John Ness

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I worked on static renders to complete art for fully written scenes this week. After that, I worked on a lewd scene and spent some time writing dialogue. I need to focus on writing, but I'm much more interested in creating art now, so I'll likely go back and forth between writing and posing for the upcoming weeks.

As I wrote new scenes, I also played parts of the episode several times, experiencing plenty of complete scenes for the first time. I wanted to get a grasp of the current state of the episode from a player's standpoint. I got a good feeling from it and recognized what needed more work and what already worked well. My overall impression is the same as I anticipated before playing: a great deal of canon content has been produced thus far, with some pretty big branched scenes. I enjoyed the story and dialogue, and what needed improvement was the flow in some areas. I need to flesh parts out with more planned content and extend some scenes further.

After writing for a few days, I returned to posing art by starting work on a free-roam event. I've been preparing all the characters for it and am currently in the middle of the environment design work. I will focus on this free-roam event for now. It will be a fairly big one - I'm guessing ~350-500 renders for it - and it's only partially written. It's going to be varied work, which suits me perfectly at the moment.

Have a nice weekend

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Better Cock Spock

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This is a small complaint but I wanted to just voice it. DPC has this annoying habit of making intelligent or educated characters overly verbose and much too technical with their choice of words. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does it's just so goddamn unnatural.
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This little phenomenon reminds me of a small running gag in Star Trek, where Spock will say something in a highly nerdy fashion like the fucking nerd he is, and someone else—usually Bones—will simplify his statement or call him out, to which Spock replies "I believe that is what I said." There's a similar thing where he gets confused by human sayings, as does Data.
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This is a small complaint but I wanted to just voice it. DPC has this annoying habit of making intelligent or educated characters overly verbose and much too technical with their choice of words. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does it's just so goddamn unnatural.
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This little phenomenon reminds me of a small running gag in Star Trek, where Spock will say something in a highly nerdy fashion like the fucking nerd he is, and someone else—usually Bones—will simplify his statement or call him out, to which Spock replies "I believe that is what I said." There's a similar thing where he gets confused by human sayings, as does Data.
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Ha, you should play a Mr Dots game then.

But I get what you mean, his dialogue is a bit verbose:sneaky:
 
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L1m1tl3ss

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This is a small complaint but I wanted to just voice it. DPC has this annoying habit of making intelligent or educated characters overly verbose and much too technical with their choice of words. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does it's just so goddamn unnatural.
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This little phenomenon reminds me of a small running gag in Star Trek, where Spock will say something in a highly nerdy fashion like the fucking nerd he is, and someone else—usually Bones—will simplify his statement or call him out, to which Spock replies "I believe that is what I said." There's a similar thing where he gets confused by human sayings, as does Data.
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DPC does it to contrast the MC's stupidity with how much smarter the other characters are compared to him. He thinks that the players will also be baffled by the wording that those characters choose to use and that it'll invoke a feeling of overwhelmedness in them, because he doesn't realize that complicated words good writing.
 

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This is a small complaint but I wanted to just voice it. DPC has this annoying habit of making intelligent or educated characters overly verbose and much too technical with their choice of words. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does it's just so goddamn unnatural.
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This little phenomenon reminds me of a small running gag in Star Trek, where Spock will say something in a highly nerdy fashion like the fucking nerd he is, and someone else—usually Bones—will simplify his statement or call him out, to which Spock replies "I believe that is what I said." There's a similar thing where he gets confused by human sayings, as does Data.
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For Jade and Bella at least, that's 100% intentional.
He's probably not really thinking about the things you said, with them he just wants to use fancier vocabulary regardless of whether people like or not I think.
The characters I do enjoy writing for the most are, in no particular order: Derek, Quinn, Isabella and Jade. Derek is an outlet for my juvenile sense of humor, Quinn lets me be a manipulative puppet master and Isabella & Jade let me use a different kind of vocabulary.
 
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