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  1. THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER. I got my physical edition of Flowers in the mail today, and seeing as I already have the physical edition and the JAST download edition, I don't really need a third one, and so, I'll be giving the steam key away! To join the giveaway, simply reply to this thread, (just tell me why you want the game, or leave a cute picture or something,) and I'll use a random number generator later to determine the winner. (Even if you leave 9 replies, I'll only count you once, just saying.) Good luck!
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  2. The only comedy act here is his taste in VNs
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  3. Hello everyone! We're happy to announce that our Kickstarter campaign is now live and the «Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll» demo version is released! You can support us here or try out the demo here!
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  4. Having just gone through Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and making my way through KimiAru I'm finding my Japanese reading skills are better than I've given myself credit for. I'm kicking around the idea of translating a short game and seeing how that goes. However, complex hacking, coding patches or installation packages, etc. is not in my wheelhouse and not something I'm interested in learning. If the process is too complex or too much of a hassle for me to do, knowing me like I know me I'll get sick of it and say screw it long before the project is done. Here's where you can help me help you. I want to extract a line of text from the game, do some CTRL+C CTRL+F CTRL+V action, type in the English replacement and be done. If encryption needs to be broken, files need to be hacked or whatever else needs to be done to get it to the point where all I have to do is the translating, then someone will need to step up and get that done to get me in the game. I have three candidates for games to translate and don't have a preference between them. Making the process easy for me is going to be the primary deciding factor in which one I do. The candidates are: 1.Majikoi Drama CD vol.1 (the game on the CD, not the actual audio drama) 2.X-Change R 3.Koutetsu no Majo Annerose Get me to the point where the only work I have to do is the actual translating, and I'll give one of these a go.
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  5. Kaguya

    Trap VNs

    The appeal of them is that they're actually boys, though. If you're ignoring it, you're probably just better off reading something with flat girls.
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  6. As the Innocent Grey fanatic that I am I could simply not pass on this one besides it'd be a sort of redemption for me Also Flowers is pretty much one of the few yuri games I care about. Kitsune powah!
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  7. Jade

