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Contents of this Update: 1. Introduction 2. Site analytics 3. Abbreviated financial report 4. Loligeddon feedback survey 5. Commentary from Tay ----------------------------------- 1. Introduction I hope the information in this community update is both useful and interesting to those of you who want to keep a finger on Fuwa’s pulse. This report may not look like a lot, but it took a lot of time to compile (especially trying to compensate for an analytics bug which I’m incapable of fixing myself). Now that it’s done, I’m already noticing things I should have included but forgot. Just remind me of questions you have in the thread below, and I’ll try to reply to everything. - Tay ----------------------------------- 2. Site analytics A few weeks ago we started paying for a second, small server to host our analytics software. There’s a bug in the software which makes it difficult to get hard numbers for the past few weeks, but I think I found a clever work-around. Here are the numbers as best as I'm able to find: Front site: 4-5k unique visitors a day and something like 7-8k daily hits Fuwazette Blog: Weekdays: 1.7k unique visitors (average); Weekends: 2-4k unique visitors per day following VNTS posts Forums: 6-10k unique visitors a day, 11-15k hits per day Reviews Hub: 40-60 unique visitors a day; each time a FuwaReviews review goes up, it spikes to several hundred uniques per day for several days VNTL-Moon: ~60 unique visitors a day, ~100 hits ----------------------------------- 3. Abbreviated Financial report Many members have been extremely generous with their donations, and from the bottom of my heart I want to say THANK YOU. All donated site funds have been put directly towards site costs: I’ve saved up a 3 month rainy day fund (split between donations and my personal funds) We’ve had one full round of software license fees We paid $100 past site debts Put aside funds for new Reviews Hub theme $70 spent on developing an articles hub site which ended up being extremely unsecure and ex’d by Nayleen (Maef and I were SO CLOSE). $40 of the $70 came from saved-up donation funds. Free: The feeling you get flirting with Flutterz or getting clever ideas in a PM from Eclipsed Free: #Renenvy ----------------------------------- 4. Feedback Survey: Loli Policy I promised Sanah a follow-up survey about Loligeddon, and haven’t been able to follow-up until now (well, technically, a bit later in October). If you’d like to give feedback on the Loli policies, have suggestions for changing them, or have something you want to tell me, here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yp2ADO3AROV7LvQ3mS47g0sINkFn-OEaPRPf6ZHzsqE/viewform?usp=send_form Any proposed changes will be considered with our law maester when I next talk to him. There’s an option to include your forums username and be added to a follow-up roundatable discussion (space is limited) once that occurs. ----------------------------------- 5. Commentary from Tay Commentary on Analytics: It may come as a surprise to some that this quarterly update is the first time I’ve officially opened our analytics numbers to the public (Nay’s done it in the past, but always on his own impetus). This coincides with a decision to make the front site open-source and seek help from a much larger coding pool than before. These may be small steps, but they’re meaningful and I hope they’ll represent the seeds for yet more transparency in the future. So. Let’s talk about these numbers. The big-picture take-home message is that Fuwa has continued to grow in the four(ish) months since our last analytics report. I’m a big data nerd who likes to try to use big-boy statistics (and, inevitably, breaks something and needs a math genius friend’s help), so here are a few other trends: Users are spending a lot more time, on average, in the Visual Novel and Dev/Translation boards. Almost twice as much time as they were in March 2015 Walkthroughs are still a huge draw New members are, literally, about nine times more likely to go to the dev boards than they were in March 2015 (within their first week on the boards). They’re about six times more likely to regularly go there afterwards. The amount of VN-centric sites linking to Fuwanovel has increased a tremendous amount. Like, a seriously crazy amount. Several times more links to us from other VN communities than in March 2015 (I didn’t do any hard numbers for this, though, since I only thought to check it right before posting this. Apologies.) Tay’s daily hatemail has decreased by several hundred percent since March 2015 The blog’s popularity on VNTS days has increased by about 45% since July. The front site’s traffic has decreased somewhere between 20-40% since pre-torrents, but the other sites have maintained solid, steady growth Daily user registrations on all the various sites are still a horrible approximation for traffic and engagement Autoposting is the bomb Our Google+ page is a lonely, lonely place, but I met a few really nice people on there who have since become friends. So… yay. Google+ did something good. The reviews hub traffic has continued to steadily grow. It’s not a steep growth, but it’s steady. The traffic spikes for FuwaReviews official reviews are higher than ever and they last for longer than the used to, as well. Our new anti-spam-user software is doing fairly well, which is great Commentary on Site Finances: I just wanted to thank everyone who has generously donated to the site. As soon as I can get Nay’s help with an authentication library (or something like that), I’ve got a slick new donations app which will automate the donation process and make sure you get your goodies instantly. Commentary on Site Leadership: Fuwanovel is an important part of my life. I’ve learned a lot over the years from building and running this place, and many of the most important lessons I’ve learned came from making mistakes or falling short of goals and deadlines. I’d like to open up a bit and share a bit of vulnerability on two such shortcomings. I’d like to publicly apologize for my inconsistent presence in the community. I have not been able to give the site everything it’s needed, and