/lisg/ - Life is Strange General #456

What's Chloe "When I see a smiley, I get wily" Price's problem with emojis?

>>163916963
http://www.strawpoll.me/11965358
http://www.strawpoll.me/11965358

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Daily reminder that everything that happens past Chloe getting shot is in max's head, trying to deal with her best friend dying after she waited years to contact her, even after she got back to arcadia bay. The "nightmare" at the end is her subconsciousness trying to get her to back to reality. Sacrificing chloe is accepting her death and moving on, and sacrificing arcadia bay is letting the tornado (her grief) wipe her out and going insane. All the people in the cafe in her dream represents the people that will "die" for her if she goes insane, and the edgy "cereal" max she is talking to is the part of max's mind that wants to accept reality and snap out of it, while chloe represents the opposite part.

Going from max the socially awkward to being max the awesome superhero saving the day and befriending everyone with her time powers reflects her delusion that she can make everything perfect and reverse chloes death. Those being mad about the endings and that the choices you made didn't have an effect on it is missing the entire message the game is trying to convey. Being left empty at the end is your way to feel max's pain and hopefully also accept chloe's death in the same painful way she did.

>>163916991
k a t e
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>>163917191
No idea (^_^)

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max is best girl!

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>>163917857
Max is not to be objectified.

>>163917191
Basically, she cannot handle the cuteness-levels when Max does them. She won't often care to point out "NOEMOJI" to other people.

I agree with not using emojis regularly, all the more so in private chats. It encourages a chat culture where people feel their tone is off without an emoji, and from there quickly they feel compelled to add one (and more) to every second sentence and it just doesn't mean anything anymore - the writer does them automatically out of habit and compulsion; the reader equally doesn't register them. The sentiment is lost in that obligatoriness.

>>163917415
How does this stupidest-of-all pasta persist? It starts out making no sense whatsoever (Max doesn't even know it's Chloe), and gets even more retarded from there. Stop.

>>163917917
>Max doesn't even know it's Chloe

That represents her denial.

>>163917959
She is in denial about the person she managed to save the life of being Chloe, because she doesn't want to accept that Chloe died? Stop.

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Max is #1

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>>163918041
Keep in mind this isn't a theory about the actual plot of the game, it's mearly an interpretation of the game's potential symbolic meaning.

In the plot, yes, Max for sure saves Chloe. But in a symbolic interpretation you could argue that "Saving Chloe", and using her time powers represents Max's denial about her friend dying. Denial is the first stage of grief, and through the game Max slowly moves towards acceptance. The storm at the end can be seen as a representation of Max's grief, and by finally moving to the final stage: acceptence, grief will go away and she can get closure.

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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."
>"What? No, fuck that. Lisa, you're my number one priority, I'm not eating you!"
>"Alice, think about it... how many 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://instaud.io/kVV

>eat your own foot
https://instaud.io/kWb

>>163918393
Keep in mind that it's an interpretation that does not fit the game. Contradicts it in many ways. But sure, keep it. But stop posting your broken-english pasta here, will you.

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Their love is the purest.

>>163918576
>Keep in mind that it's an interpretation that does not fit the game

Obivously I don't agree, I think it fits the game very well. But I guess that's one of the most powerful things about art: the many ways it can be subjectively interpreted.

Why the Arcadia Bay population doesn't have any sense of self-preservation?

'''OHH A FUCKING HUGE TORNADO IS COMING I'M GONNA STAND HERE LIKE A IDIOT AND DO NOTHING AT ALL''

>>163918891
yeah like, run away lmao

>>163918891
Michel took them hostage and tied them down inside their own houses

>>163918962
>tornado didn't even destroy some old shitty buildings but somehow managed to ''kill'' the whole town

I think Michel killed them, not the tornado.

>>163918729
Interpretations are not merely about opinion. An interpretation can be more or less fitting in objective terms, and I have pointed out how your interpretation objectively does not fit the game.

To start, the "stages of grief" are proven a grave misrepresentation of psychological reality, a romanticized concept of trauma that actual science despises and fights to get out of people's heads - so even if the game were dealing with that concept, it would at best be a musing on something that's bullshit and can actually be harmful if people believe in it.

Then you ignore the fact that Max does not recognize Chloe. She saves "a poor girl". If she were in denial about her best friend dying, she would not be in denial about having saved said friend. That's just objectively paradoxical and would make the writing even more non-sensical.

Then there's the idea that Max would deal with the grief of her friend dying... by contriving a world in which she dies more often, more brutally, a world in which there's pain and suffering for said friend and herself. A world in which she reconnects and builds an imbreakably strong bond to this person she is supposedly working to accept the death of? That does not make any psychological or narrative sense.

The entire "symbolical" interpretation of the whole week as merely in her mind, the rewind as denial, the storm as grief, the death of others as her insanity, the nightmare that's actually an surrealistic over-exaggeration of her fears and insecurities that keep her from living her "real" life being an attempt to get her back to a reality? - That's just taken out of nowhere. There's no appreciable quality in that perspective, the symbolism does not work out at all.

Not to mention that your pasta talks about how everyone else is "missing the entire message". I always thought you were baiting and mostly didn't bother to reply to it, but that you actually stand by that pasta you've been endlessly posting is even worse.

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>>163919098
He tried to kill them.

The key word being "tried".

>storm is max's grief
>storm happens before traumatic event occurs
sure, why not
life is strange after all

>>163919286
>To start, the "stages of grief" are proven a grave misrepresentation of psychological reality, a romanticized concept of trauma that actual science despises and fights to get out of people's heads
Symbolism isn't invalid just because what's referenced isn't scientifically correct.

>Then you ignore the fact that Max does not recognize Chloe. She saves "a poor girl". If she were in denial about her best friend dying, she would not be in denial about having saved said friend. That's just objectively paradoxical and would make the writing even more non-sensical.
That's a fair point.

>Then there's the idea that Max would deal with the grief of her friend dying... by contriving a world in which she dies more often, more brutally, a world in which there's pain and suffering for said friend and herself
That's because Max is in an internal struggle with herself, one part in denial and another moving towards acceptance. Obvious examples of this is Chloe dying over and over again.

>Not to mention that your pasta talks about how everyone else is "missing the entire message". I always thought you were baiting and mostly didn't bother to reply to it, but that you actually stand by that pasta you've been endlessly posting is even worse.
The pasta is maybe exaggerated a bit, but I do stand by the core message of it.

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>The Great Tri-State Tornado of Wednesday, March 18, 1925 was the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. It was also the most exceptional tornado of a major outbreak of at least twelve known significant tornadoes across a large portion of the Midwestern and Southern U.S. It alone inflicted 695 fatalities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado)
>It alone inflicted 695 fatalities
>but they want us to believe that the whole AB population died

I dunno why but after playing LiS I became interested on this subject about natural disasters. Also, I started watching a lot of documentaries and spending my time reading about it on Wikipedia.

