#kissrambles

Like I was only mildly interested in the new LI because later teasers showed he would actually have a personality outside of alpha ceo, but damn do I feel horrible for anyone who was really pumped.

Be greedy or cowardly. Not both when you're a major gaming company. They should have either canceled him the same day or stuck to releasing him.

The fact he is capital c cancelled instead of just delayed is also scummy.

One is fierce, stoic, and domineering through sheer apathetic aura. Built like a peak form athlete and a warrior of no compare. She meets romantic interactions with calm confidence born of ignorance of romantic endeavors. While she's inexperienced, she retains her commanding attitude during her increasing education on the matter.

One is a chubby researcher who's very title conveys no room for argument and often spells ill omen, commanding any room she's in. She handles romance with a flurry of coy smiles and teasing remarks, refusing to be caught on the back foot at all and taking charge wherever possible.

One is a hardened survivor more than willing to spill human blood to protect her kin, no matter how far down the path to hell it puts her. While she might be more servile to older women, older men have to earn her hiding her claws, and younger MCs are going to absolutely be called "good little doctor" with a smug smirk.

One is a 6'4", built like an Amazonian goddess, capable of slaying ferocious monsters and taking on dozens of armed mercenaries. She turns to a flushed mess when presented flowers and absolutely adores being treated like a lady in any capacity but is often too shy to express these feelings as she gets mistaken for a wall of stoicism.

But it's happening. I love my ladies, and I have a type apparently.

To clarify what I mean in this case:

IF (Interactive Fiction) would be a game with minimal visual assets. So no sprites, no BGs, no CGs.

The original characters from the larger game in that universe I had to put on essentially indefinite hold in my head:

Both elevators at my job have been down for two days, meaning I had to haul myself and my bad leg up and down 4 flights of stairs (4 up, 4 down in one roundtrip, done two round trips that have my entire body aching from distributing weight off my bad leg where possible).

The obvious answer:

AH YES! DELECTABLE CHOICE.

Because then I get brainworms about it, and they wriggle relentlessly until I do something that reminds myself of why I shelved it.

Case in point the OG game that Project IC is in the world of would only be feasible as an IF. However I forgot how much I hate fiddling with the NVL GUI in Ren'py until I did it again recently. That luckily helped me shelve that.

Problem is this other old idea is a much simpler, classic VN style game (aka: no dynamic affection system. You make the right choices to get the appropriate ending) and the only things holding me back are costs and the fact the internet has some gross weirdos who I know would be weird about it.

This old game is basically what if your kiddos tried to play matchmaker. Each kid has a different person they ship you with, and there'd be a route focusing on just being a happy parent w/o romance for my acearo peeps. It was born of my love of childcare manhwa. However, I know the internet has too many pedos for me to make that game in peace.