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Yikes haven’t been on here in awhile. tbh the only books I’m halfway interested in at this point are ILITW and TRR. until endless summer comes back I’m so indifferent to choices

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why are there so many goddamn diamond choices in it lives in the woods like I can’t take two of my friends with me, can’t get a flashlight and can’t take a weapon like seriously how fucking stupid is that. what the fuck do we have going for us. the power of friendship and hope? kiss my ass we are barely coping over here

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Thoughts on Diamond Options

I actually fully support diamond options. PB is a company and they need to make money to pay their employees and keep providing content, diamond and key sales let them do that. However, I think diamonds should enhance the story, not set up the player to fail/have a less enjoyable experience if they don’t purchase diamonds.

Good Use of Diamonds

Sexy times. Not only does it make sense to make users pay for what is just extra content, but it also lets PB keep the mature content locked away behind a pay-wall. This one is probably never going to change. Though, the fact that these scenes range from 16 to 30 diamonds, depending on the book/scene is inconsistent. 

Bonus content. The Crown and the Flame was good about this. You could buy weapons or allies that helped you in that moment but also gave you bonus scenes later on in the story. Without this content, you could still achieve your goal, it would just be harder (more on this in a moment), but you wouldn’t get the extra content later on. For example saving Tevan in Book One means he’ll appear for the rest of the book, offering us support to make our victory a little easier, but we’ll still win without him. 

Acceptable Use of Diamonds

Making the task easier. As mentioned above, often the diamond choice makes the task easier. The weapons in TC&TF give you an advantage, outfits in The Royal Romance and Endless Summer can make it easier to blend in and achieve your goal. In Book Two of ES, you can buy the winter outfit to keep warm and it means you navigate the snow easier and can lead your friends to safety quicker, plus you unlock a clue. If you don’t buy the outfit, you can still lead your friends to safety, it’s just more challenging and you have to pass a bunch of timed choices.

When the diamond option is better, but the cheap option is still ok. We see this in Rules of Engagement with the wedding options. The free options are nice (except the flowers, the no-flower greenery option sucks) but the diamond options are better. You still get to get married in a wedding dress with a veil, still have a pretty cake, etc if you don’t spend diamonds, you just get more customization options if you do. 

Terrible Use of Diamond Options

Shaming the user for not buying the diamond choice. In Love Hacks, Book One you have to pick an outfit to go to a sporting event. You can pay diamonds and wear the team colors or you can wear the free option which is the opposing team’s colors, this, of course, will get the MC heckled by other characters. This sucks and is just one example of the game shaming you for choosing the free option.

Missing information. In TRR, there is a subplot involving pictures taken at Liam’s bachelor party and the suggestion that someone in the MC’s inner circle may be a traitor. This is first mentioned in a diamond scene back in Book One and is then introduced into the main story in Book Two and the user is given the option to resolve it, in a diamond scene, of course. If the user chooses not to pay the diamonds, they are not told the outcome of the mystery (and it’s a pretty bbig story/character development).

This means that players who are not spending diamonds do not have access to the same information as players who do (basically all of Endless Summer) which can make for a less enjoyable experience. I’m not talking about bonus content that enhances the story but about information that plays into the main story and effects the character’s and their relationships. 

Not Spending Diamonds = Being a Bad Friend. Or basically the entire plot of The Sophomore. This ties into shaming the user. So many times the user has to spend diamonds to make the right choice and be a decent person. Hana, in The Royal Romance, is a good exmaple of this. So many of her diamond choices involve being a good person: running after her when Olivia makes fun of her, attending her party at the regatt so she’s not all alone. It would be nice to be able to be a decent human being without constnat having to spend diamonds.

Conclusion

I have no issues spending diamons in the game. I can afford it and budget appropriately, but I dislike feeling forced to spend them or the way some of the diamond options are presented. 

In my opinion, TC&TF handled diamond options fairly well, especially since they also used power/prestige points to give player’s another option. There was a lot of bonus content in TC&TF but the game was still enjoyable without spending diamonds, it was just a little more work. 

