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Aaaaaand… who else wants that school metaphor to be swiftly kicked in the vulnerables? Anyone? Anyone at all? It can’t just be me.

This will be the location for the XCOM Enemy Within playthrough I'm doing using Fuwanovel members as soldiers. I'm hoping to have video recording capabilities by XCOM 2 but in the mean time this is going to be a simple little screenshot type of deal. I'm not fully committed yet to the way I'm going to format this so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. In the mean time the first few might be done a few different ways til something works. I'm also going to attempt to figure out a means of recording the videos and may or may not edit them after. Soldiers sent on missions are determined by a random generator and actions I take in game are based on personality I've been given for specific units. There will be a few times while playing that I will ask for feedback that will be in the XCOM Recruitment thread. This is essentially an xcom role-play with fuwanovel members as soldiers. For those wondering "it's a good day to die" is song and one of the very few decent things from Starship Troopers 3. If anyone actually wants to hear the song an amv was made with it. Anyway time to begin, Mission 1: Operation Twisted Calm

Ah, a sense of community, that's a tricky business. I hope you don't mind if I ramble for a moment or two . I remember talking with quite a few people about group friendships, and feeling sad about people going their separate ways and how you deal with it, how you stay together, and etc etc. The fact of the matter is this - if a group of people only comes together to have fun and talk about hobbies, muck around, share a laugh, play a game or two, then that group of people will always split apart at some point in the future. The bonds forged between these people are too superficial to withstand any tension, or any semi-serious inconvenience. Let me quote a story from Jeremy Clarkson's past: "Back in the eighties I spent pretty well every saturday night with the same group of freind's in a King's Road basement bar in Kennedy's We laughed all the time, we went on stage with the band, we sang, we drank ourselves daft and we knew, with the sure-fire certainty that night will follow day, that we'd be mates forever. Had one of them been accused of gouging the barman's eye out with a lawnmower, I'd have told the police I was dead at the time and that I knew nothing. I would even have taken the heat on his behalf, had push come to shove. Which would have made me feel awfully foolish today because I have no idea where two of those friends are, and, for the life of me, I cannot even remember what the third one was called. How did this happen? Presumably, when I said goodbye for the last time ever, I really did believe I'd be seeing them all again the following weekend. It wasn't like we'd had a row, or that they'd all grown beards or moved to Kathmandu. We just went home and never saw one another again. And this happens all the time. I went throug my address book earlier and there are countless hundred of people, friends, muckers, soul mates and former colleagues who I never see." This indeed happens all the time. You’re friends with somebody when you’re 15, but when you’re 20 you suddenly meet up and find you no longer have anything in common. And the depth of the bond between you two isn’t strong enough to overcome this. Or you suddenly got busy, and you’re too tired to want to do anything, whether you continue to stay in touch will depend on the strength of that bond between the two of you. That is to say, is your friendship real or do you just meet up to whack out a rounds of Persona Arena at the local arcade every day? Because if it's the latter, then the slightest inconvenience or hardship will snap that friendship and chances are you won't even regret it breaking. Similarly, your forum games sometimes involve a bit of work and if bonds aren’t strong enough or incentives aren’t there for people to want to withstand that, then people won't participate. This brings me rather round-aboutly to my point (‘round-aboutly’ is a word… now *shifty eyes*.) You’re an exceptional entertainer, Ren, but you don’t build a sense of community through a mutual sense of having a good time, a community is built upon very real and deep bonds. I understand where you’re coming from though, the Members Lounge was supposed to be a place where members of the community could share real parts of their lives with other members, because this act of sharing is one of the ways people bond and grow close to one another. It was supposed to foster a sense of community before it failed spectacularly and hilariously, so that idea was my one attempt at that. You can’t shove a sense of community down people’s throats, so… not much you can do. This is kinda where I say ‘that’s life’, then I laugh nervously, give you a hearty whack on the shoulder, and offer you a strong drink . Anyway, Fuwa is surviving by being a place where people can come and talk about Visual Novels. So we may not be a close knit community, but it’s a place where people can relax and talk about common interests, or participate in projects, in a non-judgemental and respectful atmosphere. And maybe that’s not so bad. Maybe that's all it needs to be for now. Maybe it will be something more in the future.

