Sir Shabadoobie

Lots of things have happened this year, (some which I’m not allowed to talk about yet), and what was supposed to be a small update with bug fixes has turned into something a little bit bigger.

Here’s some of the stuff you can expect to see in the next update:

New room layouts

New items

A lot of fixes for all currently known bugs (such as fighting a certain boss in Basement 1, resuming a co-op run, or crashes caused by the Red Key)

A lot of rebalancing as well, such as fairer boss patterns and room layouts

Some quality of life changes from Afterbirth such as the interaction between the Tick and the Match Stick, shorter bomb fuse times, and being able to see your character’s current progression in the pause menu

An extra compact version of the item tracker which can display four times as many items!

Starting room hints that actually show you the controls

More amazing tracks by Mudeth

And some more stuff we can’t talk about yet...

And here’s a little spoiler for one of the upcoming items.

This one was planned a long time ago but never made it into the initial release. Here’s some footage of it in action.

And that’s it for now! There is still much more to talk about and I’m hoping to be able to disclose some more info within the next few months. But rest assured that we’re still around, we’re reading your feedback, and Antibirth most definitely isn’t dead.

Warning for needles, links to disturbing images

[Tweet: A fanartist was offered hand made cookies at a con. Only to find out they have needles inside and pierced her tongue]

The fanartist in question is Avimedes, a Taiwanese fanartist who draws primarily for Undertale. On May 10th she posted on her Plurk (warning for images with blood, needles) that she was given cookies as a gift; she ate one and a needle pierced her tongue. 

Here is a translation of her post:

Warning, these photos contain a lot of blood.

I’m very sorry that I haven’t had a chance to say my thanks (for the convention?) and I am venting. But I received a needle in my dessert gift from the convention. Thank you, I have one more piercing now.

I am not trying to ask for comfort, I am only trying to tell everyone how serious is this matter, so do not comfort me.

This matter is unable to be investigated and hopeless to be investigated. This matter has made me lost of trust towards something, but from today onwards, I will not be accepting any more handmade food by others.

Any more follow up and notice will be posted(if there’s any), thank you for your attention.

From discussion (Twitter, Reddit) it seems likely that she was given these cookies because she draws Sans/Frisk art, and a “fan” decided that drawing a ship they didn’t like was worthy of attempted murder. Had Avimedes swallowed the needle it could have done considerable and possibly irreparable internal damage. 

So I will say this again: DO NOT HARM REAL PEOPLE OVER FICTIONAL ENTITIES. I don’t care what the content is. These purity crusades need to STOP. The amount of vitriol and anger that the anti-shipping circles not only accept but encourage is dangerous, unhealthy, and unless stopped will lead to more people being hurt. There’s already been at least one incident of an artist being harassed into a suicide attempt. 

Your moral indignation/righteous anger/upset feelings DO NOT justify the injury or death of other people. You have every right to protect yourself from viewing objectionable content, but that right stops far, far short of hurting other people. Going on these crusades DOES NOT HELP against the sort of issues that are purportedly being championed; it only causes more harm. We need to break away from this mindset, from purity culture, before someone is permanently injured or dies.