Артемий Котов

Нарративный дизайнер, ex-DTF

[Kabrutus @kabrutusdeid]

I made this short video a few years ago and somehow it feels more relevant now than ever.

[Артемий Котов @Kotemiy]

@NilesSankey I was once forced to add diversity in a spy thriller visual novel I was working on. I had to fight for keeping one of the lead characters white whereas my superior suggested turning him arabic. And I won just by reminding that the character's father is a terrorist.

[Niles Sankey @NilesSankey]

Having women in the game is fine (e.g. Kat in Reach was well written). I've written women into my own games. The issue is artificial writing and lack of awareness.

It's clear that the devs needed to force more diversity into the story, so they made the new main character a girl, as if everything MUST be 50/50, evenly distributed against all logic.

Then they use the excuse of "lore" to make a poorly written character that immediately berates the player, even though it's contextually ridiculous.

The end result is a cliche girl boss telling the player how terrible they are, in a game where your (primarily) male audience is already very skeptical of forced social politics. But the devs/leads never stopped and said "Hmm, maybe the end result here is not achieving our goals of winning back our primary demographic."

It's tone deaf on top of being poorly executed. And this hurts branding, it hurts sales, and will destroy a studio's reputation (whatever's left of it anyway)

[Haunted AI @HauntedAI]

Always listen to your girl!

[Haunted AI @HauntedAI]

The yōkai selects her next victim 😳

[Артемий Котов @Kotemiy]

@lastchalice If pissing on a pile of dogshit can be called a debate

[Артемий Котов @Kotemiy]

Жёсткое охлаждение гоев

[XBOX @XBOX]

Y'know what hell yeah

[Артемий Котов @Kotemiy]

Твиттерские идут предзаказывать GTA VI, пока не закончилась

[Akira Kei @AkiraKei12]

Japan really didn't lie when they say they want to reject anime censorship

Look at this anime run dawg from Needy Girl Overdose → Chainsmoker Cat → jimoto saikou → and now Mii-chan and Yamada-san, is all about problematic theme
#みいちゃんと山田さん

[🆉🆄🆄🅷🅻82 @Zuuhl82]

Becca//:smasher

[AlphaKing @AlphaKing123793]

@NilesSankey You best start believing in propaganda you're in one

[DEI Detective 🕵️ @DeiDetective]

"faithful yet modernized" strikes again

[WolfEye Studios - Next: First Person Action RPG @WolfEyeGames]

Our Creative Director @rafcolantonio sat down with @NinelAnderson of #DevotedSpeakeasy for a spirited chat about our next game, the highs and lows of Arkane, what defines an immersive sim and why he believes that subscription models undermine artistic expression.

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[❤️‍🔥 𝙒𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙨 🧇 (Reading up: 86) @MON0EYE]

The 10th anniversary commemorative short film for Kabaneri was pretty fun.

Been a while since I watched the series. Mumei's still badass yet cute as ever.

[KruelVerse @theSosiKevin]

Albedo 🖤

[Ghost @ThePhantomPlain]

Narahara Ittetsu came to Nitro+ and said he wanted to write just 1 vn. They didn't let him and made him write some short samurai story to test what he was capable of. After that he wrote his one and only true vn, his magnum opus and simply left writing for good.

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

Too many tourists who watch anime have gotten a distorted reality of what "girl failures" are really like, and most of them are just stylized fiction, where Yani Neko breaks that trope.

Most anime and the aesthetic of it portray them with appealing overtones. The game and anime for needy girl overdose show mental illness, self-harm, addiction, etc in a visually pleasing manner that sanitizes the horror of it.

Yandare tropes like Yuno from Mirai Nikki also show a cute aesthetic with a crazy only for you fantasy that's dramatic and exciting instead of sad and pathetic. It also triggers a savior complex because of her tragic past, where you can fantasize about "fixing her".

Or Aqua... whiny, incompetent, alcoholic, a definition of a failure... but she is one of the most popular characters in Konosuba because of that unrealistic cute bratty vibe.

Or every character in DDLC... All cute, all stylized, and the psychological horror element made it fun.

And there are so many others like Tomoko Kuroki, Bocchi, etc that land in the unrealistic, cute, funny, stylized, or exaggerated.

It is also fuel for a subset of the anime fans who are lonely men who see girl failures as easy targets for dating and relationships... with that"I can fix her" mentality. The mainstream girl failure media shows that flaws are fun, mental illness is charming, addictions are cute, incompetence is adorable. The idea of saving someone gives men a sense of purpose, especially if they are unsuccessful in real life.

Some men then relate their own failure traits like depression, aimlessness, addiction, self-harm, and develop a parasocial mutual relationship with the fictional characters and then "grow" together.

Men are also more likely than women to date down, where they will date women who are of lower status, money, intelligence, and competence, etc. The reverse of hypergamy, and girl failures feel safer to date for some, despite real world statistics showing otherwise.

Chainsmoker cat is the complete opposite of that trope, and most of these "I can fix her" people just nope out from that. No cute stylization of the gross outs, no elements of "fix it with love"... it's just a raw, realistic look at the slow, gross, and eroding reality of addiction and neglect... packaged in a wrap of dark humor.

If there is some equivalent to Western media... Chainsmoker Cat has the vibe of the black comedy movie Trainspotting with a little bit of grinding erosion, like Requiem for a Dream.

Also, if you are a fan of dark humor, and if you havn't watched Trainspotting, I highly recommend it!

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

When she started spiraling about how much cleaning she’d have to do before she could even start, that’s when I knew the writers really understood the reality of depression