Thank you!! That’s a fantastic list. I’ll definitely watch the Woodstock film.
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I dragged my feet and didn’t read this until very recently, and omg nobody told me I was missing out this hard.
This is like one of, if not the best IF I’ve read in recent times. Thanks so much for reminding me how good 60s music is btw.
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Thank you thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed 
The beauty of ‘60s music is that even though it encapsulates such a precise moment in time, it’s still so timeless, so I’m happy you found your way back to it 
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I fear i’ve got another little accuracy nitpick to report x.x
"I'm ready to put a bow on it, so is my label, but I see a future where everyone can be satisfied. We just got a TONTO synthesiser in the studio--we don't need it, but we're trying to think up ways to make use of it. It's been magical."
"What in the hell is a TONTO synthesiser?"
"I don't know quite how to explain it myself. Léon caught wind Stevie Wonder has one and he went through Homeric level obstacles to get it." You laugh, knowing how exactly Léon that is. "Now he's like a kid with a new toy."
So, the issues here are:
As i understand it, Stevie Wonder didn’t own a TONTO synthesizer. What he did was to hire an electronic music duo, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band who have built that synthesizer for themselves and used it for commercial work for other musicians. He did it after hearing the duo’s album, “Zero Time”. More importantly though, this took place in 1971+ i.e. quite a few years after that talk in the game takes place. Also, TONTO synthesizer was a one-of-a-kind, room-sized contraption that was actually a bunch of various synthesizers and such cobbled togetther. Not really something you’d just get another copy of.
For the game, i think it’d make more sense to make it a Moog syntesizer instead, since this was the first commercially available synthesizer which made its debut mid-60s, so definitely something that’d still be a novelty in 1967-68. Also, it’s not a room-sized, so quite easier for a sound studio to acquire and make use of, i imagine. And, incidentally, it’s what the TONTO synthesizer was built around/from.
I know this is a very tiny thing all things considered, so sorry about making a fuss over it :x
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Change made 
Thank you so much, friend! And never apologise for being incredibly helpful. This isn’t a nitpick, but even if it was, that’s exactly what beta-testing is for <3
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in the same vein technically as my sims file (which btw gonna need an estimate of the number of kids penn would actually wanna have, since in the sims i was letting these freaks dictate that for me and they’ve had six and still wanna have more!!!)… i was feeling a little sick in the head over my mc and penn as per usual so i made them in the new tomodachi life demo…
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so many thoughts and so little time… he’s beautiful :’)
as for an estimate: penn isn’t the football team bearing type, so no more than 3! 4 would be generous (i have a feeling that will be vaguely disappointing lol)
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Hey! I loved the IF and I couldn’t stop playing but I do have one thing to say.
While I liked the Director RO (to me he represents the MC wanting like, someone who is actually stable in her life lol) I found the scene were he is basically poked and prodded by a man who just met, who ostensibly is just taking him for some drinks; to give his opinion on Israel kind of messed up.
I didn’t read the speech he gave because I was both kind of pissed off about it and reading during my lunch break, I just wanted to say that as a guy who both has and knows people who have experienced being tested if we are “one of the good ones”.
Because that’s basically what Vince is doing. Bringing a Jewish man to ‘friendly outing’ and then basically trying to see if he’s “one of the good ones”.
That’s basically my only major complaint about this IF. Everything else is just minor qibbles.
Ehh, it is MC who invites Penn to the outing, not Vince. And the subject only pops up because of debate/fighting that’s happening on that very day at Vince’s own home that gets mentioned. I think you’re attributing deliberate action when there was none.
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Oh actually I did have another thing to say.
I kind of wish we got more examples of people scapegoating us. So far besides some fans trying to surround us the day after; we mostly just get told how awful things have been but don’t actually see what people were saying.
while I understand you may not have wanted to overwhelm us with it. I was kind of expecting like; ‘jilted ex boyfriends’ lying about us, reading news articles on the rumors and such.
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I also don’t know if it because I was doing a Noir, but I was kind of confused on what I was suppose to say in the second acting scene
Hey! I knew a lot of the social issues I’m tackling would be controversial, because they are social issues with real world implications not only in the here and now but generationally-speaking too. I know I have to mention them and I know I can’t shy away from characters being overtly offensive; I think so far, I have done okay in being discerning with this in terms of my choice of wording with insults and dated terminology etc.
With that in mind, when talking about any social matters, I don’t want main characters to trivialise anything but I do want there to be a critique of them in moral grandstanding. I try to spritz it in a lot with MC as a white woman and I attempted to do as such with Vince in this scenario. I included an option for MC to not be pleased with Vince (this isn’t verbatim, but it’s in this vein), because I want it to be clear that Vince–while his defence comes from a good place–isn’t wholly in the right due to his approach. Crossing my fingers that I’ve articulated myself okay and am actually making sense.
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And this is fair and really helpful, thank you!
I’ve been trying to be selective with how much of each aspect of the story I do include thus far, and misogyny within the media and the implications is one of those aspects. I didn’t want to be verbose. As a result, I’ve probably thrown myself into the complete opposite end of the spectrum (i.e. scarcity). But I suppose this is one of the major downsides of attempting to cover so much at once. I do worry sometimes that I’m biting off more than I can chew, but alas!
I’ve attempted to plant echoes of the aftermath rather than going to the source of the misogyny itself. My intention is to include more media coverage once career lanes are chosen (i.e. reviews etc).
The main aspect of MC being ‘scapegoated’ is in reference to the serial killer, but we’re not fully there yet. I’m pacing myself, but I’ll try to speed up! Going forward, I’ll pigeonhole more in where I can.
And I think this is in reference to the acting scene in Chapter 3, but I may be wrong. If so, it’s down to personal choice—there is a right and wrong technically, but it won’t be revealed yet. Just do whatever feels right for you <3
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It was the scene were Sal and…I forget her name now talk to you about how some actor is bisexual and sleeping with someone close to a NPC.
I got a scene were my PC was very upset over how she messed up and I was confused ;-;
also how do you raise your acting and music skill?
The Fio and Yvonne scene in the trailer? There is some flavour text following decisions from prior scenes (i.e. the acting results in Chapter 2), but otherwise I need a few more specifics 
And to raise either, it comes down to certain decisions you make in general gameplay that reflect attitudes to either industries. For example, in the cinema there is a certain pathway that leads to discussing Hitchcock with Penn—if you follow this, it increases your theatricality slightly.
In order to intentionally raise your theatricality skill, you can practice learning lines or score well during shoots. Similarly, to raise your musicality skill, you can practice songwriting. Opportunities to increase either are variously spread all over, so it’s fair game really!