You know... yeah this makes sense. This is going to get a bit ranty. I don't know much about the LC, to be honest. I didn't even know it existed until months after it did exist. Every time I heard about it, it sounded like the dumbest possible thing. And it never surprises me with how little it achieved. Or is that achieves? Does it still continue to exist, impacting nothing at all? Who knows! Who cares! Not me. So you know, I'm just gonna hit Tay up on skype, ask him about maybe posting more stuff to the Fuwazette, and if he gives me the okay I'm gonna do it. Fuck bureaucracy, fuck red tape. I'm sure there were/are plenty of well-meaning people on the LC but I'd rather not sit around and talk about doing things while never actually doing them, I'd rather just do them once I decide I want to.

Hey, at least Ryechu saved the FuwaReviews from me, and god damn, the work he has done for it has been great so far. In all honesty, FuwaReviews seems like the one bright spot here to me. The blog TL status updates have been good of course too, but I'd love to see the blog be a bit more active than that (though not with my help.) Here is where I think I get where Ren is coming from, because what he is complaining about is something I am completely guilty of. We have all these people, who are saying they are going to do all these things. Nayleen the front site, me with Reviews, The LC council and whatever the fuck we do, the "Bloody Senators" and their little game, etc. etc. Then, real life happen. In my case, I attempted to tackle FuwaReviews and get it running. But after a long day of work, or school, or housework, or yardwork, the last thing in the world I wanted to do was a bunch of tedious reading, or site work. I wanted to sit around, naked, and play MGSV, or Fallout NV, or anything I could just shut my mind off and do. I know nayleen works, Tay of course is like Dr. House on an island (and still in med school for the record), I'm just so damn tired and stressed all the time. These are real life issues that affect people we love and care about, and affect our futures. Lets say I slack on school work to pump out a review. Now I take a zero on an assignment and cant make it up because its college and its time to be an adult. Alright, well lets make sure school work is done before I do my review. Annnd now its the weekend and by god I work close to 30 hours in 3 days as weekends are damn busy in retail. So now I exhausted and can barely focus. There is no way in hell I could retain the information I need to write my review. And thus the cycle begins again. So what we get is over-promising, and under-delivering. Not out of any malice, or dislike for the site or the direction it is taking, but because, in my case, I will literally get overwhelmed and eventually have a breakdown. Fuwanovel, 98% of the time, is the second to last thing on my mind, the last being the cleanliness of my room currently (its a disaster in here). Sadly for you, you, Fuwanovel is your hobby, and you don't really see things as work. So you put in a ton of effort to make people happy, and provide fun activities. You enjoy that thing. Meanwhile, I about lost my shit in my contest and got overwhelmed and now I feel like shit because I still can't afford to get the prizes to the winners. Instead, that money went to paying my doctor so he could give me strong pain pills when my throat decided to swell up and caused an incredible amount of pain when I was even breathing. Life just happens, and Fuwanovel is not my life. It should not be anyone's life. Because as much as I used to care about Fuwanovel, at the end of the day, its just a website with people who have a shared interest in VNs. I hope you continue to do what you do here Ren, because while I don't really ever take part in the competitions, I do like seeing the effort and creativity put into them. Now to go do Spanish homework, get drunk, and sleep for like 5 hours before doing more house work. I've only slept like... 16 hours over the past 4 nights. Edit: No, fuck Spanish. I'm hungry and all I have had so far today is a glass of milk. Spanish homework can go to hell right now.

