Is therapy just a joke, or is it worth getting? Who should I do therapy with? Can I trust my entire life's story with anyone who's not on this site?
Maybe if I tell you my life's story, you can give me life advice.
I was raised by abusive lefty parents who hated their smart white son and often tried to push me towards trannyism. Never fell for it.
First I was sent to a shit primary school. A few kids bullied me there and teachers punished me whenever I fought back. I was a fat angry kid who could punch hard when pushed, and they liked attacking me and then running away. But when we fought properly I'd kick their asses. One time I kicked their asses hard enough to make them stop bothering me.
When I graduated from this school I was sent to the special school of a catholic school, and made the personal property of one old bitch there who hated autistic kids. Around that era I got interested in Game Maker and pokemon romhacking but that interest never amounted to anything, though I did have a USB full of GBA roms and romhacking tools and the fact that I was able to code at such a young age when not all kids were learning that should have shown somebody that I had more to offer the world than shitty schools thought I should.
Thanks to that school, my schedule looked like this: Enter a side building, wait for the day to end, sometimes get insulted by the teachers if they felt like abusing me, usually get to eat lunch at lunchtime but sometimes they wouldn't let me (and it didn't matter whether I brought a packed lunch to school or brought money for the school cafeteria) and eventually go home to a house with parents that, when told the right words by my boomer bullies, would freak out and abuse me at home too. Rarely I'd get to join in a classroom... but class clowns would act up until I'd get blamed for it and sent out.
If I had a tape recorder or decent phone, I could have gathered evidence of the shit said/done to me (audio files of verbal abuse, pics of bruises, etc) and posted it online. But I was never allowed anything like that, because my parents feared I might use it on them. One day at school the art teacher bumped me with her car while backing up into a crowd of kids, I was fine but pissed off and the art teacher shrieked and blame-slinged feministically at me until I lost my patience and started barking back, then she put me in front of the headmaster and I told him about the abusive staff members and called him terrible at his job, so he kicked me out.
Then I was sent to a worthless "speshul" school where a few teachers abused me and the students usually watched in confusion when they weren't joining in. Whenever I trusted an adult enough to tell him or her what happened at home, that adult decided to call child protective services, who sent the same fucking boomer woman over to warn my parents that I was talking about what went on at home again. I couldn't get away from my family until I became the problem of Adult Protective Services, where the slightly less retarded and lazy people go.
A woman my age at the autistics-only youth club I attended got mad at me over retarded internet roleplaying nonsense-drama that didn't even involve me, and she lied about me to the cops and accused me of abusing her, even went to some clinic to fake signs of a concussion she didn't have because she's a spoilt bitch who knows how to play her rich parents like fiddles, she was a low-functioning sociopath woman with histrionic personality disorder and every retarded boomer's sympathy. She lied and got away with it, because the cops weren't interested in this case after she cartoonishly fucked up and started gloating about physically assaulting me without realizing it hurt her case. But even though I said to the managers of the youth club and the friends I knew there "If what she said about me was true I'd be in jail so you know she's lying" they couldn't believe me because they were dumb. There was one weird creepy fucker I used to talk to online because his "woe is me, asian school life is sooo hard" shit kind of reminded me of me at the time, but he got severe TDS and stopped being a person once he stopped viewing me as a person so I'm glad I didn't tell him anything sensitive or identifiable that could fuck me over later in life.
Anyway when I went to college, I was lied to and exploited by the staff until I dropped out. They even tricked me into taking a worthless course that turned out to be the dump where they dump the autistic kids and give them a useless fake newspaper to write. I wish I dropped out sooner, trying to live on barely fucking anything is hard enough when your mom took govt money meant for you, but it's harder when you're forced to spend most of your cash on train rides between your college and shitty home every two weeks and all your cunt government can offer is a discount pass. Now that I'm living alone, I've got a free bus pass I can barely use. Government priorities, am I right?
I am an autistic man, I'm 24 years old, I'll be 25 next year, and I've spent so much of my life as property of someone else that I find it hard to notice when I'm hungry or tired and remember that I should eat or sleep without someone or a phone alarm telling me to. I shower every night before bed but sometimes I miss meals, it's what helped me go from obese fatty to only-slightly-overweight. I don't think I know what it feels like to be loved by someone else. Learning makes me happy and I love documentaries but when I tried an online free learning site it reminded me of school and I couldn't do it. Sometimes I talk to people and act charming like those "Charisma on command" youtube vids told me so they'll like me, but I've never given anyone my full backstory before. The only woman in my life I ever kissed was that bitch who falsely accused me and got away with it. I want to say I have no interest in modern women but I still feel the urge to wank to them. But I don't wank any more because of nofap.
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My parents were pedophiles who molested and sexually harassed me when I was a child and when I was a teenager. My father got off on physically abusing me, especially when I was a small child and he did it left often when I became a teenager because it wasn't as sexually fulfilling to him any more, which made him a pathetically grumpy childish unfulfilled fat man who eventually gave himself cancer smoking but got better because there probably isn't a God worth a damn up there. Mum loved shoving perversion into my face and her daughter's face. Mom and dad usually kept their perversion with me separate from their perversion with my sister. I was exploited, and she was groomed. Mom loved to "inspect" me when I was young, and as I grew. Sometimes she tried to get me to grow in her hands, if you get what I am saying, using her hands and other things. I recall times when she'd get cream on her hands and tell me this would disinfect my cock and balls to prevent the risk of infection. Sometimes mom would show me pictures on her phone to gauge my reaction to different porn stars and pictures of weird shit on the internet. I told her I was a furry once just to try and get her to stop with the degrating bdsm gay shit but that just got her to show me ugly unappealing art of furry women instead. And it was always shit art, did that bitch have no eye for aesthetics or proportions? Mum just enjoyed being evil and manipulative, feeling important, feeling pitied, feeling like she was the most important person in the room able to do whatever she wanted, laws be damned. My parents told me daily masturbation was necessary to keep your cock from shrinking and atrophying, and they taught me to masturbate prone, which is unhealthy. Obviously fucking none of this is healthy, but don't masturbate prone. Sometimes Mum mocked the way my dick would bend to one side when ready for action. Mum loved showing Thor x Loki gay porn fanfiction to my little sister, mums friends made some of it. My sister... she's four years younger than me. So right now she would be about twenty one or twenty two, I forgot when her birthday is and I won't check if mum's stupid fucking lie-filled blog about herself and family life is still up to check. At the time if I was fifteen she would be eleven, but our sexual abuse at the hands of my parents started long before we both turned ten. And mum loved showing sex filled adult shows like Castle and CSI and Law And Order and Legend Of The Seeker to me and my little sister while my little sister was still young enough to watch not just Avatar but Danny Phantom and iCarly and Wizards Of Waverly Place and like it. Sometimes I walked in on my little sister and my mother watching pornhub together or reading horny fanfiction curled up together in bed, sometimes in my room I heard degenerate sounds coming from their screens. Mom used to talk with this excited tone about porn sometimes, to try and make it sound natural and exciting and normal when she described to her children, in detail, the fucked up shit she saw today, and whether something got her off or was too unrealistic. You know how awful children will tell lies and cry "Mooom, he hit me!" when they want to see their siblings punished, or threaten to do this if they want their siblings manipulated? My sister would sometimes lie and claim I punched or slapped or kicked her or grabbed her in a tight hug and squeezed too hard. My sister also used to threaten to claim I showed her my cock or slapped her with it if I didn't let her win sometimes in multiplayer games. Both mom and dad liked making me dance naked. And they got away with it all because the cops would rather believe a woman than her son, though it would not surprise me if my sister was questioned and told what to say by her parents. Sometimes I wonder if my sister telling the truth instead of blindly backing her parents would have helped me get out of that shithole sooner, but such thoughts make it hard for me to think of my sister as a victim of my parents rather than another awful thing in a house full of awful things. Such thoughts make me wonder if maybe she was rotten deep down and that's why she helped this abuse continue and didn't hate it all as much as me. She chose to be another awful thing with her pervert parents after all. A few teachers sexually harassed me over the years, and nobody cared. The systems designed to protect children did not protect me. Sometimes I wonder if I was louder about their sexual abuse of me in threads whenever I talked about my life online, would people have cared? Would my sister get therapy and heal from the shit her parents put her through instead of being the main reason they got away with it? Anyway I've been through a lot of shit. So when leftoids cry "I was sexually harassed!" over being teabagged in Halo or groped in VR Chat I wish they would stop cheapening the words with their groomer whore mouths. Nearly dying today made me realize there is a chance I might die before I get to tell people about my perverted parents.
>>5551
Telling people about the physical abuse only ever made things and got me put back with my parents. So I didn't trust anyone enough to talk about how my parents sexually exploited me. But I remember this one time when I was a child and my child dick got scratched up by mom's nails. We went to the doctors to get it looked at because she decided to pretend she didn't do it and had no idea where the marks came from. Yeah, she pretended this in her own home, with the boy she hurt, and the delusion she chose to believe compelled her to drive a boy with mystery dick wounds to the hospital to get it checked out. Mom was not smart, but she was enabled by a system meant to enable abusers. Anyway I was given some dick cream. I wish I memorized its name. There were two containers of dick cream, one larger than the other. The large container's contents was to be spread over the whole thing and the little container's contents was to be applied to the scabbed over cuts. When my dick healed up, mom kept using this cream on me until the containers ran out. And then she went back to using antibacterial hand goo, the stuff she used before and after that wounded dick event. Sometimes I wonder if I could ask some doctor for my entire medical history, so I could get some hints at what the fuck those two dick creams were. Did the doctor think I had a STD or something? Did he not think to talk to the boy to see if he was being sexually exploited? What the fuck is wrong with this country?
Telling people about the physical abuse only ever made things and got me put back with my parents. So I didn't trust anyone enough to talk about how my parents sexually exploited me. But I remember this one time when I was a child and my child dick got scratched up by mom's nails. We went to the doctors to get it looked at because she decided to pretend she didn't do it and had no idea where the marks came from. Yeah, she pretended this in her own home, with the boy she hurt, and the delusion she chose to believe compelled her to drive a boy with mystery dick wounds to the hospital to get it checked out. Mom was not smart, but she was enabled by a system meant to enable abusers. Anyway I was given some dick cream. I wish I memorized its name. There were two containers of dick cream, one larger than the other. The large container's contents was to be spread over the whole thing and the little container's contents was to be applied to the scabbed over cuts. When my dick healed up, mom kept using this cream on me until the containers ran out. And then she went back to using antibacterial hand goo, the stuff she used before and after that wounded dick event. Sometimes I wonder if I could ask some doctor for my entire medical history, so I could get some hints at what the fuck those two dick creams were. Did the doctor think I had a STD or something? Did he not think to talk to the boy to see if he was being sexually exploited? What the fuck is wrong with this country?
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>>5551
>>5552
>all dat
Ngl, I kinda suspected as much.
Fwiw, you're among frens; I was physically/sexually/psychologically abused by a babysitter when I was 4. The abuse wasnt as bad as the mental schism that developed, directed first at my parents and later at 'authority figures'.
The underlying lesson was that I couldnt trust them with my safety and well being, no matter how 'well intentioned' they be (again, this goes for any 'authority'. A valuable lesson, but a difficult one to forgive, all things considered. I cant imagine how difficult it must have been for your parents to BE the abusers, as opposed to unwitting accessories. No one should have to experience that kind of trauma. Jordan Peterson rightfully warns against children being exposed to truly malevolent people in their development, and I think we both - as well as any casual readers who have followed along - can attest to the degree 0f crazy/broken that can and does result from such exposure, and the YEARS of healing and processing that are necessary to work through all the unresolved feelings and concepts.
