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[ID: a sketchy digital comic showing a dog lying down with his head on a person's leg.

hatoful boyfriend singlehandedly ruined 99% of "parody" dating sims for me because it's like. i don't know how to explain it better than saying it's the galaxy quest of dating simulators. it's a very shameless and very silly parody, yes, but at the end of the day it ultimately takes its characters and its plot very very seriously, and all of its parody elements stem from a place of deep love and respect for the genre. you walk away from hatoful boyfriend's true ending knowing the creator loves the tropes she's poking fun at, and the world she's built up surrounding said tropes. it's a deeply silly and deeply stupid game with a deeply silly and deeply stupid foundation but it is extremely sincere. and this is the element so many dating sim parody games lack. they're too afraid to fully commit to their own genre, to make a proper effort to capture what makes it great, to be more than the stock shallow nothingburgers they assume all dating sims are. they're more obsessed with The Bit than they are making a good goddamn game. like. congratulations, you've made a wacky game about dating wacky objects and creatures!!!!!!!!! now make something with heart and soul for once.

I have a bad habit of calling things “loathsome” if they mildly inconvenience me, which usually isn’t that bad, but today I spilled my drink and said “loathsome juice…” under my breath without realizing that’s not a normal thing to say

I'm gonna say something incredibly 30-year-old and I'm going to ask you to not judge me while I'm trying to be genuine and real. Okay? Here's my truth.

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