NURVUSS'S PROFILE

author=Asylum Game Jam
Returning for a second year, Asylum Jam is a 48 hour long game jam where game developers are challenged to make a horror game and explore the genre without negative mental health or medical stereotypes. This year, Asylum Jam will be taking place from October 31st to November 2nd for whatever 48 hour period that is most convenient for you in your timezone. The ticker here is set to 7PM CET.

After a very successful first year with 385 participants and around 60 submitted games (which you can play here), we're back for another dose of horror gaming - and we want you.

author=Kylaila
Well, granted, they are two different mythological beings. Which makes them much much more interesting, although the "classes" certainly do remain.
I love the compendium with their background stories, though!

author=emmych
EDIT: SHE BOUNCES

author=bulmabriefs144

author=unity
These two statements don't belong in the same post.

Lol.

Futanari simply means "dual form/two kinds" in japanese. It's porn that has given it a bad rap.
But... There is no futanari porn in this town, and the townsfolk talk about the reality of being intersex (such as schoolkids worrying about people from other towns making fun of them, and not understanding why). That an entire town is like this? Maybe a curse, or something in the water. Regardless, they have to cope with the fact that terms like husband and wife are no longer reflective.

author=LockeZ
Well, maybe I took it the wrong way. Sorry then.

Moving the topic away from Bulmabriefs (even though he's a good punching bag), I will say that there have been games that I found deeply offensive. Binding of Isaac, for instance. The main villain in that game is a Christian mother who listens to too many televangelists on TV and starts hearing the voice of God, who wants her to horribly physically abuse and then kill her child, so she does. You play as the child, locked naked in the basement with fecal matter, dirty needles, and the dead bodies of your siblings that she let die already. (Also walking vagina enemies that fire railgun beams out of their snatches, but that's a different topic.)

This is not a healthy portrayal of Christians and even though it's played for laughs it seriously upsets me. "Lunatic who does awful things because they mistakenly believe that God told them to" is a really common negative stereotype of Christians that bothers me a lot. There are two possible messages the author of Binding of Isaac might be trying to send:

If he's being semi-halfway-serious, his message is:
1) Christians are fuckin' nuts. Their whole religion is absurd and makes them do awful things.

If he's just being a dickwad and offending people for laughs, his message is:
2) Christians are uptight and get offended by shit way too easily. You shouldn't care about this kind of stuff.

The thing is that both of these messages are controversial, and they're both offensive to a lot of people.

But even though I think he's an idiot and an asshole, and his game offends the hell out of me, I don't think he shouldn't have made it. People have the right to be offended, but they don't have the right to tell others to stop saying things that offend them. Not if the person saying those things has a point to make. And yes, I think that "you shouldn't be so offended by people who take this topic lightly" counts as a point to make.