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Grand news, denizens of wherever. The much respected Tokyo Babel, a novel released by renowned developers, ‘Propeller’, localised by esteemed translators, Conjueror and Gare, and to be distributed by beloved MG, can now be trialled by you, the adoring[1] public, through a free demo. Gaze in astonishment, play the trial, and pre-order (it doesn’t have to be in that order.) http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/03/18/tokyo-babel-demo-now-available-for-download/ [1]‘Adoring’ as in ‘you’d all better be adoring cause I know voodoo and will poke every single last one of you if you aren’t’ ahahahaha ... EDIT: Was this post pushy? I don’t think it’s pushy, but some folk are saying ‘it’s too much’. 'Too much' what? Words? Enthusiasm? I dunno. They weren’t exactly very clear, so it’s not my fault if I don’t understand what they’re saying. EDIT2: And now they're groaning in what I imagine is supposed to be frustration, but what in reality sounds like a Wookie in heat. That's even more incomprehensible, and doesn't exactly clarify matters. EDIT3: Ouch!

I figured there's no reason why the toolbar wouldn't get its previous buttons back after the forums last broke down, so I added the spoiler button back on because nobody remembers how to use BB codes anymore. Enjoy. No, I'm not re-arraging the toolbar and make it the way it was before, just in case this actually does somehow break everything and then it all goes to shit anyway.

Hi! This is for people who like making video games and visual novels. Have you heard about Game Development World Championship? It’s a contest aimed at students, indie developers and new game start-ups who want global attention to their games. The contest has started already and will be running until the 30th of september. You can basically submit any kind of game you want (of course you should check the rules first). Even visual novels can be submitted to the competition (and it would be really cool if someone would submit a visual novel). The only major rule about submitting a game is that it has not been published elsewhere before 2016, meaning that if you have a game "in the works", it'd be able to be submitted. Or if you've always thought about making a game but just haven't gotten around to it, this could be a great chance to start! Competition categories are entertainment games and serious games, with 3 finalists from each category winning a trip to Finland, Sweden and Slush 2016 (which is the biggest start-up event in Europe). Everyone who applies to the contest will also get a free e-book bundle (this is not public info yet but I was allowed to talk about it). The books are mostly about 3D modeling and Unity development. The organizer is the Finnish company called Viope Solutions Oy. They have previously organized the contest in 2012 and 2013. So if you are interested, please take a look (and hopefully sign up!) at www.thegdwc.com, ask about it here or shoot an email at [email protected].

I prefer when the father of the heroine and the protagonist are one and the same.

Once upon a time, there was a KosakiFag He was a great Kosaki, and a great Fag He was the number two spammer But would easily avoid the ban hammer He was. He was. HE WAS Then he took an arrow to knee He became busy, and abandoned me Though he would visit occasionally To expect any more would be silly He is gone, so I have to move on I reach for the sky As my post count grows high A year and a half pass by As I finally surpass my senpai As I finally became... the Number Two Spammer. Hi Hi ~~ In Memory of @KosakiFag, the greatest spammer of us all. P.S. Come back and kick my ass soon plx -Your Kouhai, Clipsy-chan #GOML #LOL,THIRDTHEWORSTSPAMMER

You can download the teaser Demo here. https://theblacksands.itch.io/black-sands-legends-of-the-rift Please leave feedback. There may still be room for improvement Eventually we will have a major Demo coming which will launch before our Kickstarter. It will feature some of the gameplay mechanics and will be 45 minutes long roughly. Fully voiced of course. The Demo is crashing for lower spec comps so we will be optimizing it tonight. Be sure to leave your specs if it crashes on you.

This appeared on the sidebar and I thought it was a serious topic, because there seems to be much complaining about chatmoderation in general. So I clicked on it, got taken here, and I agree with the majority - that banning Kurisu seems like the decent and humane thing to do! Fucking clickbait >:c

Can I place a bet on which one is definitely not going to happen? One of these things is not like the others.

Confession: I will have part-time job at police station.

The plot thickens. Flutterz confirmed for Ren shill. (Do use this thread instead of cluttering the old one plz)

Accurate depiction of a webserver getting DOSed: It's trying so hard :'(

I thought that's what littleshogun's post was but sometimes it's impossible to decipher his engrish. He also said he edited his post to remove "offensive" material, so... None of this has any relevance anyways. Here's the deal: Is ren making this up? Did he really lose the scripts? It doesn't matter. Nothing about the current situation changes at all. Do the mods play favorites? Yeah, a little, but there's nothing to even apply favoritism to here so I don't even know why this is being brought up. Actually, I don't know why you're so mad at literally everyone here. Why are the mods suddenly a target?

