#GVH edit

[wolfnanaki]

[glassrunner]

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH ➤ FANG

[wormdramafever]

;_;

[nrxia]

These are all the "GVH irl" things I've found/made, so far. Just in case someone needs an explanation, what I do is I find comments and things online and if it sounds like something a Goodbye Volcano High character would say, then I paste their avatar over the one in the original image. I try to keep editing down to a minimum. I share these on my Twitter and BlueSky accounts. Hope you find them amusing.

[punkymaysnark]

There's a Wani Hug That Gator clip on my Twitter feed and every single QRT is talking about how good it is and how it's so much fun and better than Goodbye Volcano High in every way.

All this despite the devs being some of the most 4Chan 4Channers ever, wildly transphobic and not open to any criticism.

I don't care how bad GVH is, the fact that nobody either knows or cares about how shitty the Gator/Snoot Game devs are is giving me a headache.

EDIT: It's worse than I fucking thought. Twitter is loaded with Snoot defenders, and there's enough of them to score perfect ratios on anyone who knocks the game or Cavemanon. Not sure if this is a consequence of Twitter transforming into another 4Chan or if everyone is just that allured by anthro reptiles. Anyway we have a handful of new additions to my blocked list tonight.

[autumnbrambleagain]

edit: rant edited to reflect how Snoot Game treats gender identity b/c i hadn't really done more than look at a few convos about it

I'm GBH, Goodbye Volcano High got like, the worst fucking shake

Disclaimer, I haven't played it (there is a very special irony in this that i'll get into in a bit), but I've watched people on youtube play it, and I think it's. Fine? It's fine. But everything surrounding this game, everything that happened to and around it, it's fucking wild. I've never seen a game get such a poor serve-up on the tennis court before.

It gets put up on the big console premier along huge AAA budget games. That's rough. A small intimate-scale VN about the end of the world as a metaphor for growing up and leaving highschool and changing and also a non-metaphor for the world ending as itself a metaphor for the new generation entering into what feels like an absolutely hopeless, pointless future (spoilers: the future is pretty fucking dire (the present is already fucking bad))?

Those are some rough themes! That isn't doomchief and master slayer punching guys! And not to denigrate doomchief! These are some ROUGH themes and the trust that those themes will be handled WELL isn't something you want to give out so readily! Those are themes that are easy to fuck up! Fair! But still. Oof!

To have your relatively small scale game put up as a launch title alongside mass-consumption AAA games. Ouch.

I'll admit: the art style was pretty rough, it's really rough on first look. I made fun of it too.

Then it comes out the MC is enby, that it deals with queer themes, and 4chan-esque folk go nuts over it. Snoot Game comes out which, apparently, seemingly, actually not bad! A lot more ironic but with serious themes handled, apparently earnestly, and it's overall... good!? Even some critical accounts suggest it isn't, at least, bad? Whichever: it comes out faster than GVH does, so it now has a parody-competitor dealing with the same themes, but not just as a JOKE but actually putting effort into it too. Like. That's the thing. Snoot Game DEALS with strong themes of growing up, of becoming a person, it DEALS with the themes GVH is saying it will deal with... and it uses the characters to do it too.

And it does it, by some accounts, WELL.

Ouch!

Granted Snoot Game is from 4chan and apparently I'm now reading one of the themes is Fang accepting they're a woman and they were just being enby to try and be different, and while it seems like it DOES handle it very seriously, and like, the game seems to penalize you for being shitty about their gender, and like, detransitioning IS a thing! I don't want to give TOO much trust to a 4chan-derived game either. I'm literally enby, but I also wasn't always enby, but like. Having a game where the message of "you were only trans because you were pressured into being different", it's, ehhhhhhhh not great no!

TBH without going through Snoot Game I can't really speak about it but Snoot Game overall isn't the main point, the main point is:

Some people are already now primed with associations and expectations, you already have a doppleganger as your competitor. OUCH.

So like.

Pretty rough.

And while Snoot Game, from the compressed summaries of it I've seen, seems to actually have honest heart and love in it in its final form, a lot of people just seem to be along for the hate-ride against GVH at this point because "eww the alphabet rainbow furries."

