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I like the idea of a thread to publicly contend moderation. I feel that some unnecessary censorship goes on sometimes--often not at all related to lolis too! Honestly this entire thread so far until Rooke's last post was just a waste of time to read. Let's end the discussion of the need to ban OrignalRen. It's dumb and nothing useful regarding the matter has been said. Yes, the clickbait threads in the sidebar are annoying. They distract from real discussion and people asking for help--and just make the forum feel less useful and irritating to browse. It's getting to the point that I think action may need to be taken. I'm really anti suppression of speech, so that speaks for my level of irritation. I recommend one or more of the following solutions to this problem: Exclude new threads from the Coliseum of Chatter from the sidebar (best solution) Enforce descriptive thread titles (moderators may change thread titles without warning) to keep clickbait titles under control Consolidate Colisseum of Chatter threads and limit the creation of new threads to avoid clutter in the sidebar This is a forum and not a chatter box. If you want to chatter about inside jokes, broadcasting to the entire Fuwa community is not the way to do it. Keep it inside existing threads (in the Coliseum of Chatter) or take it to Chat Box (or off-site).

Wind back the name-calling, please. Clickbait threads have been a problem in general, lately. Multiple people are making them and some Fuwans are beginning to get ticked off. Unfortunately, it's not against the rules and not a ban-worthy offense. However a cursory glance around the forum will show that people are beginning to get tired of it, and that because nothing official can be done (it isn't against the rules,) it promotes frustration. For example: And etc.

To provide some context, Deemo is a Taiwanese rhythm game developed for the iOS and Android by Rayark Games. For the most part, I think this game has escaped the notice from most western otaku. Which honestly would make sense, since it isn't marketed towards Otaku like other rhythm games (notably Love Live and Osu). In fact, the game play is arguably not even the primary purpose of the game. Rather, the songs serve the broader purpose of telling a story together with the visuals. The word "visual novel", by its name suggests a story that emphasizes the visual aspect to express the story. Taking this loose understanding of the term (and not the conventional definition), Deemo certainly qualifies as an interesting example. In fact, Deemo mostly relies on its visuals and audio to convey its story, hardly using much text at all. This aids the experience excellently as the story is quite simple, and most of the experience is emotional. And nothing conveys emotions as well as music. The game begins in a cut scene showing falling sheet music, and a mysterious figure that resembles a walking shadow (Deemo). The next thing we see is Deemo peacefully playing a piano, when he is suddenly interrupted when a girl falls from the sky into his house. Catching her, they then ponder on the best way to return her where she came from (in the sky). It is then that they discover a little sapling growing on the ground, and they realize that when it grows into a large tree, she could climb it up. Thankfully, the tree grows through the power of music, and that is where the game play becomes relevant. The tree grows by playing music, but in order to keep it growing you need to keep discovering new music. This is where the other key game mechanic becomes important. For the most part, you unlock new songs when the tree reaches certain heights. But usually you can only get the music by finding it. So you have to search through Deemo's house to find new songs. In doing so, you discover all sort of other clues that provide hints about Deemo's true identity. As you search through Deemo's house, you are not only discovering new music to progress the game, but also learning about the weird world you are in. Deemo's house, is essentially the whole world in this universe. By exploring, you will inevitably ask yourself 3 questions. Who is Deemo, who is the masked lady, and what is this world? Visual Novels typically use choice structures as a means to direct the story. Similarly, but also quite differently, you guide the story and its progression in Deemo through exploration of the limited areas. There is not much to explore, just like how VNs usually only provide a few branching choices, which provides the same sense of confinement that VNs give. You are given some room to explore and deviate, but you are mostly restricted to a few places. The art cover for each song also adds a level of storytelling as each picture captures an image of Deemo's and the girl's relationship developing. The song itself provides the mood to interpret the picture. In other words, the song is essentially the words. Or another way of thinking about it is that each song could be broken down into musical notes and transcribed on paper as sheet music. Well that sheet music, is the script to this story. The game focuses all the comprehensive aspects of the story to imagery and exploration (with minimal use of text), allowing for character development and all things emotional to be expressed by the music as opposed to text. And while narrative can always communicate plot points more efficiently than music, music trumps narrative in terms of emotional expression. And ultimately Deemo's story is more focused on mood, than it is on plot. The game wants the player to use their imagination to string the plot together by using images and the music as the core tools to do so. In much the same way that novelists want the reader to use their imagination when visualizing descriptions. In this way, I think this music game, captures the true heart of music; emotional expression. The title of this article suggests that I think that Deemo is in some way a visual novel, and using the term loosely, that is true. As I briefly mentioned before, the term “visual novel” implies a story that is primarily expressed through visuals (this is of course ignoring the historical context to how the term was coined in the first place). And I have seldom seen any story that has relied on the visual aspect as much as Deemo. The game almost solely relies on images to express what is going on, and music to infuse emotional meaning to those images. And it is truly impressive how effective a story can be told in this limited way. To the extent where by the end of this journey, I was in tears. And when I return back to replay certain songs, or to view certain cut scenes, the feelings I initially felt are still there.

