Ren'Py Bad Memories [v0.9.5.2] [recreation]

[ClockworkGnome]

Sometimes, i start these games thinking "I'm gonna be an asshole" if its an option and then the first choice comes up and i can't do it lol. I am the same way with like Mass Effect, Paragon for life.

I think the problem for me is who you're reacting to. If the NPCs are well-written, likeable, and generally nice people, it makes me feel worse to be an asshole to them. So in stuff like Mass Effect, KotOR, Fallout, etc I tend to wind up being fiercely overprotective of my allies and generally noble when dealing with innocent people. I wind up being a better person in those games than I am in real life.

But in games where you're dealing with terrible people who are kind of assholes themselves, I'm much more inclined to be an asshole back to them. Pay evil unto evil, be a monster to monster. That's where the power fantasy/revenge fantasy appeal comes in. Delivering instant karma to people who absolutely deserve it. Even in cases where they aren't necessarily totally bad, just doing really annoying things or provoking me (I don't think I've ever not Renegade interrupted Han'Gerrel in ME3 - *stomach punch* get off my ship!).

Like even in this game, I was fully prepared going in to deliver righteous wrath upon Rachel and Katherine because of how they were kind of introduced to us, but then you learn more and interact with them and now I'm probably feeling more overprotective of them than I am of Ellie (hence me being pissed at Jada for taking advantage of Rachel).

I've also noticed I have a much harder time being evil when I play as female characters than I do playing as male characters. So much so that my first couple playthroughs in games like KotOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc are always female characters, but then when I want to do an "evil" run to see alternate endings/get achievements, I switch to a male character instead. It's not even that I feel like women are innocent or pure (women can be incredibly evil in and of themselves), but apparently my own inner female self is just a sweet loving person who feels bad when she makes people feel sad.

But my inner female self is apparently also an incredibly vindictive bitch when you're an unrepentant dick who is out to hurt the people she cares about. Because I will utterly destroy people who come after me and mine. Which is why a certain irritating cop had better be really careful about where he pokes his nose.

 

[ThaRealThiccShady]

Pfff, all these gleaming machines, are all smoke and mirrors!
The ZX81, that was THE beast!
A huge 1KB RAM memory, a glorious 3.25Mhz Z80 CPU, an amazing 64x48 block resolution in its all black and white glamour, an astounding writing speed of 300bps on audio K7 (and if you were lucky, you will even be able to read it the next time).
No tricks!
This was the computer for the true nerd of the early 80's!
... sh!#, I think I have just shown my age

Dude I’m dead laughing. This comment wasn’t deleted for being off-topic but both the comment it’s a reply to and the comment that comment is a reply to both were deleted for being off-topic
These mods are out of pocket

 

[recreation]

and the post telling people to go back on topic got deleted as well
Who ever went through here must've been really tired

 

[ThaRealThiccShady]

and the post telling people to go back on topic got deleted as well
Who ever went through here must've been really tired

Yeah…”tired”…I think even caffeine can’t help every time

 

[cxx]

off-topic again and no clue what.

 

[Udayana]

off-topic again and no clue what.

Probably a comment about frog-eaters. I couldn't read it but though I'm French and I (very rarely) eat frogs I would never eat a toad. Their eyes are the most marvelous gems I have ever seen.

 

[cxx]

oh that.

 

[Udayana]

oh that.

But about the gems that their eyes are, I'm quite serious.

 

[redbear76]

im not very far into the game, but the MMC is extremely unlikable so far. I get that there will be shit explained, but if it werent for the Ellie model I dont know how much I'd be into this. He basically

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and it just feels like, who the fuck would let him do this stuff...

What? I'm missing something important or are you talking about bath scene where you are messing around with therapist?

 

[Envy*]

When I went back to the story, I really started to be afraid of Jada, I don't know why but I feel that something has changed.

 

[LinusMundane]

What? I'm missing something important or are you talking about bath scene where you are messing around with therapist?

I was talking about

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it came out of nowhere, imo

 

[afterlights]

and the post telling people to go back on topic got deleted as well
Who ever went through here must've been really tired

I just like blaming fried, even if he didn't do it.

 

[Deleted member 2755092]

and the post telling people to go back on topic got deleted as well
Who ever went through here must've been really tired

I don't even know what the post was, or when it was from... One of mine got the boot too, but well *shrugs*

 

[Night Hacker]

I don't even know what the post was, or when it was from... One of mine got the boot too, but well *shrugs*

Yeah, three of mine got nuked. I feel violated!

 

[Deleted member 2755092]

Yeah, three of mine got nuked. I feel violated!

I just hope none of them had Ellie in it, or there should be hell to pay!

 

[ramvivat]

about blunders and absurdities.
why does the director of a high-tech company where MC is working, look like a bandit - with a beard (which look like unshaved cunt) and tattoos? why does this director drink beer at work? cognac - i can understand, but what about beer? - this bad manners!. it would be okay if he was a chief of a garage service center - still okay. but excuse me, he is the director of a high-tech company. he could still be the director of a tattoo parlor with his appearance, but not who he is in the story.

 

[DiableFripon]

about blunders and absurdities.
why does the director of a high-tech company where MC is working, look like a bandit - with a beard (which look like unshaved cunt) and tattoos? why does this director drink beer at work? cognac - i can understand, but what about beer? - this bad manners!. it would be okay if he was a chief of a garage service center - still okay. but excuse me, he is the director of a high-tech company. he could still be the director of a tattoo parlor with his appearance, but not who he is in the story.

I don't know where you live, but in Europe it's nothing shocking.

 

[Mistress Elizabeth]

Nowadays more than one CEO tries to present a "cool" image instead of a generic executive image, even if in reality s/he is corporate and corrupt scum. They're like Mr. Burns with Jimbo's hat.

Some politicians also try to give a less "generic" image. For example, it seems pretty obvious that Boris Johnson's hobo hair was completely calculated, at least once he realized that his hair was "popular". Or Putin some years ago, when he was constantly doing "macho" stuff while shirtless, so that the whole world would see how "badass" he was.

The game's character however isn't a bad guy, just eccentric, and his "style" seems to be genuine rather than calculated, but in any case I think that his "cool" image isn't that far-fetched nowadays.

 

[recreation]

about blunders and absurdities.
why does the director of a high-tech company where MC is working, look like a bandit - with a beard (which look like unshaved cunt) and tattoos? why does this director drink beer at work? cognac - i can understand, but what about beer? - this bad manners!. it would be okay if he was a chief of a garage service center - still okay. but excuse me, he is the director of a high-tech company. he could still be the director of a tattoo parlor with his appearance, but not who he is in the story.

As DiableFripon said, it's nothing out of the ordinary here in europe, I had a boss like that myself, though he was more like the people Mistree Elizabeth mentioned, tried to be cool and everyones "buddy", but was nothing short of a massive asshole in reality.
As for C.J: he's just a cool and chill guy, maybe a bit too chill.

 

[ramvivat]

if you plan to have sex with rachel, should you call her mom? it's just that I remembered such a circumstance when talking with a realtor named Maggie, and I suddenly began to doubt whether it was not for nothing that I called Rachel mom, and I, of course, want to have a close relationship with her ... within the mechanics of this game, will it affect the future this solution or not? who checked?

and BTW about waifu Maggie - in which VN's she acted and acted as MC's Mom? her face seems familiar for me