Fuwanovel Confessions

[Dreamysyu]

29 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

That's actually a decent twist! Although, I'm not sure it would work that well as a VN... Feels more like a LN or (indeed) webcomic premise.

Now that I think about it, my brain probably "borrowed" this twist from the prologue in Aselia the Eternal, because that's exactly that happened there. And in Aselia this twist is indeed done pretty well, and if someone decides to go into that VN completely blind, it would probably subvert their expectations pretty well. In my dream, however, I knew that pre-isekai part of the story was extremely long, and I just instantly knew that the story was terrible because everything that happened after the twist was completely disconnected from what happened before. Not that I had actually seen the story after the twist, but what would you expect from a dream...

36 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

but they never had a weeb feel to them even in the times when I mostly consumed otaku media. I wonder if that's going to change the longer I delve into anime stuff...?

Actually, I've been into anime-style stuff since 2012, but dreams like that are still extremely rare. I used to dream a lot of cartoon-style and 8-bit game style dreams in my early adolescence, but recently most of my dreams were pretty realistic.

[Plk_Lesiak]

Confession: One of my very bad hobbies is following various conflicts and political development in the Middle East, and getting pointlessly agitated about some of them. So, today I wanted to find a bit more info on a very important thing happening in Iraq, that is the attempts to form a new cabinet under Muhammad Allawi. Not finding much on Iraq Livemap, I've started looking for related subreddits, in hope some of them have fresh reports on what's going on. My findings were:

/Iraq, 6.4k subscribers, half-dead.

/MiddleEast, 1,6k subscribers, dead.

/MiddleEastNews, 10k, somewhat alive but nothing on the topic yet.

And next on the search list was...

/MiddleEasternHotties, 106k members.

Nice to be reminded where the internet's priorities truly lie.

[Yuuko]

5 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Confession: One of my very bad hobbies is following various conflicts and political development in the Middle East, and getting pointlessly agitated about some of them. So, today I wanted to find a bit more info on a very important thing happening in Iraq, that is the attempts to form a new cabinet under Muhammad Allawi. Not finding much on Iraq Livemap, I've started looking for related subreddits, in hope some of them have fresh reports on what's going on. My findings were:

/Iraq, 6.4k subscribers, half-dead.

/MiddleEast, 1,6k subscribers, dead.

/MiddleEastNews, 10k, somewhat alive but nothing on the topic yet.

And next on the search list was...

/MiddleEasternHotties, 106k members.

Nice to be reminded where the internet's priorities truly lie.

Have you considered that some internet services (reddit maybe) might be blocked in the countries.

[Plk_Lesiak]

16 minutes ago, Yuuko said:

Have you considered that some internet services (reddit maybe) might be blocked in the countries.

Well, it's available in Iraq and at least decent part of Middle East - outside of Iran, Saudi Arabia and maybe Syria internet access is not that heavily limited in the region and even there people find workarounds. I also couldn't find much info on Reddit being specifically banned outside of China and Indonesia. People in the Middle East obviously have their own, Arab-speaking platforms, but at least the lack of interest from English-speaking users and the general sorry state of these communities felt jarring. The contrast with the porn board was brought up by me for semi-humoristic reasons, but it's still kind of telling...

[Mr Poltroon]

5 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Well, it's available in Iraq and at least decent part of Middle East - outside of Iran, Saudi Arabia and maybe Syria internet access is not that heavily limited in the region and even there people find workarounds. I also couldn't find much info on Reddit being specifically banned outside of China and Indonesia. People in the Middle East obviously have their own, Arab-speaking platforms, but at least the lack of interest from English-speaking users and the general sorry state of these communities felt jarring. The contrast with the porn board was brought up by me for semi-humoristic reasons, but it's still kind of telling...

I was actually wondering if it might not be a fact that english speakers in war-afflicted countries are more likely to leave them?

[Plk_Lesiak]

3 minutes ago, Mr Poltroon said:

I was actually wondering if it might not be a fact that english speakers in war-afflicted countries are more likely to leave them?

True, but those people are often actually quite active over the internet and vocal about the things happening in their countries of origin. So diasporas would rather fuel than weaken thematic subreddits.

[Plk_Lesiak]

Confession: I don't listen to it much, particularly nowadays, but I actually like Indian pop. Quite a lot even.

Also, Daler Mendhi is such as alpha. This kind of energy most pop singers can only aspire to.

 

[Jardic47]

Confession: I want to find my family by choice.

I was told when I was young that people have two families. One that is given to you and one that you choose. I want to run as far away from my family as possible and never look back on it. They can be so hateful towards other people that I am ashamed to have known them. I have found a brother with a friend of mine, now I hope I can find the other people to make my life whole again.

