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No. hence there being no prostitution tag. This game isn't one I'd recommend if you are just wanting to turn girls into whores. If you'd like to experience a psychological suspense on the other hand, go ahead.
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She's not using specific astrology, but she is the astrology character that is named Maya that can also predict the end of the world, and is involved in a cycle. Human sacrifice can be linked to many cultures, but meso america definitely seems to have the most popular version of it. Specifically when it comes to the Aztecs and Mayans, who apparently believe humans were meant to nourish the gods.
It taking place in Japan also doesn't seem to matter much. The game has mentioned the Trinity, Fae, Vega and Altair, etc. Still, like I said I'm not trying to "intersect" anything. Just if some Mayan stuff played a part in the ideas behind the game, I wouldn't be too surprised.
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I like your theory, whether it's right or wrong you've still put work into it and it's internally coherent.
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she actually uses some Chinese astrology myths where she talks about Qixi, the forbidden love between two stars, some of the girls make passing mention to western horoscopes, the poetry that is often used in reference to the stars is clearly western and eastern in origin, the ever enlarging moon is kind of a more modern mythos in japan that gets put in their video games all the time, though i have no clue what it started from. everything else tends to be western prose and melodrama waxing about the stars and the nature of man. there has been no in game reference to the mayans as of yet either through symbology, stories, or myths. there has been plenty of catholic and christian symbolic references however as well as outright shinto mythology references and visuals.
as for human sacrifice being popularized in meso-american culture in the pop culture of the US you may have a point. but the human sacrifice being portrayed in this is not on the scale or style of the meso-american rituals or the fakes ones portrayed in media as of yet.
I'm not ruling it out from being developed into the game in the future, nor am i saying your ideas are bad, just that I think the claim at this point is a bit unfounded.
where is the defeat of the great crocodile and the monkey brothers, I would love some mayan cultural references.
same thoughtsI like your theory, whether it's right or wrong you've still put work into it and it's internally coherent.
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The take on the first god is quite inspiring to face-valued people like myself
"Our gods being ours and perhaps only ours because of their past or present influence in our lives and thus we anointed them to be our gods"
Then I have questions about the second god (here assuming second god = USER2 = God of Wires)
If we keep this trend going, I am not sure how second god's doing can be explained when it:
- performed facial alteration on Ami during There Is Nothing. An ability the first god never had, and an ability only been used on Ami (at least in front of us)
- fucked with Maya during The Scary Room (internet prank? LOL)
(this scene was also intriguing because I think this is a rare scene where USER2 seemed to work with two angels, the disciples of the first god/HOPE)
Ami's part might be explainable because Sensei is with her, so it is through altering Sensei's "HUD" and not actually Ami's face (though there is one instance at the end of Everlasting Love where Ami glitched out when Sensei isn't around, but it isn't explicitly implied that this is a work of the second god); but what about Maya's encounter? Sensei wasn't around so what is USER2 to Maya?
Edit: a way I got around my own thoughts is that:
1) Ami has her own unknown tie to the second god, which could conveniently explain the scary room scene because she prepped it.
2) whatever god Sensei anointed to himself could also affect everyone in Kumon-mi because of “protagonist power”
, in comparison to Sara’s who can only affect herself.i.e., Sensei’s gods can just decide to affect you even if you don’t have a connection to them (if you do, get extra affected I supposed) because you reside in a world built for him that is Kumon-mi. Examples like this are Rin hearing clock sounds when rejected by Chika and having a blackout during The Paragon of Not Worrying About Stuff, and Uta also receiving her own nudes
This is also a pretty roundabout way to say “there is only one god” because it’s basically all Sensei’s subconscious doings: whatever factors affected Akira in the past take turn dominating his actions, this fake world, and everyone in it; he just doesn’t know that these gods are different facets of himself (linking back to assigning emotions to gods).
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Somehow I like it better here than the discord, it's really hard posting things there and most of the time, I don't understand what shiet they're talking about lol
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Posters here have been more likely to reference the Hindu concept of Maya than the Mayans, but the math does math in the Mayans direction.