>>163920386
>symbolism isn't invalid
Wasn't making that argument, just saying it would be essentially meaningless (and even harmful?) to understand the message to be one about dealing with grief in stages, because that understanding of grief is wrong (and potentially harmful).

>internal struggle
While this could be argued, I just cannot see how her denial of Chloe's death, her fear of it, would be on the one hand strong enough to create an entire world full of time travel and magic and spirit animals... but on the other, she would confront herself with that death multiple times in even more brutal and traumatizing fashion. It doesn't make psychological sense (we know victims escape into a positive denial-reality to deal with a reality they cannot accept), and not narrative (it's about the journey to overcome the death of an old friend you lost contact with... through building an all-transcending connection to them?!).

I can see how it could be (and how the devs probably thought it is, to an extent or another) a "journey toward acceptance". I obviously don't consider that interpretation to be "invalid"; there's still a lot of things you can argue don't fit, or that the writing does not tell that story well... but it is a possible interpretation, and if people get a sense of "there's a life after losing something so incredibly dear and precious to us" out if it, who am I to try and take that away? And so even when I cannot see it as that, when it simply, absolutely isn't that to me, I can see the optimism it can hold for others as that.

I was arguing against the interpretative specifics that I just don't see fit the game by any reasonable stretch, some directly contradicting it. Maybe some of them more than I let on there, but still not appreciably so that I'd feel inclined to even entertain the interpretation they are mis-portrayed to support.

>http://archiveofourown.org/works/8699260?view_full_work=true
This story makes me want to play a game starring Kate and Vicky.

>>163920386
>maybe exaggerated
It's directly contentious in how it presents itself. The fact that you keep posting it, is.

The general is decidedly Bae > Bay, and there's a thousand-and-one Bae pastas people could be posting in support of that ending and how they think it is the only true, right, sensical, powerful, meaningful, whatever ending - some of them bullshit, some of them acceptable and sensible, some of them overwhelmingly convincing, emotionally and otherwise -, but still nobody feels the need to copy-pasta their opinions and interpretations about it ceaselessly... why do you?

>>163920395
But was it a magic EF6 tornado? :^)

>>163922293
No Michel, EF6 tornadoes don't exist.

>>163923110
Anything is possible if you use your imagination :)

Michel's imagination made Warryn into a street fighter in 3 days.

Anything is possible in his world. :)

>>163924105
These two are at it again? Great.
Please cast them for the series

Max is in denial about Chloe's death- she DENIED it from happening. Just as others deny death from claiming someone when they save them from a medial issue, fire, or other form of peril.
Max was in the right spot, at the right time, and was given the right tools. She used them to save someone (Who she didn't even recognize) and if you think that's wrong, or deserves punishment, then you are the bad person.

>>163920395
Yeah, that stuff is fascinating. I've watched and read some stuff as well, though I've had some interest in it before LiS. Keep in mind that was in 1925 so there was little-to-no warning systems and less sturdy construction.

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BFFs, Pirates, Partners in Time & Crime & In Love, Fellow Dorks, GFs, Wives.
OTP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvZxmgLfNA

>>163928294
You're late this time.

>>163928430
I know. But better late than never.

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>>163929472
Hella cute! It's missing the first part though

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>>163929472
>>163931025
Poor Chloe...
She talks so big, but then gets nervous when it comes to someone she actually really likes. It's so cute.
Even in the game she's left speechless whenever Max takes the initiative. You can really see the little girl she tried locking away under the ink and dye.

Chloe is cute

>>163932520
You're cute too, anon.

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>>163924105
>>163926879
Are they actually a couple or what?
I like their vibe.

>>163933135
U2 :3

>>163933840
I've heard they are, but I don't know.
Maybe they actually are this universe's Max and Chloe, must be weird to see yourself in a video game.

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>>163934221
>must be weird to see yourself in a video game.

;_;

>>163934380
When it comes to men in LiS, Daniel's not that bad.

>>163934907
At least he's not Warryn.

>>163935190
Warren's not even that bad. His awkwardness only harms himself.

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Best video game protagonist ever! (For me.)

Max a best. Chloe an also best. Together they are a bestest.

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Are you gonna vote for LiS, right?

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LiS is up for a Steam award for game that made you cry.

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>>163937101
>>163937147
Probably gonna vota, but honestly, I'm not sure I want more mainstream attention for LiS at this point. Not much good has come out of recent waves of attention.

On another note: These three cheeky buggers met just before Christmas, and are according to themselves working together again. LiS2, here we come.

>>163936590
Pricefield a bestest!

>>163937101
>>163937147
Don't know how much of a chance LiS has to win.
More attention would probably be a mixed bag: More people getting interested could make S2 a bigger hit, but if those people just gobble up everything blindly then it supports shoddy writing.
I really wish there was a A LOT more outcry after Polarized and that more people noticed just how bad the ending was when affixed to the rest of the story.

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>>163937101
Just voted!
We probably don't have much chance of winning anyway, the Undertale fanbase is pure weaponized autism

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There I voted, we better win

Was the voting for the overall game? I thought it was for one episode.

>>163939541
It's for the entire game, obviously since every episode has its own Steam page they couldn't put them all on the list

>>163938054
Yeah. I fully expect TWD or Undertale to win.

>>163937574
Are the other two guys next to Michel Dontnod devs?

>>163937574
Yet another hint that the sequel is in the works in at least some form.
Artists back to work at Dontnod, Devs meeting up, hints that VAs are being given roles.
Still definitely a long ways off from release though.

>>163944006
Chloe messing with Max's camera again
Nice shot tho

I want S2 to have a villain with the same or similar power as the MC.
I thought we were going to get that with Jefferson, Nathan, or Sean. I was looking forward to a timelord battle and puzzle.

>>163919286
>To start, the "stages of grief" are proven a grave misrepresentation of psychological reality
Stopped reading here. You want to know why Freud is still loved by literary critics despite the well-established illegitimacy of his ideas?
Because he was a visionary on what SEEMED to be true regarding human action and psychology, while fiction likewise deals with simulacra of human behavior rather than a genuine reflection of objective reality.
I haven't read whatever theory you are replying to, but attacking an exegesis on the grounds that it uses discredited psychology is nonsense. It's akin to attacking Paradise Lost because creationism isn't true.

>>163946221
But Anon, the real villain of the series is Michel, so that's already a thing

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All these pieces of fan art, it's too much for my little heart.

>>163946761
Make his NPC the big bad and have him voice act it. I'd give major props to that. The game's director being the true villain all along.

