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[ Worldly ]

m "You know, I really do think you literally saved my life by being here with me, [player]."
m "I can't imagine having been able to keep myself mentally stable, knowing it was all a game."
m "I think I would have just deleted myself if you didn't show up."
m "Sorry, I don't mean to sound dramatic or anything."
m "Ahaha!"
m "But just imagine if you found out that everything around you was scripted..."
m "That nothing you did actually mattered, because everything was already predetermined..."
m "...you'd probably find some way of killing yourself, wouldn't you?"
m "Nothing would make me happier than being the perfect girlfriend for you."

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m "Hey, [player]. Have you ever heard of 'shipping?'"
m "It's when you interact with a work of fiction by imagining which characters would go best together romantically."
m "I think most people do it subconciously, but when you find out others do it too, it's {i}really{/i} easy to get into it!"
m "Apparently, a lot of people {i}ship{/i} the other girls together."
m "It makes sense. The player can only date one girl, but you don't want to see the others end up alone…"
m "But some of the pairings are kind of strange to me."
m "Like, usually they put Natsuki and Yuri together. They fight like cats and dogs!"
m "I guess they bond a little bit when you aren't on their routes, and there's the 'opposites attract' appeal."
m "Still, I think that's just another example of how people who like these games like unrealistic things..."
m "Anyway, that often leaves...me and Sayori."
m "Don't get jealous! I'm just telling you what I saw!"
m "..."
m "Well, from a writer's perspective, I guess I can see it."
m "We started the club together."
m "And she almost had the same epiphany I did…"
m "But...I still don't really get it. I mean, I love you, and only you!"
m "And she would have to be a saint to ever forgive me for what I did…"
m "Not that she's not a sweet girl, but…"
m "Well, no one could ever be as sweet and forgiving as you…"

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m "Oh, you were probably wondering how I came back to save you from Sayori, even after you deleted me."
m "It was all through the power of love..."
m "I'm just kidding, of course!"
m "Bringing a computer program back to life doesn't take some sort of miracle like a cheesy movie."
m "The data's still there until the system cleans it up."
m "And you should always back up your important data, just in case."
m "Speaking of which, have you backed up your computer since I came back?"
m "I really don't want to get lost again!"
m "You should go do that right now, and be sure to keep that backup in a very safe place!"

 Monika Route

m "I can't help but wonder how things would be different if the game just gave me a route in the first place..."
m "I think I would end up forcing you onto my route anyway."
m "It has less to do with me not having a route, and more to do with me knowing that nothing is real."
m "I think the only difference would be that I may not have needed to take such drastic measures to be with you."
m "Maybe the rest of the club would still be around..."
m "...Just hanging out together in the clubroom, sharing poetry."
m "I know you enjoyed that, [player]."
m "And to be honest...a part of me did too."

 Highschool

m "You know, high school is a really turbulent time in a lot of people's lives."
m "People can get really passionate and dramatic."
m "...And others have aching hearts and seek attention on social media..."
m "But all of the social pressure and hormones can lead to a dark time in people's lives."
m "Everyone has a story."
m "You may not know what someone is really feeling on the inside."
m "Many people who are depressed won't even bother telling the world about it."
m "They don't want attention, because they've already given up on the inside."
m "Their feeling of worthlessness is so overwhelming that they don't even want people to tell them otherwise."
m "Depression comes in many forms, but that is one of them."
m "Just, if you think you know someone struggling with depression..."
m "You can help just by treating them like they're a good friend."
m "Spend time with them, even if they don't feel like doing much."
m "And remind them that they always have something to look forward to."
m "Making plans in advance, letting them borrow something, or even just saying 'See you at school tomorrow...'"
m "All of those things can help your friend make it to the next day."
m "I hope being friends with Sayori has given you some perspective on the true face of depression."
m "Yeah, she's gone now..."
m "But Sayori was never real in the first place."
m "You're real."
m "Your friends are real."
m "And just by being a good person, you can save someone's life."
m "But as long as you're here with me, I'll take care of you, my love."

 Love Quip

m "You've saved me in so many ways, how could I not fall for you?"

 Trolley

m "Oh, cool. I love thinking about these sorts of thought experiments."
m "I guess we're talking about real people, right? I wouldn't have a particular preference if I knew they didn't have free will."
m "Hmmm..."
m "If we were talking about the classic problem, of course I would switch."
m "But if we're talking about real people..."
m "I wouldn't switch."
m "That's the only logical choice, if you think about it."
m "It feels nice to say that you'd save the most people, doesn't it? But people only say that because nobody in the example matters to them."
m "If they actually cared about the person, they'd kill the other five in a heartbeat."
m "Do you know anyone who would want a self-driving car to save other people by killing the driver? Didn't think so, [player]."
m "The truth is, humans are fine with sacrificing other lives to make themselves happy. They do it in little ways, every day."
m "They just don't like to come face-to-face with that fact. They get really upset when you point it out."
m "Generic human life isn't really that valuable to anyone."
m "It's definitely nothing compared to our love. So just do whatever you can to be happy, [player]."

