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Just use 7zip. It's free, nearly 30 years old, open-source and regularly updated. I haven't met many compressed files or archives it can't open (including .rar).

I appreciate your ability to have a normal conversation with someone who disagrees with you. That's pretty rare these days, so thanks for that! Kudos to you! :D

(wall of text incoming, pls forgive me)

Regarding your disagreement with the idea that AI is a tool, I wanted to see what you thought about one of Enrayne's previous comments:

"You don't need to learn instruments to make music. You can be a DJ and mix your tapes."

When people started using computers to make, mix and generate music, there was major backlash against it. There were (and still are) many people who believed that if you didn't make sounds with a traditional instrument, it could not be considered music. And to keep the discussion in the visual realm, when photography first became accessible to the masses, the art community was polarized since many believed photography devalued art made by hand with traditional mediums such as paint or charcoal. There was even a similar reaction when digital art (e.g., pixel art, vector graphics, image manipulation) was accessible to the general public. Digital art was considered dishonest to the viewer and something the artist couldn't have made without the use of digital manipulation tools.

I think you would agree that in hindsight, these are ridiculous claims. Alarmist, even. There's very little mainstream music released today that doesn't used digitized assets, digital mixing, et cetera. And photography never devalued hand made art, instead they became separate pursuits with different means and ends. Digital art is one of the cornerstones of my life and has been for years. I can't imagine where I would be if I wasn't able to make art digitally versus painting or sketching on physical medium.

What we're all witnessing right now in regards to AI is referred to as a 'paradigm shift' (please look it up). Historically, something new (an idea, a technology, etc.) comes along and people usually have a problem with it (often rightly so). As people learn more about the questionable thing and/or as the thing evolves and grows, the stigma around it is slowly reduced. No one can 'stop' the thing, so the people who have issues with it either choose to ignore it, tolerate it's existence or they embrace it. All are valid choices. Just like the choice to use these tools.

Anyone can hate all these tools with their raging passion all they want. People can wish these things didn't exist and they can curse the people that use them. But the choice to use any of them, all of them; digital music, digital art, photography and yes, even AI, are all valid choices.

I totally believe AI needs significant regulation. I think there are very deep issues with it that we haven't even scratched the surface of. But is using AI or any of these other tools immoral? Maybe. Unethical? Very possibly. It certainly depends on who you ask. But it's absolutely not inherently wrong or an affront to others.

I hope you do not blame the tools for the choices people make.

Your opinion is valid and and I'm not trying to toss you too much shade here, but can we stop complaining about free stuff that's obviously far from being a finished product?

AI generation is a tool and getting mad about it won't make it go away. It's becoming more ubiquitous because humans inherently do not want to do more work if they don't have to. While Enrayne's utilization of AI in this project is adequate at best, it debatably gets the job done. This is visibly a character, that is visibly a crate. Aesthetically pleasing? Meh, maybe not. But these are placeholders for a game that is not finished. A prototype.

Using AI generated anything as assets in a prototypical project is absolutely valid.

While this is all subjective, there actually are totally valid places for AI generated assets, especially in unfinished projects.

Also note that Enrayne was totally upfront about their use of AI, as well. Not all developers are as forthcoming. So, kudos to you, Dev!

This is basically a futa 'overhaul' for mugen, so it contains the base game and tatters fui's curated selection of characters. AFAIK, this release is a standalone version of mugen that isn't necessarily built to be modded. There is information around the internet dedicated to grabbing packs like this one and picking the characters/stages you want for your own version of mugen (it's mostly associating entries in 'select.def' with the files you put in the 'chars' folder).

tl,dr; You cannot simply add this to mugen as this is the entire game and futa stuff. It's not simply drag+drop. You'll need to mess with some folders and change some data in the. def files. Extensive information regarding mugen is available online, but you'll have to find it.

The .rar file the author is offering is an archive file just like a .zip file. Depending on what you're using to unpack archive files, you should be able to use a .rar as you use a .zip. Since I use a program called 7zip (7-zip.org), all I have to do is right click the .rar file and tell 7z to extract it to a folder (again, just like one would unpack a .zip). After that, I open the folder 7zip extracted and run mugen.exe

I'm not sure why you specifically want a zip file versus any other archive filetype. Perhaps if you explained why, someone would have helped you by now.

It's pretty uncalled for and  shitty of you to talk like that to someone who is offering things for free. With minimal internet research, you could have found the answer. I understand you're frustrated, but check yourself next time, please. The author owes you nothing.

I enjoyed this game and it's definitely worth the price of admission. The aesthetics are especially on point and I'd love to see more in this vein. I also very much enjoyed the allusions to quantum superposition and how, in the case of our protag(s), observation can literally elicit definition. The brief bits of world building and the tête-à-tête between the characters were entertaining as well, for the most part. However, it's hard to glean if it's the writer or the characters that are (actually or intentionally) confused. IMO, it seems a bit banal to pad the narrative with religious scripture when the characters themselves admit to their ignorance of it. Doing so also limits the purview of "God" exclusively to the referenced dogma (in this case Christianity, et al), which is stifling and kinda pedestrian af, as it's become a standard story telling trope in various media. Even with the apparent glut of information and tactile simulation that exists in the futuristic internet holo-deck of "the Virt", the characters have absolutely no discussion of any other deities or ideology?

All this made me feel like the characters were mostly juvenile and desperately grasping at straws to make sense of their final moments, which made it seem like they abandoned any integrity they may have previously held (and yes, while death and dignity are mutually exclusive, one always has the choice to die with integrity). From a writing perspective, I understand why the biblical references are there as it's a tried and true method to segue into a bespoke story (and of course it could've meant something greater/personal to the writer/dev, which is debatably valid). While I truly believe the discussion of a higher power has a place in this narrative, I just think the way it was used here was mostly inane and would've massively benefited from less dogmatic specificity. Again, a good and valuable game, but one that needed to play more than a single narrative note.

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I played an older version of this about a year ago and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I had no idea you were planning on a Steam release, which is awesome! Now, not judging or accusing anything here, I'm just curious, but have you considered possible rejection from Valve due to IP concerns? The IP holders of some of the properties referenced in the game are infamously litigious, and I can't imagine they'd abide their properties being utilized for adult content. Again, no shade, just curious. Sorry if you've already answered this in the past, btw.