    Trap VNs

    Do you have a time to talk about our lord and saviour Mahiro-onee sama ?
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  8. I finally finished this mammoth beast a few days ago and have been letting it all sink in before sharing my thoughts on it. The first thing you need to understand is that you have no idea just how incredibly long it is. You think War and Peace is long? KimiNozo has almost twice as many LINES of text as War and Peace has WORDS. You think the 66 books that come together to make the Bible make a big book? KimiNozo wins again by a large margin - about 77,000 more lines than the Bible has words. If you decide to challenge this beast and a half, know it's going to be a large investment of time. Whatever you're thinking for length based on that, it's going to be longer. It took me a solid month to get through this putting in several hours per day. But the real question is, is it worth it? Should you hold your breath that the English translation will one day be completed? tl;dr - it depends. If you want more specific information, you're going to have to keep reading. I played the Latest Edition, which uses the AGES engine, and it definitely makes the gaming experience more enjoyable. Think going from Muv-Luv to Muv-Luv Alternative. It sounds like a small thing, but for something that will easily take 100+ hours the difference is substantial in the overall experience. Most of the game was redrawn for the new game and engine and the improvements are dramatic. Comparing (high school) Mitsuki in LE to the Mitsuki that showed up in the bonus scenes on the Special Fan Disk is like looking at two different people. Far more beautiful, far more detailed - in all ways she feels so much more real, vibrant and alive. Ordinarily I have limited tolerance for a game being released a million times with only minor improvements each time, but this difference is huge. YUGE even. Amazingly, there wasn't even a route for Mitsuki until the FOURTH time the game was released (if VNDB is to be believed). Going through this I'm amazed that it made it to the PC and 2 home consoles without anyone thinking that people might want to end up with the hot girl on the cover. Mind blown. The first thing I noticed right off the bat is that you really feel like you're in the same world as Muv-Luv Extra. Or to be more accurate, Muv-Luv Extra really feels like it takes place in the world of KimiNozo (which came first). It sounds small when I say it like this, but seeing the same backgrounds, hearing some of the same music in similar situations, the Hakuryou uniform and Sky Temple all come together to make you feel like you're in the same world in a way that the various KimiNozo and ML anime simply don't. Using the Japanese walkthrough I noticed there was virtually no overlap between Mitsuki and Haruka when it came to choices. Literally. Oh, you helped Haruka carry some papers in high school? You fucker! Mitsuki totally won't sex you three years later for that! When you think about it a little bit it doesn't seem like the things you do to get to Mitsuki's route should matter, given what happens to Haruka. Which brings me to one of the biggest problems I had with the game. Barely legal high school Mitsuki and short hair OL Mitsuki are two completely people. You see this a little bit in the anime, but given the (comparatively) short time you spend in the present in the anime when compared with the game, it's reasonable to think it's just dealing the triangle/guilt/stress/etc. Not so much with a larger sample size. Everything that made barely legal Mitsuki attractive from a personality standpoint is gone and replaced by a moody, brooding, depressing OL completely beaten down by life. She goes from being one of my favorite characters to someone I don't even want to be around. It's made worse by the fact that she's the laziest lay in eroge history. CG recycling is taken to a level I would never be able to do with a straight face. I lost count of how many times I was amazed to see the same CG yet again. While you get the feeling that high school Mitsuki would be an absolute freak who would give you a western porn star experience every time, OL Mitsuki is every boring AV idol you're ever seen in the sack. The situation is compounded by the three main "good" routes (OL Mitsuki, Haruka, Akane) being largely vacant of any happiness. It's one thing to overcome a horrible tragedy and have it lead to something good. That does not happen here. As soon as you think something is starting to go right, within five minutes all kinds of crap will break out and you'll be back to feeling bad for next few hours. The ending of Akane's route made it feel like they intentionally went out of their way to steal whatever happiness you have by being with Akane and ending it on a downer. The others didn't leave me feeling much better. To make matters worse, even when skipping the previously read messages the good/real/true/whatever routes aren't as different from each other as you'd think, or even all that different from the TV series. In retrospect, they did an incredible job of compressing about 50 hours of content down to 5. I was expecting added depth and character development that just doesn't happen. Like Mitsuki, Haruka also becomes a completely different person. In this case, they are changes for the better and consistent with the changes from the TV series. Suddenly she was able to speak without stuttering and getting too shy to complete a single sentence, her presence is warmer and the fact that no one bothered to cut her hair but did continue to braid it as it got longer is very becoming. It makes no sense, but it's for the better, so I'll fill in the blank with her subconscious mind working to improve her personality while it didn't have much else going on and Fumio giggling while playing with her hair instead of complaining. While some of the bad endings take BAD to a whole new level (more on one in particular later), generally the "bad" routes are far more interesting, and many don't even feel bad when compared to everything that happens in the good routes. In some routes there is a fair amount of sexual domination and girls pleading just to be the mistress. OL Mitsuki in her old uniform is such a tease, so close yet so far from the girl I love. Given that we see all of the women are willing to share to some extent, it's really disappointing that there isn't a perfect harem route where you find a way to make Mitsuki, Haruka and Akane all happy by being with you at the same time. If there were