Still gnaws at me though... Maybe she was painting their dicks?
Honestly, I really don't even know how to respond to this.
Well, to be fair... I did throw something about a "wood chipper" in there at one point though.
I was not talking about Augusta's. I was talking about "Broken heart symphony" - the musical project Professor published on YouTube some time ago. Those songs are telling the story very similar to L&J (see my initial post about it).
Where does MC does hj and bjs outside of the free pass?
Well put.
What part of 'its fact' did you miss? Now I didn't say something like cheating was a necessity or anything like that, but that sex is primordial in the manage of mental pressures, it help letting the steam out, its how its always been.
Well the MC has in a few occasions of doing something with Christine at the office, outside of that Jamie can give the MC a blowjob. But I think the MC was given the okay to do something with Jamie, as for Christine I don't know if she knows exactly but I think she knows the MC has done something with Christine during his free week and has vaguely allowed it to keep going, I think she operate based on 'won't ask, don't tell' approach when it comes to that.
You are arguing one "fact", but using it incorrectly in this situation. A simple chemical response to a physical activity does solve the issues that come before and after that "drugging" and make no mistake, it is a "drug" effect you are talking about, and I think some here who know better than I could probably explain the addiction aspects of that as well (ie sex addiction).
Not true of Kelly. I'm path 3, zero relationships points with everyone else and the MC slept with Kelly
You ask how it would help their relationship? Simple, if she felt what she makes the MC endure perpetually she'd hold back from doing it again, its how pains work, you learn what gives you pain and you avoid it, why has she systematically thru the entire game done her stupid bullshit? Because she has never felt the consequences of her actions, sure intellectually she knows she is making the MC feel miserable, but she hasn't suffered it herself, by making her suffer the same misery, she might actually start empathizing with the MC and actually be starting to moderate her actions that would cause pain to the MC, so long as she doesn't suffer as he does, she never learn how far is too far. Its again how it works in reality, pain is a great teaching aid, not that I suggest beating people up, but sometimes putting your hand on a burning surface is the only way to learn why you shouldn't do those things.
Oh, I get that... I wasn't arguing the concept of having someone feel the pain they cause.
No. The man has it in him. Replay the final sex scene of act 1. Then replay the freak out on the morning of act 2.
No no no, giving her what she deserves? No this is teaching, making her sit in the cuck chair while the MC fuck Kelly that would be a teaching moment, something to force her to learn what it feels like, learn to feel how her husband felt when she cheated on him, its a much more valid version of the excuse she gave for cheating in the first place, she wanted to teach him the lesson it didn't matter if she had sex with others, so now she would have been made to learn the lesson that IT DOES.
Jamie is sanctioned, yes, I am trying to recall if there is any instances of christina after the free pass bj and I am coming out empty, she does give him a massage in her underwear if mc accepts, which with the new logic inserted by act 3 is not even remotely cheating.
I haven't. Where could I find it?
I honestly don't remember the MC cheating on Lacey in my runthrough. Was this choice-dependent?
I doubt it. I ask the same questions about the MC and I don't expect things to improve for him, either. This story has me conditioned to hate it when good apparently happy/positive things happen because I expect it's only the set-up for the MC (and the reader) to have our hopes dashed yet again when the inevitable bad thing happens. Often, but not always, orchestrated by Lacey.
Every time I read where someone says Lacey has grown... this is what I keep coming back to. It also reinforces why I believe the MC needs to leave all these people behind (note: not the way we ended Act 3, BTW) and go somewhere out of their reach/contact to seek some serious therapy and healing; perhaps in-patient for a bit? Yes, I know he is codependent but I don't see how the MC ever will benefit (really) from therapy when he returns to his loony-bin of a life after each session where the NPCs break him again by their attempts to "help" him. And I recognize the dev never will write his story that way so...
I took it that she wanted for the MC to sleep around to desensitize him to her sleeping around ("see, it doesn't hurt anything" or "since you can do it I can do it, too") but again I have to recognize that I'm hard-coded by the dev to seek and expect the worst from Lacey, Mia, and most of the NPCs. If you feel Lacey has a guilty conscience then that suggests to me that she recognizes that what she did was cheating so it's not just the reader's bias... but when someone tells us to do something (not shouted in rage) then we have to accept they meant that, don't we? Otherwise I'm back to not being able to accept or believe anything I read in the story.
And this, more than anything, is why I have the MC refuse every woman in the game. I think it also explains why Lacey seems more jealous when a woman she does not control is hitting on the MC vs. the NPCs she can direct. It's why I resist the harem option under the "no fun" route; it's not because of the MC's undying devotion to his wife, it's because I don't want to see him further manipulated by her and the NPCs.
I wouldn't say Lacey granted it as much as Lacey ordered it.
Did these happen on all routes? I don't remember them (not saying they didn't happen; I just don't remember). To be fair, I refused everything with Bethany (no TV date, nothing) and I did skip/FF through much of the story on my first playthrough due to my frustration so I could have missed some forced events.
That could be the title of the next Act.
