Pedro4545454

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Possibly, he definitely was experiencing things from a past. Not sure about the Maya one though.

The Upside Down House might be a Terminal but it's not clear. It might just be remnants of Terminal 22 (NiB), considering that characters from that game/world are in it.

Terminal 24 might be 'Grow Old. Then Die', which was a cancelled side project of Sel's, but some characters from it have appeared lately in LiL like Kanon and Tsurumi.

Or 24 is something entirely new.
It would be funny if Selly put the gods in the game saying that terminal 24 is a flawed and completely wrong world because it was abandoned by the creator of that world.
 
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There is so much to talk about from this update that everytime I stop to think about it, another thing surfaces.

I had brought up in the past about how we might not ever see "normal" Nodoka in LiL due to the absurd weight that was thrust upon her by her mother, and I think in her last moments that became even more evidently clear. Otoha questions her over the phone about her obssession over her mother, and well, it really is a curse. Nodoka can't break free of it.
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It falls on her to save not only 23, but 22 as well (one would assume that's what she means by two worlds).

Also, who is Nodoka referencing here? Her own past self? Shiori? Or her mother? Who came into contact with Himawari? One would assume it was one of her past selves.
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Btw, I wonder if there's a hidden meaning to Nodoka being erased by Pareidolia here, since it's the same thing that Sekaori/True Sekai says to Sana:
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I'm being led to believe that erasing is something different from resetting. But I guess we'll find out as we discover what happened to Nodoka.

All in all, Nodoka truly has a tragic tale as it became more apparent with each of these last updates. This update just reinforced that point, and also threw our preconceptions of other hated characters (Pareidolia and Sekai) out of the window (or at least made them less black and white).

Edit: Oh, another very relevant thing: gods have to go inside someone, and yet Himawari can fully materialize without a host. What gives? I mean, both Pareidolia (inside a host) and Nodoka are seeing her, right? This isn't an "Akira imagining her there deal".
The her Nodoka mentioned is likely to be Kyoko, who had once dreamed of a girl with blue eyes. I didn't think Nodoka has any other third party source that ever mentioned Himawari's presence.

Some other minor thoughts on this event:
- I was confused about saving the two worlds as well. I thought it was either "this world that is about to be reset" and "the next world that comes after reset" or more metaphorically "Kyoko" and "herself", as figuring out what exactly happened to Kyoko has always been Nodoka's top motivation.

Meanwhile, terminals on the other hand feel less like "worlds or dimensions" and more focus on "gods' favorite toy". That's why it looked like Akira simply went back in time instead of something more unimaginable (like going back a cycle, entering a completely incomprehensible domain, anything of that nature) when he allegedly traveled to terminal 22; that was Yuu's world; that was when Yuu was gods' favorite toy. But all these are just gut feelings.

- I didn't even think about the possibility of Nodoka receiving a selective memory wipe until much later when I first played through the update because, I seriously thought she got bluejayed :LOL: (I took the "melting her wings very literally"). So when Kaori was having the sex on the roof, I kept thinking "Wait is now a good time to fuck our favorite waitress when Nodoka is probably down there being all splat and everything??" Disclaimer: I didn't think this was the case.
 

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... man, this update sure left me confused ...
... who do y'all think is the strongest of them all ... ?
... do you think Akira used to be a god ... ?
... or Arakawa is a lineage of "fallen" gods ... ?
 
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Anyone have a save file for chapter 4? My file became corrupt at the Ami camping trip, thx
Was that the one with the fake out save file corruption? I remember that happened but I'm not sure when. If it was a black screen saying your save is corrupted then it isn't. The game is fucking with you, just click the screen.
 
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Was that the one with the fake out save file corruption? I remember that happened but I'm not sure when. If it was a black screen saying your save is corrupted then it isn't. The game is fucking with you, just click the screen.
Im not positive, i waited and spam clicked over and over--it was on the second time going with nao during the camping trip
 

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Im not positive, i waited and spam clicked over and over--it was on the second time going with nao during the camping trip
If your file is corrupt it should be a grey screen with an error message. If it was just a black screen saying your file is corrupt then you're good. Click the screen more.
 
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If your file is corrupt it should be a grey screen with an error message. If it was just a black screen saying your file is corrupt then you're good. Click the screen more.
It didnt end up mattering, when I updated to .44 I got the roleback/ignore error screen, so i think it may have actually been corrupt
 

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Definitely above average.
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Can you do us all a favor and not speak to any of us then? Cause all the regulars are thinking the same thing when you make a new post, "ugh, here we go, Moby Dickler riding his e-peen again...".
You're too harsh. I think I know that guy, he's a crazy one. Surpsied he is brave enough to post on f95 knowing he might be banned for that in the lilcord
 
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