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[europeanguy]

i mean… i could clean this up but i dont want to

[zigsnose]

Realistic Hero Characters - Part I

Eva

Grayson Prescott

Kenji Katsaros

Caleb

[tyril-simp]

[akcshi]

The audacity of not changing the app icon after they cancelled RoD 2..

[irilenaps]

Might I offer you some memes I made on a rage in these trying times?

Last but not least:

[starberrybliss-deactivated20260]

Hi yes I’m still bitter

[choicesenthusiast]

Okay now that I’ve let everything, like, marinate, here are my thoughts. Are we really surprised about all these cancellations? MW’s been stagnant since the beginning, NB and DS were already announced as standalones, IL and TE (I think) have been announced as completed, and as for Hero and RoD, well…

My point is, these books have been dead in the water for years, and it was kinda funny to watch people continue to beg for continuations when I had a feeling as time went on that it was absolutely not going to happen. So no, I’m not surprised. Actually, I’m not even mad at this, at least. Yeah, these stories are incomplete (angering, with good reason, considering sequels were promised) but I would much rather leave everything up to interpretation than have PB completely wreck what they’re all about in a crappy sequel. Logistically, it makes sense why these books were cancelled (i.e. change in writing staff, different artstyle, bUdGeTiNg) and things change, but announce a sequel and sit on it for years? Alright.

I’m more mad at the fact that they’ve completely admitted that they’re going to continue to make terrible cheap romance because it’s what “keeps their lights on”. Someone else already brought it up but they’re pretty much just farming steamy romance and baby books to produce more steamy romance and baby books. And this is after the Wedding/Baby Bonanza of 2019. Obviously, to each their own, and romance is not awful done right, but if I legitimately wanted 70 selections of the same “secret affair” or “inappropriate workplace romance” plots with animalistic sex every chapter in lieu of good writing I probably would have visited the obnoxiously erotic Walmart book aisle. Y’know, the ones Facebook moms enjoy. Or maybe a porn site. They’re trying to expand their genres with the new law and mystery book too, but those double entendre titles make it seem that it’ll be heavily steamy as well. It doesn’t even help that the gender/race-customizable LIs are white and male coded.

Let’s face it, the writing these past few years have been… less than ideal. DS was actually quite bad, it only really picked up during the ending and the potential for a Book 2 was what people remembered most. Are we praising Foreign Affairs for being actually good or just the bare minimum? Will we see a change in LI treatment in OH3 or will it be the same favouritism of their golden white male LI (favoured because he’s “the most popular”, which, sure, but is that the only reason)? It. Has. Been. Like. This. For. Years.

I’ll still be here shitting on PB and the content they produce and as usual, I will not care. Indifference? No expectations? Perhaps. Call it what you want. But this app has been heading in this direction (i.e. plummeting at terminal velocity) for a long time so it’s kinda comical to watch people still expect things from this company that has continuously let everyone down.

[coltkxneko]

YES. this is actually what bothers me. them making shitty smut... TO make MORE shitty smut.

and i’m so tired of them calling their LIs diverse when ‘the gender/race-customizable LIs are white and male coded’. THIS is exactly it!! my fav LIs are almost always the asian ones (i’m a little biased bc i’m asian lmao) who were MADE asian (colt kaneko, mona, kenji katsaros, shreya mistry, jax matsuo, ajay bhandari) and were not just added as an afterthought to tick their diversity quota. @playchoices stop giving me white men dressed in diversity suits 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

that bit about FA made me pause a little. i think i started hyping it too when it first started due to the ability to play a gender neutral MC... but in all honesty, the writing IS mediocre at best. it’s not terrible so far but... we’ll see what shit pb decides to pull i guess.

i have a ton of other thoughts but i think i really need more time to process and not be so overwhelmed by how pissed off i am with pb’s shit. i think i’m just most upset about how ROD has been teased and promised time and again(the app icon, being tagged ‘editor’s pick’, literally their own fucking words etc) and i didn’t want to rush them since i was hoping they’d just take their time with it and make it worth it??? idk. 😬

[thecapturedafrique]

I still can’t get over how Pixelberry is really gonna front like their shitty writing choices have zero effect on how a book is received.

