Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.48.0] [Selebus]

[Detective Dc345]

Update is nearly half way complete and we only have around 10 previews with 9 of them being labeled after the latest update. Either Sel is behind on work or he's hiding something from us.

 

[Fire Lord Zuko]

Update is nearly half way complete and we only have around 10 previews with 9 of them being labeled after the latest update. Either Sel is behind on work or he's hiding something from us.

Man forget the update! To think that the ‘Dc’ in your username stood for ‘DemonCock’ this whole time…

I’m shooketh.

 

[crustlord12]

Update is nearly half way complete and we only have around 10 previews with 9 of them being labeled after the latest update. Either Sel is behind on work or he's hiding something from us.

Put it back. Put it back!

 

[GSwole]

Update is nearly half way complete and we only have around 10 previews with 9 of them being labeled after the latest update. Either Sel is behind on work or he's hiding something from us.

I had to take a small break and get some ZZZ in. Did you see Bernice? She's the pyro from TF2 and I couldn't pass on that.

 

[GSwole]

I think there's two angles to this: general cognitive dissonance, and a sense of power.

There are few things online which engender cognitive dissonance on the level of piracy, which explains all sorts of cringeworthy behavior online dating all the way back to the LOL, LIMEWIRE animation from like 2007. The fact is that piracy is an anti-social act which harms creators, but the convenience of the act (the lack of legal consequences) combined with the personal benefit of saving money means almost everyone does it anyway. And what happens when people who consider themselves good or reasonably moral people are faced with the fact they are regularly committing an immoral, harmful act? Their brain twists over itself to resolve the dissonance. "Ah, actually there is no real harm, you see I never would have bought the thing anyway." "Ah, actually, I would have bought it (I'm a good person), but I just can't afford to right now." "Yeah I'm kind of an asshole, I pirate, but in a lovable edgy way, I'm the cool uncle." Etc. And in a vacuum, the brain's natural self defense mechanism will protect someone from self-reflection or the need to acknowledge personal guilt. But GSwole doesn't allow that to happen and repeatedly confronts people with reality, thereby throwing the false harmony into disarray and forcing one to confront the cognitive dissonance again, which is unpleasant. Nobody likes that.

Secondly is the sense of power. There's almost nothing worse (metaphorically) you can do on the internet than care about something, because caring is weakness. The seminal visual novel Cross Channel (one of my top 5 "everyone should play" visual novels) has a line where someone observes that love is a battle wherein whoever falls in love first loses, because the other person will have all the power over them. Similarly, online, expressing that you care about something opens up an avenue for strangers to have power over you, and this power they WILL notice having. The meaning here is obvious. GSwole doesn't want people to pirate their game. Person B pirates the game. Person B has the power in this dynamic. They feel a sense of dominance and superiority surge through them like pure energy, as ridiculous as that may sound. On a subconscious level (and sometimes conscious) one begins to feel that they are genuinely just better than the other person on some level - they are in some kind of dominant position. And this leads to looking down on them. There is an almost compulsion within people's minds to belittle and mock those one perceives as beneath them. It's a famous theme in fiction for even those trying to repress this to end up belittling in the other direction, where they reveal they look down on others through their efforts to not do just that. It's a very nasty, primal aspect of the human mind.

And so what happens in this thread is that GSwole openly expresses that he cares about piracy, ergo inspiring those in the thread to look down on him, then he confronts them with their cognitive dissonance, giving them impetus to lash out. Consider "cool" h-game devs who are "chill" with pirates. It doesn't really matter if on the inside they are seething too. On the outside if they present themselves as chill, then there is no power imbalance, and pirates dont feel superior to the devs - they aren't encouraged to belittle them. Then if the dev does not thrust dissonance in people's faces, they are content to remain satisfied and content with themselves, no need to go out of their way to prove a point or establish any aspect of their being or be snarky or self-defensive and so on. That is much wiser in every way, so it's what most people do where they can help it. The problem is just that sometimes, a person may care too much to do that.

