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It’s about sending a message.

Also it’s best to hit people the absurdism early.
i for one LOVE CJs dad. that scene had me rolling on the floor laughing and is STILL one of my favorite moments in the game. if anything, i'm a little disappointed we haven't heard from him since then or seen more of it.

but hey, we in the land now of "if i don't like it, it must be remooooooooved reeeeee". so sad. how many of us just like the game and play it, while the loud and proud do their usual thing?
 

derekthered56

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Yea I get it's RedLetterMedia but usually when a dev makes a joke about criticism their game gets, they use really bad examples and strawmans as part of the joke, but everything Jamie says there very accurately describes this game, almost too well.
Using strawmen would just sound petty and defensive. Using accurate criticism(if criticism is the right word, I don't think any of those statements are really problems) is what makes the joke funny.
 
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Nennius

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Yea I get it's RedLetterMedia but usually when a dev makes a joke about criticism their game gets, they use really bad examples and strawmans as part of the joke, but everything Jamie says there very accurately describes this game, almost too well.
Well OoT is pretty unabashed in its style, especially about being a melodrama. And there's no fun in that style without self awareness.
There's a review 2/3 of the way down the most recent page by TD the Dev of Pale Carnations that sums it up perfectly imo.
 

Zaq Reman

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Decided to give this a try when the latest update dropped, finally finished my binge. Leah's arc was a slog just because I personally do not get along with its major trope, but that's on me it's a popular one for a reason. It does feel like you'll have a bit of Show vs Tell issue if the cast keep internal monologuing about how much they believe in their eternal bond and trust each other completely and then put off sharing life-changingly important information because one of their other soulmates walked in.
The one thing that's already a genuine issue though, that left me feeling utterly unsatisfied when I got to the end of the current content, is this:
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CJ and Mizzie started fucking during the timeskip and you didn't even give her a Side Scene to show it!?

Also while it's not quite as bad as that, I am going to have to sue you for false advertising. The description promised "freaky psychedelic group sex". There have been nine scenes of group sex so far and they're all completely mundane aside from Sarah feeling what CJ does.

(And my reason is slightly different from yours, but have another vote of confidence on not de-meming the prologue. The start of the game left me confused in a bad way, like I'd held Ctrl through something important except I had skip unread off. I was waffling on whether to continue until I saw Chad Thundercock appear in the clouds and more importantly realized that this was being played completely straight. I didn't know yet if I liked the story, but I knew I respected the gumption (and drugs) required to write a story that took itself completely seriously even during and after that.)
 

asmrfan23

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Mizzie + Mayu + Mikan will give CJ the biggest L, and it would be WORTH IT


edit: Matoi needs a nice, sweet and gentle love making session
 

Zaq Reman

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You're right it's something super important.

So why the FUCK would I put it in a side story?

Notice who's conspicuously absent from 39 part 1? :HideThePain:
But why'd you hint at it then? That's like opening a smokehouse and serving nothing the first week because your award-winning spice blend just doesn't taste right if you give it less time. I believe you that it'll be amazing when it's ready but that's only making me hungrier.
 
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Story Anon

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But why'd you hint at it then? That's like opening a smokehouse and serving nothing the first week because your award-winning spice blend just doesn't taste right if you give it less time. I believe you that it'll be amazing when it's ready but that's only making me hungrier.
Because only roughly 1/5th of the renders for Ch39 are even in yet and I'm not going to pretend something didn't happen because the update that shows it is 15 days away.
 
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