The mom scene in this update is canon. You just go talk to her in her bedroom and it's like an additional scene. The aunt scene is non-canon in the sense that you can't currently reach it in its place in the story, but eventually it will be. The story just needs to be built up to that point.
I'll check it out. I'll be honest, I only did a cursory test of the x86 version and didn't do a full playthrough like I do for the x64 and Mac versions. Meredith's sprite has a complicated sprite sheet and that's one of the places she appears, so it could be related to that.
I agree that the strip poker game is unintentionally rigged. It's meant to be an homage to the old Artworx Strip Poker game that seemed to come pre-installed on every Tandy 1000 computer back in the day. The girl's "AI" is fairly straightforward. She basically tries for pairs and doesn't have the smarts to try for flushes or straights. You can tell what kind of hand she has by how many cards she draws, so it's good to pay attention to that. It's also rigged (as the original game was) in that you have to remove 4 of her pieces of clothing and she only has to remove three of yours. If you're JUST trying to win the game to get the achievement, what I do when testing is just quit out if I start to lose clothing and restart the game at neutral.
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