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I'm familiar with that, but I also know there is a lot of misdiagnosis among gifted people, where the traits of giftedness are falsely attributed to other conditions, such as ADHD or ASD, among others. Twice exceptional still does exist, of course; she just struck me as gifted, particularly, and I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore through her character.

Thanks for the tip on the spelling checks!

(Careful readers, some mild spoilers in here.)

Game is so very good. I was very pleasantly surprised! It's very intelligently written, very funny in mostly the right amount (in the beginning I sometimes felt it was leaning on the comedy a bit too much, but that got better, and the jokes also became funnier as time went on), and it has many characters I really like. And the art and animations are top notch!

In fact, I don't think I can think of any character that I don't like. I thought Vineeta might be one, but then at the swimming competition she quickly became one of my favorites. (I understand the autism question, but I wonder if she might just be gifted, instead.)

I'm glad Chloe went back to her original hairstyle.

And I just got to Ashley. Wow! That was worth waiting for, I think.

Quickly going to go back to playing. I might post some suggested spelling fixes on the Discord later, if that's okay. I didn't start tracking them until after a while, but there weren't that many, anyway.

It wouldn't allow me (supposedly lack of disk space or something, which seems ridiculous), but when I installed the Chrome extension (a little reluctantly), it did work.

That sounds pretty good to me :'D

I think most of it is, but one or two scenes are not. Personally I prefer if it's not optional, but that's just me.

No need to feel bad about enjoying the incest content! It's just a game, it's fantasy.

If anything it always annoys me a bit that it has to be the stepsiblings trope. Just make them siblings, who cares if it's a work of fiction? Does it actually turn people off if they're biological siblings, even for a fantasy? I thought the taboo nature of it was kind of the point.

Ahem, sorry, went on a bit of a tangential rant there.

That is fine, you don't have to change your mind. I guess there's nothing I can say to assure you of my mental health, but I also will stick with my opinion that you are mistaken on this front. If you're up for it, we can just agree to disagree. No hard feelings on my part! All the best.

I'm using art in the general sense, to include all games as forms of artistic expression. I don't mean it as a value judgment beyond that.

Rape fantasies are pretty common, and it has nothing to do with condoning the act itself, which is indeed vile. I have not noticed any sort of desensitization to the real thing, myself; I seem to be able to distinguish fantasy from reality. In the same way that it's always been nonsense that violent video games lead to real-life violence, it's also not the case (in my experience, at least) that this sort of game desensitizes a person to real-life sexual abuse.

Different opinions are absolutely fine! You are entitled to yours. But I don't "need help" for disagreeing with them; that I am also free to do, just as the original opinion is indeed, as you said, free.

Thank you for your concern, but nothing is wrong with me. I'm not claiming any sort of personal issue with you; I don't see any reason to think anything is wrong with you. I would appreciate the same courtesy.

The content doesn't need to be "justified"; people are free to express themselves as they like, in art and otherwise. The warnings are only there to make sure people who would be negatively affected by it know to stay away.

The unnecessarily detailed rape scenes were pretty good, I thought. The game is short and linear, but it's just a prototype after all; in my opinion, it's a good game for what it is.

I'm personally not offended by the criticisms themselves, but I think the "what's wrong with you" takes are uncalled for. People have their kinks, it's fine, no big deal. You don't share them, that's also fine, again no big deal.

(I don't particularly like Daniel, though. He's not my type. But the scenario is hot.)

What can I say? I like it. For me personally it's a kink think (so I appreciate the drawn-out scenes—I also don't find Daniel hot, but it doesn't matter); for others it might be about dealing with trauma. Either way, if it works for them, great.

As for being weird, yes, of course I am; it'd be kinda boring not to be.

Was wondering the same thing.

Oh! Hah, of course, you're probably right. Too bad, was hoping for a good new one that I hadn't found before. Doesn't happen often these days.

A guy to the grave? What's that? I haven't heard of that one, nor can I seem to find it.

Oh really? Well I guess that must have probably been playthroughs with a lot of talking, or extensively exploring all possible paths, or something along those lines. Either that, or it's a pre-release given only to some YouTubers/streamers for marketing purposes, but I'm not aware of something like that. Either way, I'm pretty sure there still hasn't been a public release beyond day 1 of the story.

