fasoaga

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Sekai hates her previous name, which would be Sekai Miyahara. She chooses not to answer anyone that calls her Miyahara, per Karin's dad testimony. Other than that, Sekai would also naturally be an Arakawa by birth (being Yuu's daughter with Miu), just not by name.

Her disliking being called Ms. Arakawa would likely be because of Nozomu, but could be overall because she hates the name to begin with since it comes from Yuu, which likely left her mom for Saki, or something happened that she was unable to have his name since birth.

In the timeline that she marries Akira, she would have been Ms. Arakawa by marriage to Nozomu before, so maybe it makes her remember bad memories (as she was being abused at the time). Deep theorizing aside, the simplest theory would be that it makes her feel old, useful to remember that she's more or less 10 years older than Akira, so by the time that the timetravel happens, Akira would be 30 and she'd be around 40.
I totally forgot about Karin's dad and Wakana's investigation.
 
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I totally forgot about Karin's dad and Wakana's investigation.
I wonder how something everyone knows and ignores, in the timeline where she's alive, would've interacted with Wakana, or if she would have. I remember Sensei describing her as someone who wanted to do good and watch her students succeed, and his initial mistaken suspicions of her doomer attitude and eye bags being a somewhat unconscious response to nothing they do mattering.
 
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It seems like we're largely skeptical of Pareidolia's claim of both benevolence and subsequent banishment to the bottom of the well. I admit I took its claims at face value and assumed it would exit the narrative, but I likewise see the value in the perspective of its unity with HOPE. Any strong opinions on this particular god's place in the narrative moving forward?
 

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It seems like we're largely skeptical of Pareidolia's claim of both benevolence and subsequent banishment to the bottom of the well. I admit I took its claims at face value and assumed it would exit the narrative, but I likewise see the value in the perspective of its unity with HOPE. Any strong opinions on this particular god's place in the narrative moving forward?
short answer: we'll have to wait and see.

longer answer: I don't think Pareidolia is outright lying, even if he's lying.We have seen proof that gods are bound to their legends, and he is the concerned god. He has been dragged from the well by Akira when he was a kid, and provided for Akira "concern" since then. So even if he is lying, it would still be out of concern. It is highly unlikely that Pareidolia is "dead", as even during his sacrifice he makes mention of leaving gifts scattered through the timeline and that "when they next meet, he hopes they'll be able to harmonize better" or some such. Pareidolia is definitely taking his biggest gamble there (by sacrificing himself), including sending our Nodoka as one of the gifts to "move Akira", that ultimately led to her sacrifice in order for Akira to learn that Ami is a psychopath (among other things).

just plain long answer: We still don't know enough about the nature of the gods, what we do know now, although helpful, complicated things further. There are millions of gods, and they are born and vanish without much notice (which is a very real take on the eastern approach to gods anyway). Pray to the moon enough and you might summon a moon god, same for air, same for chair, same for anything really. Forget about them, and it's down to the bottom of the well, and eventual manifestation as a human, or worse. The way this complicates things is because we still don't know if the four gods are of the same group as these or not. Are HOPE, Wires, Pareidolia and USER4 gods that just happened to get to this cycle first? (or are they something different, as Akira is called the child of makeshift gods, maybe these gods aren't even real gods in the first place). Is the myth of the four that were one just a way to interpret the notion that the Kaori (or a similar hotel) at the time had four slots to be filled and they were the first in? Without proper understanding of this, it becomes hard for us to properly distinguish between HOPE the peerless god of light coming back with "3"s around him just after Pareidolia's gone (which is USER3) being their union, or another random thing thrown out there.

Okay, I'm tired of writing. Pareidolia, teleport me back home. Or to Molly's house... Actually, teleport me and Molly to a cosplay store instead.

(praise Pareidolia, our one true bro and uber service)
 
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I know selebus and I can tell you that people underestimate what this man-child with an ego is capable of doing just for the bitterness of it.
I'd say it's more than likely that nothing is gonna happen if you use DRM but it's not absolutely impossible if he ends up adding countermeasures to it, that's why I discourage its use if you can get by without it. The first opportunity was during the whole renpy update, but through my regular combings of the game's code I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Since I too am obliged to "play" the game but I'm not a fucking idiot I also cheated Sensei-quest, but instead of using DRM I change some values in the game's code and then make sure to revert any changes after I'm done so that everything is left undetected.
My job here at this point is simply to make sure nothing fishy ever goes on and that if it does, that I can just give a clean save file to everyone who needs it
My take on the wasted image:

It's a fingerprint, leak a unique busted image in each download of the game to patrons. When the game is leaked, he can tell who leaked it by what image gets posted on the forums.
 

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My take on the wasted image:

It's a fingerprint, leak a unique busted image in each download of the game to patrons. When the game is leaked, he can tell who leaked it by what image gets posted on the forums.
I don't know about that. If that was Selebuses goal it could be done in far less noticeable ways.
 
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You should revisit "Amy" event after completing 0.45 sequence. You can do it by loading an old save. Once you do it, it would be green-marked in all saves
Can you describe more clearly?
Happy Event in the weird pool quizzes or further more.
 

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I don't know about that. If that was Selebuses goal it could be done in far less noticeable ways.
It'd also only affect people willing to redownload 10gbs every month instead of a 200mb update. He's also shown he can hide things in much more subtle ways.

I'll mention this one since his DRM deleting code was hidden in a random image in the dorms which takes this concept and runs miles with it. In the original PC editions of Cave Story, Pixel (Game creator) decided to put in rudimentary DRM to the game to stop the average person changing the graphics of the game. Every 'bmp' had "(C)Pixel" appended to the end of the file in hex. In most cases it left no visible mark to the image.
 

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how short is your memory
luckily, I have been blessed with a very short memory.

Which, understandably, might be seen as a curse at first, but that is just until you realise that I can reread and rewatch and replay anything and feel like it's the first time after 2/3 years at most.

making the most of a bad situation \o/
 

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luckily, I have been blessed with a very short memory.

Which, understandably, might be seen as a curse at first, but that is just until you realise that I can reread and rewatch and replay anything and feel like it's the first time after 2/3 years at most.

making the most of a bad situation \o/
Do you want to know what perks bad memory gives you? You're good at keeping secrets (that's me)
 
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I'm officially retiring from this game since I will no longer be able to access my old pc and I'll be using my company's desktop from now on. Anyway, it has been a nice ride. The story is no longer that anticipating for me (I can't deal with Sel's shit anymore) and I'm with the working class now so my schedule is no longer that 'friendly'.

I'll see y'all in Valhalla.
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