Zakamutt

Wow I just read G&C when I saw it because G&C is what everyone whines about, I thought modding GD stronger than G&C, and up to general forum standard whatever that is, was obvious. I don't really look much at GD in general so I don't know. There's a problem with consistency in what gets moved to G&C, however. For example, "what is the cutest image you have seen..." is in GD, and about posting cute pictures. Yuri thread is in G&C, and is mostly about posting cute pictures. Not to mention more substantial stuff like manga releses, etc. It's a specialized interest thread, like osu -- the osu thread is in GD too. Yes, I am bitter.

If the same thread is on the same page you can obviously merge it, lol. You don't have to use big forum policies on smaller forums. Adapt. If we ever do get big enough for there to be enough redundancy that there's an actual post overload, reconsider. What is best for one place is not the best for another, think about that.

Well, I think you either drop the forum altogether or don't moderate anything but the forum rules on content (no hate, spam, nsfw etc.) Some people seem to think g&c spread a bad culture or w/e throughout the boards, but I'm not sure if this was really the case. You're probably going to see quite a bit of backlash with no g&c though. It's not even posted in that often, bar the Majikoi thread. Which has had essays on SAO recently lol, that was moderateishly interesting.

More or less what they do now but maybe somewhat more proactive and strict, though this is a careful balance if we want to keep this place what it is..

onichan 鬼ちゃん *veinpop* Anyway, part of the point with the generally less localized fantl we see in VNs today is that the current audience is unlikely to extend to people out of the jp cultural bubble for the most part. In this way, it is optimally presented for the intended audience. In most cases, the VNs being translated aren't that good for use as entry-level novels anyway.

clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean Seriously do some people have OCPD

^ dodged around it sigh, we did it for a reason. Not that it was that big of one, though.

Chivalry and general politeness is potentially useful for gaining social respect of some kind, giving a slight bonus to fucking probability... ...welll that's the theory at least. In practice? Probably doesn't really work in this day and age. General politeness for both genders probably will earn you a little favor and is fairly easy to do, though.

Kappa are easy to defeat anyway. All you have to do is bow to them.

VN: "Gravity is love, you know"

People don't do that on the Internet. Personally I'd be more in line with hiding the pages or even deleting them, to be honest. Might be because I know I have vndb though...

Yeah Shitatori's route blows. Anyway the only choice that should matter is the shitatori/haru branch choice. Fuwalkthroughs don't note when choices are optional and stuff which is kinda of sad, but there you go I guess

Yay, I'll only have to catch up on 8 or so episodes when I get home otoh they might be worth watching

^Chill, both of yas. Think you both know each others' positions by now Anyway considering VNs are always going to be niche, you're likely to have more indies doing it for the art or w/e. And hey, it's not like you can't combine fanservice with srs plot.

You might have to reboot your computer after doing the changes to see effects -- saying just in case here. OTOH you could just learn to read katakana and profit

The only reason not to recommend SR would be its length, which is why I held off on mentioning (beside other people having recommended it already.)

Regarding the horny, illiterate teenages, I'd like to note that a huge part of Japanese VN releases are nukige (some 55 pages on vndb of vns tagged nukige, for one.) That doesn't mean the story games aren't getting made as well.

