Ana Valens / Anastasia Catherine Wythe / Phil Wythe / Philip Stephen Wythe / @SpaceDoctorPhD / @acvalens / @ac_valens - MtF transtrender extraordinaire, formerly a freelance "journalist" for The Daily Dot; but now works for Kotaku, SJW, professional liar and social rouser, CatParty's favorite blogger

[Jaimas]

Hey, Ana, let me give you a bit of a primer since I know you read this thread. Consider it required reading.

The reason there's so much blastback against the transgendered activist community isn't because people hate transgendered people specifically. Shocking, I'm aware. The reason is a combination of factors, but ultimately boils down to the fact that you are, in every way, a modern counterpart to the moral majority, with the only difference being your political ideology.

People hate you for the exact same reason they hated those clowns.

You are just as dogmatic, hateful, bigoted, and intolerant as these groups, and use the exact same tactics of demanding they did, demanding that views opposing you be robbed of a platform and demanding that everyone else cater to you to protect your delicate sensibilities. When confronted by facts that disprove your talking points, you do the same thing they do and pretend said facts don't exist and deny any culpability. That's when you're not doing the exact same fucking thing they did and publish openly false and misleading statistics, and then lambasting anyone who calls you out on your shit. You even have the same sexual indiscretion problems the moral majority had; whereas the moral majority had members get caught soliciting gay sex, however, you have widely-known discords full of pedophiles.

Most tellingly of all, you're just as counter-intuitive as they are. You can't force morality at gunpoint. It just encourages people to defy you in spite. Just like Pastor Fred Phelps wound up doing more to help the cause of LGBT rights than most activists through the simple fact that he was such a giant asshiole that even Family-Values Republicans would side with the gays because fuck that guy, your entire movement is a walking, talking, bleating advertisement for your critics.

You are doomed to fail because you are just as bad as what preceded you and you have zero self-awareness.
Have a nice day.

 

[Wake me up]

Another day, another manufactured by Era controversy in gaming, and another Ana Valens article

I would like to challenge Ana to start a "Facts" bullet-point section at the end of his news articles (not editorials, opinion pieces or trans-sex columns - those are not fact-based and needn't be, but for "news" like this article here). You know, like some newspapers choose to offer a "Summary" with a few bullet-points on their stories? Pretty standard stuff nowadays.

I honestly wonder what a "Facts" summary of this article would look like. Here's my honest, good-faith attempt at it:

• The 2019 game "Heartbeat" is now 40% off on Steam, for a limited time.
• A person unrelated to the game's development made "transphobic remarks" on Twitter.

Basically 0% fact of any relevancy is being reported in what is supposed to be a news interest story. I wonder if Philip even realizes it at this point.

I also like how it starts with "this game full of empathy and great messages is now transphobic". Great reminder of how fast the Woke community will cannibalize their former allies and dearies, for nothing at all, on a slow day - even if it's a fact that literally nothing has been changed in-game I'll take solace in the fact that it's going to happen to Ana too, sooner or later

 

[Haramburger]

Another day, another manufactured by Era controversy in gaming, and another Ana Valens article. This time it's over Heartbeat's 41% sale and ResetEra's free marketing. Take a shot every time Ana links Era.

'Heartbeat' Players Say Indie Game Mocks Trans Suicide

archived 2 Oct 2019 01:50:12 UTC

archive.fo

Amazing article, extremely meta. I could probably make a post about every single paragraph but I value my blood pressure so I'll limit it to this choice quote:

“I’ll never understand passionately hating a group of people to the extent where you feel you have to ramble about it on social media and mock them at every opportunity,” one user wrote. "

This is ResetEra & Ana in a nutshell. "People who have any reservations about trans/who aren't completely on board from the starting line with trans must be converted or destroyed."

 

[Next Task]

People who have any reservations about trans/who aren't completely on board from the starting line with trans must be converted or destroyed.

People like Ana and ResetEra don't even try to convert. If anyone asks them a question in good faith, it's all 'It's not my job to educate you' and 'smh do some basic research first' and 'human decency shouldn't need to be learned', as if being completely on-board with all tranny discourse is an inherent part of human nature rather than trying to force people to ignore their eyes and ears and decades of science to protect the feelings of a few mentally ill assholes.

