I've been so used to seeing him as a Selebus parody account that this never crossed my mind, but looking through his posts again I'm starting to think you're right. Or I'm just too easily convinced, who knows.
Sellybussy if you're reading this, please add more Maya sex scenes, thanks.
Yeah, it slipped me by for a surprisingly long time since there was someone on the discord who also copied his profile icon like that. Funnily in response to that he said: "I guess this is just the kind of thing I have to deal with now" or something, only to in reality have done the same thing himself already. Weird guy am I right?
It's kind of curious because he really is just screaming "This is me, I'm Selebus" yet he remains so disguised. I wonder if thinks people are stupid for not noticing. Or I wonder if he got cocky and feels disappointed people know now. Of course, I don't blame anyone for not noticing my alt, since I don't use the same PFP on it and openly express my identity.
re: people taking things at face value, yeah I agree with you that it'd be better for it to not be the case but in the end it is the status quo because it is pragmatic. If you take the biological perspective, this is a byproduct of the human species evolving to survive in environments where quick, low-effort decisions based on superficial facts tend to lead to good outcomes more often than not (which is exactly what evolution optimizes for)
re: media literacy, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I remember reading a factoid that humans tend to perform better in pretty much anything when they are being intentional about it rather than just mindlessly going with the flow, which seems to align with what you're saying. Personally, I find it hard to muster up the willpower to do that though. At least when I'm reading classics, I can justify it on the basis that "this is a work which is widely regarded as being worth the effort of properly digesting" but when it comes to random shit on the internet, I just can't do that it mainly comes down to laziness and not being sufficiently invested rather than being a flaw of the works though
I'm curious: have you ever considered making a visual novel of your own? Imo writing is the main obstacle (renders are mainly a matter of putting in the time to get them lookin good) but you seem to have got that covered
Truly our evolutionary history continues to weigh us down forever.
"Mustering up the willpower" is pretty rough indeed, especially when we're all on a biological time limit and are GOING TO FUCKING DIE ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!! We have to really choose what we do with our time wisely, which is why right now I'm choosing to spend mine with those I cherish above all else. I think, indeed, just out of practicality we will need to pick our battles with media and deploy full literary analysis only on those which earn it or have good reputations as you say. I think the one thing though is that it is often good to acknowledge one's personality responsibility in these cases and hold off being too critical. For example, I chose not to read John Galt's like 200 fucking page radio speech in Atlas Shrugged, but I acknowledge that was a failing of my patience and investment moreso than I decry the very idea of having a 200 page radio speech. It's like playing a game on easy mode then criticizing it for being easy: we make the beds we lie in. That said, this is just a personal philosophy, not an objectively correct way of life which I would lambast others for not following; again, it's ourselves who serve to benefit by uplifting media. This is just something we're doing for fun and enrichment BEFORE WE FUCKING DIE!!!! AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
I'm fine writing books. A whole game is a lot of extra work, though as you say it would mostly just be a time dump. Selebus has experienced for himself how tedious making visuals to match text is (and to my understanding feels no small annoyance when people care more about said visuals than his divine prose - quit complaining lads, if he added animations to sex scenes then they would distract from the text itself which is what really matters!). To say nothing of the game elements themselves, which we can imagine takes him countless hours to craft and hone to perfection. Just a lotta work.
Hahaha... i dunno what it is man but futa Yumi just doesn't click in my head, despite her combative attitude and tomboy aesthetic she just doesn't work as a futa for me, she's a 100% vagina-only woman to me. This isn't to say a futa version wouldn't be hot, but it would feel more like cosplay than alt-universe to me. I can't even gel with her wearing a strap-on, just doesn't click, she straight as an arrow and i cannot see her pegging a dude... if she's in the dominant position, she's riding cowboy, not thrusting into someone.
I remember reading one of the care packages has explicit NTR too. Not sure what the timeline is but seems like the frequency of such content is increasing over time?
Personally idgaf unless it gets to a point that Ami leaves Akira for Takoyaki man
Honestly I think it's not really NTR for the girls that are fucking Sensei to fuck each other or other senseis, since he doesn't give a shit, and neither do most people. However, A Life of Prizes had those really weird scenes with the girls fucking randoms and Chinami becoming a porn star or whatever it was that might just do it. Again, it is something that doesn't really happen, but it's so weird, forced and random, even more so than other eldritch shit that happens in the game imo that it might just earn the tag. I'd personally be against it because I wouldn't find the game if that was the case, and I'd hate for people to lose out on such an experience over some extremely minor, avoidable and practically non canon scenes, but I am dreading with how much Selebus loves making us despair sometimes that he'll just do it in the future for the hell of it, especially with that damn boy band lurking around the girls a second time, Sana's weird fantasy and some other pointers.
