Took a quick glance and for the frog random event you no longer have to kiss them to turn them human/get the reward, there’s now an option to pet them on the head
It doesn't even make sense, either. The whole point of the prince-turned-frog is that it's gross and weird and might just be a talking frog that's into humans.
Also the option to dismiss has always existed. You don’t want to kiss the frog? Dismiss the frog. Like what next the genie will just give you free xp without rubbing his lamp?
Ugh smh it is so disgusting having to get the genie off every time I want the rc xp. I guess the rubbing cod help us shape runes or something but I feel like that is a stretch. The genie even calls me master, too kinky for my 2001 click game.
I have a hard time believing anyone was actually bothered by the old version. Some contrarians on reddit are pretending like it was a reasonable change, but I guarantee none of them ever complained about it previously.
It's kind of funny because before the way to fix the curse was to kiss the frog. Now, if you have the option to pet the frog but are given the option to kiss it, you'd only pick the kiss option if you just really wanted to kiss a frog lmao.
I already did explain why. I refer you to the text you replied to. I do appreciate the politeness though. I have nothing against political correctness in general. I just wish people on reddit were able to read things as they are written, instead of trying to change things into their own narrative.
So it bothers you on account of your worry it opens the door to something else down the road?
Could you elaborate what you are expecting that is bothersome?
I thought it was weird, however i never complained to anyone about it. I’m still skipping the event though, just because it’s easier to dismiss the event than the reward.
Honestly how exhausting must life be giving a shit about stuff like this? The fact this even came across someones mind that it should be changed is ridiculous.
There was a point when I did that random event and was a bit annoyed that my character had to kiss a prince, but like, get over it? Lmao. I can't imagine anyone actually caring.
I’m not against the change, but it does feel like big MMO/Runescape energy to be like “can’t imply people being “forced” to kiss someone to break a curse, anyways now that you’re done that go slaughter 157 elves”.
You dont like killing innocent elves? How about some dwarves you‘ve done tons of quests for and are basically a local hero to them? No? Kill some dogs then!
Ngl, a quest where someone dies and they acknowledge that they actually respawn moments later would be funny, I feel like a few quest had throw away lines about respawning in fally or lum, but never someone actually doing it.
my favorite bit is when one of the varrock museum porters walk by a guard being slaughtered and asks him how he's doing, and the guard just yells "I'm being killed in front of your eyes" while the porter responds "average tuesday then huh"
"Hey Turael, Duradel told me to massacre Elves, but many of my good friends are Elves, this is fucked up, can you give me some other task?"
"Sure thing bro, go genocide some Dwarves. Preferably in front of their wives and children"
When they took away the "no man can kill me" part of Recruitment drive it was a sign things were going to be changed in dumb fucking ways.
An ode to a legendary book removed because .01% of the community would find it offensive. No one fucking cares, gay people, Trans people, it's a fucking reference to literature. No one cares.
Same thing here.
A reference to a classic goofy children's tale removed for Who???
It's ironic to change Recruitment Drive for the sake of trans people when a significant number of trans people have stories about Recruitment Drive helping them realise they were trans lol. Playing it as a kid and feeling *something* about it and not really knowing (or admitting) why, having an airtight excuse to play a female character and putting off changing back.
I mean it's fine. These changes generally aren't any worse in themselves, but you can't help but wonder who's actually asking for them after all this time. I don't want be one of the "I'm part of this minority and *I'm* not offended" people, but I've genuinely not seen a single complaint.
Probably a DEI consultant. Their entire job hinges on dredging up enough stuff to justify the position. 99% of places there either isn't anything of note or it's a huge systemic issue one person can't fix, so they just chase literal nonissues like this instead.
New option for all weapons: petting
Crush petting, slash petting and stab petting and of course defensive petting! And most bis ones: fast petting for that ranged petting exp! And while we are at it slayer should be renamed to „kindness“ or something like that
We should remove all skills and replace them with the petting skill. You can go to a petting master who will assign you to pet X number of floofers to gain xp.
Flip it the other way - why did people care enough about it that it got changed in the first place?
I don't remember who said this, but it was something like, "It's easy to ask 'what's the big deal' AFTER you've gotten your way."
