frap

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That's the one upside to that route... although I would assume it would be more enjoyable if I weren't feeling so awful about myself during it. ;)
Here's the weird thing: I can look at SP and think... well, it's just porn, it's fiction and it's all fake. I can also step back and look at H5 and think... well, it's just a game, it's fiction and it's all fake. And then I start playing Bad LT and I feel awful for treating Rah-Rah like that. Brains are weird.
 

Akamari

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That's the one upside to that route... although I would assume it would be more enjoyable if I weren't feeling so awful about myself during it. ;)
But would it remain upside? ...it can go pretty dark too I think...just look at the last poll... I mean sure it's a fiction within the story, but still...
 

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Here's the weird thing: I can look at SP and think... well, it's just porn, it's fiction and it's all fake. I can also step back and look at H5 and think... well, it's just a game, it's fiction and it's all fake. And then I start playing Bad LT and I feel awful for treating Rah-Rah like that. Brains are weird.
Joking aside, that precisely the difference between good and great writing. I don't know if any of you have played Undertale (and loved it), but I went with the true pacific route at first, and now, there's absolutely no fucking way that I'd ever do the genocide route. Never. Never ever ever never!
That's right, Notty, I guess I will never see some route in H5 as well :(
 

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Joking aside, that precisely the difference between good and great writing. I don't know if any of you have played Undertale (and loved it), but I went with the true pacific route at first, and now, there's absolutely no fucking way that I'd ever do the genocide route. Never. Never ever ever never!
That's right, Notty, I guess I will never see some route in H5 as well :(
*beams*
 

I'm Not Thea Lundgren!

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Here's the weird thing: I can look at SP and think... well, it's just porn, it's fiction and it's all fake. I can also step back and look at H5 and think... well, it's just a game, it's fiction and it's all fake. And then I start playing Bad LT and I feel awful for treating Rah-Rah like that. Brains are weird.
Or, this is just a perfect example of the quality of Notty's writing that you are so immersed in the game that your brain starts imagining it's real?
 

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You won't. Really.

Not because of just the time required but, if - and it's a big if I know- I've done my job correctly you won't be able to see everything. Because you won't want to.

I don't mean like Sarah's good/bad path. That's an easy one to decide to replay.

I'm talking about choices that will be underpinned by who you are as a person. Even role playing the role, I want to challenge your heart and mind on some fundamental questions on love, existence and life driven in part by your relationships with the characters that you have formed.

Some paths you will not see because you will reject them out of hand. And not just because it's not your cannon route. But because if, as a writer, I've discharged my duties correctly you simply will not be able to choose them.

Oh. And we have sex too. Mustn't forget that! And silliness of course. But also *points up* that.

:)
Why did I have flashbacks to dragon age and the city elf origin? Oh right.... I never took those 40 gold coins....
You're talking to someone that went ALL renegade in Mass Effect 3.
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Know that I welcome any writing that would challenge my very core as a human being! I want to feel the worst to appreciate being the best. If you're only half the writer I believe you are (and I think you're even more than that), I won't dodge the hard path. I'm willing to be shaken, I'm willing to be mistreated, because I know you care and it won't be shock value for shock value!
Come at me with all you've got!
I'll agree with Huitieme and will add a shy "do your worst".... Someone else I would mock but Notty is too much of a sweetheart to even pierce trough my moral chainmail ..
As of you Huitieme, I dare you , make my day with the expedition to Vinland
 

RC-1138 Boss

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Well, supposedly, Trisha knows what's happening around the place. She obviously has plenty of time to snoop on people and stuff like that, because she has absolutely nothing to do (not surprising, since her research came to a halt for lack of samples as well as little reason to bother because the results are being ignored anyway). And, she's pretty certain Mike is not interested in females.
Which means: Mike won't pull an Eric on us. Hurray!
The only other major choice would be Mike and Annie, with the MC they basically control all the electricity, ships, security, lock downs, etc.
Everyone in the Ophion science outpost looks shifty to me right now. Crazy doctors and crew members who act strange.
I wouldn't be surprised if they all know why the Vaguard ship suffered a cascade failure in all of its major systems.

You won't. Really.

Not because of just the time required but, if - and it's a big if I know- I've done my job correctly you won't be able to see everything. Because you won't want to.

I don't mean like Sarah's good/bad path. That's an easy one to decide to replay.

I'm talking about choices that will be underpinned by who you are as a person. Even role playing the role, I want to challenge your heart and mind on some fundamental questions on love, existence and life driven in part by your relationships with the characters that you have formed.

Some paths you will not see because you will reject them out of hand. And not just because it's not your cannon route. But because if, as a writer, I've discharged my duties correctly you simply will not be able to choose them.

Oh. And we have sex too. Mustn't forget that! And silliness of course. But also *points up* that.

:)
That is a Mass Effect level of rapport to the characters and story. Kinda like i can never go full renegade and shot Mordin on the back, betray Wrex or let Tali and her people die.:cool:
 
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