Replaying A Place That Can Only Exist in Our Minds, found this little gem. On both first and second playthroughs, I thought this was a reference to Sensei cutting off Nikki and Noriko. Chapter 2 had Maya making a LOT of fuss about the Nakayamas being dangerous to Sensei. Hell, even De'Skel thought so back in March:
Overall, not really pertinent to current day metaknowledge, but one of those neat little easter eggs that keep me replaying scenes I haven't watched in months/years.
Replaying A Place That Can Only Exist in Our Minds, found this little gem. On both first and second playthroughs, I thought this was a reference to Sensei cutting off Nikki and Noriko. Chapter 2 had Maya making a LOT of fuss about the Nakayamas being dangerous to Sensei. Hell, even De'Skel thought so back in March:
I may be wrong but i think Sekai died before Akira meet Maya, so i think its still Niki. But also it may be weird that Maya had that hate level with Niki
Replaying A Place That Can Only Exist in Our Minds, found this little gem. On both first and second playthroughs, I thought this was a reference to Sensei cutting off Nikki and Noriko. Chapter 2 had Maya making a LOT of fuss about the Nakayamas being dangerous to Sensei. Hell, even De'Skel thought so back in March:
Overall, not really pertinent to current day metaknowledge, but one of those neat little easter eggs that keep me replaying scenes I haven't watched in months/years.
As it has been pointed out, Akira hadn't met Maya by the time Kyoto happens. Mind you, in Kyoto, Ami hasn't been born, it would be insane for Akira to already be in a relationship with Maya.
Also, Maya's rival is and always will be Noriko, that's because she loses by default against Niki and Sekai. She knows about them, but Akira's allegiance to her was never tested, that's Maya's greatest fear.
She knows that she's a replacement for Sekai, as in, she only has a place because Sekai is dead. And she also knows that Niki would win if Akira had her in his life, that's why she's terrified to the point of making Akira not even mention her name to her (and probably why she had a hand in making sure they stayed apart).
That's of course original Maya, Maya Prime wins against both Sekai and Niki, multiple times at that (including last update version of episcopalis). But that's also maybe due to the fact that our Akira is a product of the current cycle, and thus, to him, Maya Prime is his first love sort of, even if he recovers his memories as time goes on, her impression on him as he "woke up" makes him see his own past in a different way from if he remembered things from the start.
On a minor note, True Sekai doesn't seem to have known Maya, and I think Ghost Sekai's hatred of her is born from the same place as Ami's, Maya took their place on the cycles by accident. From that point of view, it is possible that they have met, if Maya's existence somehow involved her going back into a past where she didn't exist and changing things to what they are now. But yeah, there's not enough at the moment to support this much further. Niki seems to know Maya though, and Ami recalls a playdate with some girl. Imo those are probably references to the timeline change from when Maya inserted herself into the past (supported by the fact Maya can't recall her own parents), but we'll have to wait and see.
Edit: Added images.
Edit2: Mind you, when Noriko shows up, the real foreshadowing is Ami knowing the exact same about it being a corruption of the timeline. (or maybe it wasn't but retcon works I guess)
Replaying A Place That Can Only Exist in Our Minds, found this little gem. On both first and second playthroughs, I thought this was a reference to Sensei cutting off Nikki and Noriko. Chapter 2 had Maya making a LOT of fuss about the Nakayamas being dangerous to Sensei. Hell, even De'Skel thought so back in March:
Overall, not really pertinent to current day metaknowledge, but one of those neat little easter eggs that keep me replaying scenes I haven't watched in months/years.
I keep replaying the game and saw this. Its a bit contradictory after the last event with Makoto, so idk if Sel forgot about this or Makoto didnt remember that. Could has been another timeline but it didnt seem like a true timeline and more like those Sensei's blackout/Happy Event. Also i remembered that i have to see Bluejay again and that makes me feel bad
I keep replaying the game and saw this. Its a bit contradictory after the last event with Makoto, so idk if Sel forgot about this or Makoto didnt remember that. Could has been another timeline but it didnt seem like a true timeline and more like those Sensei's blackout/Happy Event. Also i remembered that i have to see Bluejay again and that makes me feel bad
One, as it was seen in the last update, Maki was fulfilling Masahiro's fantasies (being cucked that is), it wasn't in the least about her. Iirc she even says so at one point to Akira, that she was pretty much just into him, or would have been okay with a normal sex life or some such.
Two, Makoto is ashamed of her/loves her, thus, it would be more than understandable for her to lessen the hit a bit by downplaying what went down when talking to Akira. Or maybe even downplaying it for herself, as it obviously traumatized her and she may be trying to cope.
it mainly comes down to laziness and not being sufficiently invested rather than being a flaw of the works though
