Ren'Py Desert Stalker [v0.19.4] [Zetan]

[Yngling]

I really enjoyed your and Cynicaladm 's posts, but here (in the bold parts) you seem to be contradicting yourself:

Yes, men and women are both sexual creatures, but they are different sexual creatures. Not least of the reasons why is the act of penetrating and being penetrated are physically different and actually cause different chemical reaction in the human brain. A study of cross-cultural anthropology (which was a portion of the field I actually went to university for) shows that to be the case. For example (in acknowledge, but statistically significant, generalities), men cheat on their wives when they feel sexual frustrated and an opportunity that they feel they can get away with arise to do so. Meanwhile, women who cheat on their husbands largely do so because the husband is emotional distant and they begin affairs with emotion connects to another man or woman, long before sexual actions occur. In cross-cultural studies on human sexuality, it is shown time and again that in most cases for a man to cheat he just need opportunity and sexual frustration. The quality of the partner is largely irrelevant, though attraction is preferred it is not required, hence why many prostitutes in real life are not always the most attractive women but still make money. While for a woman to cheat she needs the other man to be superior in some way (either more emotional available, or more sexually appealing) to her current option. So, that was my approach to this topic, Zahra has no reason to seek a better partner from either of those typical causes and thus far, nothing has been *shown* in her character to present her as atypical to the vast majority of women and their sexuality in regard to seeking or even being attracted to other partners.

I would say that the MC is pretty emotionally detached on a number of levels. He's away a lot. He's involved with plenty of other girls, most purely sexual but some romantically as well. Yes, Zahra is involved with most of those, and she seems not to mind sharing the MC with other girls but at the end of the day, of the little time he spends at home, he spends most of his time with other girls. And even if he is physically available, he's not the most social kind of guy.

I don't want to advocate any NTR but Omar is in some ways clearly superior to the MC. He's more emotionally available and he may well be more powerful, all things considered.

But, if I may go a bit off-topic, being emotionally distant seems like a proper thing to do for a guy in his profession. In an historical context, I would say that in historical warrior cultures, men were likely to be much more emotionally distant than the modern femboys of today. But I would not say that back in the day, women were more likely to cheat on their "emotionally distant" men, for the reasons you cited.

I fully support your analysis of sexual relationships in a historical context though, and I also like the wording "sexually restrained" vs. "sexually repressed". Good stuff!

 

[JoeTheMC84]

I really enjoyed your and Cynicaladm 's posts, but here (in the bold parts) you seem to be contradicting yourself:

I would say that the MC is pretty emotionally detached on a number of levels. He's away a lot. He's involved with plenty of other girls, most purely sexual but some romantically as well. Yes, Zahra is involved with most of those, and she seems not to mind sharing the MC with other girls but at the end of the day, of the little time he spends at home, he spends most of his time with other girls. And even if he is physically available, he's not the most social kind of guy.

I don't want to advocate any NTR but Omar is in some ways clearly superior to the MC. He's more emotionally available and he may well be more powerful, all things considered.

But, if I may go a bit off-topic, being emotionally distant seems like a proper thing to do for a guy in his profession. In an historical context, I would say that in historical warrior cultures, men were likely to be much more emotionally distant than the modern femboys of today. But I would not say that back in the day, women were more likely to cheat on their "emotionally distant" men, for the reasons you cited.

I fully support your analysis of sexual relationships in a historical context though, and I also like the wording "sexually restrained" vs. "sexually repressed". Good stuff!

I can see that appearing as a contradiction. Thanks for pointing it out. I suppose my answer to it would be that I meant to present her as someone who I see as a bit of a cuckquean and thus she gets off on his slight distance emotionally and physical dominance over her and especially other women. She then gets fulfilled emotionally by the other women in the household and her relationship to them. Him coming back to her, so to speak, is sufficient from him, the rest is covered by “their girls.” Thus she doesn’t need to seek a male to be emotional supportive. I could have presented that idea better.

You also aren’t wrong about the historical context of emotional distance being different from how it would be viewed today. Good insight there.

 

[Tokenugget]

Oh gawd, i can't wait for Kateryna to join this harem. She's so sexy. The next update, hopefully, will include her in this games story.

 

[Whiteblackman0]

The olny bad thing i can say about this game is how short it is but oh my god is it worth it

 

[not.storm]

Will I be missing out on something if I download the compressed version rather than the orignal one? Considering the size difference this seems like an important question....

 

[Canto Forte]

You lose nothing, you gain a better optimized game to run on your system and lessen the
possibility of crashes, errors, bugs in general due to mismatch speed of gpu, game directions and cpu.

Will I be missing out on something if I download the compressed version rather than the orignal one? Considering the size difference this seems like an important question....

Full versions in general are for big to multiple screens where you could stand to see differences.

 

[JoeTheMC84]

 

[Dylan741]

Will I be missing out on something if I download the compressed version rather than the orignal one? Considering the size difference this seems like an important question....

No, the game is the same, the difference is in the image quality that in the compressed version is reduced and sometimes noticeable.

