Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.44.0] [Selebus]

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Here is some of my theories and thoughts. All of them have little to no evidence to back them up, but I like them, so here they are.

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Ami = Sekai isn't entirely far-fetch; there has been discussions regarding if the current Ami is the real Ami or not after seeing the last scene of Lamb Legs (there we saw a seemingly sweet-natured and not sex-depraved Ami). Perhaps the yandere girl we know and love is a teenager Sekai that has already swapped with her daughter, whatever that means.

But still, I'm more inclined toward believing Ami and Sekai are separate people.
1) Sekai has this omniscient and witty aura whenever mentioned, but Ami is just an adorable dumbhead (Ami does has enough talent to write poets though!)
2) Despite many of Sekai's appearance being explainable as Sensei's trauma-induced hallucination, I think a free-floating spirit Sekai indeed exists. Implications are Yasu saying You are surrounded by whispers/Someone misses you very much, and her involvement in Futaba/Makoto lust scene. So a Sekai spirit and an Ami who is not Ami but actually Sekai existing in the same world and time seems unnecessarily complicated.

I can totally see Sekai wanting to "continue with Akira" through Ami, but more like through assuming control of Ami


As for if Akira ever loved Sekai or not, I think he definitely did (why does everything hurt so much then?). In Mother's Milk, the slideshow is concluded as For both of you, it was love. A distorted and forbidden one, but love nonetheless.

If Akira really wanted to get rid off her by orchestrating a car crash, then he shouldn't feel that traumatized by it. He would basically remove a clingy molester and a brother who he felt inferior to and was probably the cause of Saki's favoritism. He might feel guilty if he caused it, but so far Akira seems to really miss her but is also trying his best to tell himself she is already gone to combat the fact that he could occasionally see her.

If that accident really causes this level of turmoil for him, Akira must has loved someone who died that day very very much. Since we are not seeing horny balls of light in Akira's hallucination, I am gonna go out on a limb that the person is Sekai.

 

[Algorist]

If Akira really wanted to get rid off her by orchestrating a car crash, then he shouldn't feel that traumatized by it. He would basically remove a clingy molester and a brother who he felt inferior to and was probably the cause of Saki's favoritism.

Where was it implied that Sensei felt inferior to his brother? I don't remember any instance of Sensei mentioning his brother at all (at least directly), it's like his brother was entirely scrapped from his memory. Except for one scene where Sensei recalls his trauma of Nozomu fucking Sekai. (He definitely loved her, not a healthy love, but he held great attachment as an abused kid for sure.)

sev "It’s raining outside. "
sev "You are watching the water droplets dance down the window as a series of noises assault you from both sides."
sev "On your left, the sound of a stereo’s static screaming- no. Singing to your senses."
sev "Ssssssssssssssssssssss~"
sev "To your right, the repeated clacking of a headboard as it slams against the wall, chipping away at soft white paint you helped spread yourself."
sev "You did it together."
sev "But it is not your headboard that clack-clacks today. It is the headboard of someone else. "
sev "Someone else taking the one thing you love as you are forced to sit there and pretend you don’t know it."
sev "Is it easy playing tricks on yourself?"
sev "Were you ever able to laugh?"
sev "Can you laugh today?"
sev "Or do you still pretend it never rains at all?"

 

[fdsasdf_p]

Where was it implied that Sensei felt inferior to his brother? I don't remember any instance of Sensei mentioning his brother at all (at least directly), it's like his brother was entirely scrapped from his memory. Except for one scene where Sensei recalls his trauma of Nozomu fucking Sekai. (He definitely loved her, not a healthy love, but he held great attachment as an abused kid for sure.)

sev "It’s raining outside. "
sev "You are watching the water droplets dance down the window as a series of noises assault you from both sides."
sev "On your left, the sound of a stereo’s static screaming- no. Singing to your senses."
sev "Ssssssssssssssssssssss~"
sev "To your right, the repeated clacking of a headboard as it slams against the wall, chipping away at soft white paint you helped spread yourself."
sev "You did it together."
sev "But it is not your headboard that clack-clacks today. It is the headboard of someone else. "
sev "Someone else taking the one thing you love as you are forced to sit there and pretend you don’t know it."
sev "Is it easy playing tricks on yourself?"
sev "Were you ever able to laugh?"
sev "Can you laugh today?"
sev "Or do you still pretend it never rains at all?"

I am referring to Sana's event Waiting for Anything, where Sensei's inner monologue "It's just like how I used to feel insignificant when my-" was cut to BZZZ.; I am assuming the unfinished sentence is about his brother.

This is based on how Sensei wants to compare his former self to Sana's state of mind, which involves feeling corned by people familiar to her but physically bigger and emotionally more mature and confident than her.

Perhaps it's because of Sensei's attitude toward his brother that explains his current lack of appearance: there is no reason to for Sensei to try to remember his existence, the epitome of feeling insignificant.

