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Out of context it seems like she's listening for a train's passageAfter club evening, when you make Mina do the push-ups.
Out of context it seems like she's listening for a train's passageAfter club evening, when you make Mina do the push-ups.
Hi!No, I think I'm interpreting the arguments properly, I just find them completely unsupported.
Even if Mina is Ian's girlfriend, she doesn't OWE it to Ian to disclose her bucket list. They're her kinks. She's completely within her rights to hide them from anyone she thinks wouldn't treat them appropriately - and as True_Degenerate illustrated, Ian has *deliberately* abused her trust and belittled her sensibilities pretty much from the get go.
Moreover, you imply Mina's innocence is disingenuous and I just don't agree. Her bubbly, innocent persona is an affectation, but it is not false. That's the person Mina wants to be, and thus it's how she tries to act. Mina doesn't see herself as a nymphomaniac so she hides that aspect of herself; the dichotomy between her preferred self-image and her overactive libido is a big part of why she's so reluctant to vocalize her fantasies.
Lastly, the idea that Mina will disclose truths to Hana she won't admit to Ian is flat out preposterous. Ian is sitting right next to them during the game! The fact that only Hana was respectful enough to answer Mina's questions earnestly and wise enough to recognize the pattern in Mina's questions ought to make it crystal clear why Ian never learned about the list. Yet some people refuse to believe their lying eyes and insist Mina *must* have intentionally misled Ian.
It's a real headscratcher to me.
Does the MC even win her over? Isn't she separating from Ian regardless of what the MC does?[...] the disagreement is actually about whether this part of the plot is servicing the fantasy of winning over the asshole's gf cus he doesn't deserve her [...]
Could it be that in the second pic "the JUICE" is also with Hanakin?
Pretty fucking hot, but there's some rough/gross humiliation stuff happening to some of the girls too. Some people don't like that (*whispering* betas ).I see this is a deeply philosophical thread pondering on mysteries like the self-awareness, emotions, motivations and whatnot but i just came to ask how is the porn in this one because i never played it before. Interestingly enough.
Ohwow, look at this, this title somehow ended up on top of my list of 'Probably should give this one a try'. Now how did that happenthere's some rough/gross humiliation stuff happening to some of the girls too.
The porn is "rewarding". Sometimes disgusting. Never uninteresting.I see this is a deeply philosophical thread pondering on mysteries like the self-awareness, emotions, motivations and whatnot but i just came to ask how is the porn in this one because i never played it before. Interestingly enough.
Play it, I guarantee it'll become your favorite AVN. Need more cultured men hanging about.Ohwow, look at this, this title somehow ended up on top of my list of 'Probably should give this one a try'. Now how did that happen
Yea, I have wondered if the different levels insight into this situation are where the disconnect lies. A tiny bit of jealousy might help some partners connect with each other more, but I think most of us agree that in the general case making your partner jealous in the way and to the degree that Ian is doing doesn't strengthen a loving relationship. You'll note that I said that Ian making Mina jealous is an effective way to manipulate someone. I should have said "can be" an effective way to manipulate someone. Some people can't be duped so easily, but it is a tactic used to reasonable success by men and women for as long as we've been a species. One would be sacrificing trust and love for sexual and other short-term gains, but it can work. If one has enough of a conscience, feeling like a scumbag and damage to one's mental image are the other costs.Yes I'm aware that the things you mentioned (or some version of them) exist. But awareness isn't knowledge or insight. If you honestly believe making your girl jealous like that will lead to more love/sex, I hope for you sake you never get a chance to try it out! And the thing about toxicity (hate that redditspeak bullshit term) in the real world: there isn't a writer who can turn it off whenever convenient. If Ian's the kind of guy who keeps a gf just to humiliate and torment, he cannot simultaneously be the guy who accepts her breaking up like mummy's brave little soldier. Realistically Ian 1 would come after you and leave a trail of destruction, whereas Ian 2 would've ended a relationship he clearly doesn't want.
