Dizzy Dizzy

Dead Fandoms Connoisseur

[sweetcreme]

I really wish Lovestruck had gotten merch, here’s a figure design that’s way outside my skill level based on that one Altea CG, the magic circle would be a decal or paint application on a transparent pink acrylic disc, staff head crystal could either be transparent or just super glossy with airbrushed center to mimic depth.

[dizzy-pixels]

The Ramparts of Ice really have me shipping a different pair every episode.

[soyoquiyo]

All Four of these people are demiromantic demisexual and neurodivergent in completely different ways; all their baggage is/was caused by amatonormativity and trying to read social cues; this is the most demi/aromantic "straight romance" manga on the planet and I will not be taking questions at this time

[stacotto]

How the hell is this series so perfect? Like, we have our main friend group but they also each have their own friend groups that don't always overlap - like real teenagers. And the four mains are messy, they've got baggage and things they overthink or take "too seriously" - I say in quotes because as an adult that still can remember what I was like as a teenager, I can confidently say yeah, that's how it felt.

Each of these kids has been hurt and responded in different but understandable ways. Koyuki had to bear the brunt of her classmates' expectations on top of dealing with her parents' divorce and must've hit a breaking point somewhere where she just kinda noped the fuck out. Miki wanted to distance herself from her middle school reputation and wore a false mask in front of everyone but her close friends, which just stressed herself out even harder. Yota felt displaced in his own home after his dad remarried and basically went full disassociation mode with no one to confide in before Koyuki. And Minato...I won't get into things I wish I hadn't been spoiled on but there's a reason he treats everyone like either a puzzle or a minefield. Definitely waiting for him to get better on that tho.

This whole series just feels extremely real, more than I can say of most shoujo I've ever consumed, idk how Agasawa-sensei does it.

[dontmakethatface]

Koori no Jouheki - S01E01 - 12:35

[dizzy-pixels]

I'm actually...so sad.

I'm so sick of these companies.

Like actually sick.

You have real people create something that touches so many people. A fandom springs up of friends and creativity. Everyone so excited to enjoy your content.

Then it becomes about money. And of course money is always important as you need to make a profit. Understandable. But soon it's not about that. Its about getting more than last time. Getting greedy. Short term gains while doing things to lose your core base or disrespecting the people who work for you. Paying them less or kicking them off together to replace with ai. Churning out slop to make numbers go up.

App eventually declines or dies and fans who care about it so much take it upon themselves to save their little fandoms, the content, everything.

And then the company just fucking spits on them, ruins it, or tries to stop them.

Like aahhh. I'm so tired.

[itlivesproject]

Hello everyone, mod win here.

A couple days ago, I made a post addressing Pixelberry/Series Entertainment's "It Lives Within." At the time, I wasn't aware of the story, I only knew that the name was the same. Since then, I saw many people accusing it of plagiarizing our game. I decided to look into it more, and after having watched all the episodes on YouTube, the claims of plagiarism unfortunately seem to be valid. As such, I'd like to further address this situation, and provide a list of stolen ideas and art with screenshot proofs and explanations.

A few years ago, I had a video call with one of the original writers for the It Lives Series. He no longer works for Pixelberry, and did not work with them at the time of the video call. Though I knew nothing about their original plans for the game before starting this project (including that they also intended to name the game "It Lives Within"), he told me their plans on that call. It was going to be a survivor-type cave crawl story with giant bug-inspired and creepy crawler monster enemies, where you play as a new character who is attacked by these creatures while camping and separated from their friends. From my understanding, Connor and his crew would be sort of like Sam and Dean from SPN, acting as these experienced "hunters" who help protect them.

That is not what the story of what Choices "It Lives Within" was. At all.

This means that the AI """writers""" at Series Entertainment/PB were not creating this story based on the original writers’ plans. They made their story idea later - after ILW was completed in its entirety. Therefore, it's reasonable to follow that unlike the title, these similarities are not coincidence. Though even then, the title It Lives Within had to do with the cave setting and going literally into the earth, while the AI version has nothing to do with caves. So the reasoning for the title is not the same as the reasoning for their original title.

With all this in mind, let’s go over the similarities between our game and the Choices It Lives Within AI show. I am going to be putting it beneath a read more, in case there are people who are interested in playing ILW and don’t want to get it spoiled.

Major things they stole:

Their villain, Silas, is Matthias. Literally, that's it. He's Matthias.

Silas is an immortal man who looks just like Matthias who's been alive for almost 200 years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. He wants to sacrifice redfield Noah due to his connection to the Power (Rowan anyone) as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to... I'm not quite sure what, exactly, as the story was a bit hard to follow. He thinks he’s all manipulative and the main crew states that "He’s getting us to do his work for him!”

