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The operation went good. I have a new liver now, and I misread the heart operation. They strengthened the inner walls in my heart and added a pacemaker. So I am well and good. Will be back home in three days.

you dont remember because you don't care about the planet! Both of you are so selfish, Lucia should have a few words with you 2

This is how it probably goes down in their meeting. "All right boys! We have 35 hours until we release a new game. Do any of you guys have an idea for the story? *Jenkins raises his hand* "Last night I watched a porno so what if we just use the same story from the porno for our game. All we have to do then is just take out all of the sex." "Jenkins! You're a Genius! You're getting a promotion and you get the honor of naming the game!" "Oh boy!" "Harvey! Get the wheel!" "Yes sir!" *Harvey pulls out a giant wheel* "Okay Jenkins! Spin that wheel!" "Okay sir!" *tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick... tick...tick* "What does it say Jenkins?" "Our next game will be called Sakura Exile!" " Once again you have blown my socks off Jenkins! I'm giving you a raise!" Or something like that.

Fool! I'm absolutely sure I enjoy myself much more than you do (Disclaimer: As in, I can enjoy more things than you. I can enjoy the bad things. Etc. etc.). And that's all because I have low standards. Now this is living the good life. You should try it, sometime. That's the reason why I'm almost positive I'll like this Rewrite adaptation. Adaptations in particular are really hard to ruin for me unless they don't actually animate anything from the original material.

If you were to lower yourself to my standard, then all Key VN adaptations were good.

Quite the persecution complex we have here. Change my sign-up preferences to "Kill Shikomizue at some point" as well. As the gentleman I am, this way I shall justify the persecution complex and he will not look nearly as paranoid.

This is the second anime adaptation announcement this month for a VN I've played. Wow. Yay. Let's see how good/bad they'll make them. I'll watch anything.

Also VNs that are more than 2 hours long.

Something is borked with their payment processor and they're going through and charging people one by one. Sometimes it takes a while to go through. I figured they'd have finished by now but maybe not. Maybe bother them on twitter or their forums, they tend to respond to people who do. Also everyone should beware of a crash bug that is affecting all users. Early on in the game if you play in full screen, you'll get a crash. Playing in windowed mode should get you past that. I can't identify the exact point where it happens so I can't tell you when you're safe to go back into fullscreen. Kind of silly that despite all the delays and the very lengthy QC process, this still slipped through, what with it being right at the beginning.

Okay, I wanted to respond earlier, but got swamped with work. I'm glad to see another fan of kitsune and miko outfits~ It just so happens I've actually bought Tenkiame a while ago and I'm loving every second of it. I have to admit, when I came upon the first news about the game, I instantly feel in love with it and couldn't wait for release. The game had that something special - perhaps it was the setting, characters and quality; maybe it was the overall atmosphere (the game is quite similiar to Monobeno in that manner), or a mixture of all of them. At first glance you might think it's no different than any moege, but this game is actually a classic, laidback slice of life romance drama with japanese folklore and supernatural elements. You may argue it's not really that special - and that might be true, as decent the game remains, but it's incredibly good at what it aims to be. Right now I am certain Sun Shower is definately the best August release and possibly, one of the best vn's released in a longer while. Regarding translation... I was curious myself, therefore I took the game apart. To be honest, Sun Shower really deserves to be translated and I'd be glad to see that happen as well. On the other hand, I'm not really the kind of person, that sits doing nothing; especially, when it's about things I adore. In the end, I decided to give it a try. And this is the result: Some screenshots I did during the testing, along with a quick translation. It didn't took me long to figure it out. Game uses SystemC along with E-mote plugin for the live animations. I'll be honest - Tenkiame would be incredibly easy to translate. The only troublesome thing I found about the game was the data repacking, but I guess nothing's impossible when you're so madly in love with your resident fox girls. So yeah, here you have it. Unfortunately, I don't really feel proficient enough to tackle the translation myself, but I'm willing to help anyone serious enough to start a translation project. Aside from that, Tenkiame has literally everything I need: Kitsune + cheerful imouto + sweet older sister + shrine maiden outfits + countryside + folklore Is this how true happiness looks like?

