If you've followed SG from the beginning, you'll know that the render quality has increased in fits and starts. The original Chapters 1 to 3.5 contain renders that are visually of a lower quality than those from chapters 4 onward.
Ocean remade chapters 1 and 2 entirely and initially reworked only parts of chapters 3 and 3.5. Personally, I'd have no problem with Ocean reworking most, if not all of 3 and 3.5 to ensure visual consistency ahead of the Season 1 Steam release.
I think at this point, most of 3/3.5 has been spruced if not redone. The bar scene is the last holdout of the old aesthetic I think. I wouldn't want Ocean to touch the scene after the Relucia diner, the whole Bella army would hunt him down.
Well, it is the enticing part of the bookclub scene - why is Katie interested in Nami and Nika?
Intriguing scenario: Katie is interested because of Nika/Nami's parentage. Mundane scenario: Katie - as part of the cadre involved in the ZPR basketball teams - is interested because she heard Nika was a basketball ace at High School.
Seeing the two earrings are in the same room, it could well be both. The earrings symbolise some form of Zane interest that has nothing to do with sports, and is a long term interest. The 'see you around' is casual enough to mean anything.
If it wasn't for Nami's earring, we'd only have our theories to justify our suspicions: the earring and Noji's desire to keep Nika away, while not being worried about keeping Nami away. Actually thinking it through aloud, Noji's attempt to keep Nika away shows that her worry is about the Zane influence on Nika, not Nami, so her concern is something unique to Nika that has nothing to do with Nami, and has nothing to do with any Zane connection that the earring symbolises. Nami's Zane connection is considered 'safe' by Noji. Also, Noji's been keeping the book club quiet for longer than they've been at ZPR, while still hanging out at the book club that Katie and Leia go to. Strange behaviour if Noji views the Zane's as dangerous. I don't socialise and drink wine with people I don't trust.
Are you physically capable of writing without inserting arbitrary emojis every second sentence?
Being aware that some posters aren't english native, emojis help communicate the tone of a post to avoid miscommunication. It's quite courteous in my opinion. If that was the worst 'crime' here, this thread'd be 100% butterflies and unicorns.