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Hello and greetings from Germany. It's nice to be here. If my grammar is somewhat strange, don't bother - the english teached in german schools is somewhat crappy - had to learn it all from the internet. My favorite VN are Katawa Shoujo and Clannad (dem feels).

Tincle ★ Twinkle Festival! I have no clue.

You're voicing the same sentiment as Rooke. Let's be clear: this is a Kickstarter initiative for Kickstarter backers. Kickstarter backers are clearly NOT the mainstream audience. The game may be sold on Steam afterwards, but first and foremost this is a translation for the small section of the community that funds games on Kickstarter. We should reexamine our assumptions that the audiences on Steam (and elsewhere) and Kickstarter are equivalent with equivalent expectations. You and Rooke are championing a translation for the mainstream. But what if that's not what the hardcore fans supporting this on Kickstarter want? Appealing to the widest audience possible is usually--but not always--the best strategy. But sometimes it's best to focus on appealing to a specific target demographic. Remember: MiKandi Japan's goal isn't "Make visual novels popular in the West". It's to get this particular game funded. While those goals may be mostly compatible, they won't always align--and they don't need to.

I guess it's (once again) a prescriptive vs. descriptive approach issue. I'm not a fan of prescriptive institutions, since they are often basing their prescriptions off not very well-founded positions. I don't know about the english language prescriptive authorities but the Académie Française is pretty retarded sometimes. A prescriptive approach isn't going to work any tiny bit on spoken language anyway. No linguist ever cares about prescription, linguistics are all about description. Rules are not set in stone, they evolve based on numerous processes, and they're not even unique: everyone uses his own personal version of what is grouped by convention as a common language. Basically, rules come after the language, not before. Of course there are reasons to be a bit more careful about the way we write on the internet. First, written speech lacks features of oral speech that can carry meanings: tone, speed, specific speech patterns and peculiarities, behavior, etc... Not unrelated, our brain is pretty amazing at doing top-down processing in oral speech, and while pretty good it's just not as good in written speech. Writing in garbage english will also affect the image you give of yourself, and is a lack of respect for the person you're talking to. So yeah, there are good reasons to make an effort to use correct english. But for situations like this, I don't think there's any point in trying to find a prescription. Let's just see how it goes. There's very little chance that it will hinder communication, and even if it was a little bit of a hinder it would go away quickly because our brain is also fucking good at adapting to all sorts of speech environments (Remember the first time you went to 4chan and didn't understand one bit of wtf those guys were saying, only to be completely at ease with it a few days later. Okay maybe that example won't apply to everyone).

Confession: I tend to keep this confession to myself, but I am a huge macrophile and love reading stories about it. I personally prefer rampage stories with a lot of growth sequences in them, mixed with some light vore, insertion, and crush scenes as well. For the vore bits, I prefer large groups of people being swallowed whole; "chewing" and graphic descriptions are not my cup of tea.

Im really really glad that I can be at service! :3 Oh god, euphoria and maggot baits in 1 month, im gonna have to nurse my mental health after this

Ah, sorry, that came out much harsher than I intended. It's just that the strange translation philosophy set off an alarm bell in my mind, and I thought it wouldn't hurt Mikandi to check if the guys they hired really know what they're doing while it's still not too late. All I want is for visual novels to grow and be recognized by general public, and including weeaboo lexicon that is alien to everyone except the already established audience in official translations doesn't bode too well for that. I've already seen some mainstream people mocking Steins;Gate for including all those redundant japanisms, and therefore not sounding like a professional translation (and it didn't have anything even close to desu afaik). In any case, I have yet to see "desu" transliterated in any of the professionally translated novels and video games that I've gone through, and I don't see why visual novels should be an exception to the rule. Godspeed to Mikandi for trying to localize more of our niche medium, but translating it in the language that only the established fanbase would ever understand will only hold it back, regardless of how good the actual translation is.

If you don't like MOE I only have one thing to say to you... read this blog until you love it!

So this the next VN to be released by Clock Up on November 27th. OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNK7WZRVZtQ Trial version http://clockup.net/maggotbaits/download.html or http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=867581 Story http://clockup.net/maggotbaits/story.html A bit more stuff about the VN http://clockup.net/staff/date/2015/09/ Seems like it might pick up where euphoria left off in terms of "might be a nukige, but definitely worth playing for the story, anyway". Also, the OP is pretty cool.