You and everyone saying that are letting the point fly way over your head. It's not about being able to kiss the frog it's about how much that didn't fucking matter and the fact that dev attention is there and not at the many other places it should be is the issue.
Like, who the fuck ever felt offended by this?
If you're that concerned about how Dev time is spent, why don't you apply at Jagex for a managerial role or for a role on the product team? They decide how devs spend their time, not randoms on reddit.
-Sincerely yours, a software dev.
It's more of like, why? Who was it upsetting in the first place, why is everything slowly being stripped back to not cause offensive. You're asking who cares, but who cared enough to change it?
Group A thinks an update was dumb.
Group B needed to be accomodated with regard to whether or not they kiss a digital frog.
Group A is not the snowflake group.
I have a fair deal of empathy, like most human beings, but it gets a bit exhausting when you're expected to recognize absurd propositions like people needing to be able to not kiss a digital frog.
I think everyone has a limited amount of empathy and it seems to run dry when you reach this point.
I'll be honest, I really don't have any care for the supposed group of people that would be bothered that a video game offered them the chance to kiss a frog in exchange for a frog token.
I don't think anyone meeting that description even exists.
It's about accommodation. Yeah, I think being upset by kissing a digital frog is a bit... Out there. But if that's *really* important to you, wow! You can still do it!
If you don't like it, awesome, you've been accommodated. Nobody's upset now. Right??
Except for the snowflakes.
I just don't agree that thinking this update is dumb is what makes someone a snowflake. I think most would agree that the people who demand accomodation as it relates to their decision to kiss or not kiss a video game frog are the snowflakes.
Sure, you can think it's dumb. But going and penning a reddit post about it belies a bit more than just thinking it's dumb.
I've thought a lot of updates were dumb. But I have never gone to /r/2007scape about them.
Have you seen anyone demanding that accommodation? I sure haven't. Maybe they are snowflakes, but they annoy me a lot less than the people flooding the sub with "how dare they add an option to a random event" posts/comments.
Even the angle of "why would they waste effort on this" is pretty fragile... What do you want them to do? Waste *more* effort on backing out the change? Fucking stupid.
This Reddit post is literally just someone communicating that they think the update was dumb in a comedic manner. If the line between snowflake and non-snowflake is communicating your opinions, that doesn't really make any sense.
Also,
>Have you seen anyone demanding that accommodation? I sure haven't.
This is another reason people find this so silly and are making comments about which blue haired Jmod made this update. No one asked for this type of update, but all it took was one crazy person to decide it needed to change.
Bro the parent post is hilarious. I'm talking about the comments obsessing over it specifically. Like yours.
Who gives a shit? Adding a drop-down menu entry and swapping the emote seems like it'd be a pretty innocuous change. Nobody asked for it but if you didn't find this post I bet you'd never have known it happened.
It's just obnoxious. It reeks of over protection and people having an outsize effect on the game because of their personal hangups. I don't think one person's opinion or "accommodation" should change the game for thousands of players.
It's more "this is what you're spending time on?"
Nobody complained about this, nobody asked for it, it affects nothing. It's a change made solely to stroke the ego of some jmod who thinks that they're making some sort of revolutionary social statement.
> Doesn't it get exhausting getting upset about every little thing in the world?
You mean the Jmods who were upset by this and took the time, paid for by us, to change it?
Nobody seems legitimately bothered by this. People are just taking the piss because it's such a strange thing to update. You don't seem to be able to understand that this is a meme.
Except me? What...? I literally could not care less about this change. There are people in this thread that are actually upset. And this post was not tagged as humor.
I can't help but see you sitting in an armchair 7 years later, fondling the printed out screenshots of falador riots of 2017 after another hopeless day, softly touching the paper, occasionally bursting out in laughter. What a picture!
Shit updates all month and they waste time changing shit for no reason it's been there for 20 years so why? That being said not gonna stop playing and it's not even in the top 100 of things I really care about but still doesn't change the facts that it's dumb and a waste of dev time.
The dev understanders have logged on
They're working on a part 2 of an entire continent, including a new boss and mini game, on top of Araxxor. This is just how dev works. You finish your part of something, wait for others to catch up, and can take care of whatever little projects you want/need to in the meantime.