Thank you for sharing your pain, anon.
>>5552
>all dat
Ngl, I kinda suspected as much.
Fwiw, you're among frens; I was physically/sexually/psychologically abused by a babysitter when I was 4. The abuse wasnt as bad as the mental schism that developed, directed first at my parents and later at 'authority figures'.
The underlying lesson was that I couldnt trust them with my safety and well being, no matter how 'well intentioned' they be (again, this goes for any 'authority'. A valuable lesson, but a difficult one to forgive, all things considered. I cant imagine how difficult it must have been for your parents to BE the abusers, as opposed to unwitting accessories. No one should have to experience that kind of trauma. Jordan Peterson rightfully warns against children being exposed to truly malevolent people in their development, and I think we both - as well as any casual readers who have followed along - can attest to the degree 0f crazy/broken that can and does result from such exposure, and the YEARS of healing and processing that are necessary to work through all the unresolved feelings and concepts.
Thank you for sharing your pain, anon.
>>5551
Not to moralfag and be a huge pussy, but I'm really sorry, anon. My childhood was very similar, just replace sexual abuse with intense physical and psychological abuse. Although, I was sexually abused in my early childhood where some step cousins babysat me and turned it into a "molest the little boy for shits and giggles" event. I don't want to get too specific, but they beat the shit out of me, forcibly stripped me naked, and sexually tormented my traumatized little mind. It happened on several occasions over the span of a few years. They were all female and they all got away with it, not that I wasn't too afraid to mention it anyway. As if anyone would've believed me.
My step dad used to beat the shit out of me so badly that I was afraid to even go to the bathroom because that would involve crossing his path and incurring another beating. I would either piss in bottles or try to quietly sneak out a window to go shit or piss in the woods. I felt less than human because of it. Why did others get to go home to stable families that loved them, while I was living in Hell? I couldn't understand what I did that made me deserve the constant torrents of abuse.
CPS got involved after damn near all my teachers noticed that I was always covered in bruises and flinched any time adults made a sudden move. Nothing came of it and I wound up right back in Hell every time. I remember crying myself to sleep as a little boy and looking out the window, watching headlights pass by, hoping that one would be my biological father and that he'd take me away from that fucking unending nightmare.
Childhood trauma is a real bitch. It's like the system deliberately keeps kids with their abusers.
The only reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to know that you aren't alone. I came to get over it, more or less, by empowering my self through self-improvement and rejecting societal norms. It might sound cliche, but a good physical regimen backed by adopting hobbies and learning combat sports helped me a lot. Maybe such things would help you as well. As a kid, I coped by spending time with animals and bonding with them. Maybe that could help you, too. I always loved animals since I felt more loved by them than other people and they never brutalized or raped me. They helped dull the pain.
Above all else, strive for Independence from others as much as you can.
Either way, I'm rooting for you. Don't let other people and their actions define you. Fuck them. Child abusers and their enablers deserve to be tortured to death with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers.
Not to moralfag and be a huge pussy, but I'm really sorry, anon. My childhood was very similar, just replace sexual abuse with intense physical and psychological abuse. Although, I was sexually abused in my early childhood where some step cousins babysat me and turned it into a "molest the little boy for shits and giggles" event. I don't want to get too specific, but they beat the shit out of me, forcibly stripped me naked, and sexually tormented my traumatized little mind. It happened on several occasions over the span of a few years. They were all female and they all got away with it, not that I wasn't too afraid to mention it anyway. As if anyone would've believed me.
My step dad used to beat the shit out of me so badly that I was afraid to even go to the bathroom because that would involve crossing his path and incurring another beating. I would either piss in bottles or try to quietly sneak out a window to go shit or piss in the woods. I felt less than human because of it. Why did others get to go home to stable families that loved them, while I was living in Hell? I couldn't understand what I did that made me deserve the constant torrents of abuse.
CPS got involved after damn near all my teachers noticed that I was always covered in bruises and flinched any time adults made a sudden move. Nothing came of it and I wound up right back in Hell every time. I remember crying myself to sleep as a little boy and looking out the window, watching headlights pass by, hoping that one would be my biological father and that he'd take me away from that fucking unending nightmare.
Childhood trauma is a real bitch. It's like the system deliberately keeps kids with their abusers.
The only reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to know that you aren't alone. I came to get over it, more or less, by empowering my self through self-improvement and rejecting societal norms. It might sound cliche, but a good physical regimen backed by adopting hobbies and learning combat sports helped me a lot. Maybe such things would help you as well. As a kid, I coped by spending time with animals and bonding with them. Maybe that could help you, too. I always loved animals since I felt more loved by them than other people and they never brutalized or raped me. They helped dull the pain.
Above all else, strive for Independence from others as much as you can.
Either way, I'm rooting for you. Don't let other people and their actions define you. Fuck them. Child abusers and their enablers deserve to be tortured to death with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers.
>>5555
Fucking this. Sorry for your experience, I know it was hard and in ways that most cant comprehend.
Jesus, those digits.
>The only reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to know that you aren't alone
So very based
>Don't let other people and their actions define you. Fuck them
This. So wholly this. (You) are vastly more than the sum of your (adverse) experiences, and enough of us have been through it. Its okay. You're much stronger, much more knowledgeable, and vadtly more capable. You will always be who you 'were', but who you were and what you experienced doesnt define you. (You) are far more than that, now.
Fucking this. Sorry for your experience, I know it was hard and in ways that most cant comprehend.
Jesus, those digits.
>The only reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to know that you aren't alone
So very based
>Don't let other people and their actions define you. Fuck them
This. So wholly this. (You) are vastly more than the sum of your (adverse) experiences, and enough of us have been through it. Its okay. You're much stronger, much more knowledgeable, and vadtly more capable. You will always be who you 'were', but who you were and what you experienced doesnt define you. (You) are far more than that, now.
>>5556
Thanks for the sympathy. You have mine as well.
I was debating whether or not to say it here, but it seems like this will be the only chance I'll get; we had a nasty spat in another thread a while back and I've been wanting to apologize. It started off as innocuous shitposting, but it quickly got out of hand somewhere between our belligerent replies and I said some really shitty things to you. I feel like I crossed a line with some of the low blows I brought up. Probably the only time I've genuinely felt bad about something I said on a chan. For what it's worth, I'm sorry for being so mean-spirited towards you. It's easy to to get carried away and forget at times that strangers on the Internet are actual people, too.
Sorry for derailing, OP.
Thanks for the sympathy. You have mine as well.
I was debating whether or not to say it here, but it seems like this will be the only chance I'll get; we had a nasty spat in another thread a while back and I've been wanting to apologize. It started off as innocuous shitposting, but it quickly got out of hand somewhere between our belligerent replies and I said some really shitty things to you. I feel like I crossed a line with some of the low blows I brought up. Probably the only time I've genuinely felt bad about something I said on a chan. For what it's worth, I'm sorry for being so mean-spirited towards you. It's easy to to get carried away and forget at times that strangers on the Internet are actual people, too.
Sorry for derailing, OP.
>>5557
Pretty sure I know which thread you're talking about and,... yeah that was pretty wild, ngl. Having said, I enjoyed it. So, while your apology is appreciated and acknowledged, I dont feel you have anything to apologize for, and summarily reject the apology.
For one, it was legitimately engaging and exciting. For two, even if it wasnt, I participated willfully. And let's be honest, it was good practice, and it forced me to reevaluate certain points that were brought up. I may seem ambivalent to criticism by and large, but its far more shameful to be told what one's problem is and NOT heed it - even if discourteous - than to ignore it outright. So fwiw, in that some of your criticisms weren't wrong, I did listen, not that I will ever affect any display of it in the moment.
I had it out with one of my brothers a while back, and made a similar apology. He didnt take offense at the time, but I felt I had gotten far nastier in the exchange than I want to be comfortable with, especially in-house. So, I understand what you mean, and any ill will I might have held on to (hypothetically) would be dispatched upon that recognition.
Pretty sure I know which thread you're talking about and,... yeah that was pretty wild, ngl. Having said, I enjoyed it. So, while your apology is appreciated and acknowledged, I dont feel you have anything to apologize for, and summarily reject the apology.
For one, it was legitimately engaging and exciting. For two, even if it wasnt, I participated willfully. And let's be honest, it was good practice, and it forced me to reevaluate certain points that were brought up. I may seem ambivalent to criticism by and large, but its far more shameful to be told what one's problem is and NOT heed it - even if discourteous - than to ignore it outright. So fwiw, in that some of your criticisms weren't wrong, I did listen, not that I will ever affect any display of it in the moment.
I had it out with one of my brothers a while back, and made a similar apology. He didnt take offense at the time, but I felt I had gotten far nastier in the exchange than I want to be comfortable with, especially in-house. So, I understand what you mean, and any ill will I might have held on to (hypothetically) would be dispatched upon that recognition.
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>>5558
>Having said, I enjoyed it.
Honestly, I had a great time, too. I thought it was hilarious until the end when I got more drunk and things got more malicious. I sobered up and felt like a real dick.
I never really mean anything personal when I'm shitty to other anons. At the end of the day, we're not really spraying spaghetti at each other as people, but as anons. Bringing up IRL shit, however, felt kinda gay and shitty afterwards, especially being on an image board. Similar to what you said about your argument with your brother; we all have our standards that we hold ourselves to after a certain point.
It feels good to bury the hatchet. Now let's wait for the usual suspects the express their obsessive love of cock so that we may revel in questioning their sexuality, like old times. Cheers! /)
>Having said, I enjoyed it.
Honestly, I had a great time, too. I thought it was hilarious until the end when I got more drunk and things got more malicious. I sobered up and felt like a real dick.
I never really mean anything personal when I'm shitty to other anons. At the end of the day, we're not really spraying spaghetti at each other as people, but as anons. Bringing up IRL shit, however, felt kinda gay and shitty afterwards, especially being on an image board. Similar to what you said about your argument with your brother; we all have our standards that we hold ourselves to after a certain point.
It feels good to bury the hatchet. Now let's wait for the usual suspects the express their obsessive love of cock so that we may revel in questioning their sexuality, like old times. Cheers! /)
>>5559
>expressive love of
Gonna have to oppose that one. It was fun for laughs for a while, but recent admissions have confirmed my suspicions; what appears a laughable proclivity to fixate on IS the result of a maladaptive process, leaving unresolved content.
It was fun while hypothetical, but shit just got real. Im gonna play it cool for a while with exception, unrelated to anything ITT
>expressive love of
Gonna have to oppose that one. It was fun for laughs for a while, but recent admissions have confirmed my suspicions; what appears a laughable proclivity to fixate on IS the result of a maladaptive process, leaving unresolved content.
It was fun while hypothetical, but shit just got real. Im gonna play it cool for a while with exception, unrelated to anything ITT
'maladaptive' putting it lightly
Redesigning characters is hard but rewarding, and fascinating. So many choices and tradeoffs to make. I remember when I was a kid, I used to talk about games like some Sonic fans. "What were these idiotic maniacs thinking when they made this game so bad on purpose?! That's the only way they could make something this bad! Don't they understand the downsides inherent in the creative choices they made? Why would they make choices I don't like? Why didn't they consult anyone smart enough to tell them these ideas wouldn't work? Do they just hate Sonic or something? Are they TRYING to make everyone see Sonic as a joke? Why do they do it wrong instead of doing it right?". It is necessary and healthy to criticize large companies but I wasn't doing it healthily. Then again I was a literal child at the time.