[Templarseeker]

12 hours ago, Jardic47 said:

Confession: I want to find my family by choice.

I was told when I was young that people have two families. One that is given to you and one that you choose. I want to run as far away from my family as possible and never look back on it. They can be so hateful towards other people that I am ashamed to have known them. I have found a brother with a friend of mine, now I hope I can find the other people to make my life whole again.

I also have similar feelings like getting away from family and just live with myself without the hassle having to associated myself with others. However despite how crappy your situation might be, your pretty much stuck with the family fate has cast upon you. Its easier said than done and I know it's pretty HARD but you must learn to accept your current realities or situation and make the best of it. Happiness is your own responsibility and nobody can give it to you, not your family or your girlfriend/boyfriend. Nobody period except yourself... You won't be happy or achieve wholeness in the long run if you don't accept what you are and who you might be. Hmm there's a book that's worth reading at least once in your lifetime title Man's Search For Meaning  Give it a shot so you'll learn how to handle adversity and life in general in the face of hopelessness or cruelty or many other unpleasantness the God Damn world like to throw on us. Might not be the solution but could help you feel better in way? 

[Jardic47]

10 hours ago, Templarseeker said:

I also have similar feelings like getting away from family and just live with myself without the hassle having to associated myself with others. However despite how crappy your situation might be, your pretty much stuck with the family fate has cast upon you. Its easier said than done and I know it's pretty HARD but you must learn to accept your current realities or situation and make the best of it. Happiness is your own responsibility and nobody can give it to you, not your family or your girlfriend/boyfriend. Nobody period except yourself... You won't be happy or achieve wholeness in the long run if you don't accept what you are and who you might be. Hmm there's a book that's worth reading at least once in your lifetime title Man's Search For Meaning  Give it a shot so you'll learn how to handle adversity and life in general in the face of hopelessness or cruelty or many other unpleasantness the God Damn world like to throw on us. Might not be the solution but could help you feel better in way? 

It is worth a shot, Thanks. However, that statement I said is kind of true in a way. You choose who you want in a marriage and not so with the one you're born in. I just want to leave the family because they just don't understand the concept of accepting others well. Most of my family are genuine southern rednecks and they are racist as hell. I can't even be myself around them at family outings because I'm afraid of them using my status against me. That is why I am wanting to find the family by choice. I don't want to be around those people anymore.

[Tasuke]

 

CLANNAD (Anime) made me misty-eyed, and it takes A LOT to wring that kind of emotion out of me...

[Dreamysyu]

Today I had a nightmare that seemed to be very loosely based on Saya no Uta. And you know, I don't really remember the details, but now I kind of feel like writing a proper story with a similar plot.

[Templarseeker]

Hmm... I'm pleasantly surprise that GOG.COM is giving Total Annihilation, a very wonder RTS game for FREE! Better grab it for anyone interested while its still free! 

https://www.gog.com/game/total_anihilation_commander_pack

[droganpc]

My confession:

Two years ago: "Anime is for children. I will never watch these kid's stuffs"

Now: I'm not interested in 3D girls anymore, lmao

Anyway, my favorite anime is A Silent Voice

 

[Mr Poltroon]

Saw a twitter post about expressing one's main flaw, so I went ahead and did it. Here is it as well for the forum.

Confession:
I would say that I'm quite selfish, and not even ashamed of it. It means I do not suffer inner conflicts of any kind for prioritising myself and disregarding all others. So, slight apologies for me being an arsehole.
This, of course, does not mean I do not suffer from anxiety for other reasons, such as failure to "do what I should do", whatever that means, or complying with "the rules", whatever those may be.

[Plk_Lesiak]

Confession: With all my love for computers, I'm apparently a complete idiot when it goes to tech.

For like a year now I was getting more and more problems with my PC's tiny (128GB) SSD, always running out of space and bottlenecking my system despite me putting all large apps on the accompanying hard drive and actively trying to keep things tidy. For the last few months I was thinking about various workarounds and only today it occurred to me that I should check out what kind of SSD it is, buy a larger one, make a system backup to an external drive and switch it out... Which will cost me like 70$ and a few hours of work max. Aren't my last two living braincells amazing?

Edit: So, the surgery was successful and the patient is stable! Quite possibly, he'll soon be better than he ever was... :3 I had to make a clean Windows install after all, but I guess that's for the better after a few years of continous use. This should make the daily use quite a bit nicer... And my life by extention, considering the coronavirus is going out of control in Poland and I'm likely to sit in this room, looking at this screen quite a lot in the coming months.