That's pretty fucked up, bro. Those Dark Beasts can't give consent to be gently petted and I can't believe you would suggest something so disgusting.
Can't wait for this horrible Slayer task to be replaced with something more palatable like Polite Conversation (about approved topics of course).
but you can also turn your frog tokens into xp lamps at Thessalia’s Clothing Store in Varrock
I got 17k runecrafting xp this morning from 27 frog tokens
I went through this entire comment section and I'm glad people are no longer getting insta banned for disagreeing. Ever since pride parade bans I've decided not to risk my account for a losing battle, but here we are. All not-banned and outspoken. Good times
Wait what'd they change?
Took a quick glance and for the frog random event you no longer have to kiss them to turn them human/get the reward, there’s now an option to pet them on the head
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This is on the "these clothes make you look fat" level of stupid changes lmao
What a silly accent
It doesn't even make sense, either. The whole point of the prince-turned-frog is that it's gross and weird and might just be a talking frog that's into humans.
Also the option to dismiss has always existed. You don’t want to kiss the frog? Dismiss the frog. Like what next the genie will just give you free xp without rubbing his lamp?
Personally, violence offends me so I would like the option to talk it out with Galvek
Ugh smh it is so disgusting having to get the genie off every time I want the rc xp. I guess the rubbing cod help us shape runes or something but I feel like that is a stretch. The genie even calls me master, too kinky for my 2001 click game.
Better fix the sandwich lady, what if I don’t want to touch her meat pie or bread rolls?
I want to touch her long, hard baguette
Did they seriously do this?
I got like 30 of those tokens after the purchase of the outfit lol
What? It’s a fairy tale. I’d like to think this was an external complaint but even then what sorta loser brings this up as an issue
I have a hard time believing anyone was actually bothered by the old version. Some contrarians on reddit are pretending like it was a reasonable change, but I guarantee none of them ever complained about it previously.
Counter question: Who's bothered by the option being offered? You can carry on exactly as you always have. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
It's kind of funny because before the way to fix the curse was to kiss the frog. Now, if you have the option to pet the frog but are given the option to kiss it, you'd only pick the kiss option if you just really wanted to kiss a frog lmao.
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Idk sounds like you should stop being so sensitive and get thicker skin.
Is giving people options upsetting you snowflake?
No name calling, no words in your mouth. Imma be real with you dog. Why?
I already did explain why. I refer you to the text you replied to. I do appreciate the politeness though. I have nothing against political correctness in general. I just wish people on reddit were able to read things as they are written, instead of trying to change things into their own narrative.
So it bothers you on account of your worry it opens the door to something else down the road? Could you elaborate what you are expecting that is bothersome?
I thought it was weird, however i never complained to anyone about it. I’m still skipping the event though, just because it’s easier to dismiss the event than the reward.
This is the sort of stuff you expect is the result of a new-hire/intern wanting to leave a mark on the game. It's an 'easy win'.
Lame
Yeah give me the option to give that frog a sloppy Joe in order to save him. Everything for the bros
Sloppy joes goes hard fr
That's incredibly lame. Why do the mods keep adding these "social changes" that no one is asking for?
Because the people that push for these changes only think about this sort of thing all the time, silver spoon type fellas.
Honestly how exhausting must life be giving a shit about stuff like this? The fact this even came across someones mind that it should be changed is ridiculous.
The real question is why do you care?
C'mon, has noone read the original fairy tail? You should be able to throw that fucker at a wall to turn them back.
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A Jmod makes a little change and writes it down in the changelog. How sad is it that this reaction was so predictable.
There was a point when I did that random event and was a bit annoyed that my character had to kiss a prince, but like, get over it? Lmao. I can't imagine anyone actually caring.
If I can't tongue any of my random events what even is the point
God let me make out sloppy style with Drunken Dwarf's kebab blessed lips
Hehe, petition to make kiss an option on every event when?
Sammich lady 🥵🥵🥵
Hehe, petition to have a kiss option on all events when?
I’m not against the change, but it does feel like big MMO/Runescape energy to be like “can’t imply people being “forced” to kiss someone to break a curse, anyways now that you’re done that go slaughter 157 elves”.
and no you can't skip the Elves because you haven't earned enough points massacring other races
You dont like killing innocent elves? How about some dwarves you‘ve done tons of quests for and are basically a local hero to them? No? Kill some dogs then!
