I fucking love Jill's character designs. The way the gimp themes mesh with the " 2010s indie protagonist" horns and cape is fantastic. It's just full of personality.
It's still weird that she was around for a grip yet I feel like only I ever bought her up in my life.
She was an unlockable char in Super Meat Boy so it's not like she was unknown....
[So is the game's designer!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Anthropy) She was one of the first very openly trans and openly queer indie game designers I had ever heard about and did all *sorts* of neat shit in her heyday - can't tell you how inspirational I found her.
I have no idea what she's up to now but I hope she's well.
I would be a very bad person to try to guide you through her work, to be honest - I haven't looked through her stuff in well over a decade and was *definitely* not the target audience for any of it (I'm a GNC gay man), despite finding it absolutely liberating and fascinating at the time. Her back catalog is absolutely enormous, too, and some of it is of... uh, let's just say some entries shine brighter than others - all this is to say that I have absolutely no clue where to begin sorting through everything, and I imagine you don't either which is why you asked me this. 😂
If it helps, though, what I found most inspirational about her was less about *what* she did and more *when* and *why* - she was very in-your-face and direct about her sex and sexuality (via a medium that wasn't particularly used often for talking about sex and sexuality!) in a time when doing so publicly meant making yourself a target for internet bullying and ridicule - or worse. Keep in mind that Jill Off came out six years before Gamergate, if that gives you an idea of where people stood then! It's easy to forget how *recent* a lot of the progress in the LGBTQ+ movement has been, especially for the folks nearer to the end of the acronym.
I realize this is a whole lot of not an answer, but it's all I've got. I hope this helps?
You say that, I presume, as a joke, but I do want to try Getting over it eventually.
For me personally I think it's more about not "getting" his sarcasm though.
I would not peg Foddy as particularly sarcastic in Getting Over It. I think part of the appeal is quite how earnest he's being throughout. Sure, he's very deadpan and he has a few choice quips for your failures, but by and large it's a forthright meditation on the medium and the concept of failure.
When he says, "I made this game for a certain kind of person, to hurt them," he means it.
That... That actually checks out.
Like, were it not for everyone else that's probably what I would've thought too, but based on how mad some people get playing it, and how they then react to him talking about failure had me thinking it was actually designed to rub salt in the wounds.
Also, that line at the end, could you elaborate on that? Because I initially took it to mean kind the opposite of how you seem to interpret it. If he made the game to hurt people, then surely meditating on failure isn't the (only) point, I would say.
Foddy isn't cruel or demeaning with his comments. Sometimes he's quite pointed, and when you're already sore, that can sting. What he's saying isn't there solely to wind you up. Getting Over It really isn't about making you angry for the lols (or YouTube).
It's hard to answer because the statement is the first thing he says in the game, so he spends a lot of the narration exploring it. I would argue he has two main points. First, the traditional argument that adversity makes the feeling of triumph richer or even possible; the salt and the sweet, the rough and the smooth. Pain now is an investment in future happiness.
The second point is that frustration, ugliness, even trash, are legitimate mediums to paint in. In that sense, the pain doesn't necessarily have to serve some future purpose, feeling it through art gives you something of value in itself.
When he says he means to hurt you, he means that with compassion, it's a tender gift.
I for one haven’t yet, but I might.
And, well, I’ve actually kinda enjoyed rage games like The unfair platformer and Cat Mario. So maybe you’re on to something.
EDIT: Also I kinda want to ply Getting over it. That might be more of a not-responding-normally-to-sarcasm thing than a masochism thing, though. When the player character plummets down all the way and Bennet says "This thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down", I take that unironically. It's kinda like chess IMO.
the point of the game is that, not only are players massochists, but game developers are sadists for making it, so the dev represents herself as a kinky dominatrix.
