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

[Dumpster dived waifu]

to be fair to KS, the result game was actually good and enjoyable, well worth the wait at the time. meanwhile this game no matter how long it will stay in development will be mediocre at best, or not even worth playing for the irony at worst

It was also a bunch of spergs on 4chan making it in their downtime without pay.

 

[Disc]

There’s been several people talking about how terrible Validates dot point backstories are, so I feel it’s only appropriate to remind people that they’re based on an old tumblr meme - the tag yourself I’m x meme - being used in a backwards manner.

That’s because the meme is supposed to list vague character archetypes so that everyone can relate to one of them, but they’re instead using them as shorthands for their character's personalities. This is why so many of them are rambly dot points and you can't tell whether they're meant to be from the perspective of the speaker, or from the perspective of the subject.

I went over this in more detail about 115 pages back.

 

[GaijinBucks]

God Khadija Mbowe…I watched a few of her stuff and its fucking peek idiotic black youtubers who can’t talk about anything without bringing in Black slavery and “bad stereotypes” of black people.

She defended the creator of Cuties and made her review about how hard it must have been to make Cuties as a woman who grew up Muslim….Nevermind the CP tier scenes in Cuties, a black woman directed it. Therefore it’s excusable….

So what I’m getting is that black women are allowed to be pedophiles because they’re…minorities?
These people are fucking insufferable.

Spoiler: autistic side rant

Matter of fact, here’s a tweet I found lurking through Dani’s little tard circle that perfectly solidifies my problem with these idiots:

(This person literally said they would PAY for the paintings, right after the artist bitched about needing to pay her for representation and that’s STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH! )

But gawd forbid if a series doesn’t have 101 black characters. It’s only hypocritical and racist if you’re not black!

 

[SITHRAK!]

Can I just say, it fucks my sides hard seeing Dani get pissy over what other people gladly do for free. Bitch, nobody wants to pay you to say "WE WUZ KANGZ N SHEET"

She should team up with Ashleigh ‘the lion’ “all white people are racist, PayPal me” Shackelford. Like two sweaty, cocoa-butter and black-funk smelling peas in the same antiwhite grifter pod.

Holy shit I just realized most of these characters have the same hand on hip pose. Call me a nitpicker but goddamn is it too much to ask for a bit more variety here?

It’s likely for the same reason that plenty of characters for CGI kids films are posed ’gangsta’ style, with crossed arms and that same ‘tough guy’ smirk regardless of their actual personality.

These poses are a visual shorthand that indicates that a character is ‘cool’. I could write pages about how physical modeling of these characters teaches ‘attitude’ to kids, who are acutely and intuitively aware of posing, and facial and body language. It tells them that ’attitude’ like this is cool, and I didn‘t brook that shit if my kids ever started mimicking these poses and facial expressions.

Seriously, if you were walking down the street and someone looked at you like this you’d probably want to punch them in the face.

As an interesting aside, I should also point out that a short philtrum (the groove from the nose to the lip) that appears in almost every ‘cute’ female CGI character is extremely common in certain, um, communities that are over represented in entertainment media…

Natalie Portman

Debra Messing

I have a professional interest in head and neck anatomy and am a body language sperg ever since I read Allan Pease‘s book on the subject as a kid. Please excuse my autism.

Anyway, back to the ValiDate art. The hand-on-hip pose is basically a dogwhistle, one half of the classic ‘oh no you dittnt’ shit that hasn’t been funny or relevant since the 80’s.

The hand on hip claims space, represents strength and determination, and is associated with authority and power. In this game it’s used to put the player in a mindset of ’these are strong empowered people and I should respect their pronouns and worldviews’ instead of ‘what the fuck is wrong with the game designer’.

It’s clever until someone notices it’s a lazy visual shorthand and that it suggests a lack of individual and diverse personalities in the avatars, regardless of their backstories.

 

[AMHOLIO]

And if you’re curious about how Dani looks and sounds like, here she is

This woman got bullied in high school.

Also love her Yolanda yellow head kerchief. And her commitment to HATING GAMERS. Imagine, Black people enjoying FUCKING GAMES like CoD or the Witcher or Fortnite or Apex Legends or No More Heroes... can't happen. Better hate on them.

