This is the 25th update release for UGF, and nice juicy number to end off on. As I’m sure many of you keeping up with the project have noticed, the update cycle for UGF has slowed down considerably over the years. This is due in part due to the team becoming busier with IRL things, in addition to pretty severe burnout in general working on the mod.
The past few updates have been mostly done out of commitment, and feeling like we had to keep going, rather than as a passion project like it originally started as. This is why I and Tru, the secondary mod head, have decided to move on from UGF as a whole.
Though luckily, this doesn’t mean the end for Unofficial Gay Fates, as a new team has stepped up expressing interest and ability to continue the mod, those being Sylvie, Wren, and dingleflongle. They’ve already shown their commitment in working on the project, as this updates whopping 172 supports were coded almost entirely by them!
Future updates of the mod are 100% under their control, as is uploading new support videos and accepting new writing claims. Future updates and videos will continue to be posted to the same gamebanana page, as well as youtube channel, as I have given them permissions for both. I wish them all the best of luck moving forward on the project!
As for this update’s actual additions:
As previously mentioned, added 172 new supports! This is way too many to list in this post, so they’re noted here in a pastebin: [HERE]
Fixed all the previous issues with the custom endings patch! This means no more doubled up gay endings, WLW endings will play on Revelation, and they’ll display in the correct order!
Various typo and formatting fixes as per usual
As per usual, this update and all future ones can be found on the Gamebanana page here!
As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can’t argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.
In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.
the most annoying people are people who don’t understand storytelling. they be like “oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning”. yeah no shit. that’s why the story begins here
I would dearly love for more people to be capable of differentiating between public risk and personal risk.
Examples: drinking is a personal risk. Drinking and driving is a public risk. Going scuba diving is a personal risk. Running a scuba shop with faulty equipment is a public risk. Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a personal risk. Not maintaining public transport safety standards is a public risk. Foraging for mushrooms is a personal risk. Advertising a mushroom identification app that uses shoddy AI is a public risk. Elective surgery is a personal risk. Not wearing a mask in a doctor’s waiting room when you are sick with a contagious illness is a public risk.
I could go on just about forever here. But it’s a really important distinction and it drives me nuts when they get conflated, and it’s so common.
“Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins”
There’s more context than that (source, emphasis mine):
The hearing was packed with speakers there to testify either for or against the bill. Most people were limited to two minutes, but the hearing lasted more than eight hours. Jones was there in support of the bill, but wasn’t intending to get up and speak. But after listening to nearly seven hours of testimony, he put his name down.
“I have very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there, so when I came here, my eyes were opened,” he told the state Assembly’s Health, Aging and Long-Term Care Committee just after 9 p.m. “I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed. … I’d like to apologize for being here, and I learned a very lot about this group of people.”
This guy wasn’t there to voice support; on the contrary, he was intending to watch in silent support of anti-trans legislation. His mind was changed by hour after hour, people speaking for two minutes at a time in support of trans rights, learning things he didn’t know or understand. These are the people to reach.
His grandson may have thought that this was possible, that his grandfather could be appealed to by hearing the real words of community members. If so, he was right.
Encourage your family to hear the stories of trans folks in your community and give them time to process what they hear and come to new conclusions. Don’t tell them what to think. Many people, with new information, naturally come to new conclusions.
I hope your god has asked for your mercy. I hope youve refused to forgive him.
i love this more and more every time i see it.
I have so much love for this person. The amount of empathy it takes to have these considerations about a person you will never meet, the eloquence and conviction with which they speak, the contempt for landlords. Sometimes I see something someone writes or creates and I wish with everything in me that I could meet and talk to that person for hours about what caused them to be this kind of light in the universe. This is one of those times.
