Jace_Herondale

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I'll just spoil it, and yes, they're the allergy meds. Prescription strength!

(In a perfect world I'd have time to design a new allergy label and re-skin the bottle, but it's an imperfect world and I'm but an imperfect ghost.)

Speaking of imperfection, here's a little test image I did to play with a new pack of fishnet shaders I bought, knowing I'd need them in advance of the remade Chapter One.

Does Brittani's dress make any sense? No. Can we still enjoy it? Yes.

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My 3 best girls on one picture. What a treat
 
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Samuel Hidayat

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From what I understood there'll be the option to outright refuse to give money to Nicki.
If you take that option she'll still disappear to Florida, and when she comes back she ends up in the surprise porn shoot from where she escapes straight to the MC (same story as the current one).
If you give her money though, with or without getting something out of her for them as usual, she'll come to the MC after Florida to repay him.

Basically very little would change except a new choice + consequence tied to it right away.
When you put it that way, I guess I could see Nicki wanting to "repay" Good MC right away instead of avoiding him further and getting into shadier stuff. That's means her dialogues and responses need to be different as well, like her being grateful and guilty to Good MC or fearful and reluctant to Bad MC.

Maybe the current version already has the different reactions, but I wouldn't know since I never play Bad MC to Nicki.
Well, as a matter of fact, MC already makes a tangible difference. He puts her back on her feet after her rovinous fall. I personally think that 'failing' the first time in helpin Nicki adds to the story. He gives her money. It's quick and easy, but exactly because of that she has to fall again. And MC learns that there is no quick and easy in helping others. You need to put effort and invest yourself into the endeavour. So the inspiration to found Friends in Need.

On a narrative point of view i think it works very well, both for the overall story and for Nicki's arc. Being rescued a second time and from deeper shit than ever she finally gets she needs to steer the wheel and she understand (finally, for once on a damn visual novel, for an actual reason) that MC is a worthy person.
Thing is, MC already founded Friends in Need months before Nicki's reappearance. He also already has this mindset of not blindly investing on every request, hence why he personally approaches Madison's library.

Tldr Nicki's surprise visit doesn't make MC learn to put more effort in helping others since he's done that months before.
 

Joshy92

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I'm going to be honest I downloaded the taboo patch thinking it would only enable incest.
But then I got the option to force Nicki I had to redownload the game without the patch straight away lol
I could never hurt my girl Nicki.
In fact I am being a super nice guy to every girl, I just don't have it in me to be mean.
I'm more a romance guy heck I cried while watching a walk to remember.
 

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Thing is, MC already founded Friends in Need months before Nicki's reappearance. He also already has this mindset of not blindly investing on every request, hence why he personally approaches Madison's library.

Tldr Nicki's surprise visit doesn't make MC learn to put more effort in helping others since he's done that months before.
True, i forgot.
 

TigerWolfe

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I'm going to be honest I downloaded the taboo patch thinking it would only enable incest.
But then I got the option to force Nicki I had to redownload the game without the patch straight away lol
I could never hurt my girl Nicki.
In fact I am being a super nice guy to every girl, I just don't have it in me to be mean.
I'm more a romance guy heck I cried while watching a walk to remember.
Real talk, don't pick those options. I run the taboo patch and never select anything rape-y.
If the existence of the possibility does your head in, you might not be as nice as you're telling us.
 
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NewTricks

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I'm going to be honest I downloaded the taboo patch thinking it would only enable incest.
But then I got the option to force Nicki I had to redownload the game without the patch straight away lol
I could never hurt my girl Nicki.
In fact I am being a super nice guy to every girl, I just don't have it in me to be mean.
I'm more a romance guy heck I cried while watching a walk to remember.
You should play with the taboo patch anyway because you are never forced to pick Guy's asshole options. Doesn't it prove that you are the better guy if you have those options and eschew them than if they merely do not exist? Later in the game incest with sis may end up locked behind it. As it is now, you miss out on some "scenes" with sis that are locked behind a few of the darker choices along one of the girls' paths. No spoilers, though.
 

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I'm going to be honest I downloaded the taboo patch thinking it would only enable incest.
But then I got the option to force Nicki I had to redownload the game without the patch straight away lol
I could never hurt my girl Nicki.
In fact I am being a super nice guy to every girl, I just don't have it in me to be mean.
I'm more a romance guy heck I cried while watching a walk to remember.
Hey, nothing wrong if you don't even like the evil options being available, play the game how you want :)(y) But keep in mind you lose out on more stuff too, like for example the incest ofc, and also an incest play scene with Ashe, I would assume a consensual choke scene with her too (she's a naughty thang huehue), and I'm sure much more that I can't think of now.

I may be misremembering, but I think the first scene with Nicki in the beginning is the most egregiously worded options that are fully available from the beginning and just kind of in your face. Later options in the game sometimes have evil MC checks and might not even show up (I think) unless you were evil before, or they're worded a little more... delicately... most of the time... like there's usually an escalating build-up of 'checkpoint' choices before you're hit with the ultimate "so u really wanna make her cry, right?" The infamous ashe "alley scene", for example, only even begins when you feel her up or w/e without asking (which I doubt you'd ever do, right? ;)), and then you have to push her up against the alley, and so on; it's more gradual than the first scene in the game and so not nearly as easy to spot if you're not the kind of Guy to even feel up a girl without asking in the first place.
 

Joshy92

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Hey, nothing wrong if you don't even like the evil options being available, play the game how you want :)(y) But keep in mind you lose out on more stuff too, like for example the incest ofc, and also an incest play scene with Ashe, I would assume a consensual choke scene with her too (she's a naughty thang huehue), and I'm sure much more that I can't think of now.

I may be misremembering, but I think the first scene with Nicki in the beginning is the most egregiously worded options that are fully available from the beginning and just kind of in your face. Later options in the game sometimes have evil MC checks and might not even show up (I think) unless you were evil before, or they're worded a little more... delicately... most of the time... like there's usually an escalating build-up of 'checkpoint' choices before you're hit with the ultimate "so u really wanna make her cry, right?" The infamous ashe "alley scene", for example, only even begins when you feel her up or w/e without asking (which I doubt you'd ever do, right? ;)), and then you have to push her up against the alley, and so on; it's more gradual than the first scene in the game and so not nearly as easy to spot if you're not the kind of Guy to even feel up a girl without asking in the first place.
True although my mc wont be with any girl but Nicki so i miss out on content anyway and tbh i dont care about that.
Plus when the game releases on here i would have to wait to play until the patch is updated.
 
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