Tserriednich'sNen

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you wrote better what I had hastily written.

the driving force of DPC's events is usually the sense of guilt (we had a small appetizer at the end of the interlude, where we already see an MC reflecting on his mistakes) rather than guilt itself.

sooner or later the eventual love triangle with mother and daughter will come to light and MC after having to absorb Jade's accusations via text message will have to face Sage's anger (hopefully there won't be many other choices/game over in the story...)

absurdly, Jade is more dangerous to MC in regards to any other LIs than Sage. how would she react if she ever found out she was dumped for Bella? the same woman her husband has a fixation on....
I see "more realistic" Jade trying to thwart MC in his relationship with Maya, or Josy or maybe even Jill, than for her daughter


maybe it would have been enough to better articulate the passing of time, the interlude of his could not be more extended, but it does not give a precise idea of the time that passes, it could have happened in a week as well as in a year (about my confusion about the time ...)

instead the narration, especially regarding the sentimental evolution, proceeds in jumps, she hopes that MC will reach her, then suddenly she decides that it is better to let him go and then suddenly she wants to be let go from this life that she imagined different (but what exactly did Zoey expect? to become world champion of surfing in one season?)

and this rapidity in the story makes Zoey look like a vicious child who constantly runs away from problems without ever knowing what she really wants, if we want also believable, but certainly not a particularly well-deserving portrait
Honestly, given how incredibly petty Jade acts if you reject her, I'm more interested in seeing her reaction to an MC that's pursuing Bella. That might just upset more than a player who's with Sage lol.
 
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AchedCroissant

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Wow, take it easy, Sage! No need to curb stomp Zoey's previews from the Interlude this badly! :ROFLMAO:



Really? As you noted, the MC's nascent relationships are beset with dangers (except maybe for Jill's, which is merely riddled with them). I don't think we *need* Zoey to instigate drama.



I never said Zoey would be a minor event. I said the MC can't just abandon his new girl because Zoey bats her eyelashes at him, and I stand by that.

First, this isn't real life. It's a story. If the MC keeps repeating the same arc over and over again, the story gets boring. Season 1 and Season 2 both ended with the MC deciding he needed to take a potential relationship seriously and not act on autopilot. If he goes right back on autopilot the instant he sees Zoey, well, you don't need me to do the math.

Second, I'm not sure real life is all that different. If I commit to a girl only to immediately backtrack over an old flame, I think she would be right to question my sincerity.


But again, we're explicitly told Zoey is still in school at the start of the Interlude: it's the reason she can't visit her grandmother.
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Unless we think Zoey was signed up for summer school, this takes place during the MC's senior year in high school. This can't be the tail end of his senior year, because then there isn't enough time for him to have lost contact with her 6 months before Episode 3. It can't be his junior year, or else it would be more than a year before he could join Zoey (and, you know, the age thing). This has to be in the fall semester, which technically matches the retconned timeline.

As for Zoey being a bitch, the whole point of the Interlude is that she ignored what she had in search of greener grass. She felt like she needed to prove herself to her grandmother and had a pile of money burning a hole in her pocket. Waiting for the MC (when she didn't even realize how much he meant to her) was the adult move, but Zoey was still young and naive.

I'd say the real question is what Zoey learned from her time in San Diego, but we'll have to wait until at least Episode 9 to learn that.



I expect we'll get updates on Friday fairly routinely, if that's what you mean. I very much doubt DPC will return to regular render counts. :cry:



The caption isn't talking about the branch (the choice of girlfriend during the crossroads breakfast scene), it's talking about who the MC slept with during the run. The middle image is if the MC slept with Sage OR slept with Jade. Did your "Others" path save fool around with either of those two (even if he didn't ultimately pick Sage)?



It's a rather significant distinction, both in terms of our expectations and in terms of how the MC sees Zoey. The issue isn't the MC moving on, it's him assuming that Zoey had a long term partner based on learning she fucked a guy. If the MC had a history of conflating sex and love that would make sense, but that's one thing the MC does not seem to have a problem with.



