For all you peeps that have seen the care packages,are they worth it? Cause ive been thinking of checking them out but going through the hoops of disabling DRM sounds like a pain
As i implied, they do hold some story relevant info.
Not as in x is y or something, but by the commentaries, you are at least able to exclude some things.
Thats what i got from looking into about three of them.
They do hold something like a: from Uta: Into Sensei love tier list or something that people got wild about?
Besides, for others, did they have wizardry stuff in them?
All i remember is the fallout that led to Sel's excommunication here.
Don't bother installing them and risk dealing with the DRM, 95% of what little value they hold can be viewed out of the game by just exploring the unzipped folder/s.
They don't know his name right? Am I forgetting something or is this an error? Some kind of world change thing that happened during the weird beach event?
I think Imani may have heard Niki use his name when they were first introduced or when she was getting her back blown out for 5 hours straight. As for Rika I have no clue how she knows Sensei's name. Rika wasn't around when Otoha blurted it out to Nodoka. So i guess this can be chalked up to be a continuity error.
I had nothing against him doing the care packages, that said, DRM aside.
It was an ok decision to honor his patrons in a business way of thinking.
But him crawling on his knees and begging for moony, for the bonus anims, which are kinda bland, if not stock, feels like he tanked at the stock market or something worse and needs the money.
Nah, he just got used to living on $10k a month income in 2020-2021, but unfortunately, that same $10k in 2024 buys a hell of a lot less of just about everything.
I'm leaning this way too, that they just naturally found out through talking with the rest of their group. That being said, people learning his real name has always been a bit of an important moment in their interactions with him, so this feels a bit cheap..
I agree. I don't mind this particular development that much but this surely is diluting the initial impact we had when the name was first revealed, but I guess that impact slowly died down anyway when he started dishing his name out.
And it feels even more sloppy when that Rika event starts with:
meanwhile some chaotic hot MILF also knows your name unannounced, just btw.
If true what a huge let down. When Akira and Wakana had dinner back in Ch3, I at the time thought it was a great opportunity for him to tell her and was really bummed it didn't happen. And now for it to just be causally known, lame. I bet Sel would say its obvious Wakana found it out during her research. I wonder why she still calls him Arakawa?
I bet Wakana always knows but I can't say for certain. But no matter when she knew, Wakana sticks to Arakawa possibly because of 1) work ethics, 2) no real reason to be on the first-name basis with him, and 3) the continuation of his initial "bad joke" of asking her to also call him Sensei back in Ch2. Besides, I think Wakana still referring to him as just Arakawa is...kinda cute in her own way.
I agree. I don't mind this particular development that much but this surely is diluting the initial impact we had when the name was first revealed, but I guess that impact slowly died down when he started dishing his name out.
And it feels even more sloppy when that Rika event starts with: View attachment 3982921
meanwhile some chaotic hot MILF also knows your name unannounced, just btw.
I bet Wakana always knows but I can't say for certain. But no matter when she knew, Wakana sticks to Arakawa possibly because of 1) work ethics, 2) no real reason to be on the first-name basis with him, and 3) the continuation his initial "bad joke" of asking her to also call him Sensei back in Ch2. Besides, I think Wakana keeps referring to him as just Arakawa is...kinda cute in her own way.
On the wakana thing.Can it be that Wakan has done the mental gymnastics that Sekai called him Akira or anything connected with it so she calls him Arakawa to avoid accidentaly stepping on a mine? Shes smart enough to know and kind enough to do so imo
On the wakana thing.Can it be that Wakan has done the mental gymnastics that Sekai called him Akira or anything connected with it so she calls him Arakawa to avoid accidentaly stepping on a mine? Shes smart enough to know and kind enough to do so imo
Less likely. Wakana wouldn't be able to figure out that calling him certain names is one of THE ways that can temporarily break him just by reading Sekai's poems (if anything, I'd instead avoid calling him Arakawa with this logic since that is the shared last name among him and his abuser).