I want everyone to know that I recognize it. Beyond being busy in general, I’ve had a truly bizarre amount of freak accidents or tropical storms or RL craziness mess up my genuinely well-meaning plans time and time again. I’m not trying to make excuses, I’m more or less just trying to express that I’m likely as frustrated as you with the lack of progress in certain site projects. I have plans burning in my brain for where we need to go and what we need to do in order to get there, and at times I, too, get a little burned out and discouraged when I see the discrepancy between where we are and where we need to be. Secondly, I’d like to apologize to the dozens of friends who have spent hundreds of hours participating and working on the site who don't feel adequately appreciated. In the real world I make a real effort to reach out to and thank the people I work with for their good work. It’s an important part of being a leader, and it’s an important part of being a friend. I am disappointed when I review my track record for tracking and recognizing all the work done by so many great people on this site. When I get "Fuwa time", I tend to jump in and do work on the site without taking time to check in with everybody. I want to improve in this department, and I hope you'll help me as I try to do better. As far as site leadership goes, only one other thing to discuss: adding another (/more) admin(s). This is something I feel like I’ve discussed so many times I worry that you all think I’m a broken record. I’ll be the first to agree that we need to spread the autonomy around. The way this works at the moment is that all the different parts of Fuwanovel have a dedicated leader who has the autonomy to run their project within a pre-agreed upon framework that she/he and I set at the beginning of the quarter (or year, depending on the project). It’s not a perfect system – in many ways because this is a hobby site, not a paying job, and I’m fairly adamant that people keep Fuwa in a healthy balance and not burn out – but it’s also not too bad. Judging from recent posts as well as more than a few a hellaton PMs and emails, many people disagree with me on two fronts: the forums and the front site. I’ll tackle each of those below. Commentary on the Forums: I’m quite happy with the trends I’m seeing in the analytics. I like to think that the improved engagement of new members with the VN and Dev boards heralds the wider change of userbase from torrent-seekers to VN-community-seekers. Even if that’s not true, VN engagement is higher than it was earlier this year, and traffic is still robust. I’m still embarrassed and frustrated about the forums’ sidebar formatting. I spent an hour last week trying to figure out what I needed to do to fix it, but I can’t find my old notes anywhere. I’ve reached out to Nay about this and other things, of course, and I really hope I can get this fixed for you soon. Earlier this quarter Sanah and I had some great discussions about the limitations of the current blog app and how we might provide a better blogging platform for users. At the moment I’m still waiting to see how the upcoming IPB 4 forums’ software upgrade feels for our bloggers. Sanah eventually opted to start his own blog and use the Fuwa app to drive readers to his new location. That’s, obviously, fantastic, since my goal with the blogs app has always been to give people a platform and help drive VN fans to them. So, what I’m getting at here is that if the IPB 4 upgrade is poorly received, I’m up to the challenge of finding a way to host a blogging platform if need be. Hopefully it won’t come to that, but the blog authors need to know, at the very least, that we’ll do our best to take care of them. Not going to write any more about Loligeddon. Go take the survey if you want to share your views and/or propose policy changes. I will personally review all the entries. Quite a few people have asked me to add a forums admin who would be in charge of both moderation and engagement. I’m skeptical of the idea due to past experience, but it’s brought up enough that I’m willing to open the door to feedback. Would you like me to make a survey about the forums experience and include a field for you to write desired forums organizational/leadership changes? Commentary on the Front Site: Here’s the situation: we’ve committed to the open-source plan, but I’m not technical enough to make sure that’s set up or manage the various software forks that will result. Nayleen, our webmaster, has been traveling and working and dealing with craziness and thus hasn’t been around lately, but as far as I’m aware he’s sticking with us. Which is a good thing: the man’s a genius. Back in August Nay and I realized that the plans we had for the front site were too ambitious to try and bite off all at once, so we decided to scale-back the initial launch plans and simply try and get a basic redesign up and running (using a lot of the old code under the hood) which would then be improved bit-by-bit over the next few months. This was poorly communicated to the design team, and Emi and Beato deserve an apology. Furthermore, that scaled-back version is still not up and running. Which is frustrating. It isn’t something I or a novice coder can address, however, since the front site is written with multiple coding languages. The critical bottlenecks are currently: open development onto git (or wherever) (which Nay has already done to some extent), finalize the database structure so the other coders can know how it’s structured, roll out the design update with or without an underlying total code revamp, tackle each module one at a time thereafter. (Maef and I have been working on the articles and team builder concepts, and I think they’re going to be pretty great.) After the bottlenecks are addressed and the rest of the design timeline is sorted out, Nay, maef and I will be posting some more information on the rest of the evil plans. Conclusion Thank you for reading this post and for being a part of this community. I’m dedicated to keeping the site alive and improving it (even if by uneven pacing), and having friends and fellow fans like you makes the effort worth it. Tay

