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[Silentcook]

To the best of my knowledge, it's just what we were able to get ahold of for the photo. Good one.

Mumble grumble frikken frakken bleeding writers

[ParagonTerminus]

Minor and totally irrelevant question:

Why is Baidu listed as a spider on the "Who's Online" list, when on pretty much all other forums I've been on call it a bot? Is it some sort of developer joke?

[Comrade]

Minor and totally irrelevant question:

Why is Baidu listed as a spider on the "Who's Online" list, when on pretty much all other forums I've been on call it a bot? Is it some sort of developer joke?

Only creeps and spies look at who's online.
And you know, comrade

[CoffeeDrive]

Can we have an offtopic subforum?
I was genuinely surprised there wasnt one.

[Megumeru]

Are you guys planning to hold a booth on the winter Comiket?

[Aura]

Minor and totally irrelevant question:

Why is Baidu listed as a spider on the "Who's Online" list, when on pretty much all other forums I've been on call it a bot? Is it some sort of developer joke?

The kind of bot it is (and the others) is called a Spider because it "crawls the web". It's not unusual at all.

[Aura]

Can we have an offtopic subforum?
I was genuinely surprised there wasnt one.

I don't like the idea. The function of off topic forum is to inflate community interaction and cohesion by getting people to talk about whatever and to get to know each other. At the danger of sounding patronising or condescending, we're not awfully interested in that kind of community thing. I understand that the discussion space of Katawa Shoujo is limited and at this point possibly running out, and I think some of you guys sort of want to be internet friends and keep the community together, but building a community or fan following was never a goal of ours so stuff like off topic forums haven't interested us.

Remember that these aren't some KS fan forums, these are the public section of 4LS's development forums (and because of that, we've for the past 6 years ran them in a tyrannical fashion, entirely ignoring how you guys possibly might want the community to be ran). For an offtopic forum to exist, the entire identity of these forums would need to change, from a KS community to a community of people brought together because they happened to like KS. This is what happened with the KS general threads over at 4chan. I'm sure there's merit to going the same way here too, but I'm not sure if it's a thing we want to do.

[Aura]

Are you guys planning to hold a booth on the winter Comiket?

No.

[Zarys]

As I won brilliantly in Hanako's Broken Heart for the "What must did Elessar" contest, I can have the rank "Awesome" ?

[ParagonTerminus]

As I won brilliantly in Hanako's Broken Heart for the "What must did Elessar" contest, I can have the rank "Awesome" ?

I literally cannot even...

Okay, I know this was a joke, but I know (from experience!) that no moderator/administrator on any website ever likes being questioned for ranks. I only got a custom rank once, and that was because I did something really hilariously stupid.

[Guest Poster]

Back when I still moderated a forum, I'd threaten to reward people whining for custom titles with titles such as "annoying pest" or similar niceties.

[Silentcook]

1) Even though this is a kind of a free arena and finishing the game made us less grumpy, we are not any less forgiving of stupidity. While commentary and followup questions are fine, try to not clog up the thread with unrelated posts, questions that have been answered before, or any general silliness.

[Liminaut]

What did the KS artists think of Rin's route? Did it mirror their experience of the artistic process?

[ArcCain]

An admin for a KS facebook page mentioned that: "It's implied that Rin in her Neutral Ending, (Act 4), will kill herself and that this is the True Ending as that is the name of that scene in the game files."

Would you which to shed some light over this Aura or leave it to fans to debate?

[Aura]

I'm not gonna say that some specific interpretation is wrong, even if it is.

I understand that it might be fun to try to decrypt whatever you imagine are margin notes left by us in the hopes of gaining some insight into the stories, but it's just grasping at straws that aren't even there. During development we called that ending "neutral", and it's not any more or less true than any other ending in KS. If we had wanted to make a true ending kind of thing, we'd have used the traditional visual novel structure of requiring every other ending be seen first to unlock the "true end".