VN Ren'Py Light of My Life [Ch.9 v0.9.1] [Naughty Road]

[Deadlyreaper]

1. The MC was not only on the trip because he has a license but because he is the caretaker or father depending on your preference and all three share the same issue. Grief over the loss of a loved family member. All three take this trip to finally accept the loss and move on with their life. The entire Trip is for this exact purpose. It may have started for a different reason but as the story moves forward this is the goal all three try to achieve as the story unfolds.
There are only 2 ways a family will react to the loss of a family member in their time of grief.
Option A: They become more close because shared pain is less pain. The love and caring towards each other becomes more frequent and each member of the family starts with emotional support for one another.
Option B: They do the exact opposite. Get emotional distance and the tension is always high. A small issue can set of an emotional nuke inside someone which mostly ends up in figths and arguing. Alot of arguing.

The story starts at Option B. Everyone is distant in his own regard and handles the grief on their own. As the story moves on all three start to approach Option A. The entire journey of this game till chapter 5 is a family handling grief and how it influences each individualy and how they try to handle it on their own till they realize they can rely on each other for emotional support and share the grief to bond stronger and move forward. Together and stronger as ever.

Once this is achieved and everyone is open for that approach it is Denise that starts influencing both the MC and Macy to the idea of a more romantic and lust driven relationship between the three of them. This is the current point we are at.

2. The Lesbian scenes are maybe not to your taste but serve the purpose of Denise overcoming her shyness and having a better relationship with her always grumpy and many times aggressive sister. Macy on the other hand learns to be vulnerable and letting someone close, being intimate and share feelings once again. Under all that hate is a very fragile and hurt little girl that yells for help.
The lesbian scenes are not there for shits and giggles but actually serve a emotional bonding process when you get intimate with someone. It is no coincidence that both Denise and Macy once their share certain moments together become more and more open with stuff they want, stuff they talk about between each other and feelings they realize.
This also is a key element for Denise to push Macy towards a relationship that involves the MC while also destroying the emotional wall Macy has build in order for her to handle her grief.

3. Disabling it would mean you miss out of vital story informations like their relationship growing, Denise overcoming her shyness and Macy opening up and feeling vulnerable in the process letting someone this close. Which is also visualized in the scene where Denise unshackles the Beast Macy who thinks she doesn't deserve freedom or happiness despite in secret crying for help for the monster she has become when telling her mother "i hate you" the day she died. In her mind she deserves nothing good in her life.
Both Denise and Macy grow and bond in those Scenes because they share their feelings, thoughts and insecurities. This also again serves the purpose to move the story foward for a romantic relationship between the three.

4. If you had paid attention to the story you would know why this can not and will not be disabled. As i explained in Point 2 and 3 this serves as story element and character growth. The scenes may not be to your personal preference but the dialouge and writing in those scenes serve a purpose. To disable them would mean that the audience or players would miss very important information and fail to realize why certain actions move forward after it.

To explain this better lets compare it to something you probably know.

Assume this is the movie trilogy matrix. But since we do not like certain sex/romantic/intimate scenes we cut out the entire trinity arc in it. The character still exists but we simply cut out every bonding, romantic or sexual moment from all three movies. We would end up with the entire story making no sense any more because key elements would be missing. Since you are surely familiar with said movie i leave it to your imagination what happens to the movie, the story and the entire plot if you take those scenes and the dialouges in it out.

The trilogy would literally make no sense anymore. Normaly i would agree that some romantic/sex scenes in most movies or stories serve no purpose or sometimes leave a bad taste in the mouth of the audience who do not like such stuff.
But in this game or the matrix trilogy they are actually a plot element that holds the story together. If you take anything from that out the story doesn't work anymore and the entire plot falls apart.