But growing over the years and getting into game development makes me appreciate effort and ambition when it's there. And if there's one thing the Sonic franchise needs to get back, it's ambition. I used to FUCKING LOATHE SONIC BOOM WITH THE INTENSITY OF TEN THOUSAND SUNS (just kidding, I was looking forward to Boom until it looked shit and then I was unhyped for it and didn't buy it. Tv show was fun though). But looking back, even though the games were shit, it's a miracle they turned out as good as they did. It could have been so much worse. It could have been half assed and phoned in but they really tried to make their take on Sonic distinct even with rhe elderly backwards gigaboomers of SEGA doing their thing. They really tried to make a good forgettable bland kid's game even Little Timmy can beat, even if adults would naturally find it dull and devoid of depth(would it have killed them to add stylish combat normally unused by Little Timmy, and an unlockable Hyper Hard difficulty mode that requires it?). There's something beautiful in ambition. The Sonic Boom redesigns were pretty dumb, the excessive sports tape where it did nothing reminded one of mummy bandages. Sonic looks overdesigned in any human clothes, and his proportions don't fit into them like Bugs Bunny's do. In the general consciousness, even if you don't remember what colour Sonic's arms or eyes are, he's naked. Not running around in clothes like some Sonic knockoff. Bugs Bunny has been seen in clothes often enough for people to get used to the idea but Sonic looks overdressed in a jacket even if he is literally pantsless. And maybe they went too far with making Knuckles buff. They probably went too far there, making him slightly taller and buffer than Sonic would probably be enough.
But they still tried to introduce more variation into Sonic's character designs. They had the chance to redesign the cast of Sonic and instead of just giving them a few accessories they said "Let's do our best to do something unusual wirh these characters". They even gave duller colours to NPCs so the main cast would stand out more, and that's something Sonic Forces didn't do. Perhaps it chose not to do that to make brightly coloured Sonic characters blend in with the borderline NFTs that make up Forces's world.
Sonic Boom designs aren't perfect. But it certainly turned out better than that movie studio's first attempt at redesigning Sonic. Everyone who saw that hated it intensely. But Sonic Boom just looked mildly silly at worst. Sometimes I wonder what FIM Boom would look like. The memer says "sports tape and longer legs also AJ looks like their take on Knuckles" but they'd have a completely different set of design philosophies redesigning FIM characters to look less like you started with the cookie cutter mold and then drew their hair and tails on top, while still keeping the characters recognizable. The character design variation in Them's Fighting Herds makes me wonder what it would look like if Lauren Faust was allowed to use such variation when designing the Mane Six. Big The Cat and Vector The Crocodile don't look like typical Sonic characters, but they still look like Sonic characters, even though their species and character identity is so prominent in their design. But some Sonic characters are designed to look like Sonic characters first and their species second.
But growing over the years and getting into game development makes me appreciate effort and ambition when it's there. And if there's one thing the Sonic franchise needs to get back, it's ambition. I used to FUCKING LOATHE SONIC BOOM WITH THE INTENSITY OF TEN THOUSAND SUNS (just kidding, I was looking forward to Boom until it looked shit and then I was unhyped for it and didn't buy it. Tv show was fun though). But looking back, even though the games were shit, it's a miracle they turned out as good as they did. It could have been so much worse. It could have been half assed and phoned in but they really tried to make their take on Sonic distinct even with rhe elderly backwards gigaboomers of SEGA doing their thing. They really tried to make a good forgettable bland kid's game even Little Timmy can beat, even if adults would naturally find it dull and devoid of depth(would it have killed them to add stylish combat normally unused by Little Timmy, and an unlockable Hyper Hard difficulty mode that requires it?). There's something beautiful in ambition. The Sonic Boom redesigns were pretty dumb, the excessive sports tape where it did nothing reminded one of mummy bandages. Sonic looks overdesigned in any human clothes, and his proportions don't fit into them like Bugs Bunny's do. In the general consciousness, even if you don't remember what colour Sonic's arms or eyes are, he's naked. Not running around in clothes like some Sonic knockoff. Bugs Bunny has been seen in clothes often enough for people to get used to the idea but Sonic looks overdressed in a jacket even if he is literally pantsless. And maybe they went too far with making Knuckles buff. They probably went too far there, making him slightly taller and buffer than Sonic would probably be enough.
But they still tried to introduce more variation into Sonic's character designs. They had the chance to redesign the cast of Sonic and instead of just giving them a few accessories they said "Let's do our best to do something unusual wirh these characters". They even gave duller colours to NPCs so the main cast would stand out more, and that's something Sonic Forces didn't do. Perhaps it chose not to do that to make brightly coloured Sonic characters blend in with the borderline NFTs that make up Forces's world.
Sonic Boom designs aren't perfect. But it certainly turned out better than that movie studio's first attempt at redesigning Sonic. Everyone who saw that hated it intensely. But Sonic Boom just looked mildly silly at worst. Sometimes I wonder what FIM Boom would look like. The memer says "sports tape and longer legs also AJ looks like their take on Knuckles" but they'd have a completely different set of design philosophies redesigning FIM characters to look less like you started with the cookie cutter mold and then drew their hair and tails on top, while still keeping the characters recognizable. The character design variation in Them's Fighting Herds makes me wonder what it would look like if Lauren Faust was allowed to use such variation when designing the Mane Six. Big The Cat and Vector The Crocodile don't look like typical Sonic characters, but they still look like Sonic characters, even though their species and character identity is so prominent in their design. But some Sonic characters are designed to look like Sonic characters first and their species second.
>>5559
If you want to see cock, check out Splitter and Refractor, the two new offerings from Bad Dragon! These dildo ovipositor things are ready to really make you feel like a black Hedgehog. Hedgehog? That's right, I'm kidding. These aren't Bad Dragon dildos. They are alien laser weapons in Shadow The Hedgehog. I can overlook the name Splitter, but "Refractor"? Like the refractory period? They knew exactly what they were doing.
If you want to see cock, check out Splitter and Refractor, the two new offerings from Bad Dragon! These dildo ovipositor things are ready to really make you feel like a black Hedgehog. Hedgehog? That's right, I'm kidding. These aren't Bad Dragon dildos. They are alien laser weapons in Shadow The Hedgehog. I can overlook the name Splitter, but "Refractor"? Like the refractory period? They knew exactly what they were doing.
>"Arkham? Is that a Batman refefence?"
No, it's a Lovecraft reference.
>"Woah, is this a Future Trunks/Silver The Hedgehog ripoff?"
No, it's ripping off Terminator 2.
>"this is just like the horcruxes in Harry Potter-"
Nothing in Harry Potter is original, see The Worst Witch, Discworld, Groosham Grange, Eleanor Estes' The Witch Family first published in 1960. The 1986 movie Troll, and more. The concept of a videogame respawn point was hardly rare at the time of writing though it likely ripped off the Liches and their Phylacteries from DND, which probably took its inspiration from Koschei the Deathless who hid his soul in a needle, put the needle in an egg, and escalated from there.
Why does pop culture forget the origins of copied things once the copies are copied? If I see one more NPC claim anything with the Philosopher's Stone is ripping off Harry Potter, I'll have a fucking stroke.
No, it's a Lovecraft reference.
>"Woah, is this a Future Trunks/Silver The Hedgehog ripoff?"
No, it's ripping off Terminator 2.
>"this is just like the horcruxes in Harry Potter-"
Nothing in Harry Potter is original, see The Worst Witch, Discworld, Groosham Grange, Eleanor Estes' The Witch Family first published in 1960. The 1986 movie Troll, and more. The concept of a videogame respawn point was hardly rare at the time of writing though it likely ripped off the Liches and their Phylacteries from DND, which probably took its inspiration from Koschei the Deathless who hid his soul in a needle, put the needle in an egg, and escalated from there.
Why does pop culture forget the origins of copied things once the copies are copied? If I see one more NPC claim anything with the Philosopher's Stone is ripping off Harry Potter, I'll have a fucking stroke.
>>5567
>Why does pop culture forget the origins of copied things once the copies are copied?
Because pop culture is the antithesis of high culture.
>Why does pop culture forget the origins of copied things once the copies are copied?
Because pop culture is the antithesis of high culture.
>>5567
Because most people don't really have enough general culture knowledge to know where the philosohper's stone comes from, nor do they really care to research it, they just take it at face value.
Everyone is like this, to some degree so it's pointless to be mad at people for not knowing something.
As an example, how many people know that dynamite contains nitroglicerine?
And how many people know that TNT and dynamite are two unrelated things?
Or that TNT sticks and black gunpowder are also two unrelated things?
I'm using these three well known explosives as an example, because most people know TNT, dynamite and gunpowder.
Because most people don't really have enough general culture knowledge to know where the philosohper's stone comes from, nor do they really care to research it, they just take it at face value.
Everyone is like this, to some degree so it's pointless to be mad at people for not knowing something.
As an example, how many people know that dynamite contains nitroglicerine?
And how many people know that TNT and dynamite are two unrelated things?
Or that TNT sticks and black gunpowder are also two unrelated things?
I'm using these three well known explosives as an example, because most people know TNT, dynamite and gunpowder.
>put Tiananmen Square documentary on TV
>women aged 20 to 50 pull out their phones and candy crush
Women do not deserve the right to vote.
>women aged 20 to 50 pull out their phones and candy crush
Women do not deserve the right to vote.
>>5583
Little stickmen are shooting and killing each other onscreen and the fucking whore is playing candy crush and then some game where you slide numbers around on a 4x4 grid to combine them.
Little stickmen are shooting and killing each other onscreen and the fucking whore is playing candy crush and then some game where you slide numbers around on a 4x4 grid to combine them.
>>5567
>"Woah, is this a Future Trunks/Silver The Hedgehog ripoff?"
>No, it's ripping off Terminator 2.
Both were published/aired the same year tho, kinda sus
>"Woah, is this a Future Trunks/Silver The Hedgehog ripoff?"
>No, it's ripping off Terminator 2.
Both were published/aired the same year tho, kinda sus
>>5586
Oh fuck the matrix is glitching. Maybe we're in the Injectorverse and a Code Holder died.
Future Trunks first appears in chapter #331 The Young Boy of Mystery (謎の少年, Nazo no Shōnen), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on July 15, 1991. But Terminator 2 was first released in USA on 16 August 1991.
How the fuck did this happen? Future Trunks has the exact same hairstyle as young John Connor!
Maybe the author saw Terminator 1 and ripping it off caused the result to resemble T2 through sheer coincidence, and maybe the Toriyama saw adverts of T2 featuring the boy and stole the hair from there? Was that hairstyle normal back then?
Anyway I thought of something... You know that meme about a lobotomized woman who's legally an object used as a breeding tool? The thought of producing one intentionally sounds fucked up.
What if an alien race produced those naturally while also producing normal offspring in greater numbers?
If an alien race gave birth to several of their own species at once per pregnancy, always producing one "Runt" per "litter" and that runt is basically designed to serve this purpose upon growing old enough and cannot survive without being cared for like a houseplant or beloved pet, would that be fucked up or what?
Oh fuck the matrix is glitching. Maybe we're in the Injectorverse and a Code Holder died.
Future Trunks first appears in chapter #331 The Young Boy of Mystery (謎の少年, Nazo no Shōnen), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on July 15, 1991. But Terminator 2 was first released in USA on 16 August 1991.
How the fuck did this happen? Future Trunks has the exact same hairstyle as young John Connor!