Don’t make me hurt you >:c

As one of the "old" members of the site who has basically gone from being a semi-active lurker (that's an oxymoron, right? I'm pretty sure that's an oxymoron... but, that's what I'm gonna call myself!) to an active poster in the Reviews super-secret forum and PMs mostly in regard to the running of FuwaReviews, I'm sort of in the category of "gave up on the forums, but not the site." I check the site every day for two reasons: One, to see if there are any new posts that may actually be relevant to my interests. Unfortunately, with the history not scrolling back as far as it used to, sometimes I miss a few things here and there, and that sucks, but if I don't see it instantly, I'm very likely going to miss it. And then when I do post on something, then I get sidetracked or forget about it or "promise I'm going to do it later only to not do it" (my most recent example being that I reserved a spot in Ren's thief game, even saying that I was going to apply for it on Skype, only to completely get sidetracked by work), then I don't post responses to anything that may need responding to. It's a commitment I can't make, and commitments I should avoid making, so I tend to stay away from things I don't feel strongly about. What I do do is spend some time in our reviews subforum. Anytime there's a new post in that forum, I'm instantly reading it. I don't care if it's Bats or Palas or Exenorate or whoever (Down<3) updating their status post or if we have hold of a new review key or what have you, I read that, because that's what I like to do on this site. I like doing FuwaReviews - I like the business side of doing all of it. I like working with Flutterz on making sure my reviews are as perfect as they can be. I like trolling Bats when he is drunk and posting Minute Reviews that are a paragraph in length and have more jokes than actual content. I like to get people's opinions on what games we should consider high priority. I do what I enjoy on the site. Unfortunately a lot of that is behind-the-scenes work, which sucks, but it's what I enjoy. I would hope people act with this same mentality. If they aren't having fun, why are they here? When the torrents were removed, we lost that crowd. Oh well, they went to [removed] and now they sit on the forums "hey x game is released where the hell is my ddl of it wtf admin". Then the "Forum Cleanup" policy went into effect, and that sent a lot of people packing because they were worried that they were going to get banned because they post something that may be considered suggestive. That's not exactly the intent, but I understand where they're coming from, and I also understand why the Administrators would want to take that route. We can't please everybody. That's impossible. Somebody is going to show up and ask "WHAR TORRENT", realize we don't have those anymore, and never come back. Somebody is going to post something that crosses the line in a spoiler and not realize we can't do that, get warned, and leave. That's the natural flow of forums. Same with cliques, moderation, and members. Natural flow of forums. Spoiler regarding a similar forum that may trigger people. Don't click if you're easily triggered.

Before Winged Cloud took Sakura Swim Club off SteamSpy, it had around 5k sales. You know many views my Sakura Swim Club uncensored patch install guide has? About 8k views. I have no way of telling how many of those people bought the game, but certainly that calls your assumption into question. Keep in mind that pirates could just pirate the adult version; they wouldn't need an uncensor patch. Also, it's worth mentioning that Winged Cloud has removed most of the Sakura series from SteamSpy. Looks like they found the clear downward trend in sales embarrassing, as they left only their best-selling games up on there. I wouldn't expect any less from a group that censors negative attention on their Steam forums and shamelessly promotes their donation page (on a forum for a game they're already overcharging for). No matter how I look at it Winged Cloud is basically scum. It's crystal clear that all they've ever been interested in is maximizing profits. They don't give a damn about their fans. You'll notice that they make no public statements at all outside of their locked Patreon areas. They couldn't even be bothered to explain how to use their uncensor patch, and they only created one to begin with to drive traffic to their donation page.

It never really got up and running. Tay was, is, will be in the near or far away future, exploring possible power structures for when he leaves the site. Ignore the LC and just hit up Tay if you want something done. He loves both work and people flooding his various inboxes with queries, it gives him fuzzies and makes him feel appreciated. That day he had a thousand messages in his inbox he literally shed tears of joy.

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing awesome. Earlier this month, I flew to Melbourne for a week and recorded a bunch of footage for Without Within 2. I also learned some new things about the city, and I look forward to dropping in those details where appropriate. Really hope I will be able to share my love for new places with everyone through this game. I wanted to quickly show off some of the photos I took while I was in Melbourne: According to my phone, I walked 50km in a three day span during my time in Melbourne. I hope you will enjoy the game as well as the optional footage. Thank you friends !