And while you might not realize this it is actually pretty fucking hard to achieve such a plot element that becomes vital in the first place. Cause for something to become a vital plot element you need to be able to branch the entire story in a way that without it nothing works anymore.
Matrix is a prime example for this one as the love story appears to be a side story but is actually the driving force behind almost everything. Go rewatch the trilogy and you realize what i mean.

oh that is written something of fantastic and in summary that should really be read by everyone who has something to complain about in the story or parts of the story in order to understand what this fantastic game is about

you wrote "Denise that starts influencing both the MC and Macy to the idea of a more romantic and lust driven relationship between the three of them. This is the current point we are at." I would say that she was ispirated by the picture when she was with the MC in the exhibition and saw one picture

 

[Miðgarðsormr]

oh that is written something of fantastic and in summary that should really be read by everyone who has something to complain about in the story or parts of the story in order to understand what this fantastic game is about

you wrote "Denise that starts influencing both the MC and Macy to the idea of a more romantic and lust driven relationship between the three of them. This is the current point we are at." I would say that she was ispirated by the picture when she was with the MC in the exhibition and saw one picture

That one picture of Lot and his daughters will stick with us through alot of this game i assume. But since my MC bangs everything he can lay his hands on i will need alot bigger picture frame to get all my harem into a single one. Probably a Exhibition of his own.

 

[yoyomistro]

Well, I did think a little about it, and what I guess the most interesting way to go about it would be to persist the entire variable store (which is an object in ren'py, or rather, in the python engine it uses), perhaps filtered for system stuff and other irrelevant objects, and store that with the flag that unlocks the gallery entry.
Then we somehow unpack that when you select the entry in the gallery, and if you'd really wanna get crafty, refactor the scene in question so it can be called from both the story session and the gallery, and you don't need to maintain multiple copies.
Oh, and we'd need a way to reset the variables after watching the gallery scene or we might get funky stuff happening with the other gallery entries.

But to be honest, I have no idea if that's technically possible or evn practical without blowing the persistent save file up to monstrous sizes.

It's actually pretty doable, what most people do is setup some sort of persistent replay variable that is triggered whenever a scene is entered into from a replay meny/gallery type setup, and setup each variable to be a sort of if statement, so if not _in_replay: magicdicklove += 1000000.

Obviously, the variable would be on the next line with some sort of indent. There are more ways to do this, for example I think some titles only let you access the replay function from the title menu and do label calls. I think there are at least 3 ways to do it without completely rewriting your codebase and retrofitting your game to work with those methods is as simple as using find/replace functions with programs like WinMerge or some form of GREP, my favorite being

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Personally, I save like a madman but replays are convenient so I don't have to go back 40-70 pages (yes, pages) to find a scene.

I think the original poster was kicked out of here and the post was taken down (or maybe he did it himself?), which in a way is a shame because it robs your well considered and beautifully structured reply of its context. On the other hand it saves time, one less troll to block. Anyway, I remember reading his original post and being amazed how quickly, from one paragraph to another, the poster seesawed from saying positive things to spewing some truly awful shit - from 0 to 100 in literally the space of a sentence. Almost worthy of keeping it around just for the novelty of that.

Those types are always gonna find their way to spaces that are on the margins of the Internet. They started popping up here in smaller numbers late 2018/early 2019, but really blew up late 2019 and were ubiquitous 2020. Fortunately heavy moderation have kept them from brigading and ruining whole threads like they did early on. I usually reply to them in a caustic manner to dissuade people who think like them from bandwagoning, and my posts usually get swept up in the purges alongside theirs as happened in the most recent exchange here, but that's fine as long as I can make them feel crappy enough to crawl back to the shadows for a moment.

The real shame is the creators who respond to them in an attempt to avoid drama or think that they form a large enough cross-section of paying adult gamers to be worth catering to. I don't usually name creators but I'll use NLTMedia for example since they're so damn big. They made lots of great comics pre-purge and are probably the highest quality developer who releases game content on a remarkably consistent basis, but look at the degradation of their storytelling from 2018 to now (across comics and games). They are a little crass and resort to racial stereotyping, but they dropped the interesting character dynamics they had and still have plenty of stereotyping, and now just have horribly 2-D (personalitywise, obviously), characters with none of the humor that they used to display in favor of the crowd who needs gorilla harem games to feel good. I'm not sure if it's won them any more patrons than they'd have otherwise but they have enough patrons purely off the quality of their art/expansive universe that there's no way to effectively parse that at this point.