And then the writer has to step down because they found out she's into child por--wait, it was just 3d animations? That someone else made? That she was watching and criticizing as part of an article on how dumb video game porn is?

Oh. See, there's a difference between "the author is an active pedophile" and "the author watched a Harry Potter porn animation to write an article on the concept of video game porn," but in our modern era there's really never a distinction. Drawing something bad is the same as doing it in real life. Looking at it at all is the same as doing it in real life. If you see a woman's ankle on the street, make sure to head immediately to confession or God will judge you for the rape you have committed in your heart.

We live in such a media-literacy dead-end zone that people are calling the original Lolita book child porn. We live in such a media-literacy dead-end timeline that people are saying the only media that should be permitted to exist is happy comfort fluff where nothing bad ever happens because if you make bad things happen in fiction it means you're an evil villain :3 i'm not an evil villain, though, i don't watch bad media!

So of course it's fine to ruin careers because that's not EVIL. I didn't look at the BAD media so I CAN'T be evil. So you know, we have this modern purity pandemic of people thinking they're heroes for getting people to kill themselves because they drew or wrote "the wrong kind of thing" and are therefore EVIL and we're in a post-DnD world the cultural well got poisoned by DnD's secular take on evangelical protestantism's absolute morality of saved-vs-nonsaved. You're Lawful Good, you know you're Lawful Good. Whatever you to do Chaotic Evil people? That's fine. You can do whatever you want to them. You're Good.

Anyway, then it gets delayed to remove all her influence from the game, because at this point, even admitting you know what sex is online seems to be enough to ruin anything you touch tbh. Humanity's doing great, btw.

Like I can find twitter posts of her apologizing for "hurting people" by having seen harry potter porn. Your species is insane, just btb.

GVH finally comes out quietly and everyone's so fucking. MAD at this game. Hardcore 4chan whateverfolk hate it because there's queers and highschoolers. Other people dislike it because Snoot Game already came out and now GVH feels like fanfiction of THAT to them. They already met these characters, enjoyed them written like they were in Snoot Game, so how they come off in GVH feels worse. And you know, sure! That's a rough fucking shake when a fanfiction comes out before your actual release and it's good! For others it's tainted because a ""sex perver"" had worked on it. For others the art style and that it premiered alongside big name AAA games as a launch title was enough to slot it firmly in the derision zone. For some, because the queer community cannot NOT devour its own tail, it's doing queerness wRONG (Fang's parents MISGENDER and DEADNAME them!!! you can't put that in a game that deals with gender as a theme!!!!)

And then you have people who don't care about ANY of that, who are upset that everyone dies in the end and "your choices didn't matter", despite your choices affecting your relationships with the other characters. Granted? Sure! More actual endings beyond the end-of-the-world concert would be great! But comparing it to Mass Effect 3 where NOTHING mattered because the Reapers destroy everything and you pick one option at the end and their implied consequences before like 4 different changes to the ending came out to retcon "oh yeah everyone in the galaxy is stranded, everyone probably dies anyway, you accomplished nothing everyone's still dead" ? ?

The world's ending. That's the point. It's what you do with the time left that seems to be the point? Yeah? No? I'm not saying it HIT that theme well, and I'm not saying it actually failed at it either. I honestly think it did FINE. The criticism i keep seeing is "everyone died so nothing mattered." Buddy. Buddy. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. Please do not let that convince you that nothing you ever did mattered.

Among all that it came out buggy, apparently, and the music minigame isn't like. Super. Good. Doesn't matter too much if you do well or not. Not greatly designed? So you know. The game also has just general internal problems too mechanically, so people without a dog in the race just don't enjoy playing it? Like, the art style was all on the creators, like, it's... it's not GREAT I'll be real! It's really weird. It's humans in those latex dolphin masks the memes weren't off base even i was laughing at it and groaning at yet another piece of media whose theme was "leaving highschool is like the world ending"

but like.

GVH isn't like. I dont' think this is some great amazing the best game ever. The art style's grown on me but in the way where you learn to ignore how it looks. But like, I see people complaining it's too whiny--wait, the characters aren't depressed ENOUGH about the world ending--honestly, honestly,

I think I like it? I haven't played it but I've watched it and I think I like it. I'm not like, this is probably the last day in a while I'll ever even think about the game, it isn't going to stick with me for years and years, it didnt' make a big impact on me--but I liked it well enough???

