Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.45.0] [Selebus]

[jameswitcher]

Selebus possibly did it but only the first year the game was here, In the end he was the one who published it here, he responded to things, received a lot of feedback from here, bugs, kindly responded to the reviews here he was very grateful to all the users and he didn't have pointless wars... I remember well.

If perhaps he had remained faithful to this, another story would have been, after that the next year he was in bitter discussions about how piracy was causing his game to not grow as it should. well the rest of the story and we know how it ended.

he basically let the money & fame go to his head, inflating his ego to unbound proportions.

btw, was it selebus who got caught double dipping in ratings, which got him warned by staff and his thread editing priveledges revoked? I remember it was some game dev but cant recall if it was Sel or not

[edit] nevermind I was confusing two different games. what happened was that Sel kept breaking the thread format with his editing which devolved into a fight because he was too dumb to understand that formats are delicate

https://f95zone.to/threads/lessons-in-love-v0-35-0-selebus.48158/post-7999299

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

he basically let the money & fame go to his head, inflating his ego to unbound proportions.

btw, was it selebus who got caught double dipping in ratings, which got him warned by staff and his thread editing priveledges revoked? I remember it was some game dev but cant recall if it was Sel or not

No, to sum it: Sel got into a kerfuffle with the mods over a dumb thing during a stressful time which ended with him having the thread wrestled out of his grasp, which prompted earlier leaks so he stopped appearing here, then when the care packages got leaked here he sent some cult members to review bomb and report the thread using store discounts as bait.
Then he got banned.

 

[Bingoogus]

The part that i find really funny is how he lambasted this place for reducing his income, effectively stealing from him but now that his game doesn't get promoted here and his links have been removed, suddenly he has absolutely zero supporter growth, complete stagnation based on what vehemental keeps showing. Which just goes to show that whilst this site is all about leaks, it's also the biggest ad billboard for adult games online and what you lose in piracy you more than gain from exposure, especially since most of the piracy was never going to give you money anyway. I wish i could see the numbers on how many of his long term supporters started off as filthy pirates from this website.

 

[wamzzz]

No, to sum it: Sel got into a kerfuffle with the mods over a dumb thing during a stressful time which ended with him having the thread wrestled out of his grasp, which prompted earlier leaks so he stopped appearing here, then when the care packages got leaked here he sent some cult members to review bomb and report the thread using store discounts as bait.
Then he got banned.

And then I guess the final straw was the DRM which is why this thread doesn't show up in the latest updates anymore.

 

[Duskreyn]

That's right, several people use the latest updates to discover the game, so if it is a considerable stagnation, what damages the leak does not compensate for the advertising and potential new supporters, although leaving aside the bad reputation that Selebus has already earned, On that side it is not helpful either, and the extremist that sometimes brews in Lil discord.

 

[Deleted member 6035931]

Oh no!

The spider girl drinks the second-best tea! No wonder she looks so dissatisfied!

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[blackredfish]

So, last update ended with a cliffhanger, which means we are picking up exactly where we left off, with an automatic event and not in sandbox mode. This makes sense, someone already said this but I'll repeat it: with "our" Maya recently gone would be utterly stupid if we can make Sensei freely wander around the city like nothing changed... at least for a while.

Next update is christmas especial, so that means we are jumping straight to it. And that's new. So far, every reset would come after christmas and then we would go "back in time" to repeat the same period of the year over and over, from july/august to new year. But since we are starting from christmas now, we should be able to cover a period of time we never had the chance before (january, february, march, etc). For a minute I thought "hey maybe that's the actual change of seasons that's been pre-announced for a while: it's more than summer, winter, spring... it's a totally different period of time". Then I checked the schedule for 2024 and saw that there is another Halloween Special planned, so I don't know.

There's still room to speculate: maybe resets now will cover a whole year rather than just six months. The school calendar year in Japan ends in march and starts again in april so maybe we can see some drama with the girls not wanting to leave Sensei's class, see them passing to second year with a different teacher (this was kinda teased with Sana last update, even though I don't like this idea at all) and so on. Anyway, point is: any kind of change following Maya getting reseted could mean that something was "unlocked", new rules have emerged and overall things have, for better or worse, moved on in Kumon mi. If after Maya's sacrifice nothing changes, that would be sad.

