VN Ren'Py WVM [S2 Ch. 1 Ep. 13 B5] [Braindrop]

[ahtabom]

For those who are still subscribers to Pinocchio's Patreon, could you please share the images from his last post (Dev Report #44) here? Thanks

 

[tslojr]

For those who are still subscribers to Pinocchio's Patreon, could you please share the images from his last post (Dev Report #44) here? Thanks

Should be in the spoiler on this post.

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Hey everyone, I hope the start of the new year is going well for all of you.

I'm going to get straight into the bad news, the time that I'm typing this is the same time I thought I'd be packaging the final release but things are not completely fixed yet.
I wanted to set one final release date after the shitty year of 2024 just to show I could hit one and show that things will be different this year. Bad start for that, but I'm not going to let today define the year.

I'm not going to make any excuses, as I've mentioned there was some life stuff I had to handle that ate the majority of my time this week and I wasn't efficient enough with the time I had left.
I thought I had all of the issues figured out and just had to apply them, even up until late last night I thought everything was golden and I didn't have the urgency needed for the situation.
But issues still persist, though on a much smaller scale than before. I'm currently in talks with someone who knows what they're doing and has had a similar packaging issue and they've been helping me troubleshoot it all.
Things are very, very close. In the past delays were mostly caused by issues I had with the content that I ended up remaking, that isn't the case here. It's a miss but it won't be a major miss.

For Patrons, I am offering refunds for anyone charged in December of 2024 and/or before this post in January 2025.
Please just DM me here on Patreon and I'll have a refund sent your way shortly.
Pledges will also be paused until the rest of E13 is released, this will not be a long pause.

In the past this is when I would have gone silent for a bit, maybe a post on the discord saying I'm still working and things will be out asap, constantly moving the timeframe back by hours as I figure things out.
I don't want to do that, I don't want to panic and stay awake for 72 hours straight and feel dead for two weeks after.
I have a horrible habit of making a mistake and then trying to make up for it by overpromising too much only to lead into many more mistakes that just spiral out of control, not doing that this year.

I stayed up last night trying to have things ready for today, I'm going to rest for a bit and then get right back to it. Things will be released as soon as they're ready. I don't see it taking any longer than by tomorrow or the next day but admittedly I didn't see it taking longer than today initially so I'm not promising another date. That's a mistake I'm only going to make once this year.
I'm sorry for that, I thought this time would be different but that was foolish with how much was going on with life and I should've never promised anything around technical difficulties as I'm not in control of them.

It's a bad start to the year for me and my goals but we're only 5 days in. Let's see how the next 5 days go.

Once again I hope you're all doing well, I'll talk to you again very soon!
Thank you again for your support and patience, I'm sorry things are still fucked, gotta turn it around quick.
I'll talk about my release plans for E14 in the next dev report.

Take care everyone!

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From the Discord:
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[Midnight Ghost]

If he had spent the same effort writing the story as he does writing his dev reports and excuses, the game would be on ep 20 by now. Honestly don't know how anyone can take him seriously after the past 6 months of this repeated pattern.

 

[Shadow74]

Well no surprise there, another missed deadline, the first (of many) of 2025.
This goes to show how a dev that shown so much promise in the start, has turned out to be the major fuckup of the lot.
Worst part? Probably the fact that he doesnt learn from his mistakes and keeps on repeating them.
How is that old saying? "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it!"
In the case of braindrop would more accurate to say: Those that dont learn from past mistakes are bound to repeat them.
How many times were that he gave release dates that he didnt meet? Lost count.
And in every one of those failed release dates he was ALWAYS told not to give any more release dates unless he was absolutely sure he could meet them.
And every times he ends up apologising and saying he wont do it again.
Words without actions are meaningless, he had several oportunities to change his ways, but he wont change.
He´s a train wreck waiting to happen.
So lets enjoy the fireworks!

