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what you need in one moment isn't necessarily what you'll need in another moment, and that is okay and beautiful.

i have no real feelings about drum and bass either way so instead this manifesto just made me sad that ubuntu phone was never real. fuck you shuttleworth, i bet you listen to drums but no bass

i have determined your shorts, after significant huffing, smell of turmeric. i hope this discovery transforms your life in myriad unexpected ways

hope is my greatest (only?) asset! i will never stop dreaming about the beauty of the future. the future of my trans body, the future of a genderqueer society, the future of sharp teeth running through the trees and ferns

*banging fists rhythmically on table* more love! more connection! more love! more connection!

the experience of comfort instead of suffering is not a moral failing! things don't have to suck for life to be worthwhile! pain can be sold to us by capitalists just as easily as pleasure can!

no more running from joy! more cozy games!

You keep bringing up how many fascist themes there are in so many other video games, with a focus on shooters and rpgs. you could have easily titled your manifesto 'kill fascism in games' or something like that. but you, and so many others here in this jam and elsewhere, explicitly chose to target cozy games. why? why the 'it's okay to relax' genre and not the 'kill all the definitely bad people and prove your inherent supremacy' genres? there's no particular reason that the cupcake analogy only needs to apply to goods with a high sugar content.

the explanation you've given is this: "I agree and commented on the fact that "cozy games" have more marginalized devs and gamers (players) than most other showcases. I completely concur. I did not write a manifesto called KILL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS even though I also think that the FPS genre propagates fascist values, as I explained in my manifesto. I wrote a manifesto called KILL COZY GAMES because I think that marginalized developers and players, more than anyone, should have access to comfort games and cozy games that do not propagate fascist values. Yes, I think that there should exist first person shooters which do not propagate fascist values, too. However, I do not think (and I am not saying that you said this) that genres by and for marginalized people are above criticism. Marginalized people exist in fascist societies and learn these values. We must actively reject and resist the propagation of these values in our art and in our leisure."

you've acknowledged cozy games as games often played and created by and for the marginalized... and you've chosen to focus on *them* as not being good enough and not the genres created primarily by cishet white men that far more consistently (and often intentionally) propagate those fascist values? 

i will ask you to take some time and sit with this question: is what you're doing workable? does focusing your critique on asking the marginalized to do better actually move things in the direction of your values? or are you simply demanding a heavier burden and more intense scrutiny on an already burdened and scrutinized population, making it even harder for them to create and explore things? 

obviously i think the answer is closer to the latter right now, but that's why i'm asking you to sit with the question. you don't have to take my answer just because i said it, but you do need to reflect on it with compassion for yourself. 

sometimes there is a strange suggestion that freedom from capitalism means freedom from interdependence, which is, as far as i can tell, absolutely not how the post-capltalist world will work

thank you for writing this 

"what you have to understand is that there is a difference between people pleasing and kindness." yes yes yes yes making the audience into people pleasers sucks just as much as making the artists do it! i feel you!

i'll need to figure out where i left these files but it's not impossible

i cannot pretend that i look forward to the day when there are no more controlled burns. but until then i'll let the fire rage in the way i want it to rage.

thank you for hosting this jam! also this game is a good lesson in the exact size of a bitsy room

i could live here. i could create something like a home under the watchful gaze of the eyes.

cactus is powerful and strange and i wish less of them were made out of snakes, but life is hard for a scorpion

i did reset the game a couple times to see if the food was in the same place each playthrough. i'm impressed that it moved around! was that part of the custom hacking you did?

thank you for this kind game

https://oriana-nonexistent.itch.io/tonights-the-night

https://beatricenonexistent.itch.io/night-of-the-slutwitch

i'm glad more and more people are realizing that demons are good friends and fuckbuddies. tiny is such a cutie too~

It works, thank you! will play and review soon!

sincere compliment: that was the first hypno scene that made me feel safe and relaxed enough to enjoy it! (it may have helped that i did the other two scenes first)

crows make for some good doms, huh? would ravens be a bit more on the gothic horror side of bdsm?

have i learned enough to start leading the class on my own yet?

unfortunately the linux version isn't working for me... what engine did you use to make this game? knowing that would help me a lot!

feels like the next evolution of 2005 newgrounds sex games (genuinely positive)

hmmmm, so much yellow! yellow panties, yellow joggers, yellow dildoes, yellow collars. is this a clue to a greater mystery?

rooting for mercy to get all the monster junk she wants!

i may have had too much fun making this cis boy be as big a loser as possible just to see what happens

this brings up unresolved traumas that are far too personal to toss into a comment section

so, all i'll say is thank you

thank you for not answering any of these questions

and thank you for making me feel a little less alone

(admitttedly a little too Much for me in some parts) BUT the ability to flip from dom to sub, to be in two places at once, completely in control and out of control, sends this switch's heart wild

there is something so magical about nonbinary people and the flower metaphor, isn't there? 

cold and discomforting (not a bad thing!), i lost myself in the different routes and thoughts and had fun existing for the gaze of others. i am unsure how to take the plot point about the social justice stuff without more elaboration

fun and delicious, and getting to top a vampire is a delight~

this game doesn't seem to exist anymore, is everything okay?

oh that's some fun sex! i loved slapping my strap against her strap <3

(edit: are you in need of cover art?)