Fred the Barber

Thighs are great and all, but hips are where it's at. Confession: I can't think of anything to confess right now.

False, I am gainfully employed. Next person didn't know that posts in this thread don't count towards # of posts.

Thanks! I'm a bit behind on Ghibli movies, having not gotten around to watching The Wind Rises yet, so I hadn't picked this up yet, but a ridiculously positive review like that pushed me over the edge to order it from Amazon

A little thoughtful. A little soulful. Yeah. That's who I want to be.

False. I really need to check out Touhou at some point, and then maybe I'll have an opinion on it... Next person is wide-awake drunk.

I don't see how the scholarly credentials of a person who names something are relevant to their right to name it. Suppose your mother named you "Fred". She taught you how to pronounce it, and you adopted the same pronunciation. You told everybody else, "Hi, I'm Fred". And they said, "You mean Fraid?", pronouncing it differently. And you responsed, "No, my name is pronounced 'Fred', not 'Fraid'." And then one of them responded, "No, no, you see, I'm a linguist, and there's this great theory I believe in called linguistical relativism, and since I pronounce your name 'Fraid', and so did my buddy over there, and there happen to be more of us than there are of you pronouncing your name 'Fred', then I'm afraid we're perfectly correct and your name can actually be correctly pronounced 'Fraid'. On the up-side, we might put in the dictionary that the way you're saying it is an uncommon or archaic pronunciation, though; we haven't decided yet. Anyway, Fraid, nice to meet you." This situation is basically identical. Just so we're clear, I have zero commitment to this argument, and am only posting on this thread because I find this entertaining. While I do happen to believe what I'm saying (although I am definitely exaggerating my arguments), I don't really care about the outcome or whether anybody else agrees, and I certainly don't care how anybody pronounces GIF, even if they're wrong.

Confession: I pulled my achilles tendon pretty badly yesterday while playing ping pong and have been limping around town all day.

9/10. Fuko isn't my favorite (sorry, LinovaA), but the art is great and Ushio always tugs at my heartstrings.

True, but so far only Key VNs (I'm sure it's only a matter of time until some other team manages it, though...) Next person doesn't know how to cook rice.

Currently reading: Firefight I'll read pretty much anything with Brandon Sanderson's name on it, but so far that's never been a losing proposition. Next up: probably Brent Weeks's Lightbringer series.

All I really wanted from Shuffle! was for Rin to die in a fire, and then for everybody else in the show to suddenly come to their senses and realize that he was a zero-personality zombie to whom they somehow attributed positive qualities (or, really, any qualities at all). I should note that this feeling was probably, in part, due to my watching the dub, where he was played by Jerry Jewell, who should never, ever be employed as a voice actor, and especially not for a main character.

There's the example I was looking for. The brony movement is interesting since it highlights this particular issue where current society, as highly as it thinks of itself on racism, sexism, and related issues, is actually still extremely sexist: most people today unconsciously believe that men shouldn't like "girly" things. Thanks to feminist movements, it's long since become completely socially acceptable for girls to like whatever they like, and it's anathema to say otherwise (and this is fantastic!), but boys are still pretty boxed-in on what they should do, how they should dress, how they should speak, and so on. This is a really sad state of affairs that makes life harder for a lot of people, especially teenagers who already have enough on their plate growing into adulthood while defining their identity. On the up-side, I take an optimistic view that, at least in developed nations, every generation seems to get a little more understanding and open-minded, and is less prone to discrimination. I think people by and large want to be more open-minded than they are, and if the discrimination issue is pointed out to them appropriately, they usually see that they have an unconscious bias which they would themselves prefer not to have. I don't think this is an easily-solvable problem for an individual (it's really, really hard to change your unconscious biases, even once you're aware of them), but because of a desire to suppress those biases, each generation is filled with people who by and large raise their own children to not have those same biases. In doing so, the world slowly becomes a little bit more accepting. So, you have nothing to be ashamed or worried about, even though it won't always feel that way, and even though the world unfortunately isn't going to change overnight into a place that's going to unconditionally accept that. But it's still ok for you to be excited about a "girly" tv show or a manly one, baking or barbecuing, sewing or sports, musical theatre or rock and roll, monster trucks or my little pony. It's all good.

