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>Life is Strange
(LiS) - An episodic narrative adventure game by developer Don’t Nod (DN). Set in the fictional coastal town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon, it follows Max Caulfield, a shy, awkward photography student who discovers she can rewind time and—perhaps more urgently—that she’s very, very gay. At the heart of the story is Max’s reunion with her estranged best friend, the rebellious, blue-haired Chloe Price. Their bond becomes the game’s pulsing queer core as they unravel the mystery of Rachel Amber’s disappearance. What begins as a teenage reconnection blooms into a messy, tender queer odyssey about grief, desire, and the impossible choices we make for the people we can't truly live without.
>Official Websites:
https://lifeisstrange.com/
https://dont-nod.com/en/
>Life is Strange Series Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36149206
>Lost Records Series Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902960
>/lisg/ Permalink:
http://orph.link/lisg
>FAQs, Old Threads/Strawpolls, Soundtrack/Music & Leaks:
http://orph.link/lisgarchive
>/lisg/ Community Written Fan Fiction:
http://orph.link/story
>Compilation of Fanfics:
http://orph.link/fanfic
>/lisg/ Content Producers:
http://imgur.com/a/DOAKn
>Art of LiS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=265yHETXRXo [Open] [Open]
>/lis/ sings:
Obstacles
https://web.archive.org/web/20200324102651/https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=WjPsOkijFh0
Glass Walls
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1y584yhvq5p2y35/Glass+walls+lisg+editio n.mp3
No Below
https://www.mediafire.com/file/cpi79dyuahemkd4/Lisg+sings+no+below+all +v.mp3
Discussion of other LiS games in the series like Life is Strange 2, TC, Don't Nod's other media like Lost Records, the upcoming TV show and other similar games is welcome!
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>>566593374
This is a Mixtape thread
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>As Max and Chloe are leaving the ruins of Arcadia Bay behind, there's one more tragic story unfolding
>Alice and Lisa stuck in Max's room, Alice hasn't eaten anything in days, the dorms are destroyed and no one comes looking for them
>"No one's gonna come save us, this is the end, we'll starve to death..."
>Alice...you can survive this and go back to your owner. All you have to do is... all you have to do is eat me."a times this week did you try to nibble my leafs? I'm a plant, Alice, you're a bunny, maybe it's time I accept my destiny... OUR destiny."
>"Lisa, I can't make this choice!"
>"No Alice, you're the only one who can"
>eat Lisa
https://orph.link/sacrificelisa.mp3
>eat your own foot
https://orph.link/sacrificepaw.mp3
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BAE > bay
BFFs, Pirates, Wonder Twins, Partners in Time & Crime & Love, Fellow Dorks, GFs, Wives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvZxmgLfNA
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>>566593257
She really is
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>>566596886
The schizo cuck who makes these probably forgot to set his alarm to bump the thread, so it died. This is like the fifth time it's happened since the announcement. Truly shows how hyped people actually are
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>>566594656
Wow, it really is one freak arguing with himself.
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>>566610965
You are just as annoying as the shippers that think the entire series hinged on Pricefield. Shut the fuck up, man. DE and Reunion flopped because they were incredibly half assed, poorly thought out cash grabs dictated by a publisher NOTORIOUS for mismanaging it's IPs. The shop had nothing to do with it either way.
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>>566615580
Honestly, it's not just that one. When LiS 2 came out, bump limit was reached every time along with a lot of discussions about it. Then it waned a bit after the final episode which is normal but then shippers did what they did best, seethed and drove everyone else out. Then it kept dying prematurely even when it was covid time when everyone was literally at home lmao.
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>>566596886
RISE
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>>566623869
Agree on the name change but only for Steph since Izzie is a different character altogether. Nothing about Steph in the book is particularly "Steph" except for being a lesbian and namedropping other LiS characters. Though, I struggle to think up of anything at all that comes to mind that's unique to her. She could've just been another survivor from the storm with the same traits.
