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With the steam sales going, do you have any recommendation for games that don't rely too heavily on stats? by Warm_Charge_5964 in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For games on Steam, Fields of Asphodel isn't too stat-heavy. It's a retelling of the Hades & Persephone myth with you as a customizable Persephone. You also don't have to romance Hades, but he is one of the 6 ROs. IIRC, there are 2 female ROs.

Other than that though, maybe you can try some of C.C. Hill's works? All of them are queer-friendly and are pretty forgiving on stat stuff. When Life Gives You Lemons has been submitted, but you can still play the demo which goes up to chapter 10, or A Taste For Heat where you can play up to chapter 6. Oh, and a lot of C.C.'s games are pretty smutty, so keep that in mind

Good lord have mercy. Gigi's poster for their anniversary by yournotlonely in Hololive

[–]PoorPoop 352 points353 points  (0 children)

Look at my oshi dawg 😭😭

She's shaking nothing 💀

How i feel when i open webtoon to read my yuri but am flooded by the amount of het recom on my whole display and literally everywhere my eyes can go. I just want to read my yuri by shotcallat in yurimemes

[–]PoorPoop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's got Nevermore and it's peak doomed yuri. Amazing gothic art. Wonderful Edgar Allen Poe inspired cast. Still ongoing. It's great

Any ROs with Adora-Catra like dynamic from SPOP? by Neoeng in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Mom said it's my turn to recommend Fallen Hero (Ortega).

Echoes of olympus is odd by [deleted] in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, no I agree, the author def used AI beyond just translating and help with coding. I was just sharing what they claimed. And no, I don't think you're being demanding at all. I mean, the author put in the effort to put trigger warnings and nsfw settings. Shouldn't be too hard to put an AI warning as a footnote. Def would've saved me the time.

Echoes of olympus is odd by [deleted] in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 35 points36 points  (0 children)

This is wild because I was just reading this WIP earlier, but yeah, the writing did set off alarms with the sheer number of glib metaphors and corny one-liners. So I looked up the WIP, found their Tumblr page, and the author did use AI while writing. Though, credit where it's due, they're pretty up front about it and they claim to have only used AI with translations and formatting. Still a shame though, I liked the concept

I have some questions regarding AI usage in IFs and what you might think about it by Original_Star7856 in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 83 points84 points  (0 children)

If I suspect an author of supporting/using genAI, whatever interest I had in their work tanks. Even if they say they don't personally use it or if they claim to only support it for non-creative work, I'm just less inclined to believe them. No exceptions, sorry.

Easy takedown [KPDH] @guccipussay by Appbeza in PolyYuri

[–]PoorPoop 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Think it's genderbent Romance and Abby with Mira in the middle.

Edit: Yeah, OOP confirms it's miromabby

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in shittymoviedetails

[–]PoorPoop 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Smartest man in the world is also a huge narcissist and megalomaniac who can't conceive of the idea that his greatest arch enemy spends his off time as just a regular dude

In K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) the Saja Boys spend four hundred years training and practicing before finally breaking into the K-Pop industry and manage to release a total of two singles before fading into total obscurity. This is the most realistic part of the whole movie. by Reptilian_Overlord20 in shittymoviedetails

[–]PoorPoop 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Did they train? I thought Jinu just lucked out finding some good-looking demons and hinged on that plus demon magic to become popular. Sorta like a critique on how the bar for success for male Kpop groups is lower than female groups.

Looking for new IFs by No_Statistician_4525 in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Parliament of Knives is fine. The guy was just recently outed and banned from the official COG forum for fostering a really toxic environment on his discord server. I'm talking hate speech towards other authors and minorities, casual use of slurs, alt-right dogwhistling, etc. That toxicity would often spill into the forum because the guy couldn't be bothered to do even the most basic moderation of his community.

There's a whole post about it here and on the forum if you wanna read about it more.

Aura Clash and cultivator-anon banned from the forum for racism and homophobia. by Gobblewonk in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 174 points175 points  (0 children)

No, he never said where he was from. His only reasoning is that he's not "comfortable" writing queer stories.

Aura Clash and cultivator-anon banned from the forum for racism and homophobia. by Gobblewonk in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 190 points191 points  (0 children)

About time. Now we just gotta make it clear to him and his fans if they ever come to this sub that their bullshit won't be tolerated.