The reasonable ones, the non-troon trans, don't argue against science, try to explain where they're coming from, and understand that if people are to accept them they need to not always be on the attack, that some questions (not all, to be fair) are from a genuine place of wishing to learn, to try and connect and have empathy.

Ana and ResetEra are all anger and vitriol and hate. They only wish to destroy, because they think anyone not automatically with them is trying to destroy them. They let their anger consume them, because they feel entitled to treat other people like shit because they think themselves the world's biggest victims. And if you try and point out how counter-productive they're being, you're tone-policing and 'enforcing politeness is a tool of the patriarchy/cistriarchy'.

They either don't understand or don't care - and I'm leaning towards the latter because they value their victimhood too much to actually want tolerance - how they are, as @Jaimas points out, as bad if not worse than the people they regard as their biggest boogeyman. That is, when their biggest boogeyman isn't an ally who only agrees with them less than 100% of the time.

Not to mention the price thing does seem like a coincidence to me in spite of any cringeposting people related to it may have done.

If it was 40% I'd agree with you. 41% is a bit too specific, though I do think they're making too much of it. But considering the gf was already anti-troon and they probably got waves of troon hatred directed their way, I'm not surprised they'd poke at them that way. And if you wanted to anger troons while making them look unhinged, it's a pretty clever way to do so.

 

[Burd Turglar]

This is what happens when you make bullying a bad thing and stop letting adults fist fight without prison time as a consequence.

 

[Jaimas]

This is what happens when you make bullying a bad thing and stop letting adults fist fight without prison time as a consequence.

Nah, this shit goes way past anti-bullying statutes. If it was that we'd have seen this faggotry decades ago.

You're looking at the end result of a complete lack of parenting brought on by necessity. In the 90s, when many of the millenials were born, many households got lifted out of poverty for the first time, but they didn't get there by simply doing better; they did so because increasingly, one or both parents worked full-time, often having to spend less and less time with family and foisting their kids more and more often on babysitters and day care workers. Some households got lucky with stay-at-home family members or siblings, but very often the result was kids who had comparatively little structure and often very little discipline. Many had behavioral problems before this point, and this generation was also significantly more likely to have the 'Tism than previous gens because parents were having them later, meaning they were even more vulnerable in that regard.

When these poor kids entered higher education, they were easy prey for the ideological sharks who see social engineering as a mandate, and professors who make the Pinko Profs of the 1980s look positively normie by comparison. These assclowns wound up taking advantage of the lack of structure and discipline, and bingo bango bongo, we wind up in the scenario we are now, where a bunch of willfully ignorant fucks acts against their own interests on behalf of dipshits who have zero care in their success and sees them as mere tools of a culture war they had no stake in before these fuckers wound them up and cut them loose.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

People like Ana and ResetEra don't even try to convert. If anyone asks them a question in good faith, it's all 'It's not my job to educate you' and 'smh do some basic research first' and 'human decency shouldn't need to be learned', as if being completely on-board with all tranny discourse is an inherent part of human nature rather than trying to force people to ignore their eyes and ears and decades of science to protect the feelings of a few mentally ill assholes.

Wait, you mean you don't keep up with every trans or social justice focused journalists' Twitter feed along with all the beefs, sexual obsession, hot "memes" and crises of the moment? Yikes, oof, literally shaking right now.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Nah, this shit goes way past anti-bullying statutes. If it was that we'd have seen this faggotry decades ago.

You're looking at the end result of a complete lack of parenting brought on by necessity. In the 90s, when many of the millenials were born, many households got lifted out of poverty for the first time, but they didn't get there by simply doing better; they did so because increasingly, one or both parents worked full-time, often having to spend less and less time with family and foisting their kids more and more often on babysitters and day care workers. Some households got lucky with stay-at-home family members or siblings, but very often the result was kids who had comparatively little structure and often very little discipline. Many had behavioral problems before this point, and this generation was also significantly more likely to have the 'Tism than previous gens because parents were having them later, meaning they were even more vulnerable in that regard.