such a route, I wouldn't complain about the heartache so much. By the time you're done there's a feeling of damned if you do and damned slightly differently if you don't. LE adds after stories for our three main heroines, and I don't have nice things to say about any of them. (Spoiler: no new H scenes either.) In Mitsuki's you meet her parents in what feels like the most boring scenario they could come up with, and the other two go back to the formula of making you feel as bad as possible and leaving you highly unsatisfied at the end. Again, after releasing this game what feels like 10 times and everything that's been added there's still no harem route where we can make chicken salad out of chicken shit just one time? Fuck you Age. That's a lot of bad things - we need something to pick this back up. Fumio is AWESOME! The busty red haired nurse you might remember from the anime certainly delivers. There was always something about her, from her voice to exact body proportions from the neck down that just drove me nuts. In retrospect I can say they translated that from the game to the anime perfectly. Most importantly, this route doesn't waste your time and jerk you around before cock teasing and half delivering before taking it away at the end. There is a GLORIOUS H scene, what happens happens afterward and it ends. It tells its story, gets you off and gets out. Perfect. Not the ending I would have wanted, but as she's not one of the real heroines anyway I'll overlook it. Your mileage may vary if she doesn't get your motor running. Kouzuki Motoko, Haruka's doctor, is the older sister of ML's Yuuko-sensei. You don't get a route with her, but it's not a big loss. Not only is she smoking 24/7 (ewww) but she just doesn't have the raw sex appeal that Yuuko-sensei and their other sister from KimiIta have. Nice tits, but you'll live without them. Trust me. In talking about side characters that brings me to what may be the worst thing, not only in the game, but the worst route I've ever been down in any VN. I can't say enough about how much I hate this, so I won't even try. When I have words that strong for a woman with an amazing rack, it's bad. I just can't even with her normal routes or H scenes after that. This made me not complain that Fumio only had a short route and one H scene, because I'm pretty confident they would have found a way to take away everything I like about her and completely ruin my memories if given the opportunity. Also part of the LE package is the main story from the Special Fan Disk, again updated to the AGES engine. There is a lot of crossover with the main routes and the skip previously read feature in LE will skip over the parts you've already read in SFD, another significant improvement. You FINALLY get an H scene withOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG soooooo hot mai waifu high school Mitsuki (although it comes in a bit below expectations), tooooootally 18 9th grader Akane, short haired Haruka and 2 with that green haired bitch who is dead to me. Seriously, out of all of the choices she's the one that gets 2 routes?!?! Someone at Age is clearly a Mitsukiphobe. Unfortunately they didn't add more scenes with Mitsuki wearing this amazing kimono, which was one of the most beautiful expressions of feminine beauty I've ever seen. Again, your mileage may vary, but I sat here with my jaw hanging down at how incredible this was. In all fairness, high school Mitsuki tends to be incredible no matter what she wears, casual clothes, school uniform, swimsuit...but this was on another level. Overall, SFD is much more enjoyable than the main game. It doesn't go out of its way to make everything go wrong at every possible moment, and lets you have your little moments of fun. It's extremely short, comparatively speaking. It took maybe 7 or 8 hours skipping the messages displayed in the main game to finish it. I think the best way to describe it is that it captures the essence of everything enjoyable about Muv-Luv Extra with none of what dragged it down. There are 10 additional short segments on SFD not included in LE (or I managed not to find/unlock them if they are there). This was when the difference in the engine and the redrawn art really stood out. As mentioned Mitsuki had the most dramatic improvements, but others clearly benefited from the higher resolutions and redraws. The first 9 are very short but last one was a good hour or so. It's a pretty epic and worthwhile what if story outside of the story's canon worth your time. As long as you've been through Muv-Luv Unlimited, Akane Maniax and Daikuuji Kiki Ippatsu that is. It's assuming you're familiar with all these characters and stories, which left me a bit lost with the Daikuuji stuff. Pedophiles will be disappointed that Daikuuji looks like a short adult with her clothes off, but Mayu and Amakawa could easily pass for 8. From a storyline and fapping standpoint I thought all of these wasted my time, although Daikuuji's may set up some wacky fun in Daikuuji Kiki Ippatsu. Bla bla bla text wall. Yes or no? Overall, it's a very mixed bag. The good is really good, the bad is really bad to really REEEEEEEAALLLY bad. Ordinarily once I step away from a game for a few days I tend to remember far more of the good than the bad. That wasn't the case here. Everything that dragged it down in the moment has stayed with me and I really don't have any desire to return. The amount of time when it's simply not enjoyable compared to the amount of time it is enjoyable is quite large. I rated it a 5 on VNDB, but that was primarily due to technical aspects and inclusion of the main story of SFD bringing up the all around score. When it's good it's among my favorites, unfortunately that only covers 15ish hours of the 100+ hour experience. The only way to know if you will like it enough for it be worth the time investment is to actually go through it. I could have gone off on several other profanity-laden rants on creative decisions I didn't like, but I think there is enough here for you to get the idea. Everything that was good has been discussed. If the things I dislike resonate with you as things you dislike, you'll probably have the same sense of disappointment I do now. If you're looking for something to fuck with you, make sure you're never happy for long and come up with constant bullshit to pull the rug out from under you just to make sure you don't accidentally start enjoying yourself, you have definitely found the game you've been looking for.
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  9. Hayashi

