fastfinge

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Blind geek, fanfiction lover (Harry Potter and MLP)

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I tried to make the linked post accessible. Did I? (programming.dev)

I gave my best effort to make a post on a Lemmy instance accessible to the visibly impaired, but I don’t know if what I did was effective. Lemmy doesn’t provide for alt text on image posts, so I figured I would put it in the body of the post. It seem that rind.com hasn’t had much activity. Is Lemmy simply not workable for...

fastfinge,

Community discovery has a lot of friction.

On top of that, communities are just slow to grow in general. We ran the Reddit community for five or six years before it really caught on. I suspect Lemmy will have similarly slow growth.

Another issue is that we still don’t have apps for mobile that are as nice as Dystopia. The website is fine, and there are some decent apps out there, but none quite as frictionless. It was the advent of Dystopia and Apollo that really caused /r/blind to take off. With those apps gone, if someone is going to have to use a worse app anyway, why not stick to Reddit? I think for some folks it feels like they have less to relearn that way.

Regardless, we’re here for the duration! I’ve left Reddit entirely, so I use rblind.com daily myself as the replacement. And the things that have lasting power are the things the people running it use themselves.

I think what would really cause us to grow is if things like Guppe Groups ever have to shut down. Blind folks are hugely involved in Mastodon, and we’re already seeing some folks use rblind in similar ways they use Mastodon groups. It does boost everything posted, so it kind of works that way.

fastfinge,

Also, see the gift guide put together by the Double Tap Podcast: doubletaponair.com/2023-gift-guide/

There are a lot of good ideas in there.

If you’d like to support blind owned and run small businesses, check out the links in this post: www.blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=22588

fastfinge,

For me it’s an xbox and Forza. This is the first time there’s been a high quality accessible game on each console!

fastfinge,

I have, a little bit through cloud gaming; I don’t have a local PC powerful enough to run it. But I think the network delay from cloud gaming is throwing me off. At least, that’s what I’m blaming for my lack of skill!

fastfinge,

If you’re looking for accessible dice, or ways to make other card and board games accessible, I strongly recommend checking out 64 oz games. They have products for all ages, at a wide variety of prices.

fastfinge,

I’m a cane user myself, but based on what my guide dog using friends have been through, it seems like you can just give up on getting picked up by Ubers. There is a dispute process, but that doesn’t do you much good when you’re stranded somewhere and two Uber drivers just drove off.

fastfinge,

A couple reasons, I think:

  1. AI dubbing: this makes it way easier for YouTube to add secondary dubbed tracks to videos in multiple languages. Based on the Google push to add AI into everything, including creating AI related OKR’s, that’s probably a primary driver. Multiple audio tracks is just needed infrastructure to add AI dubbing.
  2. Audio description: Google is fighting enough antitrust related legal battles right now. The fact that YouTube doesn’t support audio description for those of us who are blind has been an issue for a long time, and now that basically every other video streaming service supports it, I suspect they’re starting to feel increased pressure to get on board. Once again, multiple audio tracks is needed infrastructure for offering audio description.

Seeking feedback on the UX of my app

I’m an indie web developer that’s finishing up an app I’ve been building over the past three years, a platform to advocate for Medicare For All. One of my top priorities is ensuring the app is accessible to everyone. It gets a perfect score on Google Lighthouse for Accessibility, but accessibility isn’t just a checkbox...

fastfinge,

Unfortunately, I’m Canadian, so I can’t use the app. But reading the FAQ and other information pages worked well, at least on Windows with NVDA.

fastfinge,

Just wish I could be more helpful. :-)

fastfinge,

Personally, I subscribe to rusc (rusc.com) so I can access OTR easily on Sonos, and I don’t have to bother with the unusable mess that is the Internet Archive.

fastfinge,

We have no outstanding applications. Looks like this is approved. Tell her to make sure emails from rblind.com aren’t getting filtered into spam. While we’re doing DKIM and SPF correctly, I’m not paying for a third party email provider, so Google and Microsoft hold our emails hostage because I’m not paying hundreds of dollars to send through one of their trusted partners.

