#Accessibility Maturity

[chubbidust]

smollusk grows up

[knowone08b]

I think FFXV’s development hell is probably the funniest dev hells ever. SE releases a trailer for FF Versus 13 way too early. In 2013 another trailer released for FF Vs 13 but then like literally after it released the name got changed to FFXV. Nomura basically gets replaced/leaves directing FFXV because he was already working on KH3 and the SE upper management didn’t want a dark FF game (which is really funny seeing how FFXVI ends up being released) and he kept on changing the story too many times. That basically early accidental leak trailer SE released is literally used again almost one for one in KH3 Re:Mind but changed Noctis to Yozura in like 2020. Tabata then works on the game. Everything gets rewritten and now we have FFXV and all of its dlcs + the basically dlc fix-it book. Also, while Nomura was writing FFXV (around the time they ((SE)) were gonna change it to FFXV), it almost became a musical.

[rimeiii]

I hate beating up a dead horse (and in fear of incurring the wrath of the fandom once more) but the way WHB handles content warnings is just...

Where are the detailed content warnings? Not just for the angels, but for everything? Because honestly, I think the game would've garnered less backlash for having them - a "this game is made for mature audiences, viewer discretion is advised" screen before logging in would be the bare minimum honestly.

Say what you want about the angel cards including dub/non-con content and the cards themselves veering towards that sort of territory but at least give a fucking warning about it? I've always criticized the devs for not having 18+ rating all across the board when clearly mature games like Limbus Company get the 18+ rating. If WHB is NSFW because of the sex and kinky stuff, Limbus is NSFW because of the immense amount of gore and dark content.

"But they have content warnings-" ONLY FOR SEX. AND PAIRED WITH 16+.

It would be perfectly reasonable to assume that, for people who played this game without following any of the pre-release contents, with this combination THERE WON'T BE ANY DETAILED DUB/NON-CON.

This is in Indonesia's Google Play Store, and if it's different in other regions, then it also begs the question - why the FUCK is it not just rated 18+ across the board?!

Limbus Company, the closest comparison I can think of being with their devs (Project Moon) also being a Korean indie company that created a gacha with mature content that has a staff team the size of a high school class (in fact I wager Limbus has less staff working on the game because around half of their staff works almost exclusively at their merch café), only had warnings for extreme violence and strong language, but at least they had the decency to put more warnings in their earliest trailers and the game website - and it's always common courtesy in the fandom to warn potential players with one particular image I'll show down below, containing a list of the game's content warnings.

Oh, and they're rated 18+ across the board, including a Mature Content Description on Steam.

And sure, you can make the argument of "well you know what you're getting into upon looking at the card art", but therein lies the issue of not warning at the very start of the game - nobody knew for sure what triggers would be in the game upon startup.

Whatever way you slice it, dub/non-con is a genuine trigger for other people despite it also being a kink (I personally don't get it and it's a no-no for me even in fiction, but you do you). Adding clear content warnings would literally harm no one and helps people avoid things they know they don't want to consume. Yes, despite the in-game context clues providing hints, a clear indicator is still preferable.

Take, for example, the Lobelia summer skin controversy in Granblue Fantasy. People already know Lobelia as the twisted Evoker who not only murdered his own parents but recorded their dying screams of pain in his conch shells, doing the same thing to his countless victims afterwards. All of this is mentioned during the Fate Episodes to recruit him. You want to know the problem with his summer skin, Danger Beckons by the Shore, though?

There's a home screen voiceline where he offers one of his conch shells for the player to listen to, wherein you will hear the pained and tortured screams of one of his victims as she's attacked and later on eaten alive by a shark. Keep in mind, this sort of voiceline wasn't even in his base art, and while his Fate Episodes had tortured screams it wasn't even half as bad as this particular voiceline.

It's even given a content warning in the wiki.

For a rather significant amount of players who bought the skin, the inclusion of this voiceline despite the subtle warning in the skin blurb (which, fyi, is only accessible AFTER you bought the skin) hampers their enjoyment of the skin when they put it on their home screens then tap Lobelia - which many people who get character skins do. Mostly because there wasn't any clear indicator of the scream and a lot of people never appreciated the sudden jumpscare scream. The fact that Lobelia is a psychopath and doing this shit is in character for him should also be able to stand together with the fact that including a scream out of nowhere is pretty scummy and not a good time. Especially for non-JP speaking players, who essentially got jumpscared by a scream out of nowhere, as they never understood the fact that Lobelia was offering one of his conch shells.