Hello everyone . I subscribe to a few marketing as well as psychology podcasts, and meditation gets mentioned quite often in topics of this sort. To be truthful, I never spared meditation much thought. I have a day job, so I pursue my game development endeavors before and after office hours. If I have time to sit there and think about nothing, why not do some work instead? Or at least, let me think about the things I want to get better at. For example, I evaluate my performance after a basketball game, and that helps me improve. Meditation, however, requires you to empty your mind. What can I possibly gain by doing that? As the topic gets brought up over and over, I am becoming more interested in meditation's potential. I actually gave it a try this morning (probably not even doing it right at all), and I have short sessions scheduled into my personal calendar. Having played basketball for 20 years, I do believe in this concept of the subconscious. Using my brain to anticipate movements is several hundred milliseconds too slow. If I instead switch off my mind and depend on muscle memory, I can make a move before my brain has made the decision to do so. Commentators often say a player is "unconscious" when they are dominating. Those who have been through the journey will understand right away. If I sound like I am rambling, that would be because I am. I am certainly not some kind of genius who claims to know anything about the human mind. In that case, maybe meditation has some benefits that I am unable to even comprehend at this stage. I wanted to ask if anyone has some insights on this topic? Maybe if you have tried meditating and have stories to share, etc. General opinions are welcome, too. Thank you !

Shiori is infinitely more bae than Umi.

It's written by the same guy and produced by the same company, it's "canon".

Half hyped, half expecting utter disaster & disappointment

steins;gate, you should play that one if you enjoyed cross channel, i dont think you will enjoy rewrite considering you didnt like little busters, if you like global warming stuff then play rewrite.. Haven't read Planetarian, but as i've said before but what do you mean by little busters not having a happy ending? Little busters spoiler: Rewrite spoilers:

Prisma Illya Finale Pretty great show. Might be best show of season for me. Charlotte Finale

To hit the last stretch goal, all they need is "10,000$, 30 available" "If these 30 sell out, we will start working on a Muv Luv sequel. "

A few days ago @renpytom on twitter made this graph: Commenting: "I plotted the time between Sakura _ games vs. time, and in a few weeks there will be a new Sakura game every second." Little did he know that right after, the trend would confirm itself with the announcement of the greenlight for Sakura Beach 2 by Winged Cloud and Sekai Project! (not even gonna bother putting the source) Since it seems like Winged Cloud and SP finally realized they didn't even need to bother to make new shit and the scenario is probably randomly generated by a monkey simulator software, we can probably expect the trend to keep going, so I thought we'd make only one thread for the future Sakura Series announcements and all the wailing about how it's all shit and SP is hitler etc etc.

And from what I can see it is pretty popular too. No reason to not make a season 2. BTW - Megumi Best Grill

Well, I think our earlier threads about making VNs into animu have more or less concluded that riraito's would probably suck. Oh well, not like I'd actually watch it anyway

Considering Rewrite is my favorite Key VN, I hope they don't mess this up.

Dear God, please give it 24eps or more :| Otherwise I'll be sad.

I should really get around to listening to this at some point. I'm not much of a rap listener but I've heard pretty much universal praise. The new Chvrches rules.

Rap duo Run the Jewels released a remix album of last year's brilliant RTJ2. It's cat themed. Yeah.

Using this pic on my main monitor, absolutely loving it.

With a Kickstarter campaign, they might engage a true good writer - as a stretch goal -

KnS isn't without its flaws but I thought it was better. One thing it does better is make the protagonist feel like an actual detective. Shugo didn't really do much deduction on his own and was basically lead to most of the answers by others, while KnS's protagonist strikes you as a smart guy who knows his shit. A lot of the supporting cast is also better, imo.

You should give her to Abyssal Monkey

To be fair though, "Muv Luv" already sounds pretty ridiculous.

No.

I think this should be the title on the Box. "Muv Luv - A Pretty Sweet Visual Novel" Instead of Extra / Unlimited. Just have it right there on the box, and that be it's Steam name. Haha.