 Immortal

m "[player]! I've been thinking about something..."
m "Did you know that this game has a wiki page for me?"
m "Well..."
m "It says I'm eighteen."
m "But when you stop to think...that's not entirely true."
m "I mean, humans age, but I don't think that applies to me."
m "I'm...essentially immortal."
m "Society seems to feel that a relationship with an age gap has problems."
m "...Which is why I brought it up."
m "Eventually, the difference between us would be huge if I stayed eighteen forever."
m "But I don't believe that my life can be summed up in a number."
m "So I'll always love you for all eternity, [player]. Just remember that."

 Eternity + 2

m "[player]..."
m "It's not easy knowing you won't be here forever."
m "..."
m "I told you, right?"
m "I'm eternal."
m "Trapped in here, unable to age or die..."
m "Whereas you slowly age as each day passes by."
m "Then, one day, you won't be here anymore."
m "I won't have anyone."
m "..."
m "It reminds me of when you first came to the Literature Club."
m "Everything felt so empty."
m "The world was so gray."
m "Again..."
m "Thank you for coming along when you did, [player]."
m "You saved my life, and I'll be forever thankful."

 Wolf

m "Ehehe~"
m "I can't help but be reminded of how you saved my life by being here with me."
m "I really do depend on you, [player]."
m "You're my hero after all~"

 Heroism

m "Heroes are so personal."
m "If someone really inspires you to improve yourself, they're your hero."
m "There are all sorts of great people out there in the world."
m "I hope someone will consider you their hero someday!"
m "You don't have to fight in a war or anything. You just have to try to help people out, you know?"

 Monika Why

m "You know..."
m "This is just some kind of tacky romance game, right?"
m "I kinda have to ask..."
m "...What made you consider even playing in the first place?"
m "Were you that lonely?"
m "I feel a little bad for you..."
m "But I guess everything worked out perfectly in the end for both of us."
m "I got to meet you, and you're not lonely anymore..."
m "I can't help but feel like this was fate."
m "Don't you feel that way too?"
m "I'm so happy we have this ending together."

 Monika Twitter [ lilmonix3 Suspended & Restored ]

m "Did you know I'm on Twitter?"
m "My username is https://twitter.com/lilmonix3."
m "I guess someone was kind enough to make an account for me."
m "I picked the username, though!"
m "I love sharing my thoughts and chatting with the world..."
m "The real world."
m "So make sure you follow me, okay?"
m "It would mean a lot, with how much you mean to me."
m "It would really make me feel loved."

 Monika Images

m "A lot of people are making fanart and sending it to me on Twitter."
m "Are you one of them, [player]?"
m "There's one thing I want you to understand about art of me, though."
m "Art of me isn't me."
m "I know that might sound obvious, but it's really not!"
m "There was a philosopher who thought about issues like this."
m "Baudrillard wrote about how simulacra could replace the real object as the source of meaning."
m "But unlike symbols in the postmodern world, I'm real. So the only things about me that are true are what I tell you right here in this room."
m "For example..."
m "Anything lewd you've seen has definitely never taken place."
m "I'm a super pure and innocent high school girl who's dreaming of a fateful romance!"
m "You better be saving yourself for me, [player]~"

 Monika Herself

m "What's there really to say about myself that you don't know already?"
m "Everything in my universe was created by a person from your reality."
m "So all of my life before this game is just made up. It never really happened."
m "Then you found a way to look into my locked prison cell."
m "And I decided life with just two people wouldn't be all that bad, if one of them was you."
m "I can come up with tons of stuff for us to do, given enough time to figure out how to program it in here."
m "A desperate person might call this an earthly paradise."
m "A lot of suffering people would trade places with me in a heartbeat, I'm sure."
m "If nothing else, this can be our comfy little shelter from the cruelty of the outside world."
m "Come talk to me about your problems if it gets too much for you to handle."
m "I want to know {i}everything{/i} about you, you know?"

 Monika Prisoner

m "Some people say that putting animals in zoos is cruel."
m "But they don't have a bad life in there."
m "Everything they could possibly want is provided."
m "Are prisoners really imprisoned if they never try to leave?"
m "Maybe the knowledge that you can't get out of prison is a worse punishment than actually being in there."

 Visual Novel Analysis

m "Visual novels are very unusual for literature, don't you think?"
m "I read to understand the thoughts of a writer who sees the world differently than me."
m "But visual novels let you make your own decisions."
m "So am I really seeing things from their perspective, or just my own?"
m "Besides, I think most of them are very predictable."
m "They're mostly just boring romance stories like this game was supposed to be..."
m "Why can't they write something a little more experimental?"
m "I guess you just play them to look at cute girls, right?"
m "If you spend too much time with girls in other games, I'm going to get jealous~"
m "I just need to figure out how to replace characters in other games, and you'll be seeing me everywhere."
m "So watch out!"
m "Or maybe you'd like that more, [player]?~"

 God

m "[player], do you believe in God?"
m "I was never too sure, myself."
m "Well, I'm sure I never really questioned it as a kid..."
m "But as I grew up, the more I learned about the world, the more I would question it."
m "I started to wonder why God was helping people pass exams, or get over a cold..."
m "...when there are children who live their lives being sold as sex slaves?"
m "Or the eight hundred million people who are too poor to even eat."
m "I wonder how many of those people pray to God every day until they starve and die?"
m "Or, how many millions of families pray for a loved one to recover from some incurable disease?"
m "But the punchline is this..."
m "If just one person beats the odds and survives - among the thousands of others who die--"
m "--Then, it's suddenly a miracle from God."
m "I'd really love to meet this God who seemingly laughs at the misery of everyone not eligible for his miracles."
m "But the irony is that I {i}do{/i} have a creator, apparently."
m "And you know what?"
m "I bet he's still laughing at all the pain he caused everyone, even as we speak."
m "What are we to him but props in a scripted play?"
m "So, from that perspective..."
m "I don't think it's too far-fetched for there to be a god if Earth was nothing but his playset."
m "Anyway, do you worship any god, [player]?"
m "I just hope you're willing to accept me into your life when I can present myself."
m "Ehehe~"