I can get my chuuni fix at last without rekking myself with japanese, yay. Cant wait!

Look forward to the game Fuwans. I'll be replaying Tokyo Babel over the next few days and will be putting my comments up on my blog about it.

I have to join Nosebleed on the fact that a lot of yuri is produced by females, and for females. In fact, yuri produced by men for men is, as far as I know, a fairly recent thing. While yuri 4koma like Sakura Trick and """yuri subtext""" series are def yuri by men for men, historically yuri is a women thing. Yuri started out in shoujo magazines and were written by women (and still exist there, think about stuff like Aoi Hana). In the 70s and 80s it was part of the exploration of forbidden romantic relationships (along with BL, incest etc) by mostly female mangaka, which was part of a larger movement of feminism and sexual emancipation in Japan. It is one of the most interesting periods in the history of manga, and a lot of renowned mangaka were part of that culture. Manga at that period in time was a place allowing for expression for those women mangaka. Yuri is not a very huge sub-category of the culture of that historical period but that's pretty much its origin still. Later in the 90s, it was a josei magazine, Misuto, that started publishing pornographic yuri (contrary to BL, yuri in the 70s/80s wasn't very explicit). And one of the (many) reasons why Utena is one of the best anime that has ever been made is that it directly draws influences from all that 70s/80s shoujo manga culture and interrogates it, its social role, etc. The reason why yuri manga emerged that way is that if you go back further in history, you find its foundation in S-kei literature. And that answers @Fred the Barber's interrogations about MariMite: MariMite is a pure homage to S-kei literature and depicts what kind of novels those were. Much the same way, S-kei literature was done by women for women, and had ties with feminist and sexual emancipation movements: the most famous S-kei author, Nobuko Yoshiya, was a lesbian and a feminist. I don't know where yurirei belongs in all of this, because 'modern' (post-2000 I guess) manga tends to blur influences and historical considerations while dividing audiences into niches of niches of niches that make things much more complicated to understand - in a typical post-modern fashion, if I am to believe what little I know of post-modernism.

Uh oh... Hoshizora no Memoria?

I know they use real places in VNs, especially those set in Japan. But some of them are quite far away. As I was playing ef. The First Tale. I suddenly recognized the place they were in, because I've been there countless times myself. The anime has a lot of German in it. Makes sense as this background is the main square in Rothenburg, Germany! Does anyone else have any remarkable places to note that they've noticed?

Hello guys, this is XXX_NotOriginalRen_XXX and i want to deliver a big message. I wanna say that the chatmoderation, and i'm talking about that lil fucker called Kurisu-chan, is the most severe case of a non-MLG moderator, he don't know how to quickscope or how to do a 360, how such useless crap can be moderator of such an amazing box called fuwachat? should we torture Kurisu-chan in order to know where's that fucker called Okabe Rintarou and find out about the trap gal called Urushibara Ruka? This thread makes no sense, just like everyone here, OPEN THE EYES!! you're all deceived!!!!!

I'm sorry, I just read best visual novel oats? I guess I am just tired I like Rewrite OST and Subarashiki Hibi is my current fav. Umineko is very complex and SUPER HOT D: Just listen to this!

This thread gave me cancer, and I put "ban Kurisu-Chan" in my will.

I'd recommend adblocking the emote if it's too hard on your eyes, it's the easiest fix.

This is quite possibly the least convincing evidence for an argument that I've ever seen. Kudos!

Oh my. 70 buckets.... Well gratz!

Sheesh i just finished 5-3 and 5-4. 5-4 was easy as hell...but 5-3 was a freakin nightmare. I spent almost 70 buckets. I`m not sure i`m gonna do 5-5 lol

These mods sound like pretty big douchebags.

We've done it friends, lives!

Well, some nice ones are Naoe Family/Clan, Play Hardball, Battle Dedicated to a Loved One, March of the Beast, Bushido and To Be your Hero from Majikoi and Majikoi S. I myself like The Road of Hope, With You from Ourai no Gahkthun Then Dorchadas, the OP of Sharnoth Worldend_dominator from Umineko And finally from the anime side, the ED of Black Bullet, Tokohana

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Sorry, @Rooke, I refuse to submit to your whims. I gazed in astonishment, and I preordered, but I will not play the trial because why bother, I already know it's going to be great.