Invisible Apartment 2 invisibleapartment.com I'm glad to announce that the production of Invisible Apartment 2 was a success! The sequel to the original cyberpunk visual novel Invisible Apartment. After more than a year the sequel is now available on Steam and Itch.io. After a successful Kickstarter campaign www.kickstarter.com/projects/921792122/invisible-apartment-2-visual-novel/description and Months of production the visual novel is now in the wild. Set in a future in a mega city where surveillance and hacking are part of every day life, it revolves around human relations, their dreams and their fight for living a free life. Invisible Apartment 2 is our first longer format visual novel. Part one, which is already available on Steam for some time now was a free introduction to the whole series. This part takes place months after the events of the previous part with a bunch of new characters and a ton of new locations. You can find more info & download links to all parts of the series at invisibleapartment.com The backer rewards have been packaged and sent: We now plan the production of Invisible Apartment 3. A crowdfunding campaign will launch soon. Stay tuned Vysoko Anime Production

My feelings on this are very complicated.

Joining Fuwa.

Or maybe it was another Sakura game; there's so many of them and they're pretty easy to confuse

http://www.kizumonogatari-movie.com/ IT'S HAPPENING. AWOJDNBNCDJHSBCFHSDJBVCDHSJVNHVXDJHBXDJVBXDNMBVXNM!!!

