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Why do I even read these threads All they do is make me feel awful about the things I love

all of them

Watching Non Brits discuss Brexit.

BTW, in case it interests anyone, the idea that unqualified people shouldn’t discuss various things is something which is brought up as a downside to democracy itself. 37 million people voted in the Brexit elections, and while they live in that place and the decision ultimately affects them, how many of them actually know the impacts of such a decision? And no, ‘living there’ doesn’t automatically grant you magical insight everyone else doesn’t have. People like to say that because you live there, you should have a say how things are run. I find this an acceptable argument ... as long as those people know how things are run, and actually know what they're voting for. Otherwise I question why this automatic right is even a thing. So if millions of those people are too unknowledgeable to know the impacts, why are they qualified to dictate Government policy through their ignorance? Because they live there? What a quality and well-thought out reason. Consider Joe Doe down the road who voted based on a pack of misinformation and lies, his ignorance affected the decision the Government has made and the future of everybody in that nation. Why should this ever be acceptable? Don’t think the political parties don’t know this, which is why both sides of politics bombard the airwaves with slogans and crap aimed at the lowest common denominator. People who are educated can mostly make up their own mind, but WHA-HEY, look at all these uneducated folk we can sway with a massive scare campaign. This sort of stuff is one of the bigger downsides of democracy. Tyranny of the masses is one thing, it’s quite another when a significant portion of the majority is made up of people who don’t really know. Which is one of the reasons why the voting age should be raised to 25, btw … Now when consider all of the above, you'll start to figure out why disqualifying certain people from 'commenting' on stuff is a Pandora's box. I'm actually waiting for somebody to open it, then we'll all transition to a society led by the intellectual elite ... which will inevitably end in a revolt when that same intellectual elite start culling the population. And no, I haven't been reading too many sci-fi novels. EDIT: I've been seeing quite a few people get annoyed when outsiders start commenting on a nation's internal issues (like that ever concerns America and their citizens when discussing China. Or Russia.) This is one of a few posts I've wanted to make on the issue for a while.

Considering you made a complete sentence without misspelling anything and even used a comma, I can say you are not drunk.

