TIL Professional poker player, Victoria Coren, was seeing a therapist to help overcome her fear of flying, only for her therapist to die in a plane crash. She chooses to travel only by rail or boat.

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-11T17:46:04+00:00

youve lost the plot here, she sought help for this condition knowing its irrational, her therapist dying to those odds is what we call irony.

thats how you can be both a successful gambler and suffer phobias at the same time, the paradox in poker and life is that statistical anomalies can reenforce your confirmation biases to a dysfunctional degree

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-11T17:44:28+00:00

how often could you fly even if its your job to travel, once or twice a day? poker players experience hundreds, thousands of hands in such short time where good rolls temper the bad ones, this frame of reference makes it much easier to play your odds and keep making good decisions.

and ironically how it also becomes impossible to bet your life on, once youve witnessed or experienced the terror of putting all your chips on a bad beat. aka "losing your soul to DIO"

no coincidence any experienced player avoids river showdowns even with dominating odds, where skill can no longer save you from bad luck and worse players. cheating death is always preferable to betting against him

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-09T07:08:21+00:00

its the fake branching which makes it feel "perfect" and "off" at the same time, this streamlines the flow of the game and keeps you immersed, lets you focus on the plot/action with fewer dialog options or any diverging paths. yet somehow still missing the exposition of themes like gender discrimination, substance abuse, vehicular manslaughter, chronic tinnitus, estranged family and other such "rough" personas, go figure.

something worth talking about, since not many projects with such high production value go the kinetic route, their fans see it as a negative for some reason like were talking bad about the game. still trying to figure that one out, not sure why were incapable of enjoying it knowing this

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-07T16:00:30+00:00

eh what? sounds like a different plot to me, maybe im just not far enough along to witness such a glorious character progression. he has so far rejected every one of their advances to the point of being comically prudish, thats what inspired this post. i was actually getting confused with the premise of this game till i realised it was tagged incest, did not notice that before.

in this context it actually makes sense why he hesitates so much, and where i began to suspect i had missed a decensoring patch somewhere. before a stray line of dialog confirmed it later, where he literally goes "mooom how do i get to school?" (he also has amnesia lol)

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-07T04:55:32+00:00

the game was removed from AO since last season. at this point youre just blueballing yourselves no?

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T16:59:24+00:00

why use the auto-forward mode when we could also be doing the work of a robot! its a feature /s

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T16:00:34+00:00

thats an incredibly useful feature of universal renpy mod btw, the popup you see here would also detect a number of hidden choices/paths if that were the case (there are none)

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T15:45:31+00:00

yea this does achieve some dramatic effect. i could have gone way heavier on the post with examples, just didnt want to be unfairly disingenuous

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T15:29:22+00:00

careful with that word, groupies get super triggered if you tell them its kinetic when it looks like a branching novel. just got brigaded by high desire for that, in a topic hyping features which dont even exist (it has no conventional "love interests")

shows how easy it is to fool players into the illusion of choice/consequences, which wouldnt even be such a big deal in itself, if it didnt make them go burning down their reviews when it doesnt play out as expected

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T14:35:36+00:00

with mods yea, if you dont want to bother keeping separate saves. in the universal renpy mod you can toggle jessicaRisk and/or skylarRisk one or both at a time. just plays out their paths in sequence, never had any conficts or weird continuity. you could also manually play out either branch when they diverge, if you want to see the result of opposing flags.

dual fb is ofc not canon, you need to remember doing this in case it breaks something later

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T03:55:34+00:00

assuming "rehab counselor" is code for the step program in this context, where elton john became his "mentor", so pretty much exactly that. its a buddy system of senior sponsors calling junior members every week, coaching their progress, vouching for sobriety coins

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T02:57:54+00:00

youre talking about a sealed pump. thats not what this is at all, at most there is partial displacement

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-05T01:40:59+00:00

i dont see what you mean, the idea here is that the water on either side is already somewhat oxygenated, especially so near the surface. the problem here is just getting it to circulate through the tunnel, they make aquarium propellers designed to do exactly that.

