#ko_op

[shiftyvolcanospiceconfess]

I made a KO_OP subreddit on a whim.

[distantdriller]

Pointless mini rant about some random shit because I'm PISSED off.

Goodbye Volcano High is a queer piece of media that is/was unfairly shat on for various reasons. Regardless of its flaws, I feel as though a lot of the judgement against it and the indie studio who made it is motivated by queerphobia and bad faith criticisms.

Hell, a bunch of 4channers (Cavemanon) even made a bigoted parody of Goodbye Volcano High, known as Snoot Game, and released it before the original game was out. Because they wanted to fuck Fang, the nonbinary protagonist of Goodbye Volcano High, but didn't like how they were nonbinary.

Said bigoted parody has more of a fanbase than Goodbye Volcano High, and that fanbase even bleeds into Goodbye Volcano High's fanbase. I can't count the number of times I've seen Goodbye Volcano High fanart tagged with a Snoot Game tag, its INFURIATING.

Don't even make me rant about Snoot Game itself (I haven't even played it yet, but I can tell how it'll be). One thing that particularly pisses me of is how most mods involving characters from Goodbye Volcano High are specifically for the Snoot Game versions of them.

Anyways, go read the reviews for Goodbye Volcano High on Steam and see how many reviews on it mention or allude to Snoot Game in some form. (If you see anyone referring to a character named "Lucy", just know that's the deadname Cavemanon gave them. their brother is literally named NASER.)

Bonus section: Cavemanon put a character from a random Itch.io game into Snoot Game, and I hear it was without consent of her original creator (@pikopik-blog1), who seemingly hasn't been active on the internet for a while, but that could be wrong.

Cooking with Tracy! by pikopik

Cooking with Tracy! by pikopik

[wolfnanaki]

DID YOU SEE? YOUNG SUNS YOUNG SUNS YOUNG SUNS YOUNG SUNS YOUNG SUNS!!! ☀️🚀💞🥳

YES IT WAS AMAZING AND AWESOME AND SUPER CHARMING OMG 💖💖💖

[wolfnanaki]

What's it like being in the special thanks part of a game that had actual effort put into it? Is it better than simping for an overglorified greentext shitpost?

Honestly?

KO_OP represents so much of what the video game industry needs right now in order to survive and thrive. They're artist and worker owned with equal ownership and equal pay. They have a variety of people of different racial, cultural, and gendered backgrounds. They ensure everyone who worked on their games is properly credited and paid, even people who have left the studio or were working under a temporary contract. And they take care of each other when things go south.

For them to have faced a harassment campaign of this magnitude and still got their beautiful, heartfelt, award-winning game out, they've earned my respect, and I'm honored for the Special Thanks shout-out. I'm proud to have supported them and, despite what the harassers put me through, I would gladly do this all over again.

[nrxia]

GVH irl

[nrxia]

More button thingies! I don't know what y'all do with these, but here ya go.

[nrxia]

Apparently these new buttons are all the rage.

So if you're going to rage, please rage with Sage.

[nrxia]

Sage post!

GVH irl...