>>163946953
ANY art of Pricefield is lovely. Even if it's stick figures with blue hair/beanie and brownhair.
It's the idea that makes them cute. But the well-made, especially hand drawn stuff, makes it even better!

>>163946992
>Season 2
>Bae ending confirmed canon, Max and Chloe are living together in Seattle
>Max has a vision of a meteor storm that threatens to destroy the town and kill Chloe and her family
>spend all episodes trying to solve another mistery and avoid the tragedy
>right before the end, when the meteor storm is about to hit the city, Max discover that she can not only travel between alternate realities, but also between different dimensions
>finds herself in a dimension similiar to her own, except her story is actually just a videogame in this reality
>final choice involves letting Seattle getting destroyed by the meteor storm or killing the videogame director to stop it from happening

>Michel Koch is actually found dead in the Dontnod studio the day after the last episode ships

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>>163917415
Reminder that 'Life is strange' is actually the title of Maxine Price's first published book. The photos you take in the game are the ones included in the book and the diary/dialogue is some of the text on its pages. It's a story about Max's most defining period of her life, how she learned to gain confidence in herself, her wok, and how she reunited with her best friend and now wife.

Pick up your copies from bookstores, online, or from the giftshop of any gallery displaying her work. If you're lucky enough to see Max and Chloe at an exhibit they will sign it for you as well!

>>163946451
That point was entirely tangential to my main argument - the argument being that the game does not deal with that concept to begin with; the criticism of the concept itself was only relevant in as much as that if the game would be dealing with it, I'd consider it worthless as a psychological study that the other anon was taking it for, because it is based on a wrong presumption.

Sure, that does not mean it would be artistically worthless as such because of it, but if LiS has any worth to people, it's because of how authentic and relatable it is, which that concept provably couldn't be. It could still work as an allegorical portrayal of that concept and deal in symbolism rather than psychology, but with that it would lose most of its impact that I see, which is that relatability and relevancy to real life, its authenticity.

But again, none of that is core to my side of the argument anyway. The proposed message itself is one I cannot accept in the game, one that pales in comparison to what I do see in it. Telling a story of how it is possible to overcome the death of a loved one is a worthwhile story to tell and message to convey... but LiS does not tell such a story, and if it tried to, it would have failed conveying it (while it does convey another message far better).

The message of growing and accepting the death of a loved one is massive part of Chloe's character arc. That has meaning and is gratifying to see. How she matures and moves on past her rough past.
It is NOT satisfying to see Max abandon Chloe and give up on herself to set herself on a path for a miserable (and very possibly, short) life. All because she somehow at the end decides everything she has done was wrong.
There's no growth in that. That is regression.

Why do chloefags don't care about Kate

>>163950813
Oh yeah, it's an integral part to Chloe's character arc. When I say LiS does not tell such a story, I'm referring to the main story that conceptually goes from bathroom to cliff and revolves, as far as this argument was concerned, around the final choice.

As such more Max's side of the story I guess: while Chloe does start to overcome the death of William and Rachel in the story and while that emotional complex resolving is major part of how her story plays into the character-centric narrative, it is not as if we get much of a psychological (or narrative, for that matter) insight into that process of hers of learning to accept and deal - above all, the story shows that it is Max she faces, fights or at least forgets, and ultimately overcomes those demons with - through her, thanks to her. So more than being a part of the story standing as and for themselves, those aspects of her character story first-and-foremost work to support the central story that is Max and Chloe's relationship (and, as far as my interpretation and understanding of the game goes, most of every-thing in it does revolve around and mostly play a supporting role in the main topic that is telling the story of those two).

>>163952378
Why do you keep shit-stirring?
Did posting Grahamfield bait not get enough results?

>>163953076
Why would I post bait and shit stir, what on earth can I gain from it?

Max is a good person! Also cute!

>>163952378
Because she isn't Chloe or Max. Duh.

Pestilence came out with a new animation.
Chloe getting what she deserves.

>>163955885
Don't post it. We don't need that stuff here.

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>>163955885
REWIND THIS

>>163955885
Link?

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>>163938425
I voted too good luck!

>>163955960
Don't need?

We despise that disgusting stuff here, and luckily it gets you banned. So I for one say go ahead and post it >>163955885. I can stomach it, and I want you banned.

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>>163957696
WHAT THE FUCK
DELETE THAT RIGHT FUCKING NOW

>>163957292
Not entirely sure why that artist gives Chloe lizard eyes, but it's kind of cool for how different it is.
Also, why does Max looks sad when she's obviously getting a gift?

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>>163957696

Remember to vote for lis on steam

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Hi /lisg/, how is everyone today?

>>163958216
I missed out on the webm

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>>163957907
Max is so happy that she gets to spend Christmas with Chloe, so she is always very emotional, especially when it gets to the gifts.

>>163958216
So-so, but pretty good. Still on vacation. HBU?

>>163958216
Dead inside, as always.

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>>163958398
Here, reposting just for you
Don't tell anyone

this "game" ended a year ago

enough with these fucking stupid threads already

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>>163958503
Little rough to be honest. Lost my 4 year old dog to cancer on the 26th. Got a lot going on right now otherwise.

>>163958663
*squeeze*

>>163958979
No.

>>163958979
sorry, did we offend you in any way? :(

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>>163958503
I get it. Sometimes Max gets a little overwhelmed at how good things are after all they've been through.

>>163959198
:(
Sorry to hear that, Skippy. Hope everything else is going better and that your family's been supportive.
RIP Skippuppy

>>163958979
It's not like this is a decision anyone can make, even if they wanted. These threads are still there because they are there, that's literally all there is to it. Maybe you can understand and in the future just not let them affect you and get so triggered that you have to shitpost in here (which also helps the thread go on btw.!). Who's the SJW now?

>>163959198
Sorry to hear. 4 year old, so unexpected I suppose? Dunno man, what is it you do? Drink yourself forgetful on New Year's? Not that I'd recommend that, not at all, but you need some vent.

>>163959245
>>163959328
>>163959563

Sorry for making that angry post, it was just a heat of moment thing.

I just see all of you people happily posting in this community and get jealous because I wish I had a group of friends to talk about common interests with, i've always been a loner and an outsider

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>>163959563
Shit was really sudden. She was fine until Thanksgiving, then she took a bad turn. We got the diagnosis, the vet said we had another month, but she didn't make it through the day. It's just scary how fast it all happened.

>>163959427
Everything else hasn't really been going that well, but they have been supportive so I'm thankful for that.

>>163959732
Who says we can't be friends?

>>163959732
Well, it seems you don't share a common interest with us in this game, otherwise I'd have invited you to talk with us and try to be our friend here.

Are there other generals you actually like the topics/games of that you could start to frequent?

>>163959732
You're welcome to hang out here Anon. This game is pretty great, and it's on sale right now if you want to give it a shot. First part is even free.

