Thanks for your truth and honesty.
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Thank you. I actually started working on the next update a while ago, but I kinda stopped doing that and decided to try working on a comic instead. It's a whole thing, but the gist is that my plan was to post The Week She Tried To Live, then work on the next update for this, then the next update for that, and so on. But, that visual novel didn't do well, I got into an argument with someone in the devlog for it and, well, I just thought I needed to do something other than visual novels for a bit, hence the comic idea. But, at the moment, I have 2-3 scenes done for the next update for this thing. Without spoiling too much, Arceus makes an appearance,
Yeah, I do tend to refresh my page a lot because I like seeing my analytics and my numbers go up. Usually my notifications here are just for new followers, not comments, I guess because this site doesn't really encourage people to be very social. I don't really feel very appreciated on this site, honestly, and this game is a sore spot for me because the site itself, not the trolls or the haters, this site f*cked this game's performance for months, made me look stupid, and I never even got an apology for it. Maybe if I got a bunch of positive comments or felt like there was an actual supportive community on here I'd feel better about it, but now it's like "This site treats me like sh*t, and the community feels pretty much non-existent. Why the f*ck am I even here?"
But, those are my issues, not yours. You seem like a cool dude and I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Hope you have a good day/night, and I'm going to bed.
It's fine. I hope things get better for me in the future, but I kinda feel like the things that I want might have been reasonable in the past but aren't reasonable now. Like, what I'd like is for, say, a blog that talks about weird things online to discover one of my projects and write an article about it, then it would spread online like in the late 2000s/early-2010s. That's the culture I grew up in with stuff like Kanye Quest 3030. But, nowadays that culture is kinda dead.
I feel like the problem is that a lot of content creators are just lazy mainly because the culture on most websites encourages laziness, like Youtube rewarding creators for producing very similar content on a daily schedule and Twitch rewarding streamers for doing very little. I'm not expecting content creators to search for my games specifically to make videos about them necessarily, but I feel like in the past content creators used to search for Pokemon fan games to play for a quick video because they could say "This fan game has a PREGNANT PIKACHU," and that doesn't happen much anymore. I think there are a lot of reasons for it, but one that stuck out to me is a content creator saying: "Fan games don't matter, they're not official games," and that feels unintentionally revealing on a lot of levels, such as an admittance that apparently it's fine to make videos trashing Game Freak and the official Pokemon games because they're official, but it's not okay to do the same to a game like this because it's not official. I find it more offensive that my games aren't worth any time spent discussing outside of my own comment section than anything negative that someone might say about them in a video. Like "The story is crap, the art is garbage, and the creator is a loser," is far less offensive than "This game isn't even worth mentioning, and neither is the creator."
Anyways, thanks for your comments. Watch the space for my comic, which is nearly completed. I think it turned out pretty well, art-wise. The text is a bit rough, but I'll try to fix it.
as someone who was born in 2000 I can safely say that I understand your stance on all this. I remember the golden days of YouTube and it just furthered my love for dark humor and the absurd. I still think the quality of early 2000 tech is far superior to what we have now and most things these days are just lazy poor quality knock-offs of present day things, so when I hear about games like what you made I’m inclined to check it out since they tend to have the humor and nostalgia I seek. Seriously though, with all the BS and poor quality shit we have these days, I feel like a million year old fossil instead of a 25 year old dude who enjoys the funny
Stay true to yourself and don’t let the haters get to ya
Appreciate the comment after all the spam I've had to deal with the past few weeks. I'm working on an update at the moment, but, my job is taking up a lot of my time because of staffing issues which keeps delaying the update.
I do feel like the quality of the tech is objectively better than what we had in the 2000s, but the passion isn't there in the same way as it was back then. I could have a big discussion on why I think that's the case, but I do think part of it is that people live in a constant state of paranoia online where they believe that at any point if they express an opinion or share something they've made someone will step out of the shadows and say a mean thing to them. Everywhere online are the shadowy and sinister 'haters' that we need to be mindful of at all times. I feel like so much of modern internet culture makes a lot of sense if you look at it from that lens.
As for this project in particular, it definitely showcases my influences, which tends to be the weirder side of ComDotGames with stuff like Bunny Farm. I like to go into projects with the mindset that Grant Morrison said makes outsider art appealing, which is that there should be a 'whoa' factor in at least some of the work. Basically, I try to make certain things that make people say 'whoa' while going through the visual novel. As one comment pointed out, Jirachi and the Vaporeon are an example of a 'whoa' moment.
Thanks for the support and comment, it means a lot and I hope you have fun with this visual novel. I'd also probably recommend Adore The Doll since it's the Halloween month and people seem to really like that one, mainly for the TITular main character.
ah yes, comdotgame... that brings me back and i agree with you there.
also, haters on the internet are largely empowered by things like cancel culture and the ever increasing loopholes found in all the rules.
i am of the opinion that if you are being hated on for no reason then diss on them as a response. i enjoy using shakespearian insults and lesser known methods of counter dissing/linguistics lol
I feel like Cancel Culture is mostly fueled by the elites.
Think about it. They encourage people to 'cancel' rich and powerful people by basically saying: "Oh no, don't you dare be mean to me online, otherwise I'll give you validation by complaining about you in a very public way," which gets them a boost in every way that matters to them, from being given opportunities like appearing on podcasts, having articles written about the drama that paints them in a good light, and a flood of positive comments from white knights online.
But, it only works on the people with money and influence, of course. We're not supposed to 'harass' the poor people who don't have many followers, and you certainly wouldn't want to signal-boost them because it might attract the meanies that will say mean things to them. Only the elite can handle the tremendous burden of having mean comments directed at them.
Personally, if someone's being mean to me and sending me death threats, legal threats, or even just being annoying, I could absolutely make a big spectacle of it for fun because I find arguing with people, or just sensibly debating people, to be fun, but also... I could just block them, and I could report death threats. I dunno, I've always found it sus how people are always posting publicly like "OMG, I got so many death threats," because, like, death threats, specifically, are like the greatest gift a hater can give you because then you can get the police involved.
Like, I wish that I had people leaving comments being like "This is a piece of shit, and you suck," or "This is so cringe, lol," because it does give me the opportunity to change their minds if they're open to it, or just give me a morality boner as I can be like "It's okay, I forgive you for being mean to me." I'd obviously prefer to receive positive comments, but it's not like I'm going to cry if I receive a negative comment. What bothers me is mainly that if I release a project and the only comment it ever gets, or the only rating it ever gets, is negative that really hurts the project and getting a single positive comment/rating a month later doesn't really do anything to help. But, it's hard to explain why that's upsetting to other people without it coming across as "I'm butthurt because of a single mean comment and a 1-star rating."
It also doesn't help that on a site like Itch there are developers that just give 1-stars on everything they can to hurt the competition, but that's another issue.
jealousy truly is a fuel that is far mor plentiful than anything else in the world.
and i do agree with you, cancel culture only persists because the elite want it to... why do it youself when you can get the equivalent of an angry mob the size of half the worlds population to do it for you?
our society both craves and thrives off of drama and other peoples suffering afterall