Even if avoiding say the name Akira in front of him was her agenda, Wakana would surely instruct Osako to do the same as well, but that apparently wasn't the case according to the whole foursome arc.
tbh I wonder what his total income is when you factor in the annual pass stuff and merch
i guess it always feels weird to see ppl asking for money but the dev is in a sort of position where unless he does exactly that, he'll just end up slowly losing money (if not due to subscriber loss, then due to inflation - this dude does not get any annual raises or refreshers)
also wonder how many subscribers he could have obtained if he:
1) didn't piss off f95
2) didn't rework the intro sequence to be so damn off-putting: the Ami scene is just way too in-your-face imo. from what I remember of playing the original, it was a mystery that slowly builds up to that
3) listened to community feedback about ppl disliking the gameplay and puzzles: i think he views them as essential for immersion or something? either way, it seems like there's a near-unanimous consensus on them being shit
4) increased the quality of sexual content instead of dropping animations - for instance, he could integrate animations in the game itself instead of only having them in the repeatable events. i think the majority of ppl that find this game organically are looking for porn so it makes sense to cater to that
5) capped the word count to like 30-40k per update (~1.5-2 hours of content) and focused on making it tighter/more focused
Sel would make bank off of merch alone if he was smart with it and updated the merch store of course. But he also kind of shot himself in the foot since LiL doesn't really have any licensed products. He can't sell vinyls because he uses unlicensed music and I don't know if he would be able to sell anything with the casts faces on it since they are technically Illusion's assets. Sel has mentioned wanting to do stuff like hoodies, mousepads, body pillows, physical stickers, and a poetry book of the poems from the game. But if he were able to start selling official Lessons in Love body pillows for like $80 dollars I know there would be a line of horny degenerates throwing money at him for a chance to cut a hole in a body pillow of their favorite girl. Also the merch store is just bland with just the smile shirt, the shirt that says shirt on it and the Maya shirt. No hoodies, no jackets, no swag, no drip, no nothing its just bland. Sel is a good writer but his marketing is cheeks.
tbh I wonder what his total income is when you factor in the annual pass stuff and merch
i guess it always feels weird to see ppl asking for money but the dev is in a sort of position where unless he does exactly that, he'll just end up slowly losing money (if not due to subscriber loss, then due to inflation - this dude does not get any annual raises or refreshers)
also wonder how many subscribers he could have obtained if he:
1) didn't piss off f95
2) didn't rework the intro sequence to be so damn off-putting: the Ami scene is just way too in-your-face imo. from what I remember of playing the original, it was a mystery that slowly builds up to that
3) listened to community feedback about ppl disliking the gameplay and puzzles: i think he views them as essential for immersion or something? either way, it seems like there's a near-unanimous consensus on them being shit
4) increased the quality of sexual content instead of dropping animations - for instance, he could integrate animations in the game itself instead of only having them in the repeatable events. i think the majority of ppl that find this game organically are looking for porn so it makes sense to cater to that
5) capped the word count to like 30-40k per update (~1.5-2 hours of content) and focused on making it tighter/more focused
2 through 5 will never happen, dude enjoys sucking his own dick too much. As for 1, he had nearly constant positive growth before he fucked with F95, sometimes slower than others but whatever he lost he soon made up for, after he went scorched earth he has struggled just to tread water, since the bonus animations became a thing he is barely growing at all, but there is some growth. It won't last though, i fully expect what growth he has seen has been from those who were already subscribed, ain't no one new who's subbing just to unlock the bonus animations so it's pretty obvious he's just squeezing a little more out of what he already has, there's still no real growth in sub count and it's all his own fault. Dude was too egotistical to realize what he 'lost' through piracy he more than made up for through advertisement and access to new potential subscribers.
I'm leaning this way too, that they just naturally found out through talking with the rest of their group. That being said, people learning his real name has always been a bit of an important moment in their interactions with him, so this feels a bit cheap..
It's a shame he's no longer here nor on good terms with any of the community because it would be nice to know if it was a minor mistake or intended. That being said, it would require Sel to acknowledge the fact he can make mistakes and I feel like his head has gotten a bit too big for that with his discord of sycophants. Shame.
For all you peeps that have seen the care packages,are they worth it? Cause ive been thinking of checking them out but going through the hoops of disabling DRM sounds like a pain
Pretty sure all you need to do is replace one file and that should do it. It worked for me, but I run the game under linux, so that might be what saved me. If you diff the file with the one youll be replacing it with, youll se that it just removes this:
I agree. I don't mind this particular development that much but this surely is diluting the initial impact we had when the name was first revealed, but I guess that impact slowly died down anyway when he started dishing his name out.
