Visual Novel fans of /vip/, I have a very important topic worthy of this board.

When you play a (not decades old) Visual Novel, you use auto-play, right? How do you compensate for it with the game? Like, I can't get it to balance where I can read short-dialogue boxes before they move on but I don't have to wait half a minute every time a longer line of dialogue pops up. It's not a problem with VNs that use the full screen for text most of the time, but when short lines like pic related disapear before they even fully transition onto the screen, it just fucks the experience up. I either have to keep checking the log to make sure I didn't miss a short but important line, or just accept that I can't read short lines.

So, what do you do? Is there some trick where the sliders line up so you can see every line of dialogue without needing to wait half a minute or more whenever a longer line ends?