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Censorship Journalists and blue checkmarks trying to get indie game boycotted/banned, because they don't have any indigenous people on their dev team

Hibiki

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For some reason twitter decided to boycott and try to get banned this indie survival game where you play as a Native American fighting against the settlers.
Everything started with twitter user a3rice.
Long story short, it's a game about native Americans but they don't have any native Americans on their 4 people dev team, and that's a problem because of retarded woke reasons

IT'S A FUCKING VIDEO GAME YOU MENTALLY ILL PIECE OF SHIT

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The tweet images

He was also claiming the head dev is a fascist because he has the rising sun flag
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The dev is Japanese, and the rising sung has been a Japanese symbol for thousands of years, check the wikipedia article

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A few days after the witch hunt started he was reported and eventually his account got suspended, extremely sad, I know.

I wish I could say it was because twitter did something about harassment, but no, people reported his old tweets, apparently he frequently tweeted racist slurs.
And the devs of this game are the racist ones :zt-think:




Shortly after, blue checkmarks and twitch streamers started getting into the angry mob


Another Twitch Streamer

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>you don't know shit about us

Weren't you born on Berlin my dude?




Why should they give them any money? Seriously, WHY? Again, it's a video game.
Also the devs are Ukrainian.





Even Journalists started making articles defaming the game

Read the article on the Archive so you don't give them any clicks
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The devs did the right thing and they started blocking these people on twitter and banning them on their discord server, because they were raiding their servers to call them racist.


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Of course it was just that, poor victim of censorship.
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Here is a small compilation of less relevant tweets harassing the developers. I didn't archive all of them because they are just the same bullshit repeated over and over again, but it's a good example to show the scale of this bullshit.
All of these tweets were under an unrelated tweet from the twitter account of This Land Is My Land
Archive for said tweet.
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Another twitch streamer (probably an irrelevant one)
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He probably hates himself
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W E W L A D
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After a few days the angry mob calmed down and forgot about it. The devs completely ignored all the demands from them and they did the right choice by not bending the knee.


The game was kind of dying, so I'm sure they are happy with all the attention they got

The steam reviews didn't change at all, because as we know the people making these kind of retarded demands, don't actually play video games.
When you piss of your actual player base the games generally get review bombed, this was not the case at all.
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There's a few negative reviews, but those are because of gameplay issues and lack of content and not because of reisism

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If you want to support the developers here is the steam store link, but remember, it's an early access game.





This shit reminds me of when they tried to cancel that Japanese artists because they drew a native American

 

Cayhr

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Amazing. You managed to collect so many receipts, especially the Discord screenies. I knew about This Land is my Land and its non-troversy, but never looked any further. It's just so absurd how people can shamelessly make so many demands of others. I mentioned on the Pleroma instance about reparations...how and why are these devs obligated to pay reparations? So absurd. I guess out of principle, showing these devs support for not buckling to the mob is a good thing, but it does seem like the game needs actual work if that one review is to go by.

I do love how this whole situation just reinforces what we know about the moral authoritarian mob, especially when it comes to accusation. They are predictable. I don't know if people reading your post (or this thread, rather) will pick up on this, but the entire social justice thing is a grift, and these people are just looking for money and influence. I'm sure most people know, but these people are not trying to rectify any real problems with their virtue signaling. Regardless, reading through the screenshots Shizu posted, I picked up a lot of little details and I think it would be useful to analyze and share them.

Time for some totally unnecessary analysis!

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I rearranged these in chronological order according to the timestamps and conversation context. There might've been some back and forth between imgs 1 and 2, but it doesn't seem like any meaningful or productive conversation was had according to Sandam's post: "the only suggestion you mob gave was to hire a native... and nothing else... its quite a shitty suggestion."

Pay attention to the way the user Odawel (talks) types. He starts off with just baseless accusation in image 1, hinging only on "muh racism." Any mention of feedback is meaningless, since the user Sandam highlights how there was only one suggestion and that was to hire a native. Odawel proceeds to accuse rsklnkv of association with racism/not knowing anything about indigenous people. It is key that Odawel not give rsklnkv any specifics and repeatedly associate him with racists/racism. Judging from the timestamps, this is the crux of the conversation (and maybe all of it). There is no mention of any specifics on how to fix the game, and the sad part is that that's not even reserved for when these parasites get control of your work. Now refer to image 3 where rsklnkv gives Odawel an opportunity to influence him.

rsklnkv says: "would you like to help us?" Then, Odawel immediately changes gears and shills himself, changing drastically to speaking more "professionally." He uses capitalization and punctuation more to look better. His first impression wasn't even good. Even though it's not completely there, it's still a quick change in attitude, and is a tiny detail that gives away his motive. To the parasite, this is the opportunity to insert yourself, and you need to make a good impression. The real sucker is the last sentence "If you would like to enter contract negotiations, I am more than happy to do so." No duh, you can get paid that way.