 

[darlic]

You lose nothing, you gain a better optimized game to run on your system and lessen the
possibility of crashes, errors, bugs in general due to mismatch speed of gpu, game directions and cpu.

Wtf did I just read? There is no such thing as problems related to speed mismatch between CPU and GPU.

The only reasons compressed versions are preferable to original ones are less disk space usage and possibly better performance (the latter depends on system specs).
The upside of original versions is better image, video, and audio quality (although audio has never been compressed, afaik). It's that simple

 

[Paz]

The upside of original versions is better image, video, and audio quality (although audio has never been compressed, afaik).

Audio is also downsampled in the compressed version, but hopefully not enough to have a noticeable difference for the most part.

 

[fortuna95]

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[Yngling]

I can see that appearing as a contradiction. Thanks for pointing it out. I suppose my answer to it would be that I meant to present her as someone who I see as a bit of a cuckquean and thus she gets off on his slight distance emotionally and physical dominance over her and especially other women. She then gets fulfilled emotionally by the other women in the household and her relationship to them. Him coming back to her, so to speak, is sufficient from him, the rest is covered by “their girls.” Thus she doesn’t need to seek a male to be emotional supportive. I could have presented that idea better.

Yeah, I agree with that.

You also aren’t wrong about the historical context of emotional distance being different from how it would be viewed today. Good insight there.

Probably off topic but I'd say it's due to us westerners being spoilt and decadent.

Doing a dangerous job and/or being away from home for long periods in order to provide for your family is hardly necessary anymore. A man and a woman both working some bullshit job earn more than a modern day "stalker" (e.g. a special forces operator or a mercenary) would earn alone.

This mentality is completely different in large parts of Asia, for example, though. There people do agree to work dangerous jobs and long hours in some foreign country, sometimes for years on end, just to be able to send money home to their families.

 

[NukaCola]

Oh gawd, i can't wait for Kateryna to join this harem. She's so sexy. The next update, hopefully, will include her in this games story.

Kateryna is Russian, yes?

 

[Yngling]

Kateryna is Russian, yes?

I'd guess Polish, but I think the game just mentions "Slavic".

 

[Bruno34]

Wtf did I just read? There is no such thing as problems related to speed mismatch between CPU and GPU.

I mean, it probably doesnt matter in Renpy games.

But it is true that if GPU is way faster than the CPU can keep up, you get bottlenecks, so you do not have full potential of your GPU, CPU is limiting it.
For example, i had my CPU working constant 100% while my GPU was slacking off at 70%, it was too easy for him. Now that i have better CPU, my GPU is at 100% as it should be and CPU between 50-70%, thats what you wanna see

I had this problem with Cyberpunk and i bought faster CPU and problem got fixed, they both work pretty much close in performance so theres no problem

 

[darlic]

I mean, it probably doesnt matter in Renpy games.

But it is true that if GPU is way faster than the CPU can keep up, you get bottlenecks, so you do not have full potential of your GPU, CPU is limiting it.
For example, i had my CPU working constant 100% while my GPU was slacking off at 70%, it was too easy for him. Now that i have better CPU, my GPU is at 100% as it should be and CPU between 50-70%, thats what you wanna see

I had this problem with Cyberpunk and i bought faster CPU and problem got fixed, they both work pretty much close in performance so theres no problem

That is absolutely correct, but he was talking about system crashes and errors caused by speed mismatches

 

[Bruno34]

Oh, then yeah that sounds odd to me as well, i'd rather say its gotta do with outdated drivers/updates or the game itself rather than the speed mismatch when it comes to renpy games

 

[Max627]

is there an update patch for 0.08 to 0.09??

 

[save8lot]

ZetanDS I just played the most recent update [0.09c on Windows], and while I enjoyed it (as always) I had two problems.

First, the Home Map only alerted me 2 times to go visit Fairy, but you are supposed to visit her 3 times to complete the quest. I visited her a 3rd time on my own to complete the quest, but again there was no exclamation mark on the Home Map telling me to go a 3rd time.

Second, apparently you have no choice but to Grope and expose your wife's breast to your brother in law during the final visit to their home. That is not made clear. I kept picking to continue the conversation instead because I had no interest in giving Omar a free show. However the Exclamation Mark kept showing on the World Map no matter how many times I visited their house. Since there was nothing to do at the Mutants location either (besides providing endless "Samples") I finally figured out that I had no other choice but to choose the "Grope" option. While I enjoyed the renders that came with it, I don't understand why the game even gives you a choice to continue the conversation instead of groping her since it just sends you into an endless loop until you do.

 

[save8lot]

Hey, thanks for the headsup, it's not intended to work like that in the second case indeed. The quest should proceed however you decide to continue. I will take a look at it, noted it down already. In the first case I have to check as well, the whole quest is not finished in Fairy's case anyway for now, as there will be more events added eventually. But yes, it should notify about all the three subevents (talk to/inspect, give food and give her what she wants).

If you find more of these bugs you can also let us know on the discord under bug reports

No problem. In case it matters, for the fairy events I did not choose them in order from top to bottom. I chose food first, give her what she wants second and talk last. Perhaps your code expects players to go in order. Just a thought.