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How come Aura has godlike english skills when he/she is not a native english speaker? And why does Aura posts five times in a row instead of citing multiple people in one post?

Suriko wrote:Japanese high school gets special mention as it really is a plague on the visual novel medium. It's difficult to think of another media so entirely gripped by a single setting, excepting very rare AAA releases or independents.

Perhaps it's my inexperience with the medium, then, that makes it seem less of a bore. This is still the only VN I've bothered with, despite many recommendations. Looking at the synopsis for them, though, I can see how that might be a problem.

Were any other setting locations attempted before arriving at the one presented?

Given that Raita's original drawing didn't get terribly specific on the character backgrounds, I could see the same plot playing out at a collegiate level, or perhaps even within a small microcosm community like an office building, or a mall--the five girls working at or running various shops or businesses, or departments within the same business, maybe in Europe or America somewhere.

Now I'm just spit-balling ideas...

A Forum Member wrote:How come Aura has godlike english skills when he/she is not a native english speaker?

Fielding this part of the question as his editor.

I wouldn't call them "godlike" any more than I'd call mine that, and in any case I find that native English speakers tend to get freaking lazy beyond belief with their own language.

I have written about this elsewhere, but in a nutshell: if you work at something, you usually become better at it.

You know, it's been bugging me for a while... what on Earth does your sig mean, Silentcook? Care to elaborate on it?

BlackWaltzTheThird wrote:You know, it's been bugging me for a while... what on Earth does your sig mean, Silentcook? Care to elaborate on it?

'94 is the year when I became a nurse. When I got taken on board as a medical advisor, crud half-jokingly said that my job was to shatter everybody's dreams with cold hard facts, more or less.

The ugly pic is a screencap of the very last commit made before Act 1 got released to the public. It was a last-minute fix, made in feverish haste at an ungodly hour to correct a bad line break that had passed unnoticed until the very last moment. The pic is ugly because I suck at anything involving graphics.

A Forum Member wrote:How come Aura has godlike english skills when he/she is not a native english speaker? And why does Aura posts five times in a row instead of citing multiple people in one post?

Education, practice, osmosis. A language can be learned just like anything, with perseverance and hard work.

It's a personal preference to keep it to one reply per one post. Hope it doesn't bother you too much.

A couple questions from me. I apologize if they've been asked before, but I just haven't been able to get through all 184 pages yet


1) Everyone can agree that the characters in the game ring amazingly true to life regarding their feelings and emotions. Do any of the devs have any sort of background in psychology, or have they just read a lot.

2) I notice Lilly wears a cross necklace when shes dressed casually. Is she religious at all? Because lord knows a lot of Christians could take lessons from her.

pandaphil wrote:A couple questions from me. I apologize if they've been asked before, but I just haven't been able to get through all 184 pages yet


1) Everyone can agree that the characters in the game ring amazingly true to life regarding their feelings and emotions. Do any of the devs have any sort of background in psychology, or have they just read a lot.

2) I notice Lilly wears a cross necklace when shes dressed casually. Is she religious at all? Because lord knows a lot of Christians could take lessons from her.

1. I don't, and I don't believe any of the other developers have either. I don't really interact with other people very much at all.

2. She's Catholic.

Suriko wrote:2. She's Catholic.

I was actually planing on asking the same thing but forgot about it, I take it she is a bit casually about her religion, seeing that she uses birth control and had sex before marriage?

Is there a source for Suriko's avatar, I was hoping for a version of it with higher resolutions.
Can you correct my English if it's bad?

Glitter Freeze wrote:Is there a source for Suriko's avatar, I was hoping for a version of it with higher resolutions.
Can you correct my English if it's bad?

http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/445

Did it happen that a writer was forced to make drastic changes of some sort to their path? I don't mean if a writer was convinced by the others to make changes; I mean a scenario where the writer was outright forced to make a change even though he/she wanted it to be different.

A Forum Member wrote:Did it happen that a writer was forced to make drastic changes of some sort to their path? I don't mean if a writer was convinced by the others to make changes; I mean a scenario where the writer was outright forced to make a change even though he/she wanted it to be different.

No. Nobody had that kind of authority over others. Of course, there line between "forcing" and 3-4 people very vocally piling on someone is pretty thin.

Sorry if this question has been asked before.

You guys seem really diverse when it comes to your cultural backgrounds. Suriko from Australia, Aura is Finnish, and someone posted TheHiveMind living in Chicago a few pages ago I think (looks like a start of a mini United Nations XD).

Due to this, were their ever any communication problems or difficulties in meeting each other in person?

Jovereign wrote:Sorry if this question has been asked before.

You guys seem really diverse when it comes to your cultural backgrounds. Suriko from Australia, Aura is Finnish, and someone posted TheHiveMind living in Chicago a few pages ago I think (looks like a start of a mini United Nations XD).

Due to this, were their ever any communication problems or difficulties in meeting each other in person?

I don't think so. Communication across the globe was difficult mostly due to the timezones, and the long geographic distances have made meeting in person an extremely rare occasion for most of us, but I don't think the cultural differences ever were a factor in that.