Hello everyone,
Many people have sent me messages, but I have not been online for days. I would like to reply to them, but recently I’ve developed a RSI injury and have both my wrists in braces, so I can’t really type or write. I’ll get back to everyone on the game when things are better.
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Oh. RIP.
Get better soon fam 
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Take your time! RSIs r shit. look after urself
Hope you get better soon
I keep having the issue where no matter what gender you play as, it refers to you with male pronouns/male titles. Is that just me? Other than that, I’m in love with this demo !
Just so y’all know, I’m not dead, but I’m still unable to write due to my injury. It’s not easy going, especially when I have the most important exam of my damn life next month…
DWMU is fully planned out in excruciating detail (with 6 planned extended ending sequences) and quite a few people are currently testing a version with more chapters. Chapter 4 out of 5 is pretty much done. If you have any questions, I’ll be able to answer them!
(Also thank you to those people who voted DWMU as a best WIP of 2016. Warmed my heart.)
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wow… i wish i can be that few people 
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I’m not dead, but I’m still unable to write due to my injury.
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i didn’t know about that 
are you okay? i can only say get well soon… and please dont push yourself too hard, okay 
just take your time 
Cool! I can’t wait to see them soon.
As for your injury and your exams, I hope it gets better and I wish you the best for your exams!
Good luck and O hope you feel better. 
But I can assure you, it’s anything but light-hearted by the end.
Call me cheesy, but when I saw that I automatically thought that the PC was actually an AI and their companion(s) had tried to help them become… well, something more. But the powers that be didn’t like that so they took away their memories, and used the data that was their memories to create that which the characters have to defeat in an attempt to get rid of them in a needlessly sadistic way. It’d also explain the story/game title. I couldn’t fathom why, but it made me sad the second I read it.
I hope you’re fairing better. I haven’t been following this project for long, but injuries suck. I loved that Tumblr jab. Funny. 
Romantic scenes are hard to write, though… they’re so… argh, I get embarrassed READING them! How did you stomach WRITING them?! Also, the light-heartedness of this story so far has me fearing how slowly and painfully it will tear my heart out when we reach the end.
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After looking at the links, I realised that the stats themselves were references and I felt so much shame… WILDFIRE~!!! I am immune~ Wildfire! Because of you~ Wildfire! I’m fire proof~ Wildfire! Because of you~ Wildfire!
Lol those are some interesting theories you have there. I can safely tell you that’s not what happens but I can also tell you that I’ve been planning the endings to this game since April 2015 and have an elaborate gauntlet of pain available for readers unlucky enough to get the bad ends.
Writing the romance scenes is pretty fun by now. I was worried at the start because I didn’t want to drive the ratings up but once I realised the game would probably get a 17+ rating for other reasons (gambling, alcohol refs etc) I kind of embraced them. Not that the game is overly raunchy or anything, and there are still as Asterius calls them ‘classily-placed fade-to-blacks’ but I was agonising a bit about having to keep it PG.
Also, since the romance is optional, I figured that anyone who’s reading the romance scenes WANTS to read them. I always get mad how games (not CoG) with romance subplots are often so childish in their handling of relationships. Playing otome games where the heroine is afraid that a mere kiss is too scandalous irritates me a little. That isn’t a well-characterised representation of modern relationship dynamics. I’ve studied Victorian literature more racy than that. Humanity isn’t shy about portraying romance in other media formats (books, TV etc), why do we seem so much more shy about it in games?
Sorry for that rant about romance in games but I’m sure most people here will understand.
Just as a fun fact I actually submitted Len’s final romance scene (which nobody has seen yet 
) as part of my coursework for my Advanced-Level Creative Writing exam. I got 100%. Len romance is state-approved high-quality lovin’.
I can still barely type but the doctor says it won’t last forever, so there’s that hope… It’s causing me a lot of grief in my day to day work and college prep but at least it will only be a few weeks… I know some poor people who get RSI for years. Heart goes out to 'em.
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Pls don’t be mad, but I forgot about this thread! So sorry to the auther.
I’m not mad! I’m happy you’re still interested!
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During my media law course a few years back, the main argument made for that was because games, unlike those other media formats (though take note GoT, if you fully show cute women I’d like a full view of the cute guys too. 
) invite interactive participation by the gamers and are thus “sex-simulators” that will destroy “real” relationships and the very fabric of society, according to the mainly Christian and conservative jurists who keep hammering and yammering on about it.
Which state? Also they kind of had to, Len is super awesome and far too cute and adorable. 
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Well that’s good then.
TBH my favourite RO is Len, though when I played through it said the “hots” stat was 0% is that/should that be correct.
Oh, England. Here ‘the state’ just means ‘the country.’ Here we’re allowed to do creative writing as one of our 4 advanced, final years school qualifications. It’s pretty great (although the government are getting rid of it next year because what government needs creativity? 
).
Neat to hear about the reasons behind inhibitions in the games industry. Reminds me a little of the tiny fandom meme ‘the Pope bans Mass Effect’ from aaaages ago. (Does anyone remember that?)
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Ah, Perfidious Albion and the ongoing Saga of the adventures of Theresa in Brexitland.
Sad to hear it though, frankly speaking, it is hardly any better here with the populists and conservatives teaming up to gut any and all arts and culture programmes.
Well you wouldn’t be if you had to read up on thousands of pages worth of that drivel, then write your own case supporting that drivel and then finally argue said case in moot court. I swear sometimes I think law school teachers are sadists who must have come from a long line of drill-sergeants.
I also don’t know if those are the real reasons, but since “it’s a sin and therefore we should win” tends to not work all that well in court anymore most lawyers, when hired for this, will usually try to argue a variation on the “romance” in games means sex, or porn simulator and that, much like with violence, sex in games leads to sex-addiction coupled with dangerous and harmful sexual conduct in real-life. Therefore games are a special category and should be treated different from other, non-interactive media.
You know, I’m going to start having to call the Netherlands “Perfidious Holland”… 
Also, I don’t think I’ve commented here before, but I really like the game, and it’s still hard to choose which of the guys is cuter. (And I think you already said no polyamory. Drat.)
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You take that back!!! 
Holland is just one third of the country. It’s the perfidious Netherlands (but that was only back when we were still a great power on the world stage, today we’re just a tiny country).
And Albion is only… (checks internet) 86% of ours… (Okay, that’s a slightly larger proportion…)
While our perfidy continues unchecked…
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