Matter of fact, here’s a tweet I found lurking through Dani’s little tard circle that perfectly solidifies my problem with these idiots:

Honestly, there's a way to do this with grace, but this ain't it chief. I don't mind her never drawing anything but black women (her art could stagnate that way but it's her choice) I mind her passive aggressively shitting on people on instagram from twitter. No censors, fuck these proles, especially the Native and the Muslim. You say "Thank you, I appreciate it, but I'm only painting black women as a form of personal art therapy. I don't know any artist who have a similar style to me accepting commissions right now or else I'd point you to one/Here's an artist I love (WHO ALSO COULD BE A POC) who is accepting commissions right now for what you'd like (instagram name). Thank you, sorry about the inconvenience and good luck with your search." It's wordy but it keeps your relation with the public good and doesn't show you shitting on Arabic or Native Americans. And for FUCK'S sake, don't take screenshots to bitch about it when your problem is that people love your art and want to be a part of it!

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Imagine, Black people enjoying FUCKING GAMES like CoD or the Witcher or Fortnite or Apex Legends or No More Heroes... can't happen. Better hate on them.

Honestly, there's a way to do this with grace, but this ain't it chief. I don't mind her never drawing anything but black women (her art could stagnate that way but it's her choice) I mind her passive aggressively shitting on people on instagram from twitter. No censors, fuck these proles, especially the Native and the Muslim. You say "Thank you, I appreciate it, but I'm only painting black women as a form of personal art therapy. I don't know any artist who have a similar style to me accepting commissions right now or else I'd point you to one/Here's an artist I love (WHO ALSO COULD BE A POC) who is accepting commissions right now for what you'd like (instagram name). Thank you, sorry about the inconvenience and good luck with your search." It's wordy but it keeps your relation with the public good and doesn't show you shitting on Arabic or Native Americans. And for FUCK'S sake, don't take screenshots to bitch about it when your problem is that people love your art and want to be a part of it!

You know, all this reminds me of the screeching that began when #DrawingWhileBlack was a thing. In concept it wasn't a horrid thing but it turned to shit when people made art like this.

And then this.

Unfortunately this person would no doubt be one of the people eating up the stuff of Dani and Art "Babe"

People doing shit like this is one of the reasons why I can't get behind #DrawingWhileBlack

Also on a positive note, I can attest to being a fan of NMH and Witcher. Those are great games regardless of the blackness in them.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Unfortunately this person would no doubt be one of the people eating up the stuff of Dani and Art "Babe"

People doing shit like this is one of the reason why I can't get behind #DrawingWhileBlack

Ugh, fucking entitled twitter teens do this shit of being quirkily arrogant but not enough to mask their greed and need for asspats every time an artist hashtag like that comes along. It drowns out people who aren't obnoxious or political. I get you man.

Also on a positive note, I can attest to being a fan of NMH and Witcher. Those are great

Great games can be enjoyed by everyone regardless of culture and that's the true beauty of art. We can all enjoy slicing things with swords no matter what we are.

 

[GaijinBucks]

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Using a tag for diversity to personally beg for money is the sleaziest thing I’ve seen this month. I don’t think these artists realize how privileged they are. There are actual black people dealing with brutality, homelessness, poverty, and violent racism all across America but sure, the twitter artist who probably doesn’t have to pay bills or groceries deserves reparations because they draw characters with darker skin or some shit.

 

[LavenderMenace]

You know, all this reminds me of the screeching that began when #DrawingWhileBlack was a thing. In concept it wasn't a horrid thing but it turned to shit when people made art like this.
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And then this.
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Unfortunately this person would no doubt be one of the people eating up the stuff of Dani and Art "Babe"

People doing shit like this is one of the reasons why I can't get behind #DrawingWhileBlack

Also on a positive note, I can attest to being a fan of NMH and Witcher. Those are great games regardless of the blackness in them.

Add on #blacktober as well. These tags were good for a while until the cockroaches came in and made turds all over it with the most ugliest art you’ve seen and god forbid you criticize their art.