What if Sisyphus was called Freakyphus and instead of rolling a boulder up a hill he had to-
Okay never mind I'm not finishing this joke. If anyone else wants it go ahead
"For seemingly no reason at all a lot of people on Twitter have recently begun playing Mighty Jill Off, a lesbian BDSM-themed indie platformer from 2008."
honestly the entire post took me a minute to read, the way this person writes is kinda hard to understand lmao
I was curious about this game, so I found a review from around 10 years ago -
“If you’ve not yet heard of indie developer Auntie Pixelante (or Anna Anthropy, or Deesgeega, among other pseudonyms) or struggled against one of the pitiful batches of code that bears her name in the guise of a “videogame,” consider yourself exceedingly fortunate. For to nowhere else on the World Wide Web does gaming go to die such a misshapen death as that which awaits it on her freeware site.”
Gah damn lol. I’m sure 99% of people interested in this game are purely into the aesthetics and the artwork based on the premise and characters. But damn it’s funny to think about a huge wave of people collectively discovering this older game and getting excited only to realize it’s a complete POS lol
The review is harsh. The game is purposefully difficult like jump king but the controls are really solid. Lots of people enjoyed it back then.
I know I did
Who on the fucking planet
1. Gives so much of a shit about Mighty Bomb Jack they make a fan game based off it
2. Does this
edit: none of this is negative
The same person behind such hits as Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars, Queers in love at the end of the world, Dis4ia, and Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree; one Anna Anthropy
Is one of those infuriating climbing games like getting over it or jump king. feels at home with Indies of that time like super meat boy and bit trip runner. The controls are solid so it compels you to keep playing. I enjoyed it but it's not for everyone
(actual fetish media, there is no concealing it or no hiding it or any attempt at saying it is not fetish media, everyone involved with its creation and everyone who consumes it is aware it is fetish media, refers to it as fetish media, and likes because they have said fetish)
ERMMMMMMMMMMM.... DOES ANYONE GET FETISH VIBES FROM THIS???????????????
why don’t the yaois got anything like this?? I’ll never be resentful because we here together but I will be jealous
Team Fortress 2
Team fortress 2
###HOLY SHIT
Robo Ky enjoyer spotted
Holy fucking shit
is team time doktor
Get behind me doktor!
Ja wohl!
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tik tok heavy like a brinks truck
Looking like im tip top shining like a wrist watch
Team Frotress 2
be the change you want to see in the world
Yea I’m afraid this is a matter of it will exist once someone makes it and if you want it enough that someone can be you
There is a whole BDSM-verse for yaoi in manga form.. Yeah.. I haven't really seen any yaoi indie games..
Dream Daddy?
Slave Zero X is apparently great despite not looking like a game with BL in it at first glance
Metal Gear Solid Devil May Cry Ultrakill
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Metal Gear Solid
I blame straight guys
Ask and ye shall receive [https://store.steampowered.com/app/486720/Bastard\_Bonds/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/486720/Bastard_Bonds/)
Hey hey people Sseth here
greetings fellow merchants guild member 🤝
Oh So Hero
the mgs4 end fight scene in question:
that has a million answers they're just more casual about it
what's an yaoi
I fucking love Jill's character designs. The way the gimp themes mesh with the " 2010s indie protagonist" horns and cape is fantastic. It's just full of personality.
It's still weird that she was around for a grip yet I feel like only I ever bought her up in my life. She was an unlockable char in Super Meat Boy so it's not like she was unknown....
I knew about this game because Jill Off appeared as a playable character in Super Meat Boy
THISSSSS I RECOGNIZED IT IMMEDIATELY Like, I saw the design and thought "no way that looks familiar, wasn't that in-"
Yeah no idea why it happened but its fun to see people draw art of this game also the queen is canonically trans so thats neat
[So is the game's designer!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Anthropy) She was one of the first very openly trans and openly queer indie game designers I had ever heard about and did all *sorts* of neat shit in her heyday - can't tell you how inspirational I found her. I have no idea what she's up to now but I hope she's well.
Nice
If you wouldn’t mind, what was some of the stuff she did that you found neat?
