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It's always a good idea to consult a proper dictionary or two first, before embarrassing oneself with such brazen dishonesty:

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/infidelity

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/adultery

https://www.websters1913.com/words/Infidelity

https://www.websters1913.com/words/Adultery

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Must. Tell. Childhood. Crush. My. Identity. 😣

Will we eventually be able to restore Elies to the throne?

If the game tells you that you can now challenge Long Wyoung, while you can't actually do so in the current build, then I would call that a (small) flaw in the current build, since that line could have just been commented out until it gets updated.

If you pass a check (INT iirc, but I'm not clicking through the whole game to make sure :p) with the correct degree of success, when she tries to convince MC to follow her to the cave, then MC lists several similarities between Ro Huy/Hyi and the "Mistress/Little Demon Queen" (e.g. androgynous, wears mask to hide deformed face, etc.). So that comparison strongly suggests to me that MC recognizes her suspects her identity.

A few things I've noticed right at the start:

• MC is referred to as "$heshe" and "calen". (The former is clearly a bug, but the latter might be an unglossed term?)
• Selecting a different font, doesn't actually change the font. (Changing the size does work though.)
• Because the textbox has such high transparency, the patches of moonlight and reflection do not contrast sharply with the text.
• The text box is already about half the width of the screen. Add to that the one inch margins inside the box, and the text takes up barely one third of the screen. This despite there not being any side panels using the two-thirds empty real estate (a toggled bottom panel having been used instead).

A great start to something that could (have) be(en) terribly ambitious. The sheer amount of world building done to create a background of characters, places, factions, artifacts and relations which never appear but are mentioned in passing, is enormous. Unfortunately, it also suffers from some serious flaws:

Given CoG's bizarre obsession with not wanting to make ChoiceScript user-friendly, a back-button and the ability to export saves were always pretty much out of the question.

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The game isn't consistent about whether Tigress is from the East or from the West.

If you hope that Tigress is okay after getting injured during the Outer Disciple tournament, the game says you can challenge Long Wyoung. But if you then go to the Arena Administrative Building, it says you can only issue ranked challenges, not personal ones.

The game tells you the Ro Hui/Hyi is the "Mistress/Little Demon Queen", but then doesn't give you any options acknowledging this (You can only either go along with them apparently without recognizing them, or you can express disinterest in the disciples' lives without recognizing them).

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"There is no right and wrong. Justice is upheld by man, and fairness is a made-up concept for the weak to soothe their aches."

Ooh yikes. Methinks somebody's been hitting the Nietzsche, Foucault and Le Guin a bit too hard. Quick repeat after me:

The Dao that can be spoken of, is not The Eternal Dao.
The Name that can be spoken of, is not The Eternal Name.

Thank

Would the whimpering of some child whom I didn't want to take along in the first place stop me from strangling Rohan? 🤔 No. No, it wouldn't. Not a chance in hell. In fact, it feels jarringly unnatural. MC needs to sort out their priorities.

You need to pick the options in the right order, i.e.

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... pursue, flee, pursue, wait.

Importing a save from the demo gets your pronouns mixed up, but the rest of the imported data seems to be correct.

And what exactly was gained by rebranding "family", "dad" and "mum" as "friends", "pal" and "bud"?

Their relationship dynamic wasn't changed and becomes immediately evident in the prologue, so presumably it wasn't intended as false advertising.

And it's not like itch seems to have any problem with hosting tons of incest already, so presumably it also wasn't to avoid the game being banned.

But so then why bother with superficial rebranding at all?

I can't say that I'm familiar with Homelander (I literally just googled it and went "oh the guy from that meme what has laser beam-eyes", but I'm still clueless as to his level of evil 😅). 

But regardless, this first chapter is quite the promising start; so I look forward to learning more about Sovereign and the rest of the cast, and the relationships between them - as well as to getting around to trying your Calamity Control.

Is this, by any chance, based on or inspired by The Return by H.B. Piper and J.J. McGuire? Admittedly, I've only gotten to the MC seeing a lady reading a proper (i.e. pre-Collapse) book thus far, so maybe I am jumping to conclusions; but up until now the similarities are so striking that I simply can't imagine it's mere coincidence!

A steam-punk portal-fantasy murder-mystery, you say? And I'm the (presumed) villain? Sign me up!

Though so far, I can't say that the Sovereign seems like a villain? Dalgliesh, Fairburne, the servant siblings and even the ghost of Angelica certainly seem to like them well enough.

So you don't even understand how analogies and straw men work. Why am I not surprised. You've demonstrated all the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of a toddler so far... 

Within the space of a few minutes: first down vote on OP, time of creation of your account, second down vote, your first barrage of BS. But sure, you only have one account and everyone else is just as much of a bigoted freak as you... 😂 Keep telling yourself that, it will make the transition out of infancy so much smoother for you - should you ever achieve it, that is.

Mass Trek

Starring:

• N7 as MC
• Kaiden Alenko as Alex Kuang
• Jeff Moreau as Sam Channing
• Kelly Chambers as Gilly Tribbleberk
• Gabriella Daniels as Katalina Lindbeck
• Rule 63 Nyoata Uhura as Nereus

Possibly starring:

• Rule 63 Donnel Udina as Lyra Channing
• A fusion of Sam Kirk and Robert Picard as the brother
• Spock as Estelar

Also starring:

• Spectres as Arbiters
• The United Federation of Planets as the Galactic Board for Interplanetary Peace
• Citadel Council as the Council
• The Systems Alliance as the Galactic Alliance

It is extreme self-destructive to needlessly tack on a pointlessly divisive and unnecessarily hostile anti-DEI note, telling TERFs to "fuck off" from a quiz derived from a TERF's IP. Worse still it is pointless, because it won't prevent them from playing the quiz anyway and only serves to embarrass those of us who aren't such bigoted freaks.

