Cultcow EvaXephon / Yanderedev / Alex Mahan / Alexander Stuart Mahan / cannotgoogleme - Edgy weeaboo coomer with pedo tendencies and 15+ years internet history as a lolcow, now known as a disaster developer behind eternal debug build called "Yandere Simulator", confirmed groomer and dollfucker

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I didn't even know much about this guy aside from the fact that he was crying over his game not being allowed to be streamed on Twitch, but all of this just confirms my thoughts that he's just some entitled weeaboo.

 

[A Sign]

Or just have the option "MESS WITH FOOD" lol since it's a meme game...

Or even toss in immature humor, like idk Ayano doodles a dickbutt in the rice with soya sauce, or shapes the onigri into dicks, Senpai is suposed to be a "pure" guy so seeing a dickbutt or dick onigri would bother him "Is this some kind of joke? real mature Osana..." so she gets embarrassed instead of dead

 

[IngusNSFW]

Senpai is suposed to be a "pure" guy

 

[A Sign]

Well, at least he was supposed to be, I think at the start this Senpai was supposed to be. Then slowly he became one of eva's self inserts (well being more blatant about it.) I think a few years back someone asked Eva something like "What if senpai saw yandere-chan naked?" and he sperged about how pure senpai is and that he would find her vulgar or w/e

 

[Adamska]

Well, at least he was supposed to be, I think at the start this Senpai was supposed to be. Then slowly he became one of eva's self inserts (well being more blatant about it.) I think a few years back someone asked Eva something like "What if senpai saw yandere-chan naked?" and he sperged about how pure senpai is and that he would find her vulgar or w/e

Coming from the creepy pedo who wanted to make panties as visible as possible, have it possible to be naked, and wanting to put sex slavery into the game, that's rich.

 

[IngusNSFW]

he would find her vulgar

What the fuck?
If anything he should feel vulgar for seeing her naked.

Damn, Eva has a really twisted mindset. (Obviously.)

 

[LucasSomething]

Unrelated but this talk about Senpai is pure and all, i checked a bit and realized how smilar he is to Yandere Kun design. Yan-Kun could easily be seen as "Evil Senpai" instead of "Male Ayano".

It's like both are self inserts and represent opposite sides of Alex's teenager mentality. Senpai is pure and loved by all girls, he represents the erotic harem fantasy that Alex had as young, thinking being a "nice guy" would net him all the waifus. Yankun is possessive, evil and treats everything as a game, he represents the psychotic power fantasy Alex has when he talks about killing "sluts", his parents, people who disagree with him etc.

It all makes sense!... Or maybe i'm just some crazy sperg who knows

It's still weird how yankun looks so much like Senpai.

 

[Cupcake9]

Unrelated but this talk about Senpai is pure and all, i checked a bit and realized how smilar he is to Yandere Kun design. Yan-Kun could easily be seen as "Evil Senpai" instead of "Male Ayano".

It's like both are self inserts and represent opposite sides of Alex's teenager mentality. Senpai is pure and loved by all girls, he represents the erotic harem fantasy that Alex had as young, thinking being a "nice guy" would net him all the waifus. Yankun is possessive, evil and treats everything as a game, he represents the psychotic power fantasy Alex has when he talks about killing "sluts", his parents, people who disagree with him etc.

It all makes sense!... Or maybe i'm just some crazy sperg who knows

It's still weird how yankun looks so much like Senpai.

Far simplier then that: its just same face and body syndrome. Kjech is really limited when he is drawing on this ecchi style, so all the characters looks alike.

 

[babychan]

Senpai is suposed to be a "pure" guy

Spoiler: lol

 

[IngusNSFW]

Kjech is really limited when he is drawing on this ecchi style, so all the characters looks alike.

Noticed that. Then again Kjech isn't really good at drawing ecchi rather than slapping red on all their body parts and adding ruffles to their clothes that makes it look horrifying.

 

[CWCissey]

I suppose with the allergy thing, you could have like an EpiPen or something so Senpai will see you as a good person/the one who saved their life, maybe this could be carried around if Yandere-chan 'completes a first aid course' or some shit to do with Nurse Tits.

 

[PantiesAreImportant]

Alex wanted Yan-kun to look like a psycho senpai, so it's intentional. Because why would any important male character look original, right?

 

[FataBataRang]

Senpai is suposed to be a "pure" guy

Pure shit, maybe. He's supposed to be the main focus of the game, and there's no reason to even care about him. He has zero personality, and outside of getting rid of theoretical "rivals" that don't even do anything in-game, he simply has no purpose in the game other than to witness crimes, get in the way, and cause YanChan to slow down and have heart palpitations when she comes near. Oh, and he gives you a game over for laughing too much in his presence. Far from being a genuine love interest, he's really more like a douchey, braindead obstacle.

 

[LucasSomething]

Pure shit, maybe. He's supposed to be the main focus of the game, and there's no reason to even care about him. He has zero personality, and outside of getting rid of theoretical "rivals" that don't even do anything in-game, he simply has no purpose in the game other than to witness crimes, get in the way, and cause YanChan to slow down and have heart palpitations when she comes near. Oh, and he gives you a game over for laughing too much in his presence. Far from being a genuine love interest, he's really more like a douchey, braindead obstacle.

