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My thoughts and questions.

1.I feel like the ending is too good to be true. The friends used prefered pronouns of Alexandra and her dad didn’t even notice anything strange. And her friends appeared in the chat out of nowhere, somehow at perfect time and aware of content of the conversation. Besides, the dad listened to them despite previously admitting, that they all are just suspicious pervets in his eyes.

2.I wonder what the dad even does for his job, as it seems he doesn’t have any software that Alexandra also doesn’t a have. Does he respond to e-mails all day long?

3.It never occured to Alexandra, that she could just cave in to demands of her dad, get this disliked-but-highly-paid job, get financially secure future and then use the money to become more independent from her dad and get gender-affirming surgery, possibly even being able to help her friend Sammy to transition too.

4.Seriously, the game lacks “How to advance if you got stuck” manual. Thankfully I found a helpful community guide on Steam

5.Is it possible to decrypt the work message that the dad has saved in his profile? And how?

6.Alexandra’s dad is still better than my lot in this life. My dad got in a prison and doesn’t care about me. And my adoptive grandfather (who played role of a father figure in my life) is just a full-blown narcissist, who once literally laughed at thought of me being killed. I think I would have traded places with Alexandra if I had a choice

Victoria Dominowski69 days ago

1. The segment where all Alex's friends chime in against John is meant to be metaphorical - they're not actually breaking the rules of the chat program to talk to John, but instead it's Alex speaking using the lessons and confidence she's gained from them. That's why their icons are underlaid beneath Alex's icon and why John still says it's Alex speaking. As for John, that's a fair point - I know that in real life, people like John don't become better people overnight, and often double down on their bad behavior. I wanted to give Alex a happy ending to give hope to trans girls who needed it. The player doesn't need to forgive John, and it's left ambiguous whether or not he will actually become a better person.

2. In the emails on Alex's profile, it says Alex works at a pharmaceutical company.

3. I think you're reading a bit too much into that.

4. I admit, the terminal puzzle was a bit much - sorry about that.

5. Yes, it is - but secrets are more fun to figure out on your own. :)

6. I'm not sure what to tell you here - this doesn't have anything to do with the game, and I'm not sure why you brought it up. I'm sorry your dad is a jerk, but I can't give you a meaningful solution. :/

Nitonise69 days ago (1 edit) (+1)(-2)

Yes, it is - but secrets are more fun to figure out on your own. :)

I surrender, I have no smallest clue how to decrypt it. Care to provide a hint or the solution? Also, in my opinon, games with puzzles should be completed with a file that contains hints and solutions to the puzzles

I’m not sure what to tell you here

Because I find it hard to emphasize with the heroine of the story when I have to deal with next level of sh*t in my real life. I mean, she is a good kid and I don’t want her to suffer, but from my perspective her troubles are overdramatized

If anything, I bought this game to get experience of what more privileged life felt like in 90s. Because while 90s were rosy time for Americans due to economic prosperity caused by fall of the USSR and its satellites, with whole new world for capitalists to exploit, I happened to live on remnants of collapsed Soviet Union. While Alexandra was busy chatting with her friends on the information highway about latest episodes of her favorite anime series, my real life in 90s was very different, with my family struggling every day to make ends meet. Like my mom is still proud of that one time when she managed to make money by selling her own socks to a guy who was going to a date. And my first computer? It was literally stolen (although its former owner forgave us and let me keep it), because no way we would be able afford to buy it fair and square otherwise. As for the Interent, I got access to it only at the end of 2000s (and even that happy event was overshadowed by my grandma slowly and painfully dying from cancer during that time)

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