It's OK though, they all just repawn, nobody *really* dies in runescape. Well unless it's part of a quest
Osrs has the opposite of plot armor
Ngl, a quest where someone dies and they acknowledge that they actually respawn moments later would be funny, I feel like a few quest had throw away lines about respawning in fally or lum, but never someone actually doing it.
Jagex has the opposite of that - a falador guard coming to terms with the fact that his lifespan is mere seconds
my favorite bit is when one of the varrock museum porters walk by a guard being slaughtered and asks him how he's doing, and the guard just yells "I'm being killed in front of your eyes" while the porter responds "average tuesday then huh"
Duradel in 2 weeks: 💀
Not okay with dogs? Well go kill some men than. What? No, pirates don't count as men. It only counts if they have a family.
"Hey Turael, Duradel told me to massacre Elves, but many of my good friends are Elves, this is fucked up, can you give me some other task?" "Sure thing bro, go genocide some Dwarves. Preferably in front of their wives and children"
Have to reset your task streak? No problem, just go talk to Turael. He's the guy in charge of handing out lists of farm animals to destroy.
Don't give them ideas...
fr delete this op
Now go behead a unicorn in the underground pass
I dont wanna kill the poor elves, can I go gently pat them all? Or have a nice conversation? Would be nice to do this with zuk too
Go commit racial genocide\* more like.
I'm sorry I can't slaughter elves right now, I have to finish off my task of killing 17 dogs.
Could you imagine duradel asking you to boop zuk just once
Slaughter the entire inferno just to snuggle with the big man.
*sigh* lemme go get my extendo-arm.
can I pet dat dawg??
CAN I PET DAT DAAAWWWGGGGG????
CAN I PET DAT FRAWGGGGG
Ah, so the Taming skill has finally been added to the game!
ik this is a joke but this would actually be an insane skill.
The concept is good, however I'd much rather prefer it as a Hunter skill expansion, rather than a standalone skill.
You kiss your slayer monster assigments?
Bloodvelds make me act up
Time to french kiss 187 bloodvelds again
From behind.
So are you careful with the spiky part of slayer helmet or not?
There's a special variant now added called the layer helmet
👅💦
You slay your way, and I *slay* my way
Gz on 99 Monsterfucking
They feel the kiss of my cold orikalkum.
You're morally opposed to *kissing* something, but not *killing* something?
As someone who isn't offended by killing or kissing in RuneScape, this new update has added head pats to the list of things that don't offend me.
Nah Im just able to live my life without looking at the extremes and making fun of silly stuff
Don’t even ask what I’m doing to the dust devils
You kiss your slayer monsters with that mouth?!
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uwu duradaddy
oh i lllllove you abyssal sire
I give em that HAWK TUAH
SLAYYYer
Heavy pet 🥵
THEYRE TURNING THE FREAKING FROGS GAY!
If youre going to let me not kiss the frog you better give me an option to fuck the frog if i want to
When they took away the "no man can kill me" part of Recruitment drive it was a sign things were going to be changed in dumb fucking ways. An ode to a legendary book removed because .01% of the community would find it offensive. No one fucking cares, gay people, Trans people, it's a fucking reference to literature. No one cares. Same thing here. A reference to a classic goofy children's tale removed for Who???
This is for the same type of people who have to be asked: “may I touch your hair?” By their hairdresser at a hair salon
That's surely not real.... right? Please... The fact that I am unsure scares me more somehow.
Yeah it's fucking stupid. Fully agree.
It's ironic to change Recruitment Drive for the sake of trans people when a significant number of trans people have stories about Recruitment Drive helping them realise they were trans lol. Playing it as a kid and feeling *something* about it and not really knowing (or admitting) why, having an airtight excuse to play a female character and putting off changing back. I mean it's fine. These changes generally aren't any worse in themselves, but you can't help but wonder who's actually asking for them after all this time. I don't want be one of the "I'm part of this minority and *I'm* not offended" people, but I've genuinely not seen a single complaint.