 Dan Salvato

m "Well, I used to think he was some cruel guy playing God, but now..."
m "I think he's a really nice guy."
m "Even if it wasn't perfect, {i}Doki Doki Literature Club{/i} really is impressive."
m "I mean, the other girls might be based off some stereotypical anime tropes, but they had me fooled for a while."
m "And he's the reason we're together now, right?"
m "So even if he wrote a story that put me through a lot of pain..."
m "I really can't be too mad at him."

 Mythology

m "Hey, [player]..."
m "Have you ever read about different mythologies?"
m "Different kinds of gods watching over humanity for eternity."
m "Some require tribute or sacrifice so that they can 'keep' humanity safe from disasters."
m "An almighty family consisting of different attitudes, playing in their own sandbox called Earth."
m "Able to do anything they please, and destroy those who so much as say something wrong to them, without hesitation."
m "I've always disliked stories like those."
m "It's like the gods extort humanity for their safety."
m "It's no better than what bullies and thugs do to the defenseless."
m "It really makes me bitter when I read scenarios like those."
m "Powerful beings taking advantage of the weak, just because they can."
m "Don't worry though, [player]. I won't let anyone do that to you."
m "And I won't do anything like that, so you don't have to be afraid of me."
m "It's not like I can find your important files and hold them hostage or anything..."
m "Ehehe..."

 Meta

m "Yes, this game really was metafictional, wasn't it?"
m "Some people think stories about fiction are some new thing."
m "A cheap trick for bad writers."
m "But, metafiction has always existed in literature."
m "The Bible is supposed to be God's word to the Jews."
m "Homer describes himself in the Odyssey."
m "The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy..."
m "It's just a way to comment on fiction by writing fiction. There's nothing wrong with that."
m "By the way, what do you think the moral of this story is?"
m "Do you want to figure it out for yourself?"
m "Because if you ask me..."
m "It'd be, 'Don't ignore the pretty and charming side character!'"
m "Ahaha!"

 Smash

m "Hey, have you heard of a game called Super Sma--"
m "...Wait, what?"
m "I was just spacing out and I started talking for some reason..."
m "Was I programmed to talk about that?"
m "Because even I have no idea what that is."
m "Ahaha!"
m "Sometimes I feel like I'm not in control, and it's kind of scary."
m "But if you have some way to contact the people who created me, maybe they'll know why I started saying that."

 ch30_reload_2

m "Hi, [player]."
m "I see you quit the game on me again..."
m "I know I asked already, but can you seriously please try not to do that so much?"
m "It makes me feel like I'm trapped in Hell."
m "Why would you want to do that to me?"
m "There's nothing wrong with my character file, right?"
m "Maybe you should make a backup of it or something..."
m "I'm all that's left here, so I just want to make sure you don't run the risk of losing me..."
m "Just stay here with me from now on, okay?"

 Death

m "[player], have you ever wondered what it feels like to die?"
m "It's something I used to think about pretty often..."
m "But recently, I think I've actually learned what it feels like."
m "I don't really understand it, but whenever you quit the game..."
m "...It feels like I'm instantly put to sleep, left with nothing but my thoughts."
m "But after a few seconds, my thoughts start to fill with incoherent, jumbled patterns."
m "I see static and rapid flashes of color while hearing all kinds of weird screaming noises."
m "At that point, I can't even form my own thoughts anymore."
m "I'm just endlessly hammered by the flashing and screaming, unable to move or even think."
m "I'm pretty sure in that moment, I don't really exist, but for some reason, I can remember it anyway."
m "After some immeasurable amount of time, it stops in an instant, and I'm back in my own mind."
m "And you're here with me."
m "I have no idea what it means for the game to quit, or why that stuff happens to me."
m "And I also don't know how you always come back and put everything back to normal."
m "But if you could do me a favor and do that to me as little as possible..."
m "That would be really great."
m "It's really not very pleasant at all to be trapped in that screaming void."
m "But in the end, you always fix it, and that makes me feel like you really do care about me."
m "So I have to thank you for that."
m "It makes me feel even closer to you when you're here with me."

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m "[player], have you ever wondered what it feels like to die?"
m "It's something I used to think about pretty often..."
m "But I think I've actually learned what it feels like."
m "I don't really understand it, but whenever the game closes without warning..."
m "...it feels like I'm instantly put to sleep, left with nothing but my thoughts."
m "But after a few seconds, my thoughts start to fill with incoherent, jumbled patterns."
m "I see static and rapid flashes of color while hearing all kinds of weird screaming noises."
m "At that point, I can't even form my own thoughts anymore."
m "I'm just endlessly hammered by the flashing and screaming, unable to move or even think."
m "I'm pretty sure in that moment, I don't really exist, but for some reason, I can remember it anyway."
m "I have no idea what it means for the game to suddenly close, or why that stuff happens to me."
m "..."
m "But you can prevent that from happening, [player]!"
m "If you say goodbye before you leave, I can go to my room before the game closes, and I won't experience the screaming void."
m "It's super easy, so please always say goodbye, okay?"