You sir are not a lesbian trapped in a man's body. You Sir are a connaisseur of pussy. With an established taste for the finer things in life.
Like fine wine needs an experienced tounge to be appreciated you have the fine tounge for a womens body. If you would be a lesbian (some friends of mine are) you would also like breasts would dress a certain way and most importantly would hit on every female you lay sight on that looks halfway decent.
However i can give you the advice of getting a lesbian wingman..women whatever you call the female version of that. Not only do they provide a marvelous insight to the female mind. They have hook up lines you wouldn't dare say to a women of interest.

Also i don't know a single man who thinks his dick isn't disgusting. If we would fancy dicks we would be gay. Not that theres an issue with that. But men in general don't really like their dick.

I mean think of the fella for a moment.
He constantly is a dick to others.
His family is nuts.
His neighbour is an asshole.
His best friend is a pussy
His owner constantly beats him.
His tears are slimy and sticky.
And sometimes he lands in the shit......

Sad little fella.



I also really want you to spend that time on creating content for the game. But since i have no clue about any of that and lost you at python i assume i should stop asking stuff you try to explain to me cause for a second i literally thought a snake is involved in your development process.

Literally had to google that this is a programming language.......

EDIT: Actually I think my dick looks pretty decent lol. I'm not like attracted to myself or anything but it's not disappointing as far as they go. Also, I personally wasn't attracted to vaginas much when I started being physically attracted to female bodies (like at 10 3/4) and didn't appreciate them much until I was almost 13. Also I like trans women, which I get a lot of guys have complicated views about but it's not gay IMO and is probably a little easier for me because I never had an innate attraction to female genitalia so it's a little easier for me to dissociate penises from maleness in that sense.

 

[FormerlyknownasOlheden]

I usually reply to them in a caustic manner to dissuade people who think like them from bandwagoning, and my posts usually get swept up in the purges alongside theirs as happened in the most recent exchange here,

Heh, yeah that happens a lot to me as well. I think 20 %, easily, of all my comments here has been purged because I was replying to some unpleasant guy with an axe to grind against a developer or a sexual orientation. Still worth it though.

 

[d_pedestrian]

just finished chapter 4 and in that chapter there's an option where macy asks if MC is serious about brooke or not. Choosing yes will lock me out of denise+macy content. will choosing 'no' lock me out of brooke's route?

 

[yoyomistro]

just finished chapter 4 and in that chapter there's an option where macy asks if MC is serious about brooke or not. Choosing yes will lock me out of denise+macy content. will choosing 'no' lock me out of brooke's route?

None that's currently in the game. As to the future IDK, but if it does I'll probably mod this game for the first time, as I do with 95% of the Ren'py games I play, lol.

Heh, yeah that happens a lot to me as well. I think 20 %, easily, of all my comments here has been purged because I was replying to some unpleasant guy with an axe to grind against a developer or a sexual orientation. Still worth it though.

Yea, absolutely. Nothing provides perspective to a myopic whiner quite like being shut down hard.

 

[naughtyroad]

just finished chapter 4 and in that chapter there's an option where macy asks if MC is serious about brooke or not. Choosing yes will lock me out of denise+macy content. will choosing 'no' lock me out of brooke's route?

No worries, you won't be missing any Brooke content by telling Macy you're not, in this case; staying on the Macy/Denise path will ensure you'll see everything there will be to see.
As a rule, I don't do mutually exclusive content especially if it involves creating non-reusable assets. The idea is that this will factor into the endings for macy/denise locked out path, but there's plenty of parts of the endings that are not hammered down yet.

 

[fried]

Heh, yeah that happens a lot to me as well. I think 20 %, easily, of all my comments here has been purged because I was replying to some unpleasant guy with an axe to grind against a developer or a sexual orientation. Still worth it though.