Orrr maybe it's just another "time in Kumon mi works in special ways". Whatevs, just wanted to pointed it out and hopefully get the bigger brains in here have some fun with it.

 

[JelF547]

Although, there's no real reason to think Yasu wasn't just mentally ill before the resets made the voices actually supernatural

There is. In that scene her mother mentioned, that Yasu could already predict future and project halucinations. Coincendence is realy good explanation, but there is no good in explaining by coincendence everything which could be explained by it.

Especialy when topic of discussion is when resets have started and what is their evolution (if they have). I also don't get why world should become supernatural only after resets started, because resets do not start in non-supernatural worlds.

There's still room to speculate: maybe resets now will cover a whole year rather than just six months. The school calendar year in Japan ends in march and starts again in april so maybe we can see some drama with the girls not wanting to leave Sensei's class, see them passing to second year with a different teacher (this was kinda teased with Sana last update, even though I don't like this idea at all) and so on. Anyway, point is: any kind of change following Maya getting reseted could mean that something was "unlocked", new rules have emerged and overall things have, for better or worse, moved on in Kumon mi. If after Maya's sacrifice nothing changes, that would be sad.

I think there was hypothesis that there would be no mid-reset in chapter 4, but i don't remember reasoning. At least, it would be nice from aestetic perspective, because it can both emphasize that certain someone is missing and place us in position when we expect something (i.e. Bluejay, Bad News Bears) to be fixed by next rest

 

[fdsasdf_p]

Some other thoughts about Sensei's punishment due to the lack of assignment submission.

From the Untitled Children's Show's announcement, Sekai's warning, then finally Yasu's words, the hints seem to be more leaning toward his own hard reset, instead of Maya's, as his ultimate punishment for disrespecting the gods. Of course that seemingly isn't what's happened by the end of the update so I am still exploring possibilities.

Spoiler: His own hard reset?

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Resetting Maya is hitting where it hurts the most, for both Sensei and us players; from Sensei's perspective, this is even worse than himself being wiped clean. But that's hardly losing everything. Besides, how is this punishment going to help fulfill the gods' agenda? (but again questioning entities notorious for being unfathomable to human logic probably won't yield anything)

If the gods value punishing the insolence more than achieving their goal, then sure. But, if their goal remains their top priority (i.e., learn to "feel" through him), it feels more logical to just start with another clean iteration so that their goal might move forward, and kill the current iteration in the process instead of dishing out punishment that would further distracting Sensei from copulating with the girls. Like, how could he be in the mood of fucking Sana, Yasu, or whoever qualifies after this?

I used the word "kill" instead of "reset" this time is because, a gruesome scene might've been awaiting for him as well in addition to Ami. And the most likely suspect can be vaguely seen behind Sensei and Sana after it's done with Ami.

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I don't know, even now I am trying to find a justifiable explanation for Maya fucking him (back to life?) at the end, and an eldritch being coming after Sensei's life seems to be a strong enough incentive (this will need to assume that The Old Ones gets to Sensei eventually and its way in destroying Sensei manifests much more differently from what happened Ami). Aka, Maya sacrificed herself to undo gods' killing.

I still feel very conflicted about this theory because, the subtle sign or the foreshadowing of Maya's power waning started a while ago. It'd be really weird if Maya losing her cosmic power actually turns out to be completely independent of Sensei's divine punishment.

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[DeSkel15]

There is. In that scene her mother mentioned, that Yasu could already predict future and project halucinations. Coincendence is realy good explanation, but there is no good in explaining by coincendence everything which could be explained by it.

Especialy when topic of discussion is when resets have started and what is their evolution (if they have). I also don't get why world should become supernatural only after resets started, because resets do not start in non-supernatural worlds.