A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops – GNOME Accessibility (blogs.gnome.org)

I have no idea how well this will work in practice; see the recent discussion here about the infrastructural problems with Linux accessibility. But I do know that @matt is an expert with years and years of #accessibility experience in the #a11y space. So it will at least be a step in the right direction: getting the right people...

fastfinge,

Before we can even think about some kind of desktop spin, there are massive infrastructural issues preventing me from using Linux as my primary machine. I run several Linux servers, so my experiences are based on my experiences running those, and my experiences stripping desktops out of Linux machines that had them when I didn’t want them to.

  • Sound never, ever works: Alsa, pulseaudio, pipewire…some apps require one, some apps require the other, and they don’t work together at all well. Plus sound is considered part of the userland desktop environment. So if there is some problem preventing the GUI from launching and dropping me into a shell, I can forget about having any accessibility what-so-ever. We’re what feels like decades away from having the advanced features that CoreAudio on mac or WASAPI on windows offer (audio ducking, first-class support for multiple soundcards and routing audio from different apps to different outputs easily, per-app volume adjustment, loopback recording, low latency, any kind of spatial anything, etc.).
  • Similarly, all of systemctl’s targets are set up really, really badly for accessibility. If one of the drives in fstab can’t mount, even though no core services depend on it, SSH won’t come up, sound won’t come up, networking won’t come up, meaning I have absolutely no recourse other than “get a sighted person to come to my house and fix it” because I did something as simple as swap a drive. These days, mac systems can launch a full screen reader during system recovery. Windows isn’t quite as slick, but it’s close; it’ll do the best it can to boot and get me a screen reader, no matter how badly things are broken. Linux will just give up and die, assuming I can read the screen and type on the keyboard to fix whatever happened. I need the system to require, at least, sound support and a console screen-reader no matter what; if those things don’t exist, it’s the equivalent of the machine just showing a sighted person a black screen with no further info.
  • The primary console screen reader, speakup, still requires a kernel module. If apt updates my kernel, it can (and does) kill the screen reader entirely.
  • Linux has no comprehensive, standard, accessibility API that will work cross-window manager, cross-desktop, and cross-platform. In Windows or mac, there are clear guidelines that developers need to follow to create accessible apps. If an app is inaccessible to me, I can refer a developer to first-class, well supported and understood, API documentation telling them what they need to do in order to better interact with my screen reader. On Linux, that’s not so easy, meaning apps just never get fixed, because developers working for free just can’t be expected to figure it all out themselves.

Until some of these basic problems get fixed, creating a fancy new desktop spin is just walpapering over basic design issues that will keep blind folks third-class users on Linux well into the foreseeable future.

fastfinge,

That’s what I’ve heard, but I haven’t tested enough to verify that myself, so didn’t mention it.

fastfinge,

I have no problems with solutions. Thanks for helping me, and for helping blind searchers in the future who want to give Linux a try. My point here, really, was that the defaults are bad. When you configure drives to mount via the GUI, it doesn’t set nofail. I wasn’t even aware that was a thing. But never the less, a drive that mounts only to serve as a fileshare for Samba shouldn’t prevent everything from coming up by default if it can’t mount. The assumption behind every design decision made by the entire Linux boot process assumes that if something fails, you can see the screen. Similarly, when you initialize sound from your shell RC file, it means blind folks can’t log in via the TTY, because we don’t have sound at that point. Sound needs to be moved out of userland if we’re ever going to have a fully blind accessible Linux. Not only do I need sound to get logged on in the first place, without sound, the system can’t tell me about any errors until after I log in.

fastfinge,

I’ve only used it to browse briefly, so I don’t know if it’s fully accessible. But for what I’ve needed it for, it’s worked. “Blind” would be the appropriate name.

fastfinge,

The issue here would be that no two blind people have exactly the same needs. It sounds like this would prevent any customization at all. We all use different speech voices, at different speeds, etc. So a system where no settings can be changed just wouldn’t work.

fastfinge,

But it does make assumptions. It assumes I can see the monitor and read printed text. I’d have no problem with it failing on error, if that failure always made sound. There are BIOS firmwares that can play mp3 files, and DOS could make noise via the PC speaker, for God’s sake. There’s no excuse for Linux’s ableist assumptions.

fastfinge,

But you don’t have to command it to print text on the screen. That doesn’t need to be an active decision. Your assumptions are still showing.

fastfinge,

Or perhaps, better to rephrase as “first priority should be to have a system that’s as reliable for blind people as it is for sighted people”. In practice, that means that whenever text is printed to the screen, there needs to be a way for a blind person to know about it. Text to speech systems like espeak can run in kilobytes of memory and storage. The primary problem is sound support.