Back to the rating issue, though. Why not rate WHB as 18+ if you're going to include content that could very much be considered controversial, like non-con? Like, say, Limbus Company (which I hate bringing up again bc fuck kjh)? Which not only has the warnings in the app store but plastered in the earliest trailers (still viewable on Steam and Project Moon's YouTube channel but not on the Google Play Store) and the official game website?

And sure. Some of these trigger warnings sound silly (reference to traffic accidents is more or less Charon driving Mephi like a maniac iirc based on the content we already have in the game). But I did genuinely appreciate the warning because let's talk about the first three Cantos after the prologue, hmm?

Canto 1 already includes cannibalism, war, torture, and body modifications, among other things! Canto 2 has references to alcohol and gambling, as well as mentions of homicide - despite being a lighter Canto overall! And in Canto 3, we experienced discriminatory violence, more body modifications, enforced ideologies and/or actions, and religious torture and violence among other things!

I can stomach gore easier compared to non-con and even I appreciate the warning, particularly with regards to Canto 3. Kromer's fascination with everything pure (i.e. no body modifications), all stemming from seeing...something...in the basement of Sinclair's old mansion, the cult behaviour that led to mass murder and torture by the faction she leads (up to and including brainwashing as detailed by Kleinhammer Heathcliff's Identity story) Kromer's obssession with Sinclair and him standing beside her as an ally...it's all genuinely so unnerving, and are story beats the game handles really well despite how disturbing it all really is when you stop and think about it.

"But you should've known considering the game's aesthetics-"

Maybe, especially considering one of Gregor's launch cards is literally this, and most if not all Uptie II arts are gory at the very least.

However, again, I have to underline the importance of content warnings - this time with an irl example.

I have a friend who was interested in Limbus Company. I've talked extensively about Gregor and how much I love him, and it started because I have a drawing I made of him in the back of my phone case and Liu Gregor's Uptie II art as my phone background at the time. They said they were interested, then I had to explain the sorts of contents she would encounter in my native language, Indonesian.

"Blood and gore, violence, a lot of mental health issues - Gregor has PTSD and his chapter depicted it pretty well, human experimentation, homicide, so Nagel und Hammer is basically the Inquisition and kills people to 'purify' them, oh yeah cannibalism is also a thing-"

"Stop, stop, I'm not playing if that's the content I'm going to see. I don't think I can handle it."

This same friend was also interested in playing If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers - a free point-and-click adventure game that deals with themes like depression, homophobia, racism, and suicide. She was willing to try that game out because it wasn't as gory as Limbus Company. For context, the Mature Content Description for this game on Steam:

In both cases, I had to personally explain the content warnings in Indonesian since my friend isn't the most fluent in English and she has a far lower limit for dark content compared to me, but I did send that image of content warnings for Limbus Company and urged people to read the Mature Content Descriptions on Steam for anyone who wanted to try any of the two games and is fluent in English. Why?

Because it's basic human decency to try and keep people informed of any potential triggers and content they might not be comfortable seeing.

Either way, main takeaway from this issue:

Dub/non-con might be your kink, but it might not be for others - it might be uncomfortable or downright triggering as all hell for others, in fact. So, clear content warnings (in particular for any and all triggering content) harm nobody, especially as it helps people avoid story beats where their turn-offs and, more importantly, their triggers.

[breakintomyhead]

[mantisgodsdomain]

We ought to write more Pokemon fic some time. We want to recreate the Pokemon Manners/Human Manners cheat sheet that we made a few years ago we think that this site would like the Sliding Scale Of Politeness When Greeting A New Pokemon You've Never Met Before.

[knightelf]

i wish so bad i could get into dark souls or elden ring its sooooo beautiful and lore filled and so up my alley its fucked wildnuts. unfortunately god made me a pussy for life and only mods could save me to make the game playable

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

Personally my favourite is Fuckwit.

[spiderwarden]

@thcdoomed requested pictures (this post) and I’ll do them one better, because who am I to deny:

[t4tozier]

nonverbal richie tozier who uses AAC send tweet

[musical-chick-13]

Look, I am the LAST person to say that we should All Avoid Sex or shame people for having it or uphold it as some Mystical Special Sacred Thing That Changes You On An Atomic Level Forever, but y'all have got to stop a) acting like sex is the only way for anyone to truly have fun or "experience being human" or whatever, b) acting like having a Super Active Sex Life At All Times is a cornerstone of personal emotional maturity, and c) acting like sex is a literal need you are entitled to that you will die without, a la food/water/shelter/medical care.

[parlerenfleurs]

Content warnings are usually recommendations to me. I