Yeah, the colorlessness, at least to me, was amusing. Didn't bother me at all. Even if Fuwa isn't the most closely knit community, I really don't think it needs to be. In fact, I would argue the inevitability of the breaking down of community as a website grows larger. Fuwa really is like an open coffee shop. People come and go, and only a few really prominent members know each other. It is a place for fleeting meetings and greetings, where maybe, just maybe, you cause someone to stick around and become a regular. We are all bound by a common interest, but that doesn't mean we are bound by obligation to each other. As for me? When I first saw this thread and read through it, my honest first impression of it was "here we go again". In the time I've been here, 6 months, I've seen at least 3 of these types of threads about the community dying. There are probably a dozen more I missed too.

Please no more harassment.

Katawa Shoujo

Or maybe the people that do bring it up are, obviously, people who care about those things and are therefore much more informed than the average buyer? There's no need to defend every single small point about Sekai Project. Using that kind of rhetorical nonsense is detrimental to your main point. Same goes with using all that PR vocab and "you don't know what you're talking about", your point is so hidden in layers of it that I don't even get what you're trying to say in your other statements. Say things clearly if you want someone to hear them.

Sorry for the delay on this episode upload, but here is episode 13. Thanks to all of the members who participated in this: https://www.mixcloud.com/OriginalRen/welcome-to-the-fuwacast-episode-13-porn-effects-of-lewd-content-in-2d-animation-and-vns I will be posting another thread with more details regarding the cast very shortly. Thanks again all.

We can't force anyone to do anything they don't want to. And if anyone thinks they can do something that would bring people together then it wouldn't hurt to do it. Having an admin that isn't as busy as Tay would be nice to just have some communication between staff and users. I don't really see the need to force people to participate in activities though, no one needs to take 10 minutes of their time to do anything. If people want to take 10 minutes if their time it should be because they want to. It kind of is starting to become exaggerated at this point.

I think the whole fuwanovel being in decline thing is being pretty exaggerated. In my eyes, it's not much different from how it has been over the last ~17 months I've been around. But I've also never really cared about the forums games, streams, podcasts, etc. I have a pretty one-track mind when it comes to this site. I will say that I want to post more content to the main fuwanovel blog. I don't 100% know what I would be posting but I think some more front-page content would generate more traffic that could eventually bleed over to the forums. Maybe to start with something simple like basic news posts when fan patches and new VNs are released. I mean, it's better than nothing, right? I look at the front page and see nothing but our weekly VNTS posts and get a little depressed.

See how much activity this thread is getting? Have threads (discussion/sharing, etc.) which topics people feel interest towards reading or adding their genuine or candid thought to. I'm happy to interact with members of the community, the opportunity just needs to be made more enticing/available/convenient.

And I came here expecting a circlejerk thread. Oh how wrong I was. This doesn't seem to be too different from any other forum. People are just going around and doing their own thing like always. People leave and people come like anywhere else, they have their own lives to live so it's expected. We don't always need a PM cult or contests or anything like that. This just a place to chill and talk about VN's and anime and shit like that. We don't always need to be united as a community, just be talking about VN's and being friendly to each other we already accomplish what we want to as a community. If people don't want to participate in events or contests then they won't, that's just the way it goes. Though I guess I understand your frustration on how the community seems to be dividing into smaller groups (Love Live, that PM cult thing etc.) As someone who doesn't bode well with talking to people (I have pretty bad social anxiety) it does make it really hard to feel active in the community since everyone is in their own little circle. I guess I don't really have a solution to that though since it's a lot of other peoples individual choices that makes this happen. Like I could sit down and brainstorm some ideas for the hell of it but my presence in the community is pretty small so I doubt it'd do anything.