I definitely feel like I need to spend diamonds on Endless Summer or the game will be harder and less enjoyable. I know it’s also basically impossible to romance Estela without unlocking all her diamond scenes, which sucks. I love ES, but I play it knowing that I’m going to be spending money to play it. Same with TRR. 

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can we as a fandom stop fucking saying that madeleine is a ~strong female~ or w/e fake woke bullshit y'all like to post because she’s actually just a huge bitch!!!!!!!!!!!

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hold me back. i'm going to punch a bitch. THE bitch. how fuckin dare she. treating my gf hana like that. lying about being alergic to chocolate just to ruin her. that fucking sadist. i am f u m i n g rn. all that talk before abt tariq not being in the Plot™ was for NOTHING if shes gonna treat actual cinnamon roll lady Hana Lee like that. im so goddamn pissed. rant over. FOR NOW.

go awf sis!!!!! i fucking hate madeleine and im over tumblr trying to give her a redemption narrative,, like um we’ve clearly established she’s manipulative af and just says whatever will earn her points like all that bullshit she spouted about tariq was just for the press because if she actually cared about women she wouldn’t treat penelope like a dog or hana like a plaything 

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I was tagged by @choose-your-own-url  thanks!

1ST RULE: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

I tag @maxwellbaemont @kaitloyalist @zig-ortega @pixelberryprincess @chris-powell @ellaxohacks @pixelbaerry @zigthebarista @sereenaspatel if you haven’t already done it.

2ND RULE: BOLD the statements that are true.

APPEARANCE:

I am 5'7 or taller I wear glasses I have at least one tattoo I have at least one piercing I have blonde hair I have brown eyes I have short hair My abs are at least somewhat defined I have or have had braces

PERSONALITY:

I love meeting new people People tell me that I’m funny Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me I enjoy physical challenges I enjoy mental challenges I’m playfully rude with people I know well I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it

ABILITY:

I can sing well I can play an instrument I can do over 30 push-ups without stopping I’m a fast runner I can draw well I have a good memory I’m good at doing math in my head I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute I have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch I know how to throw a proper punch

HOBBIES:

I enjoy playing sports I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else(i was in high school) I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else I have learned a new song in the past week I work out at least once a week I’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months I have drawn something in the past month I enjoy writing I do or have done martial arts

EXPERIENCES:

I have had my first kiss I have had alcohol I have scored the winning goal in a sports game I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting I have been at an overnight event I have been in a taxi I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year I have beaten a video game in one day I have visited another country I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts

MY LIFE:

I have at least one person I consider a best friend I live close to my school My parents are still together I have at least one sibling I live in the United States There is snow right now where I live I have hung out with a friend in the past month I have a smartphone I have at least 15 CDs I share my room with someone

RANDOM SHIT:

I have breakdanced I have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce I have dyed my hair I’m listening to one song on repeat right now (call it what you want) I have punched someone in the past week I know someone who has gone to jail I have eaten a waffle today I know what I want to do with my life I speak at least 2 languages I have made a new friend in the past year

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can we as a fandom stop fucking saying that madeleine is a ~strong female~ or w/e fake woke bullshit y'all like to post because she’s actually just a huge bitch!!!!!!!!!!!

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I 👏🏻 DON’T 👏🏻 TRUST 👏🏻 BRITNEY 👏🏻

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When you’re trying to reduce the amount of diamond purchases you make because you’re a poor college student but pixelberry pulls out two dog adoptions in one week:

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I’m sorry but for me Penelope is not a traitor

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The nature of these diamond choices is getting ridiculous, honestly. I can understand two to three diamond choices a chapter. I encourage it, in fact. PB is a company that needs to make money to pay their workers, but the way they introduce diamond choices in chapters I do not approve of.

Aiden is suspended from school and grounded indefinitely. You drive to his house to check up with him because this recent development has obviously affected him. Fork over diamonds to actually talk to him.

Haven’t really seen much of Emma since the first chapters of HSS? We know! Give us diamonds and you get to actually see her this chapter!

