Look ill explain it easier. Lets say your playing Mass effect, at various points your asked about your back story. You have multiple choices, all different. None is true until you choose it then it becomes canon. You cant pick more than one, the other 2 cease to exist once you pick one. Like with Tiffany you can only pick one the other 2 answers fail to exist and if you so happen to not like your outcome you can reload and shape your character/Tiff differently.Its part of her backstory, the hell are you on about? If you close your eyes doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You get to ask her about that, because she hints that there are unsavory details about her past ,therefore they exist regardless of 'choices'. Same way you can't not watch the Steph tapes, that doesn't make them stop existing. Like what kinda logic is that? You are not going back and editing their pasts
Since it's you I am going to make an effort, one last time, just beacuse it doesn't qualify for a specific tag doesn't mean content can't be designed to do the exact same thing, thats why its commonly called technically not type content. Everyone not disingenuous on this topic gets it, the fact that it was popularized by Inceton should give everyone a hint why it exists in a specific case.
Its not NTR, but what kinda player do you think gets his PP hard watching sex tapes, photos and loves hearing in autistic details about other men fucking the person they are romancing?
What narrative purpose do you think those type of scene have in the story? What type of audience do you think its targeting, what sort of emotions do you think they are designed to evoke? So you see, the game indeed shouldn't be tagged, but it also shouldn't insult peoples intelligence with loopholes and mental gymnastics, maybe a less misleading OP disclaimer than 'All fetishes are optional' would serve better a vanilla player stumbling into this thread, don't you think? At least it would be a start, since transparency is everything in our little genre.
There is plenty of content designed to target the armchair populace that doesn't fit a specific tag, yet for whatever reason the real mystery for me remains why enjoyers of that type of content fight so hard to not be associated with content designed to pander to them? One would think that mature and open-minded individuals such as themselves will be all about embracing it and pounding their chest about it.
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Steph at least regrets her past, not that makes her any better as a romantic partner, since rape and blackmail as LI backstory has been done to death since 2016 to now, but Tiffany is actually very proud about her getting gangbanged by strangers and Lord knows what else is in the Vanessa' stories mentioned in the Beta scene
This reminds me, Fleur(if there is any route with her) is the Tiffany/Steph routes done with respect to players time, ironically. You find her videos and photos, you find out how nuts she is and then you can chose to pursue her or not, instead of finding out about their unsavory pasts 3/4 of the way in their routes after investing years of your time playing, or worse supporting the game, as a twist tm.
Now that I think about it, there are so many fucking videos, photos and stories about almost every single girl in the game, it has to be a fetish of the dev, otherwise it makes no fucking sense why its so prevalent. How many people with sex tapes do any of you have in your immediate circles and how many of their current partners love revisiting that topic?
The fact we as an outside entity with the power to see all options available does not make all options canon. The choice you pick and how you choose to shape her should and is the only path that matters in how and who Tiff or any other character is. Much like in a game like Mass Effect again Sheperd is neither Paragon or Renegade until you choose it then the other options become invalid EVEN though they exist with the construct and the code of the game.
Ide just like to add as well while i respect some may like to have a characters personality and motives layed out from the first time you set eyes on them. Its alot more fun to some to get to know sombody and who they are and if at any point its not to my taste move on. Add a bit of mystery and realisum to the game rather than have it all layed out on a platter to pick through.
Regardless of either opinion on the matter a dev should not be called out in the ways they have on here because they choose to not give everything to the players at once and add a little realisum into meeting people.