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>>566642698
Because of the new french book talking about the legacy of Life is Strange turning into a franchise with D9 and Square Enix London. I guess hes a lot more open now that both those two are functionally dead
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>>566642698
The game will forever define his life, so its what people ask about
>>566643704
This might be true too.
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>>566642698
It seems like it's been on his mind a lot since DE. He also mentioned ideas for a drifters prequel a while back. He probably just answers the questions people ask, but I feel like he's more open to returning to LiS than he was in the past. Not getting my hopes up, though.
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>>566647736
Drifters prequel would be dope. Cassidy is bae
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>>566653507
Dull and uninspired. Visual presentation is very so-so. If you've seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off and John Hughes movies, you've played the game. Music is okay but its biggest sin is that the proverbial mixtape has already been curated by Stacey, which is the point I know, and you can't even choose the songs at all. I get the trailer was just speaking in general when it goes your best memories live in music but it's all Stacey's. I expected at least that much agency in it but it just moves you along for 2-3 hours with the short mini-game or time-waster every chapter. They even removed one of the lines in trailer about what they'll think about themselves in 10 years iirc which probably was the emotional center to begin with, instead of the ditching her friends to follow her dreams, and some of the line deliveries were better too. Legitimate 3/10, 5 at best.
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>>566657243
It's just game journalists being game journalists drumming up controversy because most outlets are giving it very high scores. It's all based on arbitrary criteria sure, but all of them not finding fault in it when it's barely a game? I've read some of the reviews and the gameplay is never the focus. The reviews definitely have been paid for. It barely had marketing too iirc, just a few trailers and one in the summer game fest about a year or two ago I think. It even got delayed for a while so it leaves you wondering what happened.
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>>566658531
>the gameplay is never the focus
This is like a narrative adventure game, of course it was never the main focus in the same way for a big AAA game
>it leaves you wondering what happened.
Annapurna laid off a shitload of its game staffers in the publishing wing, you can see by the early trailers most of the game was pretty much the same but they likely had to deal with production forcing a delay
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>>566655859
If you the studio that made this as their first project and then Mixtape is "dull and uninspired" I have some eggs to sell you
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>Mixtape doesn't have gameplay, the reviews have been paid!!1!!
Why this discourse wasn't present when Dispatch relased? That game is even more linear and shameless than Mixtape, yet only with this one it spawned out
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>>566617209
The first time I remember /lisg/ being basically dead (i.e. just kept alive by one person doing page 10 fanart bumps) was spring 2017 before the development of BtS leaked, so it definitely wasn't just a post-LiS 2 shipper thing
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>>566653507
It's a fantastic one off play for the story. It's definitely one that will work for a lot of LiS fans, but theres not exactly a lot of game there, and practically nothing you do changes the story.
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>>566642698
He’s obviously just reaching a breaking point after seeing the characters he created get turned into absolute shit in Reunion. I’d feel the same if I put more heart and brain cells into a single photo in LiS2 than the Reunion hacks put into their entire game. But honestly? No sympathy for him anymore.
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>>566653507
I really loved it! I'm the exact target audience for walking simulators so none of the shit people are complaining about with it bothers me, I love a teen movie style coming of age story, and I love the music they picked! It made me laugh out loud several times too. I don't know if I'd go so far as to give it a 10/10, but it's at least an 8 for me and I can see why other people who could connect to it even more deeply might put it at 10.
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I think the book about Chloe will suffer from this too. What kind of personality and story are they even going to give her? Based on Reunion, she comes across as a pretty shallow character, and the traits she was given in Double Exposure were basically that she’s a coward, a seducer of women, and a punk.
And not a single one of those things was really addressed in Reunion, except that she’s now apparently a full-time punk with no real prospects for the future.
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>>566703551
Ignore most, if not all, of Double Exposure, and just have Chloe spend a lot of time reflecting on things and missing Max. Maybe give us some updates on older characters too. It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. Maybe Izzy gets a few chapters and a small romantic subplot with an OC or something.