The #WhyDoWhitePeopleExist Twitter space controversy has proved is that there are legitimate racists on that app that say the most eugenic things about white people without hesitation.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

The #WhyDoWhitePeopleExist Twitter space controversy has proved is that there are legitimate racists on that app that say the most eugenic things about white people without hesitation.

But it's totally okay because white people cannot experience racism in any way whatsoever and people of color cannot be racist! They could be like Gazi Kodzo who had the honor of being dubbed "Black Hitler" but it's okay because dude's black.

It's sad but not surprising that the definitions of words tend to get bent to excuse shit behavior. However, I am so glad that ValiDate exists because it proves that there's pushback for said shit behavior.

Now we are just waiting patiently for the dumpster fire to flare up into a mass inferno.

Apparently Dani plans to release the FIRST part this spring which is still ridiculous for a fucking renpy visual novel of all things.

I can smell the smoke already.
And I will never understand the thought process here. I bet Dani really did blow all the Kickstarter funds and have to continually gather funds to finish her shit game.

 

[GaijinBucks]

So validate (finally) provided some game updates:

Personally, I hate it. A team of 20+ people and not one person with decent eyesight thought MAYBE they shouldn’t vomit up so many colors as the start up screen? Also how many fucking filters does the background behind Isabella need?

I can smell the smoke already.
And I will never understand the thought process here. I bet Dani really did blow all the Kickstarter funds and have to continually gather funds to finish her shit game.

Dani has been taking “mental health breaks” on her twitter which leads me to assume she’s prepping for the inevitable fallout which she will coincidentally be away for.

 

[Corn Flakes]

So validate (finally) provided some game updates:
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Jesus Fucking Christ, who took a baseball bat to that woman's face?!

I know these singles are supposed to be "struggling", but I didn't think it meant they were struggling to recover from massive repeated blunt trauma to the head.

 

[GaijinBucks]

Jesus Fucking Christ, who took a baseball bat to that woman's face?!

I know these singles are supposed to be "struggling", but I didn't think it meant they were struggling to recover from massive repeated blunt trauma to the head.

Like they say:

 

[DenseDeerFather]

So validate (finally) provided some game updates:
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Good lord is that ugly. The second picture feels like the "cooperate art style" that companies emply these days. Also those "clouds" look like sihlouettes of whales.

Dani has been taking “mental health breaks” on her twitter which leads me to assume she’s prepping for the inevitable fallout which she will coincidentally be away for.

Lol of fucking course. It's like clockwork with those people.

 

[feedtheoctopus]

I find it hard to describe this, but it seems like these people obsessed with "representation" in the media always seem to go for the same art style. It's this weird thing they do where they're drawing attention to the ethnicity of whoever they're portraying while at the same time going "IT TOTALLY DOESN'T MATTER BUT IT TOTALLY DOES". So you get black people with cartoonishly big lips and huge afros and shit. But ya know, they also look nothing like normal black people. It's a hipster art's student idea of what black people look and act like. Like all these characters are dressed like white zoomers from the suburbs who moved to LA to pursue an art career. Again, hard to explain what I mean, but you know it when you see it. Like in my neck of the woods if I had to describe the typical black guy's uniform it would be pants around the ankles level of sag or a hardhat/reflective vest getup. In the summer a lot of gym shorts and tank tops. But this "just crawled out of urban outfitters" style? Fuck no, they'd probably kick your ass if you dressed like that.

Also they always make everyone fat. And it's obvious it's because they're trying to play the "FAT PEOPLE CAN BE CUTE" angle, but because I'm not insane and obsess over other people's body weight it just comes off weird as shit to me.

 

[Dysnomia]

So validate (finally) provided some game updates:
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Personally, I hate it. A team of 20+ people and not one person with decent eyesight thought MAYBE they shouldn’t vomit up so many colors as the start up screen? Also how many fucking filters does the background behind Isabella need?

Dani has been taking “mental health breaks” on her twitter which leads me to assume she’s prepping for the inevitable fallout which she will coincidentally be away for.

