Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.53.0] [Selebus]

[D4NT4R1UM]

i actually do have a question

All of the answers for this quiz are obtainable if you "pay enough attention" to the scenes in the update, with the exception of the ramen and water questions, which i assume was during the first time we went to Tsuneyo's shop and Yumi's room respectively

but where was the "cute puppies" answer supposed to be?

Ps: I did not want to know that much about coffee, but it was interesting at least

 

[worthlesspeon]

idk man, taking away the income might make him just stop producing the game lol. yall are in this forum so you must've played the game or enjoyed it, and want more updates. is it just spite or smth that makes you wanna fuck him over? like i get he's a dick but this is really going overboard.

To be honest I don't actually care if the game continues or not. I play it when it leaks, and it can be mildly entertaining to speculate where it goes, but I have no expectations that the game will ever reach a conclusion. If it stops being made, I won't lose any sleep.

 

[barglenarglezous]

So, Sel decided to bomb the water stream because of a boulder in it? With atomic bomb?
I mean, even risking inconviniency for his patrons Oo
And f95 was pretty much one of the main sources of new blood, no?
Damn, I hope the lasting consequences of this will not hurt his productivity much.

People from here have been trolling him for months with the speed of the leaks, and a lot of commentary here about doing things specifically to piss him off.

He trolled us back.

I'm pretty sure he knew it would only take at most a day to crack the code, and no permanent harm was done (because he also knows that save sharing happens in abundance here)

 

[fdsasdf_p]

i actually do have a question

All of the answers for this quiz are obtainable if you "pay enough attention" to the scenes in the update, with the exception of the ramen and water questions, which i assume was during the first time we went to Tsuneyo's shop and Yumi's room respectively

but where was the "cute puppies" answer supposed to be?

Ps: I did not want to know that much about coffee, but it was interesting at least

The last scene of Lamb Legs, look for the bottom left. I feel like that room appeared somewhere else as well but I can’t recall.

 

[barglenarglezous]

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The last scene of Lamb Legs, look for the bottom left. I feel like that room appeared somewhere else as well but I can’t recall.

I want to say it was in Life of Prizes briefly as well, but might be wrong (not repeating that any time soon to check)

 

[Vizer007]

People from here have been trolling him for months with the speed of the leaks, and a lot of commentary here about doing things specifically to piss him off.

He trolled us back.

I'm pretty sure he knew it would only take at most a day to crack the code, and no permanent harm was done (because he also knows that save sharing happens in abundance here)

Nah, thats a given, I just say that if even 1 current or potential subscriber got caught in this - it's not worth it. But seeing that it's not even appear in the latest updates now - not worth it at all.

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

Ok i added the new reset answers to this:
Thank you Wardtnaci for the formating, and butterfly boy for the 6th reset answers

 

[fdsasdf_p]

My chicken brain finally figured out where that intense deja vu came from when going over how Sekai slurped Sensei. I guess it doesn't have to have additional meaning, but bad deeds do propagate I suppose even though you were a victim to those.

The handjob on sofa resembles Ami's sick day event, but that was at least wholesome.
Also only now I came to realize which Ami's favorite blanket was

 

[Bingoogus]

My chicken brain finally figured out where that intense deja vu came from when going over how Sekai slurped Sensei. I guess it doesn't have to have additional meaning, but bad deeds do propagate I suppose even though you were a victim to those.

Now that's some sweet sleuthing right there bro. Props to you.

Also only now I came to realize which Ami's favorite blanket was

Eh?

 

[ElukiaTV]

My chicken brain finally figured out where that intense deja vu came from when going over how Sekai slurped Sensei. I guess it doesn't have to have additional meaning, but bad deeds do propagate I suppose even though you were a victim to those.

The handjob on sofa resembles Ami's sick day event, but that was at least wholesome.
Also only now I came to realize which Ami's favorite blanket was

Yeah.. this one is not a coincidence at all..
Maybe Sekai is the one in "control" each time Sensei does something like this... same with the Molly scene.

 

[fdsasdf_p]

Now that's some sweet sleuthing right there bro. Props to you.

Eh?

I am talking about this blanket; it's very very minor and of no importance to be sure, but at the time I thought this was just some obscure running gag.

Yeah.. this one is not a coincidence at all..
Maybe Sekai is the one in "control" each time Sensei does something like this... same with the Molly scene.

Other scenes might be from other beings (like Molly one, USER2 wired you 1 million affection point to "procced" with the event), but this scene in particular is intriguing enough to consider the possibility of supernatural influence from Sekai;

or Sekai was also under control when she did it, idk.

 

[Bingoogus]

I feel like, at times, we might forget that parts of this game might be more like... interpretations of things not supernatural but more like hallucinations or altered mental states. Like, i'm more keen to lean on Sekai 'taking control' and making Akira kiss Yumi being less literal, Sekai is his abuser, his groomer, the ghost of his trauma, in a broken headcase like him, that situation with Yumi could cause flashbacks of his trauma and in that altered state, he'd just be on autopilot, copying what was done to him but to her. Like, i know with all the timelooping stuff there's got to be more to this than it turning out he's just a dude in a psychward dealing with his insanity, that'd be the lamest cop-out of an ending Selly could go for, but always assuming shit is exactly what it is on face value kind of strikes me as going too far the other way, some of the shit he does and goes through has got to be manifestations of his abuse trauma... replicating past experiences is beyond common in long term abuse victims, particularly those abused in their formative years, i myself enjoy getting physically hurt in the bedroom as a form of twisted and soothing replication of all the times my father beat the shit out of me growing up.

