No future eye contact with pigeons

Hatoful Boyfriend: A dating game about pigeons

Yes, you read correctly.  A dating game.  About pigeons. 
Specifically, about a girl disguised (?) as a bird and trying to date pigeons.

....Kay.  This is one of those nights where I'm seriously wondering what on earth happened to my sanity, or if I ever had such a thing. 

A [pixiv?] fan artist's vision of the scenario

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I spent a good chunk of the night reading over 17 pages of a thread of they-have-to-be-trolling-esque screenies and even more hilarious commentary on it by Angie Gallant, whose growing paranoia, attachment to, and disgust for the species of birds becomes slightly pitiable and alarmingly understandable as she tries to get a "good ending" with one of the characters in the game.  

I felt a type of slightly unhinged shame at my slowly growing fixation and amusement while reading and  scrolling down through the posts, an increasing impatience to see the new plot developments.

Also,  I may never be able to see pigeons the same way again.  One person from the thread commented, 

"I saw a pigeon on my way to work today.

I avoided eye contact." 

Some of my favorites from the demo game version thread :

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"firstbirdworldproblems"  THIS NEEDS TO BE A THING.  

Opposable thumbs and human limbs = not an advantage in this game

those darn punkgeons.  

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And, to my delight (and conflicted dismay), I found out that there was a new thread of screenies from the official release of the game, so after finishing that thread, I started reading the new one.  --> http://brokenforum.com/index.php?threads/hatoful-boyfriend-the-search-for-fat-birds-good-end.1028/

Sometime after 1-something in the morning, I felt like I was dying, and I realized (thanks so Ms. Gallant's running photo count) that I've seen just over 500 screenies (+commentary) of pigeon dating gameplay.

OTL

.....

as if my brain needed to get any more twisted and weird.  

but, sadly, after I get rest tonight, I am SO going to continue reading the new thread of screenies, I must see the new character plot lines...!  @ A @

(pleasejustshootmenow)