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Even ww said the protagonist is me.... I don't know why some people are confused
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"Blank slate" in so far as we shape his development through the course of the story.
"You/Us" as in the MC is the means by which we get to immerse ourselves into the world and story, not that the protagonist is us.
We can shape him, but we are not him.
I wonder if people who self insert think that they are the non human MC (the one that gets all the girls/has a comically big dick) or if they are the MC before the infection who is short, a virgin, and has a small dick in universe? (if MC friend being bullied is anything to go by) 
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Maybe we are quadruplets that got separated at birth.I must be your triplet
People like you are the worst kind of community member. Why do you care if people self-insert? That is their preference. It doesn't hurt you.
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Considering they tend to last until five in the morning...
Guys, I am getting the shakes, what is the ETA?
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Dude is shitting on the dev because his imaginary girlfriend got hurt on a super violent game. Its directly hurting the game i like. Are you fucking blind or are you upset because you self insert too?
While I do find the act of "self insertion" incredibly sad, I won't ever bring it up unless someone tries to use it enforce their own will on how something should be.
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Self-insertion is key and is always guaranteed because of how a visual novel game is structured. Even if it is kinetic, because it needs the involvement of a third party to enable the actions of the main character, as this game has "choices" that are enabled by your action. It's way different from a book that's independent of anything you do.
It doesn't mean an ego trip either, as if you have choices to make, you will rationalize the best choice or what you want to see, and that's inserting yourself.
I wonder if/when there will be more of the gender swap scenes, I always find those one interesting, where the MC gets to see/experience things from a different perspective, sexually and otherwise.
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I think you and I both know there's a world of difference between making choices to lead the story in a certain direction and identifying yourself as the mc.
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That, I agree. I also don't enjoy senseless power tripping and a main character that is a Super Gary Stu or Super Mary Sue elevated to infinity. I do have to say that using Gary Stu's or Mary Sue's as archetypes for main characters in amateur visual novels is great, as 99% of the developers and/or writers don't have any experience writing, and frankly, they suck ass. But... chill out with the character.
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If WW timeline from a couple of weeks is still holding any day now. His releases are usually in the middle of the week and the week before release he usually puts out a little teaser image just like what happened last week so unless things are radically different this time we are looking at the next couple of days.
The problem isn't people who self-insert, it's the ones who carry that self-insert too far and stop seperating fiction from reality - they bitch about things that happened "to them", or the absolute worst that happens on these forums of people bitching about some fictional woman having sex in a game with other fictional characters that aren't "them".
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I tend to call this phenomenon mirepresentation, but the sad reality is that some people act so fucking entitled that there is no reasonable approach that will work on them.
At the very least, in the discussion thread, as long as you are not offensive, you can post whatever you like and you will be subject to scrutiny/criticism. So when someone misrepresents for whatever reason, people can respond and set the record straight.
The worst part is when they voice their problems in the reviews.
Subtracting points for (random examples I have in mind)
- Lesbian intra-harem relationships where the game is explicit about it.
- More content for certain characters, despite them having a more prominent role in the story anyway.
- Prioritizing trap content for straight content due to story reasons.
- Violent/unreasonable protagonist, despite the game being explicit about it.
- Calling NTR when the characters in question have no relation to MC.
- Claiming that 2 tags are mutually exclusive, like Harem and Sharing, before even seeing the resolution of that content.
The problem is that you can't make any counterargument in reviews due to the medium. It's also unreasonable to report someone for misrepresentation. Not only it can be weaponized, but it's hard to prove that this is the case. Not hard in the sense that it's hard to prove it, but you have to make a complete argument, the moderator needs to be or be made familiar with the content and there is no guarantee that the direction of the novel won't change in the future.
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