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

[divingmedic]

I need to sell popcorn for this thread .

 

[johnnyM]

I need to sell popcorn for this thread .

But to keep the proper perspective of BD, promise to sell the popcorn and deliver it by X date, and then deliver it on X+3 months. And when you deliver it, make sure it's half the original quantity promised.

 

[kcaldw]

Let's break down this down shall we:

Paragraph 1 - Yo, I'm charging your asses for finally releasing my 3 month delayed update, albeit in 2 parts. The second part may be today, but maybe not...

Paragraph 2 - Did I tell you that i'm charging your asses? This VN is my livelihood (I guess I don't make it for myself, and it's not a hobby, but a job), and I need it to feed my family.

Paragraph 3 - Ummm I need to charge you because of reasons...you know, I had some IRL issues and you know, stuff. But look I gave you all these renders... don't mind that I was late every time and that those 1200 renders were due early in the summer as part of my 52 for 52 campaign.

Paragraph 4 - I think I forgot to mention that I'm charging your asses this month, and I'm charging your asses in February. But I'm going to keep it real and set some goals.

Paragraph 5 - To charge your asses in March, I need to do the following in February:

1. release episode 13
2. release my 75mb episode 14 beta part 1 subset (a) release.
3. "Must catch up on" the character sheets and bday renders (what does that even mean? What's the measuring stick here that triggers the, he's all caught up?)
4. "must post" season 1 redo progress (in other words, he just has to post that "still working on it".)

If I don't do the above, March is paused. Don't forget though, I'm still charging your asses in February regardless if this list gets done. This list is only for me charging in March.

Paragraph 6 - Look at this pretty Excel sheet I created "WITH COLORS" that will do absolutely nothing for me, except the last column where you can see my excuse.

Paragraph 7 - Kiss my ass, and please subscribe.

What a way to break it down the only thing missing was the "Trust me part" other than that your breakdown was awesome.

 

[johnnyM]

What I do love about his "List of goals" for charging in March is that he thinks that: 1) we are going to see the chart and the goals and go "oooooo look at how serious he is now" and 2) Thinks we are idiots and don't see just how low he set the bar for charging his patrons in March.

Assuming he did some work previously... (a very big ask). In his last dev report, he was planning on releasing Ep13 part 2 at the end of January. He said it was going to be a 200-300 update.

After his delay of EP13 Part 1, his new "target" was to release Ep13 part 1 (before the 1a and 1b split), and EP13 part 2 before tomorrow for his subscribers. Now he's planning EP13 Part 2 for February (which again probably mostly complete if we assume he's done something). For episode 14, he wants another 75 MB update (100 renders minimum), which probably takes any normal developer about 1-2 weeks. (Grif1001 help me out here since you are a new developer who is just learning all the tools. Is my 1- 2 weeks estimation right?)

Then his final 2 criteria of the "Catching up on" the bday renders, character sheets, and season 1 progress are the biggest pile of horseshit I ever heard. It's such a subjective goal, it's not even funny. You can't even put a measurable task on this that would indicate 100% achieved. Is one character sheet and 1 bday render enough? Is just sending out a message saying "still working on season 1 redo" and adding 1% to the mythical progress bar enough?

In summary, all Shit for Brains has to do is release ep13 (original part 2) which is probably almost done (assuming he did work), and a small 1-2week 75 MB update. The other subjective goals can be knocked out in less than a day.

Now, we wait and see how he fucks it up, and what IRL excuse he uses.

 

[kcaldw]

What I do love about his "List" for charging in March is that he thinks that: 1) we are going to see the chart and the list and go "oooooo look at how serious he is now" and 2) Thinks we are idiots and don't see just how low he set the bar for charging his patrons in March.

Assuming he actually did some work previously... (a very big ask). In his last dev report, he was planning on releasing Episode 13 at the beginning of February. It was going to be a 200-300 update and his "target" was to release part 1 of episode 13 (before the 1a and 1b split), and part 2 before tomorrow. For episode 14, he wants another 75 MB update, which probably takes any normal developer about 1-2 weeks. (Grif1001 help me out here since you are a new developer who is just learning all the tools. Is my 1- 2 weeks estimation right?)

Then his final 2 criteria of the "Catching up on" the bday renders, character sheets, and season 1 progress are the biggest pile of horseshit I ever heard. It's such a subjective goal, it's not even funny. You can't even put a measurable task on this that would indicate 100% achieved. Is one character sheet and 1 bday render enough? Is just sending out a message saying "still working on season 1 redo" and adding 1% to the mythical progress bar enough?

In summary, all Shit for Brains has to do is release ep13 (original part 2) which is probably almost done (assuming he did work), and a small 1-2week 75 MB update. The other subjective goals can be knocked out in less than a day.

Now, we wait and see how he fucks it up, and what IRL excuse he uses.

You know all his ass kissing fanboys are eating up that new chart and his promises like candy right now. Because you know he's a trust worthy guy.

 

[Dark Silence]

You know all his ass kissing fanboys are eating up that new chart and his promises like candy right now. Because you know he's a trust worthy guy.

