Shoot I think that sprite behavior was fixed before and snuck its way back in from a dev patch.
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For a lousy 10k you'll perform an appendicktome on poor Jamie, but you won't give honest fans some well-earned relaxation?
Shame on you, sir. Shame.
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I thought that was a feature of unity builds in general. I think it was always a thing for me. The first time I noticed it was when Aine and Jamie was talking in dormitory and I could see something in a background behind Aine's sprite. I thought at first that it was some avangard way of showing what characters were thinking about during conversations.
It’s funny because it drives Snow up the fucking wall, he hates the sprites doing that. Definitely getting permanently changed at some point.
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devs who want to give players relaxation don't make fishing minigames from my experience
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I tried to fit the entire emotional range of OoT into the first 30 minutes or so. For better or worse, you'll know what you're getting yourself into.
Well, I can't say you didn't suceed in putting a whole range in there, lol. But I am having a lot of fun so far, it's certainly unique and it's clear you put a lot of effort in it!
Don't forget he literally has no internal monologue until after Chapter 9
.That's a pretty good pitch to keep in mind.
Not that I regularly pitch adult games to my friends... >_>
At first I did not get that the Thundercock power beam was real, and assumed he just suffered heatstroke at the beach and is imagining everything lmao
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I'm not gonna say that's how the story should end, but Newhart and St. Elsewhere were both 80s classics...
Which is a totally fair take.
The importance of the scene is that it tells you that the game is going to be playing some absolutely absurd premises completely straight and that while you and I both know it's a joke, to the characters it's entirely serious. Almost everything that comes after that is much more easily accepted because well, it may be weird but it's not Chad Thundercock in the clouds weird.
Jamie did talk about becoming a doctor in her second side story...
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Also I have to say not a big fan of the slurs being dropped. I think I get what you are going for. That CJ has some homophobia that he needs to deal with both in general and as he interacts with one particular character. But I think it overshoots that by a lot. That already gets conveyed by his more casual homophobia and heteronormativity in some scenes. The slurs just feel out of character. There's a vast difference between casual homophobia and dropping slurs. He gets portrayed as such an empathetic guy that it not only feels weird for him to be dropping slurs like that, but its also weird how none of his friends would say anything about him doing it.
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I get the feeling that this can go one of two ways:
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As for the slurs thing, that's already been debated here, and the conclusion seems to be that it's more of a sign of how close he is with his friends that he can say something so naturally hurtful and his friends know he doesn't mean anything by it. Not the best defence, but there it is.
You're exactly right, the error on CJ's part is that he's completely ignorant of that fact (among many...many others) and just assumes everyone feels the same way about it as he does...which is a pretty tall-privileged-white-jock thing to do, not necessarily in a good way.
He treats Jamie like any freshman that would have been on his swim team back in Southern California where the word is so ubiquitously used amongst jocks that it ceases to mean anything. To him it clearly doesn't mean anything, but that doesn't stop it from being extremely crass.
This is a running theme with him not just here, but for a ton of very common Japanese courtesies that he just straight up ignores and would likely result in frowns. In this case though, it's something that Westerners can pretty easily pick up.
And actually as far as this goes:
Leah had just walked out of earshot of him in Ch11 when he said it, otherwise she probably would have.
The only other people who heard him say it are Jamie (Who at that point is desperately trying to seem manlier near him and starts cursing a ton as a result) and Sarah (Who, as her latest side story in Ch31 shows, doesn't really understand curse words that aren't threats.)
For specific metrics, the word Fag is said a grand total of 4 times in the script, 1 of which is by Jamie, and it's only ever said between those two in an endearing way.
Vic's situation is deliberately written with enough vagueness that the reader's interpretation, and ultimately judgment, has room to be valid. I don't want to spell out how you should feel about her, and it's perfectly reasonable to have negative feelings about her (I mean hell, she does.)
The unreliable narrator isn't in the actions, but the tone. Go look at how the prologue version is shot essentially like a horror movie while the Ch15 version from CJ's perspective is far more gentle and sad. The two look directly at the same event and came out with wildly different conclusions, with Sarah outright narrating what CJ experienced in Ch15.
Chapter 29 obviously changes that up even more, but I'm not sure if you've gotten there yet.
There have been a few people who have said that OoT says male rape isn't real, and I think it's a pretty odd conclusion considering literally everybody takes CJ's side except his downright villainous mother. Leah was ready to completely cut ties with the woman she loves over it, Jamie was pretty close too.