12–13 hours a day! Damn. That's way too much (probably) … I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it's a job you enjoy, at least.

The game is still being developed, and I believe there still only the first day has been released. Unfortunately it's a long road, so you'll likely have to be patient for a while to come.

I don't believe there is any ETA yet, sadly … we'll just have to be patient.

I see! That's a shame. Sigh. And I guess something like iDeal, which is the system the Netherlands uses for online banking, probably is too niche internationally for most such websites to include. Too bad, but understandable.

You're very welcome, and I hope you will get enough support still to continue this way. But if not, and if you do have to move to Steam, I will most definitely buy your game there. Best of luck!

I've tried Prepaid cards before, and they're always a huge pain in my experience. (I tried them before for Kickstarter.) But I will look at the page you linked, hopefully there will be some way for me to contribute still that way. EDIT: Hm, doesn't look like it offers anything I would want to go for, unfortunately…

Annoying is one word for it. Criminal is another that comes to mind. Definitely don't go there!

Patreon intends to keep your $8,000? That has to be basically criminal, doesn't it? That's your money, we didn't intend to give that to Patreon!

Unfortunately I believe I cannot support you on SubscribeStar, as it does not allow PayPal or iDeal or any of the typical payment options available in my country (the Netherlands), where we don't normally have credit cards. Unless I'm missing something! So I'm a little worried what this change will mean for my ability to continue to play your game, nevermind support you further, which I would like to do.

EDIT: Found a link you shared in another comment, but it seems to be talking about prepaid/virtual cards, and I have some bad experiences with those… darn.

I believe it is now possible on Steam to prevent specific games from showing up when you play them. See this page.

This sort of broad-stroke censorship is ridiculously hypersensitive and it will just keep getting worse if people don't stand up to it. Best of luck to you, and I for one will definitely purchase the game on Steam when it comes out over there!

Unfortunately it looks like SubscribeStar allows only debit/credit cards and not PayPal, so it is difficult for me to support you there. But on Steam at least I will.

I can understand that a little bit, but I still think it doesn't seem like that big a deal, and I do think there's quite a difference between the first-hand and the second-hand experience. Anyway, in this case it was hard to avoid, because the scene after that follows from it directly, story-wise.

Yeah I get that, but what's the harm in seeing it talked about, you know you weren't there, you didn't experience it. Doesn't seem like it should affect you much, from where I stand.

Who cares if you don't have to see the scene?

Ooh, I would love that! I'll bear that in mind, thank you :)

Just got started in chapter 1, pity about the Jamie reveal, so few bisexual games out there already (sorry for the mild spoiler, but it's very early on and I looked but can't find a spoiler tag for comments here). Still seems most intriguing so far, I'm excited to keep playing!

Those two are also my favorites! But this game has a lot of good characters.

In the same scene, she says "heavens knows", which should be either "heaven knows" or "heavens know" (number agreement).

(I'll start a new thread after this for any further reports to avoid these lines becoming too narrow.)

This might not be wrong, it could be slangy and the word "and" could just be repeated, but I think in this line from Nancy,

"And… and you planning to pursue anything more serious with her?",

the second "and" was perhaps meant to be an "are".

I think this line from young Penelope also has a space at the start:

" Haha I bet."

You're welcome! There really are barely any, I'm very impressed :) I'll continue reporting them as I come across them.

An extra space before another italicized line:

" Ah, I see you have now begun guarding yourself. Your efforts are futile, however. I will just have to exert myself a little further…"

When Orion first lands in Ogygia, he's thinking to himself, and in this one line the question mark is outside the thinking parentheses:

"(Where am I)?"

Super minor, but there seems to be an extra space at the start of this line from Alex:

" Miss Bardot, congratulations! Would you like to share any words for those young athletes trying to achieve your levels of success?"

The same two lines further in, when she's again taking the role of the interviewer. Presumably because of the italics, but it still looks odd to me.

Hi! I've started playing Eternum, and I'm extremely impressed so far. As promised, I'll report typos I find in here, but honestly it took me forever to even come across the first one! Great job, there.

The one I found was the following line from Millie, where "its" should be "it's" with an apostrophe:

"There's a car in the parking lot that started smoking! It looks like its coming from the engine!"