Should we decide how to split and pacing first and start date?
Or we will create a home thread with placeholders and then discuss?
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Sorry for my late answer I am pretty busy with classes. I think we should decide the start date and pacing first imho.
@senkuma Do you want to run the home thread for Higurashi or should someone else do it?
I nobody else wants to do it I will run the home thread but like I wrote I am busy with classes the threads may be a little late.
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When should we start reading the Higurashi visual novel?
- 15th March
- 22th March
- 29th March
- 5th April
- Right Away
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I’m far too busy and would be likely to mess it up. Would be nice if someone more reliable could handle that
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I’m super unreliable but I will make the home thread it will just
take some time. No idea how to make an awesome thread or how to use discourse properly but I will figure something out.
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I have never run a home thread, I’m aware of how to do styling in discourse, but I might need help with stuff that it’s not as easy as copying other templates, such as how to split the game in parts.
Speaking of splitting the game in parts, it’s related to the club pacing, and is probably too tight to start the 15th of March.
If you are both busy I don’t mind giving it a try. Seeing as it’s going to be only a home thread and not divided per weeks I shouldn’t be making too many mistakes?
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It would be awesome if you could do the home thread.
About how to split the game. I checked it today and the game seems to be divided by TIPS screens. There 16 chapters, of course I have no idea if they are around the same length.
I would split the first Higurashi visual novel into four or five parts but I’m sure the other club members would hate me for that and would prefer a much slower pace.
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I’ll work on it later today, I’ll check the script and see potential ways to split it, and then we hold a vote for pacing, within the thread.
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Alright
Home thread is up here:
Pacing poll is here:
If there any mistakes or something I should change, do let me know. First time doing this.
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I managed to find a pretty consistent hook for the modified version that doesn’t require any extra regex or extensions, and doesn’t get mangled when you hot swap back and forth to english using the L key:
string:Replace (string,string)
Hooking into string:Equals and string:Concat was eating up a lot of resources, and they were seemingly spamming new updates multiple times per second. I tested this on a few reboots of the game today while setting it up and have yet to run into an issue with it.
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And for those who don’t want to play around with the Textractor software they can just straight up open the assets folder in the Steam version, the scripts are sorted by day, and in plain text.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Higurashi When They Cry\HigurashiEp01_Data\StreamingAssets\Scripts
It looks something like this:
That’s the first two lines of Day 1 so, no spoilers, but hidden just in case.
So it’s totally readable for finding and copy/pasting or whatever you need to do.
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is now in progress.
If there’s anyone undecided, remember that it’s possible to join without paying, no purchase is required as the first chapter is free in Steam.
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Sorry I was very busy and forgot that the club even exists.
It seems we need to start making nominations again.
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Title: SeaBed
Platform: PC, Switch
Places you can buy it from: Steam Nintendo Switch
Vndb Link: Here
Language difficulty: Intermediate jpdb.io entry
Game Length: 18-19 hours, 185.000 characters
Hookable: Yes
Voiced Audio: No (??)
Trigger Warnings: Don’t know
SeaBed is a yuri-themed mystery visual novel told through the perspectives of three separate characters: Mizuno Sachiko, a designer plagued by hallucinations of her past lover; Narasaki Hibiki, Sachiko’s friend and a psychiatrist researching the workings of human memories; and Takako, Sachiko’s former lover who has been rapidly forgetting her past, including how or why the two women drifted apart despite being together since childhood.
All three live in different worlds, but seek the same goal. To separate truth from illusion. To make sense of their own lives.
I tried to nominate this in the Yuri book club, but was told that it might be a better fit here. Let’s see!
This is a kinetic novel, no choices. It has a long prologue plus about ten chapters. With 185.000 characters (according to VNDB), I think we would have to spend about 10-15 weeks (or more) reading this.
I know that this club has been inactive for a long time. But would any of you be interested in reading SeaBed? Or one of the other currently nominated VNs?
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Definitely interested
Of the other VNs that have been mentioned, I’d be interested in:
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Great! Then we’re at least two 
I’m not sure if we should do a vote for SeaBed vs other VNs, or if I should just start an informal book club. What do you think? I don’t want to step on any toes by just barging in and starting a club!
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I say just go for it; if anyone gets offended you didn’t follow club procedure, they can come out of the woodwork and champion the VN club themselves, haha.
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People start clubs for random books on the forums all the time. You’re not stepping on anyone’s toes by doing it.
No reason to hold a vote. If anything that’s where you’d run the risk of stepping on someone’s toes, since @Natsuha is technically the person running this particular club - tho they haven’t been around in a while, and the club hasn’t seen any activity in a a year. (Natsuha, if you happen to see this - I’d be happy to participate & nominate some stuff, if the club does start up again)
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Thanks, both of you! The home thread for SeaBed is up.
Since this is an informal book club, we’ll not have a set weekly schedule. You can start whenever you want, and read as fast or as slowly as you want!
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I didn’t post here because I thought people were not interested in this club any more. Of course if people are interested we can revive the club.
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