So you moved to work in 3 countries? therefore your tax domicile changed? or you did business trips so paying taxes in those countries was unnecessary?
You do have to pay taxes for donations in germany, its the same for twitch streamers for example, they count as revenue.
I found the law you're talking about, apparently such stupidity only exists in Germany..... If Ocean hadn't said that he was receiving a donation on Patreon, he wouldn't have paid taxes on it.I even felt sorry for the Germans.
That's super pessimistic. The vast majority of renders will still be small (under 5) numbers of characters. All the ones in the house/apartment will be standard speed. The question is how long the large scene is. I'm assuming dinner out at the restaurant will be something large, as could be the train station. But the train will be most likely a short enough scene, while a dinner is likely to be long (longer than the cinema by far). Ocean has also learned how to deal with such scenes (consider the bookclub, he stays to closeups and small groups for the majority of the time.
You are too optimistic Bob, you said it yourself, Ocean has learned from the past scenes, therefore explaining that the heavy scenes take him twice as long implies that he has already solved all the previous problems, and still the speed drops by half.That's super pessimistic. The vast majority of renders will still be small (under 5) numbers of characters. All the ones in the house/apartment will be standard speed. The question is how long the large scene is. I'm assuming dinner out at the restaurant will be something large, as could be the train station. But the train will be most likely a short enough scene, while a dinner is likely to be long (longer than the cinema by far). Ocean has also learned how to deal with such scenes (consider the bookclub, he stays to closeups and small groups for the majority of the time.
We also don't know if he's included any rendering those big scenes in the figure he's supplied - that might already be baked in to his estimates on speed, maybe it's based purely on WiaB renders, maybe its the shared count of SG and WiaB. If so, it'll include renders from SG's big scenes as well, so more likely to be an average.
The things which will cause slow downs in my opinion are the cinematics, all the behind the scenes things to get it on steam, and all the continuity changes required to get the 'change' properly implemented. You're right that it is unlikely before the end of the year, but I'm okay with hoping and getting disappointed if need be. Nothing gets broken by hoping. What is most inspiring about the recent devlogs (not so much this one) is the palpable enthusiasm Ocean appears to have. I bet he was excited to drop those Miru renders, knowing they'll make us drool a little, and being proud of them. I suspect he's also purposefully hiding how much work he has to do in WiaB because of the change, and because there probably aren't any many solely WiaB supporters on SS because of the way it's set up - Ocean knows that they get both devlogs to appease them. Okay, so I'm slightly cynical too.
I did one google search, and it took me straight to the section where Patreon talks about income reporting for taxation purposes for EU creators. If a person declare's they're not a US resident for tax purposes, patreon stops doing the US thing. If undeclared, the US rules apply.
Sure, but the speed drops for half for those renders, not the whole 4000. You're taking a wurst case scenario (sorry had to say it because of all the german flying around).You are too optimistic Bob, you said it yourself, Ocean has learned from the past scenes, therefore explaining that the heavy scenes take him twice as long implies that he has already solved all the previous problems, and still the speed drops by half.
I doubt anything before the end of the year, most likely early next year. However, Ocean promised a render count in the next devlog, so that will give us some kind of indication where it's actually at, percentage toward completion, so maybe check the thread not this Thursday (because that's SG's devlog) but the following Thurs (or Friday if it's late).
Has there been any statement from Ocean about a planned release date? No.
MY guess is that during the days, he does the creative part of setting up scenes, then sets up a render cue to go at night while he sleeps, so that way he doesn't have to wait for the computer to grind through the renders. I could be completely wrong, but that's what it sounds like.
You wrote absolutely correctly. I don't understand at all how it is possible to make only 25-40 renders per night, it's very little. It would be possible to believe in this if Ocean had an old video card like the GTX 1070 and he didn't know how to optimize.So we can only guess. And the only information we have is breadcrumbs in the developer logs. In September, he wrote that he had reached the 2,000 renders milestone. He also wrote that he estimated the full length of Chapter 4 at 3,000-3,500 renders. (Fun fact, in April, he estimated the total at 2,500-2,800 renders.)
In a recent devlog, in the next episode of the Tax/Workstation saga, he wrote that his current hardware allows him to do 25-40 renders per night. Not sure what this mean - he doesn't do the rendering at the days? I take it as the throughput per day.
So, given that there are 3500-2000 = 1500 renders left, and that he's doing 25 (pessimistic estimate) renders per day, it'll take 60 days just to render that amount. But he has animations planned, and he's going to do them after the static renders are done, in postwork phase. So a very optimistic estimate is ~2.5 - 3 months to complete.
But! It is not clear from the log, these 25-40 renders per day - are these renders only WiAB or WiAB + SG?
If it's the latter, then you can safely multiply my estimate by 2 or even 2.5, since he usually prioritizes SG over WiAB.
Or...He has no air conditioning in his office and putting all the machines to work kills him with the heat... My guess is that, but I know that at some point he explained it, what his work routine was like... but I'm too lazy to look it up.
There are advantages to everything, now he doesn’t have to pay for heating in the winter.Or...He has no air conditioning in his office and putting all the machines to work kills him with the heat... My guess is that, but I know that at some point he explained it, what his work routine was like... but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Because we play the game without you looking over our shoulders telling us not to enjoy it. Or because we secretly are masochists. Or something. Does it matter why other people enjoy something that you don't?
