HTML Female Agent [v1.20.1p] [Crushstation]

[rbx4]

Truth is, putting your creative work out there is a hard thing to do. But that doesn't absolve you from criticism. You will likely be putting out crap, like the vast majority of people who make any sort of content. And even if you aren't putting out crap you will still receive criticism.
The proper response is not to run to hugboxes or lash out at the critics who may or may not be accurate in their complaints, but to put your head down and work hard to make something worthwhile.

I have a ton of text online, and I agree with this. We're faced with choices when seeing criticism or when knowing for sure that we made mistakes. Either we paralyze (which isn't a proper option), we contradict every word of it (which is a waste of time and has a boomerang effect), or we deal with it maturely. People's comments usually say more about themselves than about anything else, and words only hurt us if we use them against ourselves. Usually at the heart of bad responses to critique there is an unworkable belief that needs to be tossed into the garbage heap (such as, "I'm better than that person because he made a mistake and I didn't"--then like all humans we make mistakes and the belief breaks).

I think there's more than just dysfunctional reactions to criticism going on here, however. I'll leave it at that.

 

[Derrida]

It does take a kind of talent to convince large numbers of people to pay you decent sums for doing very little. You can't doubt his marketing nous. He cycles through the same promises about 'optimising his approach' or 'employing a new method of writing' and through the same excuses and apologies with just enough infrequency that the goldfish who make up his patreons keep hanging on.

 

[rbx4]

It does take a kind of talent to convince large numbers of people to pay you decent sums for doing very little. You can't doubt his marketing nous. He cycles through the same promises about 'optimising his approach' or 'employing a new method of writing' and through the same excuses and apologies with just enough infrequency that the goldfish who make up his patreons keep hanging on.

Good marketing, like what makes most sales anywhere. Most consumers aren’t going to dig deep to find their ideal porn game hidden under subtle non-advertising. They’re going to click what jumps out at them. This is why a good presentation and good idea sells more than a better game. That said, I am not defending these consumers. They get what their effort yields. I’m not defending Crush either, the forever new dev always in danger of being stopped from developing because someone said something on the Internet.

 

[fortuna95]

here we go agian


and this is the best:

and thats the problem:

(going and coming)

 

[rbx4]

Crush can also take as long as possible for all I’m concerned. I haven’t played FA since ~2018 so the development cycle is too fast for me. I’ve also not paid since early 2018. I’m here for the psychology, which is juicy indeed.

 

[vicaddict]

He has been working "full time"? Lets be generous here. Lets say, six hours a day, four days a week. That is 24 hours a week. If we're just counting this year, that would well over 330 hours for what exactly?

Jesus...

 

[Senor Smut]

I told him that repetitive nonsense wasn't working like...two years ago, and he literally just laughed at me and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. What a friggin' tool.

 

[MikasaTanikawa]

He has been working "full time"? Lets be generous here. Lets say, six hours a week, four days a week. That is 24 hours a week. If we're just counting this year, that would well over 330 hours for what exactly?

Mil... I mean... Marketing is full time job. Especially when you need to sell something almost nonexistent.

 

[asdfasdf12341234ACSACA]

He has been working "full time"? Lets be generous here. Lets say, six hours a week, four days a week. That is 24 hours a week. If we're just counting this year, that would well over 330 hours for what exactly?

Jesus...

He mentioned he's been working "16 hours a day"


I actually believe it, because I've worked with a couple of people that said the same thing (they were strictly in the realm of programming and testing though). The problem is that those two people were completely clueless as to how to do things.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Crush might be milking patreons intentionally, but he's most definitely on some attention deficit disorder (I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice and all that, but seriously)

 

[4tune]

He has been working "full time"? Lets be generous here. Lets say, six hours a week, four days a week. That is 24 hours a week. If we're just counting this year, that would well over 330 hours for what exactly?

Jesus...

That's the beauty of it, he didn't state for how long he's been working full time. He also recently posted this gem in response to a person asking if the author is "just jerking our chain": "No Honestly the reverse is true if anything, I'm putting way too much work into the project, my screen time averaged 16 hours/day last week."

I could tell my boss that my screen time averaged 16 hours/day last week too, but if he'd ask for a screen recording...I'd probably find myself jobless.