And it feels even more sloppy when that Rika event starts with: View attachment 3982921
meanwhile some chaotic hot MILF also knows your name unannounced, just btw.
I bet Wakana always knows but I can't say for certain. But no matter when she knew, Wakana sticks to Arakawa possibly because of 1) work ethics, 2) no real reason to be on the first-name basis with him, and 3) the continuation of his initial "bad joke" of asking her to also call him Sensei back in Ch2. Besides, I think Wakana still referring to him as just Arakawa is...kinda cute in her own way.
I'm on the camp that finds it cute Wakana calls him Arakawa. I see it as her holding him to a higher standard. "You're not some dude, you're a teacher, Arakawa Sensei". It falls into her constant berating him for not doing his job correctly.
Obviously it's more of a habit at this point than an actual effort to change him. It could also be a mix of a surname serving as a nickname sort of. There are many cases of that in real life, where even if you're close friends with someone, you'll call them by their last name. Lastly and ironically, I think Wakana is the only one that calls him Arakawa - which makes it, again ironically, a sort of exclusive pet name between them.
The more i think about Naos words the more it starts making some sense.
My thought process goes as follows.If in fact Sensei is not the protagonist of this story and is just a stepping stone for the girls that means that each girl NEEDS to have some sort of connection with whatever the fuck is going on in Kumon-mi(Supernatural wise i mean).
And since we are only in the beginning of the game(funny i know) i believe that if this is true each girl will start being inolved in a different way.Let us take a look at what we already have though.
1)Makoto is a part of the RAS group
2)Ayane is part of the RAS group AND is himawaris mother(Theory thats wildly accepted as truth)
3)Yumi for some reason is very important(Heavy implications but we do not know the hows and they whys yet)
4)Ami is intimately connected with Sekai
5)Sana is pareidolias new proxy
6)Yasu is hopes acolyte(Or is priestess more apt?)
7)Nodoka is coonected with NiB and is actively trying to find out the truth(Or is it more accurate to say shiori is?)
8)Futaba is now part of the symposium
9)Maya(Dont think i need to explain this one)
10)Tsuneyo(Not only is she able to recall faintly memories from past cycles but her father is intimately connected with wires
11)Kaori(Dont think i need to explain this)
12)Nao-chan(same as 11)
13)Sara seems to have experience with our blackouts.Im not sure if this is a nod that something supernatural also happened to her or its just a ptsd thing(I wont talk about the nozumo theories because i think they are too stech-y for my taste)
So these are the girls that we are sure that they are involved in supernatural fuckery.Now if what Nao said is true and my theory holds water then as we march foward each girl will,in one way or another connect with the supernatural and have an active role in all of this.
Sana's event should be interesting since we're probably going to see her directly interact with Pareidolia for the first time. Is he going to talk to her as himself? As "her brother" (we might even get a model for him if he appears to her like Sekai does for Akira)? Or does the event's subtitle ("Two-Headed Horse") refer to the Emissary of Pegasus and he's going to pretend to be HOPE like he did for Yasu?
Based on her previews, she might not end up in the school for her TSS, but it will be interesting if she does. Noriko and Futaba were there as unwelcome guests, but Sana would probably be invited by Pareidolia. Will he let her find out about Maya Prime?
I'm also looking forward to Tsubasa's events because I have no idea what to expect from them. Unless there are previews I missed, we only got one image for the two of her events and it showed essentially nothing. I hope that means something consequential is going to happen that Sel didn't want to reveal beforehand.
I'm hoping we get some reactions from other characters about Niki moving in (especially poor Sara), but given the way Sel handles new subplots I'm worried nobody will find out until sometime after the reset.
Of all the scenes I would like to have seen, Rika finding out that his name is Akira would be pretty much at the bottom of the list. I think we can safely assume that one of the other members of their group referred to him as Akira at some point offscreen.
I mean, there is the old theory about white rabbits being associated with Sekai. Or rather, Sekai Shiawase. If that was the case, it would make Sekai a part of the simulation characters (characters with alliterative names).
aramaug pointed out that the Shiawase group was also a part of the Pareidolia Mall sequence, but that is the event I hate the most in this game, so I'm not going back just for that.