So the rectangles at the bottom are buildings I assume? I see two blue clouds in the back, the back of two cartoon whales on the left and Lord knows what in pink with an orange slash through it on the right. It's ugly vomit. But I'm sure whoever did it just just sooooo talented uwu.

 

[Cactus Concerto]

So validate (finally) provided some game updates:
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Personally, I hate it. A team of 20+ people and not one person with decent eyesight thought MAYBE they shouldn’t vomit up so many colors as the start up screen? Also how many fucking filters does the background behind Isabella need?

Dani has been taking “mental health breaks” on her twitter which leads me to assume she’s prepping for the inevitable fallout which she will coincidentally be away for.

Palettes, motherfucker, do you speak them?

I have no qualifications in this area but god lord, we all know an eyesore when we see one. Ignoring the characters themselves, why doesn't this flat face background art adhere to the colors and mood of the game's logo? Blues, whites, pinks, purples - these colors give every opportunity to have some sunset art type shit and nightlife imagery, but no. Instead we get color vomit.

The one positive about Big Tech Corporate art styles is the adherence to a palette. A feel. A vibe. Whenever I came across another showcase of the BTC art style, my immediate reaction is "what the fuck are those hands?" and then after a moment, "the pastels are kind of pretty, I guess." ValiDate couldn't even soullessly art well, it had to be bad. No, terrible.

This is atrocious. And probably the leftovers of a splintering team that never had any proper or competent direction to lead the project. I know the whole meme-thing is Dani's only marketing strategy but she must have missed the memo where the game itself didn't have to look like a poorly generated visual novel meme template too.

STRUGGLING SINGLES IN YOUR AREA [VOLUME 4] ​

QUICK NAVIGATION: VOLUME 1 - VOLUME 2 - VOLUME 3

Spoiler: HAPPY BLACK SCAM ARTISTS MONTH!

• Annyeong my name is Yolanda Dark'ness Yeoja Da-Nee Cerise and I have long yoyo string length brown hair (that's how I got my name) with braids and burnt tips that reaches my mid-back and dead brown eyes like chocolate moons and a lot of people tell me I look like Dani Lalonder (AN: if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!).
• Not French nor South Korean. Yolanda Cerise is an African with immigrant parents from a plain old boring middle class family who is in love with the language of love and twinky Korean idols. She's ashamed of her African heritage and status as a lesser black in America and tries to drown it all out by cosplaying as a nationality she's seen romanticized in various media along with the ethnicity she wants to fuck the most.
• Ashamed of her mother's recipes and cooking habits (various Nigerian seafood recipes), Yolanda has tried to channel that into an obsession with fish to get around having to eat fish at the dinner table. She will, however, happily eat sushi (and any fish when it isn't prepared by her mother) and really wants to try some octopus like her Korean oppas.
• Her mother and father both live off the internet, too busy enjoying their lives and taking a break after breaking their backs to offer their daughter the best life they possibly could, so they are not aware of the blatant lies regarding her oddly specific neo-vegetarianism.
• They don't know about her apparent French-Korean status either. Yolanda picked up some African French from her father while growing up, later dumped it for the not embarrassing French in high school, and doesn't know a lick of Korean outside of the common pop song phrases. No, she will not learn it. Yes, she has several TikToks lying about her level of knowledge to get clicks.
• If you're wondering about her personality, don't. She has none. A vacuum of pop culture, Yolanda enjoys whatever is popular at the time and her opinions shift based on what will make her seem the nicest in conversation with other people. 'Nicest' meaning whatever will get people to agree with her: gas lighting, an sickly sweet argumentative nature, and passive aggressiveness are her usual tools, though outright is on the cards should she believe she can wield her blackness over someone else's head.
• So quirky, so unique. Tells everyone she's got dyslexia and she deals with hair because something something, bullshit a character in a YA novel would spout instead of admitting they're a whiny emo bitch grasping at straws to seem mysterious and thus intriguing to their far more developed and frankly more human peers, something something. It's her dream or whatever. In reality, she was too lazy for college and barely scrapped by in high school.
• Dates men with actual personalities and acts surprised when they're not the fantastical and perfect fanfiction love interests she grew up on. Very big into the BTS fandom, under the name 'Da-Nee' , and spends the bulk of her paychecks on merchandise and brand tie-ins. Her bias is Jimin and most of her fanfiction bookmarks are him being feminized to such an extreme it's a wonder they don't just write him as an honest to god girl instead.
• An excerpt from the prologue of her Jimin/Reader fanfic: "And then... suddenly just as I Jiminnie kissed me passionately. Jammin slid underneath of me and we started to make out consensually against a microphone stand. He took of my top and I took of his dress. I even took of my bandana. Then I put my thingie into his gaping-boy-pussy and we did it for the first time."
• Chapter 1 will be available soon! Stup flamin ok!