Confession: I might get to meet up with another Fuwan later on this evening. Sorry Cyrille, you aren't the only one!

Yes, you can. Pretty much all visual novels let you save and load during the choices so you can continue from there next time. Hoshimemo actually makes the route finding process even easier for you by telling you which choice gives you what character whenever you complete their route. So for example, if you finish Asuho's route, when you replay the game again, it'll tell you which choices lead you to Asuho's route (there's a little character icon on the choice), so you can pick different choices instead.

This reminds me of Clerks the Animated Series where Dante and Randal are reading viewer mail asking them if they're afraid of women and they keep blowing it off, until a letter pops up asking if there aren't any black people in New Jersey and they hop all over that by introducing a black character on the spot.

Seriously it sucked so hard it was released 30 minutes before I started working. One more hour and I am done for today. This weekend is going to be lovely. My body is ready.

You don't know the half of it. I was sitting there smelling delicious Thanksgiving dishes cooking for 6 hours straight, and it was driving me absolutely mad. Never post hungry. I'm just glad I didn't do anything really rash like rob a liquor store or sign up for AOL or something.

Yome Sagashi ga Hakadori Sugite Yabai. : )

The VN releases today! Hyyype. Kawasumi's signature keeps reminding me everyday to check out the novel

I've only played the Normal Deception IV, and liked. It's really satisfying to set up trap combos, theory craft new ones and watching the poor soldiers suffer in goofy ways. Some bosses can be annoying since they have tendency to avoid your traps and require really specific set-ups. Sometimes this works really well, sometimes it devolves in to repeating same gimmick over and over, and whittling the boss down. The Nightmare Princess adds tons of new traps and locations to spice up the gameplay, but more importantly the new character can attack enemies by kicking them into traps. In normal Deception IV you can only run away from enemies and luring them into your traps which felt sometimes kind of passive, but the kicking fixes that a little. Overall, it's pretty fun Action Puzzle game. Using stationary traps as your sole means of offense is pretty unique and strangely addicting.

I probably got the "True End" or something equivalent. I met my high school sweetheart at 16, went through some trials, had a strict father, father eventually became more lax after we wouldn't stop seeing each other, married at 21, everyone is happy. (Okay, married life isn't all fun and games haha.) When we first met, he was actually going out with my friend, but I REALLY liked him and wrote him letters. She ended up cheating on him. I sneaked out of my house and crawled through my woods to meet up with him at the end of the driveway. (To comfort him, of course. :p) The moon was full. We didn't kiss, but we talked until five in the morning. There are many cliches in this story. XD

Doddler made a patch, it have a fix for that annoying UI bug (you certainly saw it, when interface suddenly jump on top and image flips) and some small fixes to script typos and blank lines. http://blog.mangagamer.org/2015/11/26/kara-no-shojo-2-update-patch-2/

There's a very slight connotative difference between them. They all mean "meet".　逢う is more like "fated to meet" with a feeling of mutual affection. 遭う is the opposite. It carries a connotation of an unexpected meeting wanted by neither parties. It's also used for ひどい目に遭う. There's also 遇う which carries a meeting by accident connotation (neutral or positive). 会う is neutral and all-purpose. If you don't know what to use, use this one.

English generally doesn't give a shit about the plural form of loanwords. Never has, never will. However, "cactuses" is still a perfectly valid word. "Flexible" would be the kind way to describe the English language. It barely matters what you do, really, just as long as it makes sense. Don't let the grammar nazis get you down, especially not the weeaboo grammar nazis.

Well, even if Weaboos have heard of the word 'desu', how many of them are going to actually understand what it means in this context?

No problem. Enjoy the game!

I think my heart just melted...

Where's the seasoning?

When you load up the game without the patch, moenovel's logo shows. If you see that, then the patch was not installed correctly.

Welcome to the forums! Hope you enjoy your stay! Good luck with your project! Have a moe:

Hope your enjoy yourself, we can answer all questions!

Lacks a 3rd picture with lots of tears.

