Funny / Hate Plus

• Load the data from Analogue: A Hate Story's Harem Ending, which requires the player to "cheat the system" to get (or maybe actually think like a space detective, as described here).
  *Mute: Like, no matter how you look at it... there's no way we should be both be able to be activated at the same time.
  *Hyun-ae: I don't get it...
  *Mute: Well, like, it should be impossible.
  *Hyun-ae: Wasn't it also impossible for them to have found that log file they showed to you, in order to get us together, in the first place?
  *Mute: Uh. Yeah, actually.
  *Hyun-ae: Just because our route isn't canon, doesn't mean our feelings aren't real!
  *Mute: ...don't worry about it too much, okay?
• Heo's security report that spends way too much time fangirling about Old *Mute's updated look, which gets an angry, embarrassed, all-caps rebuke from *Mute that threatens to fire her and replace her position with a potted plant.
  • In the Harem Route, *Mute Version 2 will also ask *Hyun-ae if she could be replaced with a potted plant while the pair is reading this log.
• The ship's council discusses the possible benefits and drawbacks of an economic stimulus that would try to reverse the declining birth rates, especially since it would require a pretty steep tax hike to fund.
  Councillor *Mute (Security): Okay, but here's my problem: if you increase taxes on the lower class by 15%, there will be riots. Like, my office will be on fire within a week, and it turns out that costs even more of the money that's already tight to put out. We're talking actual straight-out riots. It's a security problem.
  Chief Councillor Ryu (Captaincy): But the benefit would be-
  Councillor *Mute (Security): I get what the benefit would be. Um, it just doesn't offset the cost of, you know, offices on fire.
  • In general, every time *Mute opens her mouth in the council meetings.
• When *Hyun-ae confesses to *Mute in the Harem Route, *Mute at first doesn't take *Hyun-ae seriously. But once it finally sinks in that this girl is serious... she unleashes a scream lasting several dialog boxes.
• This exchange in the Harem Route:
  Mute: But Old *Mute started from the same blank slate that I did! The same core directives, the same values! But... like, even still, she's nothing like me. Like, she's... kind of a bitch, isn't she?
  Hyun-ae: That isn't...
  Mute: ...what was that?!
  Hyun-ae: Nothing!
  Mute: It had better have been nothing!
• When Old *Mute interrogated Oh Eun-a's maid on her behavior, the maid commented that Eun-a has been getting increasingly unhinged:
  NO, MAKING TEA IS NOT THE UNHINGED PART.
• *Hyun-ae's commentary while reading the log file about Oh Eun-a and Ryu Hyeon-su's first meeting.
  Eun-a: Me? Oh no! I think people get distracted by them too easily instead of focusing on the things that really matter!
  Hyeon-su: And what is it that matters to you?
  Eun-a: The future! Everyone's always about the 'now' these days.
  *Hyun-ae: Spoiler warning: the future sucked!
• During a council argument:
  Councillor Kim: Ugh.
  Councillor Smith: "Ugh" is not a vote.
  • During the next one:
  Councillor *Mute: Let the record indicate that the Chief Councillor's remarks were prefixed by an overly dramatic sigh.
• *Mute cannot believe that Eun-a had first met her Emperor looking for a one-night stand.
  *Mute: WHAT. At first, she just wanted the great Emperor Ryu... for his cock?!
  *Hyun-ae: ...well, if he's anything like his descendant, he's probably—
  *Mute: NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO, DON'T TELL ME ABOUT THIS. I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SAY, OKAY?
• Chocolate Cake-flavored Vodka counts as chocolate cake. And so he enjoyed Russian chocolate cake!
  @christinelove: Catching up on cake emails. Someone sent a picture of himself drinking a bottle of chocolate cake flavoured vodka with *Hyun-ae. THAT'LL DO.
  • On the soundtrack, the "Cake!" track is TWENTY-ONE MINUTES LONG.
• In the harem route, during the "The Death of *Mute" log, Heo Seo-yeong shouts at one of the maids to tell where President and Chief Councilor Ryu is so they can arrest him. The A.I.s' commentary at this part?
  *Hyun-ae: The maid must've been pretty scared, though.
  *Mute: Can you please just reign in your fucking maid obsession for five minutes?!
• The girls' reaction to Heo Seung-bok's log file where he visited his aunt (Heo Seo-yeong) to deliver a gift from his father to her and was told by a maid of the house who answered the door that she wasn't at home.
  Seung-bok: Is her husband home, then?
  Maid: He's home, but... uh... [blushes and looks away] Professor Kim is... he's busy right now, and not to be interrupted. Sorry...
  *Hyun-ae: ...oh, geeze! Does he mean her husband was doing...?
  *Mute: ...the maids? Yeah, I think so.
• The Image Song It's Not Ero!, which starts by gleefully telling the listener that the game is "no ero story" and "won't show you smutty CGs". Especially hilarious as the next game by Love is an ero story that shows you smutty CGs.
• *Mute being Driven to Suicide? Not funny. It being hinted by an achievement reading "LOL SPOILERS *MUTE DIES"? Funny.
• *Mute's absolute hypocrisy, where she acts baffled and disgusted at the lesbian relationship, but is visibly leaning in and grinning in anticipation at the log with the gay lovers is hilarious.

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