So we all know there's multiple ways to help us read Japanese VNs by now. All Japanese VNs have text you can grab and display, which makes them an easy target for practicing reading. There's one downside though, visual novels are typically incredibly long, especially if you are a beginner (yes, even the shorter ones can take a while to read if you're inexperienced). I always thought this downside affected lots of people that wanted to practice reading but didn't have the time/energy to read through an entire VN in Japanese to start with. However, other mediums like manga and LNs are much more difficult due to requiring you to either constantly look at a dictionary or just know all those kanji from memory (with the exception of manga that have furigana, but those are usually aimed at younger audiences and might not be the most interesting). It felt unfair that such fun media couldn't be used as easily to study Japanese. Well luckily yesterday I was talking to a friend on discord and fanboying over the Monogatari Series with them and they ended up showing me a few tools they used to read LNs, and after that I myself looked up for ways to read manga in Japanese, and thus we come to this thread in which I'm hoping to share something useful with those of you who wish to read these mediums as a way to practice Japanese. Note: If you know any other/better software, please by all means share it! Kanjitomo Kanjitomo is an incredibly useful software to read manga on your computer. It detects kanji/words by simply hovering over them with your mouse. But not only that, it gives you the reading/meaning of those words/kanji. And lastly, if it fails to show the correct kanji, it shows you a list with similar looking kanji for you to browse, it also lets you edit the individual kanji contained in the word in case it guessed the 2nd or 3rd characters wrong, thus always letting you pick which is the right one. Some screenshots: Advantages: Easy word lookup Very customizeable Let's you actually import images and scroll through multiple images in a single folder. Also supports Chinese Disadvantages Can get laggy sometimes (mostly on startup) The zoom feature can get somewhat annoying to control Although it lets you import files, I found the file viewer annoying to use and prefer to just use some other software to open the images Download (requires Java to be installed): http://kanjitomo.net/ JGloss This software is primarily geared towards books. What it does is it lets you import .txt files (or copy text) and open them in the reader. After that it places furigana on top of all the words, and also creates a glossary of words on the right for you to look up if you need. One feature I really appreciated in it was that it only displays furigana for the first instance of a word only, forcing you to memorize the word after that (although if you want to, you can select the word and it'll look it up for you regardless). Now you might be thinking, doesn't Translation Aggregator also do something similar? While TA does indeed have these same functions, TA is mostly practical for smaller chunks of text, not whole sections of a book. Screenshots: With translation enabled: Advantages: Easy way to read large chunks of text with furigana Can use different parsers. Can also place the English translation underneath the words if needed Creates a glossary of words for an easy lookup Pretty costumizeable interface (you can change the font/size/colors/etc.) Also works with German Disadvantages: Requires you to copy the text or have a text file of the book you're reading, which doesn't always happen. Parsing is not perfect and you may find some weird results at times (but that's the same for any Japanese parser). It seems to have a certain limit of text it can display (I kept running into an error when I imported a lot of text), so you may not be able to import whole books but instead have to copy multiple chunks (they're pretty big chunks though) Download: http://jgloss.sourceforge.net/ Yomichan Yomichan is an Anki add-on that lets you read text and look up words while simultaneously being able to create an anki deck for the words you want. This tool is incredibly useful if you want to study and read a book at the same time. Screenshot: Advantages: Lets you read entire books at once (you can also copy the text) Very easy to create an anki deck with the words from the text Disadvantages No furigana on the text itself Requires you to have the book in a .txt file More useful for studying than actually reading Download (requires anki to be installed): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/934748696 Capture2Text Capture2Text is a simple but intuitive OCR (Optic Character Recognition) program that lets you select a part of your screen to convert into text. It's useful to grab whole sentences from a specific bubble of text or a sentence from a book and automatically copy them to your clipboard, which you can then use to do whatever. If you're a translator, it makes the script writing process much easier since you don't have to manually input everything. (I don't really have any screenshots since all the software does is grab and copy text.) Advantages: Easy way to grab text from an image and paste it onto your clipboard (or someplace else) Works well in conjunction with other software like TA. Disatvantages: The recognition can fail pretty hard depending on the font used (you can easily end up with scrambled jibberish) Download: http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/ I know it's not groundbreaking and it might not even be as appealing as just grabbing text in a VN, but I find manga and LNs very fun and less tiresome to read and so these tools come in really handy for that purpose. Think of it this way, do you want to start practicing Japanese by reading an entire visual novel with more than a thousand lines from the get go, or would something smaller like a 20 page manga chapter be a little easier for starters? Of course, this doesn't mean you shouldn't try to read visual novels, they're great practice, but I think a lot of people lose themselves when starting off with them and perhaps these tools will help keep the focus on studying and memorizing things a bit more instead of just reading.

Agreeing to a trade and then taking advange of your partner's slipup to steal an item from them makes you an asshole, yes. When you open your MMO, you don't close reality. The things you do to other people still affect them, and still make them angry, sad, happy and everything else, just with slightly lesser impact. The only thing you gain is anonymity, as well as the ability to not face consequences for most of your actions. The fact people seem to automatically become assholes in those circunstances may or may not say something about human nature, though. I wouldn't know.

Heh, does this include watching Merkel and the other European leaders hold an emergency meeting to discuss the Brexit

I liked it in general, but I'll never forget how the "catgirl" route inadvertently delivered the message that was the exact opposite of what it was supposedly intended to convey.

Mostly the Key Vns, I ended up dropping all the ones I tried and if you can count it as well liked then Gahkthun, dropped that one as well.

Majikoi - I think it represents everything wrong with the World.

I'll gladly Welcome scottland as a new country. good day dear scotts, you'll be easilly whalecum to EU.

The economy isn't in tumbles, markets just don't like uncertainty. It's actually not an indication of whether the decision was a 'bad one' or a 'good one' at all, nor is it a precursor of what's to come, think of it as the market getting a tremendous shock and not knowing what things will be like in the future. Investors don't like not knowing what things will be like in the future (well, they don't 'know' in any case but they 'think they know' which is usually good enough.)

Personally, I use TA coupled with Translation Assistant to read Web Novels. That way I just need to copy the entire chapter and paste it on a new file : I recommand the "One Sentence per Line" option to have better parsing. Then thanks to translation assistant, it keeps one sentence at time in the clipboard, and you just need to go to the next one : Tried JGloss, but I prefer TA. I wonder if someone knows what WN I used for the example?

