making a game, but it’s too short and simple? players not addicted enough? want to add a dark pattern to artificially increase complexity, get them addicted, and pad out playtime indefinitely?

try adding soulless RPG progression

• shoehorn in RPG progression where it doesn’t belong
• no interesting synergies, no thought-out upgrades, just numerical progression and maybe a talent tree
• don’t even think about the implications. just turn everything into RPG stats
• make it really convoluted and exponential
• your players will grind forever and give you lots of money
• every other game is doing it so it’s okay if you do too

you will certainly not regret forcing RPG progression into your game

someone was talking about performance anxiety and yeah, the performance anxiety is very real.

my advice is to, off-character, first talk with your date about it, and explicitly state that, for example, if you're not feeling well for whatever reason you can leave the club at any moment, etc. being vulnerable around your subs make them trust you more not less, which in turn increases the depths of kink you can reach, rather than decrease. don't try to stay on character at all times.

then during the scene, any insecurities or difficulties that you have, frame them to stay in character.

"I don't have energy to keep up with this girl" → "I am sated. I have better things to do with my time than catering to little subs like you. If you want more do it yourself. Let me watch."

"I'm feeling too sensitive to be touched right now" → "[slaps hand] What are you doing? You don't *get* to touch me. Look down. Turn around."

"I can't get hard due to performance anxiety" → "You call this oral? You didn't even get me hard. It's your fault and you should be punished :> turn around"

"dang this is taking forever, I'm not sure if I can make her come" → "I don't care if you come or not, you're my toy and you're here for me to use. Lie down already and be a hole."

etc. etc., according to the specific kinks of your sub. every difficulty, disability or limitation you think you have can always be framed as a play of power. they get off on it too so it's win-win

@Melezioh

RE: https://mstdn.games/@Melezioh/116381251636616899

Resident Evil 6 was definitely hot dogshit but I have got to appreciate the erotic-horror bossfight with mutated Deborah

she is such a good mix of alluring and monstrous and she’s even a bit nauseating to look at at times, which is such an interesting mix of emotions. also they were completely uninhibited with how erotic they made her movements and sounds and I genuinely love that

Resident Evil has had erotic elements for a while now (I wonder if there are even some in Resident Evil 1) but this is definitely the most overtly erotic thing I’ve seen in a Resident Evil game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB3HSvGwj-k

CW for the video: general horror elements (pain and suffering, death, etc.), body horror, very very lewd-coded

the Official Web Browser Language™ should’ve been a Lisp instead, because that way instead of clumsily bolting new syntax and semantics onto the language forever, they could just keep a simple core language which never changes, and let people add their own features using macros

that way learning the language would just be a process of:

• okay, how does the core language work?
• wow that sucks, but I know it now. now what’s the most popular standard library module that fixes all of that?

it would also fix the problems of JSX and TypeScript and JS transpiling in general

so I found a subreddit for FFXIV discussions and it was literally nothing but people complaining about the game and about Square Enix. I don’t think I saw a single positive post

so I was like “oh - I’ll fit right in here” and made a post with all of my biggest criticisms of the game

and people were immediately furious at me because the parts that I was criticizing were some of their favorite parts. and I find that hilarious

@AnarchoNinaWrites

RE: https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/116378500037535179