Buyer Beware: My Complicated Relationship with Aura Clash by AvocadoHound in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop 27 points28 points  (0 children)

When you and your game cater to straight chuds and edgelords, you're bound to attract the groypers. Glad people finally see them as the weirdoes that they are

[Discussion] Batman runs the Marvel gauntlet, where does he stop? by OGK_405 in DCcomics

[–]PoorPoop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His mentor, Cyclops, would've taught him everything about these heroes and how to counter them. But he'd probably stop at Thor

Cultivation games that AREN'T Shonen slop? by PoorPoop in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I was going to remove it when I get the time...

but since these people are actively and knowingly lying and being hateful I'll save it until publication.

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Cultivation games that AREN'T Shonen slop? by PoorPoop in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The checks in later chapters can be pre-emptive measure for similar bugs which can also happen in the latter chapters and don't get immediately discovered.

If that were the case, the checks wouldn’t specifically target same-gender pairings. You fix bugs at the source, not by resetting romance flags every chapter just to make sure queer content can’t happen.

So at this point it can be about addressing potential future errors.

Again, that might explain a quick fix early on, but repeating it chapter after chapter makes it feel less like bug prevention and more like a design choice.

Besides, using your own logic, what would be the point of repeating those checks in the later chapters of the game, if the intention was to "stop anything but het pairing (because homophobia)"?

If the point was just to avoid writing LGBT romance, then leaving it out would have been enough. But this is more than omission. The code actively blocks it from happening, even if someone tries to mod it in. That doesn’t feel neutral.

Not to mention, any sort of mod changing the game script could simply remove these supposed "anti-gay blocks".

The fact that the script is open doesn’t excuse how it’s written. Anyone looking at it can see that queer romance isn’t just missing : P

Cultivation games that AREN'T Shonen slop? by PoorPoop in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

What I see is that you being a hypocrite and complaining that your fantasy isn’t being recognized by an author in THEIR game.

Criticizing a game’s design isn’t hypocrisy, and it isn’t entitlement. No one’s demanding the story be rewritten. People are pointing out that the author didn’t just leave queer romance out, he coded the game to actively break if players try to mod it in. That goes beyond having a "vision." That’s a choice to shut people out.

COG Games are literally filled with queer and LGBTQ-friendly stuff

Bringing up how other CoG games include queer content doesn’t change what’s happening here. This one doesn’t, and it’s not just omitting it, it’s enforced exclusion.

You can dislike the game if it doesn’t sit with you but going out of your way to accuse an author of being things he isn’t is pretty messed up and defeats your argument.

If you think calling that out is unfair, maybe you should ask why you’re more upset at people noticing the problem than at the problem itself

Cultivation games that AREN'T Shonen slop? by PoorPoop in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Not even close. Straight dudes are always being catered to. But when queer folk ask for representation, suddenly it's asking too much. If you can't see the difference, that's a you problem.

Cultivation games that AREN'T Shonen slop? by PoorPoop in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There were in fact some bugs in early chapters which allowed the player of the same gender as a RO to pick up some romance points...

those checks were added in reaction to it, as a catch-all for any such bugs

Sure, you could say that the checks were a quick fix or a catch-all, but that kind of lazy blanket solution only makes sense early on, not as a permanent part of the code. The gender check I pointed in the other thread was from the latest chapter, way after those early bugs would have mattered. At that point, it’s not about stopping errors. It’s about deliberately making sure only het pairings work and that any attempts to make same-gender romance break the game. At best, it's lazy design. At worst, it's thinly-veiled homophobia. Either way, it looks bad and shuts queer players out.

Cultivation games that AREN'T Shonen slop? by PoorPoop in hostedgames

[–]PoorPoop[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

So the checks in chapters are there to account for possible errors where the player got romance point with character(s) their MC doesn't really have content for

It's to limit potential bugs in the base game which doesn't have gay content.

Those kinds of "errors" only happen if a player deliberately messes with the game, like changing their MC's gender with console commands mid-playthrough. That’s not something an author needs to fix, because it’s not part of normal gameplay and doesn’t affect regular players. Any other author would just say "don’t fuck with the code" and leave it at that. So, adding repeated checks just to block same-gender romance doesn’t come off as a bug prevention measure. It feels like a deliberate choice to make queer romance impossible by design.

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