I think most of (what I've seen of) Nosebleed's list is good stuff as well, and I'll second Kimi ni Todoke especially (like he said: it nails everything you asked for, including really unique and gorgeous visuals), and also Toradora! (mostly for so much character interaction / drama, and in general fantastic characters; Ami is best girl). However... On this particular one from the second list, Nosebleed and I have opposite taste. I loathed Shuffle!, but "the girl who won" was the only reason I kept on watching it until the bitter end (though by that time the writing had managed to make me even hate her).

I haven't seen Nagi no Asukara, but from the description of what you're looking for, the show that pops into my head is Ef: A Tale of Memories (and the second half, "Melodies" as well, I guess, though I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as "Memories").

Kratos, have you played games with a nameable main character and a lot of voice acting and actually enjoyed that aspect of them? The Persona series fits in that category, and while they clearly try hard to make it natural, it's really off-putting for me. I'd much rather they just named the main character and avoid the resulting voice acting awkwardness. Also, if anything, I bet the contortions you have to go through in the script to make it work out are even worse in Japanese than in English, given the relative frequency of usage of names in common conversation in the two languages. The only way I could see that working even moderately well in Japanese is if the writers artificially aligned things for the story so all the characters are socially obliged to call the MC by a title like "senpai" or some such, which would frankly be a ridiculous step to take just to make it so the main character can be nameable without making voice acting awkward...

I'm trying to avoid spoiling anything here, but yeah, it's hard to express how different the VN you're playing now is from the VN you'll be playing by the end of the common route. For now, try not to worry too much about it, laugh it up with the main characters, make the obvious decisions that'll lead you down a route with the heroine you want to see more of, and trust that the pace and tone will change drastically.

1/10. Looks like it was specially set just for the sake of posting in this thread and getting a low rating.

True. My actual reaction to that statement was saying out loud, "Damn." Next person agrees with me that True/False thread is best Fuwa thread.

You guys can invent your own graphic format, name it what you want, and then pronounce the name however you want. And once that happens, I'll even pronounce it the same way! Go ahead and get on that. In the meantime, I'll just be over here, calling GIFs "jiffs", just like the guy who invented GIF and pronounces it "jif".

Confession: Angry Ageha scares me a little too.

Confession: Every time I see the "K - Pop Fuwa fans" thread in General chat, I briefly think it's a K-On! thread and get really excited, only to be disappointed a fraction of a second later. Every. Time.

Hmm... I've finished 2/5 routes in Katawa Shoujo and don't recall getting teary at all; Key VNs, on the other hand, seem to hit me right in the feels. It might be the lack of voice acting in Katawa Shoujo making it harder for me to feel emotionally involved, though. Zodai, you should definitely pick up all things Key that you haven't yet played, if you're looking for nakige - that's the angle I'm typically looking for in VNs, and I haven't yet played one from Key that I didn't thoroughly enjoy.

It looks like others have experienced and fixed the same errors you're hitting, and posted their solution over in this thread: http://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/8683-if-my-heart-had-wings-uncensored-patch/ In general, for any problems you should try looking in the "Voluntary Technical Support" area first - more likely to see the resolved problems there than in this discussion forum.

Rewrite is well worth getting through the common route at least once so you can get into one of the heroines' routes. They're quite different from the common route (and they're awesome), so you may find it more to your liking at that point. Chihaya's route is one of the best, IMO, so if you're headed that way anyway, I'd really encourage you to stick with it. And note that while some of the routes don't unlock until you complete others, Chihaya's is available even on your first playthrough. Little Busters! has vastly more "normal", slice-of-life, high school story going for it than Rewrite though, so if that's more your speed, you certainly can't go wrong with Little Busters!.

For that error, running as administrator should solve it.