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>>163960038
>>163959957
>>163959934

Actually, I kind of...well... have played the game since the episodes first came out

>>163960138
Well, did you like the experience, even if you consider it less of a gaming experience and mroe of a... what, cinematic one?

Were you ever in /lisg/ before?

Did you hear, we are getting a live-action series next year, and a second season (probably 2018, but possibly next year as well).

>>163960393

Well..

I really enjoyed most of the season, the plot twist where Jefferson was the killer genuinely blew my mind.

The only problem I that I found chloe to be a really unlikable character, so the ending wasn't as impactful on me as it should have been

The Victoria-Kate-Max angle that was going on in the first two episodes was another high point

>>163952378
Chloe a best. Kate a shit.

I was in it for the lore and easter eggs, but seems like Michel didn't care at the end

>>163960701
objectively wrong

>>163960701
Both are great in their own ways.

>>163960964
Yea, except Chloe is better

>>163952378
Who said I don't?

>>163960594
Well, many people here expected the Jefferson "twist" (some due to leaks, others because it was not difficult to imagine, him being merely a teacher but getting so much screen time and plot involvement and everything; also, being an attractive, relatively young, big-shot big-city guy going into hicktown nowhere to teach teens made him a dubious character to begin with, add his charm, photography of half-naked women on campus and rumours about having hooked up with a student and creeper vibes were justified).

Most of us like Chloe very much and liking both her, Max and their relationship so very much is indeed one of the major reasons why these "stupid threads" are around anymore. Pretty pathetic after all this time, but it's comforting, comfortable, and really, video game generals are pretty vain to begin with.

So, you didn't dislike the game, but you also never really felt compelled to talk about it, or want to talk much about it now, for that matter? Then why not search out a community for something you do want to talk about?

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>>163961481

>Most of us here like Chloe

Justify this then, Chloefags.

>>163961659
It's a throwaway, wannabe-rebellious line. You do know not to take everything real humans around you say literally and as something they are absolutely convinced of, right?

This girl had been violently attacked by a boy with a gun earlier that day, and just before this her authoritative, borderline-abusive military step-dad was getting on her ass for a gun. She wants protection, and she also wants to feel cool, rebellious, like she's sticking to "the man".

Right after this line, she specifies that she wouldn't want guys like David or Nathan to have a gun, defusing her statement herself already.

If you really want to take things this literally and forget all about how humans work, why not talk about the fact that she leaves David with an entire closet full of guns when she could have taken them all? She, literally, allows a man to have more guns than her, in her own home.

>"I'm not shit-stirring or baiting"
>Keeps posting comments with insults that cause arguments
Fuck off. Max, Chloe, and Kate are all good and would be appalled by your behavior.

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Let's all stop and just be friends.

>>163949312
>Life is Strange is a (secretly autobiographical) novel written by Max
>In truth she figured out how to save everyone, but her editor told her irrational misery sells better
>She and Chloe need to eat, so wanted book to sell well
>The only sacrifice prompt Max really faced was SACRIFICE LOGIC/SACRIFICE FINANCIAL SECURITY
>Max chose to sacrifice logic (and artistic integrity) to ensure her Chloe had enough bacon and eggs to eat ;)

>>163962987
Sent the friend request

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>Got the game for Christmas for a friend
>Played through Episode 1
>Didn't even see the Kate video I could delete and thought nothing of it
>Get to the start of episode 2


I need to replay that and delete it, goddamn, they're treating her like shit

>>163962551
>Max, Chloe, and Kate are all good
One of these names doesn't belong. I'll give you a hint. It doesn't start with M or C.

>>163963639
Kate has been bullied enough.

>>163963793
She like it, didn't you see the video on katesvid.com

Friendly reminder that the reason Katefags get triggered by Chloe vs Kate arguments is that they know Kate always loses

>All this hate for kate
>when kate.png is always second after op

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>>163964981

>>163964981
To be honest Valiant Hearts deserves the award more than any of these ''games''

>>163964037
I'm not getting triggered, you can like them all.

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/lisg/ rather save Chloe than a good working father
Prove me wrong, protip, you cant

>>163965705
William would die for Chloe's sake.

>>163964981
leave now

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>>163965705
>/lisg/ would rather have Max go back in time again, and have past Max sit with past Chloe, just for a few more minutes, because she can't bare to leave Chloe alone to find out her Father's died.
>They sit and draw some of their old comics together. Max draws Chloe on a motorbike b/c she knows future Chloe would look completely badass on one.
>Sadly finds herself pulled back to the future again before the terrible news can be delivered.
>Back in the present, something strange has happened.
>William is not kill
>Even the slightest variation on the original scene was enough to save him, because it only takes a delay of only a second or two to avoid a traffic accident
>And Chloe's not in her wheelchair!
>She's gotten a broken arm though, but it'll be out of the cast soon!
>h-how...
>Max looks in the garage. There's a motorcycle with some scratched paint on the side sitting in there
>Apparently she convinced Chloe to get a motorcycle instead of a truck. Better acceleration means she arrived at the crash point long before the other party, so the crash never happened.
>she did fall off it a couple of weeks ago at low speed, rolled and broke her arm
>Joyce nearly flipped her lid. Told her they were getting her something safer to drive. Like a big pickup truck!

>>163967447
Perfect, good thinking anon!

How many times is it normal to make Chloe shoot herself. Asking for a friend

>>163967939
Zero. It's not even possible for the bullet to do that.

>>163968192
>Bullets can't Richochet


Excuse me?

>tfw Twitch chat convinced Hannah to make Chloe accidentally shoot herself

Her reaction was Priceless

>>163968465
Did she stream LiS? When and where?

>>163968337
Not straight back. It was a small caliber hitting a curved surface (A bumper).
It would have either went skimming across the bumper, in the air, or into the dirt.

>>163968895
Yeah but that bullet was powered by Michel's imagination :)

>>163935190
Liam pls go

>>163969132
Wouldn't have even left the barrel then because that power source isn't big enough to fuel anything.

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>>163967939
I'm sure your "friend" will enjoy this...

>>163968337
Pistol caliber bullets against steel will deform and shatter unless it's an extremely shallow angle. A 180 degree rebound is completely impossible.

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>>163970394
Delete this.

>>163970394
What hell is wrong with some people...

>>163961659
Listen to what she says if she shoots Frank. It's a very different story than just some rebellious line.

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>>163970846
But it's so imaginative!

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>>163970990
Go away Michel or I'll turn you into a newt.

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>>163972537
CUTE!
>tfw we never got to see Max and Chloe go to the Blackwell dance and show off their moves and slow dance together

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Don't mind me, just dropping these to bump the thread

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No Hayden development
>>163973025
Nah, you're the cute one

>>163970916
People use fanfiction to write all kinds of bullshit, since it guarantees an audience. Luckily most that go into it with more depraved intentions like that tend to be utterly terrible writers and you are tired of reading their stuff a couple of sentences in.

