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top 10 places where not to take your date, by Akira Arakawa

dude literally took Uta to a cosplay event of being homeless what the heck is this :ROFLMAO:

Edit: also, now that I think about it, it's a good thing Akira is japanese because there's no way in hell that dude would have the motivation to shave at all.
 

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top 10 places where not to take your date, by Akira Arakawa

dude literally took Uta to a cosplay event of being homeless what the heck is this :ROFLMAO:

Edit: also, now that I think about it, it's a good thing Akira is japanese because there's no way in hell that dude would have the motivation to shave at all.
That’s why they later go to the bathhouse together. This is a part of the Arakawa big brain play to remove Uta’s clothes with legitimate hygiene concerns.
 

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top 10 places where not to take your date, by Akira Arakawa

dude literally took Uta to a cosplay event of being homeless what the heck is this :ROFLMAO:

Edit: also, now that I think about it, it's a good thing Akira is japanese because there's no way in hell that dude would have the motivation to shave at all.
I think that's where Uta lives now since Chika took her number one customer
 

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Have anyone clicked a character portrait and the game took a little longer than normal to open it up and all the portraits were sort of, "glitchy"? I don't know how to explain it. If you have experienced it, you will probably know what I mean. 0.45, autovn and guide mod.
I've went all the way to chapter 4 and I've only had that glitch happen once when I tried to click Chika's portrait.
 

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You are assuming every single penny goes to him.

Who knows if there are separate costs...
I'm gonna go out on a whim and say his costs aint that high.
9K a month is a lot of fucking money.

Correction: He's now on 10K a month, might be why he's doing this poll thing I guess.
Also, turns out the game has a website.
 
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I'm gonna go out on a whim and say his costs aint that high.
9K a month is a lot of fucking money.

Correction: He's now on 10K a month, might be why he's doing this poll thing I guess.
If I was a betting man I would say those costs could be high.

And I am not the gambling one.
 

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If I was a betting man I would say those costs could be high.

And I am not the gambling one.
Koikatsu as far as I can tell is $60, Substar takes a roughly 7% cut from what I can tell.
He obviously has to pay himself at least a living wage, which in the US is apparently 6000$ a month (Please correct me if I'm wrong, also holy shit the cost of living there must be nuts).

So he should have change and some, but not apparently be loaded.

Wild cause 6k$ a month for me would be living it large.

Either way yeah, it seems it wouldn't be enough to hire two people in that country to work full time so you and that other guy are right.
 

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Koikatsu as far as I can tell is $60, Substar takes a roughly 7% cut from what I can tell.
He obviously has to pay himself at least a living wage, which in the US is apparently 6000$ a month (Please correct me if I'm wrong, also holy shit the cost of living there must be nuts).

So he should have change and some, but not apparently be loaded.

Wild cause 6k$ a month for me would be living it large.

Either way yeah, it seems it wouldn't be enough to hire two people in that country to work full time so you and that other guy are right.
In the case of the US, these standards of living vary a lot depending on the state. Given that Selebus is from Texas, 10k would be more than enough to provide for himself and his family and then some, by my account. Obviously that also depends on personal preference, as I'm a frugal person, and who knows if he's also paying for a live-in catgirl fulltime at his home.
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Edit: He could also be the live-in catgirl at his home, which would save a lot of money.
 

Budoop

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Still, seen as it's plausibly close im not gonna harp on it.
Id love to see an animator though.
 

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I don't think anyone who has seen the Room with Clocks and This Town Has Two Halves and decided to stick with the game cares about the animations enough to donate monthly.

Sure people may want to have better animations but it wouldn't be the thing that pushes them to pay selebus.

"Yeah i love/hate this game which i impatiently wait for the next update to see more events with the characters i love/hate, but i won't donate the dev, because 30 sex scenes in this 3 million word VN has bad animation. "


On the other hand if he is selling non cannon sex animations, he should hire someone good at it. Because at this point he is looking for a profit in sexual content, not the story he writes in LiL.
 

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I don't think anyone who has seen the Room with Clocks and This Town Has Two Halves and decided to stick with the game cares about the animations enough to donate monthly.

Sure people may want to have better animations but it wouldn't be the thing that pushes them to pay selebus.

"Yeah i love/hate this game which i impatiently wait for the next update to see more events with the characters i love/hate, but i won't donate the dev, because 30 sex scenes in this 3 million word VN has bad animation. "


On the other hand if he is selling non cannon sex animations, he should hire someone good at it. Because at this point he is looking for a profit in sexual content, not the story he writes in LiL.
That's fair.
The highest grossing games do tend to be much more digestible story wise too.
 
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Either way yeah, it seems it wouldn't be enough to hire two people in that country to work full time so you and that other guy are right.
You are forgetting that this is a visual novel and you don't necessarily need to even be in the same country to contribute.

I am not from the US, so if hipothetically I were to help with something like writing, I would be content with just 1k a month.
I might despise Selebus but I hate that people assume the motivation for these things is pure greed, this is a man's passion and there's just no way of knowing what's behind the scenes.

There are no negatives to having a bigger budget so I support what he's doing. I would personally love for there to be a dedicated animator.
 
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