 

[fortuna95]

I think you can't work 16h/day, if you are sleeping, eating, shopping, shi...ng, and so forth...12 hours maybe! 16h is like a slave - and no one does this voluntarily! And even 12h sounds unrealistic, because 8 hours is too much for today's generation.

Sometimes, after another 16 weeks update I think: well, he could have done this in just 16 hours!

It's just the way it is: he's been milking for years and the probably high fluctuation means that frustrated supporters are leaving and the enthusiastic ones are joining. So he just goes on and on...as long as he can, some would say "clever".

 

[Takkatakka]

He mentioned he's been working "16 hours a day"
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I actually believe it, because I've worked with a couple of people that said the same thing (they were strictly in the realm of programming and testing though). The problem is that those two people were completely clueless as to how to do things.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Crush might be milking patreons intentionally, but he's most definitely on some attention deficit disorder (I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice and all that, but seriously)

The problem is, that you can poke fun about this or accuse him of lying and it might as well be true. But it might also be true, that he is just very insecure with his writing and constantly broods over every word. Like...that is not completely unrealistic.

I certainly wouldn't pay each month for that either way, though.

 

[MAKE DEEPFAKES]

some would say "clever".

I would say "failing upwards"

 

[Senor Smut]

He mentioned he's been working "16 hours a day"
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I actually believe it, because I've worked with a couple of people that said the same thing (they were strictly in the realm of programming and testing though). The problem is that those two people were completely clueless as to how to do things.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Crush might be milking patreons intentionally, but he's most definitely on some attention deficit disorder (I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice and all that, but seriously)

Note that he doesn't say how much of that 16 hours/day is spent on his game. He could just be watching a shitload of kitten videos on YouTube.

 

[rbx4]

Kitten videos are legit work though.

*Have you tried making kitten videos? It's tougher than fighting in trenches in WW1 was.

**Watching them is tougher than making them.

***If someone disagrees, they need to shut up until they have accomplished something 1,000th as difficult as watching kitten videos (which they haven't).

 

[vicaddict]

The problem is, that you can poke fun about this or accuse him of lying and it might as well be true. But it might also be true, that he is just very insecure with his writing and constantly broods over every word. Like...that is not completely unrealistic.

I certainly wouldn't pay each month for that either way, though.

Lets say that he does brood over every word. It is my understanding that he is in his 40s or even 50s. He used to be a project manager of some sorts. He of all people should realize that this is not a healthy model to get anything done. If he's that inept or unproductive, bring someone in to to the writing and/or the coding. Instead of having the Lovely Lady Victoria design new clothes that nobody cares about, bring someone in, give them a few bullet points and let them do the writing.

Even he must see that this constant delay is absurd and is not good marketing. Then again, people keep paying him 6 or 7k... I can't get my head around it.

If anything you must admire his ability to make a living off of this. I mean seriously, as far as con artists go, he has it figured out.

 

[rbx4]

Lets say that he does brood over every word. It is my understanding that he is in his 40s or even 50s. He used to be a project manager of some sorts. He of all people should realize that this is not a healthy model to get anything done.

People often need some sort of antagonist to motivate them. That's why a lot of people "hate" their boss and struggle with them all the time, but they show up every day for work and get things done for decades. Fans on Pateon, Discord, and here are sort of the antagonist in this setting, but with no power, people either just complain or not and it has no force.

 

[asdfasdf12341234ACSACA]

Lets say that he does brood over every word. It is my understanding that he is in his 40s or even 50s. He used to be a project manager of some sorts. He of all people should realize that this is not a healthy model to get anything done.

Being a project manager doesn't necessarily imply that you are a good project manager. Project management in particular is one area where one can very easily fall upwards and have a lot of plausible deniability ("it's not my fault, it's all we can do with the budget/it's not my fault, we got unexpected delays/so on and so forth).

Also, while I don't know his full history of employment, it is very common for project managers to be people that simply got promoted to a level that they weren't prepared for (Peter principle). I don't know if it's the case here though, I genuinely think it's some kind of attention deficit disorder.

 

[chino222]

 

[Geffe]

I think the reason he's struggling is that his premise doesn't fit the tone he settled on, nor plays to his strengths (or interests) as a writer.

Turning the agent into a bargirl in a way that makes sense given the tone and story setup is all but impossible. And if he did manage that, then he would be left writing a ton of pointless sex scenes that do nothing to advance the plot, and are lacking in the personal and psychological aspects that he seems to be both best at, and most interested in.