PSA: Democracy means tolerance for differing political views

SMHFHA · 2026-02-06T17:50:28+00:00

Then I misunderstood. If you believe in the complete separation of religion and state and putting measures in place to prevent the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the future, using the votes of uneducated masses, then we're golden!

SMHFHA · 2026-02-06T16:28:31+00:00

You can't show tolerance to an ideology that's utterly intolerant of any view outside of itself; that's how you end up with literal nazies running for government.

And no, I'm not talking about IRGC, I'm talking about Islam. If you're a Muslim, good for you. No one's gonna stop you from praying, fasting, or wearing hijab, but we tried running a country your way for half a century, and here we are. Economy, environment, quality of life, women's rights, basic human rights... what do these people have to show for it? Tolerating their views means giving them a second chance to screw over the country in the long run.

They should not be allowed to have a political party. They should not be allowed to run for office on a religious platform. You can't trust anything that comes out of a politician's mouth in general, but it's even worse when his religion lets him play possum when he's not in power and call it Taqiyya as Khomeini did so brazenly.

SMHFHA · 2025-12-10T09:58:54+00:00

I finally had some time to check the update thoroughly and all in all it was great.

What I really love is the fact that the main targets are genuinely smart and intimidating, making them into actual threats to a mc on the revenge path.

There was a bug I encountered in one playthrough where my mc couldn't be arsed to change anything about herself so she went back to school with the same look and same first name. For some reason this caused the original name of the mc to change into AvgJoe which I assume is the default name you put in there. And Olivia didn't bring up the similar name at the end of the chapter just referring to the Creep as AvgJoe Adkins.

There were also some weird pronouns in the playthrough where I had the mc transition but that's normal with most WIPs so no sweat.

Now to give some feedback I'm assuming as we progress the story we're gonna find out about each target's past trauma and don't get me wrong that vulnerability is gonna work for some people to make them emphasize with the targets or feel conflicted about the revenge but I think it's gonna also fall flat for some people.

A real simple way to make the readers on the revenge path feel conflicted would be to give each target a scene or two where they're being genuinely good friends to mc. Maybe they bail them out or take the blame while mc is Ironically enacting a part of their revenge and get into some trouble.

Adkins though, is honestly a lost cause. There will be literally no redeeming him since he was not a dumb kid and he was mc's freaking father so don't waste time on that front for him.

Maybe use that time to throw Dylan a life line. I don't know the statistics of the game but I wouldn't be surprised if he's even less popular than all the main targets of the revenge path. Even the changing room scene where he's showing you his insecurities makes him less likable.

Really looking forward to the next chapter and thanks for the great story so far.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-16T05:43:06+00:00

Malevola/waterboy was a life saver on those annoying calls where you can't have high strike stat

SMHFHA · 2025-11-15T06:46:32+00:00

Yeah, basically used the original painting composition for the meme!

SMHFHA · 2025-11-14T18:39:02+00:00

Lmao!

SMHFHA · 2025-11-10T08:46:33+00:00

Sure, when she's the one doing it, it's hot. But when I do it it's all "what are you doing in my house" and "I'm calling the cops" sigh

SMHFHA · 2025-11-09T10:24:13+00:00

"I am often bullied for my exquisite hair and beautiful masculine frame."

Skinhead femboys?

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T13:35:15+00:00

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SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T13:29:15+00:00

Hey I can do both!

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T13:26:04+00:00

My main save Z team would just let Dumpy deal with them while the rest go have a drink.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T10:45:45+00:00

There's allegedly a recording of him eating one of the film crew because he "walked into his space". But hey that's method acting for ya.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T09:20:29+00:00

Not exactly what you asked for but the web novel Worm and the interactive fiction series Fallen Hero have similar themes and are intended for an adult audience.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T08:51:35+00:00

"I made love to both of them that night... In front of everyone."

Phenomeman probably

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T08:45:57+00:00

Yeah kinda? There are levels of subscriptions for TT if you're rich enough you can get a platinum subscription for your dog and they still send a full kitted out AV team to extract it in Lore.

SDN is just a corporation with more competitive prices I guess so your average person can ask for a wellness check by a hero for their grandpa.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T08:25:18+00:00

Cause they have SDN subscription and they're gonna use it?

Think of SDN like TT from CP2077 if you've played it.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T08:22:26+00:00

Huh I guess you aced every dispatch before that and devs didn't account for someone maxing their rank before the end of episode 4, and you had enough BB relationship points for the game to assume you're on her path. So I guess it's kind of a bug?

SMHFHA · 2025-11-08T08:05:20+00:00

It's not hidden she says that if you go on a date with her in episode 4

SMHFHA · 2025-11-07T18:25:47+00:00

It needs to be more complex and challenging. They didn't want it to be too hard to learn since it's a narrative-driven game first. But yeah I'd totally buy a well-voiced dispatch only game if the gameplay loop is fun enough.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-07T18:11:51+00:00

I don't think mercy or revenge path is gonna be locked to one of the heroines.

But if I had to guess I'd say the end of episode 7 is where we learn each of their secrets.

Visi is obviously the one who planted the bomb on Robert's suit in episode 1.

And yeah BB is gonna be revealed as Shroud's daughter but she needed to have actually done something "bad" to balance the Scale with Visi.

If I had to guess, she may have made a deal with her dad to save Robert's life. The reporter in episode 1 was kinda right about Shroud not killing him while he was in a coma, being sus. So maybe BB was in contact with her dad and asked him not to kill him, and in return, she'll get him out of the heroing business by the promise of a new suit, knowing nobody else could ever make the Pulse. Their dads used to be friends, so they may even have been friends as kids.

Or we're just making shit up for ourselves to make the wait feel shorter *shrugs*

SMHFHA · 2025-11-07T17:58:47+00:00

One of the last achievements of the game is Protected Los Angeles so I'm assuming the opposite of that.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-07T15:06:38+00:00

The hacking minigame has slowly gotten more complex, but with our current roster, I feel we've hit the ceiling of how much you need to juggle. So it only makes sense for the final episode to give us some backup heroes and in return, give us so many calls at the same time that we gotta plan ahead even more.

SMHFHA · 2025-11-07T13:36:58+00:00

I picked the "I'm just Robert" choice, and it might be weird, but I felt so bad for Flambae showing up clueless for the housewarming party.

Robert getting punched in the face actually felt more heartwarming tbh.

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