I'm a simple man and i don't set my standard too high, as long as this is in the anime, i would be happy

Just so you know any personalities you give will be taken and will affect how I use your character. Also the first battle will be up shortly as well and the units that I've created are at the bottom of this post for those interested. The units created thus far are the only ones I was able to do following the given information as accurately as I could but even then some details might be a bit off so let me know if that is the case. It does seem brown hair is kinda hard to see. If you don't care about the country for the unit or if you do care about the country but not the gender let me know as I can create your unit easier then. I'm also not going to be taking units on a given mission based on whether I think they can succeed but rather based on random chance. I'm using a random.org to determine who goes on a mission and who doesn't. I have done the first mission which will be posted in a separate thread so expect that shortly. (keeping recruitment separate to make it easier to find (since I'll likely be doing the same thing with XCOM 2). I will be posting what your characters looks like and their stats (some of them are hilariously bad) in game below if there is anything you would like to change that is possible let me know. InvictusCobra: Siegfried Paladin Funyarinpa: Cook Funyarinpa Shikomizue: Grunt Shikomizue Tiagofvarela: Miles Edgeworth RedPanda: Jack Ripper I will be making more characters based on other volunteers in this thread once their flag or gender becomes available...if you do not care about either of those things I can make your character straight away. Otherwise I can wait until they become available.

http://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

Most people on here probably know about the visual novel reading club and anyone who doesn't I implore you to check it out. This thread is essentially a retrospective thread in order to look back at the visual novels we played through this first cycle. The first cycle started with Comyu and ended with Swan Song. In the course of this thread I have a few questions I want people to think about and if you feel up to it answer. This thread may have spoilers please put spoilers in a spoiler tag in case people visit without actually having read everything. After answering those ten questions I have ten additional questions related to general feedback if you wish to respond to any of them. For those who have forgotten here's the links to each of the cycle 1 visual novel club threads. /topic/9940-vn-reading-club-revival/?hl=reading+club">VN Club Revival /topic/9949-vn-reading-club-may-2015-co%CE%BC-kuroi-ryuu-to-yasashii-oukoku/?hl=reading+club">VN Reading Club - May 2015 (Cou - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku) /topic/10402-vn-reading-club-june-2015-yume-miru-kusuri/?hl=reading+club">VN Reading Club - June 2015 (Yume Miru Kusuri) /topic/10815-vn-reading-club-july-osananajimi-wa-daitouryou-my-girlfriend-is-the-president/?hl=reading+club">VN Reading Club - July 2015 (Osananajimi wa Daitouryou ~ My Girlfriend is the President) /topic/11104-sekien-no-inganock-vn-reading-club-august/?hl=reading+club">VN Reading Club - August 2015 (Sekien no Ignanock) /topic/11448-vn-reading-club-september-swan-song/?hl=reading+club">VN Reading Club - September 2015 (Swan Song) Ten Question Cycle 1 Retrospective 1. What was your favorite vn theme of cycle 1? 2. What was your favorite visual novel read this cycle? 3. Who is your favorite heroine in this cycle? 4. Which was your favorite route for this cycle? 5. Who was your favorite Main Character? 6. Who was your favorite side character? 7. Which character did you most wish had a route that didn't? 8. What was your favorite bgm or piece of music out of the games this cycle? 9. What were your favorite visual novel moments of this cycle? 10. Which visual novel are you most sad did not get chosen this cycle out of the choices you had? Here's some general questions related to how the club was ran and organized; 1. What improvements would you like to see for the vn reading club? 2. Would you be interested in doing a gameplay vn either as a theme month or possibly as a season long side activity? 3. If you did not participate in club what factors prevented or turned you away from participating? 4. Is there anything you would change about the club? 5. Did you believe the time limit for reading a visual novel and discussing it was acceptable? 6. Would you be interested in participating in a side club where we would read shorter under ten hour visual novels or original english language visual novels? 7. Do you prefer the current way we do discussions or would you prefer guided discussion questions periodically throughout the reading? 8. Do you have any ideas for themes you would like to see in the future? 9. Which visual novel would you most like to see be read in club? 10. Would you be interested in doing a trivia game or some other activity at the end of each visual novel? 11. Any other suggestions or comments about the vn reading club or the way we do things?

