Bobbycanfly
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Welp, it's May.
Any hour now it will drop. Probably. Maybe.
Any hour now it will drop. Probably. Maybe.
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Jimmy_Jam
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Yea that is the one thing I could never understand, I mean he has plenty of loyal fans in discord and a few pretty well known devs in his discord so he could easily get a team together to test a build but for some reason he just doesnt and does it on his own.
Now its one of 2 reason, first being there just is no build or the build is a lot smaller then he says.
Second being he has really really bad trust issues and he wants to do everything himself.
I hope its just the 2nd reason and if it is dude just needs to get a grip and let some others test the build and give their opinions already so he can release the shit already.
For a guy who's busy with his "real" job and making his own game you seem to have LOTS of time to waste on criticizing others. Just makes you look jealous. I get it. You don't care about when the game comes out. You're just here to fart on someone else to feel better about yourself. Kudos for being up front about it. Funny enough you also admitted it's a good game. Because you're still gonna play it despite hating the crap out of the guy making it. Soooo... cheers?
- May 1, 2018
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It takes like 2 minutes to catch up on this joke of a thread and type a forum post, how in the everloving fuck is that "LOTS of time"?
Okay, and you're not "just some guy on the internet"? Your views have an impact on reality? We just have a difference of opinion on a subjective matter. Also what makes you think I'm obsessed? If anything, I'm not the one worrying about when something is released. I have plenty of fun things to do in the mean time.
You're right that there are incentives for Crowd-funded projects like this to take it slow. And nothing you say will change those incentives. But it's not your money, so why are you worried about it? Why do you care about what other people spend their money on? Are you going to write a post next about how people shouldn't go to McDonalds because their burgers taste like cardboard? And if it is your money, "vote with your wallet". It's not like I think he's a great dev. But that's why I'm not paying for his work. So it's costing me nothing. Because I don't obsess over it. I just enjoy it when it comes by and there's plenty other games to play (not just talking about the adult variety) and series to watch and things to do in the mean time.
So it's weird to me that you think what I'm doing is crazy. All I'm doing is reminding people that making something takes time and effort. And that they're not obliged to pay for it if they don't have faith in its completion. It's crazy to me that you think someone who focuses on the positive is dysfunctional and someone who focuses on the negative is normal, it's actually the other way around. You'll feel better if you let go of all this unnecessary (and as you yourself pointed out) irrelevant anger. Go punch a pillow with BrainDrops logo on it or something.
Edit: Oh, and I'm not on crack. I do smoke a joint every now and then tho. I can recommend it, you seem stressed.
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The base emotion behind complaining is anger.
And taking joy in other people's (perceived*) failures is disdainful.
If it didn't matter to you you wouldn't be doing either of those things. You're negatively emotionally invested.
*sidenote: I doubt he sees WVM as a train wreck. If you sort the F95 game browser by likes, it takes the 11th spot. If that's a train wreck then 99% of all adult games are train wrecks.
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No it's not, it's disappointment, and if there's one word that can sum up what has happened to BD and this game, I cant think of any better.
The post you just did? Sure. The rants he's been posting here for weeks, nah. I mean, you do you and he do his and all... but I don't like to spend that kind of effort on negativity. I reserve my negative emotions for non-trivial matters.
And before you try to flip it on me...I think trying to convince people to do the same is a reasonable use of some of my time but I'm probably gonna call it quits in a bit. Some people just live for that kinda negativity. But others are just stuck in a spiral. If I got through to anyone, cool. If I didn't, ahh well. I don't regret trying to help people "Awoosah" a bit. If nothing else I helped them vent some of their anger, right?
I'm a pretty positive thinker. Something has to be pretty severe for me to worry about it. I know what matters so I don't sweat the small stuff.
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I dont think anyone here is worried about anything.
Disappointment is not a base emotion. Disappointment is made up of surprise and either anger, disgust or sadness. Since you're complaining about someone, it's anger or disgust.
If you can sum up the entire development process of WVM with "disappointment", then you clearly haven't been correctly adjusting your expectations. Otherwise there would be no surprise, and thus no disappointment.
And as I've alluded to in other conversations, it's unhealthy (and unproductive) to waste your anger or disgust on trivial things. It doesn't make your life better, in fact, focusing on negative things in your life that you have the power to cut yourself free from makes your life worse. And by default, anyone here who is angry about WVM's development has the power to cut it out of their lives and seek out new things that do make them happy.
I once bought pre-order No Man's Sky. When the game came out, it didn't have a lot of things it promised. But rather than get angry, I decided that game was not worth the money I spent on it or me getting pissed off. Instead, I uninstalled the game. Never played it again, even when there was some PR thing about how they fixed it years later. I learned not to pre-order video games unless I had confidence in the dev. I view Patreon in the same way. I don't pay for WVM. Never have. But I do keep an eye on new releases. Because it's a good game even if the dev's professionalism is lacking.
To me, that's the healthy way to look at it. And again, anyone is free to disagree. I've always said that it's subjective, I just shared my (rather easy-going) view on the situation to help other people see that it's all about how they choose to look at it.
Uthuriel
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Hey... preg... delete the thread... come on... just do it... just for the lulz...
I guess they're just getting angry about nothing then.
Missing half or more of your release dates, ghosting your audience, and lying through your teeth on the regular, THAT makes it a train wreck.
Laughing about it is not taking joy in it necessarily. It's far healthier than getting upset about it. And I haven't complained yet IIRC.
You seem overly invested in it, to the extent of being willing to suck the ass of BD. It's cool you like the game, I'm glad you're excited, but making so many wrong assumptions of almost everyone you've been interacting with... at some point that is a you thing.
I don't want to see any dev struggle to keep their shit together. I can only imagine the effort that goes into most of these projects, but when you ban the people making criticism (from discord as an example), that won't be beneficial for anyone
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Again with the anger. What if it isnt anger? What if it's sadness instead since apparently everything boils down to a "base emotion"?
It's almost as if people are not capable of multiple emotions at the same time..... This makes me sad, angry, and a bit surprised.
Is that allowed?
If it's sadness it's equally pointless. There are plenty more important things in the world to be sad about. If a dev is unprofessional, no amount of anger, disgust, sadness is going to change that. No amount of complaining is going to change that. There are people who come here week after week to complain. I can't understand that kind of negative emotional investment in any essentially-free content.
I wouldn't call BrainDrop professional either, but I get dogpiled for having a more lenient forgiving perspective. Now I'm not the type to let that bother me either, but the fact they're getting mad at me by association is pretty telling.
It just harshes the vibe of everyone who is positively engaged with the game to have to dig through pages of complaints just to read some useful information or interesting posts. Maybe it's worth considering creating a WVM hate thread so you can separate the groups. Then we can peacefully co-exist without having to bother each other.
I completely agree we should do this with everything even things irl. So no one has to hear an opinion that differs from their own.
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No one's getting mad at you, you're just the only one here defending BD and his horrible practices. I think you have an issue imprinting emotion on something/someone that has none. 95% of us here are apathetic, a bunch are former patrons as well, feeling that they got ripped off and come here to keep up with all the bullshit BDs slinging. A year or two ago you might've had a point, but now, this thread is pure catharsis.
Careful, someone may take you literally.... Gotta be sure to emphasize that you're just making a joke