I need to hire you to pad my games text instead of doing it myself. You can easily print out chat gpt length responses and dialogues. How do you feel about working for 1 png a month with a cast member of your choice? Of course all the normal rules apply.

 

[Apollo259]

I need to hire you to pad my games text instead of doing it myself. You can easily print out chat gpt length responses and dialogues. How do you feel about working for 1 png a month with a cast member of your choice? Of course all the normal rules apply.

At least convert that single png to a max bit depth tiff before you send it to them. Padded images for padded paragraphs would be a more equitable trade.

 

[Moonflare]

Update is nearly half way complete and we only have around 10 previews with 9 of them being labeled after the latest update. Either Sel is behind on work or he's hiding something from us.

He's hiding that he spends all his time writing books posts here through an alt account and working on some other game while getting paid for LiL. Oh wait, he's not hiding that.

Edit: Almost thought I had replied to some other person due to name change. Bingoogus syndrome upon us all guess I'll have to change my name to GothChick69.

Edit2: seriously though, if this update will reveal Himawari's plan, then I'm pretty sure anything would be a huge spoiler. Maybe that's wishful thinking... We'll see.

 

[alteros]

Why is it that once you get to lust events Sensei asks them to call him something else anyway. There's no enforced consistency either.

 

[FireCazador]

The fun part about starting again is remember all the things and compare the old time with the actual time Sensei life. Also i fear some moments that i saw long time ago that stabbed me pretty hard

Spoiler: Oh, sad memories

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[Detective Dc345]

I'm glad my spooky name change is getting the right reactions . The "Dc" doesn't stand for demon cock and it will go back to normal after spooky month is over. I just hope nobody takes my moniker in the mean time because I don't want to be stuck as DemonCock345 forever.

 

[crustlord12]

Edit: Almost thought I had replied to some other person due to name change. Bingoogus syndrome upon us all guess I'll have to change my name to GothChick69

Verboten, no more username or avatar pictures changes allowed by any regulars

 

[LoveRedHairedGirl]

Verboten, no more username or avatar pictures changes allowed by any regulars

Got it

 

[Vinnie0454]

i'm bit confused on the event timestamps.

 

[barglenarglezous]

Verboten, no more username or avatar pictures changes allowed by any regulars

I ALMOST changed my name to burglenurgleboobs just to spite you, but that required effort, so fuck that.

 

[fdsasdf_p]

The fun part about starting again is remember all the things and compare the old time with the actual time Sensei life. Also i fear some moments that i saw long time ago that stabbed me pretty hard

Spoiler: Oh, sad memories

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Meanwhile, some other old moments also stab you, but in the wrong way
especially after knowing how much she knows

Spoiler: Oh, bad memories

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[LoveRedHairedGirl]

Meanwhile, some other old moments also stab you, but in the wrong way
especially after knowing how much she knows

Spoiler: Oh, bad memories

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This will stab you. Literally

 

[Fire Lord Zuko]

Got it

Lmaoo okay. This profile change got a laugh out of me. Caught me so off guard.

 

[NULLWIZARD]

I'm glad my spooky name change is getting the right reactions . The "Dc" doesn't stand for demon cock and it will go back to normal after spooky month is over. I just hope nobody takes my moniker in the mean time because I don't want to be stuck as DemonCock345 forever.

too late my friend >: )

actualy fuck this im going back i dont like purple and i dont wanna lose my own name!!! but for the record i did it:



lmao this is gonna be confusing

 

[Riolol]

This will stab you. Literally

This reminded me, Ami recently told Maya she would never chop off Sensei's penis so what did she mean by "I'll just have to chop it off"?

 

[Fake Rabi ~]

I'm glad my spooky name change is getting the right reactions . The "Dc" doesn't stand for demon cock and it will go back to normal after spooky month is over. I just hope nobody takes my moniker in the mean time because I don't want to be stuck as DemonCock345 forever.

Dang it, why would you change your name to that? Whenever I'm gonna look for your post in the "find page" I have too type demon cock making me look like im searching for it..