NB literally sucked ass so hard they tried to romantically rebrand it to get more players invested in their (white) main LI and failed. It was only the potential of an epilogue that made fans—and apparently PB—forget how terrible it was enough that they wanted/expected a sequel.

And you’re not gonna convince me TE didn’t have a market that they failed to attract due to, you guessed it, their investment in their default white main LI. It still remains the most extreme single-minded devotion to one character out of anything they’ve ever done. And you have to remember that when it is a weekly release, we are talking a month of solely Beckett (not counting Aster’s diamond scenes at the end of it all for reasons I think should be obvious). Doubling down on this strategy for TE2 clearly didn’t work, since it contributed to the same narrative flaws and ultimately got the series canceled.

I know they need to make money and blah blah blah, but they also need to...idk, make good content? They quite clearly seem to have an expectation that players will invest in shit *cough cough TRH* no matter how much it stinks, but nostalgia can’t carry a brand new series.

@playchoices if you want players to invest in your content, how about you try making it better? I’ll even give y’all some tips.

First off, probably need to hire some more queer writers of color so you can avoid the racist/homophobic tropes that litter your stories.

Secondly, your model of pandering to your white cishet female audience by devoting all your efforts to the white male LI from the very jump seems to pretty obviously not be a consistently successful strategy. In fact, it’s a direct contributor to my first point.

And third, take some freaking accountability. Y’all need to start questioning the decisions on your part that lead to a book’s failure/success, because it ain’t all on us and never will be.

Frankly? That’s just not how business works.

[coltkxneko]

the way they did their POC & queer LIs so dirty, got rid of books that had remotely good POC and/or queer LIs(i’m talking shreya mistry, colt kaneko, mona, kenji katsaros, griffin langley...) and then proceeded to tell their POC & queer fans that they need to pander to their white cishet fans bc we aren’t the majority. i am MAD.

[choicesenthusiast]

Just woke up to a world in which I will never see Kenji Katsaros ever again

[ohsnapitzlovehacker]

FLUFF ABCs – Colt x Izzy (Colt x MC)

Thank you @pixelburied for your beautiful template! It’s about time something was created for the smut and NSFW writing-challenged 😭🤣

Wanna know more about Izzy and Colt’s relationship? Details below the cut!

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[coltkxneko]

this is adorable!! i miss him already 😩💖

[idontknowhatiamdoinghere]

so long partner.....

[coltkxneko]

*softly* don’t.....

[hell-chronicles]

My pitch for Blades 2 so it will appeal to the main demographic and get PB that coin

[coltkxneko]

we know this is what pb has been hinting at

[rodappreciationweek]

This summer, join us for one last ride. Details to come.  signal boosts appreciated

[coltkxneko]

i am actually fucking furious that i won’t ever see colt kaneko again?? i can’t believe this keeps happening to my fav asian lis. first kenji, now colt. only thing keeping me from deleting this app is fucking blades.

honestly though, i was so full of hope when i saw rod was tagged editor’s pick?? i thought that was a hint that they were definitely continuing the series. i’ve been replaying rod too in anticipation of hearing more news about a sequel.

@playchoices please we need more colt 🥺 enough with the cringy smut. there is no way you’re making more money from it?? they’re literally just diamond mines for the majority of us??

[coltkxneko]

i have been informed that we of good taste are not, in fact, the majority. the majority is instead a bunch of horny, middle-aged women with plenty of disposable income who just need to get their rocks off. bitch i hate it here bye.

[aerinisback]

The perfect music to mourn ROD 2

[coltkxneko]

HOW DARE YOU??? NO. SH UT UP I CANT

[shadowsartt]

I will never accept that i lost colt kaneko forever just so y'all can be able to read those cringe ass books about *steamy* romance and babies

[heartofarcanum]

If they release one more baby book I STG I WILL LOSE IT

[coltkxneko]

i will reblog this till the day i die.

[coltkxneko]

it’s the way books with quality asian LIs (not your customizable bs that is OBVIOUSLY a white cishet in a costume) are always taken away from us for me. @playchoices :) <3