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I'm pretty sure it's implied that the scary room is actually Hope trying to stir shit up with Maya.The take on the first god is quite inspiring to face-valued people like myself
"Our gods being ours and perhaps only ours because of their past or present influence in our lives and thus we anointed them to be our gods"
Then I have questions about the second god (here assuming second god = USER2 = God of Wires)
If we keep this trend going, I am not sure how second god's doing can be explained when it:
- performed facial alteration on Ami during There Is Nothing. An ability the first god never had, and an ability only been used on Ami (at least in front of us)
- fucked with Maya during The Scary Room (internet prank? LOL)
(this scene was also intriguing because I think this is a rare scene where USER2 seemed to work with two angels, the disciples of the first god/HOPE)
We can't possibly know what USER2 deal is into all this, but it seems like he mostly keeps it to himself and only swoops in to fix memories, kill makoto's depression like a virus, and keep things somewhat in order. Hence why I believe he's the one that resets the world whenever it is required. Tsu's father doesn't really seem to care that much about time repeating itself as well, he's just kinda of living in the present I'd say
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Think this is about the threesome she later discussed with Sensei
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Just because a given god is "my" god doesn't mean it can't also be "yours," it just means that it isn't automatically something that has power over you. I have to choose to give your gods power over me.
Nozomu is a fantastic example -- Nozomu holds actual power over multiple characters, because he was -- directly or indirectly -- a part of their lives. He's theorized to be Sana's father, he may have died in the same accident that killed Miku's parents and/or fucked Kaori up pretty bad, etc. There's a shared trauma thread amongst the cast regarding him.
So while we don't have any direct evidence that Maya's tied to the God of Wires, she very well might have one. We're still early enough in the game that a lot of questions remain unanswered for now. The Halloween scene you reference implies very strongly that she does, because not only did she perceive what was happening, but she _understood what it meant as it was happening_.
As Sensei grows closer to each of the girls, his gods are going to have increasing power over them, because they are choosing to give him more power over them. Just as Sekai morphing from his World to the fourth God (potentially, if she's who User 4 is reserved for) is giving her increasing power over him (to the extent that she can now literally control his actions).
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Ohh right, thanks for confirming.
Almost thought the apocalypse squad will get a new member lol
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the discord is full of sycophants, a decent amount of outright bad admins that ban people for no reason, and the general small brain discussions/ranting I associate with twitter. you are better off never going back. a lot of the theory crafting is nothing more than ship BS and what they want to happen, not what is implied to be happening or could be happening. They def can have their moments but its often filled with really bad
moments. thats the problem with real time discussion vs forum board posts. in a forum you have to type it all out, and you have a few extra minutes to register "holy shit... I'm a dumbass" before submittingits weak sauce there.
discussions are a bit slower but the quality is better here
no this was the implied threesome thing that could have been taken srsly or as a joke and was confirmed the next update. sensei mildly interrogates her and she makes a joke about it
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I know this feeling all too well
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Soooooooooo fucking accurate. The sheer number of times i've typed just such a post out only to come to my senses after re-reading it before hitting 'post' is beyond count.
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Yeah I left a while ago just because I'm a bit uncomfortable with the admins there. It's been quite an issue for a while and one admin even messaged me just because I posted a fanart they did not like (even though it was decent) lol nope not going backthe discord is full of sycophants, a decent amount of outright bad admins that ban people for no reason, and the general small brain discussions/ranting I associate with twitter. you are better off never going back. a lot of the theory crafting is nothing more than ship BS and what they want to happen, not what is implied to be happening or could be happening. They def can have their moments but its often filled with really bad
its weak sauce there.
discussions are a bit slower but the quality is better here
no this was the implied threesome thing that could have been taken srsly or as a joke and was confirmed the next update. sensei mildly interrogates her and she makes a joke about it
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like a year or so back weren't they banning people that liked Kirin unironically
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Absolutely agree. I see mods handing out bans for the littlest things - if you ask/give even a crumb of a hint for one of the puzzles you're banned immediately. Like, why would you want to alienate a portion of the fanbase because they didn't realize they should be taking meticulous notes and keeping up with Discord memes to solve the puzzles? I certainly didn't come into this prepared to look any deeper than your average VN. Thankfully the reset puzzles have become more friendly to brainlets like me.
I'm a subscriber because I enjoy the game, but the rules in the Discord are ridiculously stringent to the point where the flow of conversation isn't natural.
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Probably because it's mostly the mods that are talking there lol I saw them once chatting from like 1am till 12pm here. There's at least thousands of messages in one day, it's hard to keep up.
Although I probably guessed at first glance that you can't ask about puzzles there, I experienced getting my posts taken down several times just because it's about the recent update (even though I didn't post any spoiler and tagged it as spoiler correctly). You can't also post lengthy messages about the game cuz it'd be taken down cause they'd think it's a spoiler. In short, you can't post shiet.
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I am old, and my brain moves slowly. Discord does not. Any discord with more than a couple dozen active users just becomes too much trouble to keep up with.