I have always talked to Ashley about Derek. I wonder if the scene with penny or the scene with M&J plays out differently if you don't. If Derek isn't going after her anymore he wouldn't really have a reason to be at the HOT's looking for her unless he still does it on his own.
Sadly no martial arts club and official turnements. It would have been cool to have a fighter girl fall in love with our MC.
I don't think you are seeing it from Maya's angle - she probably don't think "on the streets" is a possible outcome. I think, in her mind, she will either get the full tuition from somewhere, or has to break off with Josy. I don't recall she ever making any indication that she will drop out of the university to be with Josy, if her dad finds out and gives her an ultimatum. I could be wrong though.
Why would he... do you really think that he gives a flying fuck about some pirates theorizing ?
Is this some considerable volume by the way ? A handful of 
Absolute zero ?
Hope it's zero cuz dual-sleeving is illegal and they both gonna be purged.
More ???
God has forsaken me... WHY ?!?!?! I'm not a believer... 
0.8.0 was a full download for everyone because he updated the Ren'Py engine from 32 to 64 bits
Derek doesn't have a job, does he? (He volunteered for some time but that does not give him money personally.) The dad gives Derek more freedom because he is not a homosexual (and maybe because Derek is male), it's just that simple.
That is a decompression error. It looks like you are either trying to run it from inside the compressed archive or the program you used to extract it did do the job correctly. I don't know what platform you are on but 7zip has never given me any problems.
What some people seem to keep forgetting is that the time passed within the story is currently quite short; and most of the characters haven’t known about Maya’s problems for very long.
).), but on a whole each character is defined well enough that we come to expect certain behaviour from them.Look, you can keep defending DPC, but the crux of the matter is that 4 people (MC Maya Josy Sage), some of who (Sage) is proclaimed to be smart by someone who looks smart (Bella), have spent considerable amount of time trying to solve a problem, and no one even suggested that Maya go talk to the school financial office to understand her situation, before going to Sage's parents and asking them to cough up tens of thousands of dollars.What some people seem to keep forgetting is that the time passed within the story is currently quite short; and most of the characters haven’t known about Maya’s problems for very long.
The mc's only known Maya for about 2 months, since they've only just sat their midterms, and he's only known about her dad's black mail for about half that time.
Since he's known, the mc has also been dealing with heaps of other shit, and hardly spent much time considering Maya's predicament (a huge amount of his time has been dealing with his own issues, like repairing the mansion and fucking as many girls as he can
Derek has known the longest, but he's not exactly reliable; he's definitely not someone we'd expect to be dispersing sound financial advice.
I'm not sure how long Josy's known about the blackmail for, but she's even complained that Maya isn't trying to solve her own problems. They've been fighting and bitching with each other half the time.
So even though we, the readers, have had ages to discuss the issue, the characters in the story have not.
To make matters worse, Maya had dreamed up her hairbrained scheme of joining the HOTs and having them pay for her tuition, so she put all her eggs into that basket, only to have it fall through. By then she'd pretty much wasted the first month of college without even considering other avenues for solving her situation.
Then after sulking and wasting more time, Maya is now relying on Sage trying to help her.
I wouldn't call this bad writing, I'd say it is Maya's fault for being dumb (she was deliberately written that way). She's been called out for it by Josy:
And the mc's had a go at her for constantly dramatizing it all:You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
If anything, DPC has managed to characterise most of the prominent characters quite well. They have a few inconsistencies (proving they're not just computer programs... well actually... they areYou don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
So it's not shitty writing that in the stretch of roughly a couple of months, a handful of characters, who have been dealing with numerous distractions, haven't come to the rescue and solved all of Maya's problems yet.
Personally I find it quit perplexing that anyone can work their way through this game, pay full attention to everything it has to offer, and turn around and suggest the game has shitty writing.
Of course the game isn't perfect, but the detail, foreshadowing, dialogue, and direction are so far above most of the competitors here, I wonder where these critics are getting their reference for what good AVN writing is.