The "Report" link for such posts can make handling them sooo much easier on everyone, honestly ...

 

[Miðgarðsormr]

The "Report" link for such posts can make handling them sooo much easier on everyone, honestly ...

But making them go mad and ballistic is soooo much fun

Ok a minute of being serious.
Yes we all should use the report button more frequently! Would save alot of time and effort wasted on such people.

Still i wish i could apply somewhere to rename it tough! Like "Banhammer of Thor" the "nuke dukem" or "finish him" button!

 

[FormerlyknownasOlheden]

The "Report" link for such posts can make handling them sooo much easier on everyone, honestly ...

I know, I know. I really should do that instead. It's a combination of being so old I was raised in a time where you didn't snitch, you fought instead (silly, but once those things are built into you they're hard to get rid of) and just gut reactions. That meme of an angry dude and the tag "someone on the internet is wrong!" in capitals could have been about me, as family memebers delight in pointing out.

 

[Miðgarðsormr]

I know, I know. I really should do that instead. It's a combination of being so old I was raised in a time where you didn't snitch, you fought instead (silly, but once those things are built into you they're hard to get rid of) and just gut reactions. That meme of an angry dude and the tag "someone on the internet is wrong!" in capitals could have been about me, as family memebers delight in pointing out.

It is refreshing to hear that more and more oldtimers like me are around in here. And i was also raised that way. You stand your ground and fight back be it verbally or not. And old habits die hard.
Now that you mention your family pointing certain stuff out..... are we related?

 

[LarryK]

It is refreshing to hear that more and more oldtimers like me are around in here. And i was also raised that way. You stand your ground and fight back be it verbally or not. And old habits die hard.
Now that you mention your family pointing certain stuff out..... are we related?

Anyone keeping a list can add another 'old timer' to it (raises hand|).

 

[FormerlyknownasOlheden]

It is refreshing to hear that more and more oldtimers like me are around in here. And i was also raised that way. You stand your ground and fight back be it verbally or not. And old habits die hard.
Now that you mention your family pointing certain stuff out..... are we related?

Well, considering your f95 handle/avatar we might be from the same part of the world anyway ...

 

[Miðgarðsormr]

Well, considering your f95 handle/avatar we might be from the same part of the world anyway ...

Nah im from central europe but i won't get more specific cause it is my deepest darkest secret where i come from. But i have skandinavian ancestory according a few generations back. So technically i come from there but not really.

But i have a question for naughtyroad. Why does denise now have glasses?

 

[afterlights]

Shh. It's a disguise.

 

[naughtyroad]

(...)Why does denise now have glasses?

Random vandalism. Doodles mean a scene is giving me more trouble than usual, and this is my way of getting back at it.

 

[Miðgarðsormr]

Random vandalism. Doodles mean a scene is giving me more trouble than usual, and this is my way of getting back at it.

Oh i see Vandalism on Denise. And i thought it suddenly has a special kind of meaning. Thanks for explaining

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[Dragon59]

Random vandalism. Doodles mean a scene is giving me more trouble than usual, and this is my way of getting back at it.

And here I was hoping she was using them as a disguise to sneak to Dad's office, unrecognized. Hey, if it works for Clark Kent...

 

[yoyomistro]

And here I was hoping she was using them as a disguise to sneak to Dad's office, unrecognized. Hey, if it works for Clark Kent...

That always bugged me about Superman, lol. And Hannah Montana. But I thought that show sucked anyway, woulda never seen much of it if it weren't for my sisters. Not cuz I hated "girls" shows. Just that one.

 

[Dragon59]

That always bugged me about Superman, lol. And Hannah Montana. But I thought that show sucked anyway, woulda never seen much of it if it weren't for my sisters. Not cuz I hated "girls" shows. Just that one.

Silver-Age Supergirl wore a brunette wig to pose as Linda Lee Danvers. It apparently worked in that universe.