 

[Better Cock Spock]

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I stayed up last night trying to have things ready for today, I'm going to rest for a bit and then get right back to it. Things will be released as soon as they're ready. I don't see it taking any longer than by tomorrow or the next day but admittedly I didn't see it taking longer than today initially so I'm not promising another date. That's a mistake I'm only going to make once this year.
I'm sorry for that, I thought this time would be different but that was foolish with how much was going on with life and I should've never promised anything around technical difficulties as I'm not in control of them.

He really can't help himself... just stop mentioning dates, period.

From the Discord:

"But I am overestimating my release by 2 weeks!"

 

[AlexTorch]

"I wanted to set one final release date after the shitty year of 2024"

Him -

Paid members: 3,096

How sad...he lost 10 people...

 

[Steinchen]

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Hey everyone, I hope the start of the new year is going well for all of you.

I'm going to get straight into the bad news, the time that I'm typing this is the same time I thought I'd be packaging the final release but things are not completely fixed yet.
I wanted to set one final release date after the shitty year of 2024 just to show I could hit one and show that things will be different this year. Bad start for that, but I'm not going to let today define the year.

I'm not going to make any excuses, as I've mentioned there was some life stuff I had to handle that ate the majority of my time this week and I wasn't efficient enough with the time I had left.
I thought I had all of the issues figured out and just had to apply them, even up until late last night I thought everything was golden and I didn't have the urgency needed for the situation.
But issues still persist, though on a much smaller scale than before. I'm currently in talks with someone who knows what they're doing and has had a similar packaging issue and they've been helping me troubleshoot it all.
Things are very, very close. In the past delays were mostly caused by issues I had with the content that I ended up remaking, that isn't the case here. It's a miss but it won't be a major miss.

For Patrons, I am offering refunds for anyone charged in December of 2024 and/or before this post in January 2025.
Please just DM me here on Patreon and I'll have a refund sent your way shortly.
Pledges will also be paused until the rest of E13 is released, this will not be a long pause.

In the past this is when I would have gone silent for a bit, maybe a post on the discord saying I'm still working and things will be out asap, constantly moving the timeframe back by hours as I figure things out.
I don't want to do that, I don't want to panic and stay awake for 72 hours straight and feel dead for two weeks after.
I have a horrible habit of making a mistake and then trying to make up for it by overpromising too much only to lead into many more mistakes that just spiral out of control, not doing that this year.

I stayed up last night trying to have things ready for today, I'm going to rest for a bit and then get right back to it. Things will be released as soon as they're ready. I don't see it taking any longer than by tomorrow or the next day but admittedly I didn't see it taking longer than today initially so I'm not promising another date. That's a mistake I'm only going to make once this year.
I'm sorry for that, I thought this time would be different but that was foolish with how much was going on with life and I should've never promised anything around technical difficulties as I'm not in control of them.

It's a bad start to the year for me and my goals but we're only 5 days in. Let's see how the next 5 days go.

Once again I hope you're all doing well, I'll talk to you again very soon!
Thank you again for your support and patience, I'm sorry things are still fucked, gotta turn it around quick.
I'll talk about my release plans for E14 in the next dev report.

Take care everyone!

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MUAHAHAHA

i knew it hehehe almost everything i thought he would say as excuse came exactly like that...

 

[Farspire]

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yeah, when he says the same last time and a few weeks starts the pledges again because he needs money, oh and the update never was uploaded xD

So that means that immediately there will be no release for January... but don't be surprised if 2 days from now pledges resume with him saying "don't like it leave" just like he did months ago when he said "if i miss this release ill stop pledges till the start of next year" yeah... he didn't get 2 days before he resumed them saying on discord "Don't like it then remove your subscription" *laughs* that's his solution no lie no excuse no reason why its not being released yet again just pure silence for the month of January as a "vacation"

what a ****ing joke


sorry.... my rant is over....

 

[Dickbutttt]

Aww this wasn't even a fun excuse to read. Maybe next time BD will deliver a better excuse. I have faith in him.

