Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.48.0] [Selebus]

[Moonflare]

Really i thought next month will not have update?

The break is following Nov 1's update, aka 0.45. Some previews are already out.

 

[Moonflare]

update to the sexual checklist/collector's progress.

Spoiler: 0.44 Sexual Checklist

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We're slowly getting there! There were some relevant changes this time.

 

[barglenarglezous]

Maybe it was a barely-able to walk Noriko trying to get a peek

Really i thought next month will not have update?

The update we're not getting is the one that would be released on 12/1, the 11/1 update is still on.

And for the record -- we were never getting a 12/1 update. That was a reminder, not an announcement. He always takes time off for the holidays.

 

[AkiraRegalia]

the boxes contain memories of every timeline, even if the world gets hard reset, how are you going to delete an object that gets slipped while the reset is happening?
both prime maya and ami have the ability to slip

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

With all that came out this update I estimate the timeline to be something like:
1)Akira is born and around 0~3 years draws the affection of his half-sister Sekai. (she is playing peekaboo with him)
2)He is around 12 and hurts his leg, Sekai offers to take care of him bringing the two together.
3)Akira and Niki get together too, probably when he is 13~14, when he is 15 Sekai gets pregnant and tries to take him to Kyoto.
4)Akira is 16, Ami is born in august, Noriko should already been born in july.
5)Two years later Niki is 16, brags about having an older boyfriend, Akira should be 18 and in colege.
6)Teacher course is around 4 years, Ami and Noriko should be 6 when Akira finishes colege.
7)Around a year after Akira finishes colege, he should be 23 and Ami is 7,Sekai dies in a car crash, Akira breaks up with Niki and boards the depresso expresso stuck in bed station, only enough of will left to get Ami from the orphanage.
8)Notices he should earn a living if he wants to feed himself and Ami, starts tutoring, finds Maya, and Noriko finds he is tutoring and convinces her parents to sign her.
9)Around 3 years later Maya works her magic to make him disappear from Noriko's life. Ami and Noriko should be around 10 now.
10)Sometime during the last 5 years he starts teaching in Kumon-mi High, and we reach the time of the start of the game where Ami is 15.

 

[Bingoogus]

2)He is around 12 and hurts his leg, Sekai offers to take care of him bringing the two together.

Where'd you get the 12 from? I took those early Akira scenes to him being more like 5-7 as it's very much an elementary school classroom...

 

[Angiboat]

Spoiler: 0.45 Preview

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All these moon shots are giving me one punch man ptsd

 

[Ksakep]

Kyoto takes place roughly a year before Ami was born, which would make Akira around 12, and Niki around 10.

Akira is 31, Niki is 29, Ami is like... 15? so Akira was 16 years old when Ami was born and 15 years old when Sekai got pregnant. I suppose it's okay here.

For Noriko: in Rain King we saw Sekai with young Ami and Ami remembers her mother, so Sekai didn't die when Ami was a kid. So Noriko was a kid too and Akira could easily be with Niki at this point. Tragedy will struck later.

 

[LoveRedHairedGirl]

Spoiler: Yasu

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[k1n5l4y3r]

Where'd you get the 12 from? I took those early Akira scenes to him being more like 5-7 as it's very much an elementary school classroom...

I'm going from his size that should be around Chinami's age since I don't really have a good grasp on there yet, and that happy event that shows an elementary classroom he looks way too old to be on elementary, so I'm thinking he is TA, but it's all an estimate so feel free to edit my timeline with any insights you have.
If you can, post evidence, it's been a while I last saw the event so I may be misremembering, thanks for your input.

 

[OIUEFIU]

Spoiler: pics

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Might just be reused asset, but thought you might wanna know.

 

[DeanNoriko]

Where'd you get the 12 from? I took those early Akira scenes to him being more like 5-7 as it's very much an elementary school classroom...

I checked one of the happy events (Good Boy) where I know it was mentioned that he cut his hand on a broken window and fell down and hurt his ankle, but it does not specify the age. Though Sekai talks about him being too embarrassed to accept a piggy back ride from her and that Niki is his girlfriend and that he probably jerks off to her.
I don't think 5-7 would fit in all that context, I suspect it would be closer to 12.

I randomly came across two things though that piqued my interest during that event.

Spoiler: A confirmation that Kaori was in fact in the white car?

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Spoiler: Another hint to this being, to some extent, a simulation/game/program?

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Edit:
Two more quotes I found fitting in this new context from this update, they are from Rain King:

Spoiler: This is pretty much what Pareidolia tried to tell Akira

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Spoiler: This is right at the end of the event, the last word being conveniently cut out

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[Detective Dc345]

And this is what we call: a major screw up.

Kyoto takes place roughly a year before Ami was born, which would make Akira around 12, and Niki around 10. Nevermind that a 12 and a 10 year old are having 69s before even becoming boyfriend/girlfriend. This also highlights how Sekai kept on dealing with Nozomu after her trying to run away for another 8 years at least, which led to Akira becoming Niki's boyfriend - and all that followed. The way Kyoto made it seem, less time had passed between her promise and her death, but in actual fact it was a long-ass time.