Please note that any names and or likeness to descriptions of people in this post are not meant to be offensive in anyway. I mention names for the sole purpose of getting points across, not to tell you your opinion and way of forum use is inferior. Also, please note that not everything I say will reflect how you feel. I am merely posting the things I see from my point of view, though this may not entirely reflect how you feel at this point in time. That is all. Fuwanovel. It's a site that has been around for quite some time now, and with all the recent changes that have happened in the past year or so, things have slowly started to go downhill. I don't want to beat around the bush and try to write something witty, I just want to state my thoughts about how I feel this site is changing and what is currently happening to lead it down its own path of destruction. Let me start by saying that this site is falling apart, and very quickly. Old members who guided this forum have slowly started to leave the site due to lack of interest, and new members are too "young" to understand the intricacies of the site. I understand that Tay has a perfect excuse for being away due to personal life issues on the island he is currently studying on, but what I do not understand is the amount of work that is being done to the site otherwise. Let me just cut right to how I feel. First of all... I am sick of the fact that the front site has not been updated. For the love of God, there is no excuse at this point. Nayleen, you took over Checkmate's job for the sole purpose of being that guy who works on the site when Tay is out (which he usually is) and yet all you are doing is putting it off more and more every fucking day. Don't tell me you are busy; you are sitting on Steam playing video games and clearly have the time to update the site. There is no fucking excuse at this point! People are donating to this site, and you refuse to even work on it. If there is a personal life issue that is happening, at least let people know because at this point all I see is complete laziness and lack of interest. So, we have Tay who is busy, and Nayleen who has apparently given up on Fuwanovel and left the site. Emi and other members like Kendjin and Rooke have left because nothing is happening, and a lot of those guys were the driving force for changes occurring on the site. Eclipsed and a lot of other active board moderators have started going into their own social cliques and don't give a flying fuck about the site at this point and its changes, dividing Fuwanovel with the confession's thread, the Love Live thread, and chat. Kaguya himself, someone who always complained about helping in the leadership department, has now resorted to posting in his PMs and giving a flying fuck about moderation. In other words, this place has no community anymore. There is no sense of togetherness anymore on the forums, and it's both sad and pathetic. You want to use college life as an excuse? Bullshit. People were attending school last year and nothing like this was happening. Most of you are freshman, and after going to college for 5 years myself with a double major mind you, your 1st year is pathetically easy regardless of your major. You have time to use this site for 1 hour a day at most and still socialize with others around campus. Am I the only person who actually cares about this community being together anymore? I have my TeamSpeak and group of friends, but even I try to desperately unite old and new members with a variety of activities and events. I am desperately trying to find something that will unite the community again, yet it seems nobody fucking gives a shit about what this site does anymore. Do they still lurk in the shadows? Of course, the loli ban on the site proved that when my TeamSpeak filled itself with 26 members and old members returned to post in that thread, people are still here. Yet nobody gives a flying fuck about what is happening, and at this point it's making it extremely difficult to continue pushing forward. And I get it, even I find myself doing the same thing others are doing as well. I start something and instantly give up on it because I know how much of a waste of time it is, so don't worry I am to blame as well. For the love of God, we got a donation system. It's pathetic and it's sad that we still don't have a stable leader to guide the site when real life situations occur. Tay has an excuse, but nobody else really does. At least Tay admits what is going on and shows his love for this site constantly. Everyone else just says "fuck it" and abandons it without a word. That's fine, but it makes it damn near impossible to do anything anymore. Entertainment and streams aren't working. I remember when 30+ members signed up actively for games and other community activities. Now we have nothing. No logo contests, no participation, nothing. I am not mad that what I am doing isn't working, but I am furious that this site is still sitting where it is this far into 2015. It's pathetic, and I want to say that I believe Fuwanovel is a dead shell. Sadly it isn't because of the changes, but rather because of the lack of interest anyone has on this site anymore. That's fine, but let's just admit the truth at this point - Fuwanovel is going downhill, and unless something is done and people actively work toward making it better, it's finished. I apologize for this post and for being upset, but deep down all I feel is regret and sadness for seeing such a site fall to the wayside and realize nothing has happened for the past year. Update the front site. There is no fucking excuse for this anymore.

The main starting trunk of Majikoi S starts from no route and instead creates its own start point after Chris and Yukie join the group but before (or at/during?) the first game's branch point.