 

[ahtabom]

"I've been facing personal problems... my fish is taking swimming lessons, my dog needs a new yoga instructor, and I also need to accompany my grandmother to jiu-jitsu classes.

I'm not going to set a new deadline. The new deadline is within a week.

I thought I would have resolved it in 2 days. But 87 days have passed and I went back in time, now there are 9 left.

I'm going to pause your subscription payments today, until I have a new deadline. Tomorrow I'll make up a deadline in my head, and I'll resume payments.

Maybe I'm schizophrenic. The voices in my head haven't reached a consensus yet"

 

[Steinchen]

jup jup

first he makes a ass long dev post again with again meaningless words,then writes he wanted to show himself one last time that he can still do releases within a announced date then selfpity asshat posts what is now only boring after reading it all the time.

i bet he has this dev posts already written and just copies and pastes it and then changes a little to match the current time.



aaaand would you look at that again " Things will be released as soon as they're ready. " on January 6th-7th
god help us all this guy is not able to not contradict himself multiple times in one post......
and again the rendercount gone from 521 to 524 for an update that has only compiling issues.......

 

[K18]

It's January 6 and the girl of the day is news reporter Ivory. Happy Birthday Ivory!

 

[The Senior Perv]

It's January 6 and the girl of the day is news reporter Ivory. Happy Birthday Ivory!
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Congratulations to the birthday girl...

 

[Felidako]

so I'm not promising another date. That's a mistake I'm only going to make once this year.

Come on now who is he kidding

 

[morti mati ba]

"I'm not gonna make excuses"
>continues to eat shit for 2500 words.

 

[karumi56]

If he seriously does have Renpy issues, he could just ask on the Renpy discord. It's AVN friendly there and has a lot of people (including RenpyTom himself) that help users with their issues.

But I think we all know he doesn't have Renpy issues. He's doing the same thing he's been doing for years. He can't bring himself to release anything because it either doesn't exist, or he can't stop reworking it.

So each and every deadline, an issue pops up to delay the update again. Even if he swears up and down the update is done and will be released in a day, or even hours, whatever issue that comes up is too big to overcome. Because the issue is actually BD himself.

He used this exact same excuse back in August, with the same "I'm getting someone to help me with it" spiel. Anyone who believes that there is actually a "packaging" issue needs to ease up on the window licking. I'll repeat what I said the last time he used this excuse...you can't package what doesn't exist.

It's sorta sad that BD is recycling excuses so blatantly now. At least the excuses were something to talk about when there are no actual game updates to talk about.

For anyone about to defend BD, the "never had a migraine before" excuse of last month was also recycled. But hilariously the kool-aid crowd sucked it down.

I'm hoping we at least get something related to aliens, black holes or something remotely original for the next excuse-drop.

 

[morti mati ba]

I fucking love how he was "oh I've had """some issues""" with finishing the past story and couldn't complete it"... yeah bud, it's called not knowing how to end it lmoa

 

[sandora85]

Just f.cking three month this idiot's stop throwing him free money everything will be perfect again.He is gonna get shit together and actually do some work but we all know this cultist never do that.

 

[kcaldw]

jup jup

first he makes a ass long dev post again with again meaningless words,then writes he wanted to show himself one last time that he can still do releases within a announced date then selfpity asshat posts what is now only boring after reading it all the time.

i bet he has this dev posts already written and just copies and pastes it and then changes a little to match the current time.

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aaaand would you look at that again " Things will be released as soon as they're ready. " on January 6th-7th
god help us all this guy is not able to not contradict himself multiple times in one post......
and again the rendercount gone from 521 to 524 for an update that has only compiling issues.......

Well day 1 of his new estimated release date is almost over with and still nothing. My guess is we wont see anything tomorrow either. This guy is a joke.

 

[tslojr]

Well day 1 of his new estimated release date is almost over with and still nothing. My guess is we wont see anything tomorrow either. This guy is a joke.

I mean, is it really even a guess anymore if we all know exactly how this is going to play out?