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[DISCLAIMER: Not a post asking for incest in WVM]
Parental love is set in 2027 so that they could have the development of reliable gene therapy to avoid the problem of harmful recessives and therefore making family marriage legal in some countries.
It's a good thing that WVM wasn't set in 2020, eh?
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I don't really get how setting it in 2023 gives him any more creative freedom than setting it in 2020 would.
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Just finished this today and can't wait for the next update. Very interesting game to say the least.
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For one thing, you don't have to reference real-world events. If it were set in 2020, it would be a pretty boring game as everyone went to online classes at the university.
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That's just one example. One never knows how things could change. Also it allows the dev more freedom, much like my PL example. One could say that certain rules changed over those years. It would cover points where the Dev wasn't completely accurate about how things are managed currently (such as compensation restrictions to college athletes).
Because by 2023, I'll have had time to become a basketball star and every woman I meet will want to suck my cock.
Yeah but that's not any more free than just setting it in a utopian 2020.
Or even better yet just not listing a year because frankly outside of the MC spending however many years he will in college before being drafted it really doesn't change anything.
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Generally I assume that stories that are close to reality take place in a parallel universe where everything is similar but not quite the same. So even if he did set it in 2020 I wouldn‘t care and just assume COVID isn‘t a thing there.
„Yes, Officer. All these 20 or something girls belong to the same household. No we are not breaking quarantine by having a poolparty with this many people from the same household“
„Yes, Officer. All these 20 or something girls belong to the same household. No we are not breaking quarantine by having a poolparty with this many people from the same household“
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"We interrupt the current broadcast for an urgent message from the President: All citizens are asked to leave the house in which they are currently located only under the most urgent circumstances and for reasons of supply.
MC: Yay!"
MC: Yay!"
I don't disagree with this take. I just said it's the least problematic element of the story as it has happened.
Heck even the student athletes being given cars is
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.Yes the modern NCAA is really strict but ultimately the blowback tends only to impact the universities in the very short term (1-2 years tops).
So there are certain areas of realistically any game - whether it's adult themed or not - where you have to suspend disbelief, and realism doesn't really apply. However, having some realistic elements can help a game's immersion, can help one identify with characters, and such. Everyone has a different level of the ideal amount of 'realism' inside their fantasies, and some like having it in different areas than others. One of the reasons I like this game is because of how good a person the MC is. Regardless of whether or not the MC's harem is 'realistic' in general, it feels more justifiable to me because of this, than if they were a power and money hungry jerk that treats everyone around them as tools to be used. This increases my enjoyment of the game. It's a personal taste thing, but it has ties to what I perceive as 'realistic'.
I am under no illusions that this story could happen in real life. It is a fantasy. At the same time, if the MC, based on the story, and the world that's been created around the characters right now, suddenly developed magical powers, I'd not like that, because it would break the immersion I have, because it doesn't really fit with the world setting I've been building up in my mind based on what Braindrop has given us so far. This is where the idea of 'realism' is good to consider in any form of entertainment - it requires internal consistency. I think the discussions about US college athletes, and what is and is not allowed, fits very well within the relevance of internal consistency, personally.
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You don't have to reference real-world events either way. If he had set it in 2020 would anybody be complaining that it didn't reference the lockdowns? I'm pretty sure there will be real-world events in 2023 as well, and the game obviously doesn't reference them.
It's not a problem it being set in the future, I just don't see the point. Maybe when BD comes back from his well-deserved holiday someone can ask him.
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we need something to talk about but is still about the game while waiting for the next update
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When Braindrop is finished making it
