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

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I hope I'm not late, but anyone got odds on this being a vastly better game than Validate?
 
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We need to go further, up the autism! Up the bullshit for Twitter brownie points!

Tabitha Wujuu
16 - Fae/Faer - Pansexual & Nonbinary Pangender - Pisces - French/Japanese/Mexican/Polish/etc... - Game Journalist

- Yes. You have to use faer pronouns.
- Shut the fuck up whitey.
- Fae eats fascists for breakfast!

"Tabitha Wujuu is a game journalist who's working on a website known as 'Tea Spillings', where fae work to help spread the word of all things good and wholesome like communism and going vegan. Fae usually spend faer free time beating the crap out of police, even when fae get arrested for it."
 
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neverendingmidi said:
German/Puerto Rican.

I'm calling bullshit. I'm betting more like generic Amerimutt. There might be German mixed in there, but also Emglish/French/Polish/Irish, which ended up with a German last name due to marriage traditions. Same thing on the Puerto Rican side. I'd bet they're 90%+ miscellaneous Euro.
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So many of these “proud latinx” types forget that Latin America is a very large and diverse region, there are people of all sorts of ethnic origins including the pasty white Northern European countries. Just because Spanish is your first language doesn’t mean you’re a “PoC”.
 
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gata said:
Why can't the artist who did the chibi stuff be the main artist? At least the characters would be tolerable to look at.
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It's a common trend that many people have noticed with projects like these (even those that don't originate from Tumblr) that any sort of appeal should be mitigated for the sake of avoiding offending someone or showing how progressive one is. The main problem is NOT that you can't have a character that goes against societal standards or even have an unattractive character per se. Many games take advantage of this to create interesting worlds that fit in line with the games themes and story. Hotline Miami, for example, has all the main character portraits look absolutely weird and unappealing, but it suites the game's weird tone and dark scenarios.

However, the difference between games like those and these projects is that the character designs don't feel cohesive. So many of these designs are hellbent on wanting to reject traditionally appealing character design that they end up creating their own negative stereotype that if you happen not to like you're __phobic or whatever.

It's the same reason they aren't going to do the chibi look for the game despite it being more appealing. Having something traditionally cute is considered "not going against the norm". Therefore, many of these designs involve making the weirdest, most unappealing-looking characters as possible to "break boundaries". I would call it a misguided attempt at being inclusive, but you also have people who use it as an opportunity to control what other artists draw. It's an attempt to change the standard when just not following what is considered traditionally appealing would've been fine on its own.

Validate is just one of the many projects who got through this.
 
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Lime Rogue said:
Malik is literally the only good character
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I'm holding out hope for the white guy, simply because Malik shows they only write sympathetic characters when they're trying to write assholes.

Though honestly the music teacher, if I remember correctly, wasn't the worst, just incoherent. But her inner monologue was at least cheery rather than seething rage.
 
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