You might be asking yourself, well of course, the dev offered and Odawel responded, but you see how he lays out all his cards as to how he is going to completely subvert the project? It includes a major overhaul of the game, and then he is even going to bring a damn team. If that isn't a hostile takeover, I don't know what is. Chances are rsklnkv would have denied Odawel anyway, but that's Odawel's mistake laying out his cards. rsklnkv turns him down, and when Odawel realizes that they won't accept his Trojan horse, he goes right back to accusing the dev of racism. He even drops the capitalization and punctuation he used during the self-shill and becomes less professional and appealing to work with once he was rejected. His opportunity to grift was shot down. These people are literally just NPCs that run on one set of programming: accuse and slander until your victim buckles, then subvert. If they don't buckle, slander more. A loop of misery.

(!) One last thing that is a good takeaway for everyone, despite how simple it is. If you already know it, it's a good reminder. Note how Odawel uses "us" when referring to the indigenous people identity, hoping to establish the dev(s) as uncredible to work/speak about the subject. Identity politics is the tool of these moral tyrants because they establish a hierarchy of who is more righteous to speak about a subject. In rhetoric, there are 3 components: ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is the credibility/authority of the speaker, logos is the logic used, and pathos is the emotional appeal. The mob uses primarily ethos and pathos, so if you can become resistant or immune to them using moral high ground, identity politics, and emotional manipulation, you will be able to navigate these people much more easily (learn about these on your own; there are many resources available). Their (possibly purposeful) negligence for logic is why we regular people find the various narratives they push to be conflicting and full of holes; things just don't add up. Understand that these people have a complete disregard for holding themselves to their own standards, so treat them as such. If you are a creator or plan to become one, definitely train yourself to look out for these bad actors!

P.S: I remember the brief hullabaloo over EDA's art (which is super cool btw), and it really drives home how the concept of "cultural appropriation" is one of the dumbest things ever invented.
P.P.S: Why do I always end up writing essays lol. Whatevs, I had fun, and if someone learns something out of it, it will be worth the effort.
 

Narbray

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For some reason twitter decided to boycott and try to get banned this indie survival game where you play as a Native American fighting against the settlers.
Everything started with twitter user a3rice.
Long story short, it's a game about native Americans but they don't have any native Americans on their 4 people dev team, and that's a problem because of retarded woke reasons

IT'S A FUCKING VIDEO GAME YOU MENTALLY ILL PIECE OF SHIT


The tweet images


He was also claiming the head dev is a fascist because he has the rising sun flag
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The dev is Japanese, and the rising sung has been a Japanese symbol for thousands of years, check the wikipedia article

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A few days after the witch hunt started he was reported and eventually his account got suspended, extremely sad, I know.

I wish I could say it was because twitter did something about harassment, but no, people reported his old tweets, apparently he frequently tweeted racist slurs.
And the devs of this game are the racist ones :zt-think:




Shortly after, blue checkmarks and twitch streamers started getting into the angry mob


Another Twitch Streamer

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Someone walked into the wrong neighborhood :tohru-smug: Archive



>you don't know shit about us

Weren't you born on Berlin my dude?




Why should they give them any money? Seriously, WHY? Again, it's a video game.
Also the devs are Ukrainian.





Even Journalists started making articles defaming the game

Read the article on the Archive so you don't give them any clicks
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The devs did the right thing and they started blocking these people on twitter and banning them on their discord server, because they were raiding their servers to call them racist.


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Of course it was just that, poor victim of censorship.
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Here is a small compilation of less relevant tweets harassing the developers. I didn't archive all of them because they are just the same bullshit repeated over and over again, but it's a good example to show the scale of this bullshit.







After a few days the angry mob calmed down and forgot about it. The devs completely ignored all the demands from them and they did the right choice by not bending the knee.


The game was kind of dying, so I'm sure they are happy with all the attention they got

The steam reviews didn't change at all, because as we know the people making these kind of retarded demands, don't actually play video games.
When you piss of your actual player base the games generally get review bombed, this was not the case at all.
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There's a few negative reviews, but those are because of gameplay issues and lack of content and not because of reisism

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If you want to support the developers here is the steam store link, but remember, it's an early access game.