Hi Ennoch!Ohwow, look at this, this title somehow ended up on top of my list of 'Probably should give this one a try'. Now how did that happen
Hey now, let's not bring math into this. Nothing puts the kibosh on sexy times quicker than statistics.Maybe not, but it's not like it's 4 sigmas from the mean.
Darth Massacre wouldn't even be that bad of a name...
At first I thought this was just pseudointellectual drivel - and probably wasn't the only one. But this is a surprisingly thoughtful take if you read it carefully - and I'd agree with much of it. The fact that a porn game would inspire such high-brow analysis should be a complement to the creators, not a detraction.Finished playing it just now but kinda underwhelmed. The technically legal sex show premise is running very thin at this point, and I thought it was the most boring part of this game to begin with. All the interesting things in this story are peripheral. Making pretty girls feel uncomfortable appeals to some combination of the barely pubescent, the very old and the ill-begotten. In fact the orgy in its popular conception and as represented here - men in high places molesting beautiful damsels in distress - is an envy-fuelled middle-class wetdream. The real Dionysian orgies were ordained by women and the participants were the excluded in Greek society - women, slaves, cripples, foreigners and outlaws. They weren't explosions of strength and beauty but festivals worshipping the paradoxical power of weakness. Their spiritual heirs were not Satanic cults or Fifty Shades of Grey but the radically Christian peasants' revolts of the 1300s which reached their apotheosis in the French Revolution.
The real sex parties of the leets are less mommy roleplay or raw octupus mukbang, and more mutually satisfying handcarved-tabletop missionary with a few performers present to spice things up. And as I've heard, nowadays many of them are embracing the principle of female ordination (men can only attend if accompanied by a female partner, only women can approach men). There is no element of the suffering or the dissolution that becomes lightning and dynamite. It's basically the daily life of a rich person, plus sex and mock-secrecy. Jolly good fun if you're the one doing it; vapid and boring if you're looking in from the outside. Kubrick had it exactly right: masks, expensive hookers and drugs, vanilla sex. Eyes Wide Shut is primarily a satire of the spineless middle-class puritanism that vicariously enjoys "excessive" wealth even as it denounces it, which is spelled out right at the end, in the cloying pop-philosophical exchange between Cruise and Kidman in the toy store. Whatever evil/ugliness there might be in such situations is dialectical, existing only in their relation to an absent other either unacknowledged or, out of respect for the fashion/custom of "wokeness", ceremonially honored in abstract and strategically self-recriminating terms. But in either case - effectively located out of sight and mind across the streets, highways and oceans.
Anyway, if it were up to me this update would be the conclusion. And the big audience event from the last update would have been climactic and final.
Only part that stood out for me was the scene with PC and mad scientist chick in the bar. That was some legit MKULTRA activation bullshit while also managing to retain the campy tone and straight-edgy social commentary of the rest of the story. In fact the mad scientist chick and her sugar-grampy are now my favourite characters and I look forward to a lot more of them; but that'd probably require a different game.
I read it carefully as well. The part about 'Eyes Wide Shut' was somewhat interesting...most of the rest was pseudo intellectual drivel.At first I thought this was just pseudointellectual drivel - and probably wasn't the only one. But this is a surprisingly thoughtful take if you read it carefully - and I'd agree with much of it. The fact that a porn game would inspire such high-brow analysis should be a complement to the creators, not a detraction.
I've done enough arguing and criticism in the prior thread decades I thought it'd be nice to rehash my favorite and what I consider the best scene in the entire game from a technical standpoint - I wonder what some other people's favorite scenes are?
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If you can forget about the lack of realism of an american female citizen driving a manual that is...At first I thought this was just pseudointellectual drivel - and probably wasn't the only one. But this is a surprisingly thoughtful take if you read it carefully - and I'd agree with much of it. The fact that a porn game would inspire such high-brow analysis should be a complement to the creators, not a detraction.
I've done enough arguing and criticism in the prior thread decades I thought it'd be nice to rehash my favorite and what I consider the best scene in the entire game from a technical standpoint - I wonder what some other people's favorite scenes are?
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