Sam doesn't know why, or she did it for Sam subconciously without rationalising why, or admitting it to herself, or both? Either way, I've known prostitutes her age who wouldn't have gone to a bar dressed like that while they were working, let alone to see a teen band & at night FFS. This outfit positively screams, "I'm desperate & I demand attention, look at me," or maybe, "Why is everyone staring? Oh me, oh my, am I really gorgeous? I never guessed." As Monty Python would have put it, "It's all getting extremely silly."last post from patron,which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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day 12 lasts 16 months if the update comes in december. what a delay of 4 months. instead of faster it gets slower and slower.
Yes, possible, the outfit may scream it. But Sophia has not been described that way in the whole game and she doesn't think that way about herself.
Who is actually to blame for the outfit debacle? The developer, the player or Sophia? It's just another pigeon or handbag or duel problem. None of this has anything to do with realism. Or do we think it is realistic that the real world will experience such a sexual whirlwind within 30 days.
Monty Python's saying fits very well.
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Unpopular opinion: Sophia's dress fucking rules and anybody who talks shit about it should be forced to wear it in a biker bar.
Sam is a normal young man who asks the age-old question, "Why must I be a teenager in love?" He would spot Sophia the second she arrived, even if she wore militant feminist overalls & be aware of where she was, who she was with & who she spoke with, at all times, even when he wasn't looking at her. Well, that's my memory how it was when the question applied to me, even though it's a long long time ago. I agree something definitely has to happen with Sam but I just can't see the need for her to look like such a sad desperate housewife. IMO, it's another huge L&P mistake, even if the outfit is not particularly significant in what occurs between them.
Seriously, I think it's time he changed his mission statement, not with slight alterations but a complete rewrite. I'd write one for him but he hates pirates.
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I have removed the festival of bullshit and recalibrated everything using my updated weights (giving more weight to P&T and less to rendering) and going back through Lord_Xanatos 's progress reports since early July.
| Pct Complete | Factor | Pct of Update | |
| Created Scenes | 55% | 55% | 30.25% |
| Rendered Scenes | 50% | 25% | 12.50% |
| Art edited with PS | 15% | 5% | 0.75% |
| Programming & Translation | 0% | 15% | 0.00% |
| Total Pct of Update Completed | 43.50% | ||
| Start Date | 7/5/2021 | ||
| Festival of Bullshit (excuses) | 0 | ||
| Bullshit Days Consumed so far | 0 | ||
| Current # Days of Production (less BS consumed) | 54 | ||
| Days remaining in Festival of Bullshit | 0 | ||
| Estimated Completion Date | 11/6/2021 |
Early to mid-November is what this very basic model is predicting. I still think we're in for a slowdown of some sort that will push this to December, we'll see.
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Do I get a free pass if I wore almost that exact same romper at a biker bar in Laramie, Wyoming in the mid 90's? If so then the dress is fucking dumb. If I don't get credit for that then it's just meh.
It's the Dev. I love the pigeons, they're part of a realistic cityscape. I didn't participate in the handbag debate, (much...at least not here) but the outfit......*%£**$# hell! I'm guessing that L&P had no doubt that it would be selected, given his fanbase but that it would be fun to see, via the poll, how well the totally suitable rock chick chic outfit would fare.
Now that realism has been jetissoned completely, along with "taste & class," I find myself still curious going forward to see just how bad things will become.
Bikers, in a bar, on a beach, or in many other places, wouldn't leave that "dress" on most individuals, male or female. It doesn't fucking rule, it fucking well sucks lemons.
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But that's why the other outfit was SO much better!! Firstly it better suited the venue and the likely crowd in attendance.
Secondly she had that mini leather jacket which made it initially look acceptable and would nt call attention to herself.
But if Sophia got some alone time with Same she could have easily slipped off the mini leather jacket revealing what I hope was a strap boob tube underneath. That way she would get the best of both worlds, she can make it clear just to Sam when she wants to.
It's a porn game. In the real world, choices for story progression would be limited only by our preferences, our life experiences, and our imaginations. Here in the game we can only choose which path to choose and which to ignore because we cannot identify with it at all. I wouldn't say that taste and class have gone overboard yet. Many fetishes are served here. And sometimes it suits our taste and sometimes it doesn't. We both sometimes argue about the subject of "blackmail" which for me has nothing to do with taste / class and realism. And yet I admit that the 3rd Aiden event, except for the part with Aiden himself, showed taste and class. We will never like the story as a whole, but in my opinion individual events stand out incredibly from the mass of games. If this is also the case in the future, the game will keep my "valuable" rating.
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Yes, possible, the outfit may scream it. But Sophia has not been described that way in the whole game and she doesn't think that way about herself.
Who is actually to blame for the outfit debacle? The developer, the player or Sophia? It's just another pigeon or handbag or duel problem. None of this has anything to do with realism. Or do we think it is realistic that the real world will experience such a sexual whirlwind within 30 days.
Monty Python's saying fits very well.
Which one?
There will never be a game that is ideal for everybody & that we agree on. One of the big attractions with AWAM, for me & as you say, has been the ability to avoid, through decision making & choices, paths & parts that are not to an individual's, (in this case my own) taste. This & the top quality renders have kept me playing for 3+ years but there was also a veneer of realism that required no more suspension of disbelief than the average movie or TV show. I considered this to be one of L&P's greatest achievements & if not a USP, at least a pretty rare selling point (RSP?). What I can't understand is why he would voluntarily abandon this approach.
Aside from being curious about the potential for more deterioration, I also have to hope that the Dev gets back to his semi-realistic ways & doesn't let the rot set in.
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Unfortunately, I think he is on the downward slope. Granted the slope, like his production rate, is incredibly low. His writing is what will save him and I believe he has already shot his wad on that feature.
I believe he is already tiring of the game. The concept of completing this is not the least realistic, as we have all discussed many times, of an 18+ year run. I know I won't be around for it. How many will still be here for PD 16? I ignore the spoiler elements of what is supposed to be happening that day but, that is in like four and a half years - FOR 3 Days!
Are we sure he is not burned out already after four years. SNC took a dive to complete Foot of the Mountain (Just a huge cut scene was his solution.). Is L&P that far away from the same. That could explain why he is so reactive to any criticism. Meh!
I hate it, but agree. If he cant hit Thanksgiving then look to mid to late December. The BS will come.