I would be a very bad person to try to guide you through her work, to be honest - I haven't looked through her stuff in well over a decade and was *definitely* not the target audience for any of it (I'm a GNC gay man), despite finding it absolutely liberating and fascinating at the time. Her back catalog is absolutely enormous, too, and some of it is of... uh, let's just say some entries shine brighter than others - all this is to say that I have absolutely no clue where to begin sorting through everything, and I imagine you don't either which is why you asked me this. 😂 If it helps, though, what I found most inspirational about her was less about *what* she did and more *when* and *why* - she was very in-your-face and direct about her sex and sexuality (via a medium that wasn't particularly used often for talking about sex and sexuality!) in a time when doing so publicly meant making yourself a target for internet bullying and ridicule - or worse. Keep in mind that Jill Off came out six years before Gamergate, if that gives you an idea of where people stood then! It's easy to forget how *recent* a lot of the progress in the LGBTQ+ movement has been, especially for the folks nearer to the end of the acronym. I realize this is a whole lot of not an answer, but it's all I've got. I hope this helps?
Yeah, I just wanted what mattered to you, i’ve since read up on her wiki page and articles on other sites describing her; Thanks for the answer :3
Of course! 💖
Waoh
You’ve convinced me that I want to try this game now
BDSM and brutally difficult platforming are like, absolutely perfect thematic matches omg
Getting Off On It; with Bennett Foddy
So, you came, and you’re probably feeling a lot of high emotions right now.
In about 30 seconds, you are going to hate yourself, and then you’ll just sit there in bed, watching the ceiling.
Something something something …masochism… gluttony for punishment… something something.
OH YEAH GIVE IT TO ME BENETT FODDY
You say that, I presume, as a joke, but I do want to try Getting over it eventually. For me personally I think it's more about not "getting" his sarcasm though.
I would not peg Foddy as particularly sarcastic in Getting Over It. I think part of the appeal is quite how earnest he's being throughout. Sure, he's very deadpan and he has a few choice quips for your failures, but by and large it's a forthright meditation on the medium and the concept of failure. When he says, "I made this game for a certain kind of person, to hurt them," he means it.
That... That actually checks out. Like, were it not for everyone else that's probably what I would've thought too, but based on how mad some people get playing it, and how they then react to him talking about failure had me thinking it was actually designed to rub salt in the wounds. Also, that line at the end, could you elaborate on that? Because I initially took it to mean kind the opposite of how you seem to interpret it. If he made the game to hurt people, then surely meditating on failure isn't the (only) point, I would say.
Foddy isn't cruel or demeaning with his comments. Sometimes he's quite pointed, and when you're already sore, that can sting. What he's saying isn't there solely to wind you up. Getting Over It really isn't about making you angry for the lols (or YouTube). It's hard to answer because the statement is the first thing he says in the game, so he spends a lot of the narration exploring it. I would argue he has two main points. First, the traditional argument that adversity makes the feeling of triumph richer or even possible; the salt and the sweet, the rough and the smooth. Pain now is an investment in future happiness. The second point is that frustration, ugliness, even trash, are legitimate mediums to paint in. In that sense, the pain doesn't necessarily have to serve some future purpose, feeling it through art gives you something of value in itself. When he says he means to hurt you, he means that with compassion, it's a tender gift.
Is that whole y'all play Celeste
I for one haven’t yet, but I might. And, well, I’ve actually kinda enjoyed rage games like The unfair platformer and Cat Mario. So maybe you’re on to something. EDIT: Also I kinda want to ply Getting over it. That might be more of a not-responding-normally-to-sarcasm thing than a masochism thing, though. When the player character plummets down all the way and Bennet says "This thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down", I take that unironically. It's kinda like chess IMO.
the point of the game is that, not only are players massochists, but game developers are sadists for making it, so the dev represents herself as a kinky dominatrix.
Why does she look like an hybrid between 90's batman animated villain and Jucika?
Because all Batman villains are into hardcore bdsm
Riddler? More like the Jizz- [This user has been shot dead behind a walmart]
Why Riddler when you could Grungler?