When these poor kids entered higher education, they were easy prey for the ideological sharks who see social engineering as a mandate, and professors who make the Pinko Profs of the 1980s look positively normie by comparison. These assclowns wound up taking advantage of the lack of structure and discipline, and bingo bango bongo, we wind up in the scenario we are now, where a bunch of willfully ignorant fucks acts against their own interests on behalf of dipshits who have zero care in their success and sees them as mere tools of a culture war they had no stake in before these fuckers wound them up and cut them loose.

I don't disagree with your assessment of the millennials, but a lot of later Gen-X kids came up in the same way and don't act like this. However, I think @Burd Turglar has a point about bullying and fighting because no school really gave a shit about bullying pre-Columbine and I think that the removal of childrens ability to learn to handle things on their own (even if that involves fighting) has created a issue where the millennials are so conditioned to relequish control to "Leaders" or powerful organizations that, tbh, I consider them the actual lost generation.

Not because of the discontent and destruction of a world war, but because their desperate desire for any sort of meaning to their empty NPC life. As a whole the millennials are lost because in this desire they've forgotten independent thought, and though I'm not one to care much for morality as defined by most, they've literally lost any sort of humanity in this pitiful search for answers to who they really are as a person by accepting that empty vessel inside and instead pouring "social justice," trooning out, or whatever else they think will make them a thing of value in the foggy Dreamworld they've convinced themselves is the real world. This country is likely going straight from the hands of Gen-X and over to Gen-Z because no one is going to give the equivalent of an ant colony the power they've shown without a doubt they'd abuse.

It's kind of sad, I suppose...maybe. I care more about the millennial kids who aren't like that who are getting fucked long term by the insanity associated with their generation than the ones responsible.

 

[Jaimas]

I don't disagree with your assessment of the millennials, but a lot of later Gen-X kids came up in the same way and don't act like this. However, I think @Burd Turglar has a point about bullying and fighting because no school really gave a shit about bullying pre-Columbine and I think that the removal of childrens ability to learn to handle things on their own (even if that involves fighting) has created a issue where the millennials are so conditioned to relequish control to "Leaders" or powerful organizations that, tbh, I consider them the actual lost generation.

Not because of the discontent and destruction of a world war, but because their desperate desire for any sort of meaning to their empty NPC life. As a whole the millennials are lost because in this desire they've forgotten independent thought, and though I'm not one to care much for morality as defined by most, they've literally lost any sort of humanity in this pitiful search for answers to who they really are as a person by accepting that empty vessel inside and instead pouring "social justice," trooning out, or whatever else they think will make them a thing of value in the foggy Dreamworld they've convinced themselves is the real world. This country is likely going straight from the hands of Gen-X and over to Gen-Z because no one is going to give the equivalent of an ant colony the power they've shown without a doubt they'd abuse.

It's kind of sad, I suppose...maybe. I care more about the millennial kids who aren't like that who are getting fucked long term by the insanity associated with their generation than the ones responsible.

The thing to remember about anti-bullying statutes is that those happened specifically because the schools decided to abdicate their responsibilities and pretend they had no culpability in their students' behavior. To use NY (and indeed, districts from my area) as examples, DASA (The Dignity for All Students Act, a decent piece of legislation that has henceforth been ruined because some asshat added gender expression to the protected class chart without any documentation required) began after a wave of suicides happened - suicides that occurred because of targeted campaigns of harassment intended to accomplish this exact result. The sheer number of lawsuits and criminal investigations in such a short timespan got even NY's notoriously lax administrative process to go "Okay, what the fuck?!"

Do you have any idea how hard you need to fuck up before NY steps in to do anything?

The thing is, the state acted like this shit was all new, enabled and emboldened by the internet, but the ugly truth of the matter was that everyone knew this shit had been going on for decades. Before these sustained campaigns via internet were a thing, it was payphones and IRL and it was just as invasive and dickish and the schools were just as fucking blatant in pretending nothing was wrong. It was an open secret, and most of the time the only reason the schools did anything about it was because the victims got law enforcement got involved - which they had to, because the schools couldn't be bothered.

