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Fuwa is a wonderful community full of people who are all very sad when even a single of our number leaves. Though not every single name may get mentioned in this thread it would of course not mean that the un-named would not be missed were they to leave. We need all the various voices, from the newbiest noob to the saltiest old dog to make the beautiful harmonious choir that is Fuwa.

Let's try this again. I hid all posts here. Don't want to take Ren's deal? Don't take it. Want to take Ren's deal? Take it. Want to discuss the morality of supporting second hand copies? Make another thread for it. Ren's offering something, nothing less, nothing more, don't turn it into a first world problem in this thread, please.

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Kyou! Now that that's out of the way, let's continue... What's this about? Basically, I felt like giving something away to celebrate me being generous finishing 9th grade. So I thought, why not Fuwanovel? I've been lurking here for a while and i wanted to test a thing out, but we'll get to that later. I'm not very confident in writing English so please, don't think of it too much. What's the prize? Unfortunately, because of my amount of money young age, I can't give away something that'll need shipping. So I will be giving away 15€(Euro) on steam to do whatever you want with. But one more thing. Since I don't know of a way to send money via steam (If you know of one, please tell me) I'll have to gift the items you want to you, whatever it might be. A steam account is required. I might give away a second prize of 5€, we'll see how things turn out. You can wait however long you want to redeem the prize. (waiting for the summer sale is pretty smart.) How do you win? I promised myself that I wouldn't do a luck-based thing, so what I came up with here's the testing part was a game of figuring out which VN characters I'm describing. The descriptions are pretty vague and you need to have a bit of knowledge on VNs. I will stick to pretty famous ones and they are all under the 'main character' thing on VNDB. And yes, before you ask, you can use my VNDB page however much you want, the characters I will be describing are all on my list or wishlist. Just PM me the character names and which VN they are from. I will end it on Friday at midnight GMT+1. If I think more time is needed I'll post about it. Do not post your answers here. There will be a punishment... I can very easily see this becoming a failure and if that happens I'll give the prize to someone somehow. I'll just give it to Zalor Let's do this!!! Hey now, calm down! Here are all the descriptions, I will sort them by vagueness. (The first one being the easiest IMO) I might add more if I see it necessary. If they are too hard I may make them easier, we shall see. Edit: Note: every number is a different character. 1. This character is not from the country in which the story takes place, and because of that is the center of a lot of lies/jokes from the MC. This one was Christiane Friedrich from Majikoi. Motivation: She's from Germany and gets teased a lot by Yamato. (The MC) 2. This character turns over a night from a typical high school student to one of the most important person in the country without realizing the change. This one was Yukino Ohama from Osana . Motivation she becomes the president over Nippon over a night. 3. She's a 'cat lady' but doesn't have any 'real' cats. But they're still as cute. This one was Minazuki Shigure from Nekopara. Motivation: She owns he cats but they aren't cats they're catgirls but sill very cute. 4. This character makes so that everything in a one kilometer radius gets bought and demolished just to build a mansion there so the MC won't be disturbed. This one was Meiya Mitsurugi from Muv-Luv. Motivation: Well i played Muv-Luv and came to the scene where that happened and felt like writing about it. 5. This one is the vaguest.IMO She was saved from hate by the MC and now lives for love to the MC. This one is Shiina Miyako from Majikoi. Motivation: Don't want to spoil anything, just play her arc and you'll see. And the winner was Suikashoujo with 5/5 correct. Congratz. I will contact you on the forums to discuss what you want. I haven't decided on a winner of the 5€ price. I will select him/her shortly. If some of these are bad just tell me and I'll try to fix it. And i want to see how easy/hard it is to guess a character by a vague description. Edit:In case of a million people getting everything correct Which I hope I'll create some sort of tiebreaker. Also I would like if we could keep so that if you send in answers you cannot change them even if you realize it's wrong. Edit2: After overviewing the post, I realise that there were a few errors in here, which have been promtly been dealt with. Sorry for any inconvenience and for any missed errors. I wish you the best of luck! - Amuzie Update: I have added a second prize of 5€, but the way to win it will be kept a secret.

but... but... it is a Fuwan's sacred duty to derail every single thread with repetitive arguments that basically nitpick and indulge in idiotic sophistry! *breaks down laughing hysterically*

I would miss Aaeru.

