Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length visual novel about the erosion of privacy, gay drama, young sexuality, and the perils of modern online life for a high school literature class.
The SA thread for this is astounding.
The lemmasoft one didn't fair so well either.
This one? Doesn't look very bad to me. :x
My understanding of the ending:Spoiler: The students never believed that their online communications had any privacy to begin with. Privacy for the student's generation is no longer assumed to be a default. Unlike the current notion that everything should be private unless you put it out there for everyone to see, for the students everything is assumed to be public unless you specifically try to keep it to yourself. Arrianna mentions at the end (at least in the ending I got) that if she really didn't want Rook to see what she was saying about him then she wouldn't have posted it in the first place and had the conversation in real life. Have you ever had something that you might have secretly wished a certain someone would stumble upon and find? This is pretty much like that.
The one big example of trying to achieve some privacy that in fact illustrates that the student's didn't assume their communcations were private by default was Charlotte's naughty pictures. While they fully expected anyone to be able to see their conversation if they wanted to, the pictures themselves were password protected using Kendall's middle name. Since her middle name is not recorded in anything that could be accessed by you in-game you would not have had any way within the game to find the password and see the pictures. This was the one attempt, and a successful one least as far as the game's story is concerned, at preventing Rook's potential snooping.(yes, in real life middle names sometimes can be left out of school records for whatever reason, I remember mine was)
No, Kendall's middle name is not mentioned in game. In order to see the pictures you would have had to go out of your way and use means that are outside of the game, either by looking in game's files or by looking up the password online (you pervs :V ).[/spoiler]