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

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...maybe you're not cut out for character design if the first thing you do when 'given artistic freedom' is create an author avatar for a public game? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind when people make characters that are supposed to express themselves. The problem is that she's taking all of the criticism directed at Anoki's gaudy appearance and bitchy attitude as an attack on herself because well... it's supposed to be her, to an extent.

I feel real bad for her friends and family.
 
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...maybe you're not cut out for character design if the first thing you do when 'given artistic freedom' is create an author avatar for a public game? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind when people make characters that are supposed to express themselves. The problem is that she's taking all of the criticism directed at Anoki's gaudy appearance and bitchy attitude as an attack on herself because well... it's supposed to be her, to an extent.

I thought the same exact thing of her not being cut out for character design, but she has a link in her Twitter bio that takes you to her art gallery, and real shit, she has some genuine fucking talent. I’m honestly surprised that underneath the bad character design in ValiDate lies some actual competence. There’s a few iffy pieces here and there, but she shows that she does understand design and color matching. For some reason it all went out the window in this game.

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I don’t know if her personality can be saved, but her art: there’s hope.

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If she’s reading this, I want her to know she has potential and it might be worth it to take a step back and look at all your work. Don’t let Tumblritus, the SJW disease, destroy your talent like it has to so many others.
 
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Yeah it's a lie. To say nothing of that portrait of "Oscar", Adrian is white as fuck. He admits being a white latino.
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This is how he draws himself, though, because he's trying to push the idea that he's puerto rican. :story:
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I like how he completely changed his nose, sounds like BROWNFACE to me!

And yeah he's a homestuck. He did...this to Vriska.
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Stick to music, buddy.


There's also Nans/chewwypepsicola
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Oscar/femslashfatale predictably doesn't show his face. He's a he/him nonbinary lesbian uwu and has been bumbling around not finishing a visual novel that was supposed to be completed for some yaoi-themed game jam back in 2016.
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Edit: Raiden/spaceraes is also a white boy
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Man, the white devs have major white guilt.

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Okay, this is funny.

Not much going on the ValiDate front, but I do have my suspicions that some of the lightskinned folk in the dev team are passing themselves off as more "POC" than they really are. All that white guilt for nothing, huh?
YES

Anyone see this yet? One of the 13 artists for ValiDate apparently can't take constructive criticism on her characters becase (in her words) it's basically a self insert and people calling it ugly makes her feelings hurt.

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It just boggles my mind how these people create content that could possibly leave the Tumblr-Nu Twitter sphere and realize that... hey! Not everyone likes it or thinks it's 'empowering,' some people just see a fat, annoying, insufferably-written character. Knowing that it's her self insert makes this a lot more funny, to be honest.
"I had a breakdown"
Nice! But your character is still shitty.

So I checked ThatOneNegraux's twitter account and I came across a funny little post.
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Note she had set her heart emojis to red and black in the previews screenshots, now they're orange. She basically publicly threatened to hurt herself just because someone was mean to a bad fictional character she wrote and drew. :story:
Do they really think we care about their feelings?

We all seen characters be white-washed before, but this might as well be black-washing a character. Though, the developer doesn’t believe in “reverse racism”; they probably don’t believe in “reverse white-washing” either.



The amount of retardation and level of special snowflake syndrome are making me cringe so hard that I might end up folding into myself. This is like something I would’ve done as a cringe edgelord when I was 12. Grade-A tumblritus.

Dont get me wrong. Mental health problems should be taken seriously... but I can never take them seriously when they’re put on blast. It makes it feel more like a special personality trait to their online persona rather than a serious condition.

By the way, everybody say “hi”!:
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Hi :christine:
 
If by some miracle sharky is actually reading this, hun, Don't take this thread too seriously.

The last thing I (And I'm pretty sure everyone else on this thread) want is for you to actually harm yourself.

Yeah it can hurt, when people insult ya craft and things you've worked on, but it's part of being a content creator.
People are gonna dislike things you make, but that doesn't mean they dislike you as person.
And if seeing these things actually triggers a mental break down in, then step away from the computer, and take time to cool down.

At the end of the day people are gonna have negative opinions, and if they trigger you, you can ignore them (You are not obligated to look at them) and take break if you need to.
 
It is incredibly odd that any Asian characters in the game are also mixed black, latino, whatever. It's like full blooded Asians are too white or something, and everyone would notice if you drew them darker than they are in real life. That's so crazy because that's their natural skin tone, they can't change it. It's not like they have a European skin tone, either, if you have any skill as an artist you can distinguish lighter Asian skin tones from white skin tones.
 
It is incredibly odd that any Asian characters in the game are also mixed black, latino, whatever. It's like full blooded Asians are too white or something, and everyone would notice if you drew them darker than they are in real life. That's so crazy because that's their natural skin tone, they can't change it. It's not like they have a European skin tone, either, if you have any skill as an artist you can distinguish lighter Asian skin tones from white skin tones.
chinese people in real life:
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chinese people according to sjws:
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There's no way that the devs didn't know about this thread. Didn't someone that used to work on the game get confronted because one of the devs thought that they were posting on the ValiDate thread?

Edit: Another dev did a mini interview.
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"ashlie is conventionally attractive" even their attempt at a character that would be "hot" by normie standards has man shoulders and a trapezoid jawline, dear lord
 
"ashlie is conventionally attractive" even their attempt at a character that would be "hot" by normie standards has man shoulders and a trapezoid jawline, dear lord
It's understandable when you compare Ashlie's design to the rest of the cast, though. You take what you can get when 10% of the cast look unlike Tumblr stereotypes.
 
I thought the same exact thing of her not being cut out for character design, but she has a link in her Twitter bio that takes you to her art gallery, and real shit, she has some genuine fucking talent. I’m honestly surprised that underneath the bad character design in ValiDate lies some actual competence. There’s a few iffy pieces here and there, but she shows that she does understand design and color matching. For some reason it all went out the window in this game.