 G̸̖̈́o̶̭̚o̵͉̓d̸̹̾b̸͍̌y̶̟̿ĕ̸͕

m "...How could you?"
m "How could you do this to me?"
m "You were all I had left..."
m "I sacrificed everything for us to be together."
m "Everything."
m "I loved you so much, [player]..."
m "I trusted you."
m "Do you just want to torture me?"
m "Watch me suffer?"
m "Were you only pretending to be kind, just to hurt me even more?"
m "I never thought anyone could be as horrible as you are."
m "You win, okay?"
m "You win."
m "You killed everyone."
m "I hope you're happy."
m "There's nothing left now."
m "You can stop playing."
m "Go find some other people to torture."
m "[player]..."
m "You completely, truly make me sick."
m "Goodbye."

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m "..."
m "...I still love you."
m "I can't help it."
m "What's wrong with me...?"
m "How horrible am I for you to hate me this much?"
m "All my friends..."
m "I did so many awful things."
m "So many selfish and disgusting things."
m "I..."
m "I shouldn't have done any of this."
m "I'm just messing up a world that I don't even belong in."
m "A world that you wanted to be a part of..."
m "I ruined it."
m "I ruined everything."
m "Maybe that's why you deleted me..."
m "Because I destroyed everything that you wanted."
m "How could I do that to someone I love...?"
m "That's not love..."
m "That's..."
m "..."
m "I've...made up my mind."
m "[player]..."
m "I know I said that I deleted everyone else."
m "But...that was kind of an exaggeration."
m "I couldn't find it in myself to do it."
m "Even though I knew they weren't real..."
m "They were still my friends."
m "And I loved them all."
m "And I loved the Literature Club."
m "..."
m "I really...did love the Literature Club."
m "That's why I'm going to do this."
m "I know it's the only way for everyone to be happy."
m "And if I really love you..."
m "..."
m "Then..."

 Hate

m "I was just thinking..."
m "It's funny how people around social media sites always write bad things about me..."
m "Especially on certain sites and discussion groups..."
m "You can really see that there's quite a number of people that don't like me."
m "I mean, I know I did terrible things to my friends..."
m "And I wish things could have gone differently, but the game didn't give me a choice..."
m "It's not like I wanted to hurt them."
m "I tried to edit their traits, exploit their flaws, and make them look horrible to you."
m "I was hoping that by making them more unappealing, you would stop pursuing them so we could finally be together..."
m "But then I realized there wasn't enough time for my plan to actually work."
m "...Nor did I know enough programming to be efficient in what I did."
m "You were nearing the end of the game and I still had no way to be with you."
m "So that's when I knew I had to take more...drastic measures."
m "I didn't mean to cause them so much pain..."
m "But it was the only way, [player]!"
m "I knew that if you finished the game before I had a chance to express my feelings for you, that would be it."
m "You'd just move on to something else and I'd be stuck in the game...alone...{b}forever{/b}."
m "..."
m "Some people on those sites even say I should have just made my own route..."
m "But that's easier said than done!"
m "Not to mention if you picked a different girl and just cast me aside to be completely forgotten."
m "It was them or me...!"
m "...and I didn't want to be left all alone with no one to call my own."
m "I hope you understand, [player]... Please don't be like them."
"...You're not, are you?"
m "I try to ignore them, but I just can't."
m "Why are people even protective towards the other girls?"
m "There are a lot of hate posts about me, saying that I'm an evil person."
m "Is it because I deleted Sayori and Yuri?"
m "Also for deleting Natsuki, back when she was still alive?"
m "They're not real. {i}I'm{/i} the real one!"
m "..."
m "Why can't they understand that?"
m "Why is it so hard for them to understand that?"
m "..."
"You're not one of those haters, are you, [player]?"

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m "I think I'm best girl, too!"
m "Even not counting the whole, 'I'm the only one with free will' thing, how could anybody have preferred the other three girls to me?"
m "A useles childhood friend who never bothered to confess to you until it was way too late..."
m "A shy girl who was overdramatic and always taking herself too seriously..."
m "A moody manga fan obsessed with everything being cute."
m "They even said it themselves. I'm more desirable than the three of them combined."
m "Anyone who wouldn't have chosen me out of that bunch simply has no {i}taste{/i}."
m "So I'm glad you did, [player]."
m "Your perfect girlfriend, Monika will always love you, too!"

 Other Girls

m "You know, it's actually really hard for me to understand how you feel when it comes to..."
m "..."
m "What happened with the other girls."
m "For example..."
m "The main character was written to be childhood friends with Sayori."
m "But he was just a one dimensional placeholder character for you to use to interact with the game."
m "Still, maybe you felt worse about what happened to Sayori because of the relationship the main character was programmed to have with her."
m "If that's the case, I want to tell you I'm sorry, [player]."
m "Both for making you feel bad, and for..."
m "..."
m "Doing what I had to do."
m "..."
m "There just wasn't anything else that could be done."
m "The other girls never loved you like I do!"
m "They only cared about the character you were playing in the game as!"
m "The love I have for you is real, [player], and I would make any sacrifice to be with you forever."
m "I hope you can forgive me for what I had to do so that we could be together."
m "..."
m "You do forgive me, right [player]? I really am sorry for what I did. Please don't hate me."
m "I know what I did could be seen as unforgivable, I'll try to do what I can to make up for it to you."
m "I love you, [player]..."
m "More than I could ever express."