Edit: Shiawase can literally mean happiness, and given that Sekai experienced trauma in her home enough to despise her surname, it would make sense that her surname meant happiness. She dropped it and chose instead the title "the girl who cannot breathe" in opposition to the forced veneer of happiness thrust upon her (that made her unable to breathe).
It would also fit with her pursuit of trying everything to be happy and never achieving it before Akira, it would literally be in her name.
At the very least the Shiawase group seems to be in charge of the simulation, after all, it fits that the "Happiness group" would have the slogan "remember to smile".
I mean, there is the old theory about white rabbits being associated with Sekai. Or rather, Sekai Shiawase. If that was the case, it would make Sekai a part of the simulation characters (characters with alliterative names).
aramaug pointed out that the Shiawase group was also a part of the Pareidolia Mall sequence, but that is the event I hate the most in this game, so I'm not going back just for that.
Edit: Shiawase can literally mean happiness, and given that Sekai experienced trauma in her home enough to despise her surname, it would make sense that her surname meant happiness. She dropped it and chose instead the title "the girl who cannot breathe" in opposition to the forced veneer of happiness thrust upon her (that made her unable to breathe).
It would also fit with her pursuit of trying everything to be happy and never achieving it before Akira, it would literally be in her name.
At the very least the Shiawase group seems to be in charge of the simulation, after all, it fits that the "Happiness group" would have the slogan "remember to smile".
On the topic of Sekais surname being Shiawase.We know that her relationship with her parents was so bad that not only did she completely cut them off but she abandoned her original surname and took on the Arakawa surname.In trying to support Moonflares theory i ask myself one simple question.We know that toukas family are the most powerful in Kumon-mi and that Ayames is a close second but have we ever seen even a mention of a third family? I mean the Tsumiokas(Was that their name?) and Ayanes family are a force to be reckoned with and weve seen mentions of their prestige multiple times but,to my knowledge there has been NO mention of a "Shiawase" group.
Now this can mean a couple of things.
1)Im retarded and ive missed mentions of such group
2)Moonflares theory is false
3)(The actual fun option)Sekai was the heir to the Shiawase group.Due to trauma and an overbearing enviroment(We can draw pararells with Toukas family and how she is treated as the heir,especially since she is a woman) Sekai decided to completely cut them off.The family,now without a heir collapsed and the other 2 families consumed the remains.
On the topic of Sekais surname being Shiawase.We know that her relationship with her parents was so bad that not only did she completely cut them off but she abandoned her original surname and took on the Arakawa surname.In trying to support Moonflares theory i ask myself one simple question.We know that toukas family are the most powerful in Kumon-mi and that Ayames is a close second but have we ever seen even a mention of a third family? I mean the Tsumiokas(Was that their name?) and Ayanes family are a force to be reckoned with and weve seen mentions of their prestige multiple times but,to my knowledge there has been NO mention of a "Shiawase" group.
Now this can mean a couple of things.
1)Im retarded and ive missed mentions of such group
2)Moonflares theory is false
3)(The actual fun option)Sekai was the heir to the Shiawase group.Due to trauma and an overbearing enviroment(We can draw pararells with Toukas family and how she is treated as the heir,especially since she is a woman) Sekai decided to completely cut them off.The family,now without a heir collapsed and the other 2 families consumed the remains.
In Japan there's only one surname so she'd have abandoned her original surname regardless. The thing about her surname comes from Karin's father saying that she refused to be called by her surname during her highschool days.
The Amamiya and Tsukioka families are emergent families, getting most of their money from the bubblewrap business (which is recent). The Amamiya family stagnated, while the Tsukioka family spread out to other enterprises. Bubblewrap by itself seems more like a joke than anything else, and might very well be a bogus event that only exists inside the simulation, same as the space war.
Following that logic, the Shiawase group might be a powerful family that is real (opposed to the Amamiya and Tsukioka's fake existence), and it exists outside the simulation (not being mentioned inside the simulation, since it's outside of it), and yet blending in their fingerprints (their banners are everywhere with remember to smile, and entities also use their slogans - also not discounting that there is a workplace, employees and, well, all these people have to be working for some group).