Before anyone asks, no I'm not translating this VN as a whole. For one thing, it is long and I'm lazy. For another, it actually has a small chance of coming over here, so I'm not going to do something that will spoil the whole game for them (I want this officially localized). This is a fully narrated version (narrated by the poster of the video) of the first few scenes of Hapymaher, which was my VN of the Year 2013. This VN has ridiculously good music... and a frequently heartbreaking story. 2:38-14:42 The youtube guy voices the narration and the protagonist, in a way that is pretty good... and this is a translation. There is no need for you to do anything. Just leave everything to me. Also, when it comes to your 'true desires', they are something you just think you understand. Misfortune, happiness, difficulties, weeping, pain, pleasure, and fun… I will provide them all. I know for certain what to do to make it so, after all. But even so, you will still force yourself to go on. You like to give up as well, don’t you? That’s why I’ll capture you. You like that as well, don’t you? You always need to be looked after, after all. That place was an extravagant room. In the center was a wide, heavily-built table. Upon the table, a pot with steam wafting from it and colorful candies and treats were lined up. The fluffy couch and the handwoven rug upon the floor were all intended for the guests that came here. Here, the preparations for a tea party are always complete. That room, which seemed like it had lept out of a dream or a story, looked like a bad joke to me. That was because of the coloring… black, white, red, purple, pink, blue… all the colors I could see were vivid ones. It was as if the room were decorated like a butterfly. Though it was a room that seemed as if it was from an aristocrat’s mansion, the color made it seem as if it had tossed aside all forms of dignity. It wasn’t just the inside of the room that was strange. Outside the window, vegetation grew so thickly that it was if it were a botanical garden. The only light was the flickering light of the stars and the moon. However, even that was blocked by the thick growth of the forest. Thin trees, thick trees, flowers blooming despite the fact that it was night, and the overgrowth of grass, vines, and leaves. The excess of plant growth around the room seemed to indicate that no human hand had intervened there in centuries. However, the room itself was new, in all ways. That strange place was filled with the silence of the forest and the presence of living things. Suddenly, a single shadow appeared in the room. Roses, which were not amongst the flowers blooming outside, began to bloom as if in order to conceal the shadow. The white roses, which seemed to grow in fast forward, began to give off the sweet smell of burning honey as they bloomed, as if someone had set fire to them. The roses spread slowly like spilled water, giving off the scents of tea, honey, sweets, and the deep forest. And then the shadow took on the form of a young girl and stood there as if she had been there from the beginning. The girl who stood amongst the white roses laughed quietly. “Since I’ve been called, I must treat you to my hospitality.” With a mien of mixed enjoyment and sorrow she whispered. Opening Second Scene And so, I dream once again today. When I came to, I was lying in the forest at night. “Why am I dreaming this dream again…?” There is no point in complaining. I rise and begin to walk through the forest in my dreams. I walk, I walk. In that deep forest, the light of the stars and moon filtered through the trees is all the ilumination. Even though the forest holds the sense of no presence other than “ours”, even though it is perfectly silent… Even so, I can’t seem to believe there is no one else there. A beast, a bird, a person, or perhaps even something like a ghost. I’m not sure, but I sought to leave that forest, holding her hand amidst the intense sensation that something is there. I almost trip over thick roots and stumble over buried stones. Even so, I continue to walk holding the hand of the silent presence following me. I know that this is a dream. In the end, a dream is a dream. I know. This is the past. Even if this actually occurred in the past, what I am seeing is merely a dream. So, what I am seeing here is utterly meaningless. This is a dream. I know that better than anyone. I know! However, even so. No matter how well I know it is meaningless, I can’t bring myself to let go of this hand I'm holding. “It will be all right ______. Let’s return home.” There is no answer, nor is there a sense of a nod. However, I don’t release that hand. I know what will happen after this. It is a dream I’ve seen countless times. I can leave this forest. It is a dark forest where I can’t figure out where I am, but I can return. However… “Ah… will we be able to go home?” The direction of the light changes changes. The forest goes from deep forest of the inside to the shallow forest of that which is close to the outside. The trees are thin, the young ones begin to stand out, and the light filtering through the trees increases. “We will return for sure this time… together this time for sure…!” My legs shiver from walking through the forest, and I’m not sure my voice is coming out. Even so, the sensation of the hand gripping mine was there. -I know what happens after this. ---Please stop. I can also here my own voice screaming those words. However, I also think ‘this time for sure’. .It’s just a dream! Why give up if it is only a dream?! Even if it is just in a dream…! We walk, step by step, toward the outside. If we get through this forest, we can return home. The light from the outside gets stronger. The area becomes brighter. And when I exited the forest… … the hand I was supposed to be holding was no longer there. “Why?! Why…?!” I knew it. I knew it would be this way. Only I can leave the forest. We will never be able to return together. “Why...?!” You gave up didn’t you? You know, don’t you? I should already know… know that only I returned. It took me a long time to understand and I caused a lot of trouble in the process, but shouldn’t I have figured this out by now? “That’s… even so…!” And… Even if you returned together in the dream --- it isn’t like she’ll come back, will she? After all, this is just a dream. It changes nothing. It is just self-satisfaction. Even if I know it is a dream, it can’t have any effect on reality. Yes, I know. In the end, a dream is a dream. I can’t return with her… “Then, if you could return with her?”