Strokin their tiny pps to that chart.

 

[johnnyM]

You know all his ass kissing fanboys are eating up that new chart and his promises like candy right now. Because you know he's a trust worthy guy.

Very Trustworthy indeed.

For the older gentlemen and ladies, every time I read a BD dev report, I picture these going off right above it.



(If you are younger in age, and know this reference and have seen the movies, you have my utmost respect)

 

[kcaldw]

Very Trustworthy indeed.

For the older gentlemen and ladies, every time I read a BD dev report, I picture this going off right above it.

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(If you are younger in age, and know this reference and have seen the movies, you have my utmost respect)

I still like his comment where he says "I never stopped working." I definitely have to call BS on that. If he hadn't stopped working wouldn't we be past the Spa Date by now and wouldn't we have met Deliah and be back home.

 

[johnnyM]

and wouldn't we have had a few more preseason games? Even "Block Head" Moncree said in the last update that he's getting out of shape. His last game (in story) was approx. 2 days ago, but even he is feeling the damn near 1yr layoff (actual BD development time) between games

 

[armion82]

To be fair... even though he does take his time, i still enjoy badik. And DPC doesn´t come up with a shitton of excuses.

Not to mention in his case we are talking for 6K renders and 300 animations updates.And tons of music.

 

[El Pene Del Diablo]

61k posts...

this thread would only be 2 pages long if all the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE was removed.

 

[Dark Silence]

61k posts...

this thread would only be 2 pages long if all the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE was removed.

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You:


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[Grif1001]

For episode 14, he wants another 75 MB update (100 renders minimum), which probably takes any normal developer about 1-2 weeks. (Grif1001 help me out here since you are a new developer who is just learning all the tools. Is my 1- 2 weeks estimation right?)

That really depends on a number of factors really. If all of the environments are already complete and all I have to do is pose characters, I can do on average between 20 to 30 renders a day using batch rendering and letting the computer render while I sleep. Then you still have to touch up every render in Photoshop or whatever image editing tool you use, and depending on your skill and what’s needed for the specific image, that’s anywhere from 2 to 45 minutes each. However if you’re building a scene from scratch, then depending how much detail you put into it, it can take up to 25-30 hours of work to make one scene. But I have been told that I am too detail oriented. So, it changes for each dev.

I will say this for BD, his images are almost always rendered perfectly despite how people feel about the characters looks. His skill as an artist is on point.

 

[El Pene Del Diablo]

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heh, i made this for another thread the other day...

 

[tslojr]

61k posts...

this thread would only be 2 pages long if all the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE was removed.

Kind of hard to stay on topic and discuss a game that only gets released in 45-75 MB chunks every 2-3 months.

 

[ayyylmaooo]

this <removed> is straight up superman.

 

[El Pene Del Diablo]

Kind of hard to stay on topic and discuss a game that only gets released in 45-75 MB chunks every 2-3 months.

I get why people get upset, just my 2c that I think its silly complaining so much here. i've always maintained that the appropriate place for that (for any game) is whatever platform a dev uses, and not here.

 

[Dark Silence]

I get why people get upset, just my 2c that I think its silly complaining so much here. i've always maintained that the appropriate place for that (for any game) is whatever platform a dev uses, and not here.

Well, don't go in the BaDiK thread then. It's even worse than this one.

 

[johnnyM]

I get why people get upset, just my 2c that I think its silly complaining so much here. i've always maintained that the appropriate place for that (for any game) is whatever platform a dev uses, and not here.

well to answer that question, I think Discord is the forum. However, if you are in his discord, and if you so much as peep anything that isn't in the positive to BrainDead, you are banned, muted, kicked out of the discord. His forum is purposely controlled to only allow comments that portray BD in a positive light. There was also the issue where BD deleted all the comments in Patreon during his 2 year hiatus so that anyone who wanted to subscribe wouldn't see all the history.

The only place to complain to him is here, because Brain Fart, has no control to ban the commenters. Even BrainDrop is a member of this forum, and still has his profile. Although I think he's completely ghosted his profile now or goes by another pseudonym. I know he reads the complaints on this thread or has someone report back to him because ever so often, he acknowledges the comments or tries to make some sly quips or play on words on certain comments, in his dev reports.

 

[Dark Silence]

well to answer that question, I think Discord is the forum. However, if you are in his discord, and if you so much as peep anything that isn't in the positive to BrainDead, you are banned, muted, kicked out of the discord. His forum is purposely controlled to only allow comments that portray BD in a positive light. There was also the issue where BD deleted all the comments in Patreon during his 2 year hiatus so that anyone who wanted to subscribe wouldn't see all the history. The only place to complain to him is here. Even BrainDrop is a member, although I think he's completely ghosted his profile or goes by another pseudonym. He reads the complaints here or has someone report back to him because ever so often, he acknowledges the comments or tries to make some sly quips in his dev reports.

He also posts private DMs in his Discord when someone supposedly "bullies" him. If you disagree or say something bad, he claims he's being bullied.