But the hateful coward who felt the need to create a second account just to double up on their down-votes and @ me is certainly welcome to stick their head back up their echo chamber, where it is safe to persecute everyone who is different that they are 😏

Nice straw man, but no that is not all what I said. 

Rather I said, telling TERFs to "fuck off" from a quiz based on the IP of a TERF, feels needlessly tacked on, pointlessly divisive and unnecessarily hostile, and is exclusionary, inequitable and anti-diversity, not to mention hypocritical, embarrassing and mindlessly self-destructive. 

It's like the freaks who attack bookstores for selling Harry Potter, harass streamers for playing Hogwarts Legacy and send JKR death-threats. If you would care to step out of your little echo-chamber for a second, you will notice that the overwhelming majority of people disagrees with JKR but is driven away by this hateful and violent misbehavior. It is extremely counter-productive and self-destructive.

Oh but it is. Completely irrelevant. The disagreement did not prevent the creation of this derivative work, so then it is not going to prevent the use of this derivative work. The attempt to do so is hypocritical.

As I said, it feels needlessly tacked on, pointlessly divisive and unnecessarily hostile.  It is against diversity of opinions, against equity and inclusion of people holding differing opinions. And as someone who also thinks JKR is a hypocrite, this just reads like a spoilt toddler throwing a tantrum - it reflects badly on all of us and is frankly quite embarrassing.

And all for what? What possible purpose does it serve? Those who agree don't need to hear it; those who disagree don't want to hear it; and nobody else cares beyond finding it pathetic and in bad taste. It's so mindlessly self-destructive.

Finally got around to 4x4 Galaxy and loved it! The fact that it is much simpler and shorter, makes the early game feel less drawn out (it is easy to quickly earn renown) and makes each playthrough more contained and therefore easier to replay multiple times in quick succession. In their own, distinct way both 4x4 games are great!

Thanks! I finally beat the end boss after grinding enough points to afford all the hacks. Though on my first attempt, I also managed to break the game somehow, so we both had only our kings left, endlessly chasing each other around the otherwise empty board 😂

Tbf, it's not as if itch has ever tried to raise funds for anything that wasn't the most pure evil

Having played all the non-webGL html submissions, I can now say that this is without a doubt my favorite. It's just so wholesome while remaining humorous. Full marks across the board!

Why thank you! It's a pepefication of the default icon that itch assigns to everyone, so it's definitely supposed to be cursed xD

It makes sense that opinions in the crew would differ, since they did indeed also respond diversely to your arrival. Please don't feel pressured to change anything on my account, that's not at all what I intended when I brought it up. It's great just the way it is - my second favorite submission to the jam, in fact.

I didn't, but thank you, you're too kind!

Sometimes works of art walk a very fine line between being profound and being pretentious. I do not know on which side, if indeed either, this errs. But there does seem to be a lot more of Joyce and Lutz here, than of Coleridge, Shelley, Yeats, Calvino, Borges, Le Guin and Crowther combined...

The way the tension builds as evidence stacks up that something is amiss reminds me of Caleb J. Phillips' horror short Other Side of the Box. And much like that film, this feels somewhat like a demo, a trailer or a proof of concept for a larger work.

Not at all the genre of game I would think to associate with ink, but hey it works!

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Haha, you knew we'd try to conserve ammo by sneaking. The perfect trap!

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So wholesome! I kept unnecessarily worrying about things: that noise on the roof is rats, those apples on the ground are rotten, I'll fall out of the tree, I'll drown while fishing, I'll get fired for selling the kettle, etc. And, of course, none of those things happened. I merely worked up an appetite and even got a day off 😊

Well, I'm going to have to give points for Theme and Originality at least.

Submitted 23 minutes before the deadline. How long before the deadline was it started on? 😁

I was really hoping that the long wait during the simulation would mean different results for different simulations but it's always the same. That's fine, but in that case it would be nice to able to skip the simulation (e.g. have the blink much sooner and skip over more time), at least after the first time.

Ah feminism, the original sin that birthed all others and damned mankind.

Very nice. It reminds me of Encounter with Tiber, with nods to Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey amongst others.

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On thing that seems strange to me, is why the 2758 TERN crew would have a kid and doom it to such an existence, since they are the ones who feel so certain this is the last star and it is on its way out. The same people who want to kill you and your crew for batteries, are somehow happy to waste energy on raising a child in a doomed world.

It's really none of my business, but what on Earth happened that gained you a dedicated gay porn spammer for a year+?

Awww. I liked it! What's not to like? I like Tolkien. I like Kafka. I like cockney.

What's better than this? Just a couple of guys urukhai being dudes cockroaches.

Bonus tip: Increase the contrast by making the text brighter and using a bolder font.

I'm not crying, you're crying  😭

Ah, well that makes sense then! Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I'm good enough at chess to ever be able to beat the final boss fight without those. But regardless, thank you for making a really fun twist on chess! I enjoyed it a lot :D

When you say, 'at least three play-throughs for a "complete" experience', do you mean three completely distinct play-throughs of many groundhog-cycles each, i.e. erasing the save data twice? Or do you merely mean making different decisions for three identical instances of the same groundhog day? Or am I overthinking this?

P.S.: Rainen is an absolute unit <3 But it seems strange that Malichor doesn't have any kind of reaction to her being draconic(?)

In addition, the "Go back" and "Delete my post..." buttons don't work. The former is an actual JS button with click-animation, but it doesn't take you to any page. The latter isn't really a button to begin with, but it also isn't a link, nor a dropdown menu, which it sort of looks like.