I don't really think that the visuals are the biggest problem. A CG can add texture to a sex scene just like any other scene in a visual novel, how the character look at each other and how they touch, and what expressions they make can add things to the narrative. The problem with the sex scenes in visual novels is that they are usually so inconsequential that you could just replace them with a black screen that says "and then we had sex" without losing anything. And this goes for both the text and images.

I believe that sexual content has its place in stories, but not in the way people assume. I agree a lot with what Beato has to say here, simply due to the fact that I believe sex does not need to visualized to make a story better. Writing about or describing a sexual experience (be it negative or positive) is a thing that a lot of good stories do, but actually showing me what is happening is never needed. Descriptions, whether in writing or spoken, impact the reader and let us form an opinion about what is happening. To give an example, I saw the Vagina Monologues when I was studying abroad in Italy. An interesting experience that I highly recommend everyone view if they get the chance. During the more serious monologues, descriptive narratives were told. I remember a particular monologue where there was an elderly woman (being a teenager around 1920) describing how being turned on and becoming wet was considered satanic and that women were considered diseased for doing such a thing. She then went on to describe being molested and almost raped as a young woman. This kind of story (told completely in words) impacts the viewers, yet there were no visuals at all during her speech. In fact, the entire room was dark and all you could see were bold subtitles in both Italian and English on the stage in front of you. There was no old woman, there was no imagery used, and yet I was able to experience the story through words alone. The same is true for a visual novel and any story in general. Descriptions and words themselves are what drive our creativity as a reader and allow us to justify that sex scenes are important in a visual novel, however as Beato and many other people in this thread state, visuals are never needed. They are purely for sexual pleasure purposes and add nothing to the story whatsoever. In other words, while I agree that a rape scene may be important to describe during a character's route in order to make me understand how traumatized they are and why they act the way they do, I do not need a visual to go with it - imagination comes from the mind, not a picture.

Honestly most of the examples in this thread would probably make her laugh even more as "sex under necessity" typically just justifies the porn existing (or adding more of it) it still doesn't make it not porn. I think convincing your friend is going to be pretty hard friend since she is partially right, most popular Visual Novels with sexual content are stories that include porn. Obviously these visual novels aren't just porn, but the sex scenes themselves absolutely are. There's a pretty huge difference between visual novels where the fact that the characters have sex with each other is necessary/important and visual novels where the sex scenes themselves are necessary/important. There is a huge amount of VNs that fit the first example but those that fit the second example are incredibly rare. Nearly all VNs that I see people praise as having sex scenes for the story and not just for porn only fit the first example. I mean there's nothing wrong with liking porn but I wish we would stop pretending that most sex scenes in visual novels are there for any other reason. I mean in most Visual Novels when you reach a h-scene the story just....stops. The protagonist might be incredibly interesting, full of interesting monologues and funny remarks. Yet as soon as the H-scene comes this is all replaced by things like "I rub her breasts" or "It feels like I'm about to explode". And no matter the heroine's personality she'll turn incredibly meek and docile when the time comes. Unless it's a femdom scene, but even then her personality will be just as stereotypical, completely changed into exactly the sort of person the scene requires. She'll be incredibly embarrassed or even ignorant about sex but then suddenly become incredibly assertive if it's needed. A pretty good litmus test: Could this scene be replaced by a fade to black without losing anything of the story? If you can then it probably isn't necessary. A lot of VNs with medium-to-high sexual content will actually pass this, because even if a lot of the scenes fit my earlier issues with narrative stops and personality changes they still contribute something to the VN as a whole (especially the atmosphere) and removing them would change things quite a lot. A lot of HRPGs for example probably wouldn't be the same without sexual content, even if I'm personally not fond of said content. I mean these scenes are typically still porn but they don't detract from the general experience. The main offenders are the VNs with low sexual content, the stuff people usually talk about when discussing VNs. People will defend them saying that the scenes are important to the story, and sex is an important part of life right? And yeah it is an important part of life but these VNs sure doesn't treat it with the same gravity as it might treat other content. Instead of spending 20 minutes on moans and descriptions of various fluids they could use them to actually add something to the overall narrative. You could use the opportunity to explore the characters at their most vulnerable, in what ways they are the same and in what ways they are different. What do they feel about sex? What does it mean to them and their relationship? There are tons of stuff you could explore yet it is incredibly rare to see this in a visual novel. The only Visual Novels I've read that manage to do this Inganock and Sharnoth as they at least attempt to use the opportunity to reveal some of the characters feeling we might not see in other situations. I wrote a bit of a mini-essay here, but I think the potential uses of sexual content in VN is pretty interesting.