At this point, my default assumption at this point is if someone strongly openly firmly dislikes this game it's not at all for any good reasons--or rather, that it's not on the value of the game in-and-of-itself. This poor game was saddled with all this WEIGHT on top of it. Can you even dig it clear of this external context and examine the game itself for what it is anymore?

I'm writing all these words and like. I haven't PLAYED it i've just watched other people play it. I'm not even BIG into the game it's like... it's okay!

But oh my god I cannot get over what a fucking. BAD serve-up the game had leading to its release and just beyond. Oof. Ouch. God. That's real rough, buddy. I have never seen something get this POOR a serve. What an absolute rough, ravage, unfair birth for a thing into the world!

I think if the game congealed out of the aether (and maybe with a more... better art direction?) it'd be fondly remembered in small quantities?

Instead it's just... the actual game itself is just BURIED under all this mess.

It's fucking fascinating to me, honestly. It's far more fascinating what happened to this game than the game itself at this point, and that, too, isn't very fair to the poor game. I, too, am here not to talk about the game, to care about the game, to have anything to say about the game. I am PART of this problem I'm talking about. Instead of addressing the game I'm talking about the context that was built around it.

I'm here because I remembered the drama, looked into all the drama, then went to watch the game and, after seeing ALL of that, EVERYthing I read through to get to the game itself, actually seeing the game was just... like... for this? All of that, for this?

Huh.

[lemonthepotato]

me hearing about GVH’s concept/ending: man that sucks, Haha, wow, this is gonna suck, wow.

me 40 minutes in: this is peak.

Edit: finished it. thoughts coming soon. /pos

[beasts-of-jadewood]

Goodbye Volcano High is just a week away! Yippee! To celebrate this occasion I will release GVH protagonist first-date ratings part 2, in which I rate how well my first dates with GVH characters will go based on what I know about them from fandom memes and promo materials. Part 1 can be found here. Contains spoilers for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part 6, and now featuring alt text.

I think Naomi would be the type of person who would provide me with a full list of philosophical personal questions on our first date in order to acertain a comprehensive first impression of me that accurately represents who I am. For example, she may ask me what I would do with an elephant in my possession if I could not sell or give away the elephant, which was apparently a real job interview question someone had. While I would undoubtedly appreciate her hard work, I will not guarantee that I won't accidentally give out a response so profoundly disturbing and strange at some point during the process and possibly make her cry (for example, answering that I wish to recreate Thomas Edison's elephant electrocution procedure just to prove that I can do it better), leading to an overall 5/10 experience.

Much like the Trish date, I suspect that my date with Rosa will take place at an arboretum due to her interests. Because of this, I will likely be reminded of the fact that I once went to an arboretum in China during my childhood, to cheer me up after I completely failed at an extracurricular English speaking competition due to stage fright and the fact that I forgot to study the prompts they gave out before hand. I will then give an extended speech to Rosa about how my years of hard work studying English didn't matter in that moment because I fucked up one high-stakes competition and everyone thought I was a dumbass. If Rosa is able to relate to this as a potentially bilingual character herself, then my date will be a 9/10 experience. Otherwise, it's likely a 4/10 if she got weirded out instead.

Stella's interest in the occult is a major jumping point for my first date conversation with her, as I will use her knowledge of Tarot cards to discuss archetypes in the classic Hero's Journey and possibly analyze how each card's meaning corresponds to their respective Stand user in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. If Stella does not like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure then I will reveal the fact that I do not either and then go into an existential rant on why Part 6's ending retroactively made all the other parts pointless by undermining the agencies of previous protagonists with the idea of Fate being an unstoppable force that pre-determines all actions. Overall, this will be an invigorating discussion if nothing else. 7/10.