Plenty of people in real life do what Yasu was doing. There's a lot of movies about it for a reason. It's simply a mental illness. Usually called schizophrenia:

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Hence it being what she was diagnosed with.

The point of that event was more about how 8 year old Yasu was being sexually taken advantage of, by her doctor:

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Or in other words:

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Not to mention, nothing in this world could be "real", let alone "Supernatural", at least not anymore than things in your imagination would be. Still, there hasn't been any real confirmation of "Supernatural" things happening before the resets. Except for maybe the Space War and the Alien stuff.

 

[DeSkel15]

Some other thoughts about Sensei's punishment due to the lack of assignment submission.

From the Untitled Children's Show's announcement, Sekai's warning, then finally Yasu's words, the hints seem to be more leaning toward his own hard reset, instead of Maya's, as his ultimate punishment for disrespecting the gods. Of course that seemingly isn't what's happened by the end of the update so I am still exploring possibilities.

Spoiler: His own hard reset?

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Resetting Maya is hitting where it hurts the most, for both Sensei and us players; from Sensei's perspective, this is even worse than himself being wiped clean. But that's hardly losing everything. Besides, how is this punishment going to help fulfill the gods' agenda? (but again questioning entities notorious for being unfathomable to human logic probably won't yield anything)

If the gods value punishing the insolence more than achieving their goal, then sure. But, if their goal remains their top priority (i.e., learn to "feel" through him), it feels more logical to just start with another clean iteration so that their goal might move forward, and kill the current iteration in the process instead of dishing out punishment that would further distracting Sensei from copulating with the girls. Like, how could he be in the mood of fucking Sana, Yasu, or whoever qualifies after this?

I used the word "kill" instead of "reset" this time is because, a gruesome scene might've been awaiting for him as well in addition to Ami. And the most likely suspect can be vaguely seen behind Sensei and Sana after it's done with Ami.

Spoiler: KILLED BY THE OLD ONES

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I don't know, even now I am trying to find a justifiable explanation for Maya fucking him (back to life?) at the end, and an eldritch being coming after Sensei's life seems to be a strong enough incentive (this will need to assume that The Old Ones gets to Sensei eventually and its way in destroying Sensei manifests much more differently from what happened Ami). Aka, Maya sacrificed herself to undo gods' killing.

I still feel very conflicted about this theory because, the subtle sign or the foreshadowing of Maya's power waning started a while ago. It'd be really weird if Maya losing her cosmic power actually turns out to be completely independent of Sensei's divine punishment.

Spoiler: Losing power

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I have been wondering if something may have sacrificed Maya to keep Sensei around.

It's been hinted at that there are things in the background, actually trying to keep Sensei around:

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The Untitled Reset (the one before this recent one) was even interrupted so that Sensei wouldn't be reset.

It's also been seemingly confirmed that Sensei needed two sacrifices. One presumably for him and another for someone else:

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Assuming this someone else was Maya, and how Sensei may have been giving up his sacrifice for Maya's survival without knowing, something may have gotten rid of Maya so that Sensei would be forced to survive.

The sacrifice and survival defaulting to him, since Maya was no more.

Sekai definitely seemed to know more than she let on though:

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Also, it's possible that Ayane may have caused this to happen to Maya. Ever since she reached the Rooftop, Maya has become more and more, well, irrelevant. Ayane herself more or less noted this:

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Yasu would also later on imply that Ayane wanted to replace Maya:

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And ever since Ayane returned from her meeting in the woods, she's seemed especially confident:

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I'm hoping Ayane didn't intentionally cause this, but it's somewhat difficult to believe she didn't play some part in her only real rival in love suddenly being taken off the board. Especially considering Ayane just happened to be the one girl Sensei couldn't get rid of during the reset:

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and just so happened to be the girl that seemed to be prolonging his delusion while he was raping Maya.

I also can't imagine her actually wanting to share Sensei with anyone:

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So, if an opportunity presented itself.. well..