I actually remember reading those... three I think it was? entries from that author in his Psycho!Max series, and while I would refrain from reading something of the sort if it were to be uploaded now, I remember actually finding it sort of fun and a... pleasant read? If I remember correctly, it was in the thick of talking a lot about the game in these threads between episodes that I found the stories, and they were breaking with what I normally thought about with regards to the game, and somehow refreshing. The not-to-be-taken-serious-ness of the thing always shines through in the writing, and so it was just a nice little playfully-nasty experience.

It's fairly tongue-in-cheek and self-aware, which in general I definitely enjoy more than the unrealistically, ridiculously, eye-rollingly angst-ridden, self-revolving bullshit you otherwise often get in fanfiction.

>>163972537
Yeah, rawk out girl!

I cannot dance, but I will so make "The Maxpaddle" dance move a thing.

>>163973439
Fair point about the fiction. I still don't like it when it's written about established character though, but that applies to all form of really 'out there' stuff.
If you're just going to warp their personality entirely, inject your own beliefs, or anything else- just write an OC.

I'm with you on the dancing. I can't dance for shit, but Max is an inspiration to us all! Once again she's been a bright spot in this world.

>>163958663
now im thinking how good porn they could do

>>163974525
I actually knew that answer when playing the game.

>>163974726
Sorry, those moments are private to Max and Chloe.

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>>163970394
delet

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>>163973839
Yeah, I wouldn't enjoy reading it anymore either, as I have become more decidedly invested into and just am in a different mindset now regarding the game anyway. I know exactly what I like about and how I view it, don't need to discover more, challenge or play with my views, search for refreshing, new types of content. There's a whole world of great fiction to do that in, and I find I actually enjoy other lit/film/game themes more now again that I don't relate them to LiS anymore.

And I agree, people lose most dignity they can have as writers in my mind if they leech off of another person's work and its audience without actually contributing or paying any respect to it, but abusing it, its characters and audience to get the attention for whatever it is they do to it. I would have a lot more respect if they created their own characters and stories than using those of others as name-templates, even if for the vast majority of them it would mean next to no audience. But eh, publishing shit is easier than ever now, if you really want to advance as a writer, going the easy fanfiction route is not optimal, to say the least.

Gif related: Maxpaddlin' IRL.

>>163975916
Seriously these two NEED to be in the series

>>163978507
Poor Max looks like she's having some bad memories. But Chloe's there for her.
>There are "people" that left Max without her best friend and only person she can entirely trust.

>>163975916
Cute

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Dance, Max! Dance!

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>>163981398

>>163981468
>That was easier than I thought?
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Was he going to grovel and cry until she accepted?
Not that it matters since Max's diary entry clearly shows her thoughts on it. Poor guy never had a chance.

>>163981616
Jesus, she is almost as adorable as Max.
I want to hug her. A lot.

>>163981863
Damn, nice view.

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>if you side with David you cant hook up with Chloe

This is some bullshit. Is there no way around this?

>>163983130
Max ends up with Chloe no matter what and David redeems himself.

>>163984073
Really..? I was already spoiled on the games ending so my first playthrough I was looking around a lot, and saw if you sided with David you don't get to suck face with Cholie

>>163984282
You only kiss Chloe in the bad ending.
Besides, it's not helping her if you enable her during some of her bad-idea moments.

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Max and Chloe kiss once the storm has finished. Also thousands of times after it.

>>163987015
You can see what they were probably trying to go for with those Chloe choices. You're supposed to choose between Chloe and "people other than Chloe" in each one.

>Weed blame = self interest vs Chloe
>Kate phonecall = Kate vs Chloe
>Steal cash = Special Bus vs Chloe
>David's dipshittery = Break up Joyce and David for Chloe's sake
etc


Problem is, as you say some options were enabling, which is not necessarily what someone who truly loves someone will do.

Others had an obvious, better third alternative (Why can't I take Kate's call while walking out with Chloe, preventing her Mother from yelling at her for whatever reason? Why can't I use Max's powers to rob an ATM machine, stealing from a rich bank instead of some disabled people?)

Others were obviously objectively superior (give gun to the guy already threatening Chloe, who says he'll use it on you if you don't pay him, vs keep gun)

I do wish there was some more options. This was my first game of the style, and I sometimes I didn't like how radically different the choices were. Only a few times was there a middle option.
Thankfully it rarely came down to clearly 'right' and 'wrong' which is an accomplishment.

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>>163988237
>The storm's destroyed Chloe's tongue and sealed her lips shut. She can't kiss passionately anymore
>Yes this makes no sense whatsoever, but neither does EF2 damage killing everyone
>We took this freedom to add to the tragedy, deal with it.

Always pick Chloe no matter what. Don't let yourself be guilt tripped by trivial things like a phone call.

>>163968645
He's just talking about the Square Enix stream. I think Twitch chat got the host guy to telle Hannah to shoot the bumper.

>>163972537
I have been waiting for so long for someone to make a version of Max's dance that's more than 216x216 pixels.

>>163991796
That's the thing though. The phone call is trivial in action, but significant in meaning. It's easily something Max could have taken while walking/riding in the truck with Chloe.
I get that it's still very early into seeing Chloe, so she's possessive and looking for attention (Because she hasn't had any in a while) but if Max explained the situation there wouldn't have been a problem. Chloe even apologizes later and said it was right for Max to take the call.

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What does /lisg/ play besides LiS? Been playing a shitton of SSX3 myself, because that game is perfect. Also XCOM 2, Overwatch, and War Thunder.

Also I've completely formatted
http://archiveofourown.org/works/7741639/chapters/17648473 for your reading pleasure.

>>163993456
Been getting back into World of Tanks, World of Warships, and playing through the DBZ PS2 games again. I used to play War Thunder but a stopped years ago and haven't looked back. Absolutely infuriating game and the worst company I've seen when it comes to PR (DONTNOD doesn't hold a candle to Gaijin's stupidity).
Things were simpler when I had Steam but I had to cut myself off for a few reasons.

>>163994165
Gaijin hasn't had any major PR fuck ups in a while. Plus they just added Japanese tanks and boats are coming soon.

I don't know why but I feel like Max would be into history. Maybe I'm just projecting my own hopes onto her though.

>>163994509
They may have gotten better but some of the gameplay choices just completely ruined the game for me.
The BRs being based on nothing, having to grind for repair parts or a fire extinguisher on a tank, wonky physics, and broken flight models on various aircraft. Some of that stuff may have very well been fixed but I don't even want to install the game again to try.
It would have been neat to have a character interested in history. I could see Chloe fitting into that role in addition to her interest in Science.