I don't know why but attempts at adding Sage's image to this post consistently results in an image of Rosa being added instead. Sage himself does show up on the final post after saving, but during the editing process itself his image keeps being replaced by Rosa. My conclusion from this is that Sage does not want to go on a date with me and may in fact prefer to date his original love interest Leo instead. I respect his loyalty to his lover even after he has been completely cut from the final game and thus functionally erased from existence. Sage is a good boy and I love him platonically. 10/10.

[werewolf-cuddles]

Then why isn’t GVH just a show?

Why isn't Life is Strange just a show? Why isn't Tell Me Why just a show? Why isn't Telltale's The Walking Dead just a show?

You realize how fucking stupid that sounds, right?

EDIT: Yes, I know there was a Walking Dead TV show. Not what I was getting at. I was just listing examples of this type of game.

[tomanovicsgergely]

Ez oké, de ha bizonyíthatóan kamu az eredeti ár, az tudtommal tilos és bünti jár érte.

Tavaly nyári cikket találtam: a fogyasztók és a GVH tapasztalatai szerint egyes kereskedők számos ravasz trükköt alkalmaznak az árkedvezmény benyomásának keltésére. Ez olyan könnyű haszonhoz vezet, amelyért valójában nem dolgoztak meg igazi versenykörülmények között. Az árakba beépített, és így megszerzett többlet profit is hajtja az inflációt. 2022. május 28-tól hazánkban is szigorúbb rendelkezések léptek életbe a tisztességtelen kereskedelmi gyakorlatok törvényi szabályozásában. Az árfeltüntetés tekintetében a kereskedőknek egyértelműen világossá kell tenni a fogyasztó számára, hogy mi volt az akciót megelőző legalább 30 napban alkalmazott legalacsonyabb ár és ehhez képest mekkora a kedvezményes ár. 

Lehet, hogy próbaképp érdemes lenne felnyomni az MVM-et a GVH-nál, hogy milyen bullshit választ mondanak erre (edit: lehet online is, úgyhogy megtettem, ha jön válasz, lesz update). Azt még nem is figyeltem amúgy, hogy még a számok különbözete se stimmel, 1 531 150 - 1 260 742 = 270 408 Forint, mi a picsából jött ki az a 113 ezer? Teljesen faszság az egész.

Most vettem észre, hogy decemberben kaptunk egy ilyen éves elszámoló villanyszámlát. Hatalmas segítség ez a családunknak és köszönjük doktor miniszterelnök úrnak, hogy ezzel a 113 ezer forinttal is támogathatjuk Putyin háborúját és az összes kollaboráns parazita gecit, akiknek az MVM osztogatja a pénzünket a magyarság szent harcát a kegyetlen rezsiszörny ellen, különben is, ha GYÚCSÁNY lenne akkor 1,2 millióval többet kéne fizetnünk, amit én persze készséggel el is hiszek és örülök neki hogy csak ennyi, éljen a Párt, hajrá magyarok, #csakafidesz!

[highvolmusic]

World Premiere of 'Sin In My Heart'

World Premiere of ‘Sin In My Heart’

‘Sin In My Heart’ the new video/single from EMN (EVERY MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE) makes its world premiere today! Shot on location at The Slaughterhouse in Nashville, ‘Sin In My Heart’ was directed by Ben Dixon, filmed by James King, produced/edited by Gene Vaton Hadley for GVH Media.  ‘Sin In My Heart’ is the third video from the bands latest record ‘RESURRECT THE FAITHFUL’ and by far the most…

[wolfnanaki]

Finally, a good TIME Magazine Person of the Year.

Morning Photoshop warmup featuring Fang.

[glassrunner]

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH ➤ Fang's audition outfits

[sharonaparadox]

[Image: concept art of Fang from Goodbye Volcano High by art director and character designer Lucie Viatge of a scrapped dress-up minigame.

The first image shows various designs that Fang could wear as they pose with a smile, one hand on their hip as they lean slightly so that one of their legs is kicked up a little from the ground. The default look shows them with their usual straight hair and wearing their typical black sleeveless crop top, ripped black jeans, dark laced boots, a black choker necklace, a necklace with a small dinosaur skull pendant, and a pair of colorful wristbands on one arm. The other three potential scenarios where Fang could change their look gives example designs with alternative sketches and clarifying notes.