His brother's other mentioned in the game is in Good Boy, where Sekai telling Akira that he is much nicer than his big brother and implying something Nozomu did to her the other day (thus callous might not be an mislabel for Nozomu after all?)

 

[Algorist]

I am referring to Sana's event Waiting for Anything, where Sensei's inner monologue "It's just like how I used to feel insignificant when my-" was cut to BZZZ.; I am assuming the unfinished sentence is about his brother.

This is based on how Sensei wants to compare his former self to Sana's state of mind, which involves feeling corned by people familiar to her but physically bigger and emotionally more mature and confident than her.

Perhaps it's because of Sensei's attitude toward his brother explained his current lack of appearance : there is no reason to for Sensei to try to remember his existence, the epitome of feeling insignificant.

His brother's other mentioned in the game is in Good Boy, where Sekai telling Akira that he is much nicer than his big brother and implying something Nozomu did to her the other day (thus callous might not be an mislabel for Nozomu after all?)

Oh I see. That certainly makes sense.
Another thing I just noticed, it's pretty minor but: 今 (ima), is just Ami reversed. I'm feeling silly for not recognizing this sooner.

 

[Bingoogus]

I'm feeling silly for not recognizing this sooner.

I never recognise any of this shit myself, i'm pretty open about being hopeless at seeing how 'It'S aaaaaLL CoNnEcTeD', so don't feel silly when a turbo retard like me is here and happy to suck up all the shame and embarrassment of/for the audience.

 

[crustlord12]

I'm so using a Virtual machine to shove the game into from now on.
On that note:

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Just happened to find this article and remembered someone mention using one for this game from now on.

VMWare Workstation should be free for personal use on Windows as well, I recommend everyone play this game in that from now on

 

[redpenguin101]

I never recognise any of this shit myself, i'm pretty open about being hopeless at seeing how 'It'S aaaaaLL CoNnEcTeD', so don't feel silly when a turbo retard like me is here and happy to suck up all the shame and embarrassment of/for the audience.

And for your noble sacrifice we salute you, brave sir for being bold enough suck up all of our shame and embarrassment for us like Kirin sucking off and fucking Akira to hide from her own shame and embarrassment of being herself.

 

[Jedix]

So I finally finished .27 and got .29, but all I get on the screen is text and a black screen with "There is Nothing" and it has been that way for the past 30min of playing with the exception of the Yumi walking in on Imani scene. Anyone else run into this?

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

So I finally finished .27 and got .29, but all I get on the screen is text and a black screen with "There is Nothing" and it has been that way for the past 30min of playing with the exception of the Yumi walking in on Imani scene. Anyone else run into this?

did you get 0.28 too? because it's kinda of a sequence you know if you didn't update to 0.28 you will need to download the full file

 

[Jedix]

did you get 0.28 too? because it's kinda of a sequence you know if you didn't update to 0.28 you will need to download the full file

I got the compressed version of the file and I thought it was the full version. I will download again with a regular version of the full game. Thank you for the input.

 

[barglenarglezous]

I got the compressed version of the file and I thought it was the full version. I will download again with a regular version of the full game. Thank you for the input.

Sometimes the compressed version gets a little glitchy because of the way the file structure is set up. Might want to try a complete (uncompressed) install.

 

[Bingoogus]

And for your noble sacrifice we salute you, brave sir for being bold enough suck up all of our shame and embarrassment for us like Kirin sucking off and fucking Akira to hide from her own shame and embarrassment of being herself.

It's a pity i don't have a kink for it, i'd be rolling in the good stuff if i did.

 

[koolguy120]

I haven't played this game for a month and now it has DRM??
What the hell did Selebus do to it?

 

[Perniciousducks]

I haven't played this game for a month and now it has DRM??
What the hell did Selebus do to it?

you were on the right path. Don’t stop now.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I haven't played this game for a month and now it has DRM??
What the hell did Selebus do to it?

He got upset about people pirating the paid content, so if you download the care packages without removing the DRM, it deletes your save files.

 

[mannice431]

How do you get the latest happy scene?

 

[barglenarglezous]

How do you get the latest happy scene?

During the quiz show segment, answer "cute puppy" to the bonus question.

 

[buff]

So, did anyone get pissed-off enough to post the KK cards yet?

 

[Vizer007]

So, did anyone get pissed-off enough to post the KK cards yet?

I doubt that will happen.
On the bright side - you can make your own, quality will depend on your skill though. You can make them pretty much indistinguishible from original! And there are a few of those flying around on the net (saw Maya, Chika and Chinami, pretty high quality too)

 

[buff]

there are a few of those flying around on the net (saw Maya, Chika and Chinami, pretty high quality too)

I've seen Maya, Nadoka and Rin. Where did you find the Chika and Chinami?