There is no such thing in trial. It would not let you to use "Exit" unless you did all. You just cannot fail in Trial, no matter what you choose in Deduction or Investigation or any other That's why there is no solution.

Confession: It was delicious.

Yesterday I spent 40 quartz trying to get Okita Saber and failed miserably, then I woke up this morning with 5 quartz reward from maintenance and tried a yolo roll FTW and I didn't see sparks ar anything just a gray saber card ( I was like wtf seriously don't you tell me it's the fat saber again ...) then from nowhere okito saber appeared. I was like wtf DW what kind of troll is this... I'm fine with it though.

Welcome to the Fuwa! If anything, you should boast about reading VNs at university. Most English lit departments are all about taking "low" culture and recontextualizing it as a scholarly pursuit these days. Just tell them you're studying non-linear narrative theory, mention Derrida a few times, and Bob's your uncle. You'll be the rising star of the department.

Does Japanese properly pluralize English loanwords? If so, then I'll happily return the favor. If not, go pound sand.

Welcome to the community, feel free to ask any questions you may have.

without a doubt I can say that zalor is Liam from two best friends play Happy thanks giving

Sleeping is good, I like sleeping. Oh, and welcome!

It's actually animaymays

The correct spelling is アニメ, and it's pronounced ah-nee-mey.

Yes, but keep in mind that this might not work if the person who called you an idiot has had sex with her.

First, I should say that never before, in my seven years playing VNs, has a year been as... stale as this one has been. It is not that there haven't been good VNs coming out... it is just that no VNs I might consider worthy of a VN Hall of Fame have come out this entire year. Generally speaking, I can usually expect about three to five VNs in any given year to make it into my personal 'hall of fame'. Unfortunately, this year has literally produced none worthy of that group. Understand, when I say 'worthy', it doesn't necessarily mean that it is my 'favorite' VN. If I were to go by that standard, Silverio Vendetta would be in there, despite its rather glaring flaws. No, when I say something is worthy, it is that it is a VN that I think has lasting value at least partially independent of purely relativistic values (which tend to be the guides for my ratings in various genres). This bothers me. Last year was actually a pretty good one, with more than five VNs making a solid entry into my personal hall of fame. Only 2011 was better in the last five years, and that year was almost demonic when it came to producing first-rate VNs... I've come to expect that at least one or two VNs will be obvious candidates for my VN of the Year in any given year, and that I'll have at least ten to twelve runner-ups... but this year, I've yet to come across a solid candidate for runner-ups, much less for a struggle for the final VN of the Year. I love VNs, for all the pain they've put me through. I slog through dozens of near-kusoge every year so that I can excavate a few gems... and it is getting a bit depressing how pathetic what gems I do find look like. I do this because I honestly think that there is no better electronic medium for the telling of a good story, though books in general still do a better job in general (mostly because of the pathetic lack of first-rate writers and a willingness to back them up fully with art and system support). However, this year is just a bit too depressing for my tastes. I've had no great emotional explosions from playing a VN this year (other than a few really really good moments in Silverio Vendetta), and while there have been some technically good VNs, there hasn't been anything to approach Semiramis or Nanairo from last year in terms of blowing me away... or even anything approaching Hello, Lady for first class character dynamics and presentation. On the other hand, anime shows signs of making a comeback... which is surprising, considering how stagnant the medium has been for so long. Of course, it is likely to be just another 'peak' before another 'trough', but it is still nice to have that balancing out the lowest point in VNs I've experienced yet. I am a bit tired of playing kusoge though... October produced several good VNs... but that was at least in part because it was the most prolific month in this half of the year for non-nukige. Most of the stuff I didn't bother mentioning in the blogs was... not worth mentioning. I tried it, I wanted to be sick, I dropped it. Hopefully, the November or December releases will redeem this year at least a bit... I'd at least like to see one VN of the Year-worthy VN come out, because even I couldn't honestly name Silverio Vendetta as VN of the Year, despite my fondness for it being an obvious tribute to some of my favorite parts of Dies Irae.

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Because we all have a need for speed?

G-Senjou no Maou Hiya Jack

At last. I have been waiting since summer for this release. I don't regret anything. See you in hell.