The second problem is maintaining this system. Right now, Linux is caught in a vicious circle. The system isn’t accessible enough for a blind person to use, so why would a blind person put in a bunch of work on it? The NVDA screen reader on Windows is an open source screen reader entirely created by blind users. But that only works because Windows is accessible enough that the tools blind people need to create and maintain software are accessible enough for us to use. What are the tools for creating these types of systems like on Linux? You mentioned CI tools. Currently, the leading providers of these tools don’t provide decent screen reader access to them, as far as I am aware. So now the tools for blind people on Linux need to be built and maintained by sighted people. From a practical standpoint, this just isn’t going to happen. Open source only works when people are scratching their own itches. It’s power is when people can build solutions for themselves. In the long term, an accessible Linux built for blind people by sighted people just isn’t sustainable.

fastfinge,

It happens in a few ways. First, by examining the sourcecode when available. However, blind programmers talented enough to do this generally have paid, closed source work they’re busy with. Second, when a platform has accessibility API’s, it’s at least easy to get the outline of a system, and determine what’s not working. Third, of course, commercial grants for paid work. In the case of Windows, many corporations pay a lot of money to make sure Windows is accessible, so it can be used in schools, governments, and workplaces. This kind of money just hasn’t been invested in the Linux desktop ecosystem. As well, in a centralized closed-source system, it’s easier to force everyone to follow various coding requirements. In the case of Linux, who has the power to push through the infrastructural changes we’re talking about? Oracle/Gnome, I guess? But there’s a bunch of work the distros also need to do. Unlike in Apple or Microsoft, it’s not just a matter of getting the “CEO of Linux” (not a real position) convinced that accessibility matters and she should invest in it.

fastfinge,

To respond to some of your points:

Regularly tracking the blind Linux mailing lists and guiding newcomers on getting their systems accessible, problems with audio are actually very rare these days.

And this, right here, is the issue. I don’t need guidance on either Windows or mac. I turn it on, and it works. I can install either Windows or Mac, by default, with a screen reader. The recovery partitions created by both Windows and Mac support screen readers, so I don’t need to keep a thumb drive with a live image around. Windows and Mac updates don’t break audio. They don’t require me to hack around with environment variables to get audio working, or to set accessibility options. I have a machine right beside me that I use as a home server, running the latest Ubuntu LTS. It has standard intel onboard audio, and when I tested just now with the TTY, even though the audio drivers seem to be installed, audio isn’t working. The only way I can use the TTY at all is with an ancient dectalk hooked up with a USB to serial port adapter, and even that took an hour of messing around with modprobe and other nonsense. I have no idea why; as this is a server, I don’t really care, but if it was my desktop (meaning I probably wouldn’t have SSHD going) I’d have no way to fix anything. I can only even test it because I happen to be old enough that I have dusty ancient DecTalk hardware in the cupboard. I can say that of the seven or eight Linux systems I’ve worked on, I have never one single time encountered a system with working audio. There’s probably some special thing I have to do to enable it, but without another computer I can use to look up what that might be, and the awareness of where and how to look, I’ll never know what it is. I’m sure you can tell me. But that’s not the point. The point is that by default, Linux systems are unusable by screen readers, unless you know exactly what to do and how to do it. How many thousands of hours did you spend figuring out how to get Linux systems working for you?

Perhaps a more straight-forward interface wouldn’t hurt, but other than that, it works, whatever. :D

And this kind of dismissive response to getting easier interfaces is another reason why Linux won’t be used by most people. I do complex presentations for work, that involve anywhere from three to five audio sources, and I need to change how they’re routed at least once or twice mid-presentation. This needs to be frictionless, as I need to do it while speaking, in less than 15 seconds. My use case isn’t that unusual, especially for blind people with screen readers presenting on Zoom or similar.

screenreaders are applying workarounds for years to prevent soundcards from auto-sleeping,

And these can be configured easily, usually work, and are fully supported and understood. None of that seems to be so on Linux, though as I’ve never found a Linux system with working audio, I can’t speak from direct experience.

As a blind student using Windows, I was regularly calling my classmates to read me the screen, because I did something as simple as trying to turn my computer on.

On Windows 11? Press control+windows+enter and narrator will launch. Even if you’re at the system recovery prompt. As long as you’re out of the BIOS, narrator will run.

