POLL: First girl you went for

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Which route did you go for first?

Emi
142
32%
Hanako
140
31%
Lilly
65
15%
Rin
50
11%
Shizune
41
9%
Manly Picnic
9
2%
 
Total votes: 447

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Potato wrote:
Grimnir wrote:
Oddball wrote:.. stupid Misha. I was just trying to be nice, dammit!
Who would've thunk that "comforting" nowadays leads to this? At least in this context.
Everybody, considering the context included her literally throwing herself at Hisao.. :lol:
You know, revisiting this, I think the issue is that while Misha wants sex and that's what she means by comforting, it isn't what the player means, and it's weird that there's not a clear, "Hey, let's talk this out instead of banging because we're good friends" option, because that's obviously what most people would say. It's a choice between what looks like "Make Misha feel better" or "No fuck you" which is kind of cold. I mean, it flat out says, "Refuse" as in, "Refuse to comfort the girl who is pretty much your best friend".

Not particularly great wording there. :|
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SpunkySix wrote:You know, revisiting this, I think the issue is that while Misha wants sex and that's what she means by comforting, it isn't what the player means, and it's weird that there's not a clear, "Hey, let's talk this out instead of banging because we're good friends" option, because that's obviously what most people would say. It's a choice between what looks like "Make Misha feel better" or "No fuck you" which is kind of cold. I mean, it flat out says, "Refuse" as in, "Refuse to comfort the girl who is pretty much your best friend".

Not particularly great wording there. :|
Given the fact that she used "comfort" in a sexual context, I thought it was fairly clear that the "comfort" option was similarly sexual in content. :P
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This is basically me VS. everyone else who played Misha's route.

Note: "Everyone else" is portrayed here by Hitler. Don't think about it too much.

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d2r wrote:
SpunkySix wrote:You know, revisiting this, I think the issue is that while Misha wants sex and that's what she means by comforting, it isn't what the player means, and it's weird that there's not a clear, "Hey, let's talk this out instead of banging because we're good friends" option, because that's obviously what most people would say. It's a choice between what looks like "Make Misha feel better" or "No fuck you" which is kind of cold. I mean, it flat out says, "Refuse" as in, "Refuse to comfort the girl who is pretty much your best friend".

Not particularly great wording there. :|
Given the fact that she used "comfort" in a sexual context, I thought it was fairly clear that the "comfort" option was similarly sexual in content. :P
That's the thing though, even if you see it like that, the only other option is a cold, impersonal, "refuse". That makes it sound like Hisao has a choice between banging pink loud or telling her to skidaddle, with nothing in between, which is a fairly blatant false dichotomy. You'd think flat out refusing to help somebody in need would also be bad end potential, and that the good end would be a choice somewhere in the middle.
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SpunkySix wrote:That makes it sound like Hisao has a choice between banging pink loud or telling her to skidaddle, with nothing in between...
Exactly. Those are his options. Misha's in no frame of mind at that time to actually be receptive to real help.

And yes, refusing to help someone in need has bad potential. Refusing to fuck your gal's friend, however. has only good potential.
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Potato wrote:
SpunkySix wrote:That makes it sound like Hisao has a choice between banging pink loud or telling her to skidaddle, with nothing in between...
Exactly. Those are his options. Misha's in no frame of mind at that time to actually be receptive to real help.
Showing support is still better than telling her to screw off though, even if she's not super perceptive to it at the time.
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SpunkySix wrote:Showing support is still better than telling her to screw off though, even if she's not super perceptive to it at the time.
I agree. It's obvious Misha needs a lot of support. So does Shizune though. And the fan art shows it even more obviously. :D
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SpunkySix wrote:
Potato wrote:
SpunkySix wrote:That makes it sound like Hisao has a choice between banging pink loud or telling her to skidaddle, with nothing in between...
Exactly. Those are his options. Misha's in no frame of mind at that time to actually be receptive to real help.
Showing support is still better than telling her to screw off though, even if she's not super perceptive to it at the time.
It's a good thing none of the options presented is "Tell her to screw off" then...
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SpunkySix wrote:
Potato wrote:
SpunkySix wrote:That makes it sound like Hisao has a choice between banging pink loud or telling her to skidaddle, with nothing in between...
Exactly. Those are his options. Misha's in no frame of mind at that time to actually be receptive to real help.
Showing support is still better than telling her to screw off though, even if she's not super perceptive to it at the time.
Hisao didn't tell her to screw off. He's "refusing" to have sex with her. Not refusing to help her. We know this from the fact that he goes to talk with her on the roof the next day (though the tenor of that talk is different depending on whether or not they slept together). "Comfort" is a sexual euphemism, and it is the sexual euphemism that is being refused.

EDIT: Also, it's not like you can't just reload your save file and not sleep with her if doing that isn't what you wanted.
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d2r wrote:"Comfort" is a sexual puneuphemism
The More You Know. :mrgreen:
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Potato wrote:
d2r wrote:"Comfort" is a sexual puneuphemism
The More You Know. :mrgreen:
Thank you. Fixed.
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d2r wrote:Hisao didn't tell her to screw off. He's "refusing" to have sex with her. Not refusing to help her. We know this from the fact that he goes to talk with her on the roof the next day (though the tenor of that talk is different depending on whether or not they slept together). "Comfort" is a sexual euphemism, and it is the sexual euphemism that is being refused.

EDIT: Also, it's not like you can't just reload your save file and not sleep with her if doing that isn't what you wanted.
That makes sense. I guess I just sympathize with the people that took it the wrong way too much to be totally objective here.
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