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My wife is addicted to this game already. Just hearing about the decisions she's making makes my skin crawl. She's a total graphical adventure game snob, so if you're one too it's worth checking out this game. The multiple endings are well done, which is often a tricky part to get right.

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My girlfriend is:

- Lithuanian

- Studying "International Migration and Ethnic Relations"

I thought this would be a fun game to give as a joke - international student from a former Soviet country with that specialisation and all that - but she's actually really into it.

Being Eastern European (Lithuanian with a Ukranian last name), I actually found a woman with my last name which was awesome! And actually, it kind of reflects on how living sort of was in that era. Shit.

I'm going through the whole green card "papers" process now with my wife. Compared to almost every other country, the amount of time and effort it takes to even bring family over is incredibly long and arduous.

All that makes me really look froward to this game. Just the fact that this exists is a great conversation starter to raise some awareness about immigration and ridiculous bureaucracy.

I don't know the green card process and what benchmarks you compare it with, but I've heard this about a lot of immigration procedures. Bringing a partner (with possibly a child) into Belgium for instance is also a long and error-prone procedure.

The major issue is that it's time consuming and expensive. There have been real and opportunity costs which my wife and I have incurred simply because there happened to be an international border that separated us.

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