re:Dreamer Alpha 0.16.1

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Hey all, sorry for the delay. The mental health struggles have been real (as was the amount of work required to polish Molly's sprites).

re:Dreamer (0.16.1) is a lighter release than usual due to those mental health struggles + a 2-week break I took to try and help that (spoilers: it didn't work), but it features the new art of Molly, a major character in Britney's route.

Changelog:

• Molly, the tall hot redheaded student director in Britney's route, now has sprites! If you've checked the very spoiler-filled Britney outline, you'll know she ends up being a semi-major character in the route, and one important enough to warrant having sprites, which were drawn by Myumi, who also previously drew Britney's sprites.
• Due to my current mental health struggles, this is a light update mostly featuring her updated art, but her Scottish accent got a total redux to be more accurate (thanks Scottish person who came by to help!), and some of her writing got changed (but not a ton).
• The Molly and Patrick interrogation can now be continued after meeting the conditions to convince them that Zach is a trans man. This lets you see all the dialogue branches at once and even sabotage yourself back from convincing them, which I think it neat.
• Even though Zach still identifies as a man at this point, an itch.io review "I used to REALLY like this, but telling the siblings in the Britney route that Z is a trans man, while playing as a trans WOMAN, makes me feel disgusting..." led me to writing a short scene of Zach confronting Britney for that (Trans >= 3 + Trans "therapy" answer + Control >= 3). Yes, I do read every single review (even the mostly-worthless F95zone ones).
• Britney's meeting of Zach was changed to the start of her freshman year of high school and Zach's sophomore year of high school. This lines up better with other things going on in the outline.
• The term "compression bra" has been substituted with "chest binder" in Britney's route to be more accurate to its function (and vice versa in Keisuke's route and elsewhere). The same change applies to the sprite viewer code and sprites filenames.
• Zoey's maid waitress uniform outfit is in the game. It currently only exists in the first bad end, but it's planned to show up in all three major routes. I had to redo the Zoey sprites leggings as their own separate thing distinct from the top outfit piece and the bottom outfit piece to get this to work, so let me know if this breaks something in a way I missed.
• The World Information Entries for "The Environment", "World War II", "Societal Issues", "Religion in AKR", and "The Space Craze" have been expanded (in ascending order of how much), with a new "Nuclear Energy" entry being added because it felt like a fun thing to flesh out.
• A few of the World Information entries regarding the USSR as an existing thing have been changed to explain that the USSR dissolved in 1993 (two years later than in our history). This is because of a minor plot line in Britney's route with France being the preeminent European power that caused its dissolution through economic leverage, how France has continued on as the leading European power in the modern world, how Britney's mom (Elise) is of French ancestry, how Britney has a bit of Frenchness to her family culture, and that a part of the Becket family's wealth is explained through Elise's French immigrant dad making a few economic investments in Texas that did quite well. But it nothing crazy; the family just has a few semi-liquid assets abroad they could quickly cash in for about $800,000 if they ever needed to, but the passive returns on those and other assets are good enough that they bolster the family's already great income from Britney's dad's work as a partner at a big law firm and let her mom run a gardening business that operates on a loss.
• A Sustainer patron has a minor cameo in the first bad end (Zach deleting the app).

As usual, the full changelog for every release can be found at https://justpaste.it/rdchangelog

0.16.2 might be a bit late (again, the mental health struggles are real), but it'll be more of The Mom Route™ (I love doing the trademark logo to that).