[stirpicus]

Does Petra Love Me

Yes

[ribbonleaves]

*breathes* okay

Okay

Okay im a splatoon fan ive loved the games since they came out when i was a teen but i watched the raiders direct with some apprehension to start and i am now left with nothing but a pit of dread and disgust in my stomach.

I just need to say something about this. Are we really doing mega anti-indigenous shit in splatoon raiders? Really? Okay sorry but okay can we talk about this? Can we please fucking talk about this?

What the fuck is wrong with you. That is a totem pole. That is a totem pole you are stealing from the territory of salmon people whom you demonize and have created a whole game mode and now game about killing and pillaging from endlessly. Salmon are sacred to the Coast Salish people whose art you've flattened and shredded to pepper your "savage salmonid territory" with. I say again that Salmon are sacred to many indigenous groups. They provide life for the people and bring life to the waters and you're going to spew out a game entirely premised around destroying and pillaging and killing salmon? Okay.

I'm frankly just incredulous about this but probably more shocked that i havent seen anyone bring this up. Maybe it's because I have lived all my life in so-called greater Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish, and I know that the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest have dealt with immeasurable and wide reaching cultural loss under colonialism. It's not a fucking joke. literal actual real culturally significant totem poles in history have *literally* been stolen from the people of this land. To do something in a game that is this symbolically malicious is...jesus fuck. I feel like I'm losing it. This game wants to portray indigenous art as an aesthetic overlay for their colonialism simulator? Can we talk about this? Can we please talk about this?

[ryebreadedd]

save our salmon is lost media

[ryebreadedd]

relationship status with splatoon set to complicated

[gobstoppr]

NOT TO BE A BITCH ABOUT SPLATOON RAIDERS AGAIN BUT!

i was watching streams of it i was trying to give it a fair shot to try to take in everything. How can I be so loudly opposed to it if I don't even know whats in the game? however the streamer mentioned there were interviews so I took a look. I am here now to show you a passage that made my jaw fucking drop.

im honestly fucking speechless. players felt too bad about the colonialism in this context so they revamped it aesthetically to justify the colonialism by making it more 'wild' and 'dirty' and ''undeveloped'' Jesus fucking christ

doesnt help that the interview also says both about the concept art and the final game that the islands are 'uninhabited' and 'Infested with salmonids'. be so fucking for real right now.

YOU DIDNT HAVE TO MAKE THEM SALMONIDS. IN SIDE ORDER THEY WERE FINE MAKING BASICALLY COPYCATS OF SALMONIDS MECHANICALLY!! OR GET THIS: YOU DIDNT HAVE TO USE NATIVE CULTURES TO CODE THEM AS "LESS HUMAN" IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

if you like this game its ok. Like it IS just a game. but for the love of god Think about the themes and motivations and biases that exist in art ok. OK. repeat after me . 'Treasure hunting' is not a neutral concept. 'Untamed wilderness' is not a neutral concept. 'Savages' are NOT a neutral concept.

here is the full interview . https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2026/July/Ask-the-Developer-Vol-22-Splatoon-Raiders-Chapter-2-3143587.html

[ragfinnedfishes]

getting scared

[ragfinnedfishes]

I love you bomb cohock

[dormantshipping]

If someone selfshipped with your OC*, would you be okay with it?

Yes 100%

Mostly yes, other than a few exceptions

Depends on the OC

Depends on the person

Only if they were my friend, I would be okay with it

Only if we have at least talked before, I would be okay with it

Depends on specific circumstances not listed in other options

No other than a few exceptions

Not at all

Remaining time: 9 hours 21 minutes

*Assume by OC, we mean an adult character that isn't your sona/isn't meant to be you.

[joeybean0]

photos printed?

[untitled-and-unoriginal]

[ryebreadedd]

shooter mains genuinely think they deserve to live 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[all-consuming-rot]

remember "save our salmons". remember when little buddy was revealed and everyone thought there'd be salmonid reparations in 3. remember how there was still potential for it since the head of business dedicated to propagandizing, displacing, invading, mass-exterminating, and stealing their fertile eggs was found out and banished into space

[all-consuming-rot]

don't get me wrong i love salmon run and it's always been my favorite game mode by far, and the salmonid culture is very intriguing and i enjoy observing their music and architecture and fashion and ways of life. i do wish it was being tackled differently, it's been long enough that a new angle would be nice. it doesn't feel good to be playing british museum simulator with their keepsakes, and crafting gear from dumped plastic garbage that ends up a burden on their shores. please tell me there's some kind of plot twist and the way social media posts about salmonids being nuisance pests is a ruse PLEASE let deepcut realize they're doing some fucked up shit

[all-consuming-rot]

on top of all that in-world stuff, the salmonids are very heavily inspired by irl indigenous cultures, the ainu and pnw groups most prominently. i may be missing some due to this being a brief rundown; the major points are salmon (and bears, worth mentioning for context. the salmon war intrisnic grizz.) being an essential resource through their histories, salmonid spiritualism leaning into the environment's resources and cycle of life and death, cooking being a central piece to their lives (including tools, weapons, decoration, fashion, afterlife) and an utmost sign of respect, and all the salmonid folk art that is just directly formline.

all brutally juxtaposed by that bullshit of constantly calling them nuisance creatures that Crawl Ashore and depicting them as gross and having stuff like that render of an inkling dragging a chum on a leash. utterly mind numbing and jaw dropping things happening within splatoon writer brains constantly

[butchgangle]

[butchgangle]

[corrodedparadox]

No way

Prints

[joeybean0]

ARTFIGHT!!

[calllynx]

beast of circumstance