>>163994791
Pretty much all of that has been fixed. Balance is pretty good right now.

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Always wear your seatbelt!

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Welp I'm gonna head to bed. Night /lisg/

>>163996237
Sleep tight, Skippy
Sweet dreams to help take your mind off things.

>>163993456
>SSX3
my man

>>163997076
PCSX2 on 5x upscale with Antialiasing, it's fucking gorgeous.

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Chloe practices Proper Max-Carrying!

ios the short film out yet? the guy said it owuld be out by christmas...

>>163997749
A valuable and important skill for her to know.

>>163997943
The one from Eggplant? Not yet. Still just the trailer on their YouTube.

>>163999472
Woo! Go Kate!

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>>163916963
Before Episode 5's release:
>Lol Mari's theories're shitty.It's way more than shitty to become true
>Chloe has to die thing doesn't make sense.Don't worry they will come with unpredictable story
>We're gonna learn everything about Max's powers,Rachel and Prescotts even Nathan,spirit animals..
>Jefferson knows about Max's powers
>Nathan,Frank,David or Samuel's gonna save us
>Victoria's with Max,she'll save her
>(After seeing Cemetery scene from leaks) I'm sure it'll be Williams,Rachel's or Kate's grave.
>Rachel's the doe and Butterfly and probably we'll see her in Max's dream
>Blue Jay's Chloe

After Episode 5's release:
>Mari's shitty cliche theory became right
>We visited the SF art gallery for 3 seconds. FOR 3 DAMN SECONDS
>Jefferson became a silly bad guy from Disney
>David came to save us.He's a former-soldier but he can't even fight,just listens teenager's orders. Even he doesn't know she has some time travel powers.
>Victoria's with us in the dark room.Laying there and we can talk her or not.Just it.
>Nathan get killed,Victoria too
>Nathan knew something about the storm but they cut it.
>Warren explained Max's powers(!)(thanks warryn) We found out her power causes/related with Chaos Theory and storm.It's not like we didn't know or something.
>Storm is only coming for Bay because Chloe lives in there but Max's the one who keep changes the time
>Prescotts story erased.Nobody even mention their name.
>Rachel's story fucked too.She isn't or butterfly,bluejay just spiritualdoe
>Spirit animals thing died.Blue Butterfly's storm summoner just it.
>Chloe dies again in one of endings (unpredictable) It gives you a lesson: You shouldn't have used your power.And you shouldn't play this game.Now erase your choices and cry like a bitch.
>Chloe has to die thing comes true, Cemetery scene explained with that.
>The other ending's short but it's less cliché than other.We saved Chloe,storm's hit the town and gone.That's it
>Epilogue: Use ur imaginations:)muh budget

>>163969519
>"I wish we can make Joyce and Frank so suicidal that they'd blow the place up with Warren inside it."- Based Liam 2015
So Warryn pls go.

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>You will never play a game where Kate unleashes terrible vengeance against Jefferson and the people who bullied her

>>164000861
=kek
Although it seems like if Warren did die is was from running out into the storm and getting clobbered by something.

>>164001506
>"My God given name is not important"

>>164001779
>While you were out partying, I was practicing the art of handing out meals at the soup kitchen.

>>164002000
>When you were having premarital sex, I memorized the scriptures. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated inner faith. And now that the world is on fire and there's a giant tornado coming, you have the audacity to come to me for help?

>>163983949
Alice is so cute!
>>163983225
Thanks Max for feeding Lisa

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>>163918393 >>163917415 >>163918729 >>163921220 >>163920386
For starters your artistic interpreation is my ass.
Second, to your interpreation if you were calling saving someone's life in first place as ''denial'' then she was in ''denial'' throughout in whole game because especially after she found out it was Chloe, she was was trying so hard to keep her alive;
she became more stronger,took risks no matter what and became more and more self-confident.And this is denial for you not character development or something.. well I can't argue with your logic.

As for nightmare, her subconsciousness trying to our binary choices will be about Chloe vs town by showing town's people and our good times;journey with Chloe.If you also watched ''carefully'' Max's ((evil))-self trying to say ''saving Chloe is pointless,she was just using her'' etc. but when Chloe came in; she saved her from evil Max,says ''this is the reality'' and nightmare focuses on her journey with Chloe. And with Chloe's voice Max waken up and saved herself from nightmare.

And if you really gonna talk about artistic interpreation, then just look at meaning of Spanish Sahara song and imagine:) Max's gonna be okay after these words:
>''I'm the fury in your head, I'm the fury in your bed,I'm the ghost at the back of your head''

I love Max and Chloe but I'm not defending none of endings because I really hated Episode 5's consclucion. But whenever I see ignorant faggots like you who can't stand message of the game,who also got butthurt from Bae ending's existence ''hurr durr choices matter but there's only one canon ending,bae ending is fanservice,bae ending is insanity'' etc etc and making their retarded interpreations as they want, it always comes out Bayfag.

>>164002813
stop thanking yourself spammer

>>164003042
since bayfaggots are looking at everything with plain logic they couldn't understand point of the dream sequence.

>>164003207
There, happy?

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>They're so tired that they fell asleep with their clothes on

>>163983949
She looks frightened. Do cameras scare her?

>>163949312
I want my book signed by Max and Chloe! Max can use a black pen and Chloe can use blue.

>>163983949
>>164002902
>>164005184
>Alice is so cute
then let's eat her! http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1660637/slowcooked-rabbit-stew

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>>164005261
Just try it!

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>>164005261
BEGONE YOU FOUL DEMON

>>164005261
I used to have a rabbit so eating bunnies isn't my thing at all.

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>>164005376
Fuck it.
Focus on me Alice.Just me.Lisa.Your Lisa.Only yours.

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>>164005513
Lisa, please. This is a blue board.

>>164006027
I don't get it. Aren't animals naked too?

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>>164006027
No one has to know... It can just be you and me alone.. ;)
>>164006245
Very fair point.
Don't listen to her.Alice may seem ''shy'' but she is way more horny than anyone else.

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>>164006713
i hear you Lisa.it's always the quiet ones that are kinky,hardcore

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>>164006713
Lisa, please stop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8qO5Vacogc

Which girl would be the most fun to tickle?

Voting for Max

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>>164010816

>>164010816
Chloe
I bet she would get really angry and start throwing insults ar you while laughing like crazy

>>164010423
sfm in a nutshell

>>164013691
Awkward movements, stupid dancing, and unrelated music?

>>164013771
disturbingly bad animations that look life lifeless dolls being thrown around

>>164013257
Seconding this. You'll never know for certain what kind of reaction you'll get out of Chloe, where-as with everybody else you have a general idea of the reaction they'll give. Chloe's unpredictability makes her the most fun.