    Trap VNs

    I often like to read something fresh, and with shock value. It was a pleasant surprise, before reading any trap VNs. I was not expecting much (Well it's just cute boys). Now I am about half way into Josou Kaikyou it's really not that bad, they are pretty cute, super flat (oohhh no shit but I like flat chest short hair characters, Asuho from Hoshimemo but I am not into traps(?)) also voiced by female actresses. One important factor is to learn how to ignore the sausage, just try to not see it and imagine it's not there. And you will perceive them as cute flat girls, and doing it in the wrong hole.
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  10. God bless my friend, I hope you have a wonderful day and give the copy to me.
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  11. Yo, can I possibly get some free stuff? I want it because it's free. Enjoy this random Prisma Illya gif I found.
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  12. The reason why I want the game? So it can sit in my virtual library to gain virtual dust for virtually forever. I didn't even look up what the VN was until after I posted this... I have no interest in it, but free stuff is free.
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  13. What he said. She's Kokura Asahi (real name Sakurakouji Saika) from Tsuriotsu 2.
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  14. Another forum game here? Well, it's not like I'm interested in the key itself, because I didn't know of how using Steam key to be honest and I could use another way to get this (If you know what I mean). Nevertheless, good luck for anyone who interested on this. PS - The reason? Well, just want to follow the game here, and the term was very simple anyway (Just reply). PPS - To answer Mitch here, it was MC from Tsuki no Yorisou 2 there. And if you want to know more, just click here.
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  15. littleshogun

