Wow bro, I was just asking for directions to the nearest grocery store, no need to get that worked up.
Okay, sorry for the dumb joke, but I'll try to jump on the bandwagon of your train of thought.
I don't get, if anything it got me more hyped about AVN's going forward since AL was also the first AVN i've read. Dramatic events are present in every media everywhere. Even freaking Hallmark movies do have them (I assume, maybe not
). So what is this here, the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil club?
Let me point out that you may be talking to someone who is not a native English speaker, and who is not even trying to think in English, but is mechanically translating common words and idioms from his native language.
Now about the stunt, one of the definitions of this word is from the Google's English dictionary which they claim is provided by Oxford Languages: "something unusual done to attract attention."
To me it sounds like a perfect definition of what DPC did with
Maya and Josy Missy and Megan in AL. I mean, dramatic events are not taboo in AVNs, but something as shocking as the sudden death of one of the main love interest does not strike me as a very common plot device. Especially when the author makes you responsible for the choice who's going to die. In fact, very few AVN writers would dare to do it, a happy ending is the standard and trusted expectation of most players.
Was the fire situation and the death choice unexpected? I think it totally was. Did he attract a lot of attention, even if it was negative? I guess he did. So, a stunt.
Same goes for when people bring up "escapism". Like, what are they even talking about?.
About a magic dick and a harem I guess
Something like: "I don't want problems and complications in relationships with the opposite sex in the game like it happens in my real life. I want to be a pumped-up Jason Momoa MC, like in WiAB (while lying on the couch, munching on chips and never going to the gym) so that all the guys respect me, and all the girls are getting wet just from my appearance. And I want to sleep with all the girls at once and so that they don't get jealous, not like in the real life, where for cheating on my wife I will get a divorce, alimony and a reputation."
Escapism? Escapism!
I wanted to bring up Strangers on paper once more since jufot mentioned the whole marriage thing again. I think I went a little too soft on this storyline because the more I think about the less thought out it comes across...
Oh man, I bought it on Steam cause the devs are very talented and I wanted to support them, but do I like the game after the last chapter? I'm not sure.
So what's the situation here, we have Amy and Brandon about to get married, yay. Well, it's not a forced marriage and it's also not some weird/complicated family interference/whatever kind of deal. With that in mind, shouldn't they be super happy right now?. Basically at the very hight of their relationship, with sunshine and rainbows everywhere?. I just found it to be odd what's presented to us here, from a logic standpoint.
On one hand we have Brandon the asshole cheater
. Like, ok?. But why would he want to marry Amy when he's happier with someone else? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to break up with Amy?. What's his gain here, to potentially pay alimony somewhere down the road?. Or is it something else, does Amy have money?. Is Amy like a trophy for him?. But even then, none of this makes any sense at all.
Are you really looking for a logical reason why a girl chooses a certain guy and stays loyal to him even though he's a jerk?
Maybe he has a chin and nose shape similar to her father and she feels cozy and protected around him. Maybe he uses the same perfume as her first love, with whom she lost her virginity. Maybe when she was a child, her parents took her to a football game and her mother told her that when she grew up, she would marry a quarterback, while buying her ice cream. And now she associates pleasure exclusively with quarterbacks.
Obviously, I'm exaggerating, but sometimes the reasons are exactly like that and there is no logic to them.
You said it yourself, she's super-Amy, she's a top cheerleader, smart, witty and sexy. She's faithful to him and puts a blind eye on his little sins. All the guys envy him when he tells over a beer how he had his way with her last night and in what positions and how she moaned... And most importantly, it seems she's his maximum level (I know how that sounds, but if we accept that he only sees her as a trophy), apparently he's too small and unimportant for the heiress from a rich family.
And what about Amy herself?. In the game she's portrayed as being the whole package. Attractive, smart, witty, ambitious, confident and so on and so forth. What a woman, right?. She basically doesn't have any real flaws, at least none that we know about. So how come that "super Amy" wants to marry assshole Brandon in the first place, just out of convenience?. Or maybe her inner clock's already ticking and she just takes whomever?. Does Brandon has some kind of hold over her?. Or maybe Amy is completely infatuated with him so that she's unable to see what's right infront of her?. All of that doesn't sound like our super Amy , does it?.
Sounds like a thousand similar characters from those romantic melodramas, where she's going to marry a guy who might not even be a bad guy, but who can't stimulate her G-spot the way MC did. But at the last moment (fucking the viewer's brain for 1h 45m), she realizes that the MC is the one she's really loved her whole life, and runs away from the altar into the sunset with MC. Yuck.
So I guess she'll end up breaking up with her fiancé. Or maybe marry him and meet the MC after a decade gap and admit how wrong she was. Then again, a thousand similar endings from pop movies.
So my question would sill be, why would Brandon not break up with Amy?
She is obedient, comfortable, has great tits and very skillful at blowjobs.
