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

[Squalicorax]

By the time Noriko showed up, Maya Prime wasn't trying to do anything to change things, and wasn't that attached to Current Sensei just yet.

It wouldn't be until her Bday towards the end of Chapter 2, that she seemed to really start opening up to him and that's because Noriko helped Sensei get a memory back, right before that.

I also doubt Maya actually saw Noriko as that much of a threat to Sensei, anyway. She just has complex feelings when it comes to Noriko, and was scared since Noriko and most of floor 2 were all unknown variables to her.

Killing them could also have had consequences for Maya. Since she got the Scarf in Chapter 1, Maya no longer knew what the timeline had in store for her.

The event where she's so desperate to keep sensei around she tries to fuck him back to sanity (A Place That Can Only Exist In Our Minds) comes before Record Breaker, the event where she asks to kill Noriko and accepts when Sensei tells her not to.
That aside, the contents of record breaker also include Maya telling Sensei she wants him to make it to the reset, to value his existence, and outright stating she's pretty sure he's the original Sensei. I feel fairly confident in saying she had already began to significantly care about this iteration by this point, she was just much more guarded (and slightly tsun about it, considering some of her lines in record breaker lol)

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[Angra Shadow]

This update was so underwhelming in so many ways.

 

[wifebeatingtutorials]

This update was so underwhelming in so many ways.

UM! NUH-UH!!

 

[Sirfappington123]

The "Bucket, Bucket, lovely old bucket" event is a good uncle one right?

 

[DeSkel15]

The event where she's so desperate to keep sensei around she tries to fuck him back to sanity (A Place That Can Only Exist In Our Minds) comes before Record Breaker, the event where she asks to kill Noriko and accepts when Sensei tells her not to.
That aside, the contents of record breaker also include Maya telling Sensei she wants him to make it to the reset, to value his existence, and outright stating she's pretty sure he's the original Sensei. I feel fairly confident in saying she had already began to significantly care about this iteration by this point, she was just much more guarded (and slightly tsun about it, considering some of her lines in record breaker lol)

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Maya was desperate to stop Sensei from dying right in front of her, after nearly breaking him, but that's not quite the same as laying her head on his shoulder on her bday towards the end of Chapter 2:

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Or almost risking everything to kiss him, like in Chapter 3:

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She didn't want Current Sensei to die, sure, but she still had a ways to go before she'd reach the level she did.

On the other hand, Maya had wanted Noriko gone since the 'What Could Have Been' Chapter 2 Main Event, where she had her outburst:

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Which was about 4 updates, before 'Record Breaker'.

Maya wanting to get rid of Noriko also isn't something new. Noriko didn't seem to think Maya's opinion of her changed much from apparently their tutoring days, after Maya's outburst:

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It's probably why Sensei just considers it a grudge in 'Record Breaker':

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[DeSkel15]

The "Bucket, Bucket, lovely old bucket" event is a good uncle one right?

If you mean the Wonderful Bucket, with Long Maya and Moyo, then that's in the Happy Event 'Second Sun':

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Non-missable. Ami does apparently have a bucket for Sensei... but it's not for semen..

 

[NearBlueX]

still hoping someone drop some updated care packages here hehe (also are thee no one conna compress this game just asking.)

 

[manjak8]

still hoping someone drop some updated care packages here hehe (also are thee no one conna compress this game just asking.)

no need to compress, best way to show people size of game, without explaining anything

 

[Kagitane]

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[ccxvidonaferens]

still hoping someone drop some updated care packages here hehe (also are thee no one conna compress this game just asking.)

Going by the non-subscriber section of the discord there hasn't been a care package since August. They are going to be less frequent from now on but I haven't spotted a release schedule for the next one. That's not to say there isn't one, I just haven't seen one.

 

[Sirfappington123]

If you mean the Wonderful Bucket, with Long Maya and Moyo, then that's in the Happy Event 'Second Sun':

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Non-missable. Ami does apparently have a bucket for Sensei... but it's not for semen..

Second to last Ami event, so i'm guessing it's good uncle specific. Unless i missed something in this update but everything occurred automatically afaik.

 

[JelF547]

Going by the non-subscriber section of the discord there hasn't been a care package since August. They are going to be less frequent from now on but I haven't spotted a release schedule for the next one. That's not to say there isn't one, I just haven't seen one.

