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Although if we do have any rocket scientists out there, we need your help for the upcoming FuwaProbe project (make visual novels popular on other planets)

I've got the sheet music for all of Scott Joplin's rags. There is a lot of interesting stuff going on in his music; he was a really good composer. I can play the Entertainer, and Maple Leaf Rag to some degree. Also, Gladiolus Rag and Magnetic Rag.

I dunno...things stabilize, yeah, but not necessarily for the better... I guess it depends on how many classes you took at a time; but, unless you're working from home, there's not much you can do about the fact that you will spend all day, a fixed amount of time, at an office...plus driving time, if any.

This morning I became fascinated with this line, so I did a little more research on it. After picking it apart, I guess would have written something like "To know what one knows, and to know what one does not know: this is knowledge." Which is pretty much the same thing that you wrote. I found a modern translation of the Analects of Confucius: They translate the line as: "To know when you know something, and to know when you don't know, that's knowledge." Then I found an older version of the Anelects which has: "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;--this is knowledge." That last version not only makes full use of the capabilities of English, but also renders it in an old-fashioned, proverb-esque way that is very hard for those of us living in the modern world to fake...

Question is, can I get any faster with this? You wanted LoS; I thought, I already read this one once, how hard could it be? But that doesn't help at all when I have to put it in English. So, now I'm trying to live tl a game that is harder than the one I am translating for real. Not the smartest thing I've ever done.

correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think OBS runs on XP. That's what I have. Otherwise, I'd probably be doing my own streaming by now :-)

you could try getting on the fuwa Teamspeak server and talk to people on there (there is a voice channel as well as text)

They'll throw around 2000 kanji and their various pronunciations and meanings at you. Even for slice-of-life. That's what you need in order to read effortlessly For more complex stories, the number goes up from there... But of course you don't have to learn all of them to begin reading in Japanese. That's why mankind invented dictionaries (and in the case of Japanese, aids such as furigana and text hookers) You start with the easiest, most common ones, because those are the ones you encounter the most. Then, the more you learn, the less you have to look up, and your speed increases. That's why I think it's a bad idea to learn 2000 kanji before you study anything else. You could be starting to read during that time.

Laugh about it if you want, but I'm not the one who waltzed into a thread about lump of sugar opening themes and basically said who cares, all their games are trash anyway This is not 4chan, where you invade any thread just to aggravate people

Probably because it's FM based. However, I don't really do any programming. I just twiddle the knobs until it sounds interesting. Well, I have one synth more similar to the kind you're using, it's a Korg ms-2000. With that one you can make your own sound from scratch pretty easily since it uses ordinary oscillator+filter setup. With the FS1R, I just choose one of the presets and then twiddle the knobs from there.

Do you cringe at yourself? You play eroge, don't you? How can you say "there are some things people can do, and some things that shouldn't be done at all?" What gives you the right to decide? I've got some advice for you: if you want to make friends and keep them, stop stating your opinions as if they are facts. Assuming you can even tell the difference. Perhaps it's your taste in games that's awful...

Always listen because it helps me read the JP a little faster if I hear it pronounced. (Not only that, sometimes I read the player character's lines aloud back to them...)

In that pixelpacas write-up, I saw the following: "Thanks to a quick grammar patch most of the unfortunate lines have been fixed" I have no need of OELVNs. But I'm no hypocrite and I'm no snob. So, if the game has finally undergone some editing, then it's not out of the realm of possibility that I could like this game, which is more than I could say for the other OELVNs...

Sagittarius Miku's still my favorite. As an overall character, not for Vocaloid voice specifically. Vocals on vocaloid songs can be rough on the ear. If the song has some really good instrumentation/composition to go along with the vocals, I can forgive a lot, though. Miku's plain voice is acceptable, but not great. She has a tendency to go off-key if you don't watch her, plus her default vibrato setting sounds more like a misaligned tape deck. In Project Diva F, one example of way I really like Miku's voice is in "Freely Tomorrow". The upgrade/"append" version really is worth it, apparently. And in this song her vibrato actually matches her vocal style. An example of the other method I really like is in "Tell Your World" and "Weekender Girl". I have always been a fan of AutoTune as an effect, and it makes Miku's voice a lot more listenable.

Legend: Y - playable without really knowing Japanese P - playable if you read Japanese, with a dictionary N - too slow to be playable unless you read Japanese + know much kanji&vocab PS1: Macross DYRL - Y Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae-dama - Y GBA: Angelic Layer - P PS2: Espgaluda - Y Mushihimesama - Y Trigger Heart Exelica - Y for arcade mode, N for story mode Lovely Idol - N Iinazuke - N 360: Idolmaster - N Dream Club - P Dream Club Zero - P Dream Club Mahjong - Y Otomedius Gorgeous - Y Dodonpachi Saidaioujou - Y

Japanese language and languages in general, I have a shelf full of those kinds of books. Classical music - I have a shelf full of that as well. I can play some piano pieces, but nothing pro level. Synthesizers - Proud owner of an FS1R among other stuff Retro gaming (huge fan of MAME and MESS. Also my C64,NES,SNES still work.)

Dream Club series (360/PS3) is my favorite. Have a huge crush on Mian. Because it is a dating sim and not a true VN with walls of expository text, I was able to play it at a reasonable speed. I have many PS2 exclusives that I want to play, such as Kimikiss & Amagami. Also a VN called Iinazuke which I have had my eye on for a long time. And Lovely Idol (artwork by Aoi Nishimata) looks like fun. And PC VN's that have gained extra characters/routes etc. on consoles exclusively, I'm interested in those as well. But to date I have only found 1 PC VN that was easy enough that I successfully played it w/o using the text hooker. And I still have a backlog of PC VNs to play. Might as well go though those 1st, continuing to use the text hooker while building up kanji/vocab knowledge.

Everything I quoted in red is biased. So, looks like just an ordinary review to me...?

one of the best op songs in the "maximum moe" category

Rice.

There was one episode where they were all chasing Nico through a supermarket and around some cars and all over town and stuff...I think I liked that one the best.

This week I started 2 new VN's (well, new to me) -Hoshizora no Memoria -Noble Works most of you have already played the 1st one, some of you probably the 2nd

I only judge OP's by the song quality/style; it's great if the video part matches well, but I think of that more as a nice side-effect. Anyway: I liked the Flyable Heart op song, too, but I assume you've already heard it.

Picking a VN is easy. Simply pick your favorite VN that you've read in Japanese so far. If you don't pick your favorite, you're bound to lose motivation before your project is done. As far as hacking goes, there are many more hackers who have written extraction tools then there are reinsertion tools. I guess this is because they want to be able to get at the images, voices, etc. Some of these tools have source code available that you can study. Then you can write a reinsertion tool yourself. If the VN you want to do has no tools at all, then you'll probably have to know assembly language in order to hack it.

Maybe this is a sort of crowdfunding. They couldn't afford an editor, but they will hire one if enough copies are sold...? And I guess all the girls have on suntan lotion.