Anime dating sim that also does your taxes
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Still, really funny idea and I'm sure it'd help someone to file their taxes (if it's real), as there seem to be people really obsessed with anime or dating sims out there, or a combination of both.
No reason to believe this will be any different just because they are an art collective.
Perhaps because it asked for your social security number.
/from someone who never lived in the US
handing out your SSN makes it easy for someone to try to open lines of credit, credit cards, loans, etc. in your name. You'd need other data, but that's often trivial.
SSN also wasn't designed as a universal ID and has a few weaknesses, on top of being shoehorned into a role it wasn't meant to fill.
For example: in the US, drivers licenses are issued by state (what would be called a province anywhere else) governments, not the federal (i.e. national) government. My first drivers license used my SSN as my license number, but if I had asked, the state government would have been required to issue me a license with a different number.
These laws were passed because it got to the point where just getting someones name and SSN were nearly sufficient to completely steal their identity.
It's also why the US Senate designed to represent states like the EU council, was never intended to be proportional.
But of course, you might be right, I hope no one put any weight on my initial impression which is based on very little.
They've made some wild shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNAsx7kQ6PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KHuSctqtg
Coffeezilla covered them a couple of years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZKGJCbP6Y
As I said when this was posted yesterday, I'm for sure a fanboi.
Mschf and Improv Everywhere have done some endearing stunts over the years.
"Gather reactions" and do what with them exactly? This seems like a cynical view of art
According to who?
Overall, its a limited edition designer brand "art collective". But they've consistently released their products. Thinking about the TurboTax workflow, it doesn't sound outlandish for MSCHF to contract a game company to make the same thing with an anime school background and cartoon avatar to guide the process.
[2] https://www.instagram.com/reel/CooJI8WujyJ
[3] https://stupiddope.com/2022/07/mschf-creates-eat-the-rich-ic...
Weighing my health insurance options is particularly onerous. I'd rather have waifu awkwardly blushing her way through the relevant questions. That would be more narratively satisfying than the usual "it costs more and covers less".
This product would be more effective as a browser extension to modifying the TurboTax web page styles.
But then you'd use and support turbotax and it's efforts to pointlessly complicate the tax system so their software is required to make it easy.
Per Iris:
> TurboTax, per its own internal documents, is built on the “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt” that ordinary people have about their taxes.
If you want to add exceptions, tax credits, etc, you can, but if you don't log in then it assumes you give it your blessing.
Why get anime waifus involved at all?
You're on a date that you don't really want to be on, and the person sitting across from you knows precisely how much money you make, where you got it all, and what tax write offs you have.
That's sitcom material.
Plus you're going to give your personal info to someone you just met... in exchange for dinner? Man you're trusting.
Unrelated: there is a bridge that I own roughly 131km from here. Interested in buying it?
The slide show messes with my screen reader while reading the description though.
Yup, it checks out.
I believe Steam has had a massive uptick in them over the past few years.
They're usually a form of interactive novel almost, but some are more advanced.
Even Stardust Valley has a "dating sim" portion.
There was a fun thread where someone played through it on, er, SomethingAwful, possibly? Some old forum.
(Strictly speaking I think it was a bit of a Jane Austen mashup, but mostly Pride and Prejudice; if you screwed up you could end up marrying the awful vicar, for instance)
By the developers of Genshin Impact.
Matchmaking your soldiers together to find romance on the battlefield is a common trope and basically is a dating-sim with regards to "guess the character's likes/dislikes". (Giving gifts to various characters to earn romance points in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, for example)
There's just, also a whole battlefield / tactics game going on at the same time. But the dating-sim portion gives extreme benefits (support-class A or S gives huge bonuses that allows more attack/defense/dodge).
In Japan, dating sims used to be huge, Tokimeki Memorial being notably famous. Unfortunatel, there seems to have been a quite aggressive decline.
When thinking of currently running dating sim series, I can recall Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side, ×CATION, and a recent trend of remakes (such as Doukyuusei). However the fervour the genre once had is noticeably absent from current releases.
With rare exceptions (like Hatoful Boyfriend) these joke dating sims feel pretty fake. They comment on a genre they struggle to properly portray or understand. The most egregious cases parody galge or otomege and erroneously label themselves as dating sims.
As an example, Doki Doki Literature Club (for all its merits), suffers from being described as a dating sim when it clearly isn't one.
To be clear, while pure daring sims kind of barely exist, they do pop up from time to time as secondary gameplay loops in hybrids. The Persona series (3 and onwards) as well as the Fire Emblem series (Awakening and onwards) do this.
The reason you're not aware of them is probably—assuming you're a guy—because they're mostly played by women (especially the ones that aren't outright porn—though, those too). They're particularly popular on mobile. If you've ever seen the stats about how there's a huge number of "women gamers" and been like "wait, if there are so many, where the fuck are they?" it's because a large proportion of them mostly play dating sims and visual novels (often those two have more than a little overlap) and other game genres that you don't, like casual browser games or puzzlers.
It's similar to why the average woman can name more romance novel authors than the average guy can.
Most 1990s Dodge Shadows worked on a similar premise. My friends could unlock and start each other's cars.
Or seriously, why use a Japanese word for something that already exists in English?
But there are clear stylistic differences between many cultures and separate terms for them are inevitable. Japan definitely has a family of styles preferred there, versus American animation styles. (Note my plural.) Europe has different styles too, as does the many cultures of the rest of Asia that isn't Japan, and I'm sure if large animation industries start up elsewhere they will all end up with distinguishable styles too.
Anime doesn't just distinguish between anime and "not anime"; it specifically identifies the Japanese styles. For this purpose it's fine, and I kinda think that anyone who is objecting to it doesn't understand the number of styles in the world already, not to mention the ones I'm sure we'll see develop over the next decades.
At first I hesitated, not because this wasn't made in Japan, but because dating simulators are not anime per se. This conveys this project's visual style really well though (like you can say “anime art” about the sort of pictures you can find on Pixiv), so I decided to leave this in. It also clues people in (just a bit) who don't know what a datesim / VN is. If you have any suggestions on another choice of word, I'd be happy to hear back!
I have a hunch most people would be a lot less regarding of security vulnerabilities for tools that boast such as nice "packaging".
This has potential of bringing "free browser extension that sells your data" to a whole new level.