Current schedule: 2024Q1, 2024Q2, 2024Q3 etc. I assume we would have first one in the begining of March

 

[barglenarglezous]

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Second to last Ami event, so i'm guessing it's good uncle specific. Unless i missed something in this update but everything occurred automatically afaik.

Yes, the Horny Uncle version of the scene is The Caretaker, so that appears to be the Chaste Uncle name for it.

(not using good/bad uncle because "good" is relative in this scenario).

Sigh

I see what I did there.
Pun not intended.

 

[JelF547]

Second to last Ami event, so i'm guessing it's good uncle specific. Unless i missed something in this update but everything occurred automatically afaik.

How do you good uncle if you completed Family Matters?

 

[Squalicorax]

Maya was desperate to stop Sensei from dying right in front of her, after nearly breaking him, but that's not quite the same as laying her head on his shoulder on her bday towards the end of Chapter 2:

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Or almost risking everything to kiss him, like in Chapter 3:

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She didn't want Current Sensei to die, sure, but she still had a ways to go before she'd reach the level she did.

On the other hand, Maya had wanted Noriko gone since the 'What Could Have Been' Chapter 2 Main Event, where she had her outburst:

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Which was about 4 updates, before 'Record Breaker'.

Maya wanting to get rid of Noriko also isn't something new. Noriko didn't seem to think Maya's opinion of her changed much from apparently their tutoring days, after Maya's outburst:

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It's probably why Sensei just considers it a grudge in 'Record Breaker':

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I don't think any of this really contradicts anything I've said honestly. I feel like whether she's more attached to him more later on is pretty immaterial in the face of my point that she's clearly capable of going to desperate measures for to keep this iteration of Sensei, and killing Noriko is, on a mechanical level, a much less risky strategy than the thing she knows can mind nuke him, which implies to me she either doesn't kill unless she feel she absolutely has to, or she trusts and respects sensei's decisions which... lol. lmao even. Girl doesn't even trust her own decisions, let alone someone she thinks she knows better than.

 

[Detective Dc345]

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[Detective Dc345]

Going by the non-subscriber section of the discord there hasn't been a care package since August. They are going to be less frequent from now on but I haven't spotted a release schedule for the next one. That's not to say there isn't one, I just haven't seen one.

Sel mentioned not to long ago that the *insert month* care package(I forgot which month it was supposed to come out) has been half complete for a while now but he hasnt had the time to finish it

 

[fdsasdf_p]

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I got distracted by the wrong reason

 

[Squalicorax]

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well fuck. I was thinking to myself "man I miss Yumi" and the mokey's paw fucking curled, dinnit? This is such a bleak fucking sentence to say, but I hope Yuki just relapsed and Yumi didn't start using.

 

[Sorabell]

Personally? I think she knows everything. Almost literally.

Spoiler: "help you carry stuff"

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I was thinking about this "help you carry stuff" - is it her implying she knows what's going on in general between them as well as the particular activity of her making Akira literally carry some stuff to the school on multiple occasions? it feels like her way of saying "Yeah, I know everything" without actually saying it and instead alluding to a particular detail of said "everything". not to hide her knowledge, but to make her words more impactful and hurt her as deep as she can. in retrospect, it feels as if she knew Maya was a goner at that point. like Ami was full of her bullshit and either pulled a plug herself or just was aware that this is happening and thus there was no need for Ami to play around with her anymore. and she was kinda relieved to finally be able to say stuff and hurt her in this way, shoving it to her in her face...
Maya definitely felt something was very wrong with this reset and probably figured out already that her situation didn't look promising. maybe she even was in the process of realizing something about Ami as well. of course she already knew they fucked each other. it seems that she was understanding something else. not just being sad/jealous - it was nothing she did not know or seen or felt probably a thousand times already. so it is probably something new, probably related to Ami. almost like her realizing Ami played her and Ami won and now it is the end for her, for Maya. and she just sitting there reflecting on how she got to this point.
p.s. I wrote a lot more than I was going to, ops. and it is most likely me overthinking or missing something - I am new to this deeper part of the game (lore, gods and stuff). that was just an attempt to describe my personal feelings from that scene - "what if" kinda stuff. not that I think it really is true or canon

Spoiler: the level of overthinking in this post:

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upd. also even Akira (or was it one of the narrators again?) is probably getting it, that Maya's done...

Spoiler: I did all I could

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