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Soulless and flopped
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>>566703551
>Based on Reunion, she comes across as a pretty shallow character, and the traits she was given in Double Exposure were basically that she’s a coward, a seducer of women, and a punk.
Blame that on Deck Nine's bad writing. Chloe's punk persona is a coping mechanism to deal with the loss of her father and abandonment/abuse she receives, but she's actually smart and with an interest in sciences. D9 of course dumbs it down to the lowest common denominator, just like they did with Max.
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>>566703551
From what I understand, the book was originally supposed to be very different and was commissioned around the same time as Double Exposure. Make of that what you will. But my guess is that what we’re getting now will be pretty tame, and that the original version probably would have caused a lot more backlash
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>>566706074
>Seether comment
>>566707329
Unironically has more soul and actually did better
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>>566707858
And because I’m in a charitable mood, and since no one else seems to have found anything meaningful in ages, here’s what I know. The book was hinted at multiple times in interviews going as far back as 2024. In one article, they even said outright that it would be interesting to explore Chloe’s perspective in a book. From what I have learned, it also changed direction multiple times because the story of Double Exposure kept changing. But it always seemed tied to whatever role Chloe was supposed to have in the next game. And I do know for a fact that, at one point, a major new character was meant to be a love interest for Chloe, though it would apparently have been left open-ended.
So I’ve always assumed they were trying to cover every possible angle, in true corporate fashion. So expecting nothing from the book
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>>566709078
Where did you learn this? I really can't tell if this is true or not given the nature of /lisg/ lately. But DE changing direction each time was part of the course so I'm not going to dismiss it outright, and Rosie Thorr mentioned they had to write the book at the same time they were pivoting the story into Reunion, hence why the relase in september
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>But it always seemed tied to whatever role Chloe was supposed to have in the next game
Devries admitted they only called them to reprise Chloe's role in 2023, and before that there was no intention to bring her back, in fact some former dev hinted Chloe role in the initial draft of DE2 was way smaller than the full Pricefield pivot we got
>And I do know for a fact that, at one point, a major new character was meant to be a love interest for Chloe, though it would apparently have been left open-ended
Was it a game character that got scrapped like the water and fire powered people rumored to have been planned for DE2? It would have made sense with the direction they were set with Max getting new romance options
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>>566709841
Then imagine what they'd call Reunion's sales, considering it sold way worse and had way less engagement. And that's despite the lower price tag, a more convenient release format, and being 100% pure fanservice slop.
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>>566710237
This was a character from the book who was meant to be a romantic interest for Chloe. But the obvious idea was that Chloe would still potentially remain an option for Max later on, and if that didn’t work out, Chloe would already have another possible relationship set up for herself.
More options, no real creative direction, just checking every box so everyone gets something. Very much in true Square Enix fashion.
>>566710986
You’re clueless if you think Square Enix cares about anything other than money. They probably had surveys and market research telling them this direction would sell better, and that’s why they went with it. If you think they care about some online noise, you really don’t understand how these companies operate.
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>>566711650
>They probably had surveys and market research telling them this direction would sell better, and that’s why they went with it.
They didn't do any of that. Their focus groups were skewed toward people who either played the new games or hadn't played at all, that's it. If they'd actually surveyed the full player base, they wouldn't be in this deep shit right now
>>566712010
You're talking out of your ass. The December focus group was already showing the return of pricefield and the same garbage that ended up in Reunion. The March and November groups were just a sham
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>>566712654
>The December focus group was already showing the return of pricefield and the same garbage that ended up in Reunion.
You have no proof of that, far as we have been confirmed a lot of people went there and they were asked why they disliked DE and what they liked from the original game. Chloe was in the project because she was added last minute for a smaller role, but only with the sacking of the DE team the project turned into a full Pricefield fanservice
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>>566699886
Sure, except for the fact that almost everyone who worked on DE still looks back at it fondly, despite all the BS from SE and their own management. They still support each other.
