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

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Duskreyn

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Bingoogus said:
I dunno if it's been said before but is there not a great deal of visual similarity between these two?
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I reckon they're the same thing.
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yeah, they are the same, I imagine that is why they are put together in the explanation, and someone else would have put them here in the past, I don't remember if it was also explained here that is why in the Noriko event where everything that we already know with Ami happens, you invoke that being, like this that this being is very, very connected to Ami in ways that we still do not fully know.

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Thank goodness i had a save nearby because that is not in replay that creature makes an ugly screech, also possibly that was what sensei/akira in his paranoia said was chasing him in all the last events before the reset.
 
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Apollo259 said:
Here is the text from the cursive Letter "in Miserably Ever After" (you can read the stuff under the circle if you zoom in):
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I think someone already said it but it definitely seems like Maya wrote it.

Another thing of interest about it. At the end of the event, the screen flashes alternating between the image of the Letter and the image that says "From the desk of the ninth god". And there is also the image from "Not the Nightingale" that shows an image of Maya as Chapter 9. I think that's probably not a coincidence. I'm not sure what it would mean though.
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Just to add to this, It seems like Noriko has a secret message that might be related to the Bluehole note, but my eyes suck, so if anyone else wants to take a crack at it, here:
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All I can make out are really "soul" and "And so she told her"
 
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There is also this in the Yumi event before The Old One looking Ami thing shows up.
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and something else about an "a" from a different event but I don't remember what one.
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Apollo259 said:
There is also this in the Yumi event before The Old One looking Ami thing shows up.
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and something else about an "a" from a different event but I don't remember what one.
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The 'Untitled' Main Event is where that "key is an unknown a" thing comes from.
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What the fuck is that
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Some Maya thing that showed up behind Sensei in Yasu's 'Frankincense and Myrrh' Event.
 
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DeSkel15 said:
Just to add to this, It seems like Noriko has a secret message that might be related to the Bluehole note, but my eyes suck, so if anyone else wants to take a crack at it, here:
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All I can make out are really "soul" and "And so she told her"
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the stuff in the background says "I CAN'T SEE, MY SOUL," I might be seeing things with the comas but I think they are there.

so its something like:

YOUR SUNKEN BELLY
IS THE DAILY CUP
OF MILK I DRANK
AS A BOY BEFORE MORNING PRAYER

AND SO SHE TOLD HER

I CAN'T SEE, MY SOUL,

Or rearrange the block till it fits better. Not sure if that's the intended order.

Edit: Here is how to read it more easily.
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I don't know if it has any special meaning but there are 5 times I can't see my soul, and the 5 souls exactly fall into noriko. up to almost her neck.
 
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Pedro4545454 said:
That was totally Maya who wrote it.

Her asking Akira not to look for her and for him to be nice to New Maya hurt nice in my chest in a way that I didn't expect it to hurt.......I'm just feeling pain now.
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i almost cried with this letter, i don't think i'll ever really get over maya's death
 
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It's curious that this update is shorter than the average for the last year or so ("only" 50k words) and also seems longer / more padded out / more tiresome to many of us here. As some have mentioned, I am also highly confident that Selebus ran out of time for his planned material and, considering the release date more important than the result, constructed this update from what he could throw together before the year-end deadline.

I was happy with the developments this time around despite that, but I hope we'll have a return to form next month with a somewhat higher signal-to-noise ratio. I like the theory that the event Times New Roman is playing out in Akira's head as he languishes. Also hoping he is saved from his catatonic state by Ayane, though I think it's possible that he remains lost in his head for the entire chapter. I'm morbidly intrigued by the prospect of his becoming "The Collector".

On another note, the unused track 'fallishere.mp3' goes extraordinarily hard.
 
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I know I'm being stupid here because there's a high chance it's already been explained and I've forgotten what it would mean for Akira to become a collector? If someone can explain it to me I would be very happy
 
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Pedro4545454 said:
I know I'm being stupid here because there's a high chance it's already been explained and I've forgotten what it would mean for Akira to become a collector? If someone can explain it to me I would be very happy
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It's part of Pareidolia's monologue directed at Akira at the beginning of the update (also the title of the first event in Chapter 4). My assumption is that becoming The Collector means Akira caring a lot less about love, and being a lot quicker to take the virginity of every girl in his class. By my count, he's still got twelve of them left!

The god / trinity that seems to speak to him throughout wants him to "[finish] the collection". One of my favorite lines from the update: "Who’s going to want to fuck you if all you can do is sit there and feel sorry for yourself? Because I’ll be damned if you turn my chapter into some sappy, abstinent romp through an ocean of your tears."

If he goes collecting, we may well see even less emotion out of him, and a lot more fucking. I think that him becoming mobile, but remaining exceptionally broken, might support such a change. Kind of doubt he'll really ever do what these gods demand, though.
 
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Hey, I just finished the last update and realized I messed up the chika ayane threesome from a while back and missed two scenes. I really don't want to replay from way back then. Those stupid reset events were a pain the first time, I'd rather not have to do it again.
I downloaded the URM thing and followed a guide on here that said it would help, but I couldn't seem to make it work. I only play on mobile with joiplay, so I might be making it harder than I should, I don't know.
I've also tried editing with the online save editor and ayanecthree wasn't present to make true, yumicthree was. I don't know how to change it so, I'm throwing in the towel.
Does anyone have a save file that has everything unlocked? Thank you.
 
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Pedro4545454 said:
I know I'm being stupid here because there's a high chance it's already been explained and I've forgotten what it would mean for Akira to become a collector? If someone can explain it to me I would be very happy
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It's not entirely clear, but considering Pareidolia wants this, and is unfeeling, it's likely Collector Sensei will be the embodiment of the worst parts of Sensei:
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Sensei's morality and limitations will likely go out the window, then get torn to shreds like Sekai.

Pareidolia also implies he'll follow more in presumably Sekai's footsteps:
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Overall: Collector Sensei will probably be more inclined to rape and abuse, and no girl will be safe.

Of course, that's just a theory. We won't actually know, until it happens, which seems implied to be after he's moved on from Maya, and probably submitted completely to Pareidolia.
 
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I thought we might have skipped the mopey, woe is me, not giving a fuck about everyone Sensei with him being stuck in the room. But maybe not.
It might be more annoying than dark if we end up watching him both literally and figuratively fuck everyone and everything for multiple updates because he is too sad about Maya.
 
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DeSkel15 said:
It's not entirely clear, but considering Pareidolia wants this, and is unfeeling, it's likely Collector Sensei will be the embodiment of the worst parts of Sensei:
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Sensei's morality and limitations will likely go out the window, then get torn to shreds like Sekai.

Pareidolia also implies he'll follow more in presumably Sekai's footsteps:
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Overall: Collector Sensei will probably be more inclined to rape and abuse, and no girl will be safe.

Of course, that's just a theory. We won't actually know, until it happens, which seems implied to be after he's moved on from Maya, and probably submitted completely to Pareidolia.
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In short, would the Akira collector be the completely broken side of him and completely insensitive and following in Sekai's footsteps? because if so I think it will destroy me a lot. (Of course it will take something much worse to make me stop playing but it will still leave me quite depressed)
 
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