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@japananon What I know is that Misskey.io has blocked Baraag because people on there do not properly tag their art as NSFW. Baraag being a Western instance, there is probably the issue of uncensored genitals being put into the feeds of people in Japan that are using Misskey. Due to the influx of gaijin on the Misskey server, they might be having that issue.

Now some people on Baraag are upset they have to tag their porn art with the NSFW filter, when the admin has already asked this of people in the past and I believe is also in the server rules.
What I think: this is common courtesy to the Federated timeline, as even my eyes have been assaulted scrolling through there from people from Baraag because people don't tag their weird fetish art with the NSFW filter. Untagged Microsoft paint quality furry diaper art comes to mind in a flashback.

I haven't been posting due to playing BnS lmao

This also means I haven't worked on my art either. Oops... I wish I didn't miss Bunny Day this year AGAIN and was able to draw something for it, but I do have a screenshot of the new bunny outfit for Blade & Soul released last week for the Western servers. It comes with a special emote called Bunny Hop, too!
This outfit properly hides the ears and tails on the Lyn race. They did a good job with it!

#バニーの日 #bladeandsoul #bns

I'm back to playing Blade & Soul and I won't be leaving this time. I've tried to leave this game plenty of times and always just come back anyways. This leaving and coming back gets old after 7 years of playing, so unless they shut down the Western server or ban me, looks like I'm stuck for good.

I also have an irreplaceable friend group in this game and I just can't see myself without these guys. They're truly wonderful people I look forward to seeing every day and I missed them during the months I was away, hoping to drag them with me to the now failed Blue Protocol. As I had mentioned, we won't be playing that game due to the censorship imposed by Amazon.

I will begin covering BnS more and making video content for it in the upcoming months, as I do believe this very unique MMO deserves a second look in the current year. There is simply nothing like it and I don't suspect there will be anytime soon. I've always been very critical of this game, hoping it improves which can come across to people as me being a "hater", so I will do an honest coverage each time. The game has positives and negatives, like every game. The game has improved for the better in the past months.

Since it's a very old game and now handled directly by its parent company in Korea, nobody pays much attention to it. This makes it not prone to censorship like newer MMOs or JRPGs coming to the West.
Any censorship we had in the past for BnS has been mostly reverted to the original Korean game models as far as I can tell.

#mmo #mmorpg #bns #bladeandsoul

@beardalaxy There is always a first time for everything and Amazon are probably the first assholes I've heard of in MMO history that have pretty much removed the equivalent of a race in the game. This is the same if FF14 just yeeted Lalafells from the Western release.

This doesn't do the game's already lackluster combat system, clunky UI, and $100+ gacha outfits any favors.

My personal thoughts on this:

Of course I will completely drop Blue Protocol over this. I can't even make my characters in the Western version and I won't risk spending money on my JP account and then getting banned at some other time for being a Westerner. It also doesn't seem feasible to convince my group of friends to play on the JP server. The removal of the S body type is not something that mods can fix. If it's removed during character creation, you just flat out can't make it in the game.
My main character that I was using is not even anything the censorship defenders would deem justifiable for the removal, since they seem to only focus on "Oh, you're angry you can't play a little girl anymore!"

My brother in Christ, my character is an adult and he just has a slim body type. He is also the tallest height for males of the S type and I picked it because it allows me to be slim. These people seem to think in black and white, only.

So where do I go after this? Well, if you want a game that doesn't censor and also has way better action combat than #BlueProtocol, you are welcome to come try Blade & Soul. The game isn't anywhere near perfect but we just got a new bunny suit outfit that is available for EVERYONE, even the small race. I may do a thread at some point for people looking to try BnS and may get back into doing videos for it. I have my gripes with BnS too but at least the developers aren't incompetent enough to censor a game that is already struggling. I've been on BnS for 7 years now, playing at the highest level for endgame, so I could probably answer any question anyone has without bullshit copium most supporters of this game are on.

Well. In the latest shit show that is #BlueProtocol , the #censorship for the West release is a lot worse than anticipated and Amazon is doubling down massively. To keep things short, Amazon has removed the smallest body type from the game and in a bizarre puritan panic, removed "jiggle" physics that are basically only present in character creation. They cited in an interview that jiggle physics can make Western audiences "uncomfortable". Do these people at Amazon go outside AT ALL, I wonder? Yes, breasts DO IN FACT MOVE AROUND EVEN IN REAL LIFE. lol

This is absolutely ridiculous for a company that wants the game to be "inclusive" yet removes the petite body type. There is no good reason to ever do this and their bullshit excuse that they want to keep the Teen rating falls flat when you look at their competitors, FF14 and WoW. Both these games are rated Teen and feature suggestive content.

There's also changes to the menu that has the character's underwear, which seems to be just flat out also removed from the game. It's very bizarre, honestly. Do these people at Amazon also not wear underwear or something?

This Twitter thread by Zakogdo has further information regarding that:
https://twitter.com/zakogdo/status/1683963424370491392

Post about the bizarre undergarment changes: https://twitter.com/zakogdo/status/1683988058734231552?s=20

What I loved the most about Perrito is when he's telling all the horrible shit that happened to him and he just makes the best of it. He just laughs off all the bad shit. I know it's a simple way to look at things and doesn't work on everything but it was relatable to me.