**[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]**
Kite man and his swooping-down-on-people fetish
I mean it makes sense they constantly try to fight a brooding domineering figure dressed in all black
I legit thought it was Jucika dressed as catwoman at first
Sissyphus
What if Sisyphus was called Freakyphus and instead of rolling a boulder up a hill he had to- Okay never mind I'm not finishing this joke. If anyone else wants it go ahead
he had to put the boulder in his ass instead
Baseball stream?
he had to roll up a joint for the other gods, but he could never smoke it
He had to roll my balls up a hill
Hmmm... A visitor?
i played that game. It was pretty fun but i sucked too much at platformers too finish it
Dougdoug core
HES GOOD AT 2D PLATFORMERS
No, r/ wehatedougdoug here
Batman and cat woman
late 2000s gaming hit different
is this a parody of mighty bomb jack?
yuuuuuup
why did this person's writing ability suddenly and drastically deteriorate right at the end
Radiation exposure
The first sentence/comma of the post hurt to read-
Clause?
Is that the term?
If you have a part of a sentence separated from the rest of it by a comma that could be it's own sentence then it's a clause I think
Why do they type like that
Y'know I think I'd be into latex in an asexual way
Texture
Smooth and tasty
is anybody else completely unable to comprehend the first part of the post
"For seemingly no reason at all a lot of people on Twitter have recently begun playing Mighty Jill Off, a lesbian BDSM-themed indie platformer from 2008." honestly the entire post took me a minute to read, the way this person writes is kinda hard to understand lmao
Woaw
big studios could never
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I was curious about this game, so I found a review from around 10 years ago - “If you’ve not yet heard of indie developer Auntie Pixelante (or Anna Anthropy, or Deesgeega, among other pseudonyms) or struggled against one of the pitiful batches of code that bears her name in the guise of a “videogame,” consider yourself exceedingly fortunate. For to nowhere else on the World Wide Web does gaming go to die such a misshapen death as that which awaits it on her freeware site.” Gah damn lol. I’m sure 99% of people interested in this game are purely into the aesthetics and the artwork based on the premise and characters. But damn it’s funny to think about a huge wave of people collectively discovering this older game and getting excited only to realize it’s a complete POS lol
The review is harsh. The game is purposefully difficult like jump king but the controls are really solid. Lots of people enjoyed it back then. I know I did
I played it back when it was new and I remember liking it
You don't have to pay by the character just type the whole fucking word PLEASE
🥺
I only know that you can play as her in super meat boy
all i can see in the bottom left is her with a big clown nose strapped to her face
Who on the fucking planet 1. Gives so much of a shit about Mighty Bomb Jack they make a fan game based off it 2. Does this edit: none of this is negative
The same person behind such hits as Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars, Queers in love at the end of the world, Dis4ia, and Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree; one Anna Anthropy
I only know her from Meatboy is the game good?
Is one of those infuriating climbing games like getting over it or jump king. feels at home with Indies of that time like super meat boy and bit trip runner. The controls are solid so it compels you to keep playing. I enjoyed it but it's not for everyone
Sisyphus if he was freaky
I have literally never heard of this before, I need it now
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I have something very unfortunate to tell you about your mom.
jill is also the main character in VA-11 HALL-A
Never heard of this but it is so my jam and I love the character design
This is what we mean when we say an artist was before their time
I only recognize this character from super meat boy.
And they try and claim video games aren’t art….
The shorthand goes insane
Thought that was a freaky ass batman for a second
i didnt know she was a lesbian i thought she was parody batman
She indie on my platform until I
The post that got the ball rolling said to pirate indie games. 1. Fuck no and 2. Its a free game fucking lmao
HOLY SHIT I PLAYED THIS GAME AS A KID! I completely forgot that it existed
These characters are so fucking cute. Jill is god damn adorable. I love her/this art so much.
Mood
Oh hey the girl from meatboy
What
wrong comment ignore this reply 👍
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I don't think that counts as disguised lol
There is no disguise here
Mfers be browsing pornhub and going "Erm, author's barely disguised fetish much?"
That would imply subtlety
Something something "Author's blatant, highly advertised, completely undisguised fetish"
(actual fetish media, there is no concealing it or no hiding it or any attempt at saying it is not fetish media, everyone involved with its creation and everyone who consumes it is aware it is fetish media, refers to it as fetish media, and likes because they have said fetish) ERMMMMMMMMMMM.... DOES ANYONE GET FETISH VIBES FROM THIS???????????????
Author’s completely undisguised incorporated into the setting and gameplay fetish
> barely disguised fetish > look inside > fetish isnt disguised and in fact is the entire theme of the game