In the short term? No, definitely not. Jade is not the most well adjusted person and the MC's "betrayal" is pushing a very sensitive button. In the long term? She still probably won't be as gracious and introspective as Bella was, but I expect Jade would grudgingly appreciate the MC taking a relationship with Sage seriously (not that she'd tell him so).
:BootyTime: :ROFLMAO:
 

goldenrule91

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As for Zoey being a bitch, the whole point of the Interlude is that she ignored what she had in search of greener grass. She felt like she needed to prove herself to her grandmother and had a pile of money burning a hole in her pocket. Waiting for the MC (when she didn't even realize how much he meant to her) was the adult move, but Zoey was still young and naive.

I'd say the real question is what Zoey learned from her time in San Diego, but we'll have to wait until at least Episode 9 to learn that.
That's the question, which means at some point we're gonna have to hear the answer. Despite seeing Zoey's arc of choices from beginning to end, we don't actually know what her motivations are in the story at this point. We can only deduce with meta knowledge that Zoey is back to reconnect with the MC, because it's a game that revolves around the MC. In the actual narrative, we don't know how she really feels about the MC or how she's doing to resolve that and move on with her life, which again is something we're going to have to see, otherwise the hour-long mandatory viewing of her life story is going to be very out of place once the game completes. It's the same thing with Maya's story, we're forced to be at least peripherally involved in her drama with her dad, which means we're gonna have to see the resolution of that arc whether we like it or not, otherwise it turns into a pointless narrative loose end and a waste of time.

So yeah, look forward to more forced drama with the MC finding out Zoey never thought they were together and had no boyfriend and Zoey being like oh nooo I didn't know you liked me somehow haha and then you either bang her or reject her like the ep 8 finale :HideThePain: Super exciting.
 

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is this other part? like i can't merge it to main story or something?
Instead of continuing to make larger and larger downloads, DPC decided to release each future chapter as a new file. The save at the end of chapter two is transferred to the new program.
 

felicemastronzo

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But again, we're explicitly told Zoey is still in school at the start of the Interlude: it's the reason she can't visit her grandmother.
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Unless we think Zoey was signed up for summer school, this takes place during the MC's senior year in high school. This can't be the tail end of his senior year, because then there isn't enough time for him to have lost contact with her 6 months before Episode 3. It can't be his junior year, or else it would be more than a year before he could join Zoey (and, you know, the age thing). This has to be in the fall semester, which technically matches the retconned timeline.

As for Zoey being a bitch, the whole point of the Interlude is that she ignored what she had in search of greener grass. She felt like she needed to prove herself to her grandmother and had a pile of money burning a hole in her pocket. Waiting for the MC (when she didn't even realize how much he meant to her) was the adult move, but Zoey was still young and naive.

I'd say the real question is what Zoey learned from her time in San Diego, but we'll have to wait until at least Episode 9 to learn that.
I don't understand the point....

Zoey arrives in San Diego in the summer, in early fall at the latest, if her grandmother died at the end of the previous school year it doesn't create any problems (we actually don't know how long the grieving lasts and how much time Zoey takes to decide).

Mc has an entire (or at least almost entire) school year ahead of him, which of course lasts less than 12 months.

the question of their first time is binding for Patreon, it can't become so no matter what we are told, we can also think that MC turns 18, they have sex, Nana died, and Zoey shortly after leaves for San Diego. even in this hypothesis from when she leaves to when she comes back a year passes, she leaves with MC who has celebrated 18 and comes back who has already turned 19 a while ago
 

hh103

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Is there no way to solo Josy or Maya? Just got to that part and I'm really bummed that it seems to be a polyamorous relationship or nothing.
 
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VoidVision11

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Serious question tho, i last played it on episode 7 i think. Can I bang Jill now?

I never really liked Bella's Daz character.

I was always more into Jill. Too bad, I've been waiting so much for just 1 girl.
 

NewTricks

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Is there no way to solo Josy or Maya? Just got to that part and I'm really bummed that it seems to be a polyamorous relationship or nothing.
Yes. They will not be with you unless you are with them both and if you are a DIK even that is impossible. But don't worry hoss. There are plenty of heterosexual fish in the sea.
 
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