The number of times you get sick and almost die… let’s put it this way. If there were any truth to that adage ‘what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’, you’d be the embodiment of all things Hulk, and would be wandering around Canada-land (or wherever you live, Canada’s close enough ) hulk-smashing everything around you. And you'd be doing it with a bucket of bourbon in one hand, and an incomplete Fuwa-review in the other. And every so often you'd roar 'Sakuraaaaaa' :3

Many of you aren't yet aware that Fuwanovel has its own Twitch.tv channel, but we do! If anybody is interested in joining me in providing content for the stream, please let me know below. It would be awesome if we could have semi-regular content up for VN-lovers to enjoy! I'm still setting the Fuwanovel channel up, but for those who are interested in some immediate gratification, I am about to begin streaming Katawa Shoujo on Twitch.tv! (As in, 5 minutes following this post being published). Tay's Twitch Channel: http://www.twitch.tv/archmagetay

Yup. I also made quick games like that, and nobody joined. So fuck Fuwanovel. Thanks for helping me realize that. Don't get me wrong, I love (<3) everyone here, but fuck the site. Maybe people who left realized this far before I did.

They can't. KS is a US corporation. To even kickstart anything you actually need to have a US business/corporation in the US. Saw this problem before on another KS project when the creator wanted to see if he could do it in Canadian dollars.

If Sekai Project is truly attempting to alter the perception common rabble has of a "Visual Novel", then hiding Dempasoft as much as they can is the best approach in the long run. On the other hand, when their best selling titles are the Sakura Series that doesn't do the image any favours...

Because there are better podcasts jk One thing I would like to point out is that, while you're not the only one who does stuff on the forum, you're probably the only one who does the kind of things you do. They are at the end, luxuries. Not all forums have giveaways or forum games or community podcasts, and you happen to be the only one here, aside from that one time Rose did one, who does it. You seem to be expecting other people to start doing these activities or for them to renew their interest in your new ones. Alright, time for a bit of brutal honesty: They're not as good. Your old activities had more interaction for us, mainly the games. I don't think most people here would prefer watching you dance over playing the games you created, like the card game thing or the riddles thing. A bit more organization of the games would also be nice, I recall the other team not making a move and you not doing anything about it for like weeks until both sides got bored. Maybe brain storm new ideas and make a poll to see which one people want more? How about asking people what podcast topic they would prefer to talk about? But if you chat on the TS all day and then decide to do a fitness training stream out of the blue, don't expect staggering results. There's a lot you can do Ren. You have great potential, and while people might be lazy and guilty, you have to realize you can be just as lazy and guilty. I don't mean to hurt you, but by this point I don't think anything but brutal truth can make a difference. Peace out man.

I think you are unique in your motivation and dedication Ren. Giveaways, prizes and competitions are unique. I have never crossed a person with this state of mind and dedication. Nothing against your games or how you are in person. But this is an unique feature and I think a lot of people think so too. I was surprised and a bit skeptical when I first saw your competitions. Why would anyone giveaway stuff for free (except the effort in the game). Peoples are lazy too and many of them can't force themselves to participate. But that's how a lot of us are. Yes I agree with Maef. Most of us are plebs without any knowledge in how we should improve the site. I am probably one of them because my skill in programming isn't that good. Yes I got suggestions and ideas but I can't help improve them in any way what I think of. I could always try to help in some way. But I would still be dependent on someone else helping me. If I was really good at writing reviews I can't do anything about it except writing them and possibily post them on the forums or maybe the blog. But FuwaReviews are up and running. I don't really know who did everything behind in the shadows. But it isn't a site you just put up in an hour (well you can but it would be terrible). I studied web design in school and it is a lot trickier than you may think. I got mad respect for the guys knowing this and doing it on their spare time. But we should be able to take something from these and maybe try to pinpoint the problems and working together to fix the problems? Some of them are most likely easier to fix than others. If we can pinpoint the concerns we may at least get some answers later?

That's true, but in some ways, I think it works out in the campaign's favor. Getting some good momentum at the start is great, of course, but having the inevitable lull can also be a good thing because it makes people work harder to get the word out. I mean, obviously the best thing would be if we could just smash through all the stretch goals from the start, taking degica and age by surprise and forcing them to come up with new and exciting stretch goals to keep people interested in pledging(e.g. Bloodstained pretty much did this towards the end of its campaign), but if the goal is to hit the existing stretch goals, giving people motivation to spread the word is as important as getting the people already interested to pledge in.

