They've been doing it in comics crowdfunding.
I don't follow comics projects, so I wouldn't have known about that one, they need to be stopped. If only we had someone with the guts to tell them off directly and take action against them if they do anything discriminatory. Sadly, because nobody has the guts is why they get away with this.
1) I don't think comparing consensual homosexual relationships to incest (even between adults) is realistic.
2) Whether or not you like it, the world sees these things pretty differently. For most of us, if our employers caught wind of us reading VNs with the content this one has, we'd most likely lose our jobs. The stuff in this one in particular can be quite taboo, and no one actually believes "indeterminate age" means these characters are biologically and legally adults.
Realistically we know Sel isn't fooling anyone. Question is how much will patreon really care. Probably the plausible deniability is enough for them to keep that monthly 10k coming in.
1. Both are seen as things to be banned in some areas, the former obviously more so than the latter because there is actual medical issues involved if a woman were to become pregnant through it. That said, these issues do not apply to games, so their logic also does not apply because no real people are involved.
2. Let's be honest, we'd lose our jobs if our employers caught us playing one of the usual porn games on here as well, no matter the content. You do have a point there, though, this would probably be seen even more unfavorably due to its content. As for indeterminate age, they are in high school and are in the same class, which means they could all VERY easily and canonically be 18+ as that is the typical age of astudent in their final year of high school. As we have never gone into that very specific amount of detail about their academic status, we can easily say they are possibly in that final year and therefore are 18+. However, what Patreon is doing is determining age by appearance alone, which is totally wrong because even some college girls look like Ami or the other smaller girls in the areas of chest size and height.
Oh, if Patreon ever does make any connection, they WILL terminate the LiL patreon page without hesitation, warning, or a second chance. Patreon is known for lacking mercy for repeat offenses. As for whether Selebus can fool anyone, we'll have to wait and hope we never find out. The only way we know it is successful is if we never hear about Patreon issues for this reason again for Selebus.
Alex, all the big tech companies, Patreon included, absolutely will and have banned ppl for politics and ideology and otherwise been the biggest pieces of shit imagineable.
But that's an OT rabbit hole.
Sel doesn't have anything to worry about in that regard, methinks.
In general:
It is absolutely shocking that it took Patreon this long.
I mean, don't you play for less than 20 minutes before Dream Ami fucks you?
And, the same thing happened with Harem Hotel a long time ago because of Ashley's character model and several of the girls are just straight up in that same ballpark.
Anyway, fuck Patreon but there is no reason to think they have anything out for Sel.
If anything, its probably the opposite for things to have been so placid for so long.
The only future threat to the game ala Patreon after the creation of the new version would be if a rising antagonism draws more of their attention.
I would love that from an aesthetic perspective but materially it could end very detrimentally for Sel and his mysterious partner Subeles
(the brains behind LIL, imo)
In any case I'm here for what the game has to say.
Shitting on Patreon sounds great.
Focusing on the game itself also sounds great.
So all, in all, its really just lost time unless future drama bubbles up.
I don't think so, either, considering he only ever talks about game development on there.
I agree, I kind of knew this was coming eventually and it really just surprises me it took them over a year when other projects with a lower profile got hit a long time ago, they just don't like flat girls with a short height, or love between family, even though none of it is real on any project funded on the platform.
I don't think they have anything out for Selebus, but they are still shady as hell and just as evil as if they did have it out for him. These practices are, to say the least, extremely discriminatory.
We do have to be careful of any potential connection between Selebus and Subeles, that could be deadly to the project as repeat offenses don't get another chance. They probably wouldn't even say anything, Selebus could just wake up one day to find his biggest source of funding gone.
I know my eye for detail isn't always that great, but in order for Runey to be compliant, wasn't the only change to her model the schoolgirl outfit getting replaced? She's still tiny and flat-chested. I remember being shocked that had to be the only change.
It was, but the issue with her is she was blatantly said to be a college student, automatically putting her out of the age range Patreon hates. They seemed to just be picking on her for being flat and wearing a uniform that, in real life, is associated with the Japanese middle school system. However, they also failed to realize that is not the only place in Japan that uses the sailor uniform. Others include high schools and a few colleges out of the few that use a uniform policy as opposed to casual dress. There was one other option Runey had in his case and he saw it as too drastic a change, that option being to change Ashley herself to not be flat.
In this case, not only are several girls practically flat, but some of them are tiny in height, making things so that even a boob size change won't help. They would have to be fully 'aged up' in order to be safe. This, of course, does not take into account the potential the entire high school has of being 18 exact considering they are all in the same class and not one word has been mentioned of what year they are in. The final year is usually around or after a student turns 18, making age in number a non-issue if that were to be the case.
