Nightmare eyes

Like many of you, I woke up to the AI slop It Lives Within "TV show" on the Choices app. Having spent thousands (no joke) of loving hours on the fan-made It Lives Within, I admit it felt like a bit of a kick to the gut, especially since the night before, I'd stayed up until 2 AM, meticulously working on improving the programming of textbox animations for the updated version of the game.

But at the end of the day, the people are what own stories. It doesn't matter what PB puts out, especially when it so blatantly disrespects a series we all hold close to our hearts. We can choose what to support, what to value, and what to be our true version of these stories.

As such, I wanted to provide an update for "It Lives Within: The Obsidian Cut." We are working extremely hard to finish rewrites, and I apologize it's taking so long - but real work takes time. We take so long because we don't use AI to do our work for us. Our testers have found hundreds of bugs, which have been corrected. I'm currently working on some rewrites for chapters 21-22, and once that's finished, I'm going to play from start to finish with different MCs to include more complete personality variants for your MC.

While our game was highly beloved (which I am still so wholly grateful for three years after the final episode aired), I know some of you tried the original version and decided it wasn't for you. Others maybe never heard of it. But, with the news of AI It Lives Within dropping today, I just wanted to invite everyone to give our fan version a chance. If you tried it before and gave up, or haven't played it yet, I recommend waiting until Obsidian airs to experience that version for the first time. And if you did play the original, stick around! You'll love Obsidian when it airs. All of our testers are highly enjoying it and say that it improves on the story with every change, while still be the story they knew and love.

AI It Lives Within is frustrating and offensive, but ultimately, we never needed their blessing, and neither do you. Our story started small, with a team that never made any money. Everything was done out of passion and love for this series and these characters, and we were and still are, devoted to creating truly player-drive stories where your choices matter. A LOT. That passion is something that can never be generated in any machine. Stories from the heart speak to the heart, "canon" or not, and what really matters is how theses stories impact and inspire us.

Sorry I haven’t posted anything new in so long. But I’m a Pokémon now

no friends, don't gaslight yourself. I'm saying this as someone who didn't even really like Byler tbh, but I still see what they did.

It was queerbait.

It was queerbait, not because it ended up one-sided or sadly, it's because the writers were very intentionally exploiting their audience, and writing a manipulative facade of a story without substance. They can hide behind the "but we have canon lgbt characters" all they want, but that's not gonna change the fact their writing was complete exploitative wreck with no purpose.

If you're in doubt, look beyond byler and see what they did to the other characters. They intentionally kept mileven romantically ambiguous to the very end, I actually once liked the ship and I even thought they were broken up in season 5 lmao.

And look at the "hey lovebirds" moment with Jonathan and Steve. Why the heck would they write that (Jonathan and Steve was a popular crack ship after season 1).

Why would they break up all the other actual romantic relationships, and write out Vicky randomly in the end, so they could leave it off ambiguously with Nancy and Robin too lmao.

They knew what was popular with the audience and used it against them, rather than committing to a real story. Any real story would have been fine (even one without Byler), but they didn't do that, they played you, and that's why it's bait and should be shamed to the ground.