actually Funya. You see Funya and...

Here are some of my most recent drawings in full resolution; [EDITED: Apparently the post's images were lost after the site update so I reuploaded some new ones] Hitokiri Battousai (Rurouni Kenshin): Tohsaka Rin and Archer (Unlimited Blade Works): Eren Jaeger (Shingeki no Kyojin): Heiwajima Shizuo (Durarara!!) This random anime girl I found on the internet... I forgot what I wrote here last time... ^^;; I'd been exposed to drawing since I was very little and it's become an undying hobby ever since. Half of these were drawn back when I was in highschool, usually for a friend's birthday. I haven't been drawing anything lately since uni though, I never really had the time. Hopefully I will sometime soon, it's a hobby I love to much to let go. Please visit my DeviantArt to see more of what I've drawn~. Thank you! http://dimdito.deviantart.com/

I'm not gonna read the post, but I can already guess that it has something to do with torrents If that's the case, then long story short - here at Fuwa we do not post torrents, we do not talk about torrents, and we do not have torrents. Instead, we eat torrents for breakfast. I certainly hope that you did not see this site as merely a convenient download site, because there is much more to it than that. Fuwa is a community, and as such, I do hope that you stick around and weeb it out with fellow VN nerds before you go.

Pshhh, "private time" is factored in those. A man's gotta do what he's gotta do right? xD Or maybe the game was so bad, he fell asleep in front of his computer and let the game running. I did too when I played a couple of Sakura games. The plot was just way too predictable and uninteresting. Reminds me of RPGmaker with some Steam games. Like a 10 year old could make them in his basement. They are all the same crap but they sell rather well.

Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. In order to help support development of our own visual novel "With Woman's Tears", I decided to have our background artist create some backgrounds for visual novel devs to use in their own games. As I'm sure you know, commissioning high quality backgrounds can be very expensive and finding a top quality artist can be very difficult. I hope this pack of backgrounds represents good value for money. You can use them in your own games: free, commercial, placeholders. It's all good. They're non-exclusive, of course, but we will NOT be using these backgrounds in our own game. Plus, you're helping us to continue development of our own VN at the same time. School is such a common theme that I thought our first pack should include a selection of scenes you find in visual novels a lot. So we have the school exterior, a classroom, a corridor, a science lab, a rooftop dining area and a swimming pool. Here are some (watermarked) previews of the images. The actual BGs are much higher resolution (2667x1500) and are not watermarked, of course. I didn't personally create these, so all credits and compliments are for the artist. However, I am still open to crits, of course. I would also like to know if there are any other subjects or themes which you would find useful for your VN projects. If these are well-received, we may well create more packs. I have a few ideas for future subjects but would love to hear what BGs you need. You can find a full preview, more information and a video preview on our website : No Bull Intentions

Current one. The one I usually have.

I am starting to get a feeling that this is just the first step in an intricate plan to just release a dramatic and actually worthwhile Sakura VN out of fucking nowhere which features the collective cast of the Sakura games so far and is actually a mature and emotionally impactful game. Because otherwise this game is like diarrhea: Several short quantities of worthless, repulsive shit released in startlingly quick succession, leaving a nauseating aftermath. I have an idea for Winged Cloud though. Have an annual Sakura Jam where people are given 48 hours to make a Sakura game from scratch! They'd increase efficiency and well, the games would probably be quite a few times as complex compared to now. Win-win!

am i the only one who want kimi ga nozomu eien more than muv-luv?