We are approaching summer and something great awaits all of us there: NON NON BIYORI REPEAT Komari-chan!!! I missed you so much!!! I can finally see you again!!! But let's get down to business? What will this season bring us? Theories So... Ready for summer?! We are 29 days from the first episode. What do you expect to happen? Share all your love and hype for Non Non Biyori in this thread. And here are the PVs:

Hey all! I am always a sucker when it comes to posting about awesome deals on translated visual novel prices, so I thought I would encourage everyone to support the genre some more by actively persuading you to buy some games! Check out these amazing deals on translated novels: Little Busters! EX - 1,200 yen = $9.60 Rewrite - 1,500 yen (there are also some for 1,000 yen) = $12.00 ($8.00) Little Busters! PE - 3,400 yen = $27.20 Hoshizora no Memoria EH - 4,200 yen = $33.59 Hitori no Sensou - 2,000 yen = $16 FSN - 2,500 yen = $20

I'm sorry if a similar thread had been posted before, but I just wanted to help those people having problem playing VNs, for you who do, here's some VN troubleshootings: 3. It's a golden rule for VNs so you should've known it but I'll tell it again, play those VNs with Japanese locale (not ntleas/applocale/applocale/locale emulator, they're not always working). If you got it by installation, make sure you install the game with Japanese locale too, since some games unable to write the right file names with other locales. The point is so that the game could read/write non-unicode characters correctly. For the way to do it, read this post by Aeeru-san: http://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/1704-how-do-i-change-my-computer-to-japanese-system-locale/ 4. If your Directx or video card/display driver is old, update them. You can check your device driver's here (through the control panel): The highlighted option is "disable" but what you should check is the "update driver" option. 5. If it crashed/freeze/show a black screen while playing videos, install some codecs using K-Lite codec pack or CCCP. Many games would freeze/show a black screen when it tries to play a video you don't have the codec for. 6. Some games need a certain font, and won't work correctly (for example when you see jumbled words/lines) before you installing the font, so make sure you've installed them before playing. Some of them should be incluced with the installer though. But, if you don't find the font you needed for the game included in the game folder, you need to install it. Some examples are: Kimi no Nagori wa Shizuka ni Yurete needs BSVM fontGalaxy Angel needs Consolas fontSteins;Gate needs Droid Sans Fallback fontCross Channel needs Inconsolata fontKamidori Alchemy Meister needs Meiryo font, it will even crash if you don't install the fontand some others 7. If you have problems installing in C:\Program Files or any default installation folders, try to install it in another folder. It's recommended to install your game outside C:\Program Files in Windows 8/7/Vista due to legacy issues with how the OS handles the Programs Files folders and how older games modify files within those folders. 8. Sometimes you need to deactivate Windows DEP/ User right management for some games. 9. Somes games' files could be detected as malware/trojan by antivirus programs, add them to the exception list or disable your antivirus protection for a while and see if it's really the cause. 10. And if there are still problems with your game, try to ask the game developer. Some specific games troubleshootings: Chaos;Head ef Lite Ever17 Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish Upon a Shooting Star- Kara no Shoujo Kana: Little Sister Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai! Narcissu Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative Wanko to Kurasou Compiled by editing the info taken from http://visual-novels-general.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting_and_Common_Problems and adding my own experience.

