[Gallagher]

p good game

[Espy]

It....has some stereotype issues. And it's honestly geared more towards a female audience than a gay dude audience, but, eh. It's not bad, overall.

[Mekatra]

Most yaoi/boys love kind of things tend to be focused toward a female audience to be honest. Then again, they also are more commonly created by a female team also

[mdom]

girls need to stop fetishizing gay boys tho forreal

[Worm]

Dude, whatever gets you off doesn't bother me. I mean... So long as consent is involved. What kind of stereotypes are we talking? I haven't looked too far into the game yet.

I mean lesbians are fetishized too, trans people, basically anything that's taboo or has been taboo in the last couple centuries is fetishized. XD Though I do agree in the sense that it would make for better storytelling if it were written by the people who actually live those lives. Rather than a pinhole perspective of what it must be like to be gay, without actually being it. Then again, that's the problem for a lot of media in general.

[mdom]

very true, Worm! Representativity done right is a problem

[Espy]

(although there ARE a few romance options in DDADDS who are bi, and a couple others break every single stereotype about gay dudes out there, and one of them is 100% the kind of person I’d date if I was actually into the who dating thing.)

[Worm]

Oh dude, that makes me feel better about it then. xD
Like I said, I haven't looked too far into the game.

[Espy]

Like there’s one who you know from...college...? Who like. Has three kids and an ex-gf now, and is basically a soccer dad and hauls you off to the gym as your first “date”.

[Worm]

Ooo I do like that
It sounds like he'd have a dynamic story and interesting interactions

You mentioned stereotypes issues with the game, what sorts of things are we talking?

[Espy]

Uhh. Gay lumberjack-ish stereotype? Sort of? But he has a kid. Also, the barista dude and your character’s kid’s teacher also hit a few stereotypes.

the most problematic (?) one (to me) might be the LI who’s a youth preacher w a dissatisfied flirtatious wife.

[Worm]

Oh geez, yeah the last one definitely makes me a little uncomfortable x.x

[mdom]

and you can date a married guy <.< ok >.>

[Espy]

It, hm. The dates aren't exactly "dates" in the typical sense. Like, in the case of the one that I mentioned before, the soccer dad, one of the "dates" is helping him find his baby's lost toy.

And I haven't done the route with the married dude, but iirc, I read online that his "good ending" is him being back together w his wife?

[mdom]

Aw, you help rebuild his life xD how errr sweet, I guess
not a typical dating sim

[Gallagher]

the point of that particular dating option was to show the sort of no-win situation that can happen really, really fucking easily, particularly to younger individuals that are less secure with themselves. i don't see it as problematic because it's not romanticized. it's all sadness and anger and hurt and there's no winning in the same sense as all of the other dates.