his Japanese skills and his English skills. As much as he's doing it for you, he's doing it for himself. I don't understand why anyone would think that fan translators have an obligation to provide a quality product, and that the audience should have an expectation of a quality product. All fan translations should be treated as being of suspect quality until proven otherwise. That's really all there is to it. If you're unhappy with the final product, don't play it. A game like Monobeno will never ever get licensed in English, so it's not like a substandard fan project would be ruining our chance at a professional translation (as might be the case with other titles). So before you complain about projects that don't meet your quality standards, remember that no one deserves a quality product for free, and that fan translators have just as much of a right to benefit from a project as their audience. Maybe if there were a better resource for tracking translation quality across different releases we wouldn't even be having these arguments. And maybe if the more skilled fan translators simply took pride in the quality of their own work, and weren't so preoccupied with the attention other groups were getting, there wouldn't be so much bickering going on. [This is a repost of my response in that thread edited for a general audience]

Really? Is this what humanity has come to? *sigh*

i don't agree, i call this thing "public assassination" you pretty much ruin the life of that guy, if he gets recognized IRL, he probably will get beaten up by some guys.

11:15 "When we found out Suikashoujo was a guy..." #OriginalRen2015

I did this 2nd try without PL team Then every play after was shit. The combo sucked, but the very few breaks was surprising since I've literally bareely played at all in the past few weeks. I did almost all my plays on the first day of the last event and just once a night for the rest of the event, then finally a rush in the final hours to make up the ground I lost just to get the SR. Saying that, I have something going on ately, so I don't know how much i'll be playing. I originally planned like a triple T1, I don't know even know if I'll get the SR at this rate, I haven't even started the JP event and only 200 tokens on EN... so yeah.

Still images are generally not obnoxious, when I refer to obnoxious I'm mostly talking about GIFs, and if still images are obnoxious to you then you can add them to your ignore list. That's what I was trying to say. I'm not going to remove a single signature because a single user doesn't like it. My signature is pink because I like pink, it's not my fault some people find pink obnoxious, I tried to make something I liked and thought looked good. But sure, fuck the staff, those slobs never do anything. Lewy pls.

I really don't see the need either, to be brutally honest, I find Nosebleed's and Eclipse's signatures to be obnoxiously eyecatching enough (especially Nosebleed's contrast with the new Dark Fuwa theme, at least Eclipse's has alpha for half of it). I'm only on a 720p monitor which might be part of the issue, but those things take up about 8% of the screen, and 20% of the actual browsing area of the page.

このスレッドはいい考えですね。私には日本語の読む力はまあまあなのに、何を書くときは、どっちの言葉を選ぶべきかわからないって、難しすぎって、いつも思うんですが、これはいいチャンスでしょう。 EDIT: @Funnerific

It seems like Tyranobuilder has a good UI and they said it was intuitive so learning the language shouldn't be that hard. They have their own Scripting Language (TyranoScript?) that's supposed to be for VNs so I think you can learn it with some effort. Or there are some free and willing people here that can do it for you. I'm pretty sure I've seen some people here that should know programming or something. At the very least you have the willingness to do it and you said you can write. I assume that you already have an idea of the story or something so it should be a something of a start. If you want some quality work, like from artists for character sprites/background/etc. then you might need to pay since the good ones are usually on commission. I'd like to say that I can help you with editing/proofreading but it seems you're already good enough to do that. Also, I don't really have that much free time in the future. I'm not sure if I can help you with anything at all but I'm rooting for you. Go and say what you honestly think about your skills. People would likely join if they see that you're quite capable. Maybe throwing in some achievements might help since they are proof that you can do something.

Oh, feel free to boast actually. People are more likely to join if they know that you have the necessary skill to make the PJ a success.

... Oooooh...

