So maybe some of you have seen the recent ROM hack come out, by the developer of Pokémon Emerald Seaglass, called Pokémon Lazarus. This one has a far larger scale to everything, it’s quite clear that it is a massive undertaking for a sole dev, and most of the community is loving it.
Well, some aren’t behaving well. There’s been some petty, disgusting feedback from a (as ever) vocal minority. Those who are homophobic, bigots, who are mocking design decisions and the sound (which Nemo, the dev, has created from scratch), some who hate seeing a pride flag.
Anyway, Nemo has decided after this bullshit to step back from the public and stop interacting. We’ve seen this again and again with developers. And it’s getting SO damned exhausting:
With that said, I’ll be taking a step back from the community for a bit. I’ll post bug-fixing and new feature patches to the Development Discord server, but I don’t plan on posting anywhere else for a while. If I go on to develop a new project (which I do have planned!), it will likely be in secret until close to release, if I choose to release it at all. With everything going on in my life (Master’s program, work, real world commitments, etc etc), I guess I’m just not prepared to also handle the bad side of attention on the internet.
I’d come to enjoy several creators who simply could not tolerate the negative attention of bigots. People’s desire to compel conformity, against the very nature of their subjects, creates a society that is not only deleterious to them and their subject, but mentally taxing to the rest of us. Literally not a single soul directly involved in this comes out ahead. It’s just a game designed to promote infighting and tertiary power grabs.
And that’s why I love lemmy. The general absence of []-phobes is fantastic. It’s the only reason I can tolerate the general inability to read sarcasm here.
Agreed on all fronts there!
I’ve been spending a fairly sizable amount of time lately with the Android emulation scene, and the amount of times the public goes nuclear over the tiniest inconsequential things is…just unbelievable. From the []-phobes to death threats. I wish that people would learn some social skills.
The dev of Lazarus didn’t have this kind of reaction to Seaglass, so I think we could say that this trend of being a disgusting bigot is one which is being ‘allowed’ more recently than it once was in social media.
Lemmy appears to have a lot of autistic users on it, which explains the struggles to understand sarcasm. But autistic people tend to be open-minded and we’re often targeted by the same bigots that you’re lamenting about. So while the sarcasm thing is an issue, it’s also a sign of an open-minded user base.
Dang Ive been wrestling with the realization that I might be neurodivergent in some way, I’m on Lemmy but I do understand sarcasm. This hasn’t helped at all
Understanding the concept of sarcasm and recognizing it amidst a conversation are very different things.
Also: autism isn’t the only type of neurodivergence and failure to recognize sarcasm isn’t a trait that 100% of autistic people share.
Unfortunately they can be anywhere.
I received death threats by an extreme fatphobe here on Lemmy.
That sucks. I imagine they were banned pretty expediently, though. Was that the case?
They only had their comments removed for “being rude”. They did not get banned.
Studies are being done to look for treatment and prevention of various issues historically treated with primarely weight loss. This research is finding positive results, and for some things like prediabetes it can be treated even while the person is gaining more weight. This is extremely imlortant research, because weight loss is not something everyone can and wants to do.
A comment attacked the research as useless as “the fatties” should just lose weight. After I responded with the importance for everyone of any size for this type of research being done, death in horrible and gruesome ways was wished on me and all other fat people and was even extremely proud of it too doubling down after being called out.
Outside of this one case, talking about body positivity and body liberation here on Lemmy feels like a minefield that will blow off any moment at any time. Either due to some crazy dude just attacking me or someone arguing it is all invalid because they don’t agree me and people in general can also not feel miserable in their bodies.
I guess lemmy still has a ways to go, as well. I’m sorry you went through that, and I hope it’ll be the last
Thanks. Best of luck to you too!
Sounds like most of the issue here is Twitter? Get the fuck off of Twitter. Why would anyone ever care what anyone on Twitter thinks about ANYTHING?
Get off Twitter. You can just leave. Do it now!
Imagine sending someone hatemail because they like rocky road while your favorite is salted caramel. Who cares whats in their bowl? Why care? Eat your own fucking ice cream, losers.
Imagine releasing a passion project, and then going on hatemail.com to check for constructive feedback.
Not saying that the developer is at fault here. But NOT going to twitter.com is the first step towards a happier life.
You deal with this by telling the bigots to go fuck themselves.
Thanks for bringing attention to this cool game. Would never have heard of it otherwise. And the reasons for the criticisms ended up convincing me to try the game, since it sounds like the dev is really cool.
The game is a an amazing romHack, and well done. And if the flags bother you that much…well you’re an emotional child.
if the flags bother you that much…well you’re an emotional child.
Nah, children don’t cry when they see rainbows.
True
Looks like the dev’s Ko-Fi is the official source for the download: https://ko-fi.com/nemo622
No offense, but I’m way more interested in this Crystal styled Emerald romhack itself than whatever drama is happening around it.
Although I am sad to hear that yet another creator has been badgered out of enjoying their work. That sucks.
This looks really cool! Definitely gonna check this project out.
All the homophobes and racists can fuck off and die. ❤️🏳️🌈😎👍
Damn all the negative bullshit is a real shame. I shared the info about this ROM hack with extra veracity in my circles in response to that, and now 3 new people who love being represented by those cool flags are happily trying it out. I’ll try myself later in the week, it looks really cool. Thanks for sharing it here.
It is one of those modern Pokemon hacks that are just ludicrously hard, or is it casually enjoyable?
You can make it as easy or as hard as you want!
It comes with documentations for the game and the mechanics. One of those has some cheats you can put in to play your way. Their previous romhack Emerald Seaglass was the same way.
Highly recommend both!
To add to what the other commenter said, there is a hard mode that is off by default. It seems more aimed at reasonable difficulty.
bigots crying about shit is such fucking bullshit, because you know their porn search history is filled with everything they publicly seethe and hate
Sounds like Nemo needs to spend some time watching Matt Colville’s video on Community
Everyone should watch it, really… even if it is an hour…
People are always going to suck. By conceding and backing away from the project or limelight, the idiots or bots or trolls or whatever they are have “won”. This emboldens things like that. You can see this type of behavior on the Steam forums too. Sometimes you just have to ignore these weird facets of the internet.
The discord blew up when it released. I’d be so much more excited about that than whatever that garbage is on the other side.
I understand Nemo, but I wish they would’ve been able to stand tall and accept the praise from the larger side of the internet.
Ooh I’ll have to check it out
Fantastic game. I’ve been playing. Its fun.