Just compare with Windows. When was the last time you discovered an inaccessible app, you wrote the developer “Hey, your app is inaccessible, but there is this great, well-documented MSUIA thing you can implement and get it working”, and the developer was like “Awesome, thanks for your feedback!”

On mac? Last week. On Windows? A couple months ago. I was able to explain to them how the interfaces in Objective C or C# or whatever they’re using support accessibility, and point them at resources to work with it. On Linux, most things still are QT or GTK, and neither system properly supports accessibility without a bunch of hackery.

Yes, improvements are happening. But they’re at least 10 years behind mac and Windows, and they’re going to require similar types of redesigns of basic building blocks that Windows and Mac required.

fastfinge,

there is usually a TUI for it,

Average users just aren’t going to use a TUI. Heck, I work at a tech start-up, and I avoid TUI’s when I can. I have work to get done, and that work doesn’t involve fiddling with my machine. Both Windows and mac let me get the job done with a minimum of messing around. I work in tech all day; my objective is to get everything done with as little effort as possible not directly related to my actual job. Linux does that in the case of servers, not in the case of desktops. This instance is hosted on an Ubuntu machine, but it’s dockerized and automated. I need to log into it maybe once a month. I have nothing against Linux, but I still maintain that the basic decisions behind it make it totally unsuitable for an accessible desktop for the vast majority of users, without major infrastructural changes.

fastfinge,

I run the RBlind.com Lemmy instance at Accuris Hosting. Decent Virtual Machines, easy IPV6 support, and everything works fine. Prices are a bit on the high end, but it’s worth it to me to use a provider located in my country, where I understand all of the associated laws and can pay in my own currency via my local bank. Also, I’d rather not give money to big tech if I can help it, and support local business instead. This isn’t sponsored or anything, I’m just a mostly contented customer.

Also, of course, the fact that the control panel is screen-reader accessible is super important to me, though I doubt anyone else cares. But unfortunately that’s not yet the case with most of the larger cloud providers like AWS. And if they do deploy an inaccessible update, the company is small enough that I can send an email and get an answer from a human who has actually read what I wrote, rather than a corporate AI.

Mantis Q40 and iOS? Orbit's Optima? Other braille displays?

I’m looking into a new braille display, and since I prefer a QWERTY keyboard over braille input, I’m a little interested in the Mantis Q40. Does anyone own it and use it with iOS? any quirks to know about? Does the QWERTY input actually work with iOS? (I own an apex QT where it doesn’t.) www.aph.org/product/mantis-q40...

fastfinge,

Personally, I’m saving up for the Optima as my next big tech purchase. My understanding is that it will support terminal mode, so you can just use it as a Braille display for IOS if you don’t want to fully boot into Windows. I currently have the Orbit Writer, and it works well, though it doesn’t support QWERTY input. I did find this discussion on Applevis from someone who’s using the Mantis QWERTY input on IOS, for what it’s worth.

fastfinge,

The company has done multiple interviews with the Double Tap podcast, and they’ve been pretty cagy about that. Makes me going to believe it’ll be hire than I would like. It’s based on the framework laptop, and if you look at the cost of the Frameworks themselves (even as a non-AT product without a Braille display), they’re quite on the high end. My guess would be take the price of the framework laptop you’d want, and add the price of the Orbit Reader 20 to that, and you’d be in about the range. So probably something like 2 grand US for the starter model, with more if you want upgrades in memory/CPU/hard disc.

fastfinge,

I suspect that’ll be the starter model, though. The stats on the cheapest framework just aren’t that impressive. If you want more CPU cores, enough disc space to actually get things done, or a useful amount of RAM (I think the starter framework is only 8 gig but can’t recall), the price goes up quickly. Yes, it makes me sad that 8 gigs isn’t enough memory to browse the web or run the dozens and dozens of bloated apps I need to run daily.

fastfinge,

So who are they sending our product browsing data to in order to provide this service? At least I know what Microsoft and Google are doing with my data (nothing good). But Pocket and cloudflare and there VPN provider and whatever other random companies Firefox partners with? Who knows! How do I opt out? Who knows! How secure are these companies? Who knows! At least using Edge or Chrome I only have to hand over my data to one evil corporation, instead of several. Plus I actually get things I want in return (for me: automatic image descriptions, reader mode, read aloud, and AI based page summaries). Nothing I get from the companies Firefox works with are things I even want.

fastfinge,

That’s what worries me. When companies get desperate for cash, they tend to do pretty terrible things.