 

[DeSkel15]

So, last update ended with a cliffhanger, which means we are picking up exactly where we left off, with an automatic event and not in sandbox mode. This makes sense, someone already said this but I'll repeat it: with "our" Maya recently gone would be utterly stupid if we can make Sensei freely wander around the city like nothing changed... at least for a while.

Next update is christmas especial, so that means we are jumping straight to it. And that's new. So far, every reset would come after christmas and then we would go "back in time" to repeat the same period of the year over and over, from july/august to new year. But since we are starting from christmas now, we should be able to cover a period of time we never had the chance before (january, february, march, etc). For a minute I thought "hey maybe that's the actual change of seasons that's been pre-announced for a while: it's more than summer, winter, spring... it's a totally different period of time". Then I checked the schedule for 2024 and saw that there is another Halloween Special planned, so I don't know.

There's still room to speculate: maybe resets now will cover a whole year rather than just six months. The school calendar year in Japan ends in march and starts again in april so maybe we can see some drama with the girls not wanting to leave Sensei's class, see them passing to second year with a different teacher (this was kinda teased with Sana last update, even though I don't like this idea at all) and so on. Anyway, point is: any kind of change following Maya getting reseted could mean that something was "unlocked", new rules have emerged and overall things have, for better or worse, moved on in Kumon mi. If after Maya's sacrifice nothing changes, that would be sad.

Orrr maybe it's just another "time in Kumon mi works in special ways". Whatevs, just wanted to pointed it out and hopefully get the bigger brains in here have some fun with it.

Actually, Chapter 2 and the 2nd Reset leads into the first Christmas, and first winter, in the game. Which was when the other school was swallowed.

We also celebrated Maya's bday in Chapter 2, which is January 1st, so we've seemingly made it to January before.

There was 2 Christmases in 1 Winter, in Chapter 2 as Maya pointed out:

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This is the first reset (the 6th in total) since the 2nd to actually lead into Christmas though.

Also, apparently every 2 resets, there's a change in seasons and a new Chapter. 2 lead to Winter (Chapter 2), 4 lead to Summer (Chapter 3), and now 6 may be leading to Spring (Chapter 4). If the pattern continues, then Autumn (Chapter 5) will be coming after 8.

 

[JelF547]

Plenty of people in real life do what Yasu was doing. There's a lot of movies about it for a reason. It's simply a mental illness. Usually called schizophrenia:

Once again, there are two ways to reason wizard Yasu's ability to predict the future: combination of coincendents and cognitive distorions and supernatural shit. Our world is well-known to have no supernatural shit, because every such case could be explained without supernatural shit. Actualy, if it wouldn't we would not even call that supernatural.

On the other hand, we have "2020" Kumon-mi, where lot's of things, including Yasu ability to predict future, could not be rationaly explained. In that kind of worlds we sure that there is supernatural shit and we default to coincendence to explain supernatural stuff. Just like we can call it a coincidence that things fall down if somebody throws them. It is not like we can make proper expiriment in-game.

So the adressed question is "which kind of world child Yasu lived". The world where she can predict reset or the world where she cannot. Or, in other words, "is supernatural shit already started and if it is when exactly"

Not to mention, nothing in this world could be "real", let alone "Supernatural", at least not anymore than things in your imagination would be. Still, there hasn't been any real confirmation of "Supernatural" things happening before the resets. Except for maybe the Space War and the Alien stuff.

You cannot use "there haven't been any real confirmation" argument against evidence, even if it is questionable. Because real confirmation is product of such evidences and the point now is to judge evidence(s) themselves.

Also, it is not like resets could not be already started by that moment. Well, there are arguments against, but they would be applied same way to idea of Yasu farseeing first reset or just reset.

I think I already stated, that it all comes from theory, that time can actualy move, Maya just haven't witnessed it yet (or don't want to talk about it at least). After all, Maya also have not witnessed spring too. And we would know is it true in January, so it is good time to develop theory and see what we could also get ahead of schedule, instead of boring reasoning of already released content

 

[DeSkel15]

Once again, there are two ways to reason wizard Yasu's ability to predict the future: combination of coincendents and cognitive distorions and supernatural shit. Our world is well-known to have no supernatural shit, because every such case could be explained without supernatural shit. Actualy, if it wouldn't we would not even call that supernatural.