I suck at this theory stuff but sometimes i think sucking at it might offer some unique insight, sort of a situation of seeing the forest for the trees, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Is this one of those times?

 

[smuk]

stuck after reset... how do I start Niki or Otoha events? Does fingering Miku counts as one of two her new events?

 

[barglenarglezous]

replicating past experiences is beyond common in long term abuse victims, particularly those abused in their formative years, i myself enjoy getting physically hurt in the bedroom as a form of twisted and soothing replication of all the times my father beat the shit out of me growing up.

The cycle of abuse -- where someone who experiences abuse projects it forward because they haven't properly processed their past trauma and in the process becomes an abuser themselves, is a theme of the game. Sekai > Akira > Yumi (and others, in varying ways). Very likely Nozomu > Sekai as well.

Hell, a major factor in Yumi's treatment of Futaba stems from her abandonment, Kirin is largely a product of the neglect she experiences from her parents, etc. The abused becomes the abuser.

 

[fdsasdf_p]

I feel like, at times, we might forget that parts of this game might be more like... interpretations of things not supernatural but more like hallucinations or altered mental states. Like, i'm more keen to lean on Sekai 'taking control' and making Akira kiss Yumi being less literal, Sekai is his abuser, his groomer, the ghost of his trauma, in a broken headcase like him, that situation with Yumi could cause flashbacks of his trauma and in that altered state, he'd just be on autopilot, copying what was done to him but to her. Like, i know with all the timelooping stuff there's got to be more to this than it turning out he's just a dude in a psychward dealing with his insanity, that'd be the lamest cop-out of an ending Selly could go for, but always assuming shit is exactly what it is on face value kind of strikes me as going too far the other way, some of the shit he does and goes through has got to be manifestations of his abuse trauma... replicating past experiences is beyond common in long term abuse victims, particularly those abused in their formative years, i myself enjoy getting physically hurt in the bedroom as a form of twisted and soothing replication of all the times my father beat the shit out of me growing up.

I suck at this theory stuff but sometimes i think sucking at it might offer some unique insight, sort of a situation of seeing the forest for the trees, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Is this one of those times?

Completely agree. A lot of times I actually prefer thinking about what we “see” as a visualization of Sensei’s mental state due to his prior experience (in a way it’s like Silent Hill 2 where monsters symbolize MC’s whatever traits, more about mentality rather than scary). I think most of her presence can be explained this way.

The only few times I think Sekai is indeed a being and not hallucination of Sensei is when Yasu seems to “sense” her, acknowledging the rabbit doll floating because Sekai is holding it at the end of last update (and maybe how she creeps around the corner during this reset)

 

[darkparts]

even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What if the clock has no hands?

 

[worthlesspeon]

Yeah I mean it's no coincidence that the background and posing is identical (Sel probably just replaced the characters in the scene), but as for why -- could just be like you said, abusees often repeat the cycle.

At the same time, the game has established that there are higher beings that fuck with sensei for whatever reason, and many of the times when the "happy world" slips into the "real world" tend to be around Yumi.

Going back to the Abyss event where ?User3 talks to Sensei directly, it does make a little more sense now. He notes how Yumi (who is apparently known by a different name to it) looks scared just like Sensei always looked scared when he was with "the world" (Sekai) -- again drawing parallels between the Sekai/Sensei relationship and Sensei/Yumi relationship. Again whether that's just because Sensei is now the abuser or if there's some supernatural fuckiness, who knows.

 

[ZathuraVentura]

stuck after reset... how do I start Niki or Otoha events? Does fingering Miku counts as one of two her new events?

You need to do Niki's event first to unlock Otoha's.

To unlock everything you need to:
1- Call Niki in the morning.
2- Go to the second floor of the dorms during the night.
3- Go to the cafe during the morning and talk to Rin.

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

This talk about the gods acting through Akira Sensei, has got me thinking back on that scene where he froze up after kabedoning Wakana, she said she could see his real self in his eyes and was teasing him while he was frozen up while pinning her against the wall.

 

[Bingoogus]

Whilst it would be more applicable to go with the cycle of abuse line of thinking for this game, my actual example was not a cycle, i didn't pass on what dearest daddy did to me, i kept it with me and went inwards, the replication is, as i said, a twisted form of re-experiencing something that my abuser convinced me i deserved and intermingled it with sex as i went through puberty such that the two are stuck, tangled, and makes me feel like perhaps Akira repeating things on Yumi in an episode as being his way of mimicking the feeling he felt, that twisted way of "do the thing that someone who loves you does cause it feels nice, love me please". Like, i'm not saying at all that that is what happened, just that thinking about that got me wondering how much we all might take the blackouts a little too literally when juxtaposing them with the supernatural stuff... it's not that i think they're more traditional blackouts from a psychiatric perspective, just that they might be and we should keep that in mind, or more, you guys should, when doing your theory crafting, cause you're all so much better at it than me.