Maybe the author saw Terminator 1 and ripping it off caused the result to resemble T2 through sheer coincidence, and maybe the Toriyama saw adverts of T2 featuring the boy and stole the hair from there? Was that hairstyle normal back then?
Anyway I thought of something... You know that meme about a lobotomized woman who's legally an object used as a breeding tool? The thought of producing one intentionally sounds fucked up.
What if an alien race produced those naturally while also producing normal offspring in greater numbers?
If an alien race gave birth to several of their own species at once per pregnancy, always producing one "Runt" per "litter" and that runt is basically designed to serve this purpose upon growing old enough and cannot survive without being cared for like a houseplant or beloved pet, would that be fucked up or what?
In The Simpsons, Moe runs Moe's Tavern. But every time Bart Simpson pranks him, he wants to be a Bart-ender!
>be shitting in someone else's home
>they have crap paper that tears in your hand unless you double it up
>overhear fucktarded phone conversation because all retards think you need to yell into a phone like you want the neighbour's opinion
>faggot in expensive "drip" fashion desperately seeking the approval of others gets insulted by his own mother for mishandling funds and not leaving his target amount of money in the bank this month
>faggot keeps grasping at straws to avoid taking responsibility for poor financial decisions
>she uselessly shames him and whines woe-is-meisms instead of trying to help him by discussing budgeting plans, self control strategies, separate debit cards for food and luxuries, etc
>"food is getting more expensive, do you want me to starve?" Asked the fag who spent hundreds on overpriced clothes he didn't need this month, same as most months
>"why dont we tax the rich more? They should pay their fair share!" Cried the retard in pewdiepie merch
>still be shitting, unable to correct political ignorance because I don't want to yell from the shitter
>"I should just kill myself if I can't do what I want!"
>raise eyebrow, he moves on immediately when told not to be silly
>"But I sell my clothes sometimes and buy more clothes, so it's not a waste!" Said the boy who doesn't make a profit from selling clothes second hand
And it just keeps going and going! It never fucking stops! And I'm not talking about me, I've been shitting normally ever since I changed my diet for the better. Okay there was that period where too much protein made shitting painful so I toned it down. It was such a gay conversation condensed into the time it takes a real man to shit like he's got something to prove to God. But apart from that...
FAGS ARE GAY.
>they have crap paper that tears in your hand unless you double it up
>overhear fucktarded phone conversation because all retards think you need to yell into a phone like you want the neighbour's opinion
>faggot in expensive "drip" fashion desperately seeking the approval of others gets insulted by his own mother for mishandling funds and not leaving his target amount of money in the bank this month
>faggot keeps grasping at straws to avoid taking responsibility for poor financial decisions
>she uselessly shames him and whines woe-is-meisms instead of trying to help him by discussing budgeting plans, self control strategies, separate debit cards for food and luxuries, etc
>"food is getting more expensive, do you want me to starve?" Asked the fag who spent hundreds on overpriced clothes he didn't need this month, same as most months
>"why dont we tax the rich more? They should pay their fair share!" Cried the retard in pewdiepie merch
>still be shitting, unable to correct political ignorance because I don't want to yell from the shitter
>"I should just kill myself if I can't do what I want!"
>raise eyebrow, he moves on immediately when told not to be silly
>"But I sell my clothes sometimes and buy more clothes, so it's not a waste!" Said the boy who doesn't make a profit from selling clothes second hand
And it just keeps going and going! It never fucking stops! And I'm not talking about me, I've been shitting normally ever since I changed my diet for the better. Okay there was that period where too much protein made shitting painful so I toned it down. It was such a gay conversation condensed into the time it takes a real man to shit like he's got something to prove to God. But apart from that...
FAGS ARE GAY.
>>5593
You sound like you need a break from the faggotry, Anon. Buy an old cruiser motorcycle, micro dose lsd, and slowly ride through the deserted roads of the American Southwest. Choose the mechanical mare, friend. See you on the road.
Also, I hate shitting in other people's homes, too. It's always very intense and it kicks my ultra male instincts into overdrive. Like, I could snap and go crazy at anyone who dares to spook me. I always like to have a piece of 180 grit sandpaper to wipe my ass with afterwards because it really adds a nice edge to the wild adrenaline rush I get from giving someone the customary upper decker. Fully erect and primed for combat the entire time due the endorphins, of course. Really gets me in the mood to do some ultra violence. People never really know just how close they are to death when I poop in their vicinity. That's how real Aryan men shit - with primal authority and murderous intent.
You sound like you need a break from the faggotry, Anon. Buy an old cruiser motorcycle, micro dose lsd, and slowly ride through the deserted roads of the American Southwest. Choose the mechanical mare, friend. See you on the road.
Also, I hate shitting in other people's homes, too. It's always very intense and it kicks my ultra male instincts into overdrive. Like, I could snap and go crazy at anyone who dares to spook me. I always like to have a piece of 180 grit sandpaper to wipe my ass with afterwards because it really adds a nice edge to the wild adrenaline rush I get from giving someone the customary upper decker. Fully erect and primed for combat the entire time due the endorphins, of course. Really gets me in the mood to do some ultra violence. People never really know just how close they are to death when I poop in their vicinity. That's how real Aryan men shit - with primal authority and murderous intent.
>>5594
Haha, nice. I wish I could afford a motorcycle. Even a bike would do. But not a gay one. A fast one. Something that defiantly cries freedom over wind resistance's roar.
Sometimes when I write I feel stopped by the thought "I can't put that in my work, that's someone's fetish". Is this normal?
A scene where someone deals with quicksand, or hunger, or sickness... there are fetishes for that. Fetishes for sneezing. Fetishes for thirst. A character searching for footprints? Some karen's going to say I'm horny for feet. I can't make a character awkwardly stare at the feet of another character, unable to meet her gaze, or karens will say I want to fuck feet or my character wants to fuck feet. Nobody can piss or shit themselves or vomit or get drunk or some sicko in the audience will get hard. There are people with fetishes for ant bites. Not tiny tits, literal insect bites. If it exists, someone out there has a fetish for it, even if it's something epenistomologically divorced from sex entirely like gambling on a diarrhea sneeze and betting it all on white only to land on brown, or that thing where somebody lands parachuting and the chute falls on them or gets them stuck in trees. Perverted women get off on periods and talking about them in inappropriate places. I know about all this shit, someone showed me the list of fetishes and his blocklist on some furry porn site. For him to look around safely and appreciate the high quality paintings on that site without having his eyeballs assaulted with shitting dick nipples, he has to block a fucking colossal set of words and phrases and slang terms you would never think anyone would draw even at gunpoint. Remember that scene in Hellsing Abridged where some baddie threatened to fuck wounds? Wound fucking is a tag on porn sites because sickos out there like it.
Haha, nice. I wish I could afford a motorcycle. Even a bike would do. But not a gay one. A fast one. Something that defiantly cries freedom over wind resistance's roar.
Sometimes when I write I feel stopped by the thought "I can't put that in my work, that's someone's fetish". Is this normal?
A scene where someone deals with quicksand, or hunger, or sickness... there are fetishes for that. Fetishes for sneezing. Fetishes for thirst. A character searching for footprints? Some karen's going to say I'm horny for feet. I can't make a character awkwardly stare at the feet of another character, unable to meet her gaze, or karens will say I want to fuck feet or my character wants to fuck feet. Nobody can piss or shit themselves or vomit or get drunk or some sicko in the audience will get hard. There are people with fetishes for ant bites. Not tiny tits, literal insect bites. If it exists, someone out there has a fetish for it, even if it's something epenistomologically divorced from sex entirely like gambling on a diarrhea sneeze and betting it all on white only to land on brown, or that thing where somebody lands parachuting and the chute falls on them or gets them stuck in trees. Perverted women get off on periods and talking about them in inappropriate places. I know about all this shit, someone showed me the list of fetishes and his blocklist on some furry porn site. For him to look around safely and appreciate the high quality paintings on that site without having his eyeballs assaulted with shitting dick nipples, he has to block a fucking colossal set of words and phrases and slang terms you would never think anyone would draw even at gunpoint. Remember that scene in Hellsing Abridged where some baddie threatened to fuck wounds? Wound fucking is a tag on porn sites because sickos out there like it.
>>5597
>I wish I could afford a motorcycle.
You probably can. You can find loads of serviceable bikes for under $2k if you're willing to travel to get it.
>But not a gay one.
Then make sure not to listen to any of the oldfags-gone-tranny on /o/. They're both gay and stupid and they like gay and stupid shit.
For real though, you might have a great time if you try something new and shed away from all the background faggotry. The mechanical mare will give you freedom.
>Is this normal?
Not really. I think you're being way too paranoid. Most people don't have bizarre fetishes and you shouldn't compromise on making what you want because some weirdo might get off on it. Nobody would write anything if they thought that way. I mean, there are evengiga chads creeps out there that are into cartoon horses, but I wouldn't let it stop me from making what I want to make!
>I wish I could afford a motorcycle.
You probably can. You can find loads of serviceable bikes for under $2k if you're willing to travel to get it.
>But not a gay one.
Then make sure not to listen to any of the oldfags-gone-tranny on /o/. They're both gay and stupid and they like gay and stupid shit.
For real though, you might have a great time if you try something new and shed away from all the background faggotry. The mechanical mare will give you freedom.
>Is this normal?
Not really. I think you're being way too paranoid. Most people don't have bizarre fetishes and you shouldn't compromise on making what you want because some weirdo might get off on it. Nobody would write anything if they thought that way. I mean, there are even
>>5594
Whenever I enter a stranger's home, I usually take a shit in their bathroom to establish dominance. I don't know about you guys, but whenever I take a shit I like to completely disrobe and squat on top of the toilet seat like a Slav in order to achieve maximum Challenger-1986-level explosive power.
It's important when shitting in a stranger's home to make as much noise as is humanly possible, not only the obvious sorts of noises, but also loud shouts, grunts, and primal screams. The purpose of this is to create a tangible battle aura that can be felt throughout the residence. This will not only identify you to the other occupants as an alpha male worthy of respect, it will also purge the house of evil spirits. If the mirror setup is conducive to it, I also like to flex my arms and admire my physique like Patrick Bateman while I'm taking a shit. Oftentimes, I will look my reflection in the eye and offer myself loud words of encouragement in between primal screams.
When I'm finished, I usually take a complete 30-minute shower while continuing to scream words of encouragement to myself in the mirror. Only when my personal grooming ritual is complete do I refasten my pants and step out into the hall. I usually wait an additional 30 minutes before putting my shirt back on, unless the person whose house I'm visiting is particular about their furniture.
Whenever I enter a stranger's home, I usually take a shit in their bathroom to establish dominance. I don't know about you guys, but whenever I take a shit I like to completely disrobe and squat on top of the toilet seat like a Slav in order to achieve maximum Challenger-1986-level explosive power.
It's important when shitting in a stranger's home to make as much noise as is humanly possible, not only the obvious sorts of noises, but also loud shouts, grunts, and primal screams. The purpose of this is to create a tangible battle aura that can be felt throughout the residence. This will not only identify you to the other occupants as an alpha male worthy of respect, it will also purge the house of evil spirits. If the mirror setup is conducive to it, I also like to flex my arms and admire my physique like Patrick Bateman while I'm taking a shit. Oftentimes, I will look my reflection in the eye and offer myself loud words of encouragement in between primal screams.
When I'm finished, I usually take a complete 30-minute shower while continuing to scream words of encouragement to myself in the mirror. Only when my personal grooming ritual is complete do I refasten my pants and step out into the hall. I usually wait an additional 30 minutes before putting my shirt back on, unless the person whose house I'm visiting is particular about their furniture.
