Raf-Raf

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Wait a minute, last time I was here everyone was bros with the dev.
What changed?
 

crustlord12

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Errr... I just went through mikuscenes.rpy, and there are no events for miku there that raise lust. What is her farmable lust even associated with?
Go to her dorm room, and finger her. That said, fuck doing that a ton of times, just change the value with a save editor/mod (you'll have to finger her at least once for this value to show up)
 

Black Raven

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I remember that author transitioned at some point from nswf to swf for patreon sake.

Since then patreon removed the game anyway for some reason, leading Selebus to transition to SubscribeStar. The SFW version, having no purpose anymore, went extinct at the same time.


Wait a minute, last time I was here everyone was bros with the dev.

What changed?
Long story short :

Updates being leaked earlier and earlier made Selebus lose subs which made him mad which made him lash out at pirates which made the updates leak even earlier.

People are mad that Selebus is now firmly against piracy even though F95 helped kickstart his fanbase. He's now releasing Care Packages featuring (among over things) hardcore loli content, presumably to prevent them from appearing here (rule 7) and giving more incentive for people to sub. The first one was dropped like 10 days ago and was not posted here so it's working i guess.


"If you did not pay for this, you're a little bitch and should stop playing my game as these are meant for subscribers only."
Selebus, README of the Care Package, November 2022
 

barglenarglezous

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I make $35k/year and do just fine. He's complaining about $120k/year. I already gave him triple digits in support in the early days. I did not feel my further $15/month, was justified when I hear "I need more! this is barely sustainable!" from someone making 4 times me. I did my part, but I am not spending hundreds on a game. The game is already ~70% filler dialogue and based on his character, he will likely milk the game until his income drops to "unsustainable" (which is probably like 75k/year to him), then jump ship or disappear. We've seen porn game developers do this time and time again when their games get popular.
Most Americans, when their income expands, expand their lifestyle to match. Suddenly making $50k more than you were making before? Your life is very likely to get $50k more expensive. There's a reason why most lottery winners are broke 5 years later, and why a lot of athletes and entertainers who grew up poor wind up being destitute when their career ends even if they were millionaires in the interim.

The smart play when the income spikes up like that is to put most of it away in safe investments and let it grow, while you live a slightly better lifestyle than you did before. But the safe play is boring. You made it baby, buy more house than you can afford! Your *insert career choice* is going great, you'll be making enough to pay that mortgage in no time!

One injury or Patreon rugpull later, it doesn't look so good. Most people, regardless of their income, can't absorb an income loss of $10k/year.

Patreon was sitting close to $11k before Molly's Bad Day. He was making an undefined amount from the gamepass, and an amount I wasn't paying attention to through Subscribestar. His income was over $130k before everything went sideways. Now it's under $120k. I don't know what kind of lifestyle he actually lives, but if he's like most Americans, he's probably took on the kind of debt that someone making $130k could manage, but is now only making $120k.

And this is all happening:
1) During the most expensive time of the year (holiday season)
2) As he approaches two very expensive life events (Wedding and Honeymoon)
3) As the US economy is exceptionally chaotic ($120k today doesn't go nearly as far as it did a year ago)
4) As Crypto goes into freefall, so the trendy investment that was working very hard to lure in money from guys his age became a black hole that will never return that investment. So even if he DID invest, there's a very real possibility that it's gone.

I get it, it's hard to feel bad for someone making 3x what you make, but the current state of the US economy is causing people making as much as half a million to feel financial anxiety right now, and I'm sure you'd feel one hell of a pinch if suddenly you were having to adjust to a $25k income.
 

Raf-Raf

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Since then patreon removed the game anyway for some reason, leading Selebus to transition to SubscribeStar. The SFW version, having no purpose anymore, went extinct at the same time.




Long story short :

Updates being leaked earlier and earlier made Selebus lose subs which made him mad which made him lash out at pirates which made the updates leak even earlier.

People are mad that Selebus is now firmly against piracy even though F95 helped kickstart his fanbase. He's now releasing Care Packages featuring (among over things) hardcore loli content, presumably to prevent them from appearing here (rule 7) and giving more incentive for people to sub. The first one was dropped like 10 days ago and was not posted here so it's working i guess.


"If you did not pay for this, you're a little bitch and should stop playing my game as these are meant for subscribers only."
Selebus, README of the Care Package, November 2022
Releasing loli content so it won't get posted here, that's 5head and really funny for one. :KEK:
I do find it bizarre how loli is getting removed here but there are games like Magical Girl Shizuki in this site.
Heck, even Black Souls explicitly has the most loli characters and it's still here.
 

worthlesspeon

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I think it has to more ro do with continuous growth of subscriber base. He can see numbers and obviously when early leak happens it affects them a great deal. He obviously ties this back to value of his work and game nad by proxy to his self-worth. That's why he takes this so personally, i think. I mean, back when he was still on this site he's respones were incredeblt snappy and defensive too.
Yeah except any time you look at his subscribestar, he's making a little bit more money than before. The only sustained drop was when he was kicked off patreon, which obviously was not a result of piracy.

He's making nearly $120k/yr from subscribestar alone, and he also gets income from itch.io and the like. That's plenty of money for a venture like this. 120k would put him at the 87th percentile of income in the US - that's pretty good for a set of skills that isn't really marketable otherwise. And he probably pays less in taxes than most of us since he's technically a business owner and can deduct more shit.
 

broken_division

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While the images look fine, you should tune your video compression settings.
You've even halved the fps which you really shouldn't do and the videos are only about 10% smaller compared to a previous compressed version and full of artifacts.
I suggest you try using VP9 instead of VP8 - it produces much better quality for a lower bitrate.
i know i killed the vids this game was huge (5+ hours)
so i tried to cut corners , i'll find the golden standard :KappaPride:
 

Raf-Raf

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To say that F95's enforcement of R7 is inconsistent would be the understatement of the year. Panic Attack is fine but not Proud Father ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe devs who piss off the staff sometimes get yeeted using R7 as a pretense.
Speaking of loli content.
Don't tell me he made content for the smol wizard?
Or is it little bartender?
 

crustlord12

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People are mad that Selebus is now firmly against piracy even though F95 helped kickstart his fanbase
Not me, I'm mad that he turned into a huge dickhead to everyone that's not tugging his nuts, including the people who are paying for his game. I'm fine with him being angry with piracy, it makes sense to me, even if it seems like he's hypocritical, but it's the pseudo-tantrum that irks me.
 

Black Raven

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Speaking of loli content.
Don't tell me he made content for the smol wizard?
Or is it little bartender?
First i think it's worth mentioning that canon content is planned for all 35 characters, wizards included. We're probably still a very long way from that though.

He's also making images on requests from subs, many of those are NSFW and include everyone (and also alternatively aged versions of the characters). Those are available on the website.

The loli scene of the november care package features loli Kirin. Planned for december is loli Futaba.
 

barglenarglezous

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Okay, I'm at a loss. Missed the Haruka scene. I used the save editor to set her lust to 30 and that didn't work. I ran through the choices up to that point and tried every variation and it didn't work.

Is there someone else in the scene whose lust value needs to be higher than it is on my save, or is this a flag from earlier in the game biting me in the ass?
 

Black Raven

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Okay, I'm at a loss. Missed the Haruka scene. I used the save editor to set her lust to 30 and that didn't work. I ran through the choices up to that point and tried every variation and it didn't work.

Is there someone else in the scene whose lust value needs to be higher than it is on my save, or is this a flag from earlier in the game biting me in the ass?
Considering the scene in question i would assume you also need a certain value for Sara's lust.
 
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