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Your basic premise "Someone comes in and somehow purchases all the land," is ridiculous. Who's he purchasing the land from? The locals... They would then have a different form of capital (cash) that they could then move somewhere else with. Also, why would they sell this person all of the land? You should start your arguments with a concept that doesn't require one to suspend disbelief.Capitalism, excluding the free-market part of it, isn't legal.
Let's say a small population lives on a small island. Someone comes in and somehow purchases all the land. He asks on the inhabitants that they either become his slaves or produce their own land. The inhabitants can't obviously produce land, so they'd drown in the sea. They have the choice between being enslaved by someone who didn't produce any wealth, or die in the sea.
This situation is what's call extortion by the exploitation of the cost of producing redundancy, and that's also capitalism. Just someone owning land, natural capital, and seeking a compensation for its access and under the threat of being forced to waste resources replacing it.
When you produce a game, you are warranted to a compensation for your labor. However, the reproduction of your game by computers and the transfer through networks isn't of your doing. You can sell one game copy legally, the rest is extortion. Once you have consented to the production of one game copy, or one game update copy, additional transfers of that game doesn't increases your cost, and thus doesn't warrant additional compensations. If you withhold the game after consenting to a compensation, you exploit the cost of replacing it.
The reason why the acquisition took place isn't relevant.Your basic premise "Someone comes in and somehow purchases all the land," is ridiculous. Who's he purchasing the land from? The locals... They would then have a different form of capital (cash) that they could then move somewhere else with. Also, why would they sell this person all of the land? You should start your arguments with a concept that doesn't require one to suspend disbelief.
Also, your assertion that "owning land" is illegal is also ridiculous. How does one come to original ownership of land? I'm talking all the way back to the first person to own a parcel. The answer: they have to do work to transform the land. Someone arrives on a parcel unowned or occupied by anyone else, builds structures and fences, grows crops, etc. that land is his/hers. Just declaring it so isn't enough, and has never been enough (other than for governments, but that's a whole other argument with its own set of problems). Now when that land is bought and sold, there's a paper trail. It makes perfect sense, is easy to justify, and is completely defendable by rational people who don't make arguments based on fantasy.
I think this is a very fair and even-handed response; my criticism was definitely emboldened by the release schedule; if this had been a short one-off update which happened to focus on lesbian teasing, no biggie.earlier in this thread i made some posts about how tori should communicate more. i know these amount to negative criticism, but i hope i demonstrated enough good nature in my comments that these came off as constructive and not me trashing the dev.
that said, i think the lukewarm reception to this update stems partially from it taking so long and people being in a hyped up "ANY DAY NOW!!!!" state for too long. it let the expectations build and build and it's very difficult to impress people when things get that built up.
if this were just one update that people didn't connect with, they would shrug and wait for the next one coming in a few weeks. but with longer gaps between releases, people's expectations rise and rise.
for this reason i think tori would be smart to try out smaller, more frequent releases, to better manage hype. this might also give an opportunity to see reactions and incorporate feedback more quickly, instead of over-committing to an idea in a giant update and finding out later people don't like it (but i say that with caution, because as i have said many times before, the artist should do whatever they want in their heart, chasing the approval of the degenerates who play these games is never a good idea)
While I agree on the land analogy, the second half as it pertains to intellectual property- you completely lose me. Any product which requires intellectual input can't be quantified in cost merely as one unit sold. Accordingly, most products generated through intellectual labor, be they computer games, music albums, or fighter jets see a much larger development cost expecting bulk product sales to break even. The cost of the product isnt JUST the labor and parts to assemble 1 unit, it's a function of the total development cost.Capitalism, excluding the free-market part of it, isn't legal.
Let's say a small population lives on a small island. Someone comes in and somehow purchases all the land. He asks on the inhabitants that they either become his slaves or produce their own land. The inhabitants can't obviously produce land, so they'd drown in the sea. They have the choice between being enslaved by someone who didn't produce any wealth, or die in the sea.
This situation is what's call extortion by the exploitation of the cost of producing redundancy, and that's also capitalism. Just someone owning land, natural capital, and seeking a compensation for its access and under the threat of being forced to waste resources replacing it. Or die if they can't.
When you produce a game, you are warranted to a compensation for your labor. However, the reproduction of your game by computers and the transfer through networks isn't of your doing. You can sell one game copy legally, the rest is extortion. Once you have consented to the production of one game copy, or one game update copy, additional transfers of that game doesn't increase your cost, and thus doesn't warrant additional compensations. If you withhold the game after consenting to a compensation, you exploit the cost of replacing it.
If people don't pay you, then you won't be willing to produce a game. If people desire your game, it's advantageous for them to pay you. I myself pay of a patreon because I want it to exist. Once you've consented to a compensation for your labor, that's all you deserve, that's fairness.
Development is also labor. Everything but automates and natural occurrences is labor.Any product which requires intellectual input can't be quantified in cost merely as one unit sold. Accordingly, most products generated through intellectual labor, be they computer games, music albums, or fighter jets see a much larger development cost expecting bulk product sales to break even. The cost of the product isnt JUST the labor and parts to assemble 1 unit, it's a function of the total development cost.
Renpy is abandoning Win 7.Is there a necessary program to run the game? it wont open for me
for me, although there are such shortcomings, it is definitely a game that needs to be played. when we look at the dev general, he definitely does a good job(sorry for bad english)
I don't know if the next update will be the last, but we need to see Ayumi having "real sex" with other men. First I played 0.4.2, then this version disappointed me. I say this as someone who, after playing 0.4.2, thinks this game is 10000 out of 10. It felt perfect, what they imagined. Obviously, it would be very nice to see MC consciously "share" his girlfriend.It's nice to tease, but we need to see sex. I hope 0.5 is not the last and we will get what we want in a few months. (if dev has an explanation that such a thing will not happen, it's fine, I'll rate the game according to him)
Apparently the definition of slowburn is "nothing will happen for a very, VERY long time"For having to wait for so long and only recieve Yuri content is a kick in the balls. I don't mind the content itself but why the entire update? Most men of culture don't consider girl/girl to be any kind of NTS/R.
I'm not going to bother tracking this further, I really believe in this developer and his game is excellent but I can't take the heartache
You confused me so much that I rushed to look at my Windows... ugh... it seems no one has reinstalled it yet, so I play this game on Windows 7).Renpy is abandoning Win 7.
So, if you want to play games that use the newest Renpy (like this one), then you need to upgrade your windows to win 10.
i'm playing on joiplay, and when you skip quickly, the game closes in animated scenes. If that's what you mean, I'm alive too. My suggestion is to save the game at the beginning and end of the animated scenes. This is how I do itWhat's wrong with this update (0.5.0)? Do I have to start a new game? 'Cause every save, I've tried to load, brings me an error and I Have to start a new game - that's annyoing!
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