My parent has stargardt's disease in one eye and I am trying to buy a new TV for him

BE Hi all, as title states, my parent has Stargardt’s disease and I am trying to find a TV that best suits that condition. Unfortunately at this time, he doesn’t use accessibility features like voice commands or text-to-speech type tools. I think that may be revisited in the future....

fastfinge,

Is his vision getting worse? If so, I might go with either a Samsung or Sony TV. The reason is that they have accessibility settings like a screen reader and magnification of the on-screen menus builtin. Anything running Google TV would also be OK. Secondly, make sure whatever you get fully supports CEC. That will allow the TV to switch to whatever device he’s currently using, without pressing buttons on the remote or interacting with the menus, in case his vision ever gets bad enough he can no longer read the text on the screen.

fastfinge,

The current time in video games reminds me of described TV shows and movies in the 90’s. In the 90’s, assuming you wanted to watch the exact shows that were described, you would have an amazing experience. Today, assuming you want to play Forza, Mortal Combat, or The Last Of Us, you’re experience will be top notch. It will be interesting to see how things in video gaming progress; today, something like 75 percent of the TV I want to watch has audio description.

fastfinge,

The thing making it challenging is that playing games is expensive! I don’t live with any other gamers, and the cost of purchasing an XBox, a controller, and all the rest, when there’s only a single game I could play on each console isn’t something I can justify. I really hope we manage to break this vicious circle, and that companies don’t give up on accessibility because they aren’t seeing major uptake. If there were five or six games I could play, I could justify dumping several hundred dollars on it. But as things stand, I just can’t. I also don’t own a computer capable of playing Forza or Mortal Combat; my Microsoft Surface is fine for hearthstone and for work, and again, getting something that could play them would be an enormous outlay of money for one or two games. I’m not sure what the way out of this is, but I hope we get there!

fastfinge,

Discord is, unfortunately, where it’s at these days, especially for general interest communities. Clubhouse used to be pretty good, but there latest pivot broke it entirely. Unfortunately, I don’t really have any good arguments in favour of Discord, as I deeply dislike it myself. I just use it because the communities I want to be part of insist.

One thing I will say: refusing to move platforms doesn’t mean these folks aren’t his friends. Moving communities is hard (speaking from experience here as r/blind tries to leave Reddit). I have never been part of any community, other than maybe my personal friends and family, that has agreed to move platforms for me. It’s literally never happened.

fastfinge,

Oh, that’s true enough. But the “gathering” happens whereever it’s always happened, unfortunately.

fastfinge,

despite being probably only 1% the size of reddit.

I think they might be better because they’re only 1% the size of Reddit. It’s impossible to have a meaningful conversation with everyone, all at once. And a smaller website means less social pressure, less corporate influence, etc.

fastfinge,

It’s possible to go into accessibility settings of zoom and control what messages are, and are not, read out. It feels to me like if the chat is distracting you, you’re responsible for turning it off. Both NVDA and Jaws have scripts available that will allow you to do that with a single hotkey.

fastfinge,

Have you played any of the audiogames developed in this space? I know there was an addon for Quake (audioquake) to make that accessible, though I don’t know what the current status of it is. You might also check out the Swamp audiogame by Aprone for further ideas; I think it uses (or used to use) a RADAR system? Either way, it’s a fully accessible first-person shooter, so might be a good game for you to play before breaking ground on your own efforts.

fastfinge,

Vmware for mac is apparently accessible; it’s the solution most blind folks use to virtualize Windows. However, I don’t know about other platforms.

Difficulty feeling attracted to "real" people

As a blind man, I know I am usually attracted to the sound of a woman’s voice. It’s usually just the way they say a specific word or syllable, like “uh huh”. However I find this almost never happens with people in the “real world”. It only happens with voice actors, other performers, and people who are completely...

fastfinge,

For me, I often can’t be physically attracted to someone until I know and like them as a person. It makes online dating worthless, and porn largely useless. Fortunately, I don’t personally feel the lack; I enjoy it when it’s there, but don’t feel any need to seek it out. But if I did feel I need it, I can certainly empathize with how easy it would be to feel starved for affection. There’s also a lot of character-driven adult science fiction/fantasy these days (especially in LitRPG, fanfiction, and Progression Fantasy), for those times when I just do feel the need. Some characterization goes a long way.

