Guyin Cognito

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Looking close...
It's been almost 24hrs with almost no change (it is now, 35, 35, 30). It may be that no more votes are coming, and there's still a tie!
Do you realize what that means?!
It means, you should sign up for the Super Scientist tier and cast your vote to break the tie!
Or, the Thea Lundgren appreciation society tier, and getting custom monthly pin-ups, too!
(My support for Notty grows ever-more shameless as time goes on.)
 

ZTex

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Apr 3, 2019
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I'm just hoping it moves. Else it becomes Dev's pick and that's 2/3 rds of people pissed off at me! :)
That's rough.
Maybe a brave soul will undo the balance at the last minute. Either that or they'll forget to vote.
 

Arigon

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Aug 27, 2020
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Something above in one of the posts talking about "Underage Porn" not happening on here or Patreon. Parental Love... made me delete instantly, reformat the HD it was on, and did my best to eliminate all my connections to ever having seen it. Of course you can't do it, but I definitely could not make it past the very first scenes involving the younger daughter and blamo was gone....

Thank gawd Notty has quality and class!
 

gregers

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Dec 9, 2018
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Something above in one of the posts talking about "Underage Porn" not happening on here or Patreon. Parental Love... made me delete instantly, reformat the HD it was on, and did my best to eliminate all my connections to ever having seen it. Of course you can't do it, but I definitely could not make it past the very first scenes involving the younger daughter and blamo was gone....

Thank gawd Notty has quality and class!
There are a lot of games on here skirting (at best) that line. It's a logical extension of the old "Barely Legal" trope that's been kicking around since forever. Any game that lets you input the characters' age is a big fat wink that the dev knows what they're doing and is playing to that audience.

(But all of this is off-topic, so expect a mod to come through with a mop and bucket momentarily.)
 

Guyin Cognito

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I just want to comment on the difference between Japanese games and Western games re: porn vs drama with sex. At least here in America, we are way more prudish about sex in media than Japan. In America, if your product contains graphic depictions of sex, there is a high likelihood that it will be classified as porn, and therefore not be taken seriously. In Japan, a serious RPG that has sex scenes would not be cast aside in that same way. Thus, in America, people are probably more reluctant to "just add some sex to sell my otherwise serious game." With few exceptions, things are seen as either porn or not porn, and people (as in "the public") don't generally expect much from porn.

Some of the better devs in this little sub-industry are defying that paradigm, but they aren't exactly getting reviewed by IGN or invited to E3. They are still seen as porn by the general public. Compare this to the challenge of leaving a career in porn to become a mainstream actor/actress. It's happened, but not often. People who want to become serious game developers with public appeal are not going to just throw some porn in there to get sales, because that may well relegate them to being seen as pornographers.

Additional comment: If Rumiko Takahashi wanted to do a hard-core hentai comic for a couple of years, and then wanted to go back to light-lighted comedies, I doubt anyone in Japan would think anything of it. You can't do that in the U.S.
 
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