I'm not going to go into too much detail, but some general style suggestions: --Semicolons: Learn to use them! They are indispensable, and something like this practically demands them. Yet there was a sad lack of them at times, and a number of times they were misused. For instance, at the very end you have "Yet the victor was certain, as long as a miracle did not occur, the tide of battle was as good as set in stone." That comma at the beginning splices; make it a semicolon! Alternatively, you could make the second comma a semicolon instead--the point is, this sentence is in desperate need of some semicolon loving. A number of the times you did use semicolons, they were paired with incomplete sentences. M dashes work far better here: "Citizens you wish to protect, your beloved friends; there is no better sacrifice than their pure souls." should be "Citizens you wish to protect, your beloved friends--there is no better sacrifice than their pure souls." Also, colons: "Now I can wholeheartedly agree; indeed, it is not scary in the slightest." should have a colon. --Ellipses: You're overusing them. Ellipses are going to feel very languid, very slow; in other words, they engender the exact opposite emotion that you should be going for in a fight scene. Let's examine a sentence from early on in 1-3: 稲妻と化したその身体は、炎も銃弾も透過する, which you rendered as "Taking the shape of lightning itself, she penetrated fires... she pierced bullets." Consider instead "Her body became a bolt lightning, zipping through fire and bullet alike." This sentence feels much more alive. Some other examples of ellipses should be replaced with M dashes, another solid tool you seem to be neglecting, such as Eleonore's statement around the six minute mark in 1-3. --Periodic sentences: Basically, this is a complicated way of saying to write a sentence such that the most important information is at the very end. This causes the sentence to build like a crescendo into something magnificent. To use another example from early in 1-3, "Finally, a hit… finally she caught up to her elusive superior who might as well have been above the clouds to her before." could become "Finally... Though there had once been a greater gap between them than the gap between the land and the clouds, she finally managed to land a hit." This feels triumphant. (I also took the liberty of rewriting the metaphoric bit here, though I still kept it pretty literal because I like the literal metaphor a lot.) --You clearly sought to use past tense for all narration, which makes me love you forever. Just sayin'

This is hard, there are a lot of people I would miss... But if I had to name names, I guess it would be Ren for generally being fun to talk to, solidbatman for the mass amount of he produces from other people on a daily basis, Cyr for being a kind, fellow female member that I enjoy talking to, and Nosebleed for making me feel better about my taste in waifus.

The protag is Yuuji badass ver. 3.0, top left lady is Amane 2.0, top right girl is Mitcher, that queen lady is Yumiko, and bottom left female is Satcher. So they're missing Makina, 6.5/10.

You should care. It's a bliss to be born here. Forget the corrupt and egoistic politicians, forget the keep occurring flood and fire, forget the messy and crazy traffic, forget the piling rubbish everywhere, forget the bad infrastructure in some regions, forget the low rate of rupiah, forget the high cost of living in islands far from the center of government, forget the keep rising cost of staple products, forget the lack of achievements in sports, forget the suspension against PSSI from FIFA, and there, you get a heaven.

Confession: I feel absolutely no guilt for doing this Wow, and here I was trying to be spare rains at least a little bit of suffering. Ice-cold, dude! I like it

Confession:

Mmm... a few examples of missing the point. A reviewer that plays a VN, then complains about the lack of gameplay. A reviewer that plays a roguelike and complains about grinding. A reviewer that plays an MMO and complains the people around him in the game talk too much. A reviewer that plays a classic-style console jrpg and complains about the fact that they didn't 'go outside the box' in anything except the story. (lol) These are all examples of reviews that caused me to form my opinion. I've had twenty-something years to grow to hate professional reviews, and this is just a small portion of what I mean by 'missing the point' (the extreme versions, I'll admit but no less true for all that). Edit: This is a tendency any reviewer tends to develop after they've been reviewing for a while. Heck, I find myself doing it sometimes, though I try to filter it through a 'this is the type of person who would like to play this type of game' filter.

Is mayonnaise a reference?

You get friends, isn't that beautiful enough?