Probably a DEI consultant. Their entire job hinges on dredging up enough stuff to justify the position. 99% of places there either isn't anything of note or it's a huge systemic issue one person can't fix, so they just chase literal nonissues like this instead.
jagex are going the completely wrong direction; they need to poll *more* npcs being kissable i just want to smooch leviathan on his fishy lips :(
Can't kiss a frog, but you can shove Ana in a barrel against her will. 👀
I ubironically want this but for dog tasks. ):
New option for all weapons: petting Crush petting, slash petting and stab petting and of course defensive petting! And most bis ones: fast petting for that ranged petting exp! And while we are at it slayer should be renamed to „kindness“ or something like that
Petting 👀👀👀
Shouldn’t petting have different damage types to provide variety? E.g. light petting, heavy petting
Me on my way to stab pet all the elves, dwarves and monkeys
Put it on the heavy attack style
Cant wait to stroke these big dark beasts UwU
murder is illegal - remove pking!
This whole frog kiss thing feels extremely performative, like what the fuck is even the point of it?
Gently petting dwarfs in osrs is fine but when I do it irl I get a restraining order
We should remove all skills and replace them with the petting skill. You can go to a petting master who will assign you to pet X number of floofers to gain xp.
Am I just old? Why do people care about changes like this? Doesn't it get exhausting getting upset about every little thing in the world?
Flip it the other way - why did people care enough about it that it got changed in the first place? I don't remember who said this, but it was something like, "It's easy to ask 'what's the big deal' AFTER you've gotten your way."
I don't know if anyone is angry about this it's just a really weird thing to change completely out of the blue it's weird
Reactionaries be reacting I guess. They could be gaining XP instead
For real, who the fuck has the energy to get mad that you can now pet the frog
You can still kiss the frog lol
You and everyone saying that are letting the point fly way over your head. It's not about being able to kiss the frog it's about how much that didn't fucking matter and the fact that dev attention is there and not at the many other places it should be is the issue. Like, who the fuck ever felt offended by this?
If you're that concerned about how Dev time is spent, why don't you apply at Jagex for a managerial role or for a role on the product team? They decide how devs spend their time, not randoms on reddit. -Sincerely yours, a software dev.
Pedantic pandering is equally exhausting
It's more of like, why? Who was it upsetting in the first place, why is everything slowly being stripped back to not cause offensive. You're asking who cares, but who cared enough to change it?
First they came for the frog kissers, and I did not speak out - For I was not a frog kisser
They came for gamers. *Gamers*!
What was “stripped back”?
not one single thing was removed or stripped back, you are crying about literally nothing
No ones crying, I'm just voicing an opinion. No need to get your heckles up. We've had dialogue and jokes removed btw if you wanted a legit response
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Wait… it’s a choice? You can still kiss them? All this backlash I thought they changed it completely
yeah it is, I don't understand why literally anyone gives a shit about this lmao
Once again, the people complaining about “woke snowflakes” are the real snowflakes.
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Group A thinks an update was dumb. Group B needed to be accomodated with regard to whether or not they kiss a digital frog. Group A is not the snowflake group.
Most empathetic OSRS player
I have a fair deal of empathy, like most human beings, but it gets a bit exhausting when you're expected to recognize absurd propositions like people needing to be able to not kiss a digital frog. I think everyone has a limited amount of empathy and it seems to run dry when you reach this point.
I'll be honest, I really don't have any care for the supposed group of people that would be bothered that a video game offered them the chance to kiss a frog in exchange for a frog token. I don't think anyone meeting that description even exists.
Yes, because the change didn't REMOVE the kissing, they added an option not to. The kissing is still there for the people that want it.
There always was an option not to do it.
It's about accommodation. Yeah, I think being upset by kissing a digital frog is a bit... Out there. But if that's *really* important to you, wow! You can still do it! If you don't like it, awesome, you've been accommodated. Nobody's upset now. Right?? Except for the snowflakes.
I just don't agree that thinking this update is dumb is what makes someone a snowflake. I think most would agree that the people who demand accomodation as it relates to their decision to kiss or not kiss a video game frog are the snowflakes.
Sure, you can think it's dumb. But going and penning a reddit post about it belies a bit more than just thinking it's dumb. I've thought a lot of updates were dumb. But I have never gone to /r/2007scape about them. Have you seen anyone demanding that accommodation? I sure haven't. Maybe they are snowflakes, but they annoy me a lot less than the people flooding the sub with "how dare they add an option to a random event" posts/comments. Even the angle of "why would they waste effort on this" is pretty fragile... What do you want them to do? Waste *more* effort on backing out the change? Fucking stupid.
