Takkatakka
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Apart from the fact that some sexual stuff is straight illegal in a lot of countries, freedom of speech generally doesn't work towards private companies.
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Skep-tiker
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Just two mistakes i randomly noticed in your reasoning:
1) Factual error: MC is not teleported to the same day the past LI's are mentioning that he was gone a longer time, and they tried to reach him multiple times on his nokia.
2) invalid/unverified assumption: is it verified that the time jump has always exact the same time? Sure, ubdoubtly MC was teansported back in the past about 20 years two times. But is this enough to consider it as a fixed value? It could also be very well possible, that the amount of energy relesed by the incident in the powerplant initially led to much longer time jumps, as for example 40 years, and due to declining energy in the rift, the time jumps would be getting shorter. MCs time jumps are simply in such a short period, that a small decrease in jump time wouldnt be easily noticable.
Pax Draconis
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Right, it wasn't on the same day. If it was then the same events would replay. The first time was 20 years before the first day. Time passed in 2019 between the first and second jumps. It was several days after that he went on the second jump, and it was 20 years before the 2nd day. For simplicity's sake let's say the jump is exactly 20 years in the past to the exact time that the person leaves the present. So if you left on 7 September, 2019 you would arrive in the past on 7 September, 1999. If you left on 14 September, 2019 you would arrive on 14 September, 1999. If you instead left on 9 November 2011, you would arrive in the past on 9 November 1991.
It's a moot point anyway after the second jump, since the mysterious stranger closes the original rift afterwards. The sample size cannot be increased but it seems like the proximate time that passed in 2019 is the same amount that passed in 1999. I think that in itself is more of a valid assumption then your speculation that the rift is completely variable otherwise with all of time/space would it have sent him to 1999 twice? The range of all time as a variable would make it too large to go through twice.
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Walter Victor
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Patreon doesn't have 'police'. They barely have enough people with the time to do their actual jobs, much less searching around on other sites.
What they do have are Crusaders. People unemployed by Patreon, but who have taken it upon themselves to ferret out games which have abominable kinks in them, i.e. incest. These Crusaders then report their evidence to Patreon, which then can take action.
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That, unfortunately, has become OUR job. As supporters, we need to stop using Patreon wherever possible and switch to alternate forms of donation. And we need to try and push developers to setup those alternate donation platforms for us to utilize. Patreon used to work, until the current crusade happened. Now it's time to move on to the "next thing". There isn't an official or unofficial public office/company/etc that is going to do it for us.
pitao
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Yep they act as a monopoly because their competition can't give the same revenue and conditions to creators and in a way it is kind of "blackmail", or with us and our stupid rules and thrive or without and your chances are minimum (read something about payment options also I think?), well until "we" all stop contribute to it by putting money on Patreon.
Well I say we but myself can't contribute to any creator for personal financial reasons, but if I could I wouldn't by Patreon because of their policies, maybe subscribestar (for what I read seems a better one?) or Itch.io but I'm also not aware if they have much better policies than Patreon.
Takkatakka
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Isn't the problem anyway that the payment services like paypal and some of the credit card companies push for these rules? So even if you switch away from Patreon to another platform...as soon as that platform is large enough to be noticed they would start pushing those rules on that platform as well.
Never mind the fact that the US have a movement that wants to ban pornography altogether.
Raven Tomoe
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Here's some fanart I did for Ripples
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Gaslighting instead of expressing my genuine disagreement...interesting... then let me be more specific:
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this style of exposition dumping and wasting dev time on making animations for things which could do without them just because some people think they are "immersive"
I disagreed with this POV when I posted, among other things, that I enjoy Jestur's writing style and his use of animations.
This, IMO, is part of what makes Ripples so good and yes - immersive - to me.
This was my favorite chapter and the attention to detail, including all the animations, gave it a level of immersion that I greatly enjoyed.
I felt that Justur used exposition well and, in a story this complex, I expect something close to the level of exposition found.
I certainly want Jestur to continue in this vein, using exposition where he feels he needs to review or share knowledge for the benefit of the viewer and including a high density of animations where he wants scenes to carry extra weight or be extra special.
The sexy times with Khloe and Valerie, as well as the extended sexy time with Scarlett were Outstanding, and I am amazed at how well Jestur did with the animations, Especially given that this is using Honey Select 1 to achieve this.
We are now keeping track of multiple versions of the same people in two timelines as well as two versions of Darci, a Skylar who appears to have traveled in time at least once + 2 factions of people in the past and the present who are battling over time itself.
Exposition is key to ensuring that the viewer continues to understand 'what' is happening versus executing something akin to the famous 'Who's on First' skit done by Abbott and Costello.
So - yes, we have differing POVs about the necessity of the level of the exposition and the benefits of all the animations in creating an immersive experience.
I'm happy to embrace Jestur's vision for Ripples, the level of exposition he feels he needs to best tell this complex story and the density of animations he's chosen to include to create the level of immersion he wants his viewers to enjoy as they dive into his creation.
If part 2 is as good as this most recent chapter, IMO, it will be exceptional!
Cheers!!
What is the game value to update the "Donnie" name? I wanted to change it but I can't figure out which variable it is in UPM.
Skep-tiker
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As another note, there is very little content that needed an updated patch for in the newest update anyway.
I can't help but notice Ben Stiller and the LIs in your sig are all looking over their *right* shoulder...
Bill Temple
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For dealing with job interview with Cindy, you're stuck with Donald/Donnie. When Scarlett takes MC to the lake in episode 4 he can tell her his "actual" name is Donnie or change it. The variable for what the girls in the past call him is
playerNameA.The duality of man.
Honestly the best adult game I played
I believe so, the Creator just announced the next episode is coming out this month on itch
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They are talking about the patch, the game is already out, doubt be any real changes from beta to public.
Dunner
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Like it says in the book: "Same things make us laugh, make us cry."
As I said it could be A CANON EVENT but I'm personally not thrilled by the whole idea (same with MC being everyone's dad).
Don't get me wrong, they're good theories but they create too many paradoxes in my book and that kinda zaps my enjoyment to an extent (let's say 10%).
Nonetheless I'm pretty certain Jestur can pull it off and make it enjoyable anyway.