Hey everyone. I'm glad to announce that we're reviving the Mentorship Program after reworking it a bit. The thread will be divided into two main parts, one talking about the overall changes and one talking about the recruitment process. Feel free to share your thoughts once you're done reading this wall of text. Rework Introduction to the Mentorship Program: New VN players will be able to easily request a player mentor who has some experience playing VNs and is willing to be a friend and contact as they begin this great adventure. The mentor will email/PM an introduction to the new player, talk about the VN player's first game (and, ideally, nerd out with them), suggest follow-up games based on the new player's preferences, and be willing to answer quick questions such as "How do I make my computer Japanese?" or "What is a senpai-sama?". What was changed with the rework: How is this different from the original experiment? Well, we tweaked a few stuff here and there. I don't know exactly how many Mentors we had, but I believe starting with too many was a mistake, so we're going to start low and add more with time if needed. For starters, me and Tay thought about going with 5. I'm now the Mentorship Coordinator, meaning I'll be responsible for gathering feedback, redirecting the mentees to their mentors and all that. I'm basically going to be the one doing what Tay would have had to do, giving him some more space to focus on other aspects of the website that need a bit more of his attention. This also ensures a more efficient communication route for everyone, as we all know Tay is a really busy man. You could say that I'm a quality of life bridge. We don't have anything set yet, but I'd like to post an update regarding the project status every now and then, maybe monthly. This would contain feedback from all the involved parties. What the mentors think about how we're doing, what the mentees think about the usefulness of the project, my very own thoughts about the efficiency and progress we achieved compared to the previous update. I highly value communication, not only between the involved, but with the community as well, it's a way to show that we are, in fact, doing what we volunteered to do, and that we're a reliable way to introduce someone to the genre. Recruitment Now that I explained what was changed, let's go for the fun part, the recruitment. Requirements: Played at least 4 of the Starter VNs listed below, and find it enjoyable to talk about them. Capacity to open-mindedly nerd out about visual novels. You need to be nice. Have some Fuwa exposure: Been a member of Fuwanovel for at least six months and have at least 100 posts. Starter VNs: Katawa Shoujo Planetarian Narcissu Fate/Stay Night Clannad G-Senjou Steins;Gate Eden* Higurashi Saya no Uta Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo What you'll do as a mentor: You'll get an email/PM with a new mentee's contact information. With that in hands, you'll send that person a PM/email (based on their preferences) introducing yourself, telling a little about your history with VNs, and whatever else you feel fit for a first message. After that, essentially, just be nice and be a friend. Answer their questions, talk about the game they're playing, nerd out with them (Sakura = best girl), offer game suggestions, show them around Fuwa, help them find the next game to try, etc. Make friends! What changed from before? I added a few VNs to the Starter list, and with that, I felt that increasing the minimum amount of read VNs from the list was needed. While some might find some of the additions questionable, I believe lots of people are being introduced to the genre through steam, which makes games available there a bit more valuable. The same goes for short and popular ones such as SnU and for ones with great anime adaptations such as Steins;Gate. I'll probably add more eventually, but that should be a good list for now. I removed the part that said "Not a big time commitment", as that's something entirely up to how your interaction goes and to how many mentees you choose to take. Just keep in mind that as we're trying to have just a few mentors for now, we might have to set a minimum of newcomers each will have to take care of, just not sure how many. I didn't mentioned the Handbook because I'm still to work on it, some small changes will be made and some will be updated, don't worry, you'll have it once it's ready. Final words I find the Mentorship Program to be a really great thing we have here, and simply letting it die would be a shame, that's why I decided to talk with Tay and revive it. Interested in being a Mentor? Send me a PM with the following form filled and we'll talk more there. This thread is an announcement and the changes should be discussed here, please don't post your form here nor PM me with your thoughts about the rework, unless you, for whatever reason, really don't want to make them public.

I can't take this as anything but the evilest reply I've seen in a while.

Lol, dat source code tho "No, you can't see it today."

Steam Reviews is like the Youtube comments section of the gaming world. Except, well, the Youtube comments section itself. The common denominator is too low, leading to a lot of idiots or tepid jokes appearing in the section.

glad your to see you back tay, i you thought were strapped to a tree in a sinking isle, on a different matter ill will get back to sending hate mails and boxes of skin and teeth.

I've not travelled much either but would really love to. That being said, the United Kingdom is a great place to be. I mean sure, we have some crappy places and some which are too stuck up for their own good, but when you can get from a place like London, a sprawling, non-stop metropolis to the South Downs (which features some of the most beautiful scenery ever... Arundel Castle <3) in one hour, it's fantastic. If you wanna know more about the UK then just ask, and I'll answer it the best I can As far as where I'd like to travel, and where I'm planning to go... So many places. However, I particularly want to visit Jyväskylä in Finland and then look around the Saimaa lake system (forests and lakes are my thing, so both is pretty much heaven). I also wish to go to Japan which probably doesn't come as much of a shock, though I'm far more interested in going to Hokkaido and Shikoku.

First, the ero option isn't going to work here. At the very least, making eroge-VNs mainstream as part of the OELVN culture isn't going to work. 2D culture in general just isn't as well established here as it is over there and our artists just don't have the skill yet, for the most part. Second, we have to work with what we have and the Japanese don't. Where the Japanese have moe-art and the tendency to go for emotional surrealism and exaggerated emotions at every turn; we have the ability to write a more serious, less emo-dependent story. Not only that, we don't have their taboos against violence, and so our writers are less limited than theirs are in that sense. Third, to make OELVNs more successful, we have to draw in a non-otaku crowd. To be blunt, I think the best aim would be to go for the bibliophiles who read comics as well. This is a surprisingly large crowd, and if you wrote something literate enough to satisfy them with a solid visual and audio style, then you would have a much larger potential fanbase than OELVNs can hope for at present. Fourth... to be blunt, you'll have to distance yourselves from standard eroge-VNs in style. At present, too many OELVNs are imitations of the Japanese style, which lays on the sexuality like a fat guy pouring maple syrup over his pancakes.

