NebulousShooter

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For instance, the MC's mom subplot. A key of that subplot seems to be the photo of Jill with the Royces' mansion behind, and the photo of Lynette and friends with that same mansion behind. But you only get that photo if went to Jill's picnic, so... that photo actually means nothing? All other clues and pieces of information that DPC let here and there in all paths, actually at the end will not mean anything, because you will know everything of all paths even if you didn't get them during your gameplay?
I am curious how he would try to tie that up, because if Jill sees that on the wall and makes the connection, she should also comment on all your 2d artwork of Quinn you keep all over the walls :cautious:
 

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Just an opinion. The Sage path in Ep8 and now Ep9 is sub-par for a character that could have been written in such depth.
I don’t know, I think this entire episode on her branch just added another endearing layer to her character. Sure there’s steamy sex and chaotic party energy pouring out of her. However you get emotional scenes where the MC and Sage open up to each other, she confesses to be in love with him on the dance floor, you share many laughs and have a great time with a fun gf at a party. Overall very endearing and gave her some growth.

Sage has went from absolutely no feelings allowed, and blowing up with rage every time things get emotional, to having genuine talks, exhibiting patience with the MC, and openly committing to a relationship.

When she walks out with that DIK jacket and lays out the law to the dudes, that’s her way of openly stating that she really likes the MC.

One of the reasons this episode varies a lot is also influenced by the mood that LIs bring to the party. I’m sure you’ll get to see smart, genuine, and emotional Sage again. Hell she even shows it a lot with her expressions if you favor Zoey while on her path.

Sage being arguably the happiest LI at the party, like a fish in water, is probably why she grew a lot for allot of players during this episode.
 

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Maybe DPC likes his narratives narrow. But will be able to get that? The only previous work of DPC I know is AL, a way less complex story than BaDIK, and we all know the way it ended. It's like he was tired of that game because he wanted to start with BaDIK (he said that he started working in BaDIK at the same time he was with AL) and decided to end it up the fastest possible way. There exists risk that DPC will decide to end up BaDIK with Vinnie shooting all Lis except the one you chooses to run away with you, or something like that :LOL:

For instance, the MC's mom subplot. A key of that subplot seems to be the photo of Jill with the Royces' mansion behind, and the photo of Lynette and friends with that same mansion behind. But you only get that photo if went to Jill's picnic, so... that photo actually means nothing? All other clues and pieces of information that DPC let here and there in all paths, actually at the end will not mean anything, because you will know everything of all paths even if you didn't get them during your gameplay?

My point is, I would prefer too that DPC won't try to tie up all loose ends in one universal ending and the only thing that can change is the Li you end up, because I have little faith in him, according what we already saw in AL.
I am curious how he would try to tie that up, because if Jill sees that on the wall and makes the connection, she should also comment on all your 2d artwork of Quinn you keep all over the walls :cautious:
One thing that really annoys me, is MC being retarded for the sake of plot very often.
Case in point, mom's diary. I mean, you grew up never knowing your mom, you get her diary served on a plate.
But MC reads it at the plot's convenience, like a page a week, which is just dumb.
Because if MC reacted like a normal person and read it in 2-3 days, all the mysteries would probably be solved.
But nooooooo, 1 page per week, for the sake of plot. MC has the time to fuck every girl on campus, but can't read more than a page a week, sure thing DPC.

Than again, maybe he is basing MC on himself. MC reads the diary as often as DPC reads criticism.
 

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Sage has went from absolutely no feelings allowed, and blowing up with rage every time things get emotional, to having genuine talks, exhibiting patience with the MC, and openly committing to a relationship.
it's not like this phase lasted that long... more an exception than a change, because it's not like Sage never shared anything with MC

Sage has always been a varied character, here she essentially showed only one flavour, in the most showy and shouty way possible
 
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But MC reads it at the plot's convenience, like a page a week, which is just dumb.
Because if MC reacted like a normal person and read it in 2-3 days, all the mysteries would probably be solved.
OK, and what do you want? So that this story ends as soon as possible?! It's scary to imagine. The BaDIK Must Go On ! Even if the MC seems a little dumb.
 

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OK, and what do you want? So that this story ends as soon as possible?! It's scary to imagine. The BaDIK Must Go On ! Even if the MC seems a little dumb.
There are quite a few things going on in the game right now, out of the player's/MC's control. Lots of mysteries.
This one is easy to solve and completely in MC's power to do so. The speed at which he reads the diary is retarded, and no one can convince me otherwise. I wouldn't mind an interlude even regarding the diary tbh, hell, make it the Season 4 Interlude at this point since MC has no intention of reading it.

It's just that anyone who didn't have his mom growing up would jump at the occasion at reading it and getting to know her.
It's one of the elements that really grinds my gears.

I get why DPC is doing it the way he is. For the plot/narrative.
Doesn't change the fact that it's retarded behavior by the MC.
 

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Just an opinion. The Sage path in Ep8 and now Ep9 is sub-par for a character that could have been written in such depth.

1. Ep8, you only get something with her if you do the Quinn double.

2. Ep9. DPC trolls us by having MC talk about Sage's family while he is banging her. Everything but insurance and investment advice is mentioned. And the whole self-slut shaming tell me I am a whore/slut etc was just silly.

3. Ep9 early on has some sweet interactions with Sage at the start, but all you get with her at the end is prison sex; then self-slut shaming (wanting to do the walk) and announcing to anyone that will listen including MC is that she is going to line up a list of group bangs.

