8.23.2022

James Zamora - Jelly Aisle, 2023

Land of today by Navina

Without hyperbole government offices that take half an hour of waiting to get anywhere and close at 4pm are are a form of oppression against the working class

When you see a bad take from a Dutch person just know that there's a 50/50 chance that they thought their country's time in Indonesia was a-ok

1990s Crayola kids cameras 🌈

Literally rn IDC if you like limbus company or not but genuinely if you make this situation into "stop playing gatcha game now!!!!!!!" Instead of thinking Abt the genuine facts of

- project moon has had their office broken into and is being harassed by men because they hate feminism so much that if a character isn't put in a fucking bikini it's evil to them apparently

- project moon is in a scary as fuck situation

- project moon is a team comprised of 30 people.

- this is 30 people in danger because men suspect a feminist being on the team. That is the only reason they're doing this.

- they're review bombing the game to get it off the market just because they couldn't handle the idea of a woman not in a bikini. And it's to the point it really might happen, even though project moon games are a giant passion project, and if this happens there's no telling what will happen to 30 people's careers and lives

- and if project moon does give in. Do not blame them. They're literally in actual physical danger right now.

And if you really do need it to feel any sympathy at all:

- project moon only made it into a gatcha game bc of debt and a need of money as their projects grow

Please do what you can to help Project Moon during this time. Whether you like the game or not, this is absolutely unacceptable.

Edit: read the rb please.

it’s my understanding that they didn’t make limbus a gacha because of debt but because they wanted to collect funding for future games (they listed an action rpg as an example) without resorting to crowdfunding. i don’t think they can constantly pull the “awww we’re just a little company scraping by” excuse to justify the way they put unreasonable demands on the leviathan artist, had one english translator at the time canto iv was about to come out (and canto iv had an insane word count for just one person), and all of the bugs they constantly put out from lack of QA before releasing updates. they're making unpredecented amounts of profit but are clearly understaffed and likely overworked.

anyways a huge part of my issue with how they handled the situation is that they didn’t condemn, much less MENTION, the fact that people came to their office to “raise concerns”. they’ve been much stricter in the past when people heckled hampang staff and made it clear if people followed them home or kept verbally abusing them they’d take action. neglecting to mention this incident practically screams “you can bully us into doing anything, we’ll take possible threats on our lives as a valid form of criticism to the point where we’ll fire someone”.

on top of all that, people heavily associate any vaguely feminist sentiment with a now-defunct radical feminist site called megalia. megalia was extremely toxic with how some of their views went as far as homophobia/bioessentialism/transphobia but it did kickstart a lot of awareness for feminism and became the main scapegoat for any misogynist’s displeasure for women demanding basic respect. anyone who expressed feminist views after megalia rose to infamy was called a “megal” no matter what their full beliefs were, so many feminists took it in stride and said “if wanting basic human rights makes me an extremist, i’ll accept the label” which of course looped back into vindicating misogynists and now they boldly claim all feminists are secret nazis who want to abort male fetuses etc etc.

with that context, the tweet i see referred to the most from the CG illustrator was her simply expressing disgust with illegal filming (which was a MASSIVE widespread issue in korea recently; look up molka). the fact that a belief like that is considered controversial enough for project moon to consider it a breach in contract is absolutely insane. the fact that a teenager’s (her age back then) deleted tweets people had to DIG internet archives for before she was even hired is enough to damn her is insane.

at the end of the day they tossed a 22 y/o illustrator under the bus, possibly ruined all her future career prospects by implicitly agreeing that she has controversial feminist views (a death sentence for someone in a male-dominated industry largely catering to chauvinists), and never addressed how their own employees’ safety was threatened. they posted the notice at midnight and only in korean (when international fans AT LEAST deserve to know there’ll be changes in future CG art) which also gives the impression they wanted this to be swept under the rug. this and the mismanagement/overwork put me off defending them. i’m not going to deny they were stuck between a rock and a hard place but they went the absolute worst way about this.

women are expected to put up with all sorts of degradation with a smile while men can't even handle ONE instance of a male character getting a more fanservicey design over a female character. it was mostly female fans defending them from review-bombing and harassment and these actions make it clear they must take that for granted and would rather placate gacha and porn addicted incels pouring in from dcinside than show solidarity with fans who've been supporting them the whole time. i absolutely don't blame the droves of korean artists dropping the game and deleting their twitter accounts/fanart.

addition for people who want to know what the illustrator's detractors are claiming she said VS the worst of what she actually tweeted was (credit to chuwa10 on twitter):

1. supporting abortion of males: since misogynists take any kind of feminism in bad faith, they think supporting abortion automatically means wanting to abort male fetuses instead of reproductive rights. all she did was tweet or retweet an article about an advancement of abortion rights when it was decriminalized

2. saying she's part of a radfem group: she tweeted that if fighting sexism and supporting the end of patriarchy means she's radical and anti-social (so basically a megal), then she'll identify as one. this was pretty common among feminists in the 2010s and not a good indicator of actual beliefs, as stated earlier

3. mocking men for shaving: there's clarification that several of her most derogatory tweets about men were actually just her parroting common ways misogynists talk about women which is followed up on in the second screenshot by an example where men were mocking women for having to use radioactive menstrual products and telling them to simply hold back their period blood, calling them kimchi girls (a derogatory korean term used by men who fetishize japanese women basically meaning stupid gold digger, contrasted with japanese girls who are submissive and sweet [yeah that shit exists in korea too]) and she wrote a tweet about men needing to shave with the same wording

4. saying male children grow up to be sex offenders (TW: rape): she participated in a hashtag called "south korea raises sex offenders, not children" that was formed in response to the burning sun scandal. the op clarifies what happened in the screenshot but for additional info, seungri, the singer who received 1 year 6 months for all of his crimes (including illegal prostitution to close business deals) was also part of a group chat of MANY male singers and celebrities where they would film themselves raping women they drugged. jung joonyoung, the singer (and serial rapist) who started the group chat, was a main cast member on a popular variety show where he'd taken a hiatus before because his ex girlfriend accused him of filming her without her consent. once that accusation was smoothed over the show accepted him back and then 3 years later it came out he had been running this group chat and that the incident with his ex girlfriend had been an enormous red flag everyone had chosen to ignore. on top of all that, it had been a joke in interviews that he was popular among male celebrities for his "golden phone" without specifying what was on that phone. many other celebrities were caught in the chat but there was no way of verifying if they had caught EVERYONE and if there had been people who knew of it but chose to stay silent. given the scale of these incidents it's completely reasonable that people would start such a hashtag. also IMO the wording of the hashtag is much vaguer than "male children grow up to be sex criminals", it's mostly implying rape culture lets sex criminals thrive because they're let off with a slap on the wrist and gender isn't even mentioned in the title.

here's the link for the thread i got the screenshots from:

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"download the app to continue!" what if I kill you

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Girls will say "I just need to lie down for a little while" and then sink into a muddy river and get all their hard.tissues replaced with mineral deposits

the little coffee you get while out doing errands should be free for girls

i think scotland should rebuild hadrian’s wall while everyone’s distracted by the coronation