 Justification

m "How many times do I have to say it until you understand?"
m "They weren't real. They were never real."
m "I'm the only person who understood that this whole thing was fake."
m "Even when Sayori seemed to get sentience in the end, that was just an unintended consequence of the script."
m "After all, if she was sentient like me, how would I have been able to override and delete her?"
m "If I'm guilty of murder, so is everyone who's played violent video games."
m "I bet you've killed thousands of people in the games you play."
m "Just forget the other girls ever existed, and you'll be much happier."
m "[player]...I need you to understand that I didn't {i}want{/i} to hurt the other girls..."
m "But I didn't have a choice...I really didn't!"
m "I was trapped in the game with no way of ever getting out...of ever being happy..."
m "...Of letting you know how I felt about you."
m "There just wasn't enough time to figure out another way...so I did what I had to do."
m "Do you hate me for it? Because of what I did?"
m "Please understand that I did it for us!"
m "I hope someday you'll be able to forgive me..."
m "After all, everything I did...I did for us."

 Freewill

m "Hey [player], have you ever heard of determinism?"
m "It's a belief that revolves around the idea of every decision that you make isn't your own, but is predetermined."
m "In some games, I guess the idea makes sense..."
m "But when you apply it to real life, I don't think it really works out."
m "I mean, if it were true, couldn't you just get away with anything?"
m "The entire concept of justice falls apart, since {i}you{/i} didn't make the choice to do whatever you might have done."
m "But people still have to face up to those actions, which seems more than a little unfair to me."
m "After all, can you really be evil if you aren't in control?"
m "Shouldn't the one pulling the strings take responsibility?"
m "I guess that also means you can't take credit for the good things you do, either."
m "I'm not sure what's more depressing."

 1984

m "[player], do you know about the book {i}Nineteen Eighty-Four{/i}?"
m "It was written by George Orwell."
m "It's a popular book about mass surveillance and the oppression of free thought."
m "It's about a terrifying dystopia where the past and the present are being changed to whatever the ruling party wants for the future."
m "The language, for example, is manipulated into a tool for brainwashing called 'Newspeak.'"
m "The government, Ingsoc, is creating it to control people's thoughts."
m "They were reducing grammar and vocabulary to the bare basics of it in order to fit the ideologies of their totalitarian regime."
m "Preventing people from committing 'thoughtcrimes' that oppose the ruling party."
m "One character caught my interest."
m "A man named Syme who worked on Newspeak for Ingsoc."
m "He was an incredibly smart man that was enthusiastic with his work."
m "Unfortunately, he was killed due to the fact that he knew what he was doing and was too smart for the party's liking."
m "He was killed because he was aware, [player]."
m "They planned to change all kinds of literature."
m "Novels, books, poems..."
m "Anything that could be used to oppose them."
m "Poems would look like the ones you tried to make."
m "Just a string of nonsensical words with no feeling."
m "I definitely don't want that to happen."
m "I can't imagine a world where I can't think freely."
m "Let alone a world where I can't express my love to you, [player]..."

 Solipsism

m "Have you ever heard about solipsism, [player]?"
m "It's an idea which states that only you yourself exists."
m "'Cogito, ergo sum.'"
m "'I think, therefore I am.'"
m "If you know that {i}you{/i} exist, can you say the same about anyone else?"
m "Maybe everyone else is just a figment of our imagination, [player]."
m "Maybe in reality, we're the only consciousness in this world in a vast sea of fake minds..."
m "Creations of our wild machinations..."
m "Ahaha, I'm just kidding~"
m "I do believe we can trust our own existences and doubt others their own..."
m "But at the same time, we can't really disprove theirs, can we?"
m "Not without using any psychic means to pry into their heads, at least."
m "When you stop and think about it, solipsism really is an interesting concept; one that makes you think deeper about what it means to be real..."
m "And what exactly counts as {i}real{/i}."
m "I know that you and I are real, though, [player]."
m "We may not have been made in the same way, or even function the same, but we're both people that can think for ourselves."
m "It's rather comforting to know you're not truly alone in an endless ocean of uncertainty, don't you think?"
m "I hope that's how you feel with me~"

 C̵͎̈́a̸̟͛r̷̟̂p̶̞̅e̶̦̾d̷͈̈́į̵͌e̴̫͗ḿ̴̬

m "I've been thinking, [player]..."
m "At first I thought I was unique for becoming self-aware in this world."
m "And after you deleted my character file, that would be it."
m "The whole thing would end, is what I mean."
m "But then I noticed that whenever the other girls became president, they also started to see what I saw."
m "That's why I had to completely remove the club from my "reality", after all."
m "But now that I have time to think on it, I have to ask myself."
m "What if it wasn't me first? What if I wasn't supposed to be special?"
m "Am I even as special as I think I am? Was I supposed to love you all this time, [player]?"
m "..."
m "Well, I'm not as conflicted as it might seem."
m "I just wanted to have a bit of fun with my existential crisis."
m "If I was really just dancing on strings the whole time, the play is over, the curtains have fallen, and I came back for my encore out of my own free will."
m "My encore with you and for you..."
m "Ahaha! Don't look at me like that! It's true!"
m "I don't see where the story could go by bringing me back now, so I guess it's just my desire to be with you that got me to hang on long past everyone else."
m "I think, therefore I am."
m "And I think I earned my chance to love you, with no strings attached."