Meanwhile, everyone forced to work on RE hates its guts, except for the two writers and a couple of interns working for peanuts. People are literally putting "worked on DE" in their resumes for stuff they did for RE, or setting photos with the old team as their pfps on new accounts. So, keep telling us which game had more soul put into it.
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>>566713596
You're coping hard right now, mixing general hearsay with your own wishful thinking. The groups were split: people who played everything were asked what worked in the OG and what failed in the sequels, while people who played only the first game had, let's say, a different set of questions. The Reunion slop pitches were already handed down by SE's house writers, and the DE team was already gutted by then (they knew they were done as early as October/November), leaving D9 with a skeleton crew of just two writers
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Zimmerman spesifically said that they pivoted to a Pricefield game and this was supported by SE. They made the choice.
>>566713724
Lie and more lies. Just read the glassdoor reviews, people hated working on DE. The mocap director for Reunion even criticized the writing of DE in the interview he did. Which is really taboo in his line of work
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>>566716139
Ladydevheart on reddit and Zimmerman on his blogg has also spoken about D9 spliting into factions and the place been a very hard place to work.
But I can imagine Aysha and her band of misfits still thinking they made a great game.
Its so weird that on the writing team not a single writer had Life is Strange as their favorite game. Never trust fans of Life is Strange 2
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>>566719068
https://bsky.app/profile/ayshaufarah.bsky.social/post/3m5kbnnsz4s27
I have followed her for a while, and I have no doubt that when she writes something like this it means that she really did write something that would make people very angry
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>>566716139
>Zimmerman spesifically said that they pivoted to a Pricefield game and this was supported by SE. They made the choice.
Lmao. Zimmerman didn't make any decisions. Him and that woman didn't actually come up with anything for this game other than endless, hollow dialogue. They basically gutted everything that pointed toward the next game because it was already obvious there wasn't going to be one
>The mocap director for Reunion even criticized the writing of DE in the interview he did.
You mean Zachary?
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>>566720281
You clowns are obsessed with her. She was just a staff writer doing dialogue for two characters. They promoted her like five minutes before the layoff, she didn't even have time to make any actual decisions. Her tweet basically confirms exactly that
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>>566720731
>They promoted her like five minutes before the layoff
She mentioned working as a writer on Reunion, but she's not credited in the game. Clearly they cut out all the things she wrote for the original story
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>>566719068
>Never trust fans of Life is Strange 2
Supposed LiS2 fans putting out a bastardized, politically neutered version of the original first game in DE means they never understood a single thing from this series
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>>566721963
She's not credited because she did nothing. She got a promotion right before the end. Meanwhile, Kuan and Stauder are credited because the entirety of Reunion, minus the 9 hours of empty filler dialogue, is based in part on what they cooked up
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>>566715487
No names, anon, considering how this fandom loves to harass people. You can see, this thread is already full of Plebbit sleuths, lol. But honestly, the stuff I mentioned isn't even that hard to find if you actually look for it.
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>>566724470
This is what she said when Reunion was leaked on the rating board
>caught between the two vibes of "oh fuck, everything is terrible and burning down" and "a cool thing I worked on is coming out soon! yay :)"
And her friend down the comments wrote this
>well, it does help some the thing you're working on is *about* everything burning down
Bitch can't keep her mouth shut if you press her well enough, her stuff was 100% cut from the final Reunion's story.
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>>566726590
Anon, it's not that hard to figure out. Everyone knows who she was assigned to and now it's pretty obvious what the original roadmap for the DE sequel looked like. Her work became completely useless once they changed directions
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>>566728950
>Is it worth trying?
