Come ooon ! A day or so before you never knew there was this thing out there... why ?!? BECAUSE NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ! You live your everyday life and the most common things won't be raising an alarm when somethings wrong coz of nowadays human nature
Nobody said there is only 1 nobody said that it is it's sole purpose... this is still floating in the air
Yea, but Im not Riona picking up or selling drugs right next to a massive Van that causally just stands there.
You werent wrong when you said we often miss whats directly in front of us, hell DPC even played on it with the home blindness in the interlude. And I'm not saying it cant be used to surveil Riona, I'm just saying no law enforcement agency can be behind it, because they handle it very differently. Their biggest trump card is that the person being surveiled does not know about it, so they go to the end of the earth to keep it that way.
You know those people in silly costumes trying to advertise something for a shop, like a giant banana costume for a fruit and vegteable vendor ? I'd buy that guy surveiling someone before I buy that the Van is there on offical law enforcement buisness.
You know those people in silly costumes trying to advertise something for a shop, like a giant banana costume for a fruit and vegteable vendor ? I'd buy that guy surveiling someone before I buy that the Van is there on offical law enforcement buisness.
You know what else confuses the hell out of me ? The money in BaDIK ! In the scene where the MC goes shopping for Josy&Maya with Derek, Derek asks if the MC can borrow him 20$ and if he does, your pocket money decreases by 2 of those green $ thingys, so its fair to assume 1 green $ = 10$.
When you choose to give Riona money, the max you can give her is 50$ and she says it doesnt cover it. When the MC takes Quinn to his room to patch her up, she says "You already did help me.".
How insignificantly small must Quinn's drug operation be, for 50$ to make a difference ? The entire money system is either whacked and totally out of proportion or the answer is 'not surveilance and undercover agent big enough'.
Derek asks if the MC can borrow him 20$ and if he does, your pocket money decreases by 2 of those green $ thingys, so its fair to assume 1 green $ = 10$
I don't remember exactly but I'm fairly certain Derek asks for 2 bucks... but anyhow... I don't think the game $ can be measured in real value... it's just representative
You know what else confuses the hell out of me ? The money in BaDIK ! In the scene where the MC goes shopping for Josy&Maya with Derek, Derek asks if the MC can borrow him 20$ and if he does, your pocket money decreases by 2 of those green $ thingys, so its fair to assume 1 green $ = 10$.
When you choose to give Riona money, the max you can give her is 50$ and she says it doesnt cover it. When the MC takes Quinn to his room to patch her up, she says "You already did help me.".
How insignificantly small must Quinn's drug operation be, for 50$ to make a difference ? The entire money system is either whacked and totally out of proportion or the answer is 'not surveilance and undercover agent big enough'.
I don't remember exactly but I'm fairly certain Derek asks for 2 bucks... but anyhow... I don't think the game $ can be measured in real value... it's just representative
Very interesting analysis, but for me this wouldn't fix the main problem with the Sage/Quinn threesome, which is entirely on Sage's end. At that point either the MC and Sage have had an argument about not wanting to be a rebound guy OR they've just started hooking up. Either way, this wasn't the time for a random hookup with Quinn. The scene would have worked much better if it had been moved to Season 3 once the MC's relationship with Sage was better established (or maybe back to Episode 7, where it could have served as the catalyst for the inexplicable Rebound Guy speech).
I wouldn't look at this scene so deeply. The main reason for this scene is to create a prerequisite for further threesome sex scenes with Sage.( with Heather, Sara and other friends of Sage). This is the first full-fledged threesome scene involving LI. In fact, after the scene, Sage behaves almost like a his girlfriend. She says she liked watching MC fuck another girl (why would she say that?). And at the end of the episode, during a walk with MC Sage bluntly says that they are not dating yet, which means it was just the usual spontaneous drunken sex of three friends.
Does anyone know how DPC does his blinking "animations?" Is it just two or three different images displayed in quick succession (eye open, eye halfway, eye closed)? Also, his fade/dissolve between images seems to be at the perfect interval. Is it just a straight fade or he use a specific time such as ex. 0.7 seconds, etc? Some games have a jarring transitions, but BaDIK's flow quite smoothly. I think I like his method of transitions more than any other I've seen.
