Ren'Py Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

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jws_tex

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dartred said:
No one is answer this guys question. He's asking why the what ifs exist.

To put it simply, the Dev wanted to do more for the $20 tier to separate it from the other tiers. Before that, it was just getting the beta build a few days earlier. He did this to give his supporters more. He didn't have too and yet people who don't even pay, attack him for it. He could have been like many of the other patreon's that just give you the game a little early or a few pictures a month. Hell, WWG gives up to 7 pictures every 10 days. I've seen some devs that give you 1 or 3 pictures a month as a "status update".

people have to remember that the $20 tier what ifs is a "thank you" thing he does for people.
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Thanks for taking the time. Much appreciated.
 
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QuantumVNs said:
As yourmomma said, the dev says the What If's are basically like a side project for him, and time spent on them would otherwise be put into non-game stuff.
From my perspective, making a game is a creative pursuit, and without a little distraction you can easily lose interest in the project or even burn out from being too single minded in a limited box. The What If's give the dev the opportunity to play around the world without the time investment needed for quality writing and cohesive story (which IMO is what separates Power Vacuum from most games in the genre). Plus it allows the dev to create and share new renders and animations, honing his own skills, giving us more to fap to, and improving the main game product.
I'm sure you'd agree that if WWG were to bust out more frequent main game updates with mundane writing and sloppy, generic animations it would be a net negative from the fappers perspective.
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Thank you for your reply! I appreciate the explanation. Makes good sense.
 
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yourmomma said:
The Dev has already explained he sets aside a certain amount of time each day for the main story line and works on the " What Ifs " on the side for a lot less time. The "What Ifs " are just a fun side project to keep excitement for the main game alive. That do not cut into the main game development or cannon.

I'm beginning to find the controversy surrounding the " What Ifs " as hilarious. It's really not that big of a deal. Quite frankly I enjoy them and even more so now knowing how many people get senselessly butthurt over them.

Lucky for you guys I have the day off and I'm getting wildly entertained by all of this. So I'm camping out here licking up all the delicious tears.
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Haha. Good attitude to have around here apparently. Thank you for taking your time to answer. I agree with you here.
 
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MrJay

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ScareKing said:
Lets pretende Hunter became a "shadow agency", why they would help Ophelia and family? Why Ophelia would accept some random peoples help? When they start filling weird, why they wouldt move away? Even the whole sex stuff wouldnt make any sense since MC fuck every one because hes trying to stop Hunter, and MC money comes from sex scenes with Breanna, if him just appears with a bunch of cash out of nowhere, Ophelia would ask how he got that, and they live together, Ophelia knows MC dont have a job, and if you play with NTR On, you just see the consequences of MC mistakes but if you are not blind by anger against Hunter, you can see hes essential to the plot with NTR Off.
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You do realize the answers to many of those questions aren't even answered by the game as-is? The family already could easily move away especially since a majority of them dislikes Hunter from the very beginning. And the question of how Brenna makes money is ALREADY and issue in the game that it just doesn't address and pretends the mom doesn't know anything. It wouldn't change either way.

As for the rest such an organization could easily fool Ophelia into thinking she's accepting help from someone she knows, or from the government or something. Easy. And the MC would do the exact same things he's doing to try and stop the org.

No, he simply isn't essential. He does nothing in "NTR off" mode that can't be explained just as well in a million other ways.
 
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MrJay said:
You do realize the answers to many of those questions aren't even answered by the game as-is? The family already could easily move away especially since a majority of them dislikes Hunter from the very beginning. And the question of how Brenna makes money is ALREADY and issue in the game that it just doesn't address and pretends the mom doesn't know anything. It wouldn't change either way.

As for the rest such an organization could easily fool Ophelia into thinking she's accepting help from someone she knows, or from the government or something. Easy. And the MC would do the exact same things he's doing to try and stop the org.

No, he simply isn't essential. He does nothing in "NTR off" mode that can't be explained just as well in a million other ways.
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Either you are trolling, or you haven't read correctly all the dialogues in the game. Without Hunter, there is no Power Vacuum as it is. Period.
 
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So let's deep dive why Hunter is important shall we. Hunters actions in the past did irreparable damage to Sterling's father which lead to how he treated him, which caused Sterling to leave home in the first place. This caused major problems for Brenna towards Sterling because she felt abandoned by her brother not knowing the full situation. Once the game picks up after the father's death and Sterling coming home he finds that Hunter is responsible for paying for them to keep the house. Sterling initially has zero romantic interest in his family and only gets closer to them as a result of protecting them from Hunter. Throughout the game Hunter is drugging the food and air they are eating/drinking. Everything Sterling has done in the game in regards to his family is the result of Hunters actions.

So after all that what would the game be without Hunter? A happy family that doesn't fuck each other and there is no adult visual novel to experience because there is no catalyst to push the story forward. He is essential to the fabric of the narrative. Without him there is no game period. Stop thinking he is replaceable without destroying the very foundation of which thr game had been built on.
 
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yourmomma

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MrJay: I can't stand Hunter.
Also MrJay: I like the plot of the non NTR route.

Clearly someone just likes to argue and has the free time do so.

Alright, time to get back to work on my flooring!
 
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Tr89

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TGafy said:
That's just a result of the MC cumming so hard that it covers the entire room each time.

For real though, that is not supposed to happen. Perhaps delete and then reinstall the game.
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would the lewdpatch cause it
cause i have that insta too
 
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MrJay said:
I don't want to change a single thing about the game as it is with NTR on? I don't give a single shit how the game is with NTR on, because I will never play it.
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You already are playing the game, since it's the exact same game! You just don't get the choice the others have and thus automatically pick the right one.
 
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MrJay said:
Yeah, I'm playing with NTR off, and that's the entire basis of my argument. If you're playing with NTR on then why are you even arguing with me, when the entire time I've said that I don't want to change a single thing about the game as it is with NTR on? I don't give a single shit how the game is with NTR on, because I will never play it.
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Your huffing lethal levels of Copium my guy.
 
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Gab1

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MrJay said:
No but if you have enough money to pay a housekeeper $8000 a month just to NOT do something, all from acting in a porn video every two weeks or so, then yeah, you could pretty easily work harder to get the money to pay for the house and everything.

Yeah, I'm playing with NTR off, and that's the entire basis of my argument. If you're playing with NTR on then why are you even arguing with me, when the entire time I've said that I don't want to change a single thing about the game as it is with NTR on? I don't give a single shit how the game is with NTR on, because I will never play it.
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First. This is dumb, my god, this game exist in the premise that Hunter want to fuck sterling family, you could take the models and use them in another plot but it wont be the same.

Even if you are playin with NTR off, the fact that Hunter would fuck your family doesn't change, in fact, it would be Entertaining, seen sterling discovering that something happen and get crazy imagining how it was. Gotta propose it to Games, an what if where everything that happens is sterling imagination
 
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