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Mainly because they weren't right.
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Okay, i'll bite with a few that made me inwardly cringe and one that annoyed me.
All of the above were already correct given context and speakers personality.
This is the one that annoyed me.
The sentence in the game is absolutely correct given Violets personality. Your correction completely neuters her.
And that, right there, is the main issue with nearly all of your corrections. In an English essay they may be correct, in a story about people trying to convey a personality they make it all so mechanical and bland.
Simply put, most of your corrections are out of context and have no place in character writing.
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Most of his corrections don't even have a place there either, unless American culture has dumbed down English universities so much since I got my degree (as an Englishman).
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Damn, it's rare to to see this level of comma-obsession, fixation, hell, let's call it what it is - fetish, in a language other than german. 
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Look....I don't want to say we did dumb it down.....but we did dumb it down. America be dumb af
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TBF, commas can really change the meaning of a sentence in my native language, but yeah, it is weird to see in any other languageDamn, it's rare to to see this level of comma-obsession, fixation, hell, let's call it what it is - fetish, in a language other than german.
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CboyC95 is mostly right. A few of the proposed changes are either wrong or unnecessary, like the total rewrites. But most of them, especially the apparently dreaded commas, are correct.
How can it be a bad thing to get as much of it right as you can? As someone who really likes Actual Roommates and only wants to see it be better, I approve of getting even details like commas and missing periods right.
I get that most of you don't care about it. It doesn't bother me much. In which case you should either correct the ones you think are wrong (instead of wasting everyone's time with posts such as "Mainly because they weren't right" or "Because they were?") or leave it alone.
How can it be a bad thing to get as much of it right as you can? As someone who really likes Actual Roommates and only wants to see it be better, I approve of getting even details like commas and missing periods right.
I get that most of you don't care about it. It doesn't bother me much. In which case you should either correct the ones you think are wrong (instead of wasting everyone's time with posts such as "Mainly because they weren't right" or "Because they were?") or leave it alone.
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N, they aren't...
Oh we do care...but we're actually English and we are right, especially in terms of context and character writing.
If one is going to publically try and be a smart ass grammar nazi, one better have a very firm grasp of the language and its use beforehand.
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We have been specific.
In an essay, likely America because those of us that are from the UK have a different way about things, I digress .... Some of those may be correct given certain context like writing an essay on a given subject.
That said, when you are writing for characters and trying to flesh them out with their own personality then a lot of those corrections just don't work. They remove personality and have everyone talking mechanically.
I'll stick to the one that bugged me the most.
Vi comes in saying "Good evening everyone"
That shows Vi's fun side with a happy greeting.
The correction to that was "I'm back, everyone" .... which is generic and bland. Removes any personality from the writing.
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Because the dev would have to allocate time to unnecessarily redoing old stuff while she could make new lesbian Sex scenes.
Plus: I don't know if she makes money from this at all yet. So it is more of a passion Project. How much passion would remain for you in a Project, when each time you finish something and want to go on someone nitpicks on the stuff you just finished and wants you to go back to change minute things?
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That was for the other guy. I already pointed out that I think the rewrites, which seem to bother you the most, are unnecessary.
I'm talking about the grammar.
While I agree that rewriting is unnecessary, this is an exaggeration. You make it sound like the difference between "Good evening" and "I'm back" would assassinate the character. It's so insignificant. All of the emotion is shown by the render.
If your point is that the comma is what makes it bland... how in the world? Forgetting a comma doesn't add personality. It just makes it wrong.