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.
Then you create something and don’t put the colours in. Like, the fuck is you’re point man?
That’s no Netflix shit, where they had a board meeting and decided the product needs more gay. That is a non commercial rom hack, where the creator decided to put the rainbow flag in it. If I wanted to create a hack myself, where the whole screen is just the rainbow flag and every NPC just says ‘Trans rights are human rights’, I’m allowed to do it. I don’t, because I myself dislike the whole pride ‘You are special’ feel good rainbowflag galore shit, I just want to be able to hold the hand of my boyfriend in public, but for some folks, it gives them strength in hard times, and that is a net positive in my book.