New Texas Content Discussion (GENERAL)
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You seem to taken one look at NT, assumed it was a giant stereotypical southern farm planet, and skipped pretty much every interaction. NT is in no way described as having a redneck cowboy rodeo shitkicker culture, as you so eloquently described it.
There are a lot of cows and farms though (even if we only see one farm), so I can understand your issues with that, although not the intensity of the disgust.
Brandy is stuck being torn between wanting fugging and wanting hugging. She'd only crave hugging if not for The Treatment battering her mind with slutty thoughts.
Aside from hover pickup trucks, where's the technological advance? It's ranch planet, a throwback to a rural agricultural lifestyle that even today is the complete opposite of modern cutting-edge let alone futuristic. Even in our time, the "down home on the farm" fantasy and country-western theme is a quaint genre based on nostalgia for an increasingly distant "simpler, better time" more associated with the 19th century than the 21rst. Even today, ranching and farming are on the verge of being replaced by new technology, the farm of the near future is indoor warehouse structures with hydroponics, vertical farming, lab-dish cloned meat, and automated production processes far more akin to a manufacturing facility than anything resembling a traditional farm. In the far future a ranch farm planet is as deliberately and willfully primitive as a planet based on Civil War / Old West reenactment or Ren Faire psuedo-medieval cosplay.
The whole place is based on rural agricultural American culture, like a country-western theme planet with only the minimum adjustment to advanced technology and only that in service to the theme. It's a deliberate anachronism, designed for those who are enamored with that cultural and psuedo-historical theme and all the fantasies tied up in it. Hell, the central sexual fantasy is the fusion of woman and livestock, literally fucking the farm animals! As someone who's very much into the catgirl thing I'm not going to fetish-shame those who find that appealing, I simply mean to point out how much of a niche thing it is and how it can come across for those who don't share the fondness for the theme and its associated fetishes.
I'm not saying it's not a well crafted setting, or that it shouldn't exist in game or that people who like it are wrong for doing so. But I cannot describe how deeply it's a turn-off for me without risking seeming insulting. Everything about it, so lovingly and expertly crafted for those who are into the theme, rubs me precisely the wrong way to the point of being repulsive to me. But that's ok! Different strokes for different folks. I didn't post to bash NT or it's fans, just to point out how interesting it is that some people's squee can be someone else' squick.
I have personal reasons for my extreme distaste for that whole culture, most of them tied to a period of my life where I was forced to live in the most backwards and undeveloped part of rural America. I was too harsh with my post, though, allowing my personal animosity to come through far too strongly. I tried hard to clean that up in my second post, and I apologize for any offense I may have caused.
As Ormael just said, the whole "backwater, rural quaintness" theme is a result of the only exploreable area, Big T's Ranch, is a tourist attraction playing on that appeal. I'm just saying that the greater part of New Texas is probably up to par with the rest of the galaxy. If anyone can clarify that, it'd be nice, but that's how I've always read it. No offense taken.
Almost none taken. The only issue I take is with this part:
You do "fetish shame" here, as the cat girl thing is on the same level as the cow girl thing. It's literally fucking the household pet, which is no better than literally fucking the farm animals. By implying that people who like cow girls like to jack off to things that are somehow closer to actual animals than cat girls, you attempt to raise your own fetish above the other.
Other than that it was a non-offensive post, and I harbor no hard feelings toward you.
As to your arguments, it should be taken into account that the only area of NT that we get to see is a single farm, specifically designed for tourists, and also the home of the mayor (His title is mayor, right? Even though he controls the planet?), someone very much into the ranch theme. NT competes on a universal scale, and is very rich, so it's going to have the best tech it can get, just not for the tourists to see. As was pointed out by multiple people before this post. I really should type faster, being ninja'd is annoying.
You're only even allowed to touch down on the planet if you're a sexy rich person invited as a tourist. Actually no, I think Cass visited as a delivery girl or something.
She didn't really visit, she just got to see the port, she couldn't get the internal security checkpoint like Steele Jr. can. Also, it's noted that Steele Jr. got around paying the actual fees by being personally invited, the majority of rich people still pay fat chunks of cash to vacation there.