Does anyone know how DPC does his blinking "animations?" Is it just two or three different images displayed in quick succession (eye open, eye halfway, eye closed)?
My crack theory about the van is it's the same person/people who did the cathy cluck, trashed DIK mansion, and stole from Quinn in ep6 instead of cops or something
It's true. Pink said that he regularly reads fan theories and is surprised that many guess the right plot twists. It is possible that this blue van, as well as the lights outside the MC bedroom window in episode 6 do not mean anything at all and this is a common joke. Although we have already seen an example when Chad's sneakers in Troy's room led us to the theory of their homosexual relationship.
It's true. Pink said that he regularly reads fan theories and is surprised that many guess the right plot twists. It is possible that this blue van, as well as the lights outside the MC bedroom window in episode 6 do not mean anything at all and this is a common joke. Although we have already seen an example when Chad's sneakers in Troy's room led us to the theory of their homosexual relationship.
If the van " might be " nothing at all then THIS is nothing at all as well Conclusion : both are placed there specifically to " mean something " even though it's just a guessing game now what it actually is... Anyhow most of the folks haven't even picked up on such little things coz as it seems growing number of " players " are hitting the TAB or sleeping on the CTRL...
Someone really walked outside the window. But we can only speculate who it is. It could just be Elena who went to her boyfriend. Or it's Quinn who was dating a traitor.
I don't recall who spotted the sneakers, but I think folks were discussing Chad being gay well before that was pointed out. It was a mix of his overreaction to the gay jokes and the fact that he wouldn't touch Sage. If you're not interested in a girl you break up with her, you don't keep her around - unless you need her to be your beard, which Chad absolutely did. Once he got the boot from the Tri-As he didn't have to worry as much, the focus was no longer on him as the leader of the jocks. If the MC is fooling around with Sage at this point, that also gives him a minor excuse to factor in when finally breaking up with her.
Sage/Quinn was definitely not my favourite threesome in the game.
It was a fun scene, but it was mostly emotionless, the mc was "used" by the girls (the good kinda used) and there was no chemistry. Most of the time he was just being dominated by Quinn, who was definitely showing off in front of Sage.
This all makes sense though, Quinn isn't about to be intimate with the mc in front of Sage (even if you're on Quinn's path, obviously no chance of intimacy if you're not friends with her), and Sage was more "wow I'm having a threesome", than "Oh fuckface, this is almost a 4!".
The scene was definitely lacking in chemistry and intimacy compared to other threesomes, like Quinn and Riona, where the mc kisses Quinn for the first time:
At that point, the mc should have lowered Quinn's mask and kissed her. She was thinking about him at the moment so she would have been into it, then she could have looked panicked for a second and look back at Sage to see she didn't notice. Then the rest of the scene could have continued.
This works well with the earlier discussion where Sage is trying to get Quinn to do something lewd with the mc, and Sage even says, "It's for fun. I know you don't kiss guys, but lick or grab him or something."
But yeah, the only kissing that took place in that sex scene was between Sage and Quinn, and that was once again Quinn being dominant and trying to shock.
So all in all, I don't think the scene was badly done, it actually made a lot of sense, but it could have been tweaked to elevate it a bit.
Great post. I too would’ve liked to have seen some differences in the threesome, depending on whether you’re pursuing Quinn. There are some nice variations in the lead-up to it and afterwards, but the threesome itself is the same regardless. Your suggestions would’ve been an improvement!
Story-wise, as I argued here, I think it still works, if you view it as a type of performance only, without that emotional dimension to it - whether it’s Quinn showing off, as you say, or Sage ticking something off her bucket list, the circumstances mean that neither one is in a place where they feel comfortable being open with MC about how they feel. And so it works for a Quinn who likes MC and one who “can’t stand” him.
But I also think it’s possible the explanation for why he didn’t put more nuance into the threesome might come down to time. Dev time for episode 8 was really long and he packed a lot in. I’m sure there are things he just had to cut because if he didn’t he’d probably never finish. Maybe the extended Jill and Bella scenes (and all those many many positions) explain why some other aspects weren’t as nuanced.
