will, pls pay attention to me

LITG: Bombshell (1/2) Artbreeders

since the finale is next week I thought that I would pop the outfits together a week in advance so everyone has time to decide which outfits they like! all of these outfits will cost gems.

Fusebox doing a mass firing? That’s so 2021 - be original now. But to fire the community team? That’s mad. And we should all be mad af.

The community team launched the official discord server , they run the socials and promo the episodes each week. Okay, I have my own personal issues with them but all that aside, they promised this new server would be a way for feedback to get directly to the game developers in a much better way and our voices actually be heard.

Twitter posts from former employees gives us a scary timeline. We can see they started around May 2022 and got made redundant end of October 2022. Not even 6 months. We can only speculate at the moment why this is but I have a couple of theories:

1. Fusebox is financially struggling. I guessed this with the major gem increases we’ve been seeing. Just makes sense. Then to make most of a team redundant? A team you only just really invested in? Guess they say Last Ones In, First Ones Out.

2. Socials are platforms where people can vent their frustrations and thoughts about the current season. Needless to say, the comments this season are not exactly nice. So in managements eyes are the community team not doing their job of getting people hyped for episodes and singing their praises? But tbh, this shouldn’t be blamed on the community team. It’s hard to promote shit but tbh they do try, I’ll give them that.

Could be a combination of the two. Community team’s not getting people to spend their hard-earned gems. The discords dead, the Instagram is a mess and don’t even get me started on the subreddit.

But what can we take from this? Their promises of “we’re listening and passing on feedback!” Are you? Okay, if you were, you’re not now, so who is??

I asked in the official discord and my comment got deleted soooo… we LOVE being silenced.

These problems all come from the top. Simple research into employee welfare tells you management is shite. And this further cements it.

No one:

That's a long title but I do want to share my thoughts because this had been bugging me for a while. I had spoken to @oceanatydes because they brought up the topic first and pointed out the fact that while white characters got confirmed ethnicities (Irish, British), none of the POC characters got any ethnicity at all, just 'mixed-race.' That's a problem - a problem that has existed for all five seasons in terms of the poc characters in the LITG universe.

I remember months ago in reddit, someone asked what was Lucas's ethnicity and literally all of us Lucas stans were confused because we didn't know. Some of us made headcanons about him being Korean, Singaporean and even mixed-raced. The only hint of his ethnicity was his last name Koh which has Chinese and Korean origins, but Lucas's ethnicity was never confirmed as far as I know.

This is a problem because it reinforces the belief that all POC are the same, when we're not. African Americans are different from Afro-Trinidadians, Chinese people are different from Filipinos, Sri Lankans are different from Indians etc. We all have different cultures and beliefs. We are not the same.