downward → down
leftward → left
northward → north
backward → back
forward → ???
alright the lazy-loading update for #GAGSProject is live! you should now be able to see way more results for every search. unfortunately depending on how restrictive your gender preferences are, searches could actually take longer now - possibly even much longer - but I hope that the tradeoff of waiting longer for more results ends up being something that others like
i'll admit i haven't been really tuned into the smutgame scene, but most of the ones i see don't really manage to mix the sex and gameplay well at all - it feels like they often fall into this trap of treating sex as just a carrot to dangle in front of the player.
like, the sex is something that happens in between bits of gameplay as a reward for the player doing well, rather than a thing that happens as part of the gameplay; it's always like "win this match 3 and you get to see a tity" or "after you defeat the boss you can press a button to see a gif of her bouncing on it"
or put a different way, sex is the goal, not something you can do to get to the goal.
and i'm thinking about how you'd make a game that successfully marries sex and gameplay, and coming up blank
I just discovered r/Skydentify and I love it. it’s a bunch of videos of like “what is this horrifying eldritch monstrosity looming blurrily in the sky??” and the comments will figure out that it’s:
and then when you look back at the blurry picture it’s so obvious that that’s what it is. just a whole sub full of spooky mysteries with mundane level-headed answers, and also I get to learn about cool things that can be in the sky. I want to fly a solar balloon sometime. they look fun
omg so apparently if you search for nothing (as in, the empty string) using the reddit API, it will give you no results at all. instead of, y’know, a list of posts sorted by new or hot or something. I had no idea about this, so you would think that if you search for nothing in #GAGSProject then you will mysteriously get no results and think (kinda correctly) that GAGS is broken
but actually no - because a totally unrelated bug was making it so that searching for nothing on GAGS was actually searching for NOT (), which was tricking reddit into returning results anyway
I only found out about the first bug because today I fixed the second. so as a temporary workaround I’m deliberately keeping the second bug for now lol (but only for the very specific circumstances where reddit will return nothing)
this is a bit of a minor update but I added two new subreddits to #GAGSProject! r/GWAQueer and r/GoneWildAudioGay
in order to make room for them in the search results UI, I switched from using tabs to a navbar. I think I like this approach more because it communicates information explicitly that I was trying to communicate implicitly in the past - although this navbar format might be a little less intuitive to folks who are used to the UI language of tabs
also, I added a new button that lets you save your gender preferences and blacklist. in the past whenever you submitted a search, your preferences would be saved, but there was no way to save them without submitting a search
reading plot summaries for horror movies on Wikipedia be like:
Paul and Andrew accuse Brian and Will of hiding the fact that Bill and Paul were keeping the truth from William and Connor. in the confusion, Ryan and Dylan steal the key from Jessica’s neck while Byran and Will argue about Jessica and Logan’s absence, which deepens Olivia’s suspicion of Caden and Paul
OK, preaching to the choir here, but…
Our brains and bodies are simply not wired to handle the 24/7 horrors going on in the world right now.
I am not going to judge you based on how much you do or don’t talk about current events here.
Because I do know that the folks I follow here - they care, even if they’re not talking about it.
So if you’re feeling guilty/awkward/whatever about posting a good thing, or what you had for dinner, or something you made - please, don’t.
We need good stuff.
any commercial software or hardware that gets periodic updates will enshittify sooner or later
alright I think I’m comfortable saying that GAGS is ready to be used! you can find it here:
GAGS (#GWA Advanced Gender Search) is a tool for searching #EroticAudio / #AudioPorn subreddits like #GoneWildAudio and #EroticHypnosis. unlike GWASI, GAGS lets you search for exactly which listener genders and speaker genders you want. for example you could search for only files by trans men or genderqueer people, and exclude all files for men. I hope this will be especially helpful for beings with complicated sexualities and/or genders who can’t just search for something simple like [F4M]
so if you’re interested in that, please give it a try! keep in mind that it might be a little bit slow because I’m using a cheap VPS, and the reddit API is also very slow
please let me know if:
I have very limited energy, but if there’s enough interest and I have the energy to spare then I do want to keep improving #GAGSProject, so feedback is appreciated 💙
also, if GAGS was helpful then please consider boosting this post so that more beings can try it. I don’t want to get deluged with traffic or anything but I’d like to help as many beings as possible find hot audios to listen to that are tailored to their gender and orientation
edit: I updated the link from the old one ( https://gags-search.duckdns.org/search_form ) because the old one was causing DNS issues. so if you weren’t able to connect before, maybe try the new URL and see if it works 💙
tfw i exist in the physical realm and am not a digital construct
There's an old Soviet #joke, which thanks to neoliberalism, applies in several countries now :
A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of Pravda, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away.
After a few weeks of this the seller just has to ask what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside?"
"I'm looking for an obituary."
"An obituary? But those are in the back!"
"Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."
ZIF connectors mean "zero insertion force" because that's how much force before they break.