>>164013927
It is, but their intimate dancing makes me want to write a fic in which Chloe gives Max a lapdance.

>>164010816
Victoria would probably be the least fun because she'd hit the tickler.

>"W- Well! I said to stop...!"

Don't have the comic right now.

>>164014087
Do it.

>>164014447
Should I really?

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>>163972537
>>163973025
We can get cuter

>>164014695
I mean, I probably have different ideas of how their lapdance would go down (it's more something Chloe does jokingly to start, because she knows Max's reaction would be hilarious, and it would be, and only then would both transition into actually getting into it), but it could be a fun writing/reading experience. Also hot. Sexy-funny.

If you have more in mind than just the image of the lapdance, I'd say go for it.

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>>164015054
>Max's POV
Oh mama!

>>164003042
>Second, to your interpreation if you were calling saving someone's life in first place as ''denial'' then she was in ''denial'' throughout in whole game
Yes.

>she was was trying so hard to keep her alive; she became more stronger,took risks no matter what and became more and more self-confident.And this is denial for you not character development or something.. well I can't argue with your logic.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to argue here. Going through a loss is something that will develop you and make you a stronger person (provided it doesn't break you completely), and that is what the game encompasses. The denial is refusing to accept that Chloe is dead.

>As for nightmare...
I'm not sure I disagree with much in this post, and I'm not sure it disagrees with much in my theory either. The nightmare is visualizing the internal struggle in Max's head between the parts that wants to "Keep chloe alive", and "save the town", which in symbolically can be "Accept that she is dead" or "keep living in delusion".

>But whenever I see ignorant faggots like you who can't stand message of the game,who also got butthurt from Bae ending's existence ''hurr durr choices matter but there's only one canon ending,bae ending is fanservice,bae ending is insanity'' etc etc and making their retarded interpreations as they want
If my interpretation of the game makes you this upset, then I think it only speaks to how much the game can affect you emotionally, which in the end speaks to how powerful it was. The denial you're feeling is almost there as if intended. I didn't get butthurt from the bae ending at all; It plays its roll in my interpretation and is a completely valid outcome. Just because I call it denial, doesn't mean I think it's bad.

>>164017023
All my disagreement with your "theory" and view on the game aside, the Bae ending really is not bad at all in your world. Why would I want to accept the death of Chloe and move on (my conviction that Max absolutely couldn't and would go back or die failing to, aside) when I can keep on living in a great imaginary world where she is alive and with me? What do I care whether it's delusion or not? And the people in Arcadia don't even die because it's all in her head?! Fucking perfect, there's not even a pesky dilemma here.

If that is insanity to you, I don't wanna be sane!

>>164017023
People have very clearly pointed out to you the pile of stuff that does not make sense with your theory, and you either completely ignore them or say "fair point" and move on preaching the same nonsense, again ignoring those points.

And now you're back because you spotted one shaky counterarguement you feel you could cling to.

Give it a rest. You tried. It doesnt fit.

>>164016725
signature ruins it.

>>164018362
Im split between the signature and the storm summoner

>>164017023
>If my interpretation of the game makes you this upset,

I'm giving you evidences *from the game* I didn't get butthurt by some endings' existence, and making interpreations from my ass,like you.

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>>164017023
>still talking
>still getting butthurt over bae endings' existence by calling it as denial
aside from your shitty interpreations,obviously you didn't understand shit from the game and the nightmare sequences.

>>164017987
While I think the concept of a "journey toward acceptance", her rewind representing her "unwillingness to accept", is not entirely unfitting (but far from the most fitting, and certainly not fitting in the way tha anon presents it), even if I were to entertain that idea for a moment, I'd just have to say: it does not tell that story. The story is about Max and Chloe's connection, shows how they make each other better, how they grow together and how they stopped growing when apart, how they become more mature and stronger, through and with the other, fight for each other, how they love each other, how they overcome all obstacles, inner and outter, and strengthen their connection all-transcendingly... It tells a story of that bond, it does not at all work at an angle that supports the idea they would or could let go of the other, or that it would be for the better. If anything, it shows that it would be destructive, regressive, the end of the both of them. A notion so impossible that time itself falters if it stands in its way.

Up until the very last moment Max says that she absolutely cannot give up Chloe, that she is worth everything to her. Chloe only suggesting to sacrifice herself for Max, and in the end saying "Do it before I freak!", explicitly showing that she wants to stay (not to mention the Chloe in the bathroom is a different Chloe). The only "accepting/overcoming Chloe's death" aspect of the entire side of Max's narrative is her small little laugh at the funeral. If those two seconds of facial animation are powerful enough in someone's mind to think the story is all about giving up on what the entire story throughout actually established and showed, I just can't help but feel they did not appreciate the narrative, due to lack of emotional investment or otherwise.

>>164006851

>Max's worst fear is other people macking on HER Chloe
literally the only thing you need to take out of the dream sequence to be honest

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>>164017023
The nightmare was visualizing she will eventually end up choosing between the person that she loves the most or the town's people, that's it (you used your powers in the first place that's why storm is coming. so would you save town or will accept your consequences and save that girl's life?)
Nightmare sequences were also visualizing Max's overcoming her evil-self's bullshits ''Chloe should dead,accept that she is dead she is just using you'' and in the end Chloe was the only person that who saved her from this nightmare.

So your interpreations,theories don't conflict with game's story.Because you are talking like in either endings Chloe has to die,in Bae ending Max went denial; because Chloe's still gonna die after the Bae ending.And that's just bullshit.Exact opposite that's accepting her consequences not ''denial''.

>>164019810
Are you feeling suicidal?

>mfw everybody is taking baitcuck's same-old pastas seriously

>>164020408
No...

And neither did Chloe. She did not accept her death on the cliff, Chloe in the bathroom especially did not accept her death, and Max never did either. That's just not the story here...

>>164017457
>>164020015
But now you're kind of blurring the lines between the presented story and the symbolism. As stated before, this theory doesn't change the story as it was presented. In the game, saving Chloe means Chloe is alive. My theory just deals with a potential deeper meaning, which ultimately doesn't change the story itself when "picking the best choice".

>>164019034
You haven't given me any evidence in favor of my theory being wrong, assuming you are >>164003042

>I didn't get butthurt by some endings' existence, and making interpreations from my ass,like you.
I don't know dude, from where I sit the only butthurt one here is you.

>>164019207
Sure I didn't. :^)

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>>164019810
>girl smiles sadly at the end
>because ((blue)) butterfly reminded her of Chloe
>background song is though, it is about getting over trauma which's about trauma doesn't go away...
>''it's acceptance''
actually there was no evidence that she torn butterfly photo up (unlike in Bae ending)
so I'm giving her at least 2 days to find a better solution for keeping Chloe alive again.because Max who we saw in game, doesn't let go Chloe that easy and can't live without Chloe after the things that they'd experienced.