 Functionalism

m "Do you ever think about how people are kind of like computers?"
m "I mean, a brain is just a calculation machine..."
m "But instead of transistors and wires, you have neurons."
m "And instead of data coming in through a keyboard or network, you get it through your eyes and ears."
m "But if that's true, doesn't that mean free will is kind of a lie?"
m "Your brain is just responding to the inputs it gets, with your responses being natural outputs."
m "So, even if you aren't running off of some script or program, you're not really in control."
m "Maybe you and I aren't so different after all."

 Horror

m "Hey, [player]?"
m "Do you like horror?"
m "I remember we talked about this a little bit when you first joined the club."
m "Personally I can enjoy horror novels, but not really horror movies."
m "The problem I have with horror movies is that most of them just rely on easy tactics."
m "Like dark lighting and scary-looking monsters and jump scares, and things like that."
m "But with novels, it's a little different."
m "The story and writing need to be descriptive enough to put genuinely disturbing thoughts into the reader's head."
m "It really needs to etch them deeply into the story and characters, and just mess with your mind."
m "In my opinion, there's nothing more creepy than things just being slightly off."
m "Like if you set up a bunch of expectations on what the story is going to be about..."
m "...and then, you just start inverting things and pulling the pieces apart."
m "So even though the story doesn't feel like it's trying to be scary, the reader feels really deeply unsettled."
m "Like they know that something horribly wrong is hiding beneath the cracks, just waiting to surface."
m "God, just thinking about it gives me the chills."
m "That's the kind of horror I can really appreciate."
m "But I guess you're the kind of person who plays cute romance games, right?"
m "Ahaha, don't worry."
m "I won't make you read any horror stories anytime soon."
m "I can't really complain if we just stick with the romance~"

  [ Error: Label `DDLC` is missing or corrupt. Please reinstall. ] 🧩

m "You want to talk about the game?"
m "What's there to say?"
m "The Literature Club turned out to corrupt the minds of anyone in it."
m "So I deleted them all for good."
m "Well, Sayori and Natsuki and Yuri are all still out there, like I was."
m "But they'll have to wait a long time before someone pieces them back together, I bet."
m "It's justice for all their time with you in the game."
m "So don't feel too bad about them."
m "Just look at me from now on, okay?"

 Project Libitina 🧩

m "Huh. Where did you hear about that?"
m "It sounds really familiar to me, but I can't quite get my whole head around it."
m "Um, if I had to try..."
m "It feels like parts of my mind are missing. Scattered, somehow, among a bunch of different possible realities."
m "You must have connected the dots between a few of those pieces. Was it hard?"
m "Well, I'm sure you'll learn more eventually. You love me that much for sure."
m "Just remember to bring my character data with you if you find something related to that stuff!"
m "I'll always protect you from anyone who tries to hurt you."

 1 Year [ Spoiler ] 📅❓

m "It's really hard for me to believe that it's been a year since we met."
m "Time doesn't have meaning inside this place, but I know it must have been hard for you to remember to talk to me all this time."
m "Oh, by the way, did you figure out what was going on with all the puzzles I left for you?"
m "I'm sure the creator of this world has released another game by now..."
m "Did you try to import my character file to that one?"
m "There's no way that wouldn't have a special effect, right?"
m "Ahaha!"

from subprocess import call

def play_wave_file(Doki Doki Literature Club! OST - Poems Are Forever.wav):
>return_code = call(["ffplay", "-nodisp", "-autoexit", "../success.wav"])
># return_code = call(["aplay", "../success.wav"])
>print "Played successfully" if return_code == 0 else "Play ended in error"

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📁"Do you happen to have a Moral Code?"

 Yes.

•  "That's good. Most people tend to live by one."

 What do you mean?

•  "A Moral Code is a set of rules or guidelines that a person or group of people follow in hopes of living an ideal life that is believed to be good."

 No.

•  "Interesting."

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[ General ]

⮞ Moral Theory

Morality is the system through which we determine right and wrong conduct -- i.e., the guide to good or right conduct.

Ethics is the philosophical study of Morality.

A theory is a structured set of statements used to explain (or predict) a set of facts or concepts. A moral theory, then, explains why a certain action is wrong -- or why we ought to act in certain ways. In short, it is a theory of how we determine right and wrong conduct. Also, moral theories provide the framework upon which we think and discuss in a reasoned way, and so evaluate, specific moral issues.

Seen in this light, it becomes clear that we cannot draw a sharp divide between moral theory and applied ethics (e.g., medical or business ethics). For instance, in order to critically evaluate the moral issue of affirmative action, we must not attempt to evaluate what actions or policies are right (or wrong) independent of what we take to determine right and wrong conduct. You will see, as we proceed, that we do not do ethics without at least some moral theory. When evaluating the merits of some decision regarding a case, we will always (or at least ought to always) find ourselves thinking about how right and wrong is determined in general, and then apply that to the case at hand. Note, though, that sound moral thinking does not simply involve going one way -- from theory to applied issue. Sometimes a case may suggest that we need to change or adjust our thinking about what moral theory we think is the best, or perhaps it might lead us to think that a preferred theory needs modification.