Madeleine is throwing a metallic theme dress. You should really dress to the theme. Instead of giving you a basic and diamond metallic dress option, we’ll only give you one and it’s a diamond option.

Though some of the complaints I’ve seen from fans are extreme, they’re not wrong about how this is becoming a pay-to-play game. 

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BFFs <3

Also I absolutely adore that green dress from book 1. Still wearing it whenever I can in book 2 (and it’s not because I’m being a cheapskate. Kinda.)

Credit goes to Pixelberry for the lovely background

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Has this been done yet?

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🔥 Having sex with Jake McKenzie would include🔥

▪ Jake loves it rough and fast

▫ with lots of marks, hickeys and biting

▪ but he loves it even more to let you wait

▫ to turn you on, to make you all wet and needy

▪ with his hands between your legs

▫ while he finger-fucks you

▪ hitting all the right places

▫ smirking like the wicked bastard he is

▪ bringing you closer to sweet release

▫ just to stop in that very moment

▪ leaving you with a throbbing core and racing heart

▫ he’d bury his hands in your hair

▪ pulling it back, to have better access to your throat

▫ leaving bite marks behind whenever he touches his lips to your skin

▪ “Do you like that, princess? When I’m playing with you?”

▫ he’d turn you around, so that your ass is pressed against his hard length

▪ you just can’t help yourself, wanting some kind of friction and rub yourself against him

▫ feeling his breath hitch, as he sucks on your earlobe

▪ pressing your lower half harder against his, with his hand on your hips

▫ his hands would vanish under your shirt

▪ grabbing your breasts while he plays with your nipples

▫ making them so fucking sensitive and it just hurts so good

▪ your head would fall back, soft moans would escape your red lips

▫ your eyes are be shut

▪ jake would smirk while you slowly rock yourself against him, biting your lower lip to keep in your whimpering

▫ he’d swear a lot

▪ telling you how horny he is, and what he wants to do to you

▫ your pants and panties would soon fall to the floor, leaving you exposed before him

▪ while he rubs his thumb against your folds, spreading your wetness a but more

▫ “Look at you, princess. So needy already, almost begging me to take you.”

▪ his hands would grip your hips tightly, pressing you against the nearest wall while he unzips his pants and pulls his (too tight) boxers down

▫ he’d lift one of your legs, entering you hard and fast

▪ your back would arch against him, while your mouth opens

▫ and fuck, you just can’t keep those cries in

▪ it feels so so good to feel him against your tight walls, filling you

▫ he’d moan in your ear, telling you how good you are and feel

▪ “Yes, just like that- fuck, oh holy-”

▫ the wall would be so cold against your skin, a great contrast to your burning body

▪ he’d press his body even closer, caging you between himself and the wall, as he thrusts in you, holding your leg in place as he becomes faster and harder

▫ leaving marks on your hips

▪ softly biting your shoulder when he feels you clench around him

▫ his thrusts would get sloppier, his breathing heavy

▪ his moans louder

▫ and everything burns

▪ your sensitive nipples would be pressed against the cold wall, aching so bad

▫ your lips would be so swollen and your hair messy

▪ he’d yank your hair one last time, pressing his lips against your jaw as he makes you cum

▫ he’d still thrust into you, fucking you through your orgasm

▪ then he too, feels it

▫ that burning tug inside of him, urging him to finally let go, to follow you to absolute bliss

▪ the only thing jake can mutter as he comes is your name, as if he doesn’t know any words anymore

▫ you’d both be a mess, marks, sweat and scratches all over your body

▪ legs shaking and heavy breathing but there’d still be a smirk on your lips

▫ “That’s all you’ve got?” - “You’re gonna be the end of me, princess.”

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Waiting Friday-Wednesday is just too long

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Me: Alright, brain, we have two tasks to do. One of them is more time sensitive, but working on the other will be more fun. Which should I start on?

My brain: Do fucking nothing for 72 hours

Me: Understandable, have a nice day

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He’s becoming self-aware.