>>5598
Yeah, you're right! Worrying about what projecting perverts will say about you is stupid. Can you believe projecting perverts called the big boobies in my game "fetishistic"? They don't even grow or jiggle! She just has tits because the bigger the boobs, the more of her character design gets covered by something.
Remember that moment in final fantasy X where you make the arduous trek up that mountain with minimal save points, and it exhausts you and your characters? By the time it's over, the relief almost compares to encountering a landmark when hiking, a sign that you've made it far and this path doesn't stretch on forever. It'a all artificial but it was a brilliant design choice. I never get that feeling in Pokemon because Pokemon is not really a good RPG. It doesn't blend story and gameplay well and it lacks a story good enough to excuse this even when the authors think 80 hours of bloated nothing dialogue deserve to be mandatory. You aren't going on an adventure with your Pokemon, you are watching a movie and sometimes unpausing it. Pokemon will never force you to keep moving straight on a one way path that only gets harder outside of fangames and intentionally restricts access to healing, Fly/Teleport/Dig, and so on. There are always ways to return home for easy healing and the series is too easy for your healing item stash to ever run low in or out of combat. You can grind infinitely for EXP and little is done to forbid overlevelling a starter and disregarding the game'a "complex" mechanics. Access to infinite resources in return for time makes the game a question of how much time you are willing to waste. And there are clown consoomers who claim I am violating Pokemon or their pokemon experience by reducing the grind in my games. Fuck that. Grind is a symptom of bad design and reused content and padding. Nobody would be impressed if a Mario remake forced you to replay every level two to four times before you Level Up and can move on. Nobody would be impressed if you needed an unknown number of coins collected to be able to overcome each enemy without speedrunner glitch strats but collecting too many coins made the game unplayably easy. Making most gamea more like a RPG can be used to intelligently drip feed the player positive feedback for playing correctly and experiencing 100% content instead of skipping vital shit or it can be used to justify content reuse and introduce unreactable uncontrollable bullshit randomness and poor user experience where it never belonged. Imagine a puzzle game where your solution is only accepted if your Puzzle Level is high enough and only repeating previously solved puzzles can raise that level! Pokemon should be fully evolved and level capped at lv50 (perhaps even lv30?) and you should hit that level by the time you are ready for your first gym in an open world game where the gym leaders are real challenges and grinding cannot give you cheats to make the game easier. As a kid I could endure grinding because my options and freedoms were restricted heavily, but as an adult grinding makes me think of the more productive shit I could do instead. Chad games like Doom Eternal and Devil May Cry make you git gud. Chad competition in competitive fighters makes you git gud. baby games like the gayest mobile games use your time wasted on them as a badge of honour and artificially extend it by gating progression through content designed to ensnare you, not entertain you or teach you. Lifting a barbell one million times will make you buff. You will outlive the faggot who killed one million Zigzagoon on Route 1 with his 6 Zigzagoon so Pickup can RNG grind for expensive ingame items in a fangame/romhack that felt like gating items and services behind the grind.
Yeah, you're right! Worrying about what projecting perverts will say about you is stupid. Can you believe projecting perverts called the big boobies in my game "fetishistic"? They don't even grow or jiggle! She just has tits because the bigger the boobs, the more of her character design gets covered by something.
Remember that moment in final fantasy X where you make the arduous trek up that mountain with minimal save points, and it exhausts you and your characters? By the time it's over, the relief almost compares to encountering a landmark when hiking, a sign that you've made it far and this path doesn't stretch on forever. It'a all artificial but it was a brilliant design choice. I never get that feeling in Pokemon because Pokemon is not really a good RPG. It doesn't blend story and gameplay well and it lacks a story good enough to excuse this even when the authors think 80 hours of bloated nothing dialogue deserve to be mandatory. You aren't going on an adventure with your Pokemon, you are watching a movie and sometimes unpausing it. Pokemon will never force you to keep moving straight on a one way path that only gets harder outside of fangames and intentionally restricts access to healing, Fly/Teleport/Dig, and so on. There are always ways to return home for easy healing and the series is too easy for your healing item stash to ever run low in or out of combat. You can grind infinitely for EXP and little is done to forbid overlevelling a starter and disregarding the game'a "complex" mechanics. Access to infinite resources in return for time makes the game a question of how much time you are willing to waste. And there are clown consoomers who claim I am violating Pokemon or their pokemon experience by reducing the grind in my games. Fuck that. Grind is a symptom of bad design and reused content and padding. Nobody would be impressed if a Mario remake forced you to replay every level two to four times before you Level Up and can move on. Nobody would be impressed if you needed an unknown number of coins collected to be able to overcome each enemy without speedrunner glitch strats but collecting too many coins made the game unplayably easy. Making most gamea more like a RPG can be used to intelligently drip feed the player positive feedback for playing correctly and experiencing 100% content instead of skipping vital shit or it can be used to justify content reuse and introduce unreactable uncontrollable bullshit randomness and poor user experience where it never belonged. Imagine a puzzle game where your solution is only accepted if your Puzzle Level is high enough and only repeating previously solved puzzles can raise that level! Pokemon should be fully evolved and level capped at lv50 (perhaps even lv30?) and you should hit that level by the time you are ready for your first gym in an open world game where the gym leaders are real challenges and grinding cannot give you cheats to make the game easier. As a kid I could endure grinding because my options and freedoms were restricted heavily, but as an adult grinding makes me think of the more productive shit I could do instead. Chad games like Doom Eternal and Devil May Cry make you git gud. Chad competition in competitive fighters makes you git gud. baby games like the gayest mobile games use your time wasted on them as a badge of honour and artificially extend it by gating progression through content designed to ensnare you, not entertain you or teach you. Lifting a barbell one million times will make you buff. You will outlive the faggot who killed one million Zigzagoon on Route 1 with his 6 Zigzagoon so Pickup can RNG grind for expensive ingame items in a fangame/romhack that felt like gating items and services behind the grind.
>>5600
So, you claim there is nothing lurid, nor fetishistic, nor tittilating about your decision to put enormous boobs on your character, and you're citing that the boobs dont grow or jiggle as evidence to support that position? Please, post a pic of the character and let the audience decide if theres nothing to it.
So, you claim there is nothing lurid, nor fetishistic, nor tittilating about your decision to put enormous boobs on your character, and you're citing that the boobs dont grow or jiggle as evidence to support that position? Please, post a pic of the character and let the audience decide if theres nothing to it.
>>5601
The moderators of the pokemon fansite rejected it but I think I forgot to post it here when I completed it. https://youtu.be/40vrAZKpV8o
The moderators of the pokemon fansite rejected it but I think I forgot to post it here when I completed it. https://youtu.be/40vrAZKpV8o
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>>5602
Huh. Apparently you have come up with more than one ridiculously big-tittied charachter. Nothing to read into that Im sure.
No, I was talking about the bunny girl, not the pokemon mod girl. Still, nothing sus about those titties, and only a fetishist would see anything in them.
Huh. Apparently you have come up with more than one ridiculously big-tittied charachter. Nothing to read into that Im sure.
No, I was talking about the bunny girl, not the pokemon mod girl. Still, nothing sus about those titties, and only a fetishist would see anything in them.
Oh wait, that IS a bunny girl.
I meant the platformer bunny girl, not the pokemon bunny girl. How many ridiculously tittied bunny girls have you inserted btw? Nothing to read into tho, its perfectly normal.
I meant the platformer bunny girl, not the pokemon bunny girl. How many ridiculously tittied bunny girls have you inserted btw? Nothing to read into tho, its perfectly normal.
>>5600
>Can you believe projecting perverts called the big boobies in my game "fetishistic"?
No, I couldn't possibly see why. Those titties totally aren't abnormal.
>YT channel
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but we'd be exploring alien solar systems if we could use your autism as an energy source. ...And that's really saying something since /mlpol/ is already a swirling vortex of autism.
>Can you believe projecting perverts called the big boobies in my game "fetishistic"?
No, I couldn't possibly see why. Those titties totally aren't abnormal.
>YT channel
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but we'd be exploring alien solar systems if we could use your autism as an energy source. ...And that's really saying something since /mlpol/ is already a swirling vortex of autism.
>>5604
Oh you meant the Rivals girl with the sword-sword sword! Progress on her is coming along nicely. Professor Wisteria's supposed to be part fox fakemon.
I knew I should have perched that fakemon on her shoulder like a parrot but I didn't want it fighting for attention with the rest of her.
>>5605
Motivation... it's a hell of a drug. My sleep schedule is a roulette wheel and sometimes it lands on gold.
Did you know I designed a card game as a child, when I didn't own Yugioh or Pokemon cards but I saw some episodes of the show and extrapolated from there? Made the crap out of paper with a pen. No scissors, so I folded paper and tore it.
I even designed the game to work in single player. Designated "villain archetypes" are designed to flowchart on autopilot, they drew one card per turn and each was designed to autotrigger optimally for the archetype. This solves the "nothing stops the player of single player card games from making things easier on himself by choosing to make the villain make suboptimal plays", I saw a youtube series on card games and it turns out this is something a fucking huge card game years later didn't think of. Hero Decks for the players were designed to be used in various combinations and provide options a human can choose from while Villain Decks are designed to autopilot and summon big beatstick. I'm not going to say my game was perfect, the monsters were hardly unique and the art was shit and all enemy archetypes devolved into "summon big number of big numbers and attack for game" but it's funny that yugioh somewhat devolved into that anyway. I had all these homemade cards, and my mother fucking hated them. Every time she searched my room and found scraps of paper in my drawers, no matter what was drawn on them, she would rage because "paper doesn't belong there" and "your drawers are messy if they are not empty" and "ripped paper belongs in the bin" and "notebooks aren't real notes" and "why the fuck are you making random symbols on this paper is this some kind of secret code?" and "don't draw that character he's not fucking real" and "don't draw people, you're not good at it and I'm not paying for art lessons and you probably wouldn't listen to them anyway" and "if I knew you were going to entertain yourself with paper why did I buy that family sized TV" (as if she didn't buy it for herself, as if I had any say in what she spent her money on or what it showed when she wanted to watch something). Dad was the same faggotish way. Desperate to invent excuses to be upset enough to start guilt slinging and whining about how cruel God was for giving him a kid that liked preparing his underwear inside his pants to make putting them on marginally quicker. The kind of people who forced their kids to hang dried clothes up in the messy thorn infested "garden" because someone slapped my parents whenn they were kids one time long ago for not doing hanging up wet washing. Irrational faggots full of tard rage desperate to get mad over fucking something, anything, no matter how small. Abnormality was not to be tolerated unless the TV told them to fetishize it. The kind of people who got mad at their kids for wearing shirts they didn't like but gave no indication of what the right shirts were. They wanted everything their way even if it was wrong and they couldn't tolerate any disruption from what they wanted to happen even if their actions had no way of influencing causality positively. If they decided things worked a certain way, they expected reality to change to suit them, and they hated God because he didn't bend over backwards to please them. Dad was the kind of faggot who drove dangerously on the road and screamed about other drivers driving dangerously like him (or rarely, even worse) but most of all he screamed when they allowed him to make things dangerous by not going out of their way to accomodate his reckless narcissistic driving style. You will find a better understanding of cause and effect and probability and the real world in a gachaniggerfaggot who wastes his gibsmedats on jpeg gambling, or cardboard jpeg gambling, while whining about monkey jpeg purchasing which I also hate but the hypocrisy there is funny. I fucking swear, sometimes those retarded narcissistic normie parents of mine seemed to have anti-autism. They used to think turning on the cooker would make the water coming out of the tap unsafe to drink while the cooker was active and it did not. When they had money they felt the urge to waste it as quickly as possible before they wasted it on something dumber. They're weird but in ways that makes them function worse as intellectual individuals. They don't follow their own logic, or real logic, they just make shit up on the fly and expect others to pretend it makes sense while picking up their slack. Instead of liking when things are rational and orderly therefore being different from the norm or not giving a shit about norms they were just abnormally awful and thought their made up belief of the week mattered more than reality. Msitua, they had severe fucking Msitua. The world will be a better place when they invent a drug that cures Msitua and every narcissistic boomer has to take it until they can pass cognitive tests. Then again my narcissistic sociopathic mother was somehow certified sane. So maybe the tests aren't working and wouldn't work in that situation. I hate my parents because they molested and abused me. But if they didn't molest or abuse me I would still hate them for being annoying irrational petty little bitches. I forgot where I was going with this.