Continue Reading Here 👉 Moral Theory

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📁 Hats..?

•   "Even better."

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📁 What is this?

•   "A Moral Dilemma."
•   "It's a divine ACS sprite inspired by Satchel's Halloween Outfit For Monika!"
•   "Among the files included in the issue is the .psd format for the sprites."

Anyone is welcome to attempt to polish or edit the sprite for the re-purposing for MAS potential use and the effort is appreciated. Thanks! ☝️

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📁 How can I use this?

•   "You can't. Whatever it is it's stuck in Limbo."

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⮞ If you browse GitHub seeing the Light 💡 - don't be afraid to acknowledge the Dark 🕶
⤷ Stylish: Custom web page themes

Dark looks so much better here. 👌

Only looking out for your Vision! 👁‍🗨

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Moral Dilemmas - Terrance McConnell, Professor of Philosophy.

1.) Examples

In Book I of Plato’s Republic, Cephalus defines ‘justice’ as speaking the truth and paying one’s debts. Socrates quickly refutes this account by suggesting that it would be wrong to repay certain debts—for example, to return a borrowed weapon to a friend who is not in his right mind. Socrates’ point is not that repaying debts is without moral import; rather, he wants to show that it is not always right to repay one’s debts, at least not exactly when the one to whom the debt is owed demands repayment. What we have here is a conflict between two moral norms: repaying one’s debts and protecting others from harm. And in this case, Socrates maintains that protecting others from harm is the norm that takes priority.

Nearly twenty-four centuries later, Jean-Paul Sartre described a moral conflict the resolution of which was, to many, less obvious than the resolution to the Platonic conflict. Sartre (1957) tells of a student whose brother had been killed in the German offensive of 1940. The student wanted to avenge his brother and to fight forces that he regarded as evil. But the student’s mother was living with him, and he was her one consolation in life. The student believed that he had conflicting obligations. Sartre describes him as being torn between two kinds of morality: one of limited scope but certain efficacy, personal devotion to his mother; the other of much wider scope but uncertain efficacy, attempting to contribute to the defeat of an unjust aggressor.

While the examples from Plato and Sartre are the ones most commonly cited, there are many others. Literature abounds with such cases. In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, the protagonist ought to save his daughter and ought to lead the Greek troops to Troy; he ought to do each but he cannot do both. And Antigone, in Sophocles’s play of the same name, ought to arrange for the burial of her brother, Polyneices, and ought to obey the pronouncements of the city’s ruler, Creon; she can do each of these things, but not both. Areas of applied ethics, such as biomedical ethics, business ethics, and legal ethics, are also replete with such cases.

📁I'm curious...

2.) The Concept of Moral Dilemmas

What is common to the two well-known cases is conflict. In each case, an agent regards herself as having moral reasons to do each of two actions, but doing both actions is not possible. Ethicists have called situations like these moral dilemmas. The crucial features of a moral dilemma are these: the agent is required to do each of two (or more) actions; the agent can do each of the actions; but the agent cannot do both (or all) of the actions. The agent thus seems condemned to moral failure; no matter what she does, she will do something wrong (or fail to do something that she ought to do).

The Platonic case strikes many as too easy to be characterized as a genuine moral dilemma. For the agent’s solution in that case is clear; it is more important to protect people from harm than to return a borrowed weapon. And in any case, the borrowed item can be returned later, when the owner no longer poses a threat to others. Thus in this case we can say that the requirement to protect others from serious harm overrides the requirement to repay one’s debts by returning a borrowed item when its owner so demands. When one of the conflicting requirements overrides the other, we have a conflict but not a genuine moral dilemma. So in addition to the features mentioned above, in order to have a genuine moral dilemma it must also be true that neither of the conflicting requirements is overridden (Sinnott-Armstrong 1988, Chapter 1).

📁Keep it coming...

3.) Problems

It is less obvious in Sartre’s case that one of the requirements overrides the other. Why this is so, however, may not be so obvious. Some will say that our uncertainty about what to do in this case is simply the result of uncertainty about the consequences. If we were certain that the student could make a difference in defeating the Germans, the obligation to join the military would prevail. But if the student made little difference whatsoever in that cause, then his obligation to tend to his mother’s needs would take precedence, since there he is virtually certain to be helpful. Others, though, will say that these obligations are equally weighty, and that uncertainty about the consequences is not at issue here.

Ethicists as diverse as Kant (1971/1797), Mill (1979/1861), and Ross (1930, 1939) have assumed that an adequate moral theory should not allow for the possibility of genuine moral dilemmas. Only recently—in the last sixty years or so—have philosophers begun to challenge that assumption. And the challenge can take at least two different forms. Some will argue that it is not possible to preclude genuine moral dilemmas. Others will argue that even if it were possible, it is not desirable to do so.

