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Those are some great analytics. I'm always curious what devs can do to make content accessible but also allow them to make money, and I feel like the most successful patreons for AVN's I've seen regularly release their content for free on their own: Summertime Saga, Harem Hotel, Karlsson's Gambit, Eternum, etc. They all have fantastic quality, release the content for free willingly, and make money. Obviously these aren't the usual middle-of-the-road AVN's, but from what I've seen, every time a dev tries to cut off F95 or itch free users and dismisses criticism like Icarus is doing, it always ends badly. The free game downloads are them essentially forgoing the individual cheque for advertising, and so long as the quality is good then generally speaking they do well. Icarus is clearly too stubborn to get that.
Well it's been said repeatedly in multiple threads that most dev's are lucky to break $500-600 U.S a month only a handful make actual living wage at this. Yet we see more and more that they are trying to get more in a niche market where not many get to that level. Yet knowing this they all expect to be the exception to the rule which is a nice dream but honestly this should be a passion or hobby that's what most dev's tell me even the successful ones that I have talked to. Most of them have other income streams in the way of a job or personal investments who knows their personal business but they all say it's unstable at best from a financial stand point. On top of all that most economies are still in recovery mode from covid so that makes even less to go around. That being said I support some dev's and I do hope that the money aspect improves for them but also caution them to be realistic in their expectations. Beyond that all we can do is sit back and wait to see what happens.
 
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damn Im so fucking petty.. I want to do almost every opposite choice that walkthrough tells me to do
 

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Bitch Squad [v0.4.5] [IcarusLabs] - Update only

Looks like the Ren'py/Python change makes it so, a update only patch doesn't work at all. As I didn't find a fix I removed the link. You need to download the full game.
 
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This is one game I won't mind some spoilers...
Anyone happy to oblige?.....Last I played...MC was... well...a bitch :cry: .. Did that change?
Yeah, I also haven't played the last couple of updates. I'm just waiting for a few updates to see if the MC will actually grow a pair, and if he can actually makes some progress with certain characters and story lines. I don't mind slow burn when the MC isn't utterly useless.
 

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Bitch Squad [v0.4.5] [IcarusLabs] - Update only

The patch may break your game, use at your own risk.
Ren'Py/Python version changed, read the Spoiler before installing!

THIS IS A COMPRESSED VERSION OF THE UPDATE PATCH. THE ORIGINAL ONE WOULD BE ~4GB AND WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE IF YOU WANT THE GAME UNCOMPRESSED DOWNLOAD THE FULL GAME FROM OP.

Win/Linux Compressed: v0.4.0 -> v0.4.5 [639 MB]
- MEGA - - Pixeldrain

Mac Compressed: v0.4.0 -> v0.4.5 [616 MB]
- MEGA - - Pixeldrain

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Please @ me or quote this post if there is a new version that doesn't show up on the "Latest Updates" page.
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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

Before loading the script.
ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 5

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "renpy/bootstrap.py", line 275, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "renpy/main.py", line 427, in main
renpy.loader.index_archives()
File "renpy/loader.py", line 263, in index_archives
index = handler.read_index(f)
File "renpy/loader.py", line 135, in read_index
index = loads(zlib.decompress(infile.read()))
File "renpy/compat/pickle.py", line 45, in loads
return cPickle.loads(s)
ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 5

Windows-10-10.0.22621 AMD64
Ren'Py 7.6.0.23040102+nightly

Wed Nov 22 18:22:10 2023
Could be that the Python/Ren'py change made the patch unusable. It technically should work. But you probably need to download the full game. Ima go test it.
 
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it ends with amber being arrested, so i predict that this game will not end (anytime) with the MC getting revenge
This is where people have the wrong thinking. They think the mean girl group are the bitch squad because of how they act when in reality it's the MC's group because they can't do shit. Just a bunch of bitches.
 
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