~The girl with the lone eye. ~~~ "Hello! Is anyone there!?" The roaring fires light the hall. Pillars of smoke rise to the top of the building. The burning heat assaults my mind, and beads of sweat run down my face. Male, 17 years of age. This wasn't supposed to happen. It's just an ordinary weekend. This wasn't supposed to happen! The full moon shines brightly through the window, like a glistening silver high in the sky. A fleeting light in the darkness. My heated footsteps pace up the stairs. Chunks of wood collapse to the ground, and the apartment's floor begins to crumble beneath my feet. A cold air rushes through the building, only to feed the flames brighter and brighter. "Answer me! Where are you!?" A thousand stars shine brightly in the night sky, laughing at the man who would dare to go back. "What do you think you're doing, shithead!? There's nothing important in there! Go home!" Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong! The burning heat assaults my mind, and beads of sweat run down my face. Like a repeating hell with no end in sight. The clouds of ash rush at my eyes, like a toxin of the air that threatens to bring me to the ground. The pillars of smoke rise high in the sky. The sound of sirens can be heard on the outside. But, they can't get near. There's too many people evacuating. Too many people concerned only for themselves. Too many people who would hurt another to save themselves. "Please! Where are you!? Answer me!" The infinite depths of the night pour into the sky. Who knows what lies in the unknown? An infinite crowd looks into the sky. The pillars of smoke rise high as ever, higher and higher. But, they do nothing. Walking along to more important matters. Are they scared? Do the flames push them away? Or, maybe it isn't anything very important to begin with? Her room was empty. I passed it long ago, nothing but ashes remains. She wasn't there. She couldn't have been there. She would have ran by now. But, she wasn't there. Why wasn't she there? The crowd of survivors lies beneath. But, she wasn't there. "What do you think you're doing, shithead!? There's nothing important in there! Go home!" The stars laugh. Laughing at the man who would dare to go back. Their screams assault my mind. Laughing at the man who would dare to notice. Laughing at the man who would dare to do anything. Like a clown dancing along with the freaks of nature. My eyes shine through the night. Like a brilliant silver, high in the sky. "Where are you!? Sachi!" The burning heat assaults my mind. Beads of sweat run down my face. This wasn't supposed to happen. My heated footsteps pace up the stairs, like the drumming of a piano in a symphony of death. Chunks of wood fall to the ground, and the floor begins to collapse beneath my feet. A cold air rushes across my face, only to feed the flames stronger and stronger. The glistening silver shines high in the sky. The laughter of the stars assaults at my mind. The infinite depths of the night pass along with only a glance. Pillars of smoke rise high into the sky. The ashes in the air rush into my lungs, like a toxin that threatens to bring me to the ground. The scenery blends before me. My vision blurs itself to an decrypt cipher. Like a repeating hell with no end in sight. A faint breath is heard. Among the raging flames. A painful breath, like their lungs could collapse at any second. Female, 16 years of age, my heart tells to me. "Sachi! Where are you!?" My eyes scour the scenery. A repeating hell with no end in sight. The flames blur my vision, the hall stretches into infinity. First room, nothing. Second room, nothing. A faint breath is heard. Third room, nothing. Fourth room, nothing. My vision blurs itself to a decrypt cipher. Like a repeating hell with no end in sight. Fifth room. A river of blood runs down her face. The girl with the lone eye. The burning heat assaults my mind. Beads of sweat run down my face. "Sachi!" I run to her side. Piles of rubble keep her pinned to the ground. The red liquid stings at her iris. For the moment, her sight is gone. I press against the rubble. It won't move. The blood rushes through my veins. The beating of my heart pounds at my soul, like a bone-shattering punch with each step. It hurts. My strained bones threaten to break in two if I push them any farther. I don't care. The burning heat assaults my mind. Beads of sweat run down my face. The girl's blood drips to the floor. A faint breath is heard. Her warm brown hair. A gentle smile. Greater than any before it. The crying of the stars assaults my mind. Laughing at the man who would dare to go back. "What do you think you're doing, shithead!? There's nothing important in there! Go home!" Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong! The laughter continues. Like a cruel joke. An assault on all that is precious, carried out by the thousand stars in the night sky. The burning heat assaults my mind. Ten-thousand times over. Like a repeating hell with no end in sight. The rubble is pushed off of her and comes crashing to the floor. Her leg is broken. The faint, gasping breaths leave her no room to speak. Each so precious that removing a single one could cost a life. I haul her onto my back. Her half-conscious body weighs down on my soul. It's heavier than I thought. The burning heat assaults my mind. Bear it. The night is almost over. My footsteps pace down the stairs. What floor am I on? I can't tell. The burning heat assaults my mind. The scenery outside the window blurs into the same mess. A thousand stars in the night sky, laughing at the man who dared to go back. The infinite depths of the night, walking by pretending not to notice. And, the glistening silver that hangs in the night sky. The floor collapses under our weight. My leg falls through the gap. I scream out in pain as it gashes into my skin, I feel the sensation of my blood crawling down my leg. The pain intensifies as I pull it out from the floor. Keep moving. Don't stop. There is more than one life at stake here. I walk forward. My muscles rip and tear as the blood flows down from my leg. The burning heat assaults my mind. Keep moving. The burning heat assaults my mind. Clouds of ash cover the building, the pillar of smoke rises high into the air. Flaming embers float across the air, and the raging flames turn my vision a bright red. Sachi's weight presses onto my back, nearly unconscious with a leg twisted beyond recognition. Blood flows from her forehead and down the side of my back. My breathing is in frantic gasps, as each step nearly breaks my body in two. The clouds of ash corrupt my lungs and send blood gushing out of my leg. It's a miracle I can even stand. I lose my footing on the steps, and my head comes crashing down to the floor. It feels like my skull is split in two, as the torrent of blood comes flowing down my face. The crying of the stars assaults my mind. Laughing at the man who would dare to go back. Faceless ghouls who would mean to harm another. Running away from the shining gold of the sun, hiding just out of sight from the glistening silver of the moon. Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! A thousand times over! Let thine accursed light vanish into the abyss! Disappear into the endless sea, never to return to the mortal plane! The blazing heat tortures the air, as the building is slowly brought to its knees. The pounding of my head crushes my soul like the beating of a drum. The red liquid drops from my body like a thousand bloody rivers. The eyes of a thousand stars, visible in the soul of the raging flames. The silent laughter tears at my sanity like a thousand roaring fangs. Burn! Burn away in the repeating hell, with no end in sight! Rejected by angel and demon alike, too weak to fight the strong and too weak to move forward! Those who would hurt another because they're too weak to do anything else! Burn away for all of eternity! Let thine accursed light vanish into the abyss! Let nothing save you, your time has come! I charge forward, screaming into the night. The weight of a single life brings down on my body like a thousand souls, and the infinite laughter claws at my mind like a thousand fangs. Let thine corrupted soul burn away in the raging flames! There is no salvation for those responsible! The swarming inferno strikes at my body from all directions, and my heart warns me of death at every instant. Tears burst forth from my eyes, only to vanish into the flames on this cold, cold night. Sachi's arms wrap around my neck, like a warm noose of the finest rope. The infinite depths of the night pass on, pretending not to notice. A thousand stars laugh at the man who dared to turn back. And, the full moon, a glistening silver high in the sky. Watching over all that exists, for as long as it can. A long, long hall. The exit lies on the other end. The raging flames tear at the walls from every direction, and the far-off sirens blare in the distance. Charge forward. Onward! Faster than anything of the mortal plane. Faster than the repeating hells with no end in sight, stronger than the infinite laughter of a thousand stars. The torrents of blood cloud my vision, and the beating of my mind threatens to collapse me at any second. Break through the earth! Anything that stands in our way! Rush into the sky, where no stars can reach us! The building creaks under the burning flame. The sound of the blaring sirens echoes through the sky. A thousand floors collapse onto the surface. My silver gaze looks to the crumbling flames. My silent scream shrieks across the earth. And then, the world turns to black. The sun pours in through the open window. My breath is hollow, and my vision is blurred. The hospitals walls are a dim shine, and an assortment of rags covers my body. My arm is wrapped in endless shells, and I can feel the bone shattered in more places than I can count. "Um...Patient 427. I'm afraid I have some bad news." The doctor speaks to me. "We...were unable to repair your left eye. Would you like us to find a donor?" Sachi lies resting by my side. "No," I said. The sun flows brightly into the room, a shining gold of pure harmony. Sachi begins to wake up. A golden shine gleams from her eye. "I think I like it better this way." From my right eye. The glistening silver of the full moon. And so, life continues. Like a repeating hope with no end in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhUgoaSNPmQ

I'm really sad to see this go as I was hoping that this would have incentivized reviewing VNs, but if things don't work out, they don't work out.

Wait, why are multiple people playing ikikoi? Are you guys okay? Is there someone with a gun behind you? Or are you being paid money for doing this?

Happy birthday Kosaki and Maef!

My parents came to America as refugees during the vietnam war. I guess they would be considered the "boat people" since that's what they escaped by. They were boarded by pirates, but luckily no one was killed (or raped) and only all the money, gold, and jewelry were taken. They then stayed in refugee camps on some small islands for quite a long time before the Americans came to pick them up (I forget what islands they were called). They had nothing when they came here pretty much (lost everything). The US government & people really helped my parents until they started doing better on their own. They later gave birth to me in the US. My parents used to/still always tell me horror stories about how communism ruined the country of vietnam and the evils they have done. Oh, and they lived in south part of vietnam btw. My mom's side of the family told me that they had a very thriving business back when they were in vietnam. I've heard similar stories from other relatives, where their status was pretty well off. But when communists came, they robbed and took Everything.. like just raided places with money and so they couldn't do business anymore. People would hide money if they could xD. I think my mom told me, her family had gotten tips about what was going to happen (and from what I was told, my dad had already escaped ahead).. so my grandpa and other people were building a boat together in secret and used money to bribe some people & favors into escaping later. I'd have to ask my parents when exactly things happened . There's a lot of interesting stories I've heard from relatives too and how they escaped, or the things that happened when they remained, etc. Being a first-born asian-american, I was kinda clueless about it as a young kid. Probably because I lived in California, and I was in the more asian-dominated area. The things that happened in the home, our culture, food, etc. I thought Everyone was like that (even if they looked different). I finally realized my culture was different when someone pointed out the things I ate were weird and gross... I had always thought everyone did, and ate the same stuff I did, lol (yup, rice rice rice all the time~). And the food that someone reacted to me in a disgusted manner was the Balut egg (my family also often eats the Century Eggs, mostly in rice porridges). http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-worlds-3-most-disgusting-egg-dishes.html I guess I grew up eating that kind of stuff, so I'm used to it. To others, it's disgusting~~~ I'm kinda jumping randomly now but~ also wanted to share, growing up, the values I saw often were (for me personally, were) I'm also part chinese, so my favorite time of the year as a child was celebrating Chinese New Years~ you get free money from older people & elders. You're required to give them some kinda of well-meaning wish (ex: "Happy New Years, may your business thrive, may you forever remain in good health, and may you also get whatever you desire this year.") and in return, they give you a red envelope with money inside . The sucky thing... is that when you're older, you'll have to be the one giving money to all the little kiddos xD.

Belated Happy Birthday to Zeno! Also, Happy Birthday to Maef and Kosaki!

How very convenient. I was thinking about making my own little deserted signature thread for quite a long time now. But then I think making the thread itself would be too much of a hassle for me. This thread solves the problem pretty well. I will probably take one of the requests when I'm not lazy. Here are some example of my previous work so people can expect how bad the result will be. Please be gentle, senpai.

Happy birthday Kosaki you're welcome

Happy bday Kosaki am I late?

Weak.

A fellow minion of Wally World! I welcome you to the forums!

It would go more or less like this:

This is a really good list. I missed several of these, and you did a good job capturing a wide variety. Thank you!

Fuuko is obliviously the representation of the white male patriarchy.

There is no such thing as bad Evolimit music.