This is something I've seen being implemented on a few reddits and I think it's worked quite well: Mods should add "Misleading" to the start of a misleading thread. Like this: While that example shows "quality shitpost" (lol), you get the idea. I think it's a fair solution for both sides, people don't like being tricked by a misleading title, and people also dislike no one reading their threads at all.

Hello, my name is Roy Havenstone. I recently lent my voice to the main character of Wingdaria Destiny, a western indie visual novel that's currently seeking funding on kickstarter. The game is set in a medieval fantasy and focuses on the forbidden love between a princess and a blind peasant. It features all original artwork, characters and music, all from the mind of youtube JoyDreamer and her team, so I hope you'll give it a shot and maybe donate, as every little helps. All information about rewards, stretch goals, and link to the game's website and a demo of the game can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/390897415/wingdaria-destiny-adventure-romance-visual-novel Thanks again and let's make this destiny a reality!

How the fuck do you even get sued for 115 MILLION DOLLARS for a personal case like that? What the holy fuck is wrong with this legal system? Anyway... I only know Kotaku through their immensely bad anime articles but I'd rather not see them disappear, it would be way too pleasing for Gamergatards.

Fuwanovel has been obsessed with click bait titles recently. Whats more its all centered around a niche group of friends. This is getting to be almost as bad as when hsmful, HMN, and his buddies were spamming the forums. So... I vote ban Kurisu for the Shogun.

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.

So here I am, creating a series on a game I was feeling nostalgic for. It's been a while since I've gotten my arse handed to me on a silver plater. The game is OpenXcom, a faithful clone of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown minus the game breaking bugs and an interface that isn't finicky and clunky as can be. I plan to make this series interactive. so please give me names and characters and describe them to me, so I'll try to role-play them in the game, wherever possible (If you want to be a coward, I'll try to give you a soldier with the appropriate stats, for instance). Furthermore, your characters will earn promotions as time goes on. If you are the highest ranked officer in any given battle (or a squad leader - I'll get into those as it happens), you will be the one dictating the battle strategy. So, when you make your character, make sure to include your preferred strategy and any indications. For example, do you want me to be aggressive? To focus on explosives? To be cautious? To run away every time something moves? To use all the weird technology in the game even I have no idea how to use? To move in large numbers? To have everyone lone wolf it? To ruin my bloody play through (the blood's on your hands)? PLAYLIST:

The very purpose of the CoC is to contain all the shitpost, clickbait, jokes etc you guys are complaining about. If you think these things don't belong on this site, then what you want is not better moderation, it's a change of the site itself and its current rules. As far as I'm concerned, moderation deals with some of the specific rules of the site that need to be enforced (nsfw, loli policy, illegal links), and hate speech, which will be harshly treated. The rest is almost cosmetic: moving, merging, splitting to clean up threads, once in a while try to calm down spamming and derailing if it really gets too far, but I'd rather stay very liberal on those because I don't want to treat forum posters as kids (even though they often act as they are) and I don't believe "repressive" moderating is needed nor efficient in those cases.

