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No. 430451

At first I was thinking about making a /snow/ thread, but it's not easy to scrub enough content with how quickly the forum's mods clean all the quality drama. I'm fine with moving it there if anyone will be interested.

Anyway, CoG is a text-based adventures developer and publisher. You've probably never heard of them. There's little to say about the games they publish, except that it's clear that (the way they put it) "Choice of Games Is a Feminist, Egalitarian, Sex-Positive Company". They also offer anyone the opportunity to write and publish interactive stories. Each author can make a topic on their forum and post a game demo.
And this is when the shit goes down.
Just like any other forum, CoG is an absolute cesspool. Except for the fact that the nature of it encourages failed writers of CoG to fill the topics with their personal shit and issues™.
Here's the last and probably the best example. A guy was writing a story titled "Mass Mother Murderer". The story's MC was written as a cartoonish psychopath who was trying to kill his/her mother while murdering random people and possibly raping them. When asked about what the hell is wrong with the MC, the author would answer that "The MC TOTALLY has ASPD, and this is an accurate representation of an abused ill person!!!". After being questioned multiple times, the author threw a massive tantrum all over the forums where he called everyone abusers, himself a misunderstood narcissist (I'm not kidding), and then started suicide baiting. After a while, the guy kept going and only stopped after writing an actual rape scene (stil not banned thought). https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/mass-mother-murderer/38592/1744

Bad thing: unfortunately, most of this shit is gone and not archived.
Good thing: CoG has quite a few other obscure cows. A lot of them have tumblr blogs and discord channels where hilarious things happen all the time. Some forum discussions can also be entertaining when "queer community" is the subject.

tl;dr: CoG forum is a possible obscure lolcow goldmine with queer/feminist ally undertones.
Have you ever heard of it/read the forums? I played a few of their games, but the community proved to be far more entertaining.

No. 430458

I thought this was going to be about the Corruption of Champions community at first, and I was ready to laugh at some insane furries.
This sounds interesting, but can you dump some screencaps or links to other cows you've found, OP?

No. 430460

hmm keeping an eye, this sounds interesting

No. 430529

>>430458
>>430458
The currently active ones:
Here https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/choice-of-rebels-uprising-lead-the-revolt-against-a-bloodthirsty-empire we have the furry author complaining about those darn cis people and constantly getting into discourse and ranting about revolution. Recent exampless: https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/choice-of-rebels-uprising-lead-the-revolt-against-a-bloodthirsty-empire/32089/2919, https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/choice-of-rebels-uprising-lead-the-revolt-against-a-bloodthirsty-empire/32089/2921. The writer seems to respond to every commenter not licking their (?) furry ass.
This one https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/wip-fallen-hero-2-retribution-updated-27-april-2019-spoiler-warning/ seems to be a metathor for the writer's life story, and the writer keeps bringing discourse to her tumblr blogs (recent examples: https://fallenhero-rebirth.tumblr.com/post/186067085581/important, https://fallenhero-rebirth.tumblr.com/post/186053756381/if-we-have-worries-or-concerns-regarding-the). The author identifies as queer, is an aspie and a Goblins fan, has a kickstarter for a comic book about gay teenagers with Emma Vieceli as a co-writer. It's generally not that easy to keep up with what's going on, but you get huge rants with little tolerance for criticism weekly. The fandom and the discord channel seem to be full of fujoshis.
This guy https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/triaina-academy-wip-update-1-05-7-3-19/ shoves a bunch of anime tropes into his story. Yandere and step-sibling romance options are included. The author has been already called out on the latter, and I can see this one turning into a shitshow. Gives me some YandereDev vibes.
Some users are also prominent with writing pretty bizarre shit (https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/poison_mara/, the guy who wrote about a mother murderer is also still there likely about to pull off something new https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/lgbtq-and-feminism-issues/27535/574).
There's the adult section https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/adult-works-in-progress-update-thread that I suspect has more stuff if you're willing to register. Moonrise appears to be a furry story, A Stern Hand is the 50 shades of gray: choose your own adventure version, etc.

Overall it seems like all of them are not used to hearing criticism, and the forum/stuff they write is too obscure to get any harsh responses unless it's from some randoms on Steam. If you find interactive fiction generally interesting, then I definitely think this is going to be fun to explore, but otherwise those are mostly slow burns unless provoked (with the ones I've mentioned being exceptions).

Looking into some of the games' reviews may also be interesting if anything piques your curiosity. People complain about the majority of characters being LGBT and "agenda being pushed" (https://steamcommunity.com/id/Aeristash/recommended/1001490/).



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