I mean, it was still enough for her to get a free Treatment. And I think I remember her still being propositioned by someone at the port.
I threw in the catgirl thing to specifically say "hey, I'm just as weird in a different way so I have no room to bash you". I apologize if I wasn't clear, it was meant to clarify that I wasn't trying to shame anyone for their fantasies.
I have, but so long ago it's rather vague in my mind. From what I remember several males were kept as cum dispensers in the common room for all Vanae to get their fill. In the Vanae male good end though, the pc is such a good supply that he basically overrides the tribes needs for any other males, as well as becoming the father to the entire next generation of Vanae who he will knock-up too. That about right?
Meanwhile the female Vanae good end has the PC become queen of the Tribe and lead a resistance against slavers.
No yeah, but "sex slave" is a pretty strong word. I mean, they were nothing if not courteous to you as they rode yo dick.
Foreign civilians are not allowed on New Texas at all, and only rich tourists are allowed to visit Big T's Ranch, which is essentially a resort.
In JimT's vanae short story, the tribe keep zil boys with testicles so swollen they can't move. In-game the vanae act incongruously nicely to you according to everything else you can find or read about them. Quinn has an albino tentacle pelt nailed to her wall for a reason.
As for NT, the invitation you get seems very generic. I doubt T specifically invites you to his ranch; he has nothing really to say to you. I'd imagine NT is a destination for rich tourists in the same way the likes of Switzerland, Monaco or Abu Dhabi are today, their prices and resorts adjusted so that only small groups of the well-off can go.
As for NT, the invitation you get seems very generic. I doubt T specifically invites you to his ranch; he has nothing really to say to you. I'd imagine NT is a destination for rich tourists in the same way the likes of Switzerland, Monaco or Abu Dhabi are today, their prices and resorts adjusted so that only small groups of the well-off can go.
@Ormael: No dude, the ranch is essentially New Texas, seeing as how it's the only place people (and only rich patrons at that) are allowed to visit. There are no other public resort parts, the rest of the planet is mostly rolling hills with sparse inhabited regions, and Big T is the planetary governor, yes.
@Nonesuch: I thought it was generic too, until Savin told me the PC only gets it because they're Steele Jr. Then again you can meet even Kiro on NT.
TL;DR: If I'm wrong, just blame Savinheime.
@Nonesuch: I thought it was generic too, until Savin told me the PC only gets it because they're Steele Jr. Then again you can meet even Kiro on NT.
TL;DR: If I'm wrong, just blame Savinheime.
Dude, I didn't say any of that, you're needlessly twisting my words. I said that the planet is mostly undeveloped and that what populated places definitely do exist are likely either towns far away from each other, or all close to the Big T's Ranch region.
Also in regards to this:
Also in regards to this:
Do you think I just pull these facts out of my ass? Everything I've said so far I got from either Fenstaff or the wiki. Do you dislike me or something? I mean I feel like you contradict specifically me every time and on every thread I post in...
Since nobody has suggested this fate for New Texas I make this suggestion (feel free to use it as you like)
- Amazon takeover of the planet
- Big T dismissed, maybe used as a tool in the milking farm
- An Amazon elected to rule the planet (perhaps Simone)
Steele can help by recruiting several Amazons on the different planets and be a major factor in the takeover success or failure.
- Amazon takeover of the planet
- Big T dismissed, maybe used as a tool in the milking farm
- An Amazon elected to rule the planet (perhaps Simone)
Steele can help by recruiting several Amazons on the different planets and be a major factor in the takeover success or failure.
Eh, at this point I don't really care anymore. It's not only very out of the way, but quite frankly, it's existence is practically irrelevant for the rest of the galaxy. There's nothing allegorical about it, it's just a playground for the community of Bimbo and Stud fetish enthusiasts.
I can't really think of any meaningful change to the administration of NT that wouldn't radically alter it, thus defeating it's entire purpose.
I can't really think of any meaningful change to the administration of NT that wouldn't radically alter it, thus defeating it's entire purpose.
@Couch To be fair, I've been around for a bit and I've never seen it be suggested before.
It used to be a lot more common to see. Shit, I'm fairly certain I partook in it, aswell.