ValiDate - an upcoming (and unsurprisingly racist) visual novel made by SJW's, for SJW's. Currently MIA.

kobox666 said:
I really hate the name. ValiDate, does that mean that you should validate other people by having sex with them. How shallow, unhealthy and pathetic is that? You should feel validated as a human being on your own, other people dont have that responsability. If they dont want to fuck you, then find someone who wants, and if nobody wants, then thats on you, not on anybody else. I've said this before, but the main theme of this line of thinking is overstepping boundaries. You are defined as a human being by how much other people pander to you.
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It's another stupid way to push that "your identity is valid" thing that exists for every sexuality and neogender under the sun. I am astounded that the dates aren't even more exceptional.

You've got a marriage counselor that doesn't believe in marriage. Who would want to have a commited relationship with someone like that? These dates all have defective personalities. But they are totally valid and we should be beating down their doors to fuck them.

Yolanda has mental illness. I have to wonder how it is handled. Do we make excuses for her behavior if she isn't actively working towards better mental health? The bio blub makes it sound like it is other people's responsibility to keep her sane. It's not like she is blubbering mess in a rubber room. She is a hair stylist. We are trusting her with scissors.

This whole "you are valid" philosophy is centered around everyone else asspatting your delusions because hurt feelings are bad. Your entire worth is based on how much other people validate your feelings. If someone doesn't accept you it is grounds to have a social media meltdown. It's a very unhealthy way of thinking that screams "I have no self esteem so everybody needs to pretend they like me".
 
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Dumpster dived waifu said:
Jesus fucking christ, the different artstyles are super fucking apparent and jarring when you place everyone next to each other.

THIS IS WHY YOU HIRE ONE ARTIST, OR TWO ARTISTS THAT CAN COPY EACH OTHER.
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nah, FGO has at least 10 different artists, with different artstyles, with different design philosophies designing characters and their artstyle is very jarring if you put Raita with WadaPaco characters with each other.
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The problem with Validate character design, is I think the artists never learned the concept of golden mean in art, or at least they are so pretentious that they conciously avoid it. so they haven't learned how to draw characters pleasing to look at, no matter how bad their body shape is.
 
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"M for Mature, for SEXUAL CONTENT"
Oh god, we're gonna need some serious drink for this, aren't we?
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Probably not. All the lewd VNs get A18s, the rating's board's "Sexual content" is described as "Non-explicit depictions of sexual behavior, possibly including partial nudity". If they show boobies they get a "Nudity" label in addition to sexual content, any anything more suggestive than "Cut to black these characters are totally doing it" generally gets you hit with the higher rated "Strong sexual content".

Dragon Age Origin's gets hit with Sexual Content and Nudity, Witcher 3 gets hit with Strong Sexual Content and Nudity, Far Cry 4 would be an example with Nudity but the lower rated Sexual Themes (since the booby characters arn't doing anything otherwise sexual), Mass Effect 2 has Sexual Content but not Nudity, ME3 has Sexual Content and the lower rated Partial Nudity.

So the best we can hope for is "We gonna do it" - fade to black "We did it wow"
 
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"Memes". jesus christ. Reminds me of that free dating game on Steam. It's highly acclaimed for being a good game, yet half the content and the fucking game description itself is "your thicc goth gf" and "send a meme". People legitimately think liking memes is a personality now, because surely memes are still out of reach from the normies and their fucking meme generating keyboard function.

Imagine trying to both be quirky, sell your physical attraction, but also get the emo crowd with "wow so depressed". I'm so fucking tired of these "im trash haha" relatability circlejerks. It's like woke marketing for individuals.
 
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Badonkadonk Trash said:
nd here's the whole cast.
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ValiDate Game on Twitter

“Official height chart! Who do you share a height with? #ValiDateGame”
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They even managed to fuck up height! The 5'8" black guy is somehow taller than the 5'9" woman next to him, and everyone 5'10"-6'4" looks about the same height even though there are literally horizontal lines in the background to help with that shit! The negress having one Popeye-sized forearm and one regular-sized one barely even jumps out at me from how inept this all is.

Also, look at their pants-the women in that shot all have their pants much higher up than men of ~the same height-either the men are all wearing baggy pants because the devs are actually pretty racist woke or the women are all wearing theirs up to their navel at least.


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The devs can't make up their minds which side of Catherine's (the obese black dangerhair's) shirt has the added decorations. They're on our left/her right in the cast photo but our right/her left in this shot from literally 3 days ago:


Having multiple artists can't help but it's obvious this one is completely inept without the "help". Also Jesus Christ they included stretch marks on her gunt.

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Badonkadonk Trash said:
We finally got a rating: https://twitter.com/ValiDateGame/status/126224521
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First off, how did they convince the ESRB that their non-existent "game" would be worth enough to be rated if it's not even 10% done? Second, Why did they aim for the ESRB Rating before making the game proper? Third, When did they have the time to submit thier game if they should have spent that time making the game look somewhat competent and not in some stock VN Engine?
 