This shit reminds me of when they tried to cancel that Japanese artists because they drew a native American

OMG What the hell is wrong with that person, he is seriously should be admitted to a specialized center...
and never come out
Excellent all that compilation of information, I had already seen a little of the case beforehand but did not know that there was so much. I couldn't read all that to the end, I was getting a little cancer, sorry:senko-disgust:
You know, the truth is I wonder what will go through the minds of these people
Did he really find the game racist?
wanted to get attention?
He didn't like the game so he wanted to fuck it up?
have a serious mental illness?
is 4 years old?
I don't understand ... no matter how much I think about it, I can't understand what happened to his head.
maybe he was a little stressed and tired, he didn't like the game and he didn't give a damn about his discord account so he went to annoy the poor developers until they got his account banned or the game banned ... incidentally He joined the cancellation fashion and ended up as a ´´heroe`` for canceling a game that was surely not played ... my God, because we have to breathe the same air as these people, now I am not going to be able to sleep well thinking that it could be an undetectable contagious disease that damages the brain and that it is a global pandemic and nobody has noticed.
 

namedoesntfi

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rsklnkv says: "would you like to help us?" Then, Odawel immediately changes gears and shills himself, changing drastically to speaking more "professionally." He uses capitalization and punctuation more to look better. His first impression wasn't even good. Even though it's not completely there, it's still a quick change in attitude, and is a tiny detail that gives away his motive. To the parasite, this is the opportunity to insert yourself, and you need to make a good impression. The real sucker is the last sentence "If you would like to enter contract negotiations, I am more than happy to do so." No duh, you can get paid that way.
When I read these Discord prints I noticed that too. The difference is clear on how he types and presents himself after he sees the opportunity. It is shameful display of shilling. The entitlement is beyond the charts too. "I'm going to bring a team with me", NO, FUCK YOU. Even if the devs were to hire him, which would be a huge mistake, they would probably be like "no, we are willing to hire YOU and no one else, unless you are saying these other people would be working for free which we believe is unethical".
The funny thing about his typo is that if same tactics were to be used against them, it could be said "are you saying indigenous people are easy to fine? wow, that's racist". :kekw:
Did he really find the game racist?
wanted to get attention?
He didn't like the game so he wanted to fuck it up?
have a serious mental illness?
is 4 years old?
I don't understand ... no matter how much I think about it, I can't understand what happened to his head.
maybe he was a little stressed and tired, he didn't like the game and he didn't give a damn about his discord account so he went to annoy the poor developers until they got his account banned or the game banned ... incidentally He joined the cancellation fashion and ended up as a ´´heroe`` for canceling a game that was surely not played ... my God, because we have to breathe the same air as these people, now I am not going to be able to sleep well thinking that it could be an undetectable contagious disease that damages the brain and that it is a global pandemic and nobody has noticed.
Is there a chance that he truly thought the game was racist? Yes, but most of the time that is just the power play these people like to engage.

The reason for why these people do this vary a lot. Maybe they are simply jealous something did something they didn't think of and then try to shut it down. Maybe they are mentally unstable or ill. Maybe they are so engaged into this shit they start seeing issues in everything. Maybe they are like Odawel and are try to seize an opportunity to insert himself into the industry and/or get some money out of it. Maybe they don't want a certain narrative in "pop culture" because it goes against their ideology. I mean there are so many reasons are to why they do this shit.
 

Narbray

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Is there a chance that he truly thought the game was racist? Yes, but most of the time that is just the power play these people like to engage.

The reason for why these people do this vary a lot. Maybe they are simply jealous something did something they didn't think of and then try to shut it down. Maybe they are mentally unstable or ill. Maybe they are so engaged into this shit they start seeing issues in everything. Maybe they are like Odawel and are try to seize an opportunity to insert himself into the industry and/or get some money out of it. Maybe they don't want a certain narrative in "pop culture" because it goes against their ideology. I mean there are so many reasons are to why they do this shit.
Yes, the truth is that I said it without waiting for any response, I can imagine why these people are like that. On second thought I should have given a more serious answer considering the effort @Shizu and @Cayhr put into their posts, I apologize for that.
 

Antiochos

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Regarding the rising sun flag, the one used by the dev is specifically the ensign used by the JMSDF and it's not even the same rising sun flag that have controversy.
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The old rising sun flag, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy :
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As you can see, the round part is slightly situated on the left. The shade of red is not the same used by the flag of the modern japanese navy.

Usually the people who are whining about the rising sun flag are doing so because it was the ARMY's flag (not gonna talk about it for hours but at the time it's hella different since the army and navy are two distinct branch who hates each others nearly as much as the people they are fighting against). I'm not saying the IJN is clean, since people are upset of this flag since it's associated with the IJA warcrimes, but they have a lot less controversy than the IJA, mostly because they fought mostly on the sea and didn't have land as many troups.

For reference the IJA flag is this :
File:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army (1868–1945).svg

The round part of the flag is at the dead center.

Tldr : the flag used by the dev is not even the same used by the old IJA who commited war crimes during WW2. It's not even the flag of the army. Those whinning about it are uncultured retards that cries about something they don't even understand.
 
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MasterMenos

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Sounds like all the turbo-idiots did in the end was give the game more publicity. They learned dick-all from the Sense Disaster, so I hope "This Land is My Land" turns out extremely successful as a result.
 

PhantomXero1x

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This is pretty similar to when Redskins were being boycotted all because of the name. But when actual Native people heard about it, they couldn't have cared less about the name and were pretty chill about it.

If anything controversy sells and its only going to just increase the amount of sales for this game.
 
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