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The Ivy example is a fair point, though I never thought of her as Lena's bestie, shes just the party-girl friend
Ivy is canonically "Lena's closest friend and the only one she still keeps from her high school years". It's right there in her bio in the Agenda. In contrast Louise and Lena are said to be "good friends" in Louise's entry.
 
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Abazzaba

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Wade is reminding me of Ashley's dad in GGGB and it just gets worse every chapter.
Either he's got issues that he's hiding that are causing him serious deppression, and needs to talk to someone about it, or he's an annoying man-child that needs to recognize what he's got before he (rightfuly) loses it.
I don't feel even a little bad for stealing Cindy at this point.
 
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Or maybe here's a different way I could try and get you to see it; other than the shaggy sing-a-long (though making fun of a guy for being too much of a player is kinda a joking gentle jab), when is Jeremy ever humiliated? When is Axel ever humilated? Ian has loads of scenes with potential humilation given the wrong choices.
There are some problems with your framing here. Firstly, Ian is one of the two protagonists and much of the game is witnessed from his point of view. So obviously he gets more screen time and there is more visibility in all areas of his life, including the humiliating moments, when compared to Axel and Jeremy.

As for Jeremy, there are a few instances where he can be humiliated. Beyond the song that you mentioned, if Lena snitches on him to Louise then he ends up in a very awkward situation. Others have given more examples. It is already being set up for Ian to defeat him in the MMA tournament, which will no doubt be embarrassing for him.

Axel is a villain and the main rival for Ian. We are only around halfway through the story. It would be counterproductive to have his downfall occur before the conflict has even started. Be patient.

And to name another example, how about Seymour getting coffee thrown all over him? He is the most powerful character in the game and yet is still not invincible. If you don't want a beta Ian who constantly gets humiliated, don't play him that way. It really is that simple.
 

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If Eva can use AI to create art then updates may happen much often then once or twice a year:
It's not there quite yet to the point of having a consistent style. Ideally it'll get to a point where you can upload a variety of photos of a certain art style, then a variety of images of a specific character defined by the program with face, hair and body proportions and features, then a photo you want to replicate using that character (or characters) with the defined art style, assigning a character to each person in the photo (or, hell, even stickfigure drawing) to match the positioning.

Maybe in a few years, though you may have to pay out the ass for the services until they can properly get jailbroken/pirated.

I'm sure the tech exists now, though not in a way accessible to the general public, figuring out the best ways to monetize to the highest bidder (starting with film studios, ect) + with a bunch of lawyers & public relations looking through potential legal/ethics concerns. Technicians are likely also still needed to customize the programming to fit the individual project's needs & the programs' quirks, till the technology becomes a more robust one-size-fits-all tool.

Currently the only ones accessible to the gen public generally have a fixed set of pre-existing styles, focus mainly on stylizing the face, and/or warp inconsistently from shot to shot. Guess you could make a game with that, but imo it would grow tiring from a viewer perspective, like a bad art project (of which there are plenty of on this site already). With currently available technology, I'd find it about as off-putting as those html games where the model keeps changing or like another bad Daz3d game taking place mainly in uncanny valley.
 
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Wade is reminding me of Ashley's dad in GGGB and it just gets worse every chapter.
Either he's got issues that he's hiding that are causing him serious deppression, and needs to talk to someone about it, or he's an annoying man-child that needs to recognize what he's got before he (rightfuly) loses it.
I don't feel even a little bad for stealing Cindy at this point.
Fair enough. Ian is a way better option than Wade at this point. Ian is doing a favour to Wade, as it is better to cheat with Ian instead of let the poor Cindy on Axel's hands :devilish:

Even if you try to keep Cindy from doing model poses and try to dissuade her, in the end she ends up half-naked in front of Axel.
 
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dylandog

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Well, something weird is happening...
When I open v.10 Alpha and at this directory, all my saves are gone. But when I open v0.9 Remastered, all my saves are there. Is there a way to fix it?
I do not know the reason for it but you might want to see if in your AppData\Roaming\RenPy\ folder there is another Red String folder (other than RedString-1574621830). If there is, you could try to copy and paste the content there in the RedString-1574621830 location and see if it works.
 

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Even if you try to keep Cindy from doing model poses and try to dissuade her, in the end she ends up half-naked in front of Axel.
If Ian's girlfriend Lena can regularly wind up fully naked in front of many artists and photographers, then Wade will survive his girlfriend getting half naked in front of one photographer. It's hardly the end of the world. /s
 

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It seems like after having sex with Cherry once you have to have sex with her the 2nd time you meet her which reduces you points with Lena because fucking Perry the bitch can't keep his mouth shut. Am I right or is there a way to sleep with Cherry only once?
Also, does having sex with Emma a couple of times takes points from your relationship with Lena at some point?
 

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It seems like after having sex with Cherry once you have to have sex with her the 2nd time you meet her which reduces you points with Lena because fucking Perry the bitch can't keep his mouth shut. Am I right or is there a way to sleep with Cherry only once?
Also, does having sex with Emma a couple of times takes points from your relationship with Lena at some point?
Those points are easily made up if you are honest with Lena.
 
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It seems like after having sex with Cherry once you have to have sex with her the 2nd time you meet her which reduces you points with Lena because fucking Perry the bitch can't keep his mouth shut. Am I right or is there a way to sleep with Cherry only once?
Also, does having sex with Emma a couple of times takes points from your relationship with Lena at some point?
If Ian has sex with Allison or Cherry in the first meeting, then he will 100% have sex with one of them in the encounter you say, so fucking Perry will bring it up when Lena is at Ian's house.

You can destroy Emma's big ass and use her mouth as a pussy if you want, Lena won't notice it, hence you won't loss any point. Too bad you can't destroy her ass in the bathroom of the bar while you are in a relationship with Lena on episode 10.
 
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Those points are easily made up if you are honest with Lena.
That's correct. But for a cleaner, more discreet cheating route, it's better for Ian to not have sex with Allison/Cherry and go with Emma and Minerva all the way and have sex with Cindy only at her house. From Lena's perspective, if you have sex only once with Robert and Mike, when Ian and Lena want a serious relationship, neither of them are going to mention that they've played the field and have been curious...so it's a perfect combination.
 
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