Absolutely not gonna play the game so I don't know how bad it is, but apparently "cunny" is chan lingo for exactly what you think it is

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Imagine using a kiddy porn game with an antisemitic stereotype to push your "free Taiwan" message. I can't think of a single worse way to promote a cause.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Creepy is an understatement.

    This game is Lona RPG, which if you're in the anime community you eventually come across. It's an ero game made by Taiwanese separatists.

    In it the player takes on the role of an obviously underaged little girl in an absolutely brutal fantasy world where literally everything wants to sexually assault you. Very graphically. Orcs, dogs, monsters, fishmen, humans, everything. All is depicted in the absolute maximum brutality ways it can be.

    It also includes antisemitic imagery, such as the happy merchant:

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    The intro screen to the game is:

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    Fuck everything about this game. Fuck Itch.io for continuing to host it and give its developers significant quantities of money. I've been trying to get them to take it down for literal YEARS.

    They know what the contents of it are, they do not care.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Lol this has to be a psyop by the CPC to make Taiwan look bad. But considering HK activists were clamoring for British control and calling China colonists, maybe that brain worm is closer to Taiwan than expected.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        I don't think it's a psyop. The dev is a virulent open reactionary that constantly uses lgbt and racist slurs on their itchio discussion board.

        Western compradors in communist countries are always fascists. We saw this in HK... And the Taiwan independence people are no exception.

  • red_stapler [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I don't know how bad it is

    It’s bad. I had never heard of this and .3 seconds into a google search I found a fash stereotype of a Jewish shopkeeper. jesse-wtf

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      And the character's name is Cheerful Shopkeeper. As in, Happy Merchant gulag

    • Red_Left_Hand [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      Somehow I didn't expect that. Very cool and convenient that nazis can't help themselves, they have to post the caricatures. I wonder what itch thinks about that

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Oh god, just a quick glance at the website for this game. This is child pornography and the creator is an utter creep

    Seeing things like this makes me feel like I should be making games. If some vile puke like this guy can do it, why can't I?

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Seeing things like this makes me feel like I should be making games. If some vile puke like this guy can do it, why can't I?

      What kind of game would you want to make? Some genres have very accessible engines (RPGs notoriously so, as in this game), others not as much

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        I'm probably too ambitious for my own good. I'd want to make a dungeon crawler in simple 3D, like the early Shin Megami Tensei games or like King's Field. First person explore RPG. Like with blocky mazes and key puzzles and stuff. Those games are my jam. Something moody and wandery

        I'd do a horror game if it weren't so saturated. I also don't believe in my ability to write interesting stories.

        I can make music too and I've kinda done 3d modeling. I'm familiar with coding but haven't done it for years. I might be at a slight advantage because I know how to do audio design, mixing, music, etc.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          That's cool! There's a youtube channel called Dungeon Chill that does a decent amount of coverage of indie takes on those grid-based dungeon crawlers. I know of him most via his coverage of Disillusion, which is an interesting such game (very "moody", as you put it), though I think it has a lot of wasted potential in its design and he overrates it a bit.

          I love weird little turn-based RPGs, am an amateur musician, and have a bit of experience with helping devs with QA stuff, so I'd be happy to help you if you like. I think there are plugins in RPG maker for example that would let you do something like an early SMT (example), though there are surely also tutorials on how to make the same in Unity and such. If you can rein in scope creep, your goal seems very viable.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            6 months ago

            Oh Disillusion is one of my favorites! It's a cool little game with its own interesting style and I've been following the development on the sequel. The Desolate Hope is another RPG I really admire (despite the dev being a piece of shit)

            You're really kind and now maybe I'll consider doing some of this stuff for real. I've only ever thought about it, never had any concrete plans or anything. Maybe this weekend I'll try and get Unity up and running and start going through some tutorials. When/if i have anything ready to show off I'll let you know

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              6 months ago

              I've had Desolate Hope on the backlog for a long time because it looked neat but has the shadow of "Oh, it's by the FNAF guy" hanging over it, as you mention. I'll bump it up the list, given your praise of it.

              You can do it! Unity tends to have comically extensive tutorials that you can lean really heavily on if you need to, and there's no shame in doing so. Based on what you said, your goal is along the lines of making something in your head real, not being a Big Deal Ingenuitive Game Coder(tm), so do what works the best for you reaching your goal as you define it. I look forward to whatever you may have to share heart-sickle

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    6 months ago

    You know, for all the flack Steam gets, at least this is sometimes the controversy that they get.

    Same with Nexus getting flack for taking mods of their website because they were indeed offensive to certain minorities.

    • GinAndJuche
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      6 months ago

      Nexus does a good job at getting that stuff taken down in a timely manner. I like how the support team doesn't take any shit when people complain about it.

      Steam still has straight up nazi shit for sale though. They only get involved when a law is broken.

        • GinAndJuche
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          6 months ago

          It’s easy to avoid if you turn off the “adult game” check mark in the store, thankfully. The nazi gamer and gooner seem to have a lot of overlap.

          • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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            6 months ago

            Unfortunately, I still see a lot of porn. Some even hop on over to the Epic Game Store to avoid this, I hear.

            • GinAndJuche
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              6 months ago

              That’s actually a good point in epics favor, they could probably corner the “family friendly” digital storefront if they advertised that.

              • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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                6 months ago

                Frankly? Steam deserves it. Hell, I could use a "family-friendly" digital storefront at this point...

                • GinAndJuche
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                  6 months ago

                  It would be funny to start one and slowly inject more and more commie stuff into the front page.

                  A “State and Revolution” Visual Novel getting recommended next to the latest Lego franchise game.

  • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I looked at the game's website and holy shit.

    Like this is so bad at trying to hide its intentions. The fucker's clearly a visible bigot, piece of shit, unironically uses the word "cunny" and the character designs are clearly skirting the line of "Not pedophilia! wink wink". Lotsa red flags in itself but, ok yeah "all" the characters are over 21. Suuuuure. How about you draw them that way and not skirt the line that changes depending on the head canon of the "player".

    And to address the "muh flat chest hater" nonsense, motherfucker look at Bayonetta. Give her a flat chest, like complete plank. And compare her to this character of yours. The proportions of this character, their facial features, their size. All of that shit screams underage. Not to mention all of the other fucked up and disgusting themes that seem to center around SA, dehumanization and other shite.

    This is clearly made to appease to pedophiles and abusers with very, very weak shit made just to allow a backpedal "nu'uh, 8000 year old dragon :smuglord:" type shit.

    All of them must either get :pit: in a :barbara-pit: or get put in a two in one :gulag: :panopticon: combo.

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Before clicking the link I thought it was about LonaRPG.

    Saw it pop up sometimes as I've browsed other stuff and it came off as one of those depressing games where everything is terrible, everyone is terrible, and your MC suffers because they simply exist. You also have the flag splash screen that does the evangelical thing of "click if you believe Jesus is LORD of ALL"

    The Flag Splash Screen

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    But as for Steam, there's quite a few porn games featuring Hitler, this one just crosses steam's policy with the MC being an obvious child.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    what-the-hell based on the comments in this thread I'm not going to click the link and I suggest that anyone who does clear their cache and maybe throw their computer in the ocean.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    6 months ago

    Incidentally, I heard at some point that the phrase "cute and funny" is used as a circumlocution/dogwhistle of the word "cunny" by certain anime nonces. Which is a terrible shame, because sometimes an anime/manga is legitimately just cute and funny, but now I'm paranoid about describing things that way lest someone thinks I'm a creep.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    If there was a case for justifying burning people alive, I'd use this man as evidence in favor