But that's the thing, you don't see that it's in the Coliseum of Chatter until after you click it, since we're talking about the sidebar here. An alternative solution would be to mention what part of the forum it's in somewhere on the sidebar

Just finished Suzuha's ending myself:

I would rather have some enforcement of descriptive titles than remove a board from the new topics box. We've had the chatter board removed from the recent topics box once and it was kind of disastrous because everybody kept complaining the board was being used as a trash can to make people's posts not noticeable, even though posts just got moved there because they didn't fit anywhere else. It also became pretty chaotic to moderate. I think it's fair for every board to have its place in that box, the problem is when people go on streaks and make a clickbait thread title once or twice a day, which is noticeable by the whole community Yeah I think it's annoying too, but a thread a day isn't REALLY a bannable offense in my book, as much as some people don't like it. And for the record, I don't like it either, but I still believe it to be fair. So yeah, if possible, I'd rather just make a rule stating people's thread titles might be renamed at the mods discretion if it's just blatant clickbait. There's also already a rule stating inside jokes and completely pointless threads can be deleted if the mods see fit to do it. The thing is, most mods don't see a joke thread every once in a while to be literally hitler. If the recent topics box was actually being spammed by multiple threads in a single day, you'd have a case for it, but once a day or once every couple days is not really a huge offense for most of us, even if some of you personally despise it. Tl;dr I understand people value different things on the forum, but all boards should have equal rights for the sake of fairness. I do propose we start enforcing some form of thread title rules though, to avoid future blatant clickbait threads.

Twins route in To Heart 2

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

Your whole whining was a huge misstep. So now stop being a crybaby and go finish the game.

You should come back to this today. I get that you hate spoilers, but you're making incorrect assumptions based on vague information here. Don't you think it's a shame to stop reading something you were enjoying because of that? You'll continue to enjoy it, and you will not anticipate the actual plot twists, I swear.

So it's that time of the year on this thread again Confession: I switch between 2D and 3D depending on my mood

shiny days, but the moms aren't main heroines

Summoning @Clephas, the chuuni master of fuwa

As for information... a lot of the VN is involved with the protagonist's ability to see lucid dreams (dreams where you are consciously aware it is a dream), and it balloons out from there to envelop the rest of the cast in a story that blurs the difference between dreams and reality. At times it is comedic, but there is a definite atmosphere of sorrow throughout the whole thing... not to mention that the various characters also end up having to face their traumas and fears as part of the story ( in the common route, their own paths, or both).

I was addressing that particular solution, which I think is not the right one. I don't care if the CoC posts disappear from the sidebar, I don't even use it. If you absolutely want your eyes to be completely protected from shitposting though, I think the only efficient solution is to close your browser and unplug your internet cable.

I mean, if you're gonna do that you might as well change the whole title. It's like explaining a joke: it ruins it. There's a reason why we have such a thing as the Coliseum of Chatter: so that you expect shitposting when you see a thread there.

GamerGate is everything wrong with modern youths morals and expectations of what they're entitled to wrapped up in one disgusting package. The way they react to stuff they don't agree with, the way they react to confrontation, basically the way they react in general is disappointing. Most of them need to grow up, to be honest. Heh, not 115 million. He's gonna get a lot more then that once they finish counting damages

It's already pleasing for them. For reasons I can't really comprehend, they're taking credit for victory in this case. Everything about this is sad.

I am so sick of waiting for SubaHibi, I don't understand why they chose to license the translation when it was so nearly finished this is ridiculous.

more concerned about what in lord belzebubs name happened to django, cause django unlike sumaga is actually a pretty cool game, so yeah thats that. edit. and those having forgotten about jast working on django... cant really blame you, its been "awhile" since its announcement :7

Someone joked about Mahoyo, but that's about it. My money is on Sumaga

Not just you.