• Have you ever wanted to get away with being a revolting degenerate in public to feed your humiliation fetish? Well Cathy has some tips for you!
• Catherine Pinla (power word: Carl Pascual) is a 24 year old 'editor' for a small online magazine that focuses on fashion for the obese and MtF communities. FIT Magazine garnered a tiny boost in relevance when one of their models was thrust into the limelight. Her 15 minutes of fame quickly eclipsed the magazine and it is now remembered by most as a footnote in an ongoing lolcow story.
• Catherine, however, will tell you that business is thriving, climbing, and ain't ever gonna stop. Beyonce would be one call away if her existence wasn't so fatphobic and heteronormative, y'all.
• Adopted ghetto trash as a lifestyle in his teens. Lives and breathes the trashy glamorous end of modern hip-hop coaster culture. Abused as a child, trooned out to detached himself from his manly features and all the things that were appealing to his attackers. This included gaining weight. Recently got into into the fat gain fetish community as a side grift. Would be doing mukbangs if they weren't so "un-classy."
• Those tits are natural, baby. All fat.
• An absolute trainwreck: went bald early in his 'transition' and only wears neon-colored wigs, literally always showing too much skin, overly flamboyant and disgustingly sexual in every situation, overshares to a frankly worrying degree. Constantly looks like a drag queen on the clock. That or a prostitute but one of the cheap ones that lingers at streetlights and throws themselves at you in the hopes of maybe getting a dollar for road head.
• Started up an OnlyFans as a strong independent woman with her own sinking ship company because society can't stop him from begging whoever will pay to fuck him in his ass, mmm, just like that.
• A small list of some of his known fetishes (how his Twitter hasn't been suspended is anyone's guess): voyeurism, humiliation, farting, armpit stuff, ass stuff, overeating, putting edible items where they don't belong, dominating barely legal boys, being called mommy, being called out but in a ""sexy"" and disrespecting way because that's healthier than seeing a therapist, dressing up as a woman, indulging in being so fat he can hide a remote under his gut, dragon dildos, and geocoding the anorexic.
• Angry black woman stereotype personified except he's Dominican but he'd rather you and everyone else forget that, okay? Black baes are boss and self-loathing is in for every season.
• Will inevitably get swallowed up by the herd multiple times over and live longer than much healthier and deserving people because life is a cruel mistress who loves her cows more than anything.

