#yandere dev

[adorableanimus]

if youre a programmer worried how bad you are dont worry

yanderedev is always doing it worse than you

[melaniefellonme]

[atelieronthemoon]

I Spent a Month Comparing AI Girlfriend Apps. SweetDream Won.

So I went down the rabbit hole. After hearing endless chatter about candy.ai and a few other names, I decided to actually test the popular AI girlfriend platforms side by side instead of taking anyone's word for it. Most of them do one thing well and then fall apart somewhere else. SweetDream, over at sweetdream.ai, was the rare one that held up across the board.

What sold me first was the character creation. A lot of apps give you a slider for hair color and call it customization. SweetDream lets you actually build someone, looks, personality, voice, backstory, even the little quirks that make a companion feel like a person rather than a template. That depth changes how the whole thing feels.

Then there's the chat, which is the part everyone gets wrong. SweetDream's conversations are natural and emotionally intelligent, and crucially it remembers context, so you are not reintroducing yourself every session. Add genuinely good photos, voice notes, and the privacy guarantees, and it stops feeling like a gimmick. As an honest review, it is the AI companion I kept coming back to.

[atelieronthemoon]

warning: flashing glitch effects

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[reytchan]

@yanderedev

[sailor-4lexa]

YANDEREDEV IF U DONT MAKE GENDERBEND VERSION ISTG

[checkyourasianbias]

Maybe not any kind of bias…? But I’m rewriting yandere simulator for funsies and because the game fucking sucks and I’m really torn between “the original premise for the game was that everyone was some dumb anime trope and it was supposed to be funny, but yandev tried to make it more serious and it destroyed the story. I want to make the game funny and have everyone be some anime trope.” And “yandere simulator’s story has a lot of potential and it’s filled with a lot of weird portrayals of Asian people because yandere dev is a weaboo and predator. I want to make the characters more like real Japanese students and give them more accurate uniforms and designs to real japanese kids.” Maybe there’s some kind of balance I can achieve 😭

Oh anon... you have no idea of the Pandora's Box you just opened as someone who was obsessed with YandereSim content/YandereSim rewrites (shoutout to Kubz Scouts, Callimara, and Casserole Comix!) I'm so upset and angry about everything regarding this horrid game and its atrocious developer. I hope the victim has a strong support system and is able to heal from this as well, along with everyone else that had to deal with this evil man.

I do still love the overall messy concept of this whole thing as someone who loves overcomplicated yet neatly wrapped up lore. I feel bad about it, but with very easy tweaks it could have been a fascinating and NOT CREEPY STORY. It could have developed interesting themes and a strong plot. There are people who GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BEFORE THIS GAME WAS FINISHED. Even the side game was finished before the main game, and I still stand by the fact that Ryoba should have been the real MC because she's actually a yandere and the 1980s was a more interesting setting than the 202X one. I have a sneaking suspicion he likes Ryoba for another reason though.

Okay now to actually answer your ask. I have been torn on this too but I lean more into the preference of having a serious story. That's what makes a game more memorable to me than recreating anime tropes from an ignorant American man's perspective. It would be different if it was a type of anime with heavy Western influences/fusion, because I think anime like that exists. But I would rather have a darker story like this taking place in Japan as long as it's handled well, and I don't trust that man to do that nor do I feel like he would have wanted to do that. I feel like making the story more serious could have been interesting had he bothered to do proper research. This show could have easily taken place in an ACADEMY or COLLEGE but instead he talked about weird loopholes that put teenagers in compromising/dangerous positions. The lazy names, the Mai Waifu character, all of the female character designs, the body pillows... I feel like every decision he's made speaks for itself

[wouldyourecognizethisperson-poll]

Would you recognize this person if you saw them in public?

Yes, I know who this is and I feel confident that I would recognize them

I know who this is but I’m not sure I would recognize them in person

They look familiar but I’m not sure who they are

I have no idea who this is

Nuanced answer

Voting ended onSep 23, 2025

[kittystar39]

just saw someone post "ready to block all evangelion enjoyers like we get it you like naked teenage girls" and i reeeeally wanted to say something about how evangelion is not just "naked teenage girls" and is in fact a philosophical and psychological exploration of human connection and loneliness, but then i thought that would just make me sound like a weirdo who's trying to defend liking gross stuff because that's exactly what a gross weirdo would say

man sometimes it's hard being an eva fan, especially when people only see the worst parts of the series and ignore all the actual substance. i'm sure it doesn't help that freaking yandere dev was/is an "eva fan." i say that in quotes because he completely missed the point. i heard about it from a video essay i watched recently and holy crap his old forum posts embody all of shinji's bad traits and none of his good ones. he was all "if i had a girlfriend all my problems would go away" "no one loves me" like did we watch the same show? wasn't part of the message that women don't exist to solve men's emotional problems? and he had the audacity to say he likes rei because she's submissive and will do whatever you want?! HER WHOLE CHARACTER ARC WAS ABOUT BECOMING HER OWN PERSON AND BREAKING AWAY FROM GENDO! SHE LITERALLY SAID "I'M NOT YOUR DOLL!"