Before visual novels, I was less socially involved on the net. The few friends and scattered communities I was part of were sliding away for the most part; I wasn't all that sad about this, but it wasn't great either. I spent my days playing DotA and browsing small-time forums or reading info-binge sites like tvtropes and wikipedia. I used to devour books when I was younger, but that had slowed down. Basically, I was diverting myself from reality with games. Now, read on because this aspect did not improve I saw Katawa Shoujo mentioned on various sites (among others I think RPS had an article on it?). It was free, so why not? Seemed interesting. Read, and experienced them feels. From tvtropes I had seen CLANNAD being mentioned quite a lot, so I got that as my second vn (I think...). F/SN followed, etc. Somewhere along this process I found vndb and used its lovely sort by rating feature to plan out what to read. I don't know what took me to fuwa; might have been someone dissing it on vndb for all I know. Fuwanovel was interesting. I was already interested in pirate issues and concepts like the sharing economy, abolishing copyright et cetera, so I pretty much agreed with Aaeru's position (market realities make me slightly more pragmatic now; the market situation we've got makes certain compromises sensible for the goal of making VNs more popular in the west.) Quite early on Fuwa, so discussion threads were more interesting to me (and I hadn't debated every topic at hand already.) Started off with no introduction, just posted. Eventually I joined Steve's ts3, back when he was still spamming delicious loli pics. I held off from the IRC for some time, because I wasn't sure if it was any good... but eventually I joined and it turned out to be significantly more active than the ts3 (if less focused.) A core group of people on IRC got pretty active at this time, with me and then-Nakanishi Kaguya (thus Nakuya) being the most active and/or spammy. There was fun, there was drama (the silliest of which being the AMApocalypse - did you just cringe? ), and it was certainly pretty lively all in all. Eventually I got a twitter account, since some people weren't on the IRC much and spent their time there instead. As drama and time took its toll on IRC activity, I became more active there instead. Throughout, I was obsessively refreshing the fuwaboards new topics search to see if I should read or weigh in on something - these days things tend to already have 20 replies by the time I see them and at that point I'm generally superfluous and/or unwilling to read those 20 (which my policy requires.) I still refresh them anyway, though~ I tried to do things for the site when I could and was nonlazy enough. A few of the torrent releases we've got are partly or mostly thanks to my work, and I actually uploaded two to one of Fuwa's seedboxes back when Aaeru was still around. Eventually I got to be a writer for VNAer. I was pretty slacky after a brief burst of activity, but these days I've picked up the pace on that somewhat (look and see ). My belief in the ultimate fuwanovel goal of making VNs popular in the west (aim high, realize that more popular is as far as we're going to get heh.) is a big part of why I'm doing it these days. Massaging my ego helps, of course - though I'm probably not read by that many. VNs didn't stop me from escaping from reality, but they did make that escape a much more vivid. I've experienced some great stories through VNs, equally or perhaps more engrossing than good books I've read - especially on the emotional front. VNs were often romance-themed much more than the usual Western story I'd read before (reading romance books as a man is pretty embarrassing, and they're aimed at women in the West.) With VNs I could discount that (reading the VNs on a faptop in my room, door closed...), and it's quite possible my inexperience with the type made me rate them higher than experienced reader would - I wonder how much this is a factor for other people. VNs led me to Fuwanovel, got me on twitter (much better than expected), and generally made my life revolve around the scene. I think my days now are somewhat better than what I had before. And when I read an engrossing VN far into the night... that's a pretty nice ride. I did also stop reading regular books though, so I suppose I lost something (A Memory of Light gazes mournfully upon me...) I still need to fix RL though. Ah well, nobody's perfect.

I personally really like the medium as well as the Japanese twist. I had only seriously watched one anime (kiminozo) on the recommendation of a friend before I tried Katawa Shoujo out (there was lots of controversy and this made me interested.) Conversion followed. I don't really think I was into jp culture much before this, bar having played a handful of JRPGs and the like. In fact, VNs got me into anime (into meaning very occasionally watching), not the other way around. I'm kind of sad to see people reject things that don't have Japanese-style art or plots. I suppose preferences are preferences...

And apparently SP got fuckloads of sales on steam lol tits, ladies and gentlemen

~well this is interesting~ note that internet access will be sporadic on my end 'til august.

I know some people got into VNs through nukige or anime through ecchi stuff so there is that

Sepia tears is a decent oelvn with some nonshit prose on occasion, non-h of course. Maybe a 3 hour read or something, but I read slow so idk.

'cause I'd like others to play it 'cause 'tis gud

*Zakamutt has already played 999 since there seems to be some confusion somewhere