That's the biggest ludonarrative dissonance problem in the game IMO. The game is called YANDERE simulator and the story says Ayano loves Senpai but from a gameplay perspective everything enforces the idea of avoiding him as much as possible instead of stalking.

This is actually terrible game design and "game feel". Senpai is the "reward" for beating the game and yet he only exists to stay near your target, acting as a witness/AoE slowdown and give you an insta game over if you fail. In other words, you are going to HATE him as you play. And guaranteed, he is already super hated, to the point most people ship Ayano with other guys.

In a ridiculous twist, Alex made so your biggest enemy isn't the rival, it's Senpai.

 

[Adamska]

There's also the matter that because you make the Senpai is always the same character since it's basically Alex's ideal self; once you know how they work, the game loses playability. I'd recommend making him (or her) semi-random in appearance, along with shuffling some traits along. Maybe write like five likeable variations of a personality (compelling character that explains why your character fell for them), then a bigger list of quirks you have to learn by stalking them or interrogating their friends in order to know what they like. That significantly ups the playability and would make you not dislike the fucker. Also make it so he doesn't fuck with your movement, but with your vision with those rose glasses or something.

But this would make sense, and it would make the game about the player's experience, not serve as a way to get attention or bump up your own ego.

 

[FataBataRang]

The ability to choose your own senpai could also work, I think. That would allow players to pick the character they care about the most, making it more immersive. They'll also have different preferences, which is good for replayability. Of course, that all requires having characters that have unique and interesting personalities. Alex is so exceptional, he couldn't do that even if someone held a gun to his head 24/7 and forced him to put down the hentai, cut out the dumbass streams nobody wants to see anyway, and work.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I've never played this game or had any exposure to it apart from in this thread, but it's already obvious that Alex knows jack shit about Japan. If it's set in a high school, barely any of the characters are wearing anything close to a high school uniform, and some of the hairstyles would get students sent home at once. In some schools even naturally red or blond haired people have to dye their hair brown. While it's true that some rock stars like Matsumoto Hideto and my man Kyo in his younger days had goofy hairstyles, those guys weren't still in high school. The idea that some prestigious high school would let students walk around with crazy glam metal hairstyles is absolutely laughable. It's like basing how British people look on Freddie Mercury and Rob Halford, but even more so given how dull mainstream Japanese society is.

Also, for everybody going on about what a "real yandere" is like, there's no such thing. Most Japanese people don't use that word at all, and I don't understand why so many English speakers know it. They do, however, use the word "yanderu", which means insane, and would probably well describe Alex and most of his fans.

Before anyone asks, I'm not Japanese, just a weeaboo.

 

[OgreSan]

I've never played this game or had any exposure to it apart from in this thread, but it's already obvious that Alex knows jack shit about Japan. If it's set in a high school, barely any of the characters are wearing anything close to a high school uniform, and some of the hairstyles would get students sent home at once. In some schools even naturally red or blond haired people have to dye their hair brown. While it's true that some rock stars like Matsumoto Hideto and my man Kyo in his younger days had goofy hairstyles, those guys weren't still in high school. The idea that some prestigious high school would let students walk around with crazy glam metal hairstyles is absolutely laughable. It's like basing how British people look on Freddie Mercury and Rob Halford, but even more so given how dull mainstream Japanese society is.

Also, for everybody going on about what a "real yandere" is like, there's no such thing. Most Japanese people don't use that word at all, and I don't understand why so many English speakers know it. They do, however, use the word "yanderu", which means insane, and would probably well describe Alex and most of his fans.

Before anyone asks, I'm not Japanese, just a weeaboo.

I am also a weeaboo, can I call you senpai?

Random aside, TinyBuild seems to be either complicit in this madness or intentionally ignorant. What the fuck is up with that email reply chain...

 

[Null]

Also, for everybody going on about what a "real yandere" is like, there's no such thing. Most Japanese people don't use that word at all, and I don't understand why so many English speakers know it. They do, however, use the word "yanderu", which means insane, and would probably well describe Alex and most of his fans.

Yandere is probably faux-Japanese that stems from Tsundere which was a well-established anime trope. This explains it quite well and it's the only memorable thing from Lucky Star.

And no, I don't watch anime, except for maybe one highly recommended series every 5 years. I watched Lucky Star when I was 18 and it was a huge may-may on 4chin.

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

It'd be great if the very title of Yandere Simulator was some weeaboo bullshit, but that's not the case at all. "Yandere" is a real character archetype that's just as big in Japan as it is in America; that is, well-known by anime geeks and pretty much no one else. It was first coined to describe School Days, a bait-and-switch visual novel that racked up controversy for selling itself as a romance and hiding the fact that the main girls were violent stalkers.

Alex has been fapping to anime in his parents' basement for at least ten years now, so it's kind of a given that he has decent knowledge of anime tropes. The problems lie in how he doesn't distinguish anime from reality, doesn't do any extra research on Japan outside of anime, and doesn't seem to have any deep sense of design beyond parroting superficial labels (e.g. constantly changing his definition of "yandere", shoving a bunch of clashing elements together in his character designs).