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WolfBite Interactive LLC236 days ago(+6)(-5)

Phew, that's a lot to take in there. I won't respond to each point, but there's some stuff in here that's accurate, I'm sure.

I haven't read some of the routes from start to finish in a long time, so keeping up with repeated dialog over the 200+ days can be a pain. Sometimes I play it off as the characters forgetting, but other times it's just me forgetting. I mean, I've been the only writer for over 8 years, so I'm bound to forget, hah.

Again, it's been a while since I've gone through everything, but I don't think you have to be involved in the fetish stuff to get the best endings. Some of the older choices -are- tied to it, but there should be enough leeway that you can decline it and still be fine (something for me to look into at some point!). With Richard and Dwayne, you can decline a lot of that and it has no negative impact. Dunno if you cared enough to try that though, but it's okay! There's a lot to read, so not everyone has time to try everything.

You know, it's funny, cause Chester's dad didn't even have a design till long after Chester's route was done. I never really planned to introduce him (cause most of what I write isn't planned). It just kinda happened in a spot I thought worked. I also had my qualms about the epilogue for the exact reason you mentioned, buuuut at the same time, I still felt like it highlighted Chester and how their relationship has progressed. I honestly struggled with his epilogue though, so it might be something I revisit in the future.

Not everything you have gripes about is without warrant, but I think some of it's weird. Some things I might never think about since it's not pointed out. Either way, it's feedback to think about! Things can definitely be improved still~

Consequencey236 days ago(+5)(-3)

True about the 'writing over a long time' part, but this is something that happens even within the same conversation.

Hm, which ones would you consider weird?

WolfBite Interactive LLC229 days ago(+5)(-3)

Well, the comment about putting gay men in straight/bisexual situations.

All of the things you listed play with the characters' story and their personalities. Spencer likes dancing/stripping, so the audience for him doesn't matter. He just gets more out of it when it's men praising/watching him. Chester's straight friends, who thought he was also straight, put him in a really bad situation. They didn't know he was gay and forced that on him. Dozer, I don't really get where you're going with his and how that plays into the straight/bi thing. Darius is just sex-positive and all for that kind of stuff. He can appreciate the male and female body. Ladies don't do it for him, but he's definitely gonna support the situation. I also don't really see the issue with watching soft-core porn, especially when it goes on to talk about the strange plot and attractive male lead. Like, why can't a gay man enjoy something like that in some way?

I am a 100% gay man here, and I, personally, don't see any problem with gay guys being in these kinds of situations. I just thought it was a weird thing to comment on. Reminded me a lot of this guy in the past that -really- hates seeing bisexual guys in the VN.

Consequencey222 days ago(+4)(-3)

To be fair, those are all things you as the author decided to include.
I can't understand it, and it seems I'm not the only one?
(Regarding Dozer, I mentioned it because it's in extremely public places where they can be caught by anyone of any gender or age, which I personally find awful to do. I'm of the opinion that consent includes viewing sexual acts, not just being directly involved.)

Also, here's an example of repetitive dialogue someone sent me; I'll show more when I see them:

To me, personally, it just feels like a rather unnatural way to speak? It reminds me of the sort of dialogue you see in English textbooks, actually. (Here, at least. Our country doesn't .)

There's quite a few instances of this sort of thing.

Relond222 days ago (1 edit) (-8)

"I am a 100% gay man here, and I, personally, don't see any problem with gay guys being in these kinds of situations." Neither do I.

@Consequencey, don't you notice how ridiculous your arguments sound? Do you need to be a bi to admit the beauty of a woman's body? Or if you're gay, you can't even look at a photo/video with a very hot pornactor in your opinion if he is there with a woman? Can you answer these questions? Is that "yes" for you? The argument about Dozer is totally ridiculous. Like if two men kiss in front of a woman, that makes them bi. Don't you understand how stupid that sounds?

And now about the repetitive dialogues. Thank god you are finally agreed with me (in a strange way, but agreed). At first, in this comment, I wanted to point out that this can happen. It was in point 2 of my questions to the game (if you even could read). However, to my great surprise, I could not find this dialog! I used notepad++ and could not find these lines, even searching for them by individual words. But let's come forward and imagine that it is really present in the game. Even if you are unfamiliar with the code of the game, you can understand that most likely this happens at the intersection of some choices in the dialogue or its consequences. Thus we can come to the conclusion that these are not repetitive dialogues, as you describe, as if the characters have something wrong with their brains. It's just a small inconsistency in logic and a hole in narrative, that you can get into from different initial dialogues. (if anyone can confirm the presence of this dialog in the game after all). In some cases that can sound weird. Anyway, this can be corrected just by adding "Yes, they are my....". In this case, this dialogue begins to sound absolutely normal to me.

Even if this time your criticism is still far away from reality, that was a good try. Not good enough, but still. Progress is noticeable. But just to make the feedback even better, you need to point not only to the bug itself, but also to the specific place where it occurs, so that the developer can find it and fix it.

WolfBite Interactive LLC221 days ago(+5)(-1)

Hey, Relond. That dialog -does- exist within the game. He's playing the Patreon build (most likely a leaked one, as he's already made it clear he probably wouldn't support VIA Patreon). The chosen point isn't so much repeated dialog but just a repeated word that's easily remedied. I know I have a habit of repeating words like that, and I might not notice until I'm reading things over at a late date, bahaha.

Also, you should try and dial back your behavior. I can appreciate that you're passionate about all of this, but it's starting to come off as childish in some instances and only feeds into one of his earlier comments about the fans (another odd comment, since you don't usually see that here either, but that's whatever).

I appreciate you enjoying the project and such, but it's probably best just to let this conversation go. It's not really helping anything at this point, and people are better off screaming into the void. I'll take things I've found useful and think about it, but there's no reason to keep this going anymore.

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