    Trap VNs

    Trap VN, huh? Is it the kind of VN that you must set it first and activate it later? Wait, that's not trap VN, it's trap card from Yugioh card game. Anyway, about trap VN I must admit that I think all of trap VN MC there was quite cute. And while I'm quite interested with that kind of VN, for now only one of trap VN was translated (Otoboku), so to be able to read trap VN other than Otoboku translated we must either learn Japsnese or wait until it was translated. As for trap heroine, no comment although maybe it'll be interesting for those who like BL and girly face there (Feel frre to like those though). The conclusion here would be in regard of trap VN, I only interested with trap MC here.
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  16. I want it so I can hold another giveaway myself. I'm sure people will like me then!
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  17. Reason: Because Innocent Grey, and I like yuri dammit. Cute pic: Why, a trap of course. Traps tend to have a better art than waifus, no? Heheheheh. *evil laugh*
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  18. DarkZedge

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  20. JAPAN: - Superior Mental Capabilities. - Superior Aesthetical Senses. - Superior Emotional Intelligence. - Superior Storytelling Skills. - Superior Musical Talent. - Superior Culture. FACTS.
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  21. Dergonu

    Trap VNs

    ... *sits in the bushes and watches her (him) with monoculars*
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  23. I used dv8cag to get my copy of Rose Guns Days off of Amazon, and I can't recommend them enough. Talked to a real person, they charged a reasonable fee (through Paypal, so I felt safe using them), and it was a super easy process. I don't believe they have any sort of rules against 18+ products. The only things they don't ship are things with batteries.
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  24. for the love of god stay away with everything you can.
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  25. Who even uses Statuses anymore? Don't mind the ugly grays, I will use them to indicate whenever I'm in Despair Mode aka one of those busy as fk periods with skoo + work overwhelming my ass that I probably will only be able to spam Fuwa a couple times a week instead of 24/7
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  26. Teacher: "What's worse than the typical meet'n'greet all teachers force all students to do? Forcing them to do it in a language they barely understand while I sit there and listen to them!"
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  27. I don't know why people thought it would be any different. There are plenty of shitty writers in every country; simply being born in the country VNs came from does, in no way, mean that you aren't a shitty writer. It's almost like everyone forgot the legions of shitty Japanese VNs that get made and then forgotten about in under a year.
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  29. He's a "nice guy" but he doesn't mess around if someone seriously pisses him off. He's the sort to try and show mercy when possible, but I wouldn't call him a wimp. He's quick to make up his mind on matters, and acts quickly. A bit dense though at times and doesn't always read the mood very well. Personally I liked him well enough - at least compared to alot of the typical anime protags.
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  30. [Dons cynical hat]Random aspiring doujin author plucked from school and paid peanuts ... probably. Japanese developers will pay more than whatever Winged Cloud can afford to dish out, and provide more stable and consistent employment. Therefore, whoever's been plucked from the populace is someone who isn't good enough to work for them. I wouldn't expect some great new level of writing, here.[/Removes cynical hat]
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  31. >learn japanese >read black cyc vns >profit!
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  32. seems i fail to get how having japanese writers automatically means the title(s) will be of good, or satisfactionary quality, seriously i just dont get it. them stemming from a specific nationality does in the end mean shit, because it solely depends on one having talent/skills or lacking these, regardless where he/she hails from; plus we all know there´s also a more than large amount of truly bad writers roaming the lands of nihon, so yeah that´s that. no idea why or when this screwed up perception came up of anything japan being superior by default, be it voice acting, writing, settings or whatsnot. sure, if included does make it apparently more easy to appeal/being marketed, but works such as valhalla, most stuff by mouse or others whom are still bend on using their own brains and ideas, despite common believes, keep proving them delusionists wrong. edit: it´s undoubtably a right step in the more right direction when starting to hire writers who actually are ones, not just some clueless weaboos trying to come up with something, without knowing anything. edit2: and always those same hollow and borderline dishonest excuses, like "we didn´t want to make the setting japanese at the beginning, but it does fit the story better", "the op is a japanese one, because it does fit the story better", "they have japanese names, because it gives off a more authentic vibe". holy hell please stop. just admit the sole fucking reason is for the product to appeal to a more broad audience aka putting a possible increase of sales before originality/quality. seriously those are just abunch of self-apologetic excuses to somehow justify emulating the popular, instead of try gambling abit and coming up with real works of their own. no matter what, oelvns will always stay oelvns and never ever turn into their japanese pendants, forwhy it´s the very nature of oelvns, because they are created by non-japanese studios in the first place, defining them as such. on another note what´s even the point in making oelvns when its devs start going for japanese artists (writers/voice acting/visual-artists)?
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  33. *post an e-rant about SJWs and "anti-whiteness" on a weeaboo forum* Sexpat detected!
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  34. Are there any asian actors in Hollywood with bigger box-office draws than Scarlett Johansson? Movies aren't about work, Lucius. Or integrity. They're made as fast and efficiently as possible to gather as much cash as they possibly can. Unless you're George Miller or Guillermo del Toro.
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  36. I know that for Japanese VN campaigns Physical Game copies is a very popular reward, for OELVN (well basically a term used for any VN that is not from Japan irregardless of the fact wether it is originally in english or not) it is not as popular but still gets some additional non-negligible amount of pledging (depending on the prices and popularity of the project's campaign). Here is The Human Reignition Project Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/the-human-reignition-project-an-english-visual-nov/description, one of the most funded OELVNs on kickstarter and if you calculate the backing tiers for the physical rewards of the game: Amount Pledged: 4000 USD from 100 backers (40 USD Early Bird Reward Tier Limited to 100 Spots, Physical Copy of the Game) Amount Pledged: 800 USD from 16 backers (50 USD Reward Tier, Physical Copy of the Game) Amount Pledged: 780 USD from 13 backers (60 USD Reward Tier, Physical Copy of the Game + Digital Copy of the Game) Amount Pledged: 1120 USD from 16 backers (70 USD Reward Tier, Physical Copy of the Game + Physical Copy of the OST) Amount Pledged: 640 USD from 8 backers (80 USD Reward Tier, Physical Copy of the Game + Physical Hardcover Artboot) Amount Pledged: 10000 USD from 100 backers (100 USD Reward Tier, Physical Copy of the Game + Physical Copy of the OST + Physical Hardcover Artbook + Kickstarter Exclusive Character Print) Amount Pledged: 1250 USD from 5 backers (250 USD Reward Tier Limited to 5 Spots, Physical Copy of the Game + Physical Original Character Illustration) You will see that the total adds up to 18590 USD, which is significant enough to warrant physical reward tiers for the game. They even recently opened a Backerkit Pre-Orders page to offer physical rewards to the late comers: https://the-human-reignition-project-an-english-visual-nov.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders which is still additional money brought in post-funding thanks to the inclusion of physical rewards.
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  37. Hello again, Fuwanovel! The big news is here! We're announcing a Kickstarter campaign that will take place in September! Original announcement here: http://sovietgames.su/en/kick-start-it/ We are also launching the new site for "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll". It contains new info, screenshots, and music! Check it out! http://lmr.su/en/ Additionally, you can find our Prefundia page with a draft of Kickstarter campaign here: http://prefundia.com/projects/view/love-money-rocknroll-–-a-visual-novel-set-in-the-eighties/9476/ All the info in the topic's first post is now up to date! Please tell us what you think!
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  38. Hello, everyone! We would like to return to updating this topic regularly and keep folks here and Fuwanovel up-to-date with the situation with LMRnR. In the time since our last post here, we have released a bunch of stuff, including an early alpha promo video, new art, and other news. You can find more information about how we've been doing by reading through our blog. In the most recent of our updates thus far, we have talked about the situation with the alpha builds and the upcoming demo (it should be ready fairly soon!) and a thing very important for any game – the GUI. We are also glad to show everyone a sample of our in-game menu: And we would be extremely grateful for any kind of feedback. Please, tell us what you think! More news, GUI, and other interesting stuff coming soon™!
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  39. I accept hormones as an explanation. I mean, really, if both kids are horny enough to fuck at school, in hospitals or on the living room floor of the public dorm, I'll buy "love" at first sight.
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  40. This. So much this. And not just this, any variant that involves a girl taking out porn magazines out of the protagonists room and then being mad and/or destroying it. Like, are you fucking serious? It's not your stuff, it doesn't matter what it is, you have absolutely no right to destroy it and I could sue you for property damage.
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  41. It's been a month since the last blog post, time for a new one! There's some new info and new art, tell us what you think! http://sovietgames.su/en/one-small-step/
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