Welcome to Fuwa! hope you have a great time here See you around, don't hesitate to ask about anything

Let's see, here are some of my favorites. Hope you like them aswell Those are just some, if you need more just say so

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CckaXaiXEAIH09n.mp4

Yup, found it:

Welcome to the forums! Hope you enjoy your stay! I approve of the Konata avatar \ / Have a moe:

Would just like to give credit where credit is due, the first time I made the :­sacchan: emote it kinda sucked and I couldn't put my finger on why, then I remembered this thread and was able to fix it. Making mouths bigger OP Before: After:

These mods sound like pretty big douchebags.

The demo got me hooked in the first 5 minutes, and it's on pre-order sale, and it'll be released just in time for the Easter break. Not sure how this could be any more perfect.

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.

Sorry Sorry for being late T.T Our KS is now live! Please visit us and share with your friends! We need your help to bring Bloody Chronicles to life! http://kck.st/1poiVFx

I happily backed it

That 3D cell-shaded graphics is ugly as hell. Spike Chunsoft exceeded all expectations of ugliness.

This was actually irritating me a bit in Conjuerors VN contest. I had the impression that many voters thought that Hatsusaku is just a light hearted moege. But most comments I've seen from people who actually read it implied more that it's a more sophisticated and mentally exhausting VN, maybe even comparable to the true route of ef. You hardly need a 'recovery VN' for a feel good moege.

I finally gave the demo a try and I enjoyed it a lot! Great job with it! This definitely has the potential to become a great VN, so I wish you guys all the best with the development and the crowdfunding! (Will be supporting you the moment your Kickstater goes live!) ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

Because I like dogs

Heya Fuwanovel, Eclipsed here, ready to do another trolly trolls filled with pure enlightenment and innocent funzies. First, let's talk about VNDB: Vector Newton Digimon Battlefield. With this site, you can diary-style all of the Visual Novels that you've read over the course of your career. I. Linking your VNDB profile to Fuwanovel "Want your profile & sidebar to look sexy (and taller) while roaming the forums? Load it up with your VNDB!" Create your VNDB account over at https://vndb.org/ Go to your VNDB profile, make note of your ID number, then go to your Fuwanovel profile -> Edit Profile and input that number under the VNDB section (without the letter "u") You can also link other things such as your MAL and Steam!sdfdsfsfs II. Commentating on your listed Visual Novels "Want your VNDB list to look SEXY (& cluttered wall-of-texty) as hell?" Tick the Visual Novel you want to comment on "Set Note" Type in your comment "Update" III. Rating Visual Novels with "Fractionals" (cr. palas), Because Whole Numbers Are Too Mainstream & Hipster "Sometimes, you just wanna rate things the SEXY way using decimals!" Go to your desired Visual Novel's profile. Select "Other" from the voting menu. Input your desired score, ranging from 1.0 to 10.0 (one decimal place only!) IV. VNStats! "It's all about dem stats." "Noslyl from Reddit made VNStats, a cool site that hooks into VNDB's api to analyze its data. It gives some broad data on VNDB's overall voting habits and then it allows you to dig deeper and see data on individual VNs, tags, character traits, and users of VNDB. My favorite feature of the site is the way it gives you an analysis on the VNs you've voted on and your own reading habits. " -Decay V. The English-only Pleb's Odyssey for the TL'd Vector Newtons (Search Filtering for Translated Visual Novels) cr. Nosebleed VI. The Power of Chaos, Disorder, and... Randomness! cr. Final Chaos "Sometimes. the only way to find what you are looking for, is to not look for it!" Select "Random Visual Novel" from the upper left menu on VNDB. ~~ Feel free to add any VNDB tips n' tricks that you think the public should know about, and I will compilethemtotheOPTM

A feature I love about VNDB, though not very big, is the random quote that appears at the bottom of most (if not all) pages of the site. By clicking on it you go to the entry of the VN the quote is from. Sometimes you see a quote you didn't remember from something you already read, or realize how weird it's out of context. I've spent hours reading those quotes on boring days

"I am the toss of my dice Luck is my body and fortune is my blood I have punched over a thousand human unknown to texas nor known to fuwa have withstood pain to bring misfortune about yet those hands shall always be lucky so as I pray, unlimited dice works" It doesn't fit together, damn.

Awwwww, such a sweet message, Texas. You've got a cool Mum!