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Why do I hate you all of a sudden?

Behold, the ULTIMATE EROGE REDDIT THREAD.
 
Please thank me for enlightening you and
 

TIL that AnoHana's ED is actually the fourth version. Now I know why the AnoHana version is also called "10 Years After". I feel so dumb for not realizing it sooner.
1st version (2001):
2nd version (2008):
 
3rd version (2010):
 
4th version (2011):
Live version:
 

Oh my God.  If this article is true, and the Sol Press CEO did not give an interview in a bad mood ...
 And the VN market in the West is so saturated that players simply have no money to buy novels ...
 What to say about the countries of the second and third world?
 I live in Russia.  And honestly, I can call this country the third world country.  I never hope to see official translations of VN into Russian, this is just a useless idea.  Once in the West, where everything is bad, and if the English language (the main language of the world) novels do not pay off... What to say about other countries and translations into other languages?
Only silent...
 I don’t want to talk about my life and expenses (I was politely asked to shut up when I started doing this on the forum), but if I can, I buy games, although I know perfectly well that I don’t have time or energy for them.
 I do not think that +1 copy, especially for the Russian regional price (1/4 of the original price) can solve something, but I am happy to support those VNs hat interest me.
 Sol Press pleasantly surprised me by picking up the great Witch's Garden, as well as Happiness 2.
 But Windmill and other companies are so little known among all the others... Niche eroge studios...
 That I have a feeling that these VNs are needed only by 2.5 anonymous.
 This is sad.
 And, apparently, the employees of Sol Press themselves really like these VNs, which is probably why they are working at a loss just to see their favorite title published officially.
 Thank you, Sol Press.  I would cry if I were you.
We have very, very similar tastes.  I am glad that you have the means and opportunities to localize VN in the West, and ... Those who, let's be honest, are not needed by anyone (almost).
 So I will support you to the end.
 (I bought Majo Koi Nikki on the first day of release and am very happy. And you?)
Sorry for my English.

Tl;dr support the industry and buy games! In a niche market like this, individual sales can literally make a difference.

https://imgur.com/a/RBDOnJn
 
Special thanks to @Sonikun4 on Twitter for archiving his current Rewrite readthrough on Twitter through screenshots.

Trust your instincts next time?

I guess it's both counter-intuitive and kind of depressing, but I don't see another answer unless we include a concept of soul (in some form). I mean, just a small experiment: how much you can control what you're thinking? How much do you control how you react to things? You make "choices" every other moment, but are you enacting your free will, or are just your past experiences, present incentives, subconcious codes of conduct and reflexes (etc. etc.), all coded in the form of neural networks and electrical currents in your brain, coming together to create an action?
The answer is irrelevant anyways. Our lives are liniar stories, with just one set of circumstaces we'll encouter and exacly one set of actions we'll perform in reaction to them (multiverse theories aside, but even those are about random chance rather than some methaphysical concept of self-determined actors). Alternative universes exist in books and our imaginations, they may even haunt us, but that doesn't make them any more real or our actions any more independent. Moral systems exist to give us the incentives to do the right things, not to give us salvation. Moral judgment, both external or internalized, exists to dissuade us from causing harm to others or breaking the accepted order of things. I personally find this vision way more clean and appealing than some higher plains of existance where our consciousness would reside, above the obvious limitations of the material world. That would make the whole thing utterly confusing.

But isn't that concept coming mostly from before people had any understanding of how human brain works? It's kind of hard to treat "motivations" as anything more than another form of stimuli, just "internal" one rather than "external". You still approach every situation with one set of internal motivations and external stimuli, resulting in some kind of action – not "predetermined" by some cosmic influence, but determined by this incredibly complex net of factors that are fully beyond your control. It's pretty inconvenient for most ethical systems, but still, it's hard to escape.

You younglings and your technowhats and soulless machines.

"This stick of water with skin is better than this ball of water with skin!"