I don’t know if her personality can be saved, but her art: there’s hope.

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If she’s reading this, I want her to know she has potential and it might be worth it to take a step back and look at all your work. Don’t let Tumblritus, the SJW disease, destroy your talent like it has to so many others.
I think you’ve been on Tumblr too long. All of that art just looks like generic Tumblrtrash. Not eye-searing enough to go in the SJW art thread, not noticeable enough for anywhere else. It has the bubble-body/limbs of Steven Universe with the non-specific brown colors that Tumblr loves so dearly.

Y’know given that this is “TumblrArt the Dating Sim” I’m kind of surprised there isn’t at least one person with vitiligo.
 
i've been wondering for a while what flag arihi's country is- but just today i realized it represented Samoa!
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...Samoa, you know, the country in polynesia.

Where the people look like this:

Hey, validate team, why are you so fucking scared to actually draw asians/polynesians? Why do you have to take literally non black POC and draw them black?? what do you have against representing characters that are from asia or the south pacific??
Oh that's easy. Black people wuz everythang. They was kangz and shit. Just look back through history, every bit of history you find will be a strong black man that was retroactively changed as a way to put down the melanin rich for being too powerful.
 
We all seen characters be white-washed before, but this might as well be black-washing a character. Though, the developer doesn’t believe in “reverse racism”; they probably don’t believe in “reverse white-washing” either.



The amount of retardation and level of special snowflake syndrome are making me cringe so hard that I might end up folding into myself. This is like something I would’ve done as a cringe edgelord when I was 12. Grade-A tumblritus.

Dont get me wrong. Mental health problems should be taken seriously... but I can never take them seriously when they’re put on blast. It makes it feel more like a special personality trait to their online persona rather than a serious condition.

By the way, everybody say “hi”!:
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Hey, That One Negro! Ya finally made it big, friend!

There's no way that the devs didn't know about this thread. Didn't someone that used to work on the game get confronted because one of the devs thought that they were posting on the ValiDate thread?

Edit: Another dev did a mini interview.
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Kind of a shame, I honestly like the adorable tired chibi look this one has going on. I hope she moves onto better projects when this is all said and done.
 
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Wow, what a ride that was.
After everything that just went down, can we really be surprised by anything at this point?
I think what's the most damning about these people has to be how hypocritical it is for them to make a game to appeal to minorities, but exclude others and hold just as bad beliefs about racism. With all the shit happened they really aren't in a position to talk about anything anymore considering their dirty laundry has been aired. That "apology" for the white people stuff was one thing, but finding out some of your artists aren't good people really sets the icing on the cake.

As plenty of people have pointed out, this is what happens when you don't go in with pure intentions. I have no doubt now these people made this out of spite rather than wanting to make something they really enjoyed. And to some degree it's a shame, because none of it had to be this way if they just kept their mouths shut. It would've just been a generic dating sim with some cringy moments (okay, the entire game, but still) but at very least, it would've slid under the radar and just be a generic crappy game. Now we're reaching Two Scoops (Paige) levels of incompetence. Meaning all the drama is going to overtake anything else about the game.

And the sad part? They have no one to blame but themselves. They egged people on to act this way and to treat their game this way. So in other words, you reap what you sow.
 
i've been wondering for a while what flag arihi's country is- but just today i realized it represented Samoa!
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...Samoa, you know, the country in polynesia.

Where the people look like this:

Hey, validate team, why are you so fucking scared to actually draw asians/polynesians? Why do you have to take literally non black POC and draw them black?? what do you have against representing characters that are from asia or the south pacific??
So, has anyone compiled an list of all the characters' nationalities? Because I already roasted the South Korean/French one for being black and historically inaccurate. I'm just curious if the devs have put more random shit together.
 
So, has anyone compiled an list of all the characters' nationalities? Because I already roasted the South Korean/French one for being black and historically inaccurate. I'm just curious if the devs have put more random shit together.
Emhari: Bahrani + South African
Yolanda: French + South Korean
Arihi: Samoan
Alonzo: Puerto Rican
Rocky: Chinese + American
Ashlie: Laotian + Equadorian
Isabelle: Cuban + Chilean
Anoki: Oglala Sioux
Malik: Ghanaian
Catherine: Cuban
Inaya: Pakistani
Bigs: American
 
It is incredibly odd that any Asian characters in the game are also mixed black, latino, whatever. It's like full blooded Asians are too white or something, and everyone would notice if you drew them darker than they are in real life. That's so crazy because that's their natural skin tone, they can't change it. It's not like they have a European skin tone, either, if you have any skill as an artist you can distinguish lighter Asian skin tones from white skin tones.

Even the islanders, like the Filipinos, have some pretty tan skin, but none dark enough to make them look black.

I think you’ve been on Tumblr too long. All of that art just looks like generic Tumblrtrash. Not eye-searing enough to go in the SJW art thread, not noticeable enough for anywhere else. It has the bubble-body/limbs of Steven Universe with the non-specific brown colors that Tumblr loves so dearly.

Y’know given that this is “TumblrArt the Dating Sim” I’m kind of surprised there isn’t at least one person with vitiligo.

Damn, you think so? I didn’t think this was as bad as some Tumblr art out there. I didn’t really notice any Tumblr-esque features. It doesn’t suffer from those random red marks on the nose, elbows or knees, giving characters unnecessary stretch marks, making them needlessly obese, giving them any sort of unneeded skin condition, all to be inclusive. I may have been hexed, but I do find the art in the examples I shared to be pleasant to look at.

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Just realized you said it was not eye-searing enough to be in the SJW art thread, which I guess is what I described.
 
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