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So are we finally getting the rumoured full length Vicky porno? Because that just gave me an instant boner.
Hold up. Aren't you the source of those rumors, though?So are we finally getting the rumoured full length Vicky porno? Because that just gave me an instant boner.
Well, as a Victoria enjoyer, I'm always spreading Vicky propaganda so TD gives her more screentime .Hold up. Aren't you the source of those rumors, though?
Preeeetty sure we are.All this discussion about Mommy Lovin' the last few pages and how it aint happening, then we get this preview
It's like we're being trolled at this point
I was using your compressed versionPale Carnations [Ch. 4 Update 4 Public] [Mutt & Jeff]
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There are plenty of visual novels with sex that focus much more on the writing than the sex, it is not that unusual. There have been games that reduced me to tears for extended periods of time and left me thinking about them for days. Personally, these have been Japanese origin games for me instead of western ones, but there are certainly western games that I'm more invested in the writing than the sex.I'm really lazy, so I'm not going to read 700 pages of thread to see if anyone else has had these ideas before me. But I do want to ask: Has anyone else been hit by what I am going to call, for lack of a better phrase, the literary merit of this game?
I know. It's pretty damn weird for me to look at an AVN as "literature." But hear me out here. This is kinda long, so I'm throwing some spoilers on it to make it more manageable.
Thanks for reading, if you got this far, and sorry for being enough of a weirdo to write it in the first place.
That's a whole lot of questions. I'm a new member, seen some of these products (games? novels? stories?) throughout the years but it's first that I look into it more and check forums, so while some of these may have been discussed a lot in the past, it's interesting to me at least.I'm really lazy, so I'm not going to read 700 pages of thread to see if anyone else has had these ideas before me. But I do want to ask: Has anyone else been hit by what I am going to call, for lack of a better phrase, the literary merit of this game?
I do want to ask: Has anyone else been hit by what I am going to call, for lack of a better phrase, the literary merit of this game?
I know. It's pretty damn weird for me to look at an AVN as "literature." But hear me out here. This is kinda long, so I'm throwing some spoilers on it to make it more manageable.
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Thanks for reading, if you got this far, and sorry for being enough of a weirdo to write it in the first place.
The duality of man.save with full galleri
Yea, PC portrays misogyny, but certainly the message of the game isn't misogynistic. In my playthroughs, that portrayal is negative and discordant with Edwin's better nature. I typed up a reply to that effect when I read Pax Draconis' comment, but it was already off-topic to be debating the weighted rating system in a game thread. To start debating the messaging of PC in another game thread , besides being rude to Jestur, would be an invitation for a mod purge. Also, if somebody played Pale Carnations and came away with the with the overview "[PC] features cruelty and humiliation towards its LIs and is generally misogynistic", then I doubt anything I could say would change their mind. I assume that they're sensitive enough about harsher themes in PC, that they can't bear to read the story deeply enough to make anything more than a snap judgement about the themes in the narrative.I was reading a thread on another game earlier tonight, and someone referred to Pale Carnations as "misogynist." And that's absolutely a valid take! There's certainly enough cruelty and humiliation being heaped on a lot of different woman in this game. But I disagree. Definitely not with the person's description of the scenes as involving "cruelty and humiliation" -- that's 100% accurate. And there are absolutely misogynist characters in the game, and a lot of them. But I don't think the game itself is misogynist. And not only because "but hey wait, not all the scenes are terrible!" That's a true statement, but it's a bad argument that doesn't hold water
Generally, no. By playing, we're only complicit in bringing cruel scenes to life in our own minds and their effects on our own psyches.Are we complicit in the creation of such disturbing and cruel scenes, merely through the act of playing the game?
Yes it's harmless unless one feels negative personality changes or behaviors related to experiencing this fiction. It might be escapism if used just to experience a life one would never live, but maybe not limited to that if used for reflecting on our personalities (or navel gazing, as TD would call this whole discussion we're having)Or is this just harmless escapism?
I've downloaded here for free, and been a Patreon for a while now too. I feel the same reading it in either case, which is to say TD & GIL haven't left any indelible marks neither upon my soul nor my taint.Are we any less tainted if we download it here for free instead of supporting the developers on Patreon?
Yes, 10,000%. They are fictional, not real. We have responsibility to others only in the real world. If reading the events in this or any story create negative effects in the reader that he/she/it/they transmit outside themselves to the real world, that's where culpability begins.Sure, the characters and events are fictional, but does that make us any less culpable for their suffering?
The emotional weight exists in the readers and creators. Again, if that emotional weight is impacting real life, that's a problem. Otherwise, it's fleeting fantasy or a tool for deeper introspection. Once you stop imaging or remembering the suffering of a character, that suffering disappears.The characters and events aren't real, but the emotional weight certainly is.
I agree. I read PC as anti-misogynist, among many other things.I think that making us view them through a sympathetic lens and see who they are outside the context of the club makes this game not misogynist at all, but actually subversively anti-misogynist, perhaps even feminist (although that's a BIG stretch and I am not at all sure that I would defend that position)
She's spunky alright.Pale Carnations is about a spunky woman breaking through the glass ceiling of a male-dominated industry.
Go get it, Kat!
Wait, the first picture, at what point does it happen? more precisely, when and where?She's spunky alright.You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
Sometime after we were drugged, but when exactly and what did you choose in the dialogues?She's spunky alright.You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
I think the game is more feminist than misogynist. They fight the patriarchy with the best weapon they have, their pussies
Wait, the first picture, at what point does it happen? more precisely, when and where?
Isn't this scene at the beginning of the game practically? Red? Do you mean Veronica?I believe that was before the contest when they were deciding Lucy or Red as the last contestant in Kat's office. You were given a choice where to place your load Lucy, Red or there. I took that one too lol.