Confession: here's something that pisses me off from some people around me: picking on people who work hard just to say that their hard work is for naught. You have to have met one of them at some point. I am not talking about your boss who told you that all you learnt at your college was not important at all. I am talking about that guy, that freaking guy who while you are doing your best to get high grades for whatever reasons during your years in school or college, he goes out of his way to tell you that you are an idiot since you are wasting your life on academics and he's that smart ass who cares about his "social life" more than anything else since it "provides him with the skills needed for life" which is usually a bunch of bullcrap. I didn't know that the art of parties and outings was the way to success. And then he starts throwing the "success is not measured by your studies , it's measured by your actual work." at you. I am sorry but he is probably one of the people who won't be able to work well because of his laziness. He is not Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates of the world, he is not a genius who has no need for his academic life since he will have some original idea or a brain that is full of innovative ways of making fame and money. He doesn't have to throw his excuse which he's telling himself and his family at the guy who's working hard. Being the 3rd world country we are, there's the problem that you might actually work hard and not have any results at the end.... for some time at least. It's probably like this everywhere except the degree differs. However that doesn't mean that you shouldn't bother or work hard just because it "might" be in vain. That's exactly what being a failure is. (did this from mob and so couldn't put this in spoiler tag, sowwy~~~) Confession 2: I will start my holiday this Wednesday and I am already planning so many things but my highest priorities go to: learn how to drive, lose weight, get a new pc, get overwatch and rocket league (and maybe csgo... just maybe).

It's a Velociraptor.

Key is very popular yet still has some serious weaknesses, that's why it's got so many haters coming out of the woodwork here. You're pretty much never alone, though I never did find someone to circlejerk with about why Taarradhin sucks so there is that.

There's so many people that need to get shot, Majikoi. It's one of those forever backlogged VNs of mine for some reason.

Desslar has the best "I'm so done with this shit" face so its the perfect representation for me

Looking on the posts so far, finally I don't feel alone in saying Key sucks.

OH BOY, THIS IS THE THREAD FOR ME! Hmm, where do I start? Clannad: Mediocre at best. Terrible humor (with the exception of Nagisa's parents), bloated, uneven pacing, strange narrative choices, focus on emotional impact to a huge detriment of... well, common sense, really. One of the few VNs that made me genuinely fucking angry at various points. Grisaia no Kajitsu: Godawful protagonist, shamelessly bloated in the common route, plot inconsistencies everywhere, some narrative choices annoyed the fuck out of me as well. Should have also been set in an alternate universe or alternate future, cause it's impossible not to ruin the immersion with all the completely over-the-top unrealistic stuff that's not so much impressive as it is vexing. Shuffle!: Fuck Shuffle! Demonbane: Well, that's more of my own personal problem, but I was promised a Lovecraftian story and what I got was Lovecraftian in name only. They could've used names from Shakespeare's works and call it Shakespearean with roughly the same effect. Hoshizora no Memoria: A character-focused title without any good characters. The plot wasn't particularly inspired either. G-Senjou no Maou: It wasn't a bad read, and I hesitated to include it in this list, but after reading Sharin no Kuni it was a definite letdown in comparison.

Grisaia - the funniest common route ever? I think you mean the most dragged out common route ever. Planetarian - if you think thats a tear jerker then you dont know real misery lol Beat blades haruka - made me never wanna touch an alicesoft game ever again

Those I'll put under spoiler so I don't ruin them for anyone else, they're Majikoi A-1 stuff so watch if you want but I didn't want to spoil anyone. And this ones are for @Jun Inoue- that mantra though.

I would say Rewrite. I just find it plain boring. I figured since people like it, it would get better and I made myself continue, but eventually I was stalled because I just couldn't be bothered to open it anymore.

@NowItsAngeTime I like your avatar, but I hate to be the one to point out the mouse pointer.

Tfw you want to buy the entire Re:Birth series but your laptop is too shitty to run any of the games... FeelsBadMan.jpg

I'm shit at RTS okay will be PMing you in a couple minutes

My bank emailed me telling that they predict the market is overreacting and will recover. Claims like "a new Black Friday" certainly will make the financial market turn upside down. What really happened today compared to yesterday is.... nothing. The UK will get a new PM within 3 months and then it will likely take 2 years before we will see something change. Until then the UK is part of EU and it will be business as usual. It's not like some declaration of independence where they say "we have left the EU".

