Hold Up to Consent

November 21, 2016 2:37 PM

Everybody plays as a creature made of male genitalia in this game: a flaccid penis, a pair of inflated testicles, and an anus. (NSFW because come on now)
posted by OverlappingElvis (17 comments total)

Please, enough with the election posts.
posted by w0mbat at 2:40 PM on November 21, 2016 [53 favorites]

so a regular FPS then
posted by poffin boffin at 2:49 PM on November 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

I assume that this game will cost twenty bucks on Steam, same as in town.
posted by delfin at 2:52 PM on November 21, 2016 [10 favorites]

I've been trying to stay away from discussion of this game because it comes across as "oh ho ho anal rape is funny" and that really icks me out but I'm really trying to pick my battles and I don't have the energy for this one but I just made a comment about it on metafilter dot com oh no
posted by yellowbinder at 2:56 PM on November 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

I've been trying to stay away from discussion of this game because it comes across as "oh ho ho anal rape is funny" and that really icks me out but I'm really trying to pick my battles and I don't have the energy for this one but I just made a comment about it on metafilter dot com oh no

According to the developers all participants in the game are enthusiastically consenting and mechanically this is implemented by having the "Join" function be "Consent".
posted by OverlappingElvis at 3:11 PM on November 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

I mean it really does ask everybody for consent before joining a round.

I thought the obvious comparison would be NSF-do I really need to explain?
posted by atoxyl at 3:11 PM on November 21, 2016

For something this silly, this game is... absurdly well made in terms of how the controls feel and stuff. But what really gets me is the moderately horrifying sound design which somehow manages to sound both grossly wet and a bit like a rubber balloon squeaking. Good times.
posted by sparkletone at 3:13 PM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Fair, I've seen little but a few gameplay gifs on Twitter and made assumptions on gaming culture. Good to hear it's a little higher minded, although that's certainly not the correct term.
posted by yellowbinder at 3:24 PM on November 21, 2016

GENITAL JOUSTING - Human Centipeen (NSFW).
posted by Pendragon at 3:27 PM on November 21, 2016

If you have no one else around to play with then you can jump into the online lobby and find games with strangers.

Or, you know, a usual Friday night.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:52 PM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Yes, from what I've seen of it, the tone is very much "a bunch of people with penises are having a rollicking good time with each other all together" and not so much "rape your friends! don't get poked!!!" Not that at all, really. It's like an abstract cartoon of a gay group sex party, complete with costumes and toys for those that want them.
posted by Scattercat at 3:55 PM on November 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

I think this is also great just from a masculinity in gaming art piece perspective. Call of Duty? Isn't the whole purpose just to have everyone else be the target of your aim? Isn't the instrument - the gun you chose - just a metaphor for your own masculinity and ergo the true symbol of your prowess that of your own penis? Isn't every gay slur in gaming doled out to such a degree that gamers routinely say referring to someone as gay is OK because it doesn't mean that anymore? Clearly, in this context, since those who would be bad at this game would fail to score points, so failing to place the penis into another anus would indicate that such a person, would be -in gaming culture lingo - gay.

I find this game to be one of the happiest meta commentaries on shitty attitudes in gaming I have seen in quite some time! Thank you for posting this.
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:23 PM on November 21, 2016 [8 favorites]

This looked ... cuter ... than I expected. I have no interest in playing it but I clicked the link expecting to be grossed out or something and actually felt something closer to affection for it. It seems to be made of silly fun. That's much better than what I was assuming.
posted by darksong at 6:44 PM on November 21, 2016

This looked ... cuter ... than I expected.

It's probably the little jerseys. Without them, they'd just be marauding schlongs, but as is, they're just happy-go-lucky trouser worms and hey, how do those things stay on without any arms anyway?
posted by yhbc at 9:14 PM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

[insert Ubisoft joke here]
posted by terrapin at 8:40 AM on November 22, 2016

I think you mean Ubiflaccid.
posted by Nanukthedog at 2:42 PM on November 22, 2016

The Marauding Schlongs have won 69 of their last 100 games! GO TEAM! The Trouser Worms can't fuck the side of a barn.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 6:26 PM on November 22, 2016