Details, man. Details I beg to differ. Majikoi was the introductory game for many. It got a lot of people interested in VNs

lol

This list won't feature the VNs in order of "how good they are". Rating them would be way too much of a clusterfuck to me. The VNs are not in their respective order. Meaning number 1 is not the best, and so on. 1_CHAOS; HEAD 2_Cross Channel 3_G-Senjou no Maou 4_Fate/Stay Night 5_Forest This Visual Novel is the easiest visual novel translated to get a bad ending without using a walkthrough- which just adds to the fun of it. It makes a massive amount of references to common literature, which makes it even better. 6_Katahane It may seem like an ordinary moege- the atmosphere is light, the story is full of cuteness, which you can note by the character design and soundtrack. It gets really good in the middle, and you'll be dying to know what happens in the end. A game with multiple perspectives, it's definitely one of the most enjoyable Visual Novels I've ever read. 7 Majikoi 8_Little Busters! 9_Tsukihime "You shouldn't tell lies that you can't even fool yourself with" 10_Swan Song A post apocalyptic Visual Novel. 11_Symphonic Rain It may seem like your ordinary moege. Trust me, it's not. 12_Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo (and sequel) 13_Sekien no Inganock Steampunk. An atmosphere full of mysteries and references that will make your head blow up. 14_Steins; Gate A visual novel that deals extensively with time travel and it's consequences. 15_Utawarerumono 16_Fault: Milestone (1 & 2) 17_Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni 18_Kara no Shoujo 19_Umineko no Naku Koro ni 20_Planetarian 21_Ever 17 Another top 10. 22_Remember11 It lacks in the ending, but otherwise the story of this VN has enough to easily become one of my all-time favorites. 23_Zanmataisei Demonbane 24_Rewrite "Could it possibly be rewritten, this fate of hers?" Another one that enters the top 10. 25_Narcissu 26_Grisaia no Kajitsu 27_Saya no Uta Only if you enjoy dark and messed up settings. 28_Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni 29_Eien no Aselia 30_Rose Guns Days (1 & 2) There are small sections of gameplay on this one, but you can skip them by pressing the space bar, so this still qualifies. 31_Sengoku Rance I feel obliged to comment on this VN before suggesting it to anyone. It's an Alicesoft title, which speaks a lot for itself... If you don't know how it's going to be like, well.. Kind of tough to describe. Lots of sex, including comedy rape. Alicesoft tends to make the whole story a comedy until right near the end, where things actually do get serious. It's worth checking out, if you don't mind Rance's personality. 32_Phenomeno Want a short VN that can captivate you for their whole duration? Here is it. Visual novel adapted from the youth horror novel written by Hajime Ninomae and illustrated by yoshitoshi ABe. 33_Ef- A Fairy Tale of the Two 34_Dysfunctional Systems Another one great for those who want short Visual Novels. 35_Daibanchou Another Alicesoft title. While Rouga is not near Rance's level when it comes to pissing off people, alicesoft's style is something which often doesn't please people. 36_Yume Miru Kusuri The endings pack quite a punch. 37_Kikokugai- The Cyber Slayer 38_Eden 39_Hoshizora no Memoria 40_Katawa Shoujo Yep, it's somewhat overrated. Still, the fact that it is substantially easier for those who are starting to play visual novels to read should not be discarded, and overall, the story was good. 41_World End Economica 42_YU-NO 43_Shikkoku no Sharnoth Yep, there is a minigame on this one. If you download a save data you can skip the minigame, though. So it still qualifies. Another VN that enters my top 10. 44_Muv Luv Alternative The first Muv Luv didn't have enough to enter this list. You should still read it, though~ MLA is definitely awesome. 45_Dangan Ronpa 46_Comyu - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku 47_Hanachirasu 48_Ayakashibito 49_I/O 50_Deardrops

