Alright, let's talk about Project Moon.
Just to clarify, this does not mean I'm going back to regularly posting stuff here, particularly cause I've had some relatively bad experiences with this website alongside the fact that some of the stuff I've typed here makes present me wretch too much to consider going. However, just this once I'm getting my ass off the bed to share my thoughts on the Project Moon controversy since it involves one of the games I've been playing a lot recently, Limbus Company.
For those unaware of the Project Moon controversy that's been going on here, allow me to explain. During early July 2023, PM released the obligatory summer event that by this point is expected for all gachas. Now because we humans are genetically bred and designed to flush our brains down a drain at the sight of even a single nuance of rational thought, incels got super p'd off that Ishmael was wearing a skintight suit instead of swimwear for the obligatory gacha beach episode event, seeing it as an expression of "radical feminism" of some kind. There's also the fact that the CG artist behind Beach Episode Ishmael's design made some feminist remarks in the past on social media which was apparently sufficient enough "evidence" for the incels to go on a crusade of degeneracy in order to liberate fans of Limbus under the guidance of their lord and savior "Incel Christ".
The crusade I was referring to pretty much boils down to spreading negative misinformation on the Limbus subreddit, review bombing the game to hell and back, and even threatening violence against Project Moon's staff. The main goal? Have the artist behind the Ishmael censorship, VelleMori, be fired. And of course, in an unfortunate turn of events, Project Moon complied to the misogynists and fired VelleMori. While this probably satisfied the incels everyone else is now out for PMoon's blood since the struggle for gender equality in Korea (where PM is based in) is pretty vicious. It also doesn't help that a similar incident occured in 2016, in which a female Korean VA was fired because of a similar set of circumstances. Because of this, fans lost whatever remaining faith they had in PM and boycotted the devs, discouraging people to continue supporting PM and presumably moving on and trying to disassociate themselves with anything PM related in the future.
I'm not gonna lie. At first I was pretty miffed with PM as well for bowing to the incels. Hell, I even deleted Limbus yesterday just to give em the bird, however, after a good night's rest to help calm my anger over the situation, I realize that I'm putting way too much of the blame on PM. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to morally grandstand on behalf of PM or anything, what they did was indeed wrong as hell, but when you take the time to revise the situation, you can somewhat understand PM's decision, even if out of the two options they were given they'd picked the morally questionable one.
I say this because with this controversy, PM was pretty much fighting a losing battle right from the start. Even if they didn't cave in to the misogynists' demands, stood their ground and refused to fire VelleMori, they'd still have to worry about the prospect of the incels barging right through their front door and massacring the other innocent programmers and artists within the company, practically putting the lives of tens at an unwarranted stake, even if these incels probably have the physique level of your average Mario boss, which probably makes them kinda pathetic but I'm getting a bit sidetracked here so let's get back to the main subject at hand.
Now, as I said before, I don't claim to be on the moral high ground. I'm not sure this entire rant is 100% factually correct, I'm not trying to deny the fact that Project Moon didn't do an oopsie and I'm not well-versed enough in Korean laws and cultural background to back up the legitimacy of what I've said before and what I'm about to say. I honestly believe that there is some truth to PM firing VelleMori as a defensive act. The message is definitely there, it's just that the domestic cultural background and an incident of similar nature from 7 years ago ended up distorting the message into an entirely opposite meaning instead. From what I've heard, up until the start of all this shit PM isn't an inherently malicious company and seems to put in a lot of love and care into their games with Limbus being one of the shining examples of that so I don't really think PM is actually saying that they fired VelleMori as a defensive act just to save their bacon, particularly since they've clearly shown multiple times over that they genuinely care about the fans and put heart and soul into each one of their works.
Truth be told I really hope that this controversy doesn't end up leading PM onto a darker path that most businesses in the gaming industry wander into.
In short, while PM definitely deserves some of the blame, it should also be noted that the incels that started this whole clusterfuck in the first place deserves more of the blame. A LOT MORE OF THE BLAME. To those cyberstalking incels that remorselessly dug the grave that PM's reputation now resides in, I do hope you're proud of yourselves. Pray to the lord almighty that we never cross paths, cause the very moment you're locked within my line of sight, rest assured, I won't hesitate to give you a one way trip back to the stone age, and trust me, THERE WILL BE NO TIME MACHINE THAT CAN RECOVER WHAT YOU'VE LOST. AND EVEN IF THERE WAS, well, a little bit of SUPER SMASH BROS. might be able to resolve that problem juuuust FINE.
(I'm deeply apologetic over my use of violent language, especially with some of the implications of the last paragraph, it's just that this whole controversy has got me peeved in more ways than one can imagine. Unless you're one of the incels behind the scandal. In which case I do not owe you any apologies.)
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