Well said, this is what I came around to in the end. There would be a few "blue button true believers" very surprised to find out how lonely it is in blue button heaven.

The “next step” is in the system prompt, not the model. Gemini leaked part of its system prompt to me a few days ago, and there was something in there encouraging it to ask the user what they wanted to do next at the end of its response. Something about “give the user 1 or 2 options for follow up”.

I honestly find it rather annoying, but Gemini has stopped doing it to me for the most part, so maybe they’re trying out a new system prompt.

That’s why every visual novel (well, almost every visual novel) have a skip function. I know exactly the stretch you’re talking about… I think. Just ctrl-skip through it.

Wish HN markup had spoiler tags. Let's just say it involved spending quality time with Yuri?

I played it on my Switch; not sure if it has a skip option.

Yep, quality time with the bookworm.

Usually on mobile devices like the Switch or Steam Deck, visual novels have a skip function if you hold one of the triggers.

DDLC borrowed a lot from YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi), which I consider generally superior to DDLC. I say this not to diminish DDLC, which is excellent, but as a plug for anyone who enjoyed DDLC and wants more mind warping content like that.

I believe Dan Salvato, the creator of DDLC, said he wasn't aware of YOU and ME and HER until late in development.

Convergent evolution. It’s probably just an amazing and fortuitous coincidence. They look similar but have completely different internal structure, like a bug that pretends to be a leaf. I can’t go any further without spoilers, so I won’t.

There might be a slim evolutionary thread between them, actually. DDLC made a reference to a certain Gravity Falls episode which has a similar premise by releasing exactly 3 years later, and that one could have been inspired by the then recent release of Totono during production.

But I agree it's convergence for the most part, it's not that hard to come up with that premise even if it hasn't been too common.

Wouldn’t be the first time people assumed it was porn just from the cover. Chaos;Head/Noah was mistakenly banned from Steam for this reason until there was an outcry.

I’m glad I had to scroll down this far to find such a breathtakingly ignorant take. DDLC has zero fan service. It’s a story that happens to deal with subjects often encountered by adolescents.

There’s no good reason for this except general Western bias against Japanese moe

Play the game to completion and you’ll understand why that’s not ideal. It is doable but I recommend the PC experience first.

We had a consumer protection agency with teeth. Dunno where it went though.

There's a strong chance it's illegal so admitting to it is pretty breathtaking. They must be very confident they're in the clear, or the spokesperson didn't run this by the right people.

What is illegal about it? What law does it break?

Could these removals indicate editorial discretion that would remove § 230 protections from Facebook?

I think that would apply if they started removing user content about this. But Facebook is simply declining to accept ads about this, which doesn't seem like it would apply here.

Awesome!! Thank you SO much for this.

Appreciate it!