 

[Kenshin_sama]

On 10/5/2020 at 1:20 PM, Plk_Lesiak said:

Aren't my last two living braincells amazing?

Hey, those are the brain cells that count!

[adamstan]

I'm currently feeling completely unexpected kind-of VN, and general, burn-out(?). I mean, last time I read a VN (Sakura Strasse) was over a week ago. Perhaps it's because MC makes it not engaging enough for me, so I don't have strong incentive to continue, but still, I totally wasn't expecting that. In the meantime, my other hobbies took over for a while. I guess I'll return to reading sooner or later, but now it feels really weird. Maybe I should just drop Sakura Strasse and switch to something more engaging, but then, after buying a physical edition (since there's no download one, and no pirated one either ) I feel a bit reluctant to do so... Should have tried out the demo version before buying...

Nevertheless looks like my tastes evolved a bit, and "pure" moege doesn't seem to work for me as well as it did before. Now I seem to need a bit of nakige as well.

Didn't want to clutter WhatAreYouPlaying thread with this, so I'm writing here...

Edited October 29, 2020 by adamstan

[littleshogun]

I did just realize that I mistaken Nekopara for Nekonyan in one of my past blogpost, and even then sometimes my mind think of Nekonyan when in fact I should write it as Nekopara (Thankfully I manage to hold back and write correctly, at least from what I remember so far).

[onorub]

~Necro Necro yay~

Been watching some conspiracy theory icebergs for fun and i'm surprised at the lack of "aliens are fallen angels" and "humanity has reset many times" theories. "Space voids were caused by alien singularity" and "God is a 4th-dimensional being" would've been neat to see too.

[Plk_Lesiak]

On 9/11/2021 at 1:20 PM, onorub said:

"humanity has reset many times"

Among the conspiracy theories that are just plain insanity or nonsensical new-age drivel, I find this one actually pretty fun. At the very least there's some genuine fodder for the idea that civilization in the Middle East flourished before being decimated by natural disasters and the "official" flow of history we learn about to day is an incomplete picture. Of course, the people that are into that shit 90% of the time make leaps of logic straight into Ancient Aliens territories.

[Zakamutt]

6 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Among the conspiracy theories that are just plain insanity or nonsensical new-age drivel, I find this one actually pretty fun. At the very least there's some genuine fodder for the idea that civilization in the Middle East flourished before being decimated by natural disasters and the "official" flow of history we learn about to day is an incomplete picture. Of course, the people that are into that shit 90% of the time make leaps of logic straight into Ancient Aliens territories.

I like the possibility of there having been many civilizations of intelligent creatures having evolved on earth before, which due to some quirk of their civilization just didn't leave enough of a trace to be identified by us before they got wiped out

[Skypie]

Confession : 
Recently I just started taking Japanese leason for JLPT test wish I can work at Japan someday but I don't think my parents allow me to leave country (I haven't told them yet). 
I only told them right now taking Jp leason for JLPT.
Also I don't know how yet to be able get jobs at Japan (simple way I don't have connection) 

Questions : 
1. Should I tell my parents that I'm planning to work at Japan? 
2. According to my Sensei I at least JLPT N4 to able work at Jp what do you guys think?

thank you for reading my boring confession

[Zalor]

Confession, I remember when this used to be the most active thread on the entire forums. Also, I think it's been over 5 years since I last posted here. Feels kind of nostalgic.

16 hours ago, Skypie said:

Questions : 
1. Should I tell my parents that I'm planning to work at Japan? 
2. According to my Sensei I at least JLPT N4 to able work at Jp what do you guys think?

thank you for reading my boring confession

1) I mean, you should eventually tell them assuming that you have a good relationship with them. Don't let them discourage you if they don't approve though. Imo it's really important to leave your homeland for a while when you are young. You don't have to leave permanently, but you should at least go somewhere that will force you to confront the world on your own. There's a reason that it's one of the oldest archetypal stories. It's the best way learn about yourself and personally develop. 

2) The easiest ticket into Japan is English teaching. And after all these years that is still the case. Once you're in Japan it's easier to get other type of work. You don't even need JLPT N5 to get a job as an assistant language teacher. But if you want work that isn't English teaching related, you'll need JLPT N2 minimum in most cases. 

I should also add that in rural areas in Japan, it's pretty common for foreigners from South East Asia to be hired to do farm related work. Basically if you're a 1st worlder the best ticket in is through English teaching, and if you're a 3rd worlder then manual labor work is the best way in. Of course if you already have JLPT N2 and some other skill (and/or a University degree) there are other options open to you. 

[Dergonu]

Confession, I haven't read and completed a visual novel, (outside of what I translate,) for over a year and a half now.

Also I still have a beard. Beards are cool.