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twattycake said:
They even managed to fuck up height! The 5'8" black guy is somehow taller than the 5'9" woman next to him, and everyone 5'10"-6'4" looks about the same height even though there are literally horizontal lines in the background to help with that shit! The negress having one Popeye-sized forearm and one regular-sized one barely even jumps out at me from how inept this all is.

Also, look at their pants-the women in that shot all have their pants much higher up than men of ~the same height-either the men are all wearing baggy pants because the devs are actually pretty racist woke or the women are all wearing theirs up to their navel at least.
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Other things I noticed:

Alonzo feels relatable to me, because I also have an orangutan factor with extra long arms. He ain't got shit on Ashlie though.

Ashlie looks like she's way zoomed out compared to the others, because her lines are a lot thinner than everyone else's. She's also one of the most normal-looking people in the group, which makes her expression of ...restraint just priceless.

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they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand

The height lines are also bullshit. They're not inches and they're not some round value of centimetres.

Also, in most VNs, the characters look at the player, regardless of their body pose.

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How does this cast fare?

Inaya and Isabelle seem to be looking away, but not so far that you couldn't make a head-on pose with that body and head, just shift the eyes a little. Yolanda is... doing her best.

Catherine looks like she's looking out the left side of the screen. The glasses make it impossible to see her eyes, so it's unable to compensate for the angle of her body. She's not even looking at you.

Compare with the forward facing sprites of Godot. They know that he's got glasses and we can't follow his eyes, so even though his body's on an angle, he's looking at you.

The devs can't make up their minds which side of Catherine's (the obese black dangerhair's) shirt has the added decorations. They're on our left/her right in the cast photo but our right/her left in this shot from literally 3 days ago:


Having multiple artists can't help but it's obvious this one is completely inept without the "help".
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I think that's just a flipped sprite. I'm not sure I'd make a character so blatantly asymmetrical and then flip it willy-nilly, especially when it doesn't need to BE asymmetrical. Either give her two identical arms (detailed or not) or make it her actual arm tattooed and keep it under her sleeves in flippable poses.

TBH, I just thought that was a tattoo'd arm until you pointed it out.
 
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twattycake said:
They even managed to fuck up height! The 5'8" black guy is somehow taller than the 5'9" woman next to him, and everyone 5'10"-6'4" looks about the same height even though there are literally horizontal lines in the background to help with that shit! The negress having one Popeye-sized forearm and one regular-sized one barely even jumps out at me from how inept this all is.

Also, look at their pants-the women in that shot all have their pants much higher up than men of ~the same height-either the men are all wearing baggy pants because the devs are actually pretty racist woke or the women are all wearing theirs up to their navel at least.


EDIT:

The devs can't make up their minds which side of Catherine's (the obese black dangerhair's) shirt has the added decorations. They're on our left/her right in the cast photo but our right/her left in this shot from literally 3 days ago:


Having multiple artists can't help but it's obvious this one is completely inept without the "help". Also Jesus Christ they included stretch marks on her gunt.

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the stretch marks aren't a bug.
it's a FEATURE
 
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Other things I noticed:

Alonzo feels relatable to me, because I also have an orangutan factor with extra long arms. He ain't got shit on Ashlie though.

Ashlie looks like she's way zoomed out compared to the others, because her lines are a lot thinner than everyone else's. She's also one of the most normal-looking people in the group, which makes her expression of ...restraint just priceless.

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they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand

The height lines are also bullshit. They're not inches and they're not some round value of centimetres.

Also, in most VNs, the characters look at the player, regardless of their body pose.

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How does this cast fare?

Inaya and Isabelle seem to be looking away, but not so far that you couldn't make a head-on pose with that body and head, just shift the eyes a little. Yolanda is... doing her best.

Catherine looks like she's looking out the left side of the screen. The glasses make it impossible to see her eyes, so it's unable to compensate for the angle of her body. She's not even looking at you.

Compare with the forward facing sprites of Godot. They know that he's got glasses and we can't follow his eyes, so even though his body's on an angle, he's looking at you.


I think that's just a flipped sprite. I'm not sure I'd make a character so blatantly asymmetrical and then flip it willy-nilly, especially when it doesn't need to BE asymmetrical. Either give her two identical arms (detailed or not) or make it her actual arm tattooed and keep it under her sleeves in flippable poses.

TBH, I just thought that was a tattoo'd arm until you pointed it out.
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It's not very engaging when the characters aren't looking at you. There is no cohesion in these designs and everything looks wonky. If a character is supposed to be x inches taller than another character then they should be drawn to reflect that. They probably spent so much time gushing over everyone's art that they forgot to make sure they all looked like they were from the same game.

"Oh Nonbinary-chan! Your brown pudding blob with rainbow glasses is so fierce and beautiful! No. She doesn't need to face the player or scale properly to the height of the others. Your art is valid!"
 
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