Welcome to the first of hopefully many Monthly Discussion Threads. Questions, Recommendations, and more are all welcome here! Anything that you don't think deserves it's own thread can also go here!

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cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/110101

"Like a small animal"... except in the chest region

Inspired by u/sumiredabestgirl's post and a follow-up.

Source: Liar Liar S1E4 7:06

We've been working on a guide to help players on all major GNU/Linux distributions play visual novels for the past few weeks. This guide is designed to be used by both beginners and experts, with minimal need to touch the command line.

openSUSE wins the award for "never had to touch the terminal" and "simplest setup instructions", but Fedora is a close second.

While there are a few existing visual novel guides for GNU/Linux around, we've tried to fill in the gaps we noticed. We've put a lot of research into this guide and ensured it is accurate while remaining simple and approachable.

If you're interested, start here!

We have an extensive Troubleshooting section on our Problems page if you're having trouble getting visual novels to work, too.

I wrote this guide with a lot of help from two other people, including /u/neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space. It’s available on our community wiki, https://wiki.comfysnug.space. As with all pages on our wiki, it’s licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, meaning you’re free to share, remix, and build on the content as long as you credit us.

We also have some other pages you may find useful:

• If you're looking for something to play, check out our Recommendations page.
• If you want to know where and how to buy a visual novel you want to play, our comprehensive Buying page will help you out.
• And if you want to read a visual novel in Japanese, our Reading in Japanese page offers a lot of advice and points you to some useful software to make the process easier.

This one is in a slightly different format than the others but the symbols should actually be consistent somewhat.

All are welcome to join. I look forward to seeing you guys there~!

Mine:

Mayuri's ending in Steins;Gate My Darling's Embrace: As one of the rare Okabe/Mayuri shippers, finishing my S;G experience with this is one of the best story payoffs I experienced.

Tomoyo After true ending: Very heartbreaking and IMO much better than the canon Clannad After Story ending. If I have infinite money, I'll have an anime produced out of it.

Not actually 100% sure when this is from. pls gib sauce

2012 edition. It's quite interesting to see what visual novels were popular 10 years ago.

I also had the 2017 edition floating around, so I figured I'd upload it, too. There are 'some' differences between the 2015 and 2017 versions, after all.

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/99189

heavier and faster breathing

Kath: "Now where'd I put that crossbow bolt...."

begins hyperventilating

Source: Evenicle

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/99188

Kath's smugg face is too good.

Source: Evenicle

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/99187

If you find someone that gets your type of "weird", though...

Source: Evenicle

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/554575

Made a List for Physical collectors for the NS

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/94193

"Your sentence is... death by snu snu."

Well, that's their reality. The actual reality for most, on the other hand, looks closer to...

Sources:

• Anime: Isekai Smartphone S2E12 15:49
• VN: Evenicle Chapter 2

I have been reading a few VNs since the last years but I have not found any recommendation about a Visual Novel about vampires. If you know a good VN about vampires please recommend me one (I like stories about vampires)

MangaGamer announced several new titles at Anime Expo.

JAST made several new announcements and updated us on some existing projects at their panel.

Other news

Today I learned that Saiya-Saiga has a ディスクレス field for all the visual novels listed on the site. The field essentially labels whether the release is encumbered by DRM or not; whether it performs a check to ensure the disk is in the drive on first startup.

If the developer has provided a DRM-removal patch, as in the case of August with Aiyoku no Eustia, that is also listed with a link to download it.

This should be very useful for players looking for DRM-Free releases.

Anime has slowly grown into a global phenomenon, but visual novels are far more niche. Many visual novels remain untouched by localization companies, and sometimes the localizations we do get are…lackluster.

Often, the best way to experience a visual novel is in the original language—Japanese. Whether you’re already interested in learning Japanese, or want to learn Japanese purely to play visual novels in their original language, both motivations are perfectly valid. Visual novels are a great way to learn Japanese, because you get exposure to both the written and spoken language.

I've written a guide on how you can learn Japanese by playing visual novels with the help of a friend who made some suggestions to improve it, and it's available on our wiki, wiki.comfysnug.space. As with all pages on our wiki, it's licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, meaning you're free to share and re-post the content.

If you're interested in learning Japanese or have already begun, I hope you find this guide useful. It isn't meant to be a dedicated guide on learning Japanese, but there are some tools you might not know about that will make your life easier.

If you have any additions or corrections to offer for this guide, or are interested in working on our other pages, you can sign up for the wiki here.

Over 200 games are discounted until July 9th on the JAST storefront.

• All releases are DRM-Free
• Reminder that you can filter by Japanese support; 29 games with Japanese support are currently discounted

Includes a lot of nukige, but also some plot-focused ones like:

• Hanachirasu
• Aokana
• Flowers series
• Muramasa

the novel is about 6 hours long according to VNDB

Heya Neo! First contribution here~

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/68002

It's a good thing Gurigura's not actually like this.

VN source in title.

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/33788

Repost of an old meme for another community.

"The light adds 2.5 meters."

Title reference for those that don't get it.

Sources:

• Top panel: u/sumiredabestgirl's meme
• VN: Evenicle Apocrypha
• Original meme format by TerminalMontage

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/596930

anyone else here that used to be on r/visualnovels or r/otomegames? i'm playing through jack jeanne right now and having a blast. what VNs have you all been playing/reading lately?