On to Noriko, yes, this would be the most glaring screw-up. Even if Noriko is older than Ami, for her to be sneaking around trying to see them, she would have to be at least 3-4, at the very least. She most certainly isn't. Way to go, Selebus... I'm actually disappointed.

I still don't get it, where's my dunce cap. Are you saying that Yumi got sent to yet another Halloween and we're just not seeing it yet?

Niki's teen model is used in Kyoto so she would have to be in high-school.

 

[Moonflare]

Niki's teen model is used in Kyoto so she would have to be in high-school.

The girls are in the first year of highschool (I assume) and the youngest of them is 15. If Niki was 15, then 15/16 years later she'd be 30/31, but she's 28.

 

[Riolol]

I checked one of the happy events (Good Boy) where I know it was mentioned that he cut his hand on a broken window and fell down and hurt his ankle, but it does not specify the age. Though Sekai talks about him being too embarrassed to accept a piggy back ride from her and that Niki is his girlfriend and that he probably jerks off to her.
I don't think 5-7 would fit in all that context, I suspect it would be closer to 12.

I randomly came across two things though that piqued my interest during that event.

Spoiler: A confirmation that Kaori was in fact in the white car?

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Spoiler: Another hint to this being, to some extent, a simulation/game/program?

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Edit:
Two more quotes I found fitting in this new context from this update, they are from Rain King:

Spoiler: This is pretty much what Pareidolia tried to tell Akira

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Spoiler: This is right at the end of the event, the last word being conveniently cut out

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What if Kaori and her family were on foot? Might fix the car problem.

 

[Moonflare]

I just want to point out that regardless of what Nao-chan is, if we were to compare:

Spoiler: gods

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Nao-chan wins.

Spoiler: Kittens

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This has been my ted talk.

Edit: might be willing to reconsider if another god offers Ron or Yamo sex. But so far it's Nao-chan hands down.

 

[barglenarglezous]

Edit: might be willing to reconsider if another god offers Ron or Yamo sex.

If Chika facilitates this, we can elevate her to godhood.

 

[DeanNoriko]

Spoiler: Me waiting since whenever the choice was given for my promised Chika x Rin threesome scene

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Although now I am not sure anymore if I really want it to happen, given Chika's condition.
In any case, it won't happen this year at least anyway.

I wonder if barglenarglezous will be right and there will be some interesting changes in dynamics within the different timelines, for example Yumi being with Akira, Rin with Chika, Tsuneyo with Takoyaki Son, Son of Takoyaki Man.

 

[barglenarglezous]

I wonder if barglenarglezous will be right and there will be some interesting changes in dynamics within the different timelines, for example Yumi being with Akira, Rin with Chika, Tsuneyo with Takoyaki Son, Son of Takoyaki Man.

I think you're attributing someone else's theory to me.

I don't think we're in different timelines. I think they're witnessing a memory of past parties within the reset itself, and they need to navigate to the school rooftop to finish the journey.

Because of this, they might witness things they didn't during the actual party -- for example, Maya might walk in on Akira and Molly, but they're not actually travelling through time. This is all just reset fuckery.

 

[aramaug]

Spoiler: 0.45 Preview

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You know what door she's standing right outside.

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I had a feeling the boxes would come up in 0.45 with how often characters have referenced them in the last few updates, especially telling New Maya about them. Maybe they'll contain something that will help the RAS return to the main timeline?

Spoiler: Question

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Well that's blindingly obvious in retrospect.

Even if we ignore the Noriko thing, the timeline doesn't work. In "Kyoto" Niki says that Akira has been turning down sex for over a year.

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(And that's odd for a second reason, as Niki has implied she was the one who didn't want to have sex when they were younger.)
But Niki and Akira only dated for five years before the accident.

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The accident happened in September or October 2012. With generous rounding maybe they started dating around the start of 2007. Ami was born in August 2005. So unless they were doing "hand stuff" for years before dating, Kyoto has to take place well after Ami was born.

Also, check out Akira's shadow here. That's his adult hair, though maybe it's supposed to be an older teen model that we haven't seen yet.

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A couple other weird things I noticed on rewatch:
Sekai is literally driving past the Windows XP wallpaper

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At the train station, the faceless bystanders aren't the usual Koikatsu silhouettes. Instead they look an awful lot like an army of Kenjis.

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So this could all be a Selebus slip-up, but until he acknowledges it or fixes it in a future update I'm going to assume that it's intentional. Here are the possible explanations I see:

• It's a second pregnancy. I agree this one is unlikely because Sekai would have brought Ami or at least explained why she wasn't there.
• "Kyoto" is fake or from an alternate timeline. I think I lean toward this one because of the other weird stuff.
• Akira's history with the Nakayamas is fake.
• Ami is fake.

Kyoto takes place roughly a year before Ami was born, which would make Akira around 12, and Niki around 10. Nevermind that a 12 and a 10 year old are having 69s before even becoming boyfriend/girlfriend.

Niki was born in March 1991 (she's 29) and Ami was born in August 2005 (she was seven when the accident happened). Niki would have been 13 when Ami was conceived and 14 when she was born.