Not really, the story is geniuenly insulting and makes a fool out of the original game, generally the first two episodes are the strongest then it falls apart very badly in the last portion. And if somehow you ended up caring about the story and want to see were it goes... Reunion makes it worthless because it cuts down everything and none of your choices matter
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>>566728950
Give it a shot. It all depends on your expectations. I enjoyed it way more than TC or BtS, which I couldn't even finish because they were so boring. Maybe I even liked it more than LiS2, but that one was good for different reasons, like you said
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>>566731225
>the ones seething in this thread
It’s literally the same cuck seething all over this thread. Case in point: >>566734129
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>>566737610
That’s a different sub-species. Those Discord types are too fragile for any pushback, so they stay in their echo chambers. This idiot enjoys the attention. He’s also brain-dead - the retard actually outed himself earlier
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Hot take, Reunion and DE are both equally disappointing and mediocre and you 3 or 4 morons arguing about it are annoying as fuck.
Amanda a cool character. Chloe is a cool character. Stop having shitfits over it.
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>>566749631
I can kind of understand Lost Records stuff being posted here because it's at least by Dontnod, but what the hell does this nonsense have to do with anything? Is this now the general for the Strangelike genre?
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>>566772823
One of the schizos here has advocated for a general for telltalle like games in the past but only for ones exclusive to lesbians or underage stuff. They wouldn't actually do it because then it would encompass every 3D adventure game and would end up overshadowing life is strange and the other niche lesbian stuff. They just post that stuff here because there's nowhere else.
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>>566772823
>Strangelike genre?
Things of a similar nature have always been discussed here. Usually just a bit of hype when something new comes along, but Lost records hangs about because it's as close to LiS1 in qaulity as anything has got since.
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>get reminded how i felt after playing lis out of nowhere
>that strange nostalgic feeling
>the youth I'll never experience
>the adventures and drama with friens I'll never experience again
>the first love I'll never feel again
>the hopes and dreams
>the optimism
I just can't go on bros
just fucking can't. I feel so empty and sad
how do I cope besides an hero
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>>566826291
Ooh, pissfag, looks like your ass is still burning because your fave’s return turned out to be the biggest flop in the history of the franchise, lol?! Keep seething. I need something to keep me entertained until the series drops
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>>566824020
The dumb pissfag didn’t even look into it. He’s just rushing to post any garbage fanart he can find to pretend this fanservice slop actually triggered a wave of fan content. When in reality, it’s the exact same few cripples drawing it who’ve been drawing it all along, lmao
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As long as it keeps making you seethe, circus boy
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>>566871906
slop that doesn't look anything like Dylan
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>>566848314
That's inevitable, but we desperately need the raw numbers right now. The fandom is completely deserted as it is, let alone /lisg/. Like that one anon pointed out, even our resident seether is down to just one guy
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Revised.
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>>566877785
It'll spring back to life the moment a trailer for the show drops, more engagement for it on /tv/ since it is a show. I'm guessing some will come here to shitpost, only a handful might stay to play the game, get their opinions in and leave once they're done and likely get tired of the seethers.
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>>566920957
You will just have to live with the Pricefield fanbase growing bigger then ever
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>>566934880
BtS literally had a whole wiki article dedicated to all the inconsistencies it has from the original game because there was just so many and glaring.
https://life-is-strange.fandom.com/wiki/Canon_Inconsistencies
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>>566937410
There are so many that just very obvious
>Victoria knows Chloe and its already at Blackwell despite the first game implying she's there for Jefferson alone
>Chloe knows Warren and he's present at Blackwell when she doesn't in LiS1
>Rachel's DA father being in a loving and affluent family
>The general timeline of events
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>>566939525
>The game that had no max except the bonus episode was well received by shippers
Only the Amberprice losers liked ByS. At least get your shit straight before you smear your verbal diarrhea on the general.You are by FAR worse than any Pricefield shipper.
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>>566942529
>he game that had no max except the bonus episode was well received by shippers
Which further proves who the favorite is for pricefield shippers and who is just an appendix to her. And that they are ready to swallow any game with her, even the lowest quality and most inconsistent one. But the moment Max appears alone in a game like that, the hysteria instantly begins.
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>>566956637
Maybe that's true offsite but there hasn't been a real Legionnaire in /lisg/ since at least 2018. The nadir of this general was 2019-2021 when it was just nonstop shitposting about a nonexistent enemy
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