Did you think the band creation activity was the only trick I had planned up my sleeve? Not a chance... Welcome to Fuwanovel's Musical Trivia! The Objective: How smart are you when it comes to music from visual novels and anime? Think you got what it takes to be the top dog and claim the title of musical genius here on Fuwanovel? Let the members themselves decide! The goal of the game is simple: answer as many questions about visual novel/anime musical trivia as you can. With a total of 60 different pieces of music to listen to, this event will surely test your knowledge about OSTs and hit singles. Here's the twist though: I am not creating the questions. That's right, you the users get to make the quiz this time around; I am merely the man who will host it. Got what it takes? How it Works: Over the course of the next 2 weeks, users from Fuwanovel will be allowed to send me a list of songs or jingles from both visual novels and anime via PM that they wish to have featured in a massive 60 question musical trivia quiz. All you need to do as the users is message me with the following items: An mp3 or downloadable format of the song(s) and/or jingle(s) in question (YouTube video links also work). These pieces of music can be from a visual novel or an anime A message stating what segment I should use from the song(s) and/or jingle(s) in question (i.e. = 3:41 - 4:05) Segments from each piece of music should be no shorter than 15 seconds and no longer than 30 seconds. You are allowed to send as many songs and/or jingles as you'd like via PM. In addition, should you want to send more pieces of music in the future, you are able to do so by sending more in the same PM. In 2 weeks time, the cutoff will occur and I will begin compiling the final music quiz. Past participants of the /index.php?/topic/5965-visual-novel-trivia-month/?hl=visual+novel+trivia">visual novel trivia month thread will know exactly what to expect for this quiz. Depending on the number of total entries I get, I may or may not select all of the music you send me. As such, you should list them in order of importance should I have the need to cut some. When I compile the final quiz by cutting the segments and hosting them on my Mixcloud account, I will be sure to evenly distribute the amount of entries from each person that submitted at least 1 piece of music. This way, everyone will start out with the same fair advantage should any questions already be known to them. If I need to fill in additional questions, I will choose them myself. For now, send your entries and make sure to properly label your PM. More details will be posted in the coming week. Good luck, and enjoy some music to celebrate!

They have not discussed how they're going to release it, or any plans for a western release, but it will probably hit Steam and see an English release, as long as Grisaia goes well.

thanks to you my recommendations are full of moeges ops. i usually find my VNs through the hyping that happens in FSG.

I ship anywhere! If you want a general idea on the price of shipping, use this site here: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/cgi-charge/index.php?lang=_en Select the parcel option, and use Chiba as the prefecture for shipping. As for the weight, calculate what you think the weight of a PC box might be.

That Tomoyo After in the background of the Little Busters picture is actually what's tempting me the most... hmm... I'll have to keep that in mind.

Confession: I freaking love Lino ehh rain, I love rain too!

You, I like you. I might not like Kosaki all that much, but she's far from worthless. I admit that her shyness can get really annoying at times, but it's also one of her charms. Besides, if she wasn't so shy about it, the series would have ended forever ago, which simply isn't how these types of series go. You raise some good points on why it couldn't be so and so, but I can easily imagine scenarios for why it could still be them. A characters actions don't always makes sense unfortunately. Although at this point, I can't see him ending up with anyone besides Kosaki or Chitoge. I could be wrong about this as I don't really remember what chapter it was on when the anime started, but I'm pretty sure Kosaki was well on her way to being the "chosen one" by that time. It sucks that your dropping the manga, but it's your choice after all. Here's to hoping you'll finish the series one day. Completely off topic but am i the only one's who's tired of hearing the term "chosen one?" Not just in Nisekoi either, but media as a whole.

I always ask to our Savior, Uncle Google, who's omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.

In the past whenever I got bored i'd browse through VNDB by tags I felt like reading or just every VN with the score 6 and higher that has english translation, I gathered a huge backlog doing that so I just go to my backlog when I need something new to read. And there is usually hype about the new translations here and there so I rarely have to keep tab on new english translated VNs.

I'd miss Down. No idea why, but I am positively a Down fanboy. Clearly he has infected me with something nasty.

