I have a lot of hot takes and repressed anger toward the trud discord server
I'll try to be as respectful about this as I can
Recently, there was an announcement made that Corrupted Elliot isn't allowed to be shipped with anyone. Java's reasoning is that he's a corpse
Maybe I'm missing fundamental common sense, but I do not get the logic behind this
Jane x Guest 666 is allowed even if Jane's a survivor and G666 is a killer who's obviously trying to murder her and her fellow survivors
Apparently Bloxwatch ships are allowed too because the devs have made no statememt regarding them, even if they're some kind of incomprehensible collective of conciousnesses according to the lore
Is it because Elliot's brain rotted, therefore he isn't able to consciously make decisions and has no sapience to consent? Well damn, that's how TRUD John Doe was written in the old version of the lore. And he was shipped
My point is: there are other morally dubious ships out there that are being allowed, why does it matter that Elliot's a corpse? What is the definition of a corpse in TRUD? There's not enough (available) lore to make this make sense
Can someone enlighten me on this.
Not related to my main arguments but I dislike how Java handled a question regarding this
I scoured the discord trying to look for some possible explanation and found this convo. I can't post images on tumblr so here's a word-by-word transcript:
Person: "why is corrupted elliot no longer allowed to be shipped with anyone?"
Java: "wdym by no longer?"
Java: "also he's a corpse."
Person: "oh, my bad. im not really into unreleased killers 😭"
Person: "im clueless abt em all"
Java: "it was added to blacklist because people are apparently not very smart and just go for shipping others with a corpse, so we had to add that"
Java: "thats why you should do research before doing anything"
The reason why I don't like how Java responded is because:
1. "do research"? The research, along with lore, is buried under hundreds of general messages. The reasoning wasn't added to the rules nor was it announced. All that was announced in the annc channel was: "Any ship that includes Corrupted Elliot."
I'm personally not a fan of following rules I don't understand the logic behind
2. How she answered the question made it sound like this information is readily accessible, or that it's common sense
Sometimes there decisions just don't make sense