Oh you meant the Rivals girl with the sword-sword sword! Progress on her is coming along nicely. Professor Wisteria's supposed to be part fox fakemon.
I knew I should have perched that fakemon on her shoulder like a parrot but I didn't want it fighting for attention with the rest of her.
>>5605
Motivation... it's a hell of a drug. My sleep schedule is a roulette wheel and sometimes it lands on gold.
Did you know I designed a card game as a child, when I didn't own Yugioh or Pokemon cards but I saw some episodes of the show and extrapolated from there? Made the crap out of paper with a pen. No scissors, so I folded paper and tore it.
I even designed the game to work in single player. Designated "villain archetypes" are designed to flowchart on autopilot, they drew one card per turn and each was designed to autotrigger optimally for the archetype. This solves the "nothing stops the player of single player card games from making things easier on himself by choosing to make the villain make suboptimal plays", I saw a youtube series on card games and it turns out this is something a fucking huge card game years later didn't think of. Hero Decks for the players were designed to be used in various combinations and provide options a human can choose from while Villain Decks are designed to autopilot and summon big beatstick. I'm not going to say my game was perfect, the monsters were hardly unique and the art was shit and all enemy archetypes devolved into "summon big number of big numbers and attack for game" but it's funny that yugioh somewhat devolved into that anyway. I had all these homemade cards, and my mother fucking hated them. Every time she searched my room and found scraps of paper in my drawers, no matter what was drawn on them, she would rage because "paper doesn't belong there" and "your drawers are messy if they are not empty" and "ripped paper belongs in the bin" and "notebooks aren't real notes" and "why the fuck are you making random symbols on this paper is this some kind of secret code?" and "don't draw that character he's not fucking real" and "don't draw people, you're not good at it and I'm not paying for art lessons and you probably wouldn't listen to them anyway" and "if I knew you were going to entertain yourself with paper why did I buy that family sized TV" (as if she didn't buy it for herself, as if I had any say in what she spent her money on or what it showed when she wanted to watch something). Dad was the same faggotish way. Desperate to invent excuses to be upset enough to start guilt slinging and whining about how cruel God was for giving him a kid that liked preparing his underwear inside his pants to make putting them on marginally quicker. The kind of people who forced their kids to hang dried clothes up in the messy thorn infested "garden" because someone slapped my parents whenn they were kids one time long ago for not doing hanging up wet washing. Irrational faggots full of tard rage desperate to get mad over fucking something, anything, no matter how small. Abnormality was not to be tolerated unless the TV told them to fetishize it. The kind of people who got mad at their kids for wearing shirts they didn't like but gave no indication of what the right shirts were. They wanted everything their way even if it was wrong and they couldn't tolerate any disruption from what they wanted to happen even if their actions had no way of influencing causality positively. If they decided things worked a certain way, they expected reality to change to suit them, and they hated God because he didn't bend over backwards to please them. Dad was the kind of faggot who drove dangerously on the road and screamed about other drivers driving dangerously like him (or rarely, even worse) but most of all he screamed when they allowed him to make things dangerous by not going out of their way to accomodate his reckless narcissistic driving style. You will find a better understanding of cause and effect and probability and the real world in a gachaniggerfaggot who wastes his gibsmedats on jpeg gambling, or cardboard jpeg gambling, while whining about monkey jpeg purchasing which I also hate but the hypocrisy there is funny. I fucking swear, sometimes those retarded narcissistic normie parents of mine seemed to have anti-autism. They used to think turning on the cooker would make the water coming out of the tap unsafe to drink while the cooker was active and it did not. When they had money they felt the urge to waste it as quickly as possible before they wasted it on something dumber. They're weird but in ways that makes them function worse as intellectual individuals. They don't follow their own logic, or real logic, they just make shit up on the fly and expect others to pretend it makes sense while picking up their slack. Instead of liking when things are rational and orderly therefore being different from the norm or not giving a shit about norms they were just abnormally awful and thought their made up belief of the week mattered more than reality. Msitua, they had severe fucking Msitua. The world will be a better place when they invent a drug that cures Msitua and every narcissistic boomer has to take it until they can pass cognitive tests. Then again my narcissistic sociopathic mother was somehow certified sane. So maybe the tests aren't working and wouldn't work in that situation. I hate my parents because they molested and abused me. But if they didn't molest or abuse me I would still hate them for being annoying irrational petty little bitches. I forgot where I was going with this.
Kanto in pokemon is homosexual. No intelligent world design, just grass and dirt roads and sometimes water. Barely 100 pokemon in the wild to obtain and you still see repeats clogging up routes with what feels like 0.0001% encounter rates.
>>5608
It was also the first region of Pokemon. Naturally it had it's own problems that were improved upon in later editions.
It was also the first region of Pokemon. Naturally it had it's own problems that were improved upon in later editions.
>>5609
I know it was the first. And not the worst Pokemon generation. It just bugs me when the nostalgia blind call it perfect. Graphical limitations of the time certainly played a role in keeping this world visually simple and filling it with loadscreens. And whose idea was it to gate fossilmon behind a location you can only access if your team already has a water pokemon to use Surf? And the fucking port of Vermillion is land locked unless you decide to interpret the bike road as a bridge that can retract or rise. In the end revamping Kanto too much would take away from what makes it Kanto.
Nothing makes you learn the value of subtractive design like a minimalist challenge. I think just one button of my character can make him bullshit blazing. Bur for the hell of it... Let's give him 4.
I know it was the first. And not the worst Pokemon generation. It just bugs me when the nostalgia blind call it perfect. Graphical limitations of the time certainly played a role in keeping this world visually simple and filling it with loadscreens. And whose idea was it to gate fossilmon behind a location you can only access if your team already has a water pokemon to use Surf? And the fucking port of Vermillion is land locked unless you decide to interpret the bike road as a bridge that can retract or rise. In the end revamping Kanto too much would take away from what makes it Kanto.
Nothing makes you learn the value of subtractive design like a minimalist challenge. I think just one button of my character can make him bullshit blazing. Bur for the hell of it... Let's give him 4.
God fucking damn it, Sega.
On a scale of 1 to 10, "this game we spent 5 years on is actually a beta test for the idea of open world sonic zones in Sonic Adventure 3, so please buy this if you want sonic adventure 3" is a new fucking low for desperate embarassing little Sega.
They know fans want SA3. So they try to tie it into this. They knew fans wanted Mania, so they tried to tie Mania to Forces. They knew fans wanted Sonic 4 in the style of S3+K, so they tied Sonic Mobile Game shovelware to the name.
I would be fine with another dogshit game to not buy. Haven't bought one of them in a long time. It wouldn't bother me if Sega's new game was bad. Just another disappointment in the string of disappointments. Five years for this? That makes it funnier. But then they had to go and make it unfunny. That choice to market it as "a beta test for SA3 concepts" disgusts me. The copium-huffing megacorpo apologists desperately trying to shill for this game and dismiss criticism are eating good tonight. Easy to be hyped for a game that doesn't exist and might never exist. You get to fantasize about what it might be, before Sega snaps you back to reality by showing you what you are going to pay for and enable more of by supporting Sonic Team's minimal effort policy.
I don't want to be too harsh on Sega as a whole because I respect their policy on allowing fangames to exist instead of sadistically C+D'ing them right before they release like Nintendo. But holy shit! It's a new low for the company that makes me and everyone else who ever liked this franchise embarassed to say we like the Sonic series or even Sonic characters, because they are associated with dogshit games and the dumbest mistakes this company ever made. If it wasn't for the impressive Sonic fangames I would hesitate to admit I ever liked Sonic.
Bronies have the famous weirdos and iceberg trivia videos but none compare to the infamy of Chris-Chan. And if you don't know enough Sonic to know about Chris-Chan, you know enough about Sega to know they cannot make good Sonic games, because you saw clips of the games glitching in ways that would be unacceptable for low budget amateur unpaid indie fangames. Children doing their best for free would be laughed at for making anything as janky as Sega's worst games. The last good Sonic game was S3+K, Mania was made by fans smarter than anyone at Sega. More passionate. More driven. More kmowledgeable about what makes a videogame good or bad.
Smug consoomers love to ask "Do you really know more about what makes Sonic work than Sega/Sega's chosen?" with the tone they use for saying "Do you really know more about medicine than the experts?". But those guys literally outsource the labour of thinking and making their own choices to megacorporations and governments and consider free thinkers foolish for not doing the same.
Sonic Adventure 3 isn't a game. It isn't a piece of software any company can produce. It's an idea that exists in the heart. Fangames made with the heart, and the desire to accomplish and perfect the ambitious things Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 tried to achieve are Sonic Adventure 3 where it counts, no matter what they are called. If it has good 3d movement, it's Sonic Adventure 3 where it counts... in the heart.
On a scale of 1 to 10, "this game we spent 5 years on is actually a beta test for the idea of open world sonic zones in Sonic Adventure 3, so please buy this if you want sonic adventure 3" is a new fucking low for desperate embarassing little Sega.
They know fans want SA3. So they try to tie it into this. They knew fans wanted Mania, so they tried to tie Mania to Forces. They knew fans wanted Sonic 4 in the style of S3+K, so they tied Sonic Mobile Game shovelware to the name.
I would be fine with another dogshit game to not buy. Haven't bought one of them in a long time. It wouldn't bother me if Sega's new game was bad. Just another disappointment in the string of disappointments. Five years for this? That makes it funnier. But then they had to go and make it unfunny. That choice to market it as "a beta test for SA3 concepts" disgusts me. The copium-huffing megacorpo apologists desperately trying to shill for this game and dismiss criticism are eating good tonight. Easy to be hyped for a game that doesn't exist and might never exist. You get to fantasize about what it might be, before Sega snaps you back to reality by showing you what you are going to pay for and enable more of by supporting Sonic Team's minimal effort policy.
I don't want to be too harsh on Sega as a whole because I respect their policy on allowing fangames to exist instead of sadistically C+D'ing them right before they release like Nintendo. But holy shit! It's a new low for the company that makes me and everyone else who ever liked this franchise embarassed to say we like the Sonic series or even Sonic characters, because they are associated with dogshit games and the dumbest mistakes this company ever made. If it wasn't for the impressive Sonic fangames I would hesitate to admit I ever liked Sonic.
