Miliryan

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Ah yes, thanks for reminding me, I had sort of forgot the sequence of events with Catherine. I agree that the emotional impact can be much worse when the girls seem to enjoy fucking someone else after they fucked Sterling, which is why I brought it up. Of course this begs the question of how the girls will respond if/when Drew fucks them, since at this point in the story nearly all of them have had sex with Sterling. WWG can only introduce so many new characters, sooner or later Drew is going after the main ones.
Well, this is one of the reason why i like Drew. There is potential, that she can be a true rival to the MC. From what i have seen in Chapter 10, the girls truly like her. It seems like she is smart, has a natural charm and can easily communicate with the girls. I mean, she was helping Catherine to find a part time job, Brenna could talk about fashion stuff with her, and she did understand Tiff's situation with Peyton.
Of course these are not selfless acts. She actively tries to undermine the MC's capabilities in the girl's eyes. But let's be real, the girls could't really rely on the MC in these topic.

Moreover, in her scene with Tiff she impersonates a masseur. But if my memory serves right, other than that there was no other manipulation. She legitimately seduced Tiff, no drugs or anything. And i think Tiff genuinely liked Drew and the sex.

So, i think with Drew we can get over the drugs and have a true competition for the girls. If i am right the MC has to step up his game.
 
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Any guidance would be appreciated. Game starts and runs fine as a test, but when I paste / drop the patch.rpy into contents/resources/autorun/game - game won't load and gives me the scripting errors attached.
 

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not once in the whole main route have an LI outright rejected Hunters pursuit or noticed that theres something stinky going on with that well stinky old man.
I've read your posts and I don't have time to point out everything you've missed, but you lead off with this and it's egregious. Literally the first thing Lucia does is notice that "something stinky" is going on and rejects Hunter.
 

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I've read your posts and I don't have time to point out everything you've missed, but you lead off with this and it's egregious. Literally the first thing Lucia does is notice that "something stinky" is going on and rejects Hunter.
Lucia is an exception to the rule, and that exactly proves my point while fixing my statement.
as of ch.10 no LI except Lucia has the capacity to outright reject Hunter pursuit or to suspect that something is completely off in the house since Hunter moved in.

if sterling wasnt aware of the schemes than nobody would (even Lucia) and everyone will get mad of pleasure without having any second thoughts just shut their brains off and run with it when it comes to the antagonist.

I understand it fits the bad ends and the What If. but I refuse to believe that you dont see how it makes your perfectly built characters' personalities fall flat in the end.
I would love to know what I missed, and discuss examples from the narrative that contradicts my points but both of us dont have any time for that.
 
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Correct, but saying that im egregiously wrong is not true.

Lucia is an exception to the rule, and that exactly proves my point while fixing my statement.
as of ch.10 no LI except Lucia has the capacity to outright reject Hunter pursuit or to suspect that something is completely off in the house since Hunter moved in.
Lucia can't be the exception that proves the rule when she's 25% of your sample size. You can't say a coin always lands heads but when it lands tails it's the exception that proves the rule.

And all of the characters have been suspicious that something is completely off in the house since Hunter has moved in. Ophelia, Brenna, and Catherine have all questioned their reality. Some big examples:

-Ophelia's theories on what is controlling everyone's behavior, even going as far as positing that the house may be haunted.
-Brenna thought she was losing her mind after she thought she knocked Sterling's tooth out and still doesn't trust him completely.
-Catherine almost had a mental breakdown when she thought she knocked Sterling's eye out.
 

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I'm not sure I understand why everyone loses their mind, you don't want to watch someone else getting the girls then don't play those parts (like me) it seems pretty simple. And let's all remember at the end of the day it's just a game (a very good game but still just a game), civil discourse is all well & good & should be encouraged but it's nothing to work ourselves into a frenzy that stresses out the dev & each other.
 

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Lucia is an exception to the rule, and that exactly proves my point while fixing my statement.
as of ch.10 no LI except Lucia has the capacity to outright reject Hunter pursuit or to suspect that something is completely off in the house since Hunter moved in.

if sterling wasnt aware of the schemes than nobody would (even Lucia) and everyone will get mad of pleasure without having any second thoughts just shut their brains off and run with it when it comes to the antagonist.

I understand it fits the bad ends and the What If. but I refuse to believe that you dont see how it makes your perfectly built characters' personalities fall flat in the end.
I would love to know what I missed, and discuss examples from the narrative that contradicts my points but both of us dont have any time for that.
Do you complain like that in fiction movies? Its a fiction game and sounds like you are mad because there's a couple of stuff that make no sense, its kinda like you complain about Super Man flying in movies, either you believe what they say and try to enjoy or just drop it and move on.
 
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Lucia can't be the exception that proves the rule when she's 25% of your sample size. You can't say a coin always lands heads but when it lands tails it's the exception that proves the rule.