But PMs still have "top to back" button. It's only natural to have it here too Home button on my keyboard is also too far away.

Screenshotted for proof No more escape

Today I woke up at 2:30 AM thinking it was already 7 AM. Looked at my alarm clock: "2:30 AM, oh it must be broken." Look at my other clock: "2:30 AM, oh it must be broken too." Look at my phone: "2:30 AM, weird that my phone is showing the wrong time too." Some minutes later: "Why the fuck am I brushing my teeth in the middle of the night?"

I really want to watch the anime if the protag was other Kanmusu not Fubuki and a real TTK showed up not just a shadow. Ah the reason why i like Iku because she really like the TTK(Like Kongou and other kanmusu that i totally forgot her name) i really enjoyed Kanmusu that really try hard please us(TTK), not like Akitshuhima. My god she really love Taitei-chan. I bet she do naughty things with that plane. i TOTALLY understand that.

Damn. Just about when I supposed to open this thread and suddenly @Rooke stole my job lol. Either way, I think since release time almost come, might as well use this thread for future discussion of Tokyo Babel. As usual, I'll try to explain Tokyo Babel in regard of review and seiyuu info. which hopefully could raise your interest to this game. As of now, I'd tried to download this game demo, but the size was unexpected big (I expected only 200 MB, while I just saw 2.1 GB). Might as well comment it later about the demo. Well, thanks though for opening the thread, since I confused to open it or not. And not, in case you think it's too early to open discussion, I'd opened Evangile discussion 41 days before release back at VNDB.

Who knows? I didnt really like the anime anyway. I-168 was my first and favourite sub for me. Didn't even know they had same VA because of their difference. I know very few traditional characters and phrases since Korea used to use them until Hangul was invented ^^ 精神一到何事不成

Hahaha yeah me2, but i havent touch any vns both English and Japanese for about 3 months. atm i prefer to watch Animes rather than read vn and mangas. Musashi need more love...If i have the skill to make videos i`m gonna make lots of videos bout Musashi and Urakaze. BTW do you have any Kancolle collection like figures or other things?

@Arcadeotic Here is the playthrough. its not HD like the in game but atleast you get to see it firsthand.

had this exact problem, and i believe the issue was files were set to read only. but would double check on the locale too

of course it's amazing,that's Wesker from Resident Evil and Legion from Mass Effect playing Zero!

Really good teaser, I'm going to be honest, the first time I backed your project I wasn't really sure about it or if it was worth it I just wanted to support your game but I wasnt really interested in it.. now I really want to play it and back you for that xD The voice acting was really good but there were some slight desync between when the text was being displayed and when the characters started to talk, as soon as the text is displayed the character should talk or else it looks a bit awkward even if it is a second or less. The scribble sound is annoying after a while, put an option to turn it off. A way to turn down the speed or the auto text (I tried changing the settings but nothing worked is not clear if I'm turning down the volume or something else xD ) A way to move the text forward by pressing the enter key and not just the space bar or the right click button. Keep up the good work!

...them being an actual human being?

Possible just run with AppLocale/Locale Emulator.

Make sure that you have Japanese locale. Also check that you don't have the file attribute set to "read-only".

Does trap count?

Sora from Yosuga no Sora (but only in her route it would seem).

Especially in the anime... I'd also add Elis from Canvas 2, Nemu from Da Capo and Michika from Imopara and Kagome from Comyu. Rise and Chiho from Princess Evangile could also fit the bill - they are at least fighting over the protagonist. And considering that Ai from Tick Tack goes full netori at a certain point I'd also include her. In general, imouto and onee-chan characters tend to be very attached to the protagonist, although I wouldn't call all of them necessarily possessive because of that.

Confession: Since finishing college, I've literally never read anything which I thought would be "useful" for me professionally (books on programming languages or technology, business-oriented books, that sort thing). I've rarely picked up the occasional technology books, but never gotten more than a few pages in. However, because I have this presentation at SakuraCon next week, I hit up my older brother (who loves this sort of stuff) for recommendations on books about presentations (covering presentation structure, graphic design, and the actual act6 of presenting), and just finished reading both of the books he recommended to me. Apparently I'm pretty dedicated to making my presentation not suck.

One of my favorite songs now

I was bored. I did this. This was probably a terrible idea but LMFAO wHo cAREAS HAHA Xd. Yeah my mic is a potato, hope you enjoy it. (✿◠‿◠)