Prior to the likes of Columbine, many of the schools operated with the mentality that they were the personal little kingdoms of the staffers running them. There are countless cases in NY alone where the schools knowingly shat their pants and did nothing to the point of bordering on criminal negligence. That hasn't changed much, but our litigious culture means they can't get away with it with anything approaching the efficacy they once did. The reason that so many of the schools lost their damned minds in the aftermath of Columbine is because suddenly, they were under the proverbial microscope, and, as people were digging for answers and trying to figure out what the hell led to Columbine, they were finding out about the likes of Alan Kearby, and people wanted fucking answers when the schools had none to give beyond scapgoating. This was when the problems hit critical mass and with a media firestorm already going, many schools overcompensated to try to get themselves off the hook.

The schools basically ignored these particular problems until they swam up and bit them in the ass, and all of us paid the price for it.

 

[Meowthkip]

The thing to remember about anti-bullying statutes is that those happened specifically because the schools decided to abdicate their responsibilities and pretend they had no culpability in their students' behavior. To use NY (and indeed, districts from my area) as examples, DASA (The Dignity for All Students Act, a decent piece of legislation that has henceforth been ruined because some asshat added gender expression to the protected class chart without any documentation required) began after a wave of suicides happened - suicides that occurred because of targeted campaigns of harassment intended to accomplish this exact result. The sheer number of lawsuits and criminal investigations in such a short timespan got even NY's notoriously lax administrative process to go "Okay, what the fuck?!"

Do you have any idea how hard you need to fuck up before NY steps in to do anything?

The thing is, the state acted like this shit was all new, enabled and emboldened by the internet, but the ugly truth of the matter was that everyone knew this shit had been going on for decades. Before these sustained campaigns via internet were a thing, it was payphones and IRL and it was just as invasive and dickish and the schools were just as fucking blatant in pretending nothing was wrong. It was an open secret, and most of the time the only reason the schools did anything about it was because the victims got law enforcement got involved - which they had to, because the schools couldn't be bothered.

Prior to the likes of Columbine, many of the schools operated with the mentality that they were the personal little kingdoms of the staffers running them. There are countless cases in NY alone where the schools knowingly shat their pants and did nothing to the point of bordering on criminal negligence. That hasn't changed much, but our litigious culture means they can't get away with it with anything approaching the efficacy they once did. The reason that so many of the schools lost their damned minds in the aftermath of Columbine is because suddenly, they were under the proverbial microscope, and, as people were digging for answers and trying to figure out what the hell led to Columbine, they were finding out about the likes of Alan Kearby, and people wanted fucking answers when the schools had none to give beyond scapgoating. This was when the problems hit critical mass and with a media firestorm already going, many schools overcompensated to try to get themselves off the hook.

The schools basically ignored these particular problems until they swam up and bit them in the ass, and all of us paid the price for it.

Shit, I remember being a kid in the 90's well before the internet was mainstream and seeing news stories about teenage suicide rates back then. There's one I remember, quite vividly, that opened with an introduction to a typical teenage boy who happened to be in a garage band with his friends by the name of "Another Dead Teenager."

 

[trannyfucker]

If it was 40% I'd agree with you. 41% is a bit too specific, though I do think they're making too much of it. But considering the gf was already anti-troon and they probably got waves of troon hatred directed their way, I'm not surprised they'd poke at them that way. And if you wanted to anger troons while making them look unhinged, it's a pretty clever way to do so.

Lol no one knows or cares about dumb tranny suicide statistics other than trannies.

It wasn't 41%, it was a 35% discount plus there was already a 10% discount if you bought a soundtrack + game bundle. Which is 41.5%, which in some currencies rounded to 42% and in other currencies rounded to 41%.

If they had offered the game at 41% off that would maybe have been deliberate, but it wasn't, it was 35%.

 

[Burd Turglar]

Bullying is an unfortunate necessity. The world isn't a nice place and kids need to learn this early on otherwise they wind up feeling entitled to good fee fees.

That's why I open hand slap children in dark movie theaters. Keep the faggots on their toes.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

in case you want phil's porn recommendations.