Ever 17 Ever17 is the tale of seven individuals who come to be trapped 153 feet within the underwater marine theme park, LeMU. During an apparently normal day at the park, a massive accident happens, placing almost half of the facility underwater. The path to the surface and the communication lines are cut off. In addition, LeMU is under constant assault by severe water pressure, limiting time to find a means of escape to 119 hours. Escape is not the only concern, however; many questions arise as to the legitimacy of the accident and whether or not those trapped there were brought there for a purpose. Walkthrough Info If you want to avoid using this walkthrough as much as possible then my advice is to focus on one girl and try to be as nice as possible to her all along while ignoring the other. This is usually not very hard with conversations, but when you gets to choose where to go around in LeMU on a few occasions it can be hard as you dont know where each person is. So use Quick save and quick load before each choice and just reload the last save if you don't go to the area where your chosen person for romance is. The same way is applied to avoid the second possible romance which you should avoid meeting then. ***Game Routes*** Here is some general information about how the routes are laid out and why certain choices were made. Tsugumi Happy Ending Sora Happy Ending You Good Ending Sara Good Ending Coco True Ending Other Route Endings Takeshi's Endings The Kid's Endings True Ending This Walkthrough is based on this written by Denethor0 with small improvements made by me. Thanks and props go to Denethor0!! I hope you guys enjoy this wonderful game.

Laziness, and a reluctance to think for themselves.

I'd say 0/10 for clickbait but I seem to have some sort of mental disorder which makes me find most of your posts humorous.

The patriarchy must have done this.

Just got some AliceSoft stuff in and thought I could share it here. I needed stuff to tide me over until the next Rance game/OVA drops. C82 AliceSoft set:

It sounds like they're just glorifying the standard h-scene replacements/minor rewrites that go into most all-ages releases so Steam users don't feel like they're missing out.

might be left to mention that it seems both versions (uncut + all ages) are going to differ not only in terms of them consisting of ero content or not, as from their last post i got the vibe xero is somehow rewriting the all ages version (including xtra content?), so that it wont be inferior when compared to the original one. definitely a nice moove from both, mikandi & xero who are closely working together on bringing us fine stuff in the west, without leaving their (future) customers in the dark. thumbs up & glad i supported them for a good while now

B-BUT THAT'S VICTIM BLAMING.

Well I am happy to see they are at least responding to the potential customers and give us information. They seem eager at least.

But our opinion doesn't matter, we're all white privileged cis gendered male scum after all, we can't have a saying in this. Guess we'll have to go back to being basement dwellers who oppress women (and people of color, transgender people, disabled people, furries, otherkin, helicoptersexuals, basically anyone non white and male) everyday by emanating patriarchy rays or something. I'm more saddened by the fact these two clowns (oh crap, I just violently harassed these people, am I banned now?) claim to represent women in some fashion, I would never want to be in a position where my representative is either of them, and I know a lot of other women feel the same way, but of course those women don't count, cause they have internalized misogyny or something and so they're not capable of reasonable individual thought. I'll just leave this gem here:

I've been to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Canada. I really liked Canada, I would like to go there again and see some more of it. I would also like to go to 'Murica and drive around for a bit or a lot. Australia and New Zealand would be really nice to visit and I guess seeing some of Asia wouldn't hurt. Going back to Germany to look at some more car related stuff and maybe visit Nürburgring would be nice. France has always been a place I want to visit too, and if I had the chance I wouldn't say no to going to UK or Ireland. But Canada and USA are probably on the top of the list.

Up to date I haven't really visited a lot of countries. Denmark, Egypt, Turkey, Greece (Crete) and England. The biggest experience was probably Egypt when I saw the pyramids and bathed in the Red Sea. London is always an experience when you live in a decently large city compared to my country's standard (roughly 110k population) compared to London with a couple of millions. But what do I want to visit: China - I am really interested in the Chinese history and it would be awesome to experience it. USA - Route 66. I love driving. Driving that road and at the same time experience USA in a different view would be nice. Bigger cities/capitols in Europe. I really think the eastern part of Europe is interesting and probably really beautiful with the unique style. Austria/Switzerland - Skiing in the Alps. Russia - Just to see the country with my own eyes. I am fascinated by the Russian history too. Japan - Yet again the history is fascinating. The list probably goes on when I figure out new stuff. Yes I have a history fetish.

That's amazing considering it came out less than 3 weeks ago (Sept 11th, a fitting day indeed).