And all of the characters have been suspicious that something is completely off in the house since Hunter has moved in. Ophelia, Brenna, and Catherine have all questioned their reality. Some big examples:

-Ophelia's theories on what is controlling everyone's behavior, even going as far as positing that the house may be haunted.
-Brenna thought she was losing her mind after she thought she knocked Sterling's tooth out and still doesn't trust him completely.
-Catherine almost had a mental breakdown when she thought she knocked Sterling's eye out.
Ok ill try to clarify my main point, is that you have to compromise a big part of the personality of the characters for the bad ends to work, examples:

- A big part of Brenna's personality is that shes very alert and concerned of Sterling trying to take advantage of her or her family. Where does it all disappear in the interactions with Hunter? when she even slightly suspects that Sterling may be tryin to take advantage of her she gets furious, where is that anger in the interaction with Hunter? she just becomes a confused little girl while the fury and boldness is such a big part of her personality.

- Catherine is always blabbering about the uninhibited uncontested true love for her big brother, but when he gets into a temporary coma because she pushed the substance drink into his mouth she doesnt care one bit, theres no one line that implies that Catherine is concerned about what happened to her beloved big brother

- Ophelia gets batshit insane whenever she feels that the situation gets out of control, especially with sterling, but theres no glimpse of that when shes completely out of control when Hunter pushes himself onto her.

Am i incorrect to point out that theres a compromise in the personality of the main LIs in order to provide the bad ends which makes them come out as completely hypocritical?
 
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No, I didn't. Just because Hunter did something he did before, you made the mental gymnastics that all the NTR that's PREVENTABLE actually does happen but in another timeline! It doesn't matter that you fucked the girl! In three other timelines, she fucked three other guys! (in one of them at the same time!) That's just plain dumb, dude.

It's been said several times by WWG that they're done in spare time when he's not developing PV. I don't know what else to say.
Yeah, you did miss the point. I started by expressing my view on how the NTR has changed in the game (this is not intended as an attack on anyone or even the game). It isn't about whether the NTR happens or not, or even that it is preventable. It is that it is done in such a way the characters, who are in character in all timelines, eventually react above and beyond the initial push that eventually makes them nothing but corrupt NTR holes. No further drugs, blackmail, or conditioning required, and this, by my mental gymnastics, degrades their characters no matter if it is main game or otherwise.

To put it in perspective... Say you have a girlfriend/wife/LI and that you somehow acquired the ability to jump across an assumed muti-verse or even just time in general and wound up in a timeline that you knew was exactly the same as your own, except that in this one, your LI was targeted by a creepy old family member, was drugged once, and ended up being taken advantage of by him in that state. This is terrible, but in itself not damaging to her actual character, who is the same in both timelines aside from this particular happening where she was a victim (optionally).

This is sort of how the game started and dealt with NTR, a random bad end with no real impact/reflection on the primary timeline and was optional. I thought then it was pretty innovative as far as the genre goes, even with a zombie antagonist. I am not so uptight about NTR I couldn't watch them and enjoy the humor. But as should have been expected it didn't stop there. Now not only are the LI's taken advantage of, but they come to enjoy it for the typical reasons, and prefer to be treated that way than otherwise, and in ways that would belittle the MC. It reduces their characters to the base level of virtually all NTR, no matter if it is optional or not, which is the primary thing that alienates the vanilla crowd from the NTR and mixes like oil and water.

Now you can scream that this is all optional, which yes it is, so we have the option to close our eyes, but it is a far cry from the "Wily Coyote" random comedy bad ends that were the initial level of NTR. Then combine that with the constant What-if bombardment of same, but longer and more elaborate, and longer time frames between regular releases that somehow are not supposed to be impacted by this... and it makes it difficult to market to the vanilla crowd, who feel like they were subsidizing content they didn't want to begin with. So excuse me if I point out that it seems to me that this has become more of an NTR game, with a sizeable and appreciated vanilla path, but one that is suffering in several ways from what seemed to be a change in direction that came for valid reasons (money/patreons). But it isn't the same game to me that we started out with, which is what my points were all making, along with saying it shouldn't still be marketed as such imho.
 

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Ok ill try to clarify my main point, is that you have to compromise a big part of the personality of the characters for the bad ends to work, examples:

- A big part of Brennas personality is that shes very alert and concerned of Sterling trying to take advantage of her or her family. Where does it all disappear in the interactions with Hunter? when she even slightly suspects that Sterling may be tryin to take advantage of her she gets furious, where is that anger in the interaction with Hunter? she just becomes a confused little girl while the fury and boldness is such a big part of her personality.

- Catherine is always blabbering about the uninhibited uncontested true love for her big brother, but when he gets into a temporary coma because she pushed the substance drink into his mouth she doesnt care one bit, theres no one line that implies that Catherine is concerned about what happened to her beloved big brother

- Ophelia gets batshit insane whenever she feels that the situation gets out of control, especially with sterling, but theres no glimpse of that when shes completely out of control when Hunter pushes himself onto her.

Am i incorrect to point out that theres a compromise in the personality of the main LIs in order to provide the bad ends which makes them come out as completely hypocritical?

Did you miss the part where Hunter uses reality warping drugs? The characters aren't behaving like themselves because they aren't.
 

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I'm not sure I understand why everyone loses their mind, you don't want to watch someone else getting the girls then don't play those parts (like me) it seems pretty simple. And let's all remember at the end of the day it's just a game (a very good game but still just a game), civil discourse is all well & good & should be encouraged but it's nothing to work ourselves into a frenzy that stresses out the dev & each other.
THANK YOU.....
 
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