The “Audition” look has Fang wearing a black T-shirt with “Worm Drama” written on it in all capital red letters, black high-waisted shorts, torn stockings, and black wedge boots. Notes around them read, “t-shirt, crop top or long sleeve black shirt with Worm Drama logo,” “no hair options,” “accessories stay the same” (though Fang is shown with their necklaces and not the wristbands), and “Short with tights or leather pants” Off to the side are close-up shots of their eyes, the top in color as it shows the more blended pink, orange, and yellow of Fang’s eyeshadow. Uncolored designs underneath have dark spikes underneath the eye, full eyelashes, and sharp pointed shapes underneath and up to the side of the eye while a note reads, “Makeup looks stay p close to Fang’s usual style, no contacts. Different vibes though”

The “Battle of the Bands” look shows Fang with fully black contacts within fully black eye makeup and a braid in the front of their hair on one side as they wear a black torn crop top with “Worm Drama” written on it in all capital red letters and straps hanging down both shoulders, high-waisted black garter shorts with a silver ring in the front, black and white striped thigh-high socks, black ankle boots, a black choker necklace with a hanging silver ring, and black fingerless gloves. Notes around them read, “Logo shirt but the cuts are more interesting than at the audition,” “Neck accessory,” “hand accessories,” and “Shorts/pants with tights or long socks” There are small, more cartoony sketches of a smiling Fang with blunt bangs next to a written comment saying, “Bang Clip” and Fang with black streaks in their hair only in the area framing their face with a note underneath reading, “light hair options” To the side are close-up shots of Fang’s eye with one fully black with black eyeshadow and a small swoop as well as one without contacts with more dramatic eye wings above a beauty mark, while a note reads, “Some contacts, more makeup optoions”

The “Concert” look has Fang with dyed black blunt bangs and smaller winged eyebrows as well as one eye with a fully white contact while their other eye is the usual orange as they wear a black multi-pocket half-zip jacket, high-waisted black garter shorts with a silver ring in the front, black buckled mid-calf platform boots, and a black bat wing accessory by their horn. A drawing of just Fang’s hair and eyebrows without the rest of their body is next to them, showcasing a larger and bouncier wavy hairstyle as well shorter and more angled thick eyebrows. Notes read, “hairstyles more varied,” “horn accessory options,” and “lots of makeup options, including eyebrows, more contact colors”

The second image is a storyboard of the potential user interface for the minigame. Fang would stand in front of the mirror with a curious expression as if in thought while nearby would be a clothing rack with shoes underneath, a table with makeup on top, and a short dresser with what looks like small bottles of possibly nail polish atop it. Fang themself is labelled “Fang in real time” in every panel to clarify that their appearance would be updated upon the player’s choice. The clothing rack is circled and labelled, “cycle through clothes and select” to alter Fang’s clothes. The shoes are circled and labelled, “go to shoes,” the makeup is circled and labelled, “go to face,” and the small bottles are circled and labelled, “go to hands”

The next panel focuses on the shoes, Fang kicking one up as the focus is on their ankle boots. There is a circle around the shoes under the clothing rack labelled, “cycle through shoes and select” The third panel focuses on the makeup and shows Fang raising an eyebrow curiously while three panels showing different eye makeup styles float above the open palette. These choices are circled and labelled, “cycle through makeup and select (and hair)” The fourth and final panel focuses on the hands with a written note pointing to the small bottles reading, “that’s nailpolish lmao” Fang is holding out both hands with bat wing bracelets on each, a fingerless glove and spiked bracelet visible on the surface before them. The nail polish and surface is circled and labelled, “cycle through nail polish & hand accesories & select” End description.]

From Lucie Viatge's website:

For the concerts and musical performances, we were considering having a dress-up minigame for Fang. I created outfit moodboards for the different performances throughout the game, and concepted some UX for the minigame.

(note: I edited out the reference pictures from the website's original images)

[glassrunner]

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH ⤷ Original songs performed by Fang / Worm Drama

[glassrunner]

Fang: "I wish I could just... melt my brain, for today. I guess all I can do is just focus on the concert."

Reed: "Melt brain... Just for today..."

Fang: "Is he okay?"

Trish: "I think he's having a moment."