I'll give him two weeks.

Confession: I am terribly sad and relieved when I woke up this morning and opened skype and found the title is that ren left fuwa then I went to check the remove member's lounge thingy and found that it was removed and that Ren left this goodbye message on his profile. I don't know how much rant happened cause I was kinda busy. I am kinda sad because I was someone who enjoyed his existence... and I am kinda relieved because we all know he needs to get away from the site and go back to his irl friends and family and spend some time with them. Hopefully he comes back better than before. Oh well rip.

when someone thought it was a good idea to make a super long cheat code.

Glad to see we have so many people We might need an additional DM to accommodate everyone, but it's good that so many people are interested. We also need to get through schedule-type stuff...

Good... ? Yeah, it's good. They also want to raise the funds to do what would presumably be a proper english translation. I don't know how they plan on doing it, I'll have reservations if they don't plan on working with any of the established players in the game because even if your intent is to hire native speakers to do the translation, there's a lot in this business that can go wrong if you have no experience and managing a team of foreigners as a small company will probably lead to issues. Or hey, maybe this will work out and will lead into an era of Japanese companies being more proactive. edit: Seems like they're using some international consulting firm who might be suited for international business management so maybe they know what they're doing:; https://mikandi.jp/ MiKandi Japan seems to be owned by an indiivdual named Aaron Jenkins and it their sort of reminds me of the JAST approach. MiKandi might be trying to become another player in the eroge localization market. So no, my initial impression of this being handled by onomatope seems be have been off-base.

I'd like to take a step back and appreciate the fact that modern stereotypes have evolved to such a point that one can say, generally without rebuke, "Go read a book, [bundle of sticks]."

Wait, they still make books in 2015?

This topic has already disappeared from the sidebar. That's kind of a problem. Here's my response to the survey. Restrict: Sexually explicit loli images from being displayed on Fuwanovel Direct links to a single sexually explicit image of a loli or a gallery of such images (if the primary purpose of the page is to display such images, it can't be direct linked to) Discussions promoting real-life pedophilia Graphic and sexually explicit descriptions involving lolis Permit: Discussions / fan translation projects of games that include or focus on loli content Links to webpages about a game that include sexually explicit loli content (e.g., VNDB, DLsite store pages, official game sites) Any loli content that isn't sexually explicit Direct links to sexually explicit textual descriptions involving lolis (e.g., fan translations, stories) The current guidelines are inconsistent and unenforceable. Lolis are common in VNs, VNDB is a widely-used database of VNs, and VNDB features sexually explicit images (including of lolis). If you want to actually enforce the current measures, you'd have to forbid linking to a good quarter of VNDB, which is utterly ridiculous. If you're going to forbid discussions of a sexual nature, forbid ALL such discussions, not just ones involving lolis. Honestly I don't think this is even a problem currently, as I don't see discussions I would consider to be "of a sexual nature" at all on Fuwanovel, or any other forums I frequent.

I can only speak for myself, but I'll be straight with you. Most of what you do doesn't interest me. Occasionally you do a podcast on a topic that does interest me, and I volunteer--only to realize that hardly anyone actually watches because, well, people wouldn't be hanging out on forums in the first place if they preferred to get their news and discussion through the audio medium. I'm not quite sure why you expect everyone to flock to your activities. Maybe, just maybe, a lot of people just want to post occasionally on topics that interest them and don't have any particular interest in these community building activities you're offering? I can sympathize with the burnout and lack of appreciation you're feeling, but maybe it's not the community that needs to change. Maybe it's you. And maybe it's me. It's a lot easier to change your own behavior than to change the behavior of tens, hundreds, or thousands of others. If you feel your passion ebbing, maybe it's time to move on. Whether you keep doing what you're doing or not, the community will remain mostly the same. You're one small cog in a machine. Your actions have little effect on others. But your actions have great effect on yourself. Maybe it's time to put your effort where it counts the most: towards yourself.

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.

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/

Dont pretend that you never dreamed of this at least once.

Fucking hate tsundere detectives, they never get shit done.

But seriously though, I really do think I'd make a good teacher. Your story just makes me more certain of this, how hard could it be For those that don't know, I may or may not have ranted about MangaGamer's writing ability. Apparently I sounded like a "crazy person" .....