Takkatakka

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I'd guess probably not yet because they only just kissed at best and have yet to have a single date. Stan has yet to show any sort of improvement.

But maybe Lena will choose to educate him about ways of pleasing women. :whistle:
And even if: You can still avoid it in the game anyway just as you pretty much can avoid all the relationships or scenes, if you want to.

Also she has to tell the end of the beach house story and I hope it won't just be a "time skipped and everybody is home now". Especially if you're in a trouple with Ian, Lena and Holly it would be a good chance to write a scene with Ian and Holly while Lena is away.
 

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I'd guess probably not yet because they only just kissed at best and have yet to have a single date. Stan has yet to show any sort of improvement.

But maybe Lena will choose to educate him about ways of pleasing women. :whistle:
yeah that makes sense, but who knows maybe Eva decides to go all the way since her patrons are practically begging for it.
 
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May I ask what gave you that impression?
I wanna know too, I don't know anything about martial arts so it'll be cool to know the perspective of somebody who knows their stuff about what the dev got wrong in the kickboxing/jiu-jitsu segments.
 
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Zara Scarlet

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Stan fans, which are apparently aplenty on Patreon.

"But i'm a nice guy so i deserve a hot woman to fall for me" is one hell of a drug.
The problem with dating a really hot woman, is that everyone else thinks so as well. If you're in any way possessive, as Stan definitely is, it's gonna be a rollercoaster of emotions. To successfully date a woman like Lena, requires either supreme confidence or a very easygoing personality. Stan has neither of those.
 
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I wanna know too, I don't know anything about martial arts so it'll be cool to know the perspective of somebody who knows their stuff about what the dev got wrong in the kickboxing/jiu-jitsu segments.
I'm not a practitioner or an expert. But I do watch combat sports from time to time and the writing seemed okay to me. Hence the question?
 
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What do you mean? Personally I loved the part where Ian transformed into Super Ian 2 and beat the one guy while his friend Jermiccolo cheered him on. My favorite part of the game so far.

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No lightning in the aura. That's clearly Super Ian 1. I think he will go Super Ian 2 in the final round of the Wen Games:WeSmart:
 

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The problem with dating a really hot woman, is that everyone else thinks so as well. If you're in any way possessive, as Stan definitely is, it's gonna be a rollercoaster of emotions. To successfully date a woman like Lena, requires either supreme confidence or a very easygoing personality. Stan has neither of those.
Sure but the shippers aren't thinking like that. They're expecting "and they lived happily ever after because Stan obviously treated Lena right and she has loved him deeply for it, never as much as looking at any other guy."

And since it's a computer game where the player actually gets control over actions of the hot woman, they can make that fantasy come true, by having her reject all other guys.
 
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Sure but the shippers aren't thinking like that. They're expecting "and they lived happily ever after because Stan obviously treated Lena right and she has loved him deeply for it, never as much as looking at any other guy."

And since it's a computer game where the player actually gets control over actions of the hot woman, they can make that fantasy come true, by having her reject all other guys.
This. Stan's fans are self inserting. What you can't experience in life, you live through books, movies and games, which is a bitter and sad reality for some.
 
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Sure but the shippers aren't thinking like that. They're expecting "and they lived happily ever after because Stan obviously treated Lena right and she has loved him deeply for it, never as much as looking at any other guy."

And since it's a computer game where the player actually gets control over actions of the hot woman, they can make that fantasy come true, by having her reject all other guys.
Even Ian, as he begins, is not the typical guy you would associate with a girl like Lena. But unlike Stan, he already has the potential to bridge the gap between them, because he's working out at the gym (which is building his body confidence), socialising with his friends (some of whom are pretty outgoing and push Ian to go further on the social scene) and his determination to succeed as a writer, gives him a belief in himself, that Stan just totally lacks.

Stan could do all those things himself. He could lose weight and work out in the gym, to get a better body. He could buy more fashionable clothes, work on developing his social skills and building his confidence in general. But until Lena, pushes hard for him to do that, he just sits behind his computer screen, saying 'poor me' and how the world never gives him a fair shot. If you make the effort, there's usually someone out there for you. But if you don't, then most of the time unsurprisingly, there's nobody.

But it also requires you to have realistic expectations of who you could end up with. Because he spends most of his life in front of a computer screen, Stan fantasises that he could get the hot girl, and because she's not horrible to him, begins to believe that maybe she wants him too. Poor social skills, mean you often misinterpret people being nice to you, as evidence they like you in other ways. And occasionally maybe they do. But most of the time, they're just being nice to you. But you don't see that, because you're desperate for them to fancy you, as much as you 'think' you fancy them. And because you devote so much attention to pursuing a girl who'll never want you that way, you miss the one who would, if only you were paying attention elsewhere.

Holly is the obvious girlfriend for Stan. If he put as much effort into pursuing her, as he wastes in a forlorn effort to land Lena, he'd end up with a cute girlfriend, who just happens to have a hot future as a writer. Both of them are nerds, so they have tons in common. And unlike Lena, he'll never have to worry about what she might be getting up to, on those nude modelling shoots?
 
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May I ask what gave you that impression?
How characters react to grapples, the two characters who are supposed to be knowledgeable about martial arts say "that shits gay bro" one even says he doesn't believe in jujitsu. Be one thing if it was only and he wasn't meant be someone with YEARS of experience. If you use a grapple in a street fight, which is the second most logical option next to running, you get mocked. It's very pointed and likely written by someone who is ignorant to why grapples are actually feared for how effective they are, or by someone who got their ass handed to them a couple times because someone got grappled and pinned.
 
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