4. OK, if that had been some kind of DiK route option but there is no choice. This character could have been written really well with a great story line and well, that is all we get. I did like the Sage character a lot. Now. I put her at the bottom of the list of LIs with even some of the sides having a more interesting storyline.

5. Again, this is only MY opinion and it is the DPC show. So, I get it.
I think her wanting to do the walk is not slut-shaming, but being self-confident and don't giving a damn about what the DIKs and other people could think about her. And also saying to them "MC is my man now and we are going to have a lot of kinky sex together, so envy him, you losers". That thing of "tell me I'm a slut" is just dirty talking. Other characters do the same in other lewd scenes, and the same goes for the pillory scene.

She has been sexually frustrated for all the time she has been dating with a gay (even if she had sex with Chad at the beginning, I don't think it was good sex, and probably she actually didn't have any), that it's at least two years or more, and now that she has broken free of that toxic relationship, she wants to make up for the lost time since it's her last months in college and soon she will be into the "race of rats". She has found MC, the perfect guy to that, and she's decided to have as much kinky sex as possible until she graduates.

That thing of "lining up a list of group bangs" I suppose it's because she has been seeing the other HOTs banging a lot of guys for the last years and she was envious, being with an impotent (at least with her) boyfriend. So, again, she wants to make up for the lost time. Since MC is not going to be OK with her banging other guys or having "devil's 3somes" (I suppose and hope DPC is not going to go that way), she has decided to include other girls because it's a kink of her (and almost every single female character in AVNs, it's a cliché of the genre) and as she says to Maya, it's only with friends, for fun, and doesn't mean anything. Does that says something about Sage's personality? Only until certain point. This is a porn game, and I think that DPC is going to use her as an excuse to introduce more 3somes because it's something that people likes, even if it overdoes the "kinkiness'" of Sage's character.

But I don't think Sage has a fetish for self-slut shaming or she's a sub. The firs time she has sex with MC she tells him that sometimes she wants to be dominated and others, to dominate. Again, it's an excuse to introduce more variety in lewd scenes and of course, DPC overdoes it because it's a porn game (Sage allowing MC fuck her skull the first time they have oral sex is way too much), but what says about Sages' character is that after being so sexually frustrated for so long, she has liberated herself and is going to explore her fantasies with MC.

This time the update is just a crazy party, and we see mostly the kinky side of Sage. I hope next update we'll see her first date with MC and we'll see her romantic side too.

Anyway, I agree that I was expecting more from that character in this update (and the previous one), that I miss more sweet interactions, and that some of the scenes (over all, the one of MC talking about Sage's family when he's banging her) are silly.
 
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There are quite a few things going on in the game right now, out of the player's/MC's control. Lots of mysteries.
This one is easy to solve and completely in MC's power to do so. The speed at which he reads the diary is retarded, and no one can convince me otherwise. I wouldn't mind an interlude even regarding the diary tbh, hell, make it the Season 4 Interlude at this point since MC has no intention of reading it.

It's just that anyone who didn't have his mom growing up would jump at the occasion at reading it and getting to know her.
It's one of the elements that really grinds my gears.

I get why DPC is doing it the way he is. For the plot/narrative.
Doesn't change the fact that it's retarded behavior by the MC.
I think a big diary revelation will hit at the end of Season 3. Then DPC is going to do a second interlude where you decide Neil or Lynette's personality and how it'll play out in interactions with the blue bloods for Season 4.
 

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I think a big diary revelation will hit at the end of Season 3. Then DPC is going to do a second interlude where you decide Neil or Lynette's personality and how it'll play out in interactions with the blue bloods for Season 4.
For sure. And I wouldn't mind such an interlude tbh.

And I don't want anyone too understand me the wrong way.
I understand why it's done the way it is, for the sake of plot and narrative.
It's just too unrealistic and personally bothers me. It's literally him having answers in his hands, but MC is like: Nah, mom's dead, my cock ain't, gotta go on the prowl :BootyTime:
But the "for the sake of plot" choices do make the MC simply act like fool and retarded more often then he should.
Not the MC's fault, it's DPC's and the narrative's.
 

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The Glorious LIME

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Well, maybe you're right. Anyway, I also want this secret to be revealed, and MC learned the inheritance from his grandfather. Got the money. A lot of money. And spent it on Saint Quinn. The best ending.
We shall see. It's probably gonna get dragged out as much as possible because if MC inherits grandad's money, Maya's troubles go away too, and we can't have that now can we, we need more drama and tears. Like MC's cum being the glue that holds MJ together ain't enough drama for the foreseeable future :HideThePain:
 

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She's complained that she can't afford a lawyer, so that option has never been on the table, but now that Jill has offered her services, as long as Maya is prepared to spell it all out to the lawyer, it should finally be resolved (they just have to threated to take the dad to court and it will be over in seconds)
It won't be fixed that easily.

Firstly because it would be disappointing, a resolution like this would be too simple. Kind of like a final battle against the end boss that was dispatched in two shots.

Then, because the father seems quite extremist, not one to give up. He would be ready to go to trial rather than release his daughter.

On the other hand, yes the next step is to go see the lawyer. There either he will say that it is legal, or he that it is not (if it is not, the time to sue the father, Maya will be without money to pay for college).


Back to square one. There comes the banana to save Maya!

In episode 8, we see Jill who wants to do something in memory of her sister. Jill received money when she died. She will use these funds to create a scholarship or a foundation whose goal will be to help young people who are at odds with their families (like her sister). And who better than Maya to benefit from that?

End of the story.
 
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