Thank you. I appreciate the response and your patience.
FWIW, it’s never a compliment to the state of the thing when someone outside a community ( myself, in this case ) looks on and says, “but it could be so much worse.” While that is kind of my reation, I can understand those criticisms. I think the game has moved the bar in the right direction but hope future designers do better. I think there is cause for optimism.
Honestly, I’m setting the in game advertisements to one side as a bit of a separate issue. While the advertisements are consistent in tone they squander a huge opportunity for worldbuilding for puns/jokes/juvenalia. What I see there has me thinking, tiredly, that yup, when I was in high school I would’ve thought this much sexual innuendo was funny. They have accurately captured my immaturity from back when I played this game. ( now please stop ) I’d like to think the decision was made to create a clear contrast between what is important to the flow of the plot and what is toss away visual noise but… eh. Not the choices I would’ve made.