• Your average hipster.
• As a child, Ari watched way too many indie romance films born from the heartbreak of sad artsy men and has since had his entire viewpoint on love and relationships warped to the extreme.
• Shaped with two hands - rampant cynicism and mopey nihilism - Arihi will forever be unhappy in life for the simple reason that he refuses to see the good and the funny in the stupidity that goes on around him.
• Went through an emo phase in his teens, which is why he grew his hair out and got several piercings. (He was too chicken shit to get a tattoo.) Linkin Park is his life blood but he's since ditched them for whatever Billie Eilish and sad indie pop clones are putting out these days.
• Despite his faults, Arihi is a smart and functional adult. He graduated high school and university with high marks and currently holds down a steady job. A stern, no nonsense type of counselor, Arihi's couples often end up thanking him for his advice, whether the relationship wraps or not. More often than not, he strives to help the couples he meets, particularly when their issues boil down to something as simple as a lack of communication.
• Perpetually on the cusp of swallowing his own farts, Arihi is the type of intellectual that would quickly succumb to the force of the crowd if caught in an echo chamber. As it stands, him needing to leave the house and constantly interact with people has stopped him from becoming an online horror story of failed potential and wasted talent.
• Conceited, grumpy, unnecessarily sarcastic, and incredibly high maintenance. Needs to be pulled down a peg or two or several at all times. Despite this, or maybe because of it, he's often the only sane man in any group of people. The abrasive attitude does not help with his dating prospects whatsoever.
• Needs to go through the clichéd "tsundere finds someone who melts his icy heart" arc and then continue being a sarcastic and unpleasant fuck to everyone but the apple of his eye, who calls him on his bullshit yet also finds his bullshit endearing.
• A great way of figuring out if any of these characters are worth your time is by asking one question: would Arihi waste even a second on his time on this fool?
• Every 'I read books and love flowers' Tumblr girl's dreamboat, in theory. Likely pens trite poetry. Will unironically get into a debate about why Rose needs to die and Jack loses his life over a fling and the Titanic should have been a metaphor for men stupidly giving their all to hoes that ain't loyal and don't deserve it, also known as the romantic movie cuck.

• Yes, that's his legal name. His parents didn't give this bitch a chance but he's trying his best anyway.
• Grew up with long hair and lots of women going to town on it for their salon work practice and braiding tests. This was largely due to the fact that his alcoholic mother and absentee father honestly drifted in and out of forgetting they had a son and not a girl. "Parent and child baths are a myth, I don't care what you say."
• Likes cute things and girly add-ons. It's weird to some but people tend to go along with and accept it because Bigs is never in anybody's face about it. He likes his shit, they like theirs. His affable nature and respectful demeanor tends to endear him to those who would normally be detractors.
• Recently had his first gay encounter with a customer turned friend turned one night stand and he's eager to explore his newly unearthed sexuality. He can be a little overenthusiastic about sharing such details even with those he doesn't know all that well, though that's rooted in his 'everyone around me is my friend' mentality. That and all the gossip circles he was part of as a kid.
• Enjoys the simple things in life: friends, positive vibes, and having enough money to pay rent at the end of the month. His current gig is his best yet and the first where he hasn't had to work at two places to supplement his paycheck. He might be paid more than is usual because the owners simply adore him but Bigs has never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
• "Gender? Color? Politics? Nah, you do you, man. I just wanna chill out and watch something Netflix."
• A prime example of the big and scary with a heart of gold trope.
• Hoping to spend the rest of his twenties slowly making something more of his life. He's started working out (though he tends to fall off his plans quite easily), saving up for a better place, and looking into courses that might help with future job prospects.
• Yes, he does give great hugs.
• Fun fact: Juicy is his favorite Biggie song. (It is also one of the only songs he knows; he hasn't done a lot of digging into his namesake.)

 

[Frito]

Long-time lurker of the thread, just wanted to say that Cactus's admirably autistic rewrites of the "bachelors" of this game give me life. It reminds me of how Snoot Game actually made something worthwhile out of the wokeshit vaporwave that is Goodbye Volcano High.

Also joining the bandwagon of saying those previews look like absolute horseshit. You can tell Dani/her team desperately want to channel that "trendy shape-based Steven Universe opening card"-esque art style but just manage to flub it spectacularly. If only a tiny fraction of that Kickstarter money went to hiring an actual competent UI designer

 

[feedtheoctopus]

Long-time lurker of the thread, just wanted to say that Cactus's admirably autistic rewrites of the "bachelors" of this game give me life. It reminds me of how Snoot Game actually made something worthwhile out of the wokeshit vaporwave that is Goodbye Volcano High.

Also joining the bandwagon of saying those previews look like absolute horseshit. You can tell Dani/her team desperately want to channel that "trendy shape-based Steven Universe opening card"-esque art style but just manage to flub it spectacularly. If only a tiny fraction of that Kickstarter money went to hiring an actual competent UI designer

Thing is it's not even trendy anymore. It was trendy back in 2013, maybe.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I love @Cactus Concerto's character writeups. It's always fun to see how Kiwifarms chuds can write much better LGBT characters than 99% of wokescolds out there.