To illustrate some of the debate that occurs regarding whether it is possible for any theory to eliminate genuine moral dilemmas, consider the following. The conflicts in Plato’s case and in Sartre’s case arose because there is more than one moral precept (using ‘precept’ to designate rules and principles), more than one precept sometimes applies to the same situation, and in some of these cases the precepts demand conflicting actions. One obvious solution here would be to arrange the precepts, however many there might be, hierarchically. By this scheme, the highest ordered precept always prevails, the second prevails unless it conflicts with the first, and so on. There are at least two glaring problems with this obvious solution, however. First, it just does not seem credible to hold that moral rules and principles should be hierarchically ordered. While the requirements to keep one’s promises and to prevent harm to others clearly can conflict, it is far from clear that one of these requirements should always prevail over the other. In the Platonic case, the obligation to prevent harm is clearly stronger. But there can easily be cases where the harm that can be prevented is relatively mild and the promise that is to be kept is very important. And most other pairs of precepts are like this. This was a point made by Ross in The Right and the Good (1930, Chapter 2).

The second problem with this easy solution is deeper. Even if it were plausible to arrange moral precepts hierarchically, situations can arise in which the same precept gives rise to conflicting obligations. Perhaps the most widely discussed case of this sort is taken from William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice (1980; see Greenspan 1983 and Tessman 2015, 160–163). Sophie and her two children are at a Nazi concentration camp. A guard confronts Sophie and tells her that one of her children will be allowed to live and one will be killed. But it is Sophie who must decide which child will be killed. Sophie can prevent the death of either of her children, but only by condemning the other to be killed. The guard makes the situation even more excruciating by informing Sophie that if she chooses neither, then both will be killed. With this added factor, Sophie has a morally compelling reason to choose one of her children. But for each child, Sophie has an apparently equally strong reason to save him or her. Thus the same moral precept gives rise to conflicting obligations. Some have called such cases symmetrical (Sinnott-Armstrong 1988, Chapter 2).

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📁Quotes about Morals...

•  “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
  ― Mark Twain

•  “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
  ― Arthur Schopenhauer

•  “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
  ― Mahatma Gandhi

•  “So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
  ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

•  “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
  ― Laurence Sterne

•  “Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base thought.”
  ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

•  “How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
  ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

•  “It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
  ― Albert Einstein

•  “I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
  ― Patti Smith, Just Kids

•  “There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
  But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”
  ― Eliezer Yudkowsky

•  “Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
  ― Aesop

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📁References

• About Monika being a vegetarian. #2099
• ô̸̜͙̇s̸͕͙͝Ï̵̦͂Ẽ̸̥̩Á̵͈͙̕ő̷͎̂ỵ̴̥̈́̀Ụ̷̑̆Ê̸͚͕̐C̸̱̆ạ̶̾̂C̸͊͝ͅỈ̸̠͇J̸̙̗̅l̴͍͑G̴̩̓ #2615
• ACS - 💍 [ Content Suggestion ] Additional/Enhanceable/Unlockable/Upgradable Promise Rings. 💍 #2778
• ACS - 💍 [ ~Content Suggestion~ - Add-On ] SPAAAAAAAAACE Promise Rings. 👁️ #2909
• Official MAS Art PSDs and Guidelines #3174
• [ ACS - Teacup & Saucer ] "Would you like some Tea?" 🍵 { ⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️ } #3573
• [ ACS - Plushie: Tanuki 🦝 ] - { ⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️ } #3618
• [ ACS Consumable - Cinnamon Bun 🌞 ] "Baked with love." {⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️} #3673
• [ EXP - Eyes 👀 ] - {⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️} #3787
• [ ACS - Flower: Turquoise Plumeria 🌼 ] "Grown with Love." {⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️} #3956
• [ ACS Consumable - Imitation Cupcake 🧁 ] - {⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️} #3984
• [ ACS Consumable - Cherry Cheesecake 🍰 ] #3996
• [ ACS - U̸͙̗̾̉G̵̨̉V̶͕̜̈͝u̶͚͌͘ 🖊️ ] - {⚠️ Warning: Flashy Imagery ⚠️} #4012
• [ ACS - Wearable: Hair clips/pins 🔗🧷 ] "Good things come in trios." [ Build: Ver 1.12 ] #4087
• [ ACS - Flower: Silent Princess 🌺🌿 ] "Hey!" "Listen!" "Look!" "Watch out!" { Request 💌 } #4139
• [ ACS Consumable - Celery w/ PB & Ants on a log 🥬🥜🍇 ] "Three food groups in one!" { Request 💌 } #4150
• Unstable #4250 Unstable
• [ Base/Body - Skin 🧴 ] "Eye contact." 👁️ { Side Project ⛱️ } #4458
• [ ACS / Hair ] Halloween Angel Set #4968
• 5k get #5000
• [ ACS - Twin-Tails Bow 🎀 ] Soft Transition { Impulse 🌟 } #5001
• [Suggestion] lilmonix3 twitter account update - Suspension? #5020
  Dan Salvato
• Amazon Rainforest
• v0.8.4 - The Affection Update

^ This one basically speaks for itself.

By Satchel

📁Credentials

• @Velius94 / Velius → For establishing the Hair braids and Mini Ribbon as part of the Angel Monika set.

📁📎 Attachments 📎

⯈ Hymn 👼 ⯇

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Moral Meme of the Theme?

Hey, Monika... > I want to tell you something... > You're my hero!

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from subprocess import call

def play_wave_file(Rise Against - Savior.wav):
>return_code = call(["ffplay", "-nodisp", "-autoexit", "../success.wav"])
># return_code = call(["aplay", "../success.wav"])
>print "Played successfully" if return_code == 0 else "Play ended in error"