Yea, its a stupid thing amateur writers do, they fail to give characters a unique voice, or make it very trope laden for 'special' characters. Everyone who's normal ends up talking how they wish they could talk in the moment, witty comments and all (Marvelfication of dialog) even if it doesn't actually make sense for them to do so.
The other mega-cringe writing fail he does is spamming ellipses everywhere. The confession/rejection cutscenes are a nightmare to sit through because of this.
Just a reminder that the whole characteristic of her being a fucking robot who would die of starvation if wooden senpai is gone, all of that came from one of the first 4chan threads. Alex can't handle his own ideas, let alone someone else's.
That doesn't sound like something to be proud of.
Hah, writing. Have you checked his blogposts, especially those with apologies? Alex has this juvenile belief that using smart words makes anything he says sound smarter. You know, like one Sonic/Pokémon enthusiast, who he hates to be compared to.
The funniest thing is that the dude is fucking soon-to-become 36. He "works" on this "masterpiece" for 10 years. He had plenty of time to at least become a decent writer, because becoming a better programmer and a decent human being is too hard for him, but lmaooo - it's Alex we're talking about.
Oh yeah, that. I couldn't sit through any of cutscenes with lenghty dialogues, never touched all these cassette tapes he spammed in the game to let us into the "deep lore" of it, I cringed hard when he apparently included a Death Note parody. Like, the dude is stuck at being 16 forever mentally
It's honestly not, but at least there was something.
Yeah, he also did that for his progress / lore videos when he used to make them. I guess for all those kids watching it made him sound more professional and like he knows what he's doing.
Bold of you to assume any of them were paid for their work.
A couple volunteers did eventually get paid, but most didn't.
Tbh the voice acting was the worst part of this game from what I can remember. There's nothing worse than shit tier fake voice acting. Especially in anime dubs that aren't intentionally supposed to be parodies like the more popular fandubs.
I think Black Lagoon would fill that niche. The dub of that sounds like it came right out of Hollywood - accents, curses and all.
What I consistently see in people like Alex is that they don't understand that 'Normal' isn't happy every day for 99% of people. Sure, on reflection most people would consider their average day happy or good, but its an active reflection thing measuring it up, not constant euphoria. For most people, the average day just feels ok, with a few shitty or frustrating days sprinkled around, and the occasional really good day here and there. You see your friends doing things IRL, and have days where you hand out and just just a few dudes waiting out the heat in the middle of summer, watching an ok show because nothing else is on tv, and talking shit. As mid as life can get, and that helps set your understanding of normal.
I refuse to powerlevel so I can pretend to have any authority on depression over the internet, so I won't, but I will say that it is infuriating to hear about how "hard" Alex has it when he is a goddamn moron and literally handed success - or what amounts to it - on a silver platter. For reference, Markiplier's video on YanSim currently has over 19 million views. An animation about Markiplier playing YanSim has over fucking 56 million views. It doesn't need to be said how many developers would kill for even a fraction of that attention for their own games. In contrast, the trailer for Undertale, darling of the internet and SJW wet dream, has 4.6 mil. views.
His "depression" is just frustration because the world doesn't fit his edgy juvenile black and white view
That's one of the reasons why he is "sad". He's spent and still spending so much time watching porn and hentai that his dopamine receptors are smashed harder than Elaine Miller.
Yes, actually, now that I think about it, it's just another example of his extremely worthless and unhealthy life choices. Internet and social media are a Pandora Box of sorts - just like irl relationships are, only exagerrated. It's not a very reliable source of happiness - but the more I think about it, the more I think about how a person could man up and gain tougher skin, to learn how to manage their time and all that stuff. Touch some grass dude, or whatever. But oh well, it's Alex we're talking about.
That too is a thing I've been thinking about, like the dude is never satisfied with what he wants of even deserves. He's got millions of subscribers - he's unhappy with the e-mails. He's got TinyBuild - he's unhappy they are changing his code. He's got popular - he's unhappy that he doesn't have time to play video-games or watch anime. Despite hitting a gold mine, he screwed it up - and I think he can never be truly happy lmao.
Pretty much. I just think he'll never drop YanSim, because he's pathetic like that. But yeah, gotta whine constantly about getting even more depressed until he'll groom a 6 y.o and gets to jail or something
He doesn't give a fuck because it's easier for him that way. What he includes in the game has a 50/50 chance of being based on anime or what he imagines would suit anime - whichever he likes more. He also can't decide if he wants this game to be an anime parody or something serious that he thinks could actually happen in Japan.
He did actually do some research way, way back in the day, he even managed to get someone to hook him up with an actual Japanese teacher to give some pointers in design, shit like what would actual students wear and how would an actual school be laid out. He just very quickly threw all of it in the garbage and stubbornly went with that unrealistic abomination of a design direction because he was so terminally attached to that seifuku model he copped from the Unity asset store as a "placeholder".