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Hang on... so all this time you guys have been saying it's all about the context and intention behind the words, but when the word is used in the context of describing a person who is deaf (in the case, Shizune), it's only offensive if combined with 'deaf'? You're getting better at putting words in...

I think we rode some rollercoaster with a ton of loops at least 3 times at Emi's request. You know, Hisao did kind of act stupid earlier, but I don't think Emi would try to outright murder him because of that - because that's what this amounts to: There's a reason those rides don't admit people wit...

I've never understood why anyone would watch a playthrough of KS on Youtube. As far as I can tell there are three reasons to watch a playthrough: 1) You can't afford or don't want to pay for the game in question or you use the video as a demo before you buy the game. KS is free and downloading it co...

She sniffles and wipes away a tear or two, and I lay there and stroke her hair. "lie" Well… A bit heavy on the drama, aren't you? And I was going to say that even after the first part. Isn't this supposed to be half a year before graduation? Reding this scene I felt like it was two days off… As for...

...If they choose to feed otherwise harmless terms with negative power, that's their choice. My choice, meanwhile, is to not pointlessly tarnish harmless combinations of letters with arbitrary negative effect that serves no purpose but to empower bigots while restricting language for the rest of us...

From my idea of a rational perspective, the reasonable approach is that if a group doesn't want to have a certain word applied to them, then one asks, "So, what term do you prefer?" and then uses their term when addressing them. This may not reach lexical standards, but it serves social purposes. I...

Clearly 'nigger' is not a negative trait and 'mute' is, in terms of what they mean: 'nigger' from 'nigra' = 'black' (i.e. positively coloured) and 'mute' = 'without sound' (etc) (i.e. negative in some sense related to noise making) If this were from someone else I would think they were trolling and...

Calling someone a mute would be offensive, though. It really depends on how you use the term. Even there the offense is probably not because of the "mute" part. Calling a person a anything is mostly considered rude, because it reduces a person to one singular trait, while using an adjective is simp...

My point about 'why can't I when there are equal alternatives' is that if they are truly equal, then you do indeed have a choice. So that choice becomes, "Of two equal alternatives, do I use the one that offends you or the one that doesn't?" This is a choice of civilised societies: given two equal ...

I think your description of the choices is inaccurate. How so? I already explained it in the post you quoted. But specifically, whether you get advice from the Nurse doesn't matter at all, and the decision to stay with Emi's Mom could only loosely be considered getting advice. I'd rather say becaus...

I'm sure Emi is well aware she's likely to outlive Hisao by potentially 40 years or more, and likely doesn't like being reminded of that, not that I can blame her. I'm not sure where everyone gets that idea: "Compared to other heart problems, people with your condition usually tend to live long liv...

That's not really hidden. It's also right in the VN itself.

"Naomi, sit down. There's no point avoiding it.” It's only September, we've practically only just started our second term! We can't leave this topic 'til last minute! Why "only" if she wants to stress the urgency? Nice chapter, though the name change threw me off as well... Also because I'd never h...

Emi: 37.5% (3/8) bad 62.5% (5/8) good …based on listening to advice or not, two or three times between three possible choice points. I'm not sure if the way you arrived at these numbers is correct, but the numbers themselves seem to be - if the flowchart of Geekahedron is correct. I'm not quite sur...

Again - do you have any suggestions on how I might go about improving it? Not really... I can offer advice on technical stuff, but threre's not much wrong about that in your story. Like I said, if I wrote a story like that I would take it in a completely different direction, and that is not the sto...