Bronies have the famous weirdos and iceberg trivia videos but none compare to the infamy of Chris-Chan. And if you don't know enough Sonic to know about Chris-Chan, you know enough about Sega to know they cannot make good Sonic games, because you saw clips of the games glitching in ways that would be unacceptable for low budget amateur unpaid indie fangames. Children doing their best for free would be laughed at for making anything as janky as Sega's worst games. The last good Sonic game was S3+K, Mania was made by fans smarter than anyone at Sega. More passionate. More driven. More kmowledgeable about what makes a videogame good or bad.
Smug consoomers love to ask "Do you really know more about what makes Sonic work than Sega/Sega's chosen?" with the tone they use for saying "Do you really know more about medicine than the experts?". But those guys literally outsource the labour of thinking and making their own choices to megacorporations and governments and consider free thinkers foolish for not doing the same.
Sonic Adventure 3 isn't a game. It isn't a piece of software any company can produce. It's an idea that exists in the heart. Fangames made with the heart, and the desire to accomplish and perfect the ambitious things Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 tried to achieve are Sonic Adventure 3 where it counts, no matter what they are called. If it has good 3d movement, it's Sonic Adventure 3 where it counts... in the heart.
I hope that guy who used to draw a Squidward nose on my OC's old design is still around. When researching religions I found out about the jewish sephiroth neon genesis evangelion tree thingy and it reminded me of the old star constellation mark design.
The jew star has 5 points. I think I'll redesign my oc's symbol so the ten stars have 4 points.
4 pointed stars don't represent anything gay, right?
The jew star has 5 points. I think I'll redesign my oc's symbol so the ten stars have 4 points.
4 pointed stars don't represent anything gay, right?
Mobile gaming is profitable because predatory psychological manipulation is so effective on people.
The dumbest people are particularly weak to it.
It's one thing to lock content behind paywalls. It's understandable if the game is free. But RNG paywalls? That's inexcusable.
The more profitable predatory mobile scamgames get, the more companies will be tempted to create scammy scummy mobile games or reshape their games to include predatory mobilegame scam mindfucks.
Gacha whales literally make the gaming industry worse by giving money to companies who design their games to psychologically manipulate the vulnerable and the stupid.
Those who spend money on mobile games are enabling the industry's worst practices. They should be viewed with suspicion and disgust. Or pity if their worst impulses are exploited to make them pay up.
But those who defend this predation?
Unforgiveable. Inexcusable. Dirt a dog shat on has more value than any soulless consoomer who would say "I'm having fun with my gacha game so shut up" or "psychological shit doesn't affect me because I only spend money when I want to or have to" or "just let people enjoy things" or "lmao i don't care about my money because I have so much of it but I would rather die than give it to charity".
Dirt cats shit on has more value than any gacha defender combined. What Jew would enable the psychological abuse this industry intentionally inflicts on the disabled, the young, the elderly, and anyone else vulnerable for any other reason.
Hell, even playing these games without paying is pretty fucking gay since you're giving in to your RPGfag urge to grind for meaningless rewards, inflating the playerbase and making it seem psychologically valuable for other players to pay for advantages over you.
Any game with gacha could remove RNG from payment to remove the scummy scam and nothing valuable to the core experience would be lost. No game needs to gate progression behind RNG of any kind unless it is trying to Skinner Box you to some degree.
A free game where you pay for things? Where you pay for gems to spend on things? Where you pay for gems to spend on boxes that might contain things and keys to open boxes? Where you spend money on gems in bullshit amounts, Diablo Immortal style, so you can either spend too much or too little and end up with too many gems left over or just enough gems for many rolls? Bullshit!
Any free game that makes its money some other way (ads, paid upgrades, skippable grind, paid conveniences, money-gated cosmetics, etc) could offer a Paid Version with all content included in the base game. And it would be on the developer to try and make the Paid Version seem appealing but not too appealing.
I know lootbox laws can be worked around. Instead of selling the Helmet Of Doom or selling 490 gems for 10 dollars or 1050 gems for 22 dollars and making the Helmet Of Doom cost 1000 gems, a scamgame could sell consumable keys (five dollars for three or ten dollars for a pack of 5) to let you into a limited time randomly generated dungeon where the enemies might spawn a Helmet Of Doom when killed. Or maybe a randomly generated dungeon with a chance to spawn an enemy who always drops the Helmet Of Doom when killed with the Sword Of Wind, sold separately for four dollars. Laws could be passed to legislate the obvious cases of bullshit and it would take court cases on an individual basis to financially punish any attempt to weasel around these laws. Then again some games don't even get a gambling warning on them if they pay enough, while other games have to remake or remove moments of fake gambling. That niggerball game got away with real gambling for real money and Pokemon had to remove the Game Corner for parodying gambling with imaginary money(payouts are few and the best way to get expensive pokemon is to purchase coins for them. Yeah, it's a Team Rocket operation).
Although if any government did get control over the content of games it would be used for political censorship. Or as a tool to keep the poor from doing something only the rich can do. Hell, I'm surprised "no skeletons lmao" China isn't trying to push their shit further. They already demanded Guilty Gear censor the names of countries China abused in the lore codex.
That shit Diablo Immortal does where you can pay for buffs that enhance you and your teammates, so some players kick teammates that aren't "paying enough to pull their weight"... That is utterly disgraceful. I would expect this in a joke game meant to mock gacha games.
Hell, the consumable Easy Fatality tokens in Mortal Kombat for sale seemed like something out of a parody game at the time.
When enough customers are pissed and their voices are not drowned out by valueless consoomers, the companies listen and tone down the abusive monetization levels but only when they think they have to. Dirt crying out "treat all gamers like dirt and I will support you" gets in the way.
It is hard to believe that once upon a time, governments thought pinball machines were gambling and wanted to ban them.
Streamers who market gambling and gacha to their audiences is just as disgusting whether the gambling is for Counter Strike shit or NFTs or gacha girls. Raid Shadow Legends can kiss my fucking ass.
I still remember the first time I saw a youtuber pissed that some gun game (COD? Battlefield? Something with helicopters and realistic humans) was selling guns in a FPS. He produced a sarcastic video where every new feature like "realistic graphics" and "new facial models" are followed up with hastily read fine print like "Realistic graphics sold separately" and "this guy costs extra".
The frog boils.
If enough people hate gachafags, and if gachafags feel too embarassed to defend their chosen beloved corporate abuser or admit they spend money on it, the frogboiling might slow, perhaps even stop.
At the very least, publishers and companies might hesitate to pivot from gaming to gachaxploitation.
The dumbest people are particularly weak to it.
It's one thing to lock content behind paywalls. It's understandable if the game is free. But RNG paywalls? That's inexcusable.
The more profitable predatory mobile scamgames get, the more companies will be tempted to create scammy scummy mobile games or reshape their games to include predatory mobilegame scam mindfucks.
Gacha whales literally make the gaming industry worse by giving money to companies who design their games to psychologically manipulate the vulnerable and the stupid.
Those who spend money on mobile games are enabling the industry's worst practices. They should be viewed with suspicion and disgust. Or pity if their worst impulses are exploited to make them pay up.
But those who defend this predation?
Unforgiveable. Inexcusable. Dirt a dog shat on has more value than any soulless consoomer who would say "I'm having fun with my gacha game so shut up" or "psychological shit doesn't affect me because I only spend money when I want to or have to" or "just let people enjoy things" or "lmao i don't care about my money because I have so much of it but I would rather die than give it to charity".
Dirt cats shit on has more value than any gacha defender combined. What Jew would enable the psychological abuse this industry intentionally inflicts on the disabled, the young, the elderly, and anyone else vulnerable for any other reason.
Hell, even playing these games without paying is pretty fucking gay since you're giving in to your RPGfag urge to grind for meaningless rewards, inflating the playerbase and making it seem psychologically valuable for other players to pay for advantages over you.
Any game with gacha could remove RNG from payment to remove the scummy scam and nothing valuable to the core experience would be lost. No game needs to gate progression behind RNG of any kind unless it is trying to Skinner Box you to some degree.
A free game where you pay for things? Where you pay for gems to spend on things? Where you pay for gems to spend on boxes that might contain things and keys to open boxes? Where you spend money on gems in bullshit amounts, Diablo Immortal style, so you can either spend too much or too little and end up with too many gems left over or just enough gems for many rolls? Bullshit!
Any free game that makes its money some other way (ads, paid upgrades, skippable grind, paid conveniences, money-gated cosmetics, etc) could offer a Paid Version with all content included in the base game. And it would be on the developer to try and make the Paid Version seem appealing but not too appealing.
I know lootbox laws can be worked around. Instead of selling the Helmet Of Doom or selling 490 gems for 10 dollars or 1050 gems for 22 dollars and making the Helmet Of Doom cost 1000 gems, a scamgame could sell consumable keys (five dollars for three or ten dollars for a pack of 5) to let you into a limited time randomly generated dungeon where the enemies might spawn a Helmet Of Doom when killed. Or maybe a randomly generated dungeon with a chance to spawn an enemy who always drops the Helmet Of Doom when killed with the Sword Of Wind, sold separately for four dollars. Laws could be passed to legislate the obvious cases of bullshit and it would take court cases on an individual basis to financially punish any attempt to weasel around these laws. Then again some games don't even get a gambling warning on them if they pay enough, while other games have to remake or remove moments of fake gambling. That niggerball game got away with real gambling for real money and Pokemon had to remove the Game Corner for parodying gambling with imaginary money(payouts are few and the best way to get expensive pokemon is to purchase coins for them. Yeah, it's a Team Rocket operation).
Although if any government did get control over the content of games it would be used for political censorship. Or as a tool to keep the poor from doing something only the rich can do. Hell, I'm surprised "no skeletons lmao" China isn't trying to push their shit further. They already demanded Guilty Gear censor the names of countries China abused in the lore codex.
That shit Diablo Immortal does where you can pay for buffs that enhance you and your teammates, so some players kick teammates that aren't "paying enough to pull their weight"... That is utterly disgraceful. I would expect this in a joke game meant to mock gacha games.
Hell, the consumable Easy Fatality tokens in Mortal Kombat for sale seemed like something out of a parody game at the time.
When enough customers are pissed and their voices are not drowned out by valueless consoomers, the companies listen and tone down the abusive monetization levels but only when they think they have to. Dirt crying out "treat all gamers like dirt and I will support you" gets in the way.
It is hard to believe that once upon a time, governments thought pinball machines were gambling and wanted to ban them.
Streamers who market gambling and gacha to their audiences is just as disgusting whether the gambling is for Counter Strike shit or NFTs or gacha girls. Raid Shadow Legends can kiss my fucking ass.
I still remember the first time I saw a youtuber pissed that some gun game (COD? Battlefield? Something with helicopters and realistic humans) was selling guns in a FPS. He produced a sarcastic video where every new feature like "realistic graphics" and "new facial models" are followed up with hastily read fine print like "Realistic graphics sold separately" and "this guy costs extra".
The frog boils.
If enough people hate gachafags, and if gachafags feel too embarassed to defend their chosen beloved corporate abuser or admit they spend money on it, the frogboiling might slow, perhaps even stop.
At the very least, publishers and companies might hesitate to pivot from gaming to gachaxploitation.
