Im a 40yo man, married with kids, who started reading the novel looking for Sophia transformation with adults (like movers, bennet, janitor, sauna guys), and thought the kids were a tool for corruption and not the novels real objective. I stopped downloading and playing the game when I saw the preview of the Sam instrument and bed incident, as this was WAAAAAAAY too much and too far, dont even get me started on the club and pool with her own son.
As I've stated previously, the adults in this novel are all disfunctional. We do not act like that, we do not think like that, we do not react like that.
I still return randomly to see if there is an adult branch alive, but there seems to be none. I guess that makes me part of this never ending thread that is supposed to prove the success of the game.
I ddo understand that a kid who started playing AWAM at 14, might be still 19, so he is still a kid and knows shit about life, he is still very idealistic and theoretical, with too much time to waste here, so I can understand why he is still hooked by the current state of the novel, we had all been there.
What troubles me most is that someone who started reading it with 20ish, should be around not 30ish, why didnt they outgrew the novel? why are they still hooked to the shit it has became? Is this some sort of pool of underdeveloped adults? This never ending thread really makes me think, Im really curious about it.
This place definately deserves a deep study, with geeks wasting their time doing burnout charts of renders per day, and people really trying to psychoanalize Sophia's need for attention, or Dylan's motives. Come on, its absolute shit writting, this is not the fucking game of thrones! WTF is wrong with the people in this thread! Get a life!
(I understand I've deserved a huuuuuuuuuuge list of facepalms, feel free)
I am old enough to have several kids older than yourself & slightly younger than you, who now have kids of their own. Being a commentator on this thread makes me well aware of how old I am but as I still have a vivid memory of my schooldays & teen years, (at the time of writing!), I also believe I can appreciate some of the the POVs of the youthful fans to whom L&P has decided to dedicate his creation. I also came to AWAM to play a corruption game with renders of the highest quality, which seemed to promise a better story than many similar games I'd played. Specifically, I was hooked by the "realism & class" that the early game promoted & displayed.
Like you, I was conscious of a large teenage prescence in the cast & I understood that it was a given that incest would be a major feature. As I find no trace of eroticism in incest, I did my best for 5 years to ignore &/or avoid it. This turned out to be a successful approach, to a greater extent than I had expected, at least for that length of time. (I still obtain wry amusement from those who infer that incest is somehow morally superior to several other fetishes, teased but not really brought to fruition in AWAM). Recent developments have meant that this strategy no longer works for me & to emphasise this, I've been left with no game to play, for a long time.
I don't regret sticking with AWAM for so long, because there've been some entertaining moments. Whereas I used to think & hope that some extra-marital interaction with other adults would occur at some point, I no longer truly believe this, unless it turns out to be incest/lesbianism, or partner swapping in order to break the marriage vows & open the floodgates to a range of teen encounters. Posing in a tacky naughty nurse outfit for 2 old codgers doesn't count, IMO, whatever transpires, because it's just too unbelievable & downright silly to care about.
Unbelievability is now at the heart of AWAM. Anything can happen & frequently does, once 'porn logic' is used to justify arrant nonsense. Incest is "the only game in town" where today's average teen porn is concerned. This is as immutable as the porn logic which dictates that every so-called MILF must have breasts the size of 2 water-melons that won first prize in a fruit grower's competition. Everything must be seen to break a "taboo" (even a taboo so 'normalised' as incest, that it's almost routine) & must be grossly exaggerated, otherwise it's not teen porn & crucially it seems, not as commercially viable as it could be. It's by no means just AWAM that follows these rules but appears to be more like 99% of corruption games, laughingly billed as "adult" games. It used to be the case that AWAM had unique rules but no more.
Young people, when they become interested in porn, will tend to go with the flow of whatever is IN at the time their curiosity is aroused. Incest has been IN for most of this century, having been nowhere to be seen, when I was a teenager. I have some theoretical ideas as to why this is but they're far too controversial for this thread & may well be totally wrong. When I first got into porn, in the mid-'60s, spanking was the big thing. It was everywhere just as incest is today. Now it's very much a minority kink, as incest, in it's turn, will become, one fine day, by & by.... When I was 12 years old I tended not to attempt any psycho-social, or psycho-sexual analyses of why particular kinks thrived, (it would have spoiled the fun, hurt the brain & I didn't know what they meant) & I'm certain that's the case for the many young fans of AWAM, who, like me back then, clearly & naturally lack a broad range of sexual knowledge & experience. This applies to the behaviour of adults within the teen porn genre. So much so that, apart from being boring, (as Sophia has become, ref.L&P), their best use is as props & accessories to ensure schoolboy wish fulfilment.
That leads to the big AWAM drawback for those fans who do have certain levels of that knowledge & experience, in so far that the Dev has decided that he is not going to attempt to cater for a wide audience, or to make any attempts at realism, or class but will rather direct his efforts where he perceives the most money can be made. Having delivered, (albeit excruciatingly slowly), the product he originally advertised & created, he's decided on a new formula & chosen to retain the original well-known title of his game. It's around this time that the critics of the critics condescend to chime in with their 'well-past-it's-sell-by-date' chant of 'get lost, (or sometimes more directly, get fucked) &/or go make your own game.' Believe me, if I had the Dev's rendering ability, I would. I began by enjoying AWAM & following it keenly. When it declined, I stayed for the quality renders. Now it's only curiousity to see how bad this can get that keeps me involved.
.still asses and bobbies