Whether to accept austerity measures as a means to pay back their debt. They voted 'no', which led to the demise of the PM. The new PM had to install a great many of those measures anyway, so it must have been a bit of a let down. They're close to holding a referendum to leave the EU also, along with a few other countries (just my observation.) One of the reasons Greece is pissed is that they're forced to accept the Euro currency, which is quite high compared to the rest of the world. So they can't lower their currency to help with tourism and exports (I think.) Others are annoyed for other reasons.

Um... Britain ALREADY exited dear... The referendum was today and well 52% voted to leave. Obviously stocks went mad and red becomes their favorite color followed by pounds deciding that skydive is his favorite sports... and finally finished with David Cameron rage quitting his job and saying "it's no longer my shit to deal with, it's ya'll brexiteers." So yes, we got that and either Hillary or Trump for US president. I say this has been a very eventful year!

It's being suggested that traditional Labour voters voted to exit in higher numbers than otherwise predicted, contributing in a not-insignificant way to the result. So let's not leap onto the 'old conservative' bandwagon too quickly.

Thoughts: Burn Zebh Oh, wait, thoughts on the anime? It wasn't long enough. I need more Tama-chan and spiky-haired-imouto-chan!

Kick the can, that was the good old times. I will play it one more time though. But as I am an adult now. I will kick the bucket instead.

Grown ups play paintball. Think of it as 'hide-and-seek' combined with 'tag', but you have the added bonus of peppering others with ... paint.

Penicillin - gotta keep you healthy. Probably. Not a huge fan of the fisticuffs. I always wondered what that odor was growing up... and now I realize it wasn't masking my pet's smell...

Nice tools. Additionally another OCR software Capture2Text Is nice as well. I find myself using kanjitomo mostly, and Capture2Text when kanjitomo fails. kanjitomo is much faster and just hover over, Capture2Text is manual but better at recognizing the text. I mainly read from e-book/txt format. So I convert the books to html files so I can read them in the browser. I like this personally because then I can use rikisama. Which supports Epwing dictionaries. I use 2 methods convert the files to html. If it's txt format (Aozora, 青空文庫) . I use JNovel Formatter If it's in Ebook format epub/aw3 etc I use convert function included in the software Calibre. Convert it from the native format to Zip (zipped up html files). You can change the formatting of the html pages by editing the calibre Css files in the folder. Change font, size etc. I do that because I find the formatting rather odd. Incidentally, drm files are like tsundere waifus. You gotto handle them with care first in another way.

Cool, never knew about that patch - like havoc said, didn't really have much interest to read two versions of the same story, so having something inclusive sounds awesome - though I question how well it meshes, content wise. I'll probably jsut wait on the +18 version myself, even if I'm missing out on nice additions from the vita version...I admit I'm ruled by base desires

Such insightful words

Replaying Tales of Graces ƒ en NG+. A LOT more fun than my first run. I can now play on Chaos difficulty, I'm proud of myself. x) (played on Normal then Easy on my first run, shame on me) I'm trying to be a little more throughout, and in fact, I'm mid-game and I just passed what it took me to finish the game on my first playthrough. (33h for the main part, and 42h with L&L) Wasn't that hyped when I decided to play again (didn't like the story as much as the other Tales of, and wasn't that good with the gameplay), but now I regret nothing! Also, perhaps it's because I'm playing it now, but I think Graces ƒ skits are the funniest of the series!

Happy B-Day @Nimbus!

Happy birthday, @Nimbus. I bought you a copy of Steins;Gate, but the package came back labeled "return to sender".

happy birthday @Nimbus

You make a good point. I'll sleep over this tonight and consider if I change my views on damp towels.

I am @suikashoujo's dakimakura. More details starting from here:

Why is everyone talking as if he were dead or dying? Stop this melodramatic nonsense, he didn't want to stay for some reason that's it, if he wants to come back or should I say when he wants to come back he can do it, what else is there to talk about here? How many people stop visiting fuwa and nobody gives a crap? Why is this thread even a thing

Honestly, Ren has left and come back to Fuwa so many times that it has basically become a meme at this point.