There is an online dating app called goodnight for IOS that’s focused around voice and audio-based dating, without visuals. I’ve heard it’s accessible with work-arounds, though I don’t have direct experience with it myself. Even if you don’t find a partner there, maybe just a bit of flirting and getting used to what real people sound like when they’re trying to be attractive might be a good reset for you. Also, listen to interviews of voice actresses. They don’t sound anything like they do when they’re performing. Spending time on websites like Behind The Voice Actors helped me come to terms with how little you can really tell about someone based on voice. As someone born blind, I was way over-estimating how much information (race, physical/body type, personality, etc) I was actually getting from a voice.

fastfinge,

My original post contains a link. However, you’re posting from Mastodon instead of getting a Lemmy account, so you can’t see it. Nothing I can do about that; sorry. Consider joining Lemmy so you can actually access all the features of the platform.

fastfinge,

The desktop website works fine, though.

fastfinge,

I think he’s using tweesecake; I have no idea what that does with Markdown formatting on Mastodon.

fastfinge,

Can someone transcribe this for those of us using screen readers? As a server in Canada, We’re also worried about the hosting risk of the piracy community and considering blocking it. I’d love to read the LW statement.

fastfinge,

Thanks! Perfect. Wish I could award…Lemmy Gold? LOL

fastfinge,

Thanks! I didn’t realize there was an announcement on Lemmy, or I would have searched. Unfortunately screenshots are kind of the only way to share posts on Discord, because you can’t link someone to a Discord message on a server they’re not a member of, so I can’t blame you for a screenshot there. However, it is possible to add alt-text on images you post to Lemmy. :-)

fastfinge, (edited )

Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain

Penny Larceny is by the same author who brought us Arcade Spirits, my favourite visual novel of all time. This one is almost as good! My review will, however, contain some marked spoilers.

The writing and humour in this game are just as sharp, funny, and on-point as the author’s other two games. The soundtrack is thematic and lovely to listen to, and the visual descriptions are excellent and well written. As I’ve come to expect from any Fiction Factory Games title, you won’t find any accessibility issues here. Also, while the game is short, it has enough decision points to allow for quite a bit of replay value.

The reason I say “almost as good” is twofold. First off, I really felt the lack of the stats system from the Arcade Spirits games. It wasn’t always obvious when I was making a roleplaying choice, and when the choice was effecting the game, or in what ways. I think Fiction Factory has just spoiled me in their other two games; the same kind of stats system wouldn’t work for this game, and I do understand why it wasn’t present.

But it only compounds my second issue with the game:

spoileryou’re not the main character. Instead, you’re a voice in Penny’s head, offering her directions and advice. This caused a couple issues. First off, it makes the pronouns system feel both forced and unfortunate. Why do I, the voice in Penny’s head that she got because of some kind of nano-injection, get to decide her pronouns? I’d much rather be telling her mine! But at the point when the game asks me, it was unclear that I was the voice in Penny’s head, not Penny herself. Voices in your head deciding your pronouns sounds like the made-up nightmare Fox News is pretending is reality. Second-off, sometimes Penny will use the pronouns I set, and sometimes she or other characters will just ignore them and use she/her. Throughout my first playthrough, I felt like I’d just given her a case of gender dysphoria. Sorry, Penny! Being the voice in Penny’s head also served to distance me from her a little bit. Maybe if I had access to a stats system she was totally unaware of, and could know how my advice might effect her if she takes it, it would have actually drawn me closer to her; I could have been more useful to her, rather than just guessing the effects of my advice. Or, of course, I could have been intentionally cruel, and convinced her to do things that only I knew would take her down what she thinks of as an undesirable path. But then, that’s not what this story is about; introducing a mechanic like that would make the game about something else, rather than being about the things the author actually wanted to say.

However, none of these issues take away from the fact that “almost as good” still makes this a top-tear, fun, well-written, and thoroughly enjoyable game. In the case of Fiction Factory, “almost as good” is still a five star game. I’d just advise you to make the pronouns she/her when you’re asked; if you don’t want spoilers, you’ll just have to trust me. Or don’t. It’s not like it ruins the game or anything.

fastfinge,

Same! It’s easily one of my favorite visual novels.

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