The best ManyVids stars and models of 2019

ManyVids is one of the best clip sites for independent performers. Ana Valens lists her top MV Stars for 2019 based on clip quality and quantity.

www.dailydot.com

The best ManyVids stars and models of 2019
Watch kinky cosplay or submit to your gender studies professor.

vanniall
Ana Valens— 2019-10-02 06:00 am

It’s no secret that ManyVids is one of the best places to buy porn clips on the internet. The site has blossomed over the past few years, thanks to its different adult categories, including options for gay and trans users. And there’s no better way to get started with ManyVids than to browse some of the best adult performers available.
The following article contains sexually explicit content.
We’ve listed some of the best ManyVids performers based on quality, skill, and individual categories. While these are our recommendations for 2019, we invite you to keep an eye out for more of their work once 2020 hits.
The best ManyVids performers of 2019
1) Best MV Girl: KatSaysMeow/Katception
@Katception/Twitter
ManyVids’ MV Girl category is easily the most contested on the site, but Katception claims a spot in the top 250 ranking for a reason. With over 180 videos available and plenty of panties, tributes, and clip bundles for sale on her store, Kat is by far one of the top models to check out on ManyVids. Top picks include Kat masturbating to hentai, a micro bikini jerk-off-instruction clip, an ahegao-themed blowjob video with Pokémon trainer cosplay, and best of all, a homemade video of Kat losing her virginity at 19. If you’re curious to see more before you buy, Katception has several free offerings over on MV Tube, ManyVids’ ethical tube site.
VISIT MANYVIDS
2) Best fetish performer: Empress Mika
Empress Mika
Feeling kinky? Empress Mika certainly is. On ManyVids, her femdom-themed storefront hosts over 340 clips spread across a wide assortment of fetishes. Mika captures the perfect balance between cruel and sweet, making her an easy pick for submissives to worship. Popular offerings include foot fetish videos, financial domination (findom), giantess porn, cock and ball torture, cuckolding, and armpit fetishism, just to name a few genres. If you (and your wallet) are feeling particularly subservient, we recommend offering $99.99 for her clip “Thank You Naked Goddess,” where she teases the viewer with her censored body and commands them to thank her for it.
VISIT MANYVIDS
3) Best trans ManyVids star: vanniall
vianniall/ManyVids
Vanniall is a rising ManyVids star performer, and a quick look at her profile tells exactly why. Clips include vanniall seducing her adult photographer, having fun in a bisexual threesome, hooking up with a well-endowed handyman, and sharing a steamy lovemaking session with fellow trans model Zelda Cross. While vanniall’s catalog is somewhat small compared to other top ManyVids stars, she makes up for quantity with quality. She’s a hidden gem.
VISIT MANYVIDS
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4) Best professional ManyVids star: Natalie Mars
Natalie Mars/ManyVids
Natalie Mars has made a name for herself over the past few years. She’s not just one of the most well-known trans stars in the adult industry—she’s also unafraid to push for more diverse content in her independent work. Mars uses ManyVids to her advantage to mix up her porn scenes, and her store features scenes where she bottoms, isn’t erect, plays around with fetishes, or otherwise creates adult content that can be enjoyed by a wide range of viewers, including other trans women.
One favorite, “Obsessed with Mommy’s Ass,” features Mars as a bratty girl eager for co-star Penny Barber’s rear. It’s ridiculously hot and captures everything great about Mars’ ManyVids page: professional quality mixed with independent form.
VISIT MANYVIDS
5) Writer’s choice: River Gray
River Gray/ManyVids

This list wouldn’t be complete without a personal recommendation. River Gray is a nonbinary pansexual switch who uses any pronouns, and their skill with topping, bottoming, sensual lovemaking, and kinky play constantly come out in their work. One adorable video, “Parents Home,” shows Gray edging their boyfriend while the two try to stay quiet in his room. Another clip, “Valentine’s Day Strap-on Surprise,” features Gray blindfolding, spanking, and dominating fellow star Taylor Noir. Gray loves to team up with other performers, too, and does so in a threesome with Lain Arbor and a naughty orgy with Scarlett Williams.
But Gray is the writer’s choice ManyVids performer for a reason: They’re a great model, and they’re extremely fun to work with on custom clips. Case in point, I commissioned a video based on their seductive professor photoset on Twitter, and they worked closely with me to create the best result. The final version, “The Professor’s Class Pet,” was worth every dollar and perfectly scratches that kinky professor-student itch. Check out their services section to order your own.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

If you (and your wallet) are feeling particularly subservient, we recommend offering $99.99 for her clip “Thank You Naked Goddess,” where she teases the viewer with her censored body and commands them to thank her for it.