On the other hand, we have "2020" Kumon-mi, where lot's of things, including Yasu ability to predict future, could not be rationaly explained. In that kind of worlds we sure that there is supernatural shit and we default to coincendence to explain supernatural stuff. Just like we can call it a coincidence that things fall down if somebody throws them. It is not like we can make proper expiriment in-game.

So the adressed question is "which kind of world child Yasu lived". The world where she can predict reset or the world where she cannot. Or, in other words, "is supernatural shit already started and if it is when exactly"


You cannot use "there haven't been any real confirmation" argument against evidence, even if it is questionable. Because real confirmation is product of such evidences and the point now is to judge evidence(s) themselves.

Also, it is not like resets could not be already started by that moment. Well, there are arguments against, but they would be applied same way to idea of Yasu farseeing first reset or just reset.

I think I already stated, that it all comes from theory, that time can actualy move, Maya just haven't witnessed it yet (or don't want to talk about it at least). After all, Maya also have not witnessed spring too. And we would know is it true in January, so it is good time to develop theory and see what we could also get ahead of schedule, instead of boring reasoning of already released content

Your entire theory requires a known mental illness to be actually supernatural in this world, 8 years ago, without any evidence to support it beyond Yasu's mother saying so, while 12 doctors apparently say it's not so in the same event.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not factual evidence as you seem to think it is. It's based off one person's hearsay at best. Nothing actually proves Yasu had supernatural abilities back then.

Even now it's debatable, considering most of what we see her say or do is from the perspective of Sensei. A guy who talks to birds and plants, etc.

Current Yasu has even implied Sensei only thinks she's doing things:

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This game has a theme of "Nothing is real" and "Perception" for a reason.

Still, I'm not saying you're wrong. It's just not likely as far as I can tell.

 

[DeSkel15]

Btw, for anyone interested in a recap of past resets:

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[jameswitcher]

No, to sum it: Sel got into a kerfuffle with the mods over a dumb thing during a stressful time which ended with him having the thread wrestled out of his grasp, which prompted earlier leaks so he stopped appearing here, then when the care packages got leaked here he sent some cult members to review bomb and report the thread using store discounts as bait.
Then he got banned.

in my opinion, it was a well deserved ban. Sel fucked around and found out the hard way.

Crazy how I first started playing this in 2020, and within 3 years, the dev becomes unhinged.

 

[Apollo259]

So at the end of the audio loop of that cacophony of music and sounds (when Sana says she wants to sing). There is another instance of a computer generated voice. I assume it's Maya, or a Maya at least (past, future or one of the versions of her). I think Its the same voice used previously in events connected to her? (I lost my old notes so I cant find a reference easily). I also cant fully hear what it says but its something like this:

In the midst of these undying rays
a sacrifice is made
10 fingers ripped away from mine
its carapace remains
for if the ????????????? say what
what point is there to stay
why should I bother loving those who always go away.

Does anyone remember if this one has been used in a previous event. Given that its quite clearly connected to the end of this reset "10 fingers ripped away from mine" " a sacrifice" ect. I would guess not but I'm not sure.

To me it sounds like maybe it was an intentional sacrifice (or at least Maya going along with it) to keep Akira's memories intact. Because she did not want to wait thousands of years again, after finally getting Akira back. For what is potentially a "fluke" to happen again.

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Also they have progressed beyond anything Maya had previously encountered. So perhaps thought she could not help anymore and this version of Akira was their best chance of figuring out / getting out of whatever is going on.
Then again, maybe that audio is supposed to be from some long past reset of Akira.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[TheLarceny]

Guys how to get latest happy event?

 

[Apollo259]

Guys how to get latest happy event?

In the kitchen during the reset puzzle. Use the laptop, password is mom.

 

[franas]

Anyone can provide with a save without a missed event ?