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Sure, but the question is if a Sistine Chapel painted directly by Michelangelo himself would have been different than one painted by people under his supervision. I suspect the answer is yes, though whether it would have been better, worse or effectively the same is impossible to say. But DPC is the one calling the shots. If he thinks a collaborative BaDIK would be sufficiently different from the version he makes himself, there's no reason to doubt him and not much point in debating it. You can think he's making a mistake, obviously, but that's no different than any other artistic disagreement.I don't like principled defenses.
we start from the right assumption that DPC does what he wants with his game, but this does not mean in any way that his choice is the best unquestionably.
but let's not talk about art out of proportion, everything is art, but also not, every production process is full of repetitive and mechanical steps, tests and verifications where a third party look is usually just preferable (or do testers ruin the creative process too?). Michelangelo did not paint the Sistine chapel by himself inch by inch, and no one doubts neither that it is art, nor that it is his. I would say that even enough for DPC's admission it is an organizational choice (the risk of losing more time in the coordination of the work than earned by delegating part of the work) and therefore an economic one (what interest does DPC have to speed up his work? and to share his earnings? earn less for less time).
the first doubt is legitimate, even if the history of humanity says the opposite, the second is understandable but has nothing to do with art.
The economic question is a separate aspect. If DPC had a single patron who commissioned a massive, college-themed AVN for his 10th reunion and thus needed it done on time, DPC might have been forced to put a team together to meet the deadline. Likewise, if DPC wanted to be the head of a prestigious AVN design studio, he could have assembled a team to make AL, then expanded to make BaDIK. But DPC has a crowd-sourced funding that pays him without hard deadlines, and he seems much happier writing games himself than on managing people. So rather than forcing DPC's hand to develop the game on ways he dislikes, the economics actually encourage and enable him to take his time and do it 'right.'
Which again, doesn't mean that it's the optimum outcome from our own point of view, just that it IS a valid choice, and one we're very unlikely to be able to change.
It's been about a month, though the exact timeline is nebulous now. I agree it's frustrating that the MC hasn't spent a night with Maya (much less both girls) since then. As usual, I blame the crossroads.from the end of chapter four to the end of chapter six, how much time will have passed?
I would say at least 2 weeks, in these two weeks MC will never "sleep" with Maya and Josy again.
about as believable as Sage being with Chad for months if not years without sex.
But I will say it's not quite as unreasonable as it may seem at first glance. The MC and Maya were still insisting they AREN'T a formal throuple yet, and more importantly they are trying to keep the relationship a secret. They should still be doing more to spend time together, but there are practical limits to how much that could happen.
This should begin to change come Season 3 if you're on their branch, but I'm not going to hold my breath.