I'm pretty sure there's a fair bit of life yet. You have the typical final 72 hour push, plus I've seen people on Reddit say that they're waiting to see the Vita stretch goal unlocked before they pledge in. I personally am planning on upping my pledge when we get close to the end once I've got a more concrete grasp on how much cash I'm going to have available. Actually, I would have pledged more already, but I had to spend $500 to replace my air conditioner, so I'm down from where I was expecting to be right now.

Says the stream advertising machine who sits on teamspeak all day and only shows up for that and some random games- you are not fuwanovel, Ren. Meh. I'm still moderating, you know. It's just that there's nothing to moderate currently. I am spending less time in the site, but I still check it 20+ times a day and whenever there's a report or discussion related to moderation going on I do jump on it. I do have my pm group, yeah. I post there because it has almost everyone I like + it's a free talk thingy, so I can just talk about what I'm currently hyping. Easier than making a new thread, will get more views than if I try to revive an old one. This account existed for the sake of roleplaying in the past, and while I still do it sometimes, I don't have the drive to anymore, which makes posting weird. What exactly you want from me other than moderation? I can't be at the site 24/7 to do it. I can't suddenly think of an awesome idea that'll make the site super active. All I can is make the same stuff I did in the past- bad daibanchou mods and virtual trading cards of our members. That and updating my list, which I do whenever good enough game is translated. The trading cards and the mod were pretty popular (no need to mention my list), so so tell me if you have any interest in it, anyone. Also, I've been looking for a hacker for a project of a larger scale, but I couldn't find anyone so /rip.

You clearly haven't seen this then. Fetishes featured in H-scenes with the character of Haruka by frequency https://twitter.com/Aru_Naru/status/645103526788509696 What more could you want?

That looks so so so much better.

I don't really think anything has changed. In the end this is a VN forum, and people are still creating threads and talking about VNs. The people I'm interested in are still around, and VN discussion is still happening. What more is needed? As for loligeddon, I've been moderated several times for posting SFW content. Merely referencing lolis appears to be a censorable offense. I had a private discussion about this with Tay, who said in July that he would make an announcement on the subject in August. Welp, it never happened. You've seen me become more distanced from the site, and that's the main instigating factor. At one point I considered myself a community leader of sorts here. Now I just hang out and talk to people and make no particular effort to contribute. Has loligeddon contributed to the current situation? Not sure. But well, if people lose faith in the direction of the site, they're not going to want to contribute (even if they stick around). That's only natural. As for the OP, I get the sense that there's a misconception regarding the donation system. The donation system is for paying the server bills. It's not for paying people who are currently volunteers to work on the site. The existence of a donation system does NOT obligate Nayleen--or anyone else--to do anything.

It's pretty sexy(?) http://beta.fuwanovel.net/?theme=summer-sky

I think that there are many users who are doing their best to keep fuwa as it was or even make it better, old and new users, so it's a bit unfair to all of them to say that you are the only one that tries to keep the community together or that cares about it even if what you are saying is partially true still is unfair. Regarding everything else I agree.

When I first saw the characters I thought it was a Clochette title, they're really aping that style hard. Complete with the parade of huge tits.

Oh Charlotte, why did you have to shoot yourself in the foot so hard?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8sxngSWaU Why ? Because of this post ... Sorry but Hype is an instant link/keyword in my rotten brain (still living in the 90's ?)

While it makes me cringe too, I'm pretty sure they're built to err... accommodate pretty big things such as babies.

Can't wait for people 5000 years from now to remember us as the "dank memes" generation.

Let me know how that's working out for you. I think I see a pattern here--and it's not visual novels.

I'm using the dark theme, so your petty trick doesn't work on me. Ha!

H-scene is good for me if it has CG that looks good and it's not like this: "Hey I like you <3" "I like you too<3" "Wanna fuck?" "Oh sure!"