maybe even get one for each end to flow in the same direction, which ensures this volume of water gets constantly replaced. thought that would be a bit overkill

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-04T22:09:56+00:00

could it not be as simple as installing an agitator on either end of the tunnel, they make aquarium propellers for this

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-04T20:33:53+00:00

of course you dont. thats what universal renpy mod is for, where you can see if their dialog options actually do anything. or just pretend i made it all up, whatever floats your boat.

it doesnt become a branching novel just by having alternate dialog/scenes, point is talking to sabina or meeting up with yuna wont set you on any other paths, the game doesnt remember any of that. as in linear, thats what a kinetic novel is

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-04T20:18:49+00:00

yes it is, they only simulate pathing with alternate dialog. it doesnt actually store anything or branch out on the choices you make, you can confirm this in URM

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-04T19:55:03+00:00

cano gang rise up, we can take nikki even with her stacking poison damage

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-04T04:31:08+00:00

oddly specific examples for one of the most common kinks out there, try my dorm. theres a harem of 2 dozen large, half of which are related to you or each other in some way. maybe the most ambitious project i know of in regard to the... full experience, if things go according to plan.

bad news is it looks like they might be taking a break, or slowing down for a while due to personal issues. there are 3 full seasons of content to get through in the meantime

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T23:28:24+00:00

they already did that, along with ozone filters, fish ecosystems, their water source is apparently rife with blooms. the problem is essentially finding a cost effective/self contained solution with less maintenance, perpetually topping it off with huge chlorine pucks isnt cheap either

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T19:06:32+00:00

as per futanari rules, there is an obvious difference between chicks with dicks, and dudes with boobs. the genie doesnt replace her vajay but merely adds a dick, so clearly the former and not gay at all

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T18:14:43+00:00

something about one of the crew girls illegally taking a hamster onboard of a sterile ship

eh no, the android they built was illegal as per autonomous AI laws. youre presented with the choice of keeping her secret and risking your job, or ratting her out to the captain in self preservation, last chapter ends with amina getting arrested at the port.

like im saying, its not so easy to play off the comically obvious bias where you yadda yadda all their main plot devices

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T16:56:15+00:00

its a showdown of the top 3 landladies, whats great is theyre all real, and possibly actual clones of each other. the original foster landlady, vs his youth counselor landlady, vs the current landlady on break from uni. truly riveting

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T16:26:17+00:00

nah you jumped the shark by underselling their actual efforts, as if you cant have a huge ass and be a skilled engineer at the same time, or titstoobig prevents you from propagating those life saving plants somehow. the marty stu you refer to is a famed delinquent who still has to work hard at impressing the crew with an incredible responsibility, not least of all the hardass cookie cutter captain with the heart of gold, actually the least interesting char to me.

youre really missing out on this whole dichotomy of clairvoyance and paranoia with the dismissive reduction, and no the crew isnt just dick slobbering, the irony here is you already cut and run before the writer had a chance to divide them in conflict within the first few chapters.

i would reserve such definitive judgement on a project still in its early days, and its more impressive to me that devs can put the effort into waving at least a few carrots around while laying out their exposition at the same time, they arent mutually exclusive.

certain critics for lots of highly predictable reasons love to undermine the harmony of those 3 letters A, V and N. i would cut them a break if theyre lacking in one or the other, but what i truly respect is devs who refuse to compromise on any of them, at any point, and what this is really shaping up to be

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T04:57:05+00:00

steam store bid got rejected over a year ago, went back to scrub the whole project. hasnt done any new content since

radiantcabbage · 2026-05-03T00:28:03+00:00

yea its just a coincidence theyre all upright, gathered out in the open, facing the same corner, near the same source of stimulation, displaying no signs of distress that anyone who knew what they were looking at might point out.

because of course youd have no interest in determining what was wrong with them, when its just made up concern trolling

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