This list wouldn’t be complete without a personal recommendation. River Gray is a nonbinary pansexual switch who uses any pronouns, and their skill with topping, bottoming, sensual lovemaking, and kinky play constantly come out in their work.

But Gray is the writer’s choice ManyVids performer for a reason: They’re a great model, and they’re extremely fun to work with on custom clips. Case in point, I commissioned a video based on their seductive professor photoset on Twitter, and they worked closely with me to create the best result. The final version, “The Professor’s Class Pet,” was worth every dollar and perfectly scratches that kinky professor-student itch.

I don't think this is halal at all.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

I don't think this is halal at all.

it's actually disgusting and degenerate enough that i'm actually somewhat---only somewhat---surprised that it made it to dailydot.

 

[Jaimas]

You know what's funny about the adult performers on that list?
Every single one of them has had hilarious skirmishes with Zinnia Jones.

Natalie Mars in particular has taken her on, and I know this because I first learned about her when Zinnia kept getting into spergfights with her fanbase, and Mars' taking the high road made the whole thing fucking hilarious. The TL;DR is that Zachyboy thinks he's hot shit, and declared himself queen of porns and in the process, deemed Natalie haram and less attractive. I'll leave to Kiwis with lower humor thresholds the dismantling of that particular talking point. The gist is that Z-Dawg got blangry that Natalie was hotter and got mad jelly, tried to start shit, and got ridiculed over it, harboring a serious grudge.

It's a completely one-sided antagonistic relationship, like Zinnia's relationship with Blair White.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

I'd pay real money to get these thots to keep their clothes on.

Mars is a lot better looking than Satana tho but I regret seeing either of them with giant things up their asses.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Really, the worst part about the article is that it's Ana writing it and shoving in all their fetishes/interests.

Just to point out something, there's a category of "writer's choice" yet in every instance it's a writer's choice isn't it? They write:

We’ve listed some of the best ManyVids performers based on quality, skill, and individual categories.

Except every example focuses on Ana's fetishes, typically some kind of domination scenario with a trans interest. It doesn't help me or anyone unless we share the same fetishes. It kinda glosses over exactly the wide "scope" of these performers portfolio to focus on what Ana wants.

Look at Natalie Mars, who is a professional of some time so the first part of this is probably quite true:

she’s also unafraid to push for more diverse content in her independent work. Mars uses ManyVids to her advantage to mix up her porn scenes

But then when Ana starts listing the examples it immediately swerves hard into Ana's interests:

features scenes where she bottoms, isn’t erect, plays around with fetishes, or otherwise creates adult content that can be enjoyed by a wide range of viewers, including other trans women.

The latter part is obviously true, it's redundant, but the examples don't help back up that it can be enjoyed by a wide range of viewers. It helps back up that it can be enjoyed by Ana.

I think that's what makes it come off as more disgusting than anything. If it had been titled "my five favorite ManyVids stars" or whatever but it half holds itself out as kind of an intro/primer on the "scene" but viewed solely through Ana's perversions.

Really it's just another example of how weird it is that someone who writes these kind of articles also seems to have a hook onto gaming controversies they can fan the flames of so easily.

Also, talk about exploitative sexualization by using those images for most of the articles content, her sources at ResetEra would certainly never approve of this kind of war on women.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Editor’s note: This article is regularly updated for relevance.

wow Right, Phil's current favorite fetishes and camtroons is definitely a very important subject that we need constant updates on

His newest article is about an upcoming cyberpunk RPG (it's an adult game, so of course he had to write about it!) https://www.dailydot.com/irl/uragoner-adult-cyberpunk-lewd-anime-girls/

Adult cyberpunk game ‘Uragoner’ combines dating with tactical combat
Gamers across PC and consoles alike are eager for CD Projekt Red’s upcoming open-world role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077. In the meantime, anime fans, dating simulation lovers, and turn-based strategy players have another title to keep an eye on: Uragoner, an upcoming free cyberpunk RPG that combines business management with lewd, off-hours rest and relaxation.

