#yaptime

I'm sure Pűris propaganda and constant justifications aren't helping in that regard. But genuinely, Jordan isn't a good person. She might not know the extent of things in the temple, but that would still require her to turn a blind eye, deliberately.

She's out here regularly examining people's genitals, when she really doesn't have any business doing that. It's not like she's a gynecologist.

And she reaaallyy doesn't care about the pc and has never cared about them, beyond their connection to- and impact on - Sydney - in my eyes.

Otherwise she wouldn't send you out on "missions" alone. Without any equipment, resources, support or backup. She's sooo unbothered about sending you, some impoverished orphan, out to bumfuck nowhere. Or, right into the arms of the cult. Sure. Pc can't ever reaally fail that mission. But the chances that you'd just disappear into the ether are so damn high. Come on now.

sure there will always be issues with it but especially any non straight hair really suffers from the fringe not just being the fringe part but also the rest of the head. so anything else but like... two choices? look glued on like..

idk how doable this is but i think it would have to be segmented into preferable three parts? but that also requires the head to get redone bc. what the hell is that vanilla shape my guy.

been looking at some of the standard hairs and considering reworking them. I really wish there were more hair slots for modded hair like they did for the faces

dunno how much i will actually do but i also considered doing some tweaks to the vanilla sprites for myself just to see how that is. specifically replacing some of the fringes with non straight hairstyles or redoing some of them bc.. they dont look great tbh. case in point, i redid the overgrown bangs since finding out that the wasnt a true blunt, eye covering fringe in the vanilla game ruined a potential playthrough for me a while back.

aaaaaaa yes I do!!!! (Sorry for the late reply haha. I kept forgetting to come back to this ask) I think I started to feel that way pretty early on, since there's hardly any electronics around in game.

You don't have access to a phone yourself (which, admittedly makes sense as an orphan) but electronics get barely mentioned in general. (I'm guessing the true reason for it, is that it would be too much of a hassle to implement electronics as a mechanic in game. bc arguably you should easily be able to buy a phone or w/e later on, if dol actually took place in our time) Named npcs often have phones to record you with (which I kinda forgot about tbh lmao) but unless in that context, phones don't get brought up at all iirc. None of the named npcs ever ask you for your phone number and Social media isn't really a topic of conversation either.

The only Computers that I remember mentioned in game are Leightons, Mickey's, Kylars and the one you can check in the police station. (I don't remember if Bailey even has one or not.) They are far and few between. They also all read as desktop computers to me and not laptops. Hell, the only gaming Console to ever be a topic of interest, is Robins. I don't think we hear of/see any handheld conosles at all. Even TV's rarely get mentioned.

Pop Culture, like manga, anime and games doesn't seem to be a big thing yet either.

All of that gives me the impression that most electronic is still pretty sparse and hard to come around and kinda reminds me of my childhood when those interests where still conisdered niche/nerdy and weird. The few characters that have desktop pc's seem to be ones that had/have enough money (like Kylar, maybe Bailey?) to foot the bill, are either in a high enough position of power to own one (like leighton) or they're involved enough in shady business that they might have the resources to have their own equipment (Mickey).

tbf a lot of my reasoning can be argued against or easily explained away, but I think dol is infinitely more interesting as a game/story when it's set during the early/mid 2000s, where most electronics were still hard to come by.

Oh and last but not least: it simply makes for easier story telling haha. I think there would be way more ""plot holes"" you'd have trouble explaining away if it was set during modern times. considering how much digital surveilance we have nowadays.

Aside from all the examples I just brought up, dol just has that 2000s grime to me. It's so grungy and dank in it's vibes that it always reminds me of that timeframe. Just has that kinda clunky/kitschy charm to it. (a more eclectic personal explanation is that the seasons in game still feel the way I remember them for my childhood. nowadays everything feels really out of wack thanks to global warming. Although I'm sure that people who are older than me would say the same haha)

to keep this already long post short(er lmao) I'm gonna go into some headcanons under the cut; Basically which Characters have electronics and why:

Avery: has an expensive af and extremely clunky looking (by todays standards) work laptop, that she sometimes lugs around. Also owned one of the first mobile phones. Those really big and blocky ones. Maybe even had one of those phones that were built into cars. However, I think shed be kinda annoyed by mobile phones*, even if she's extremely diligent in answering her calls. (the grind never stops) *based on this comic from 1919 about pocketphones: Mostly because she strikes me as someone who doesn't care to be overly accessible and also hates it when whatever shes doing at the moment gets disrupted by something else.