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James and the Stripper

posted 2 months ago by SemiAnimus (3245)
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Alright, so I get that the premise is that James is some super great guy who is loyal to his wife, so he turns down all of the stripper's advances for the several days they're together. The problem is that she has been dead for three years. He has a woman that he keeps mistaking for her, meaning he finds her attractive, literally spinning on poles and trying to give him lap dances when they are some of the few people left alive and it doesn't seem out of place that James talks to her the same way he does the fat, stupid guy? Then she dies a painful, tragic death and he doesn't even mention her again, but keeps chasing some random ass little girl he saw for 10 seconds, the same thing that got the stripper killed in the first place.

I'm starting to think this fucking game is an allegory for James being trapped in the closet since he's supposedly chasing after a dead wife and is ignoring attractive women coming onto him.

[–] CarterBlunt (1412) 2 months ago

You know, that's not even a real woman, it's a manifestation. In one of the endings, they stay together, but it's quite foreboding, and makes James out to be some sort of psychopath.

[–] SemiAnimus (3245) a month ago

I know, but if you think about it James is such an incel that he wouldn't even make a move on his supposedly perfect subconscious delusional fantasy woman. I wouldn't be surprised if in the epilogue he was driving around Southern California in dark shades making selfie videos about how all the girls will pay.