Uragoner takes place in the aptly-fitting year 2069, where megacorporations control everyday life and security firms keep the biggest companies afloat. Players star as an administrator for Uragon Corp., a new security firm that hires “custodians” to carry out combat missions in the field. Gameplay is partially inspired by Darkest Dungeon, so battles play out on a side-scrolling combat screen, and characters can be permanently killed (although players can turn off the feature). Mercenaries can be augmented and customized (whether to make them better in the field or just for fun), and the game features a full inventory system for sending custodians into the field. Alongside combat, the game features a management sim system where players can customize their headquarters and grow their corporation. It’s all pretty complex for an adult game.

Uragoner is being developed by Uragon Games, a two-person team run by creative director and lead artist Kuso_Otoko alongside lead developer and programmer Bantam. Kuso_Otoko is known for his work on Crisis Point: Extinction, an adult Metroidvania (or “Hentroidvania”) game, and the same level of care comes through in Uragoner.

“The hardest part for us so far has been weaving in the story elements into the RPG gameplay elements and making sure every character feels fleshed out through it,” Bantam told the Daily Dot. “It’s been a reasonable amount of work to make the visual novel aspect of gameplay not feel tacked on. I feel we’re getting there!”

Uragoner’s biggest appeal is that players can hook up with their custodians (or “cyborg waifus,” as the game calls them). Uragoner’s Patreon launch trailerteases that having “fun” together “makes waifus stronger.” One scene shows Eri, a mid-20s mercenary, saying it’s “about time we got to know each other better.” Another, Lillie, asks for an “onsite performance evaluation” with the player while wearing skimpy underwear. Players can respond in numerous ways, like “I aim to please” or “what are you doing?!”

“We’ve been working to make the dating sim elements integrated into the gameplay, who you decided to send out or not send out affects their relationship with you, if they get hurt, do well on the mission, how you interact with them before and after a mission makes a lot of difference,” Bantam said. “All this is before you even begin to get intimate with them. You continue to build your relationship after also. One of the aspects of our game is that your characters can die permanently in-game and we’ve found that you really want to maintain and protect your relationship with them because of that.”

The game will also have character customization, and while players can only play as men for now, Bantam says gender customization options are part of the game’s future roadmap.

As for characters to meet and romance, the team promised the choices will hit “double digits” in an interview with Noisy Pixel. The first three characters are “vanilla” cis women for now, but Bantam says Uragon Games is “looking to our patrons to guide us where they want us to go” with fleshing out the game’s love interests and dating system. One idea includes augmented genitals, something that has already been requested and that the team “[wants] to work towards.”

“One of the themes we also want to explore early on is this world you can have the concept of the body being separate from the person and how they identify. In this world you can transfer yourself into a whole new body with some caveats and it’s something we are exploring in story,” Bantam told the Daily Dot.

Uragoner doesn’t have a release date yet, but Uragon Games teases that its first release will come to PC and Mac “soon,” with Linux, Steam, app stores, and other digital platforms up for consideration. Steam has come under firerecently for its spotty policies on adult games, so the team has thought “a lot” about Valve’s future plans.

“We’re definitely concerned about it enough to have a plan B where we replace all the H-scenes with wholesome hand holding!” Bantam said. “As for social media. Twitter seems to be fine right now but we know that big social media sites can change their policies at any moment. Kuso himself had content taken down retroactively on Tumblr when they changed their policies and started to purge 18+ content, so we do limit what we’re willing to put out there in case of future policy changes retroactively hurting us.”

For more information, check out Uragon Games’ Patreon page. Fans can look forward to free public builds along with special patron-only releases.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

Reminder that I sent a note about the Trans Lifeline embezzlement to Phil and he used the fact that KF had talked about it to protect the scammers.