NexivSelecaf
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Ren'Py The Null Hypothesis [v0.8c] [Ron Chon]
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Maccabbee
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She's absolutely a Dom Bitch if you let her, but some people really like that, and others think they can fix her. She is fuckin hot either way, and always was. I think I cried at the end of the original Phoenix run. She wasn't as much of a B in the comics, though.
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The "B" clearly stands for 'bitch'.
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Dark phoenix hits harder if you were reading from the early 60's X-men, since you saw her grow up with the rest of the original team, if they hadnt brought her back and owned up to it, it would have been one of the most tragic comic book deaths.
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I started reading X-Men with Giant-Size #1, where they introduced the new team, but then read all the back issues. It was my favorite comic for a long time, before I got into the independent scene. Yeah. Jean, Logan, Scott, and the rest were my heroes. Alex was my favorite, mostly cause Havok's power effect looked so cool on the page. Even peripheral characters like Banshee and Moira were peak.
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Because I'm curious...
Everything maxed out (with FireFox playing a video as background noise):
Low Resolution enabled, Live2D Lite enabled, Image cache size to 512, no Preload Assets, and Allow Multithreading disabled (with FireFox still playing a video as background noise):
I guess my joke about video memory did have some merit since 'maxed out' would fill up most of my old GTX 1060's V-RAM buffer, and god knows how my old 750 Ti would work with this game. So I guess it would actually help to go into the BIOS and allocate some system memory as video memory for those with only integrated graphics/APUs to work with for those having lag issues. In terms of system memory, the game was using less than 1GB in both instances.
Guess I'll play around with my old GPUs and the CPU next, though I only know how to turn off threads and disable hyperthreading - messing around with clock speeds and voltages is too big brain for me.
Edit 10/21/2025: i9 9900KK, 32GBs of RAM, RTX 2080 Ti, and a 3440 x 1440 monitor with a max refresh rate of 100 Hz.
Everything maxed out (with FireFox playing a video as background noise):
Low Resolution enabled, Live2D Lite enabled, Image cache size to 512, no Preload Assets, and Allow Multithreading disabled (with FireFox still playing a video as background noise):
I guess my joke about video memory did have some merit since 'maxed out' would fill up most of my old GTX 1060's V-RAM buffer, and god knows how my old 750 Ti would work with this game. So I guess it would actually help to go into the BIOS and allocate some system memory as video memory for those with only integrated graphics/APUs to work with for those having lag issues. In terms of system memory, the game was using less than 1GB in both instances.
Guess I'll play around with my old GPUs and the CPU next, though I only know how to turn off threads and disable hyperthreading - messing around with clock speeds and voltages is too big brain for me.
Edit 10/21/2025: i9 9900KK, 32GBs of RAM, RTX 2080 Ti, and a 3440 x 1440 monitor with a max refresh rate of 100 Hz.
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So I guess most issues come from a V-ram bottleneck? Not totally shocking since that's most things these days.
For people wondering why this more 2d looking game can be memory intensive, I guess its do to the fact that even in this image Laura's hair, head, mouth, eyes, body, and clothes are all separate assets that are checked and changed when a situation calls for it. So with 3 characters on the screen you start running into issues with low v-ram systems.
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I'm still going to test this out with my older 750 Ti and 1060 GPUs, the integrated Intel Graphics 630, and run the game on my Steam Deck in gaming mode using Proton Experimental with 1GB and 4GBs of allocated video memory, but yeah, that seems to be the case.
I did "underclock" my CPU to just four cores and no hyperthreading - albeit still with a max clock speed of 4.7GHz, everything turned back up in the game, was getting in the neighborhood of 50% CPU utilization, and, no lag - even with my background noise, so I can say with first-hand experience that most CPUs with four cores or more that were made around Intel's Coffee Lake era should be fine.
I still have a Celeron G1840 and an i5 4690K from the Haswell/Devil's Canyon days, but I'm not digging up that PC out of the basement and buying thermal paste just for this, though I imagine that the older i5 should be fine.
Edit: I guess the point of this is to suggest that the devs give us some system recommendations because the game has become more system intensive than most other Ren'Py games that I've encountered.
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I find it interesting how everyone uses Laura to test things. I use her to test palette swaps, FacelessVixen uses her to test system usage...
Being a test subject is a little too on brand for her.
Being a test subject is a little too on brand for her.
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Fuck you for making me spray soda all over my monitor.I find it interesting how everyone uses Laura to test things. I use her to test palette swaps, FacelessVixen uses her to test system usage...
Being a test subject is a little too on brand for her.
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Steam Deck LCD numbers.
Launching the .exe though Proton Experimental (ironically, the .sh wouldn't launch in game mode):
My "maxed" settings form my desktop applied, and, still good. Changing the V-RAM buffer in the BIOS manually doesn't accomplish much since SteamOS changes it's V-RAM buffer dynamically. I set the UMA Frame buffer size to 1G in the BIOS, but it wanted to use 4.7GBs of V-RAM in this case.
So, yeah; Steam Deck verified in terms of hardware.
Edit: Oh, and, sex scene test:
I did notice that Rogue's yellow dress was flickering a bit on an interval when I lifted it. But other than that, the game was running smoothly and the numbers didn't move all that much from just talking to Laura.
So, for the sake of clarification, the settings that affect video memory, such as Image Cache Size, should be noted as such.
Launching the .exe though Proton Experimental (ironically, the .sh wouldn't launch in game mode):
My "maxed" settings form my desktop applied, and, still good. Changing the V-RAM buffer in the BIOS manually doesn't accomplish much since SteamOS changes it's V-RAM buffer dynamically. I set the UMA Frame buffer size to 1G in the BIOS, but it wanted to use 4.7GBs of V-RAM in this case.
So, yeah; Steam Deck verified in terms of hardware.
Edit: Oh, and, sex scene test:
I did notice that Rogue's yellow dress was flickering a bit on an interval when I lifted it. But other than that, the game was running smoothly and the numbers didn't move all that much from just talking to Laura.
So, for the sake of clarification, the settings that affect video memory, such as Image Cache Size, should be noted as such.
And when first playing the game with 0.2, I dated her first as a test to see if my penis would get hard while playing this game. And she did, so, the test was successful.I find it interesting how everyone uses Laura to test things. I use her to test palette swaps, FacelessVixen uses her to test system usage...
Being a test subject is a little too on brand for her.
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Shes a good sport about it, besides, she can heal if something goes catastrophically wrong while testing and she ends up with 6 arms and no eyes.I find it interesting how everyone uses Laura to test things. I use her to test palette swaps, FacelessVixen uses her to test system usage...
Being a test subject is a little too on brand for her.
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Would having six arms amplify the gay beam?
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Eh...would she, though? If her mutation suddenly considers all that extra shit a part of her she'll continuously regrow them. Let's not turn my Murder Bunny into an Eldritch Horror, ok?
I vote we test shit on someone nobody likes so...Squirrel Girl.
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Probably unlikely: the devs are big on sticking to classic comics continuity where possible, and Storm's had severely crippling claustrophobia since almost her introduction. I doubt getting tied up, restrained, bound, gagged, etc. etc. is high on her list of sexy priorities (unless she turns out to be REALLY kinky).