>>164020865
And what I'm saying is your theory doesn't even related with game's story,ending choices.


>I don't know dude, from where I sit the only butthurt one here is you.
You are the one who was sending those retarded pastas.So it's pretty hard to take you seriously.

>>164020865
>my theory is 2deep4u
people here giving you evidences from the game.but you are still in denial and ignoring them; comparing it with your **theory**

>>164020614
Sorry I didn't mean to quote you.

>>164020865
>You haven't given me any evidence in favor of my theory being wrong
Then read it again.You are saying ''Chloe's already ded and Max goes denial by saving her in bae ending:Keep living in delusion'' and I'm saying the game isn't about that.It's about accepting your consequences.

>>164021521
That's another interpretation that can be argued for. You claiming that you subscribe to that theory doesn't discredit mine though.

>>164017023 >>164020865
>The nightmare is visualizing the internal struggle in Max's head between the parts that wants to "Keep chloe alive", and "save the town", which in symbolically can be "Accept that she is dead" or "keep living in delusion".

i always thought that only Mari's theories are retarded.
but congrats. you proved that you are way more retarded than her.

>>164021623
How do you know I'm not Mari?

>>164021586
I'm not making theories here.I'm telling you that what I've seen from the game, what's presented in the game.

>>164021675
at least Mari doesn't send pastas like you

>>164022163
Or does she?

>>164010909
And after that Vicky blew raspberries on Kate's cute little tummy.

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>>164020865
>>163917415
> The "nightmare" at the end is her subconsciousness trying to get her to back to reality
>and the edgy "cereal" max she is talking to is the part of max's mind that wants to accept reality and snap out of it, while chloe represents the opposite part.
Hmm.
This logic also acquires that nightmare part/conversation with Jefferson where we say ''Thanks for Killing Chloe,I love you Mister Jefferson'' is showing Max's true feelings because since her nightmare shows everything directly, in reality she actually wanted to kill Chloe and was in love with Jefferson.

Since her NIGHTMARE doesn't show her fears,worst dialogues, what was written in her nightmare journal was also real and showing ''Chloe will die anyway so why even bother,I should mind my own business instead'' her true feelings rather than her fears

We also ought to take EVIL Max's dialogues in nightmare seriously about Chloe is using Max,Max is keeping her alive for nothing,Chloe doesn't love Max because it symbolizes context of the game and they all are actually truths. (and we should completely ignore *good Max's urge to trying to beat evil Max up and she says that she is just trying to piss normal Max off)

Actually Chloe is the one who is main villain here.Sacrifice Chloe (going back into time and running away from consequences) means moving on and Sacrifice Arcadia Bay (accepting your choice) means you are still in denial and will go insane.Because I said so.

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>>164024163
>kate is a char

>>164022636
That sounds lewd.

>>164024163
My sides.

>>164027869
Max a cute

>>164020865
I've already admitted that the "deeper meaning" of the optimism in "there's a life after accepting overcoming the death of a loved one" is a valid one, a meaningful one, one that people could definitely see in the game. But it does not fit as well as other deeper meanings do (for me certainly), and it definitely does not fit in the way you apply it.

An allegorical portrayal and conveyance of that message could be seen in the game (with a lot of squinting, and, again, a lot of ignoring and lack of investment regarding what the narrative actually shows and establishes throughout, as the only acceptance of Chloe's death that is shown is literally Max's strange smirk in the end, that's all there is to that "narrative", all else is about how inseparable and important to each other they are, how separation from each other is detrimental to the both of them, how abandonment and running away from problems is terrible, how they long and fight for each other, how they complement and complete each other, are happy, grow, overcome, break their Chrysalis, heal and so on and so forth, together - a story that revolves around the powerfulness of their bond, its significance and transcending),
...but a psychological portrayal of that message just is not in there. Not in stages or otherwise. Max never accepts Chloe's death, we don't hear her utter or read one word of "I can let Chloe go". She forces herself teary-eyed into the photo while Chloe cryingly pleads to do it before she freaks, and then she cowers in the bathroom completely terrified and destroyed. All points to the fact that she is broken and will never be ok, but join Chloe in the afterlife sooner rather than later afterwards because they can only be whole together... and then comes that smirk.

>>164029513
So where is here a powerful story about the acceptance of death of a loved one? It is completely the opposite. It shows the meaningfulness and power of a human bond, and fights for it against the cold arbitrarity of the universe and the passing of time. To destroy Chloe, that bond, all the week's choices and struggles, is to destroy Max and the entire narrative meaning altogether. Is to succumb to that universe and time.

Maybe you take it as a fatalistic accepting of how the world works and take it to be literally that death is inevitable and that we cannot control the passing of time and that we just have to accept it... I take those things as obstacles, fighting for what you feel is right and care about against all odds, fighting even a losing fight, for as long as it is a fight for love, it is the most human fight, the only worthwhile fight perhaps. And the story shows then, that this fight actually can be won. Max and Chloe can triumph over time and tragedy, all the misery only measure of how much stronger their love and bond that they can come out alive, together.

The notion of just sitting down and accepting that life is shit and that we have to eat it to have any hope to go on is just not one I'd even be inclined to want to see. That's surrendering and giving up on - in this case at least - yourself, love, loved ones... on humanity, basically. Why give up on the fight for some fatalistic message when we can win that fight?

>>164029939
...That all said, I can definitely see why people that have lost loved ones would be inclined to want to see and embrace the story as one about overcoming such tragedy. And the thought that you can be happy again, that they were "meant to die", that "all the moments were real" and live on, that they themselves live on, in our hearts, minds, souls perhaps, maybe even spiritually somehow... I'd never want to take that meaning and solace away from the game if it does give it to someone. Primarily the "everyone that doesn't interpret the game like I do misses its whole message" BS triggered me, as well as the idea that it's some psychological-ized odyssey through Max's head, some formulaic conception of dealing with grief in stages.

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>They go camping
>Still taking selfies
CANNOT. BE. STOPPED.

>>164029939
...As amplified by "Obstacles".

Let's say everything is sunshine, perfect, but as far as it has always has been, we've been living under sadness, happiness, anger, etc. These are obstacles that can be foreseen and fought through with love- that's real sunshine.

>>164031257
>said the guy who was sending those retarded pasta(s)

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>>164031257
>I'd never want to take that meaning and solace away from the game if it does give it to someone.
Yeah, sure bud.

>>164031257
Don't even play innocent.

You are the one who was sending those pastas.

You are the one who is interpreting one of ending's as 'denial'.

Your *artistic* theory belongs to fanfictions.Not to the game.

CUTEPOSTERS WHERE THE HEAVEN ARE YOU?!!!

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>>164033578
Here!

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>>164033578
Hello.