God I fucking missed parties and game nights with friends. God I missed them. Missed the taste of party food, dumb jokes, commentary, gaming with the boys, everything. Even got to beta test my sonic shit with the lads. It's appealing to the hardcore and others. Very accessible, even for a disabled friend and someone with no significant fighting game experience or ability to motion input consistently or remember which direction is "forwards" after a crossup. Good thing my game uses Smash style simple motions. Friend's girl was able to play, went easy on the bullshit and allowed her a chance to learn the basics before I escalated into specials. Can't believe Street Fighter 6 has an easy mode now, also cant believe they didnt condense characters to a 4 button Light Medium Heavy Special layout like MVC2 for both control schemes. I might have gone too far in a few places with a certain original character donut steel, pro gamer friend found the jank and exploited it. Now that's a bug report. Thought I'd fixed the jank, turns out I had not. Fuck this I'm bringing back guard cancels. Have you ever been locked down in the corner for an infinite blockstring? Don't even need to mix at that point. Toning this down from what it was... I hope to town down the bullshit while still keeping the bullshit blazing. Can't lose that "a hyperactive fox dragon unicorn phoenix on caffeine coded this" energy, it's part of the sanic fighter's identity. Better name pending, I can't actually release this to the world as "Sanic Le Fighterz XD Erector's Cut". Fucking HUD like an expand dong meme windows 69 XP edition. Seemed funny at the time for a placeholder but now i'm getting attached to it.
>>5622
Damn straight. Simplicity is overrated. A child's block toy is simple. A children's book is simple... usually. But nobody praises kiddie stories for being simple and means it. If they did they would praise simpler gayer stories for being simpler. Plenty of great games have their creation funded by retarded companies that think simplifying their game will improve profits. But accessibility is the key, not simplicity.
Lord Of The Rings is accessible because children can read it and understand enough of it to appreciate it, even though smarter children and smarter adults will appreciate more of it. It is also inaccessible to those with short attention spans or little free time because of its length. And it is inaccessible to those prejudiced against fantasy because "hurr durr why should I care about bazbo bloppins and the magical moon elves of magictopia? My only exposure to fantasy is parodies of it and I think that's the fantasy genre's problem also i am gay and smelly and silly". But LOTR cannot become more accessible without losing something valuable. It is already a book you can read or have read to you. Similarly a fighting game is a game you can play or get played for you by your opponent, but not really because making bad choices that accomplish nothing except letting your opponent steamroll you is still a sequence of choices to make. But the intentionality... the point at which saying "I meant to do that" ceases to be a lie... to first develop intentionality you must understand what the buttons do. And motion inputs are one step too far from what videogames usually ask of you. Directional inputs are fine though. And "special button plus another button" are fine too, just like "aim down sights plus shoot". Fighting games aren't really about the specials or supers, they are about the interactions between two players, their choices, and their numbers. But gating specials and supers behind "cOmPlIcAtEd iNpUtS" makes the genre feel more inaccessible than it really is. My game seeks to help newcomers into the genre by making a real fighting game through minimalist accessibility.
Damn straight. Simplicity is overrated. A child's block toy is simple. A children's book is simple... usually. But nobody praises kiddie stories for being simple and means it. If they did they would praise simpler gayer stories for being simpler. Plenty of great games have their creation funded by retarded companies that think simplifying their game will improve profits. But accessibility is the key, not simplicity.
Lord Of The Rings is accessible because children can read it and understand enough of it to appreciate it, even though smarter children and smarter adults will appreciate more of it. It is also inaccessible to those with short attention spans or little free time because of its length. And it is inaccessible to those prejudiced against fantasy because "hurr durr why should I care about bazbo bloppins and the magical moon elves of magictopia? My only exposure to fantasy is parodies of it and I think that's the fantasy genre's problem also i am gay and smelly and silly". But LOTR cannot become more accessible without losing something valuable. It is already a book you can read or have read to you. Similarly a fighting game is a game you can play or get played for you by your opponent, but not really because making bad choices that accomplish nothing except letting your opponent steamroll you is still a sequence of choices to make. But the intentionality... the point at which saying "I meant to do that" ceases to be a lie... to first develop intentionality you must understand what the buttons do. And motion inputs are one step too far from what videogames usually ask of you. Directional inputs are fine though. And "special button plus another button" are fine too, just like "aim down sights plus shoot". Fighting games aren't really about the specials or supers, they are about the interactions between two players, their choices, and their numbers. But gating specials and supers behind "cOmPlIcAtEd iNpUtS" makes the genre feel more inaccessible than it really is. My game seeks to help newcomers into the genre by making a real fighting game through minimalist accessibility.
Reading Fallout Equestria's 600k words would take 103ish hours, and there are many retards who defend bad MMORPGs by saying "It gets good after 100 hours". That's the kind of free time some people have. Holy shit.
>>5627
I think devs put bullshit grinds into games intentionally to sell DLC.
Weird how gaming doesn't get treated like other industries. Imagine buying a new car and being told that your radio will only work 70% of the time unless you either drive for a thousand hours or install the "bonus" software at a marginal fee of $5000. Lawsuits would be flying into the courts like niggers into a welfare line.
I hate modern gaming and fanboy gamers that enable dev bullshit so much. I seethe so very hard.
I think devs put bullshit grinds into games intentionally to sell DLC.
Weird how gaming doesn't get treated like other industries. Imagine buying a new car and being told that your radio will only work 70% of the time unless you either drive for a thousand hours or install the "bonus" software at a marginal fee of $5000. Lawsuits would be flying into the courts like niggers into a welfare line.
I hate modern gaming and fanboy gamers that enable dev bullshit so much. I seethe so very hard.
>>5629
>I think devs put bullshit grinds into games intentionally to sell DLC.
They really do. Nothing put into Diablo Immortal to make more money was there accidentally. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o17lBUZgjTs
And this was not an accident. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUPzgis1eg
And this was not an accident. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9QHGMfLO8
Not to mention the Power Creep DLCs seen in Fighting Games, where some new characters end up so strong there's talk of banning them, or as gimmicky mid-tiers whose gimmick you will only have experience dealing with (outside of tricks learned from youtube) if you buy the character to practice against in training mode or frequently fight someone who bought the character. Bardock invalidated so much of the cast when he was OP. Z Broly blocks my attacks with his face, 16 frame command grabs me unreactably, and laughs in my face before blowing me up with his zero effort super armour normals and multi supers. SSJ4 Goku gets 2 air dashes, excellent attacks, easy dragon balls, an instant kill gated by use of a taunt you can do many times per combo, and more. And then Labcoat 21 struts in sluttily with a 14 frame fullscreen beam that's just -3 when tiger kneed, a fucking OTG in a game that hates them, an unreactable command grab that nerfs the opponent and buffs her specials, and more. Teams made early in the game's life are nothing now because who would put Yamcha or Krillin or Piccolo or SSJ Goku or Hit or Tien on your team when DLC "blessed" us with the Blue Man Group and their bastard redheaded stepchildren?
Does SSJ Yellow Goku still have that slow as fuck nerfed 2M compared to his pallete swaps Blue Goku and Black Goku(not to be confused with Goku Black aka Pink Goku)?
The overpowered DLC fucks were just designed to be good, and easy. Like Luke from Street Fighter 5 who was designed to be a top tier, maybe the best character in the game. Don't get me started on Oro shit. I'm glad I never bought SFV. If you want to compete at a high level you need to pick these cheating god characters or get matchup experience against them, and you can't get that without the help of someone who bought them.
I wish fighting games took the League Of Legends approach only less bullshit. No grinding and no power for sale. A free to play fighting game, with rollback netcode and a proper fucking training mode at launch(plus guilty gear reload's god-tier replay function), where paid cosmetics are available for casual play but banned in tournament. Toss in a Pokken style customizable avatar with no effect on gameplay so items for that OC donut steel can cost cash. Perhaps a Player Home system where you can buy shit to decorate your house aka the way your Private Lobby works when inviting friends over or opening it up to others and giving out the password. No making me pay extra to make frame data visible (fuck you Tekken) or making me pay extra for a story mode or to give it a better ending or mini sequel, no bullshit power creep where the most expensive characters turn out to be the best and the final DLC ruins the game for everyone involved so everyone will want to move on to the next game when it comes out without these OP characters (fuck you Smash 4 Cloud and Bayonetta, fuck Elphelt and Johnny, fuck any OP bullshit Smash Ultimate DLCs I don't play smash any more, fuck Kokonoe from when she was bullshit, fuck Labcoat 21, and more).
If Nintendo could patch Melee they would sell us a Fire Emblem character who crushes 90% of the roster for free, has winning matchups against the top tiers, and makes Brawl Meta Knight look fair and balanced. Competitive melee would die overnight and everyone who misses games without... I don't fucking know Kellam? ...would preorder Smash VI for lacking Kellam only to drop it when they put him in again.
>I think devs put bullshit grinds into games intentionally to sell DLC.
They really do. Nothing put into Diablo Immortal to make more money was there accidentally. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o17lBUZgjTs
And this was not an accident. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUPzgis1eg
And this was not an accident. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9QHGMfLO8
Not to mention the Power Creep DLCs seen in Fighting Games, where some new characters end up so strong there's talk of banning them, or as gimmicky mid-tiers whose gimmick you will only have experience dealing with (outside of tricks learned from youtube) if you buy the character to practice against in training mode or frequently fight someone who bought the character. Bardock invalidated so much of the cast when he was OP. Z Broly blocks my attacks with his face, 16 frame command grabs me unreactably, and laughs in my face before blowing me up with his zero effort super armour normals and multi supers. SSJ4 Goku gets 2 air dashes, excellent attacks, easy dragon balls, an instant kill gated by use of a taunt you can do many times per combo, and more. And then Labcoat 21 struts in sluttily with a 14 frame fullscreen beam that's just -3 when tiger kneed, a fucking OTG in a game that hates them, an unreactable command grab that nerfs the opponent and buffs her specials, and more. Teams made early in the game's life are nothing now because who would put Yamcha or Krillin or Piccolo or SSJ Goku or Hit or Tien on your team when DLC "blessed" us with the Blue Man Group and their bastard redheaded stepchildren?
Does SSJ Yellow Goku still have that slow as fuck nerfed 2M compared to his pallete swaps Blue Goku and Black Goku(not to be confused with Goku Black aka Pink Goku)?
The overpowered DLC fucks were just designed to be good, and easy. Like Luke from Street Fighter 5 who was designed to be a top tier, maybe the best character in the game. Don't get me started on Oro shit. I'm glad I never bought SFV. If you want to compete at a high level you need to pick these cheating god characters or get matchup experience against them, and you can't get that without the help of someone who bought them.
I wish fighting games took the League Of Legends approach only less bullshit. No grinding and no power for sale. A free to play fighting game, with rollback netcode and a proper fucking training mode at launch(plus guilty gear reload's god-tier replay function), where paid cosmetics are available for casual play but banned in tournament. Toss in a Pokken style customizable avatar with no effect on gameplay so items for that OC donut steel can cost cash. Perhaps a Player Home system where you can buy shit to decorate your house aka the way your Private Lobby works when inviting friends over or opening it up to others and giving out the password. No making me pay extra to make frame data visible (fuck you Tekken) or making me pay extra for a story mode or to give it a better ending or mini sequel, no bullshit power creep where the most expensive characters turn out to be the best and the final DLC ruins the game for everyone involved so everyone will want to move on to the next game when it comes out without these OP characters (fuck you Smash 4 Cloud and Bayonetta, fuck Elphelt and Johnny, fuck any OP bullshit Smash Ultimate DLCs I don't play smash any more, fuck Kokonoe from when she was bullshit, fuck Labcoat 21, and more).
If Nintendo could patch Melee they would sell us a Fire Emblem character who crushes 90% of the roster for free, has winning matchups against the top tiers, and makes Brawl Meta Knight look fair and balanced. Competitive melee would die overnight and everyone who misses games without... I don't fucking know Kellam? ...would preorder Smash VI for lacking Kellam only to drop it when they put him in again.
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