haha I might be one of the rare ones I don't mind that I actually love the hee-hee or tee-hee just not with every girl lol
As far along as the game is now, that type of dialogue has never changed. I would just assume that it's not gonna happen.
I am between the two, I guess. I don't think it looks right, but I can easily skip over it and just go to the dialogue itself. When I see it, it's like I convert it in my head to an actual laugh, so it seems more natural to me. There's a mod (think it was Sancho's) that does some work to get rid of this, but it never did anything for me, I think he said it was because the dev went back and changed a load of it after the mod was done anyway...
I liked the idea of a mod for this, and I decided to make one for myself, I found 375 'tee-hee', 800 'hee-hee', and some 'hee hee', I replaced them all with *chuckles*, it took me about 20 minutes to manually adjust the *chuckles*, placing them at the beginning of the dialogues, and I liked the result.
Meh, I don't really see much difference. I guess only if you imagine a different sound for chuckling, but it will still be a thing where everyone's chuckling all of the time. But I guess if it works for you and others, more power to you.
There's a lot more things in AVNs that are much more annoying than the Hee-hees.
And maybe they all grew up with helium in their DNA. Doesn't bother me at all.
Nice job. I was wondering, did you consider 'giggles' instead of 'chuckles'? Maybe it's just me but whenever 'chuckles' is used, I see a jolly fat man.
The reason why I replaced everything with *chuckles* was out of sheer laziness, It's not perfect, but it's much better than the original, I'm actually enjoying the game.
*Chuckles* says they are chuckling, whereas "tee-hee" suggests they are literally saying "tee-hee" all the time, and who does that? I think for me, although I skip over it, that was initially the bit that "bothered" me about it.
I could see something like tee-hee giving that impression, even though it's just an onomatopoeia. If a bird called out and the sound were written as kaw, the intent isn't that the bird actually says "kaw". A dog's ruff isn't supposed to make you hear it saying "rough". But I definitely get it: knowing a word represents a sound doesn't necessarily change the impression you get from seeing that word in a story's dialogue. And with a format like VN, it's more likely onomatopoeias will look like they're being said rather than just noises of half-repressed laughter, being frustrated, etc.
I get what you're saying, but onomatopoeia is a word formed to represent the sound it makes (so it's "kaw" or "ruff" because that's what those animal noises sound like). So here, that's still saying it sounds like the characters are saying "tee-hee" regardless
Nobody (unless it's totally forced or specifically in a conversation like this) actually ever says, "tee-hee", ever. They might hold their tongue a certain way and try unsuccessfully to hold in a laugh so the sound coming out is somewhat close to "tee-hee". But no one actually says "tee-hee" in normal speech. That's exactly why it's an onomatopoeia. So I guess you could just insert asterisks around it — *tee-hee* — and then it wouldn't be spoken, and you wouldn't need to find another word like "giggle" or "chuckle".I get what you're saying, but onomatopoeia is a word formed to represent the sound it makes (so it's "kaw" or "ruff" because that's what those animal noises sound like). So here, that's still saying it sounds like the characters are saying "tee-hee" regardless
I think the formatting is the thing though, like with the "chuckles" between asterisks, it makes it seem like it's a sound being made, rather than actual words being said. An example you do sometimes see in these games is *cough*
That's the point, and basically what I said a few posts ago. Nobody does that, but in the game that's exactly what they are doing, either by design or by the absence of formatting just making it seem that way.
