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Originally Posted by spawnofthejudge
...That's quite the claim.
Certainly; but it was a reasonable conclusion. She wouldn't have said that if a friend of hers hadn't, or you're giving her a ton of credit for knowing how the world works where she likely doesn't any more than Yuri. At some point, she was new to this place just as much as everyone else was; what's the first thing most people try to do in a new place? Make friends.
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Before anything else... Have you read the prequel novel past chapter 1?
It is entirely possible that she had friends in the past that have then disappeared. However, that doesn't mean that the situation looked like how Otonashi imagined.
And of course, she does know a whole lot about their world. She's able to utilize a certain mechanic of that world in order to materialize abilities that she programmed in her PC. This alone tells us that she knows about a few key basic concepts (self-repair, self-repair algorithm, how to hack into said algorithm, among others). That's certainly more than what Yuri, Naoi, or any other named character so far. It's like comparing elementary school kids to quantum physicists.