No, most players in the east don't take VNs very seriously. Fuwa is probably the most serious VN forum I've been, most others consist of mainly funny commentary, news, etc.

Chinese born in Indonesia and then move to Australia and soon i`ll move to Japan lol Though whenever people ask where i am from i`ll say China though.

There's a dragon so it'll probably be better than Grisaia. Otherwise the whole making an all-ages version first is interesting, it's a move towards expanding their marketing to a wider audience, from the onset. It should be interesting to see if anything comes out of this. Oh, and a brilliant demonstration of why machine translation is a bad thing through the synopsis on vndb:

I would miss suikashoujo. She's just like me, except anatomically different. Here is this amazing (and super scientifically proven chart) as to why: Comparisons with suikashoujo: We are both alpha as hell We both diss Nosebleed for his garbage tier waifus We both feel oppressed on a regular basis While she may not like butts as much as I do, it's only a matter of time...

Everyone that has become a regular or plans to be monmon

Does anyone have the info on his condition now?

Uhh, probably, Stray Cat 'cause he's a fluffy kitty. I'd miss all the people I interact with often though, and the people I'm used to seeing around.

Confession: I find thunderstorms calming. Confession 2: I am pretty fucking scared now for my no fap challenge starting with Ramadan

I played Tera a couple years ago or so, got to max level, and did most of the endgame content available at the time (this was about 6-9 months after English release). Was annoyed that Elin were censored, so I patched it with the original Korean textures. The problem with TERA is that the gameplay is broken in very fundamental ways that I doubt they've managed to fix. Being locked out of joining new guilds when you've left a guild prevents upward social mobility / personal progression, in a game where group content is everything. You basically had the "Hads" and "Had nots", and it was very difficult to escape from whatever social tier you fell into. Due to the choreographed nature of most of the content (relying on encounter-specific memorized knowledge and reactions rather than a generalized skillset), finding likeminded players to practice failing was incredibly important, yet due to the guild restrictions it was extremely difficult to connect with other such players. That was one of the main reasons I left. I've never been one to content myself with mindless grinding because I've been locked out of progression content. Nexus content was also terrible as it was the pinnacle of endgame at the time, yet involved little personal skill or group coordination and was laggy to the point that it was unplayable even on high-end gaming machines. But probably worst of all was the feeling that endless and extremely tedious grind was the only way to get anywhere, and the range of available content was pretty restricted. That said, dungeons between 50 and endgame were quite fun, as they really pushed your abilities as a player without feeling unfair, and at that point the elitists weren't around to abandon group as soon as they realized there were new players to the dungeon in the group.

WHY FOR THE GLORY OF SATAN OF COURSE!

THAT ELI ! ugh

Should we promote and highlight quality content creation or purposeless chatter? To me the answer is fairly obvious, especially considering the real estate consumed by the two features is about the same. The birthday feature serves no purpose other than fueling a massive spam farm. Congratulating someone on a birthday doesn't show sincere consideration if you have to be reminded to do it by an automated tracker that has been thrust in your face. Any result from that is simply the illusion of thoughtful consideration.

Thanks for getting back to us on that, it's a relief to know that Krill is at least back home. I hope the therapy works well for him.

tell him to don't give up! The best wishes for both of you

I'd love if you did post updates every few days or week or two. I recall knowing him, though briefly as I left the boards here. I also was put in the hospital for that week long period and it's BORING as hell in the hospital. I had low potassiusm and such issues, not a stroke. Did some physical therapy stuff as well, which to be quite honest was not hard. I got released from it my final day, as I'm likely sure they'd make me do it after getting out or make me stay if they felt I was not ready. Note this was a few years ago now, though. I still take meds for certain things for it. I still wish you and him luck and hope he can get better someday to join his friends on here!

Just watched it. This movie wasn't just as good as the first one, actually it was a lot better. It really surprised me. Stark was a lot less annoying than before, he's more mature now. Here's my review of it: https://starlessnightreviews.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/avengers-age-of-ultron-review/