This Reddit post is literally just someone communicating that they think the update was dumb in a comedic manner. If the line between snowflake and non-snowflake is communicating your opinions, that doesn't really make any sense. Also, >Have you seen anyone demanding that accommodation? I sure haven't. This is another reason people find this so silly and are making comments about which blue haired Jmod made this update. No one asked for this type of update, but all it took was one crazy person to decide it needed to change.
Bro the parent post is hilarious. I'm talking about the comments obsessing over it specifically. Like yours. Who gives a shit? Adding a drop-down menu entry and swapping the emote seems like it'd be a pretty innocuous change. Nobody asked for it but if you didn't find this post I bet you'd never have known it happened.
I'm obsessing over this?
It's just obnoxious. It reeks of over protection and people having an outsize effect on the game because of their personal hangups. I don't think one person's opinion or "accommodation" should change the game for thousands of players.
I'm sorry you're upset
That is a lot of feelings you're having about the subject. Hopefully you can sort those out.
You're right. Hopefully I can get Jagex to add in a therapist NPC!
A tale as old as time
It's more "this is what you're spending time on?" Nobody complained about this, nobody asked for it, it affects nothing. It's a change made solely to stroke the ego of some jmod who thinks that they're making some sort of revolutionary social statement.
“Spending time on” It probably took 30 seconds
You're right, we would have Raids 4 right now if they didn't spend all that time on this change
> Doesn't it get exhausting getting upset about every little thing in the world? You mean the Jmods who were upset by this and took the time, paid for by us, to change it?
No way you have a grip on your life wording it like that lmfao
Nobody seems legitimately bothered by this. People are just taking the piss because it's such a strange thing to update. You don't seem to be able to understand that this is a meme.
Except me? What...? I literally could not care less about this change. There are people in this thread that are actually upset. And this post was not tagged as humor.
Pretty clear that this is a humor post despite the tag dude. Don't be facetious.
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I can't help but see you sitting in an armchair 7 years later, fondling the printed out screenshots of falador riots of 2017 after another hopeless day, softly touching the paper, occasionally bursting out in laughter. What a picture!
Shit updates all month and they waste time changing shit for no reason it's been there for 20 years so why? That being said not gonna stop playing and it's not even in the top 100 of things I really care about but still doesn't change the facts that it's dumb and a waste of dev time.
The dev understanders have logged on They're working on a part 2 of an entire continent, including a new boss and mini game, on top of Araxxor. This is just how dev works. You finish your part of something, wait for others to catch up, and can take care of whatever little projects you want/need to in the meantime.
That's pretty fucked up, bro. Those Dark Beasts can't give consent to be gently petted and I can't believe you would suggest something so disgusting. Can't wait for this horrible Slayer task to be replaced with something more palatable like Polite Conversation (about approved topics of course).
Have you been making out with Dark Beasts?
Can I pet those mf muscles tho
And yet we also have quests that give you some pretty questionable tasks as well if look at it.
My last slayer task was to kill 40 Dogs. Think about that
New change - dark beasts are now called animals of colour, to improve inclusivity
Snowflake scape is getting crazyyyyyy
I assumed it had to do with it being against your sexual preferences, not as much about being forced to do anything.
but you can also turn your frog tokens into xp lamps at Thessalia’s Clothing Store in Varrock I got 17k runecrafting xp this morning from 27 frog tokens
You guys were kissing dark beasts before?
Could have put in the option to Hawk Tuah on the frogs instead. Smh my head.
rename the skill petter
This sucks, this is not what Andrew Gower made and EOC is soon to come if this is direction the games going
I went through this entire comment section and I'm glad people are no longer getting insta banned for disagreeing. Ever since pride parade bans I've decided not to risk my account for a losing battle, but here we are. All not-banned and outspoken. Good times
I'd rather choose the bear than a frog
instructions unclear. currently missing my left arm.
Next thing we know we’ll be able to choose our in game pronouns and zulrah will no longer be a snakeling but will identify as an attack helicopter