And then there's his appearance. That's the same hairstyle. He's the same age. Same race. Literally, just like Connor in their story is as recognizable AI-version of his in-game sprite, that's what this guy looks like. All he's missing is the beard.

The gang's base of operations is Cora’s cabin

This one is interesting. It's such a tiny detail, and I'd grown so used to the cabin being their safe place that when Connor was like "We need to get back to the cabin" it literally took me a moment to realize - wait. They had nothing to do with that cabin in the original series. Using that as a home base was literally our idea, an It Lives Within original.

The main enemies are mind controlled townspeople working for Silas

Instead of following the precedent of the previous games and having the enemies be Power-twisted animal monsters, they decided to make their enemies humans that are mind-controlled into zombie-like beings that attack the gang in hordes. There's even a scene where the gang is driving through them in their car. This is a rip-off of It Lives Within's horrors. And on top of that, they copied the carnival scene where Harper driving through the horde of horrors.

Noah and Devon's relationship

Their relationship in this '"TV show" has suspicious similarities to their friendship/romance routes in ILW. They made Devon be redfield Noah's anchor to reality, and even had Devon use memories to help ground Noah, which we showed in the cabin scene where Devon and Noah play baseball together. And I know there were Noah x Devon shippers outside of me before ILW released, but it was never PB's plan to canonize them. So the fact that they are seemingly changing course to canonize them after they grew so popular in the fan version feels a bit too coincidental.

Scraping fan art for their AI animation frames

But what's even more egregious is that they have even stooped to scraping from fan artists, who have nowhere near the same following or exposure as our project does. Seriously, what are the odds that the MC they choose to use matches this artist's MC's race, gender, hair, and outfit exactly, that they used Noah's old outfit, that they are literally positioned on the same sides of the image? It's blatant plagiarism, and it's despicable. @errajay I'm so sorry they did this.

These are the biggest similarities, but considering that it was only like 15 minutes of content, that means that a high percentage of the story was stolen. Sure, the exact details of "Silas's" plan are different (he's like a horcrux for the "entity" aka power and he was split into 43 parts and Noah's one of his parts and he needs to kill him to get it back and be free or something) it's the same concept: immortal man who's trapped making a complicated ritual requiring sacrifice while manipulating people to get everything into place.

If you want to see for yourselves, please find it on YouTube. Do not support them with clicks or traffic on their app. Thank you! Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, no AI was used in the drafting of this post 💖

[o0kawaii0o]

"Great day to make my rounds in town!"

[olden-towne]

DPPt didn't need to make is first gym leader a child who works in a coal mine, but it did.

[mierulii]

I won't be able to finish chibi cyrus tonight after all ahah

[bastart13]

Love & Legends Season 6 is officially finished and available on Windows, Android, Mac, and Linux!

This is an unofficial recreation of Love & Legends from Lovestruck Voltage featuring unique art and GUI.

Despite the horrors of the Witch Queen's war, your bond cannot be broken and you're starting to dream of your future together: a peaceful world, marriage, maybe even children. What new powers will you need to discover to secure it, and what powers will the Witch Queen unleash to stop you?

It’s a visual novel/dating sim with seven unique routes, each with six seasons fully available (~1M+ words total). The main character is a bisexual woman from Chicago with two female and five male love interests. Alain's route is complete.

Seasons 1-5 and Season 6-9 are split into two games for file size. Download the second part to read Season 6!

Love & Legends (Recreation) by Bast

Recreating Lovestruck Voltage's Love & Legends with new art

[hikiclawd]

not arguing with a dude that has big brown eyes. whatever you say beautiful

[dizzy-pixels]

Making a non interactive ai cartoon show? With no choices? In a visual app called Choices?

[choices-binglebonkus]

The Enshittification of Choices is kinda fascinating to watch as someone who’s been playing it since September 2016, a month after it initially released.

Every time I think it’s reached rock bottom, the AI bots over at PB generate new pickaxes and keep on digging. To the point that they’re raiding the tombs of long dead series and trying to resuscitate their putrefied, half-skeletal corpses with shitty AI “art” and writing.

If you had told me in 2021 when Surrender and The Nanny Affair were releasing that the app would get as bad as it is now, I would have just stared at you with my head cocked. In the year of our lord 2026, it is now my reality and nightmare.

[nesting-dreams]

Sinbad’s mom and dad: You are the specialist boy ever. You’ll make all our dreams come true! You’re better than everybody else! You’re going to do big things!

Sinbad by end of series: I AM GOD NOW

[dizzy-pixels]

Koyun reminds me of Sawako with the "is actually sweet but looks scary so everyone is scared of them" thing

[genderselkies]

pokeventure female protag icons