TW: Vellora got SA (touch without consent) by Foelh. She revealed to Tiss in this update during in her romance diamond scene in episode 3 of season 4 called “Hug Vellora”
To made it worse, Jester, his technical designer and his editor didn’t put the trigger warning accompany to the diamond scene. I was caught off-guard and felt uncomfortable during the whole diamond scene.
TTS isn’t wlw friendly at all. One f li got SA in present timeline. Another one is nowhere to be found and massive sidelined. I don’t think Jester care about wlw players. So with this incident, I decided to drop this book. It’s a shame though because I thought he is improving in f li writing a bit and actually enjoy Vellora’s route during S1 and S2.
@yeullove here is scenes that you’re looking for.
Ps. To Jester’s fan, pls don’t make an excuse “but Foelh didn’t sleep with her”. Touch without consent is one of a form of SA and it’s unacceptable.
AN3: Yeah, this is exactly like Neon Genesis Evangelion
(Warning: spoilers)
The difference is that in NGE, they used Christian mythology and language. In AN3, it’s Greek mythology, which ties in perfectly with the AOT angle.
This is exactly why the Angels were attacking in NGE. Instead of “advent” they used the word “impact.” First Impact took place in prehistoric Earth. Second Impact took place in Antarctica. Geez, is there anything original in this book? Third Impact was the end of the world.
And then there’s the Evangeli—I mean, Prometheus. I can’t believe how unexciting its debut was. All this build up and what do we get? A giant hand. Splat. That’s it? That’s IT?
Omg, this book is nothing but a waste of amazing borrowed ideas. The blue balling is unbelievable!
This is exactly why I have below zero respect for Anton. It's one thing to get inspired by something, or even have a rewrite of your own version, and another to add very specific key details (which are A LOT in Advent's case) and then even act like you don't even know these works. It's honestly so shameful thieves like this are in the top ten. I've dropped this book really early, really soon after I saw from the trailers that the Titans looked and walked exactly like AOT, the chase scene was highly likely literally extracted and stolen from an AOT clip, and you immediately get hit with the three protective walls against "Colossi". The scummer didn't even bother to change the AOT layout of the city and have at least a different number of walls. This is from what I've seen from just the first seconds of playing the book. Shortly after I dropped it. I'm not going to give it views by diamond farming it, because that still counts for its popularity. But just from other people's screenshots you have: the exact same equipment from AOT, the reveal that the Titans were humans all along (a big deal reveal in AOT). And now of course NGE.
Anyone who has said this wasn't an AOT steal has obviously never watched AOT and has no idea what they're talking about. I usually shrug off books getting popular that I think don't deserve it, but in this case I will blame the audience for making this popular. No wonder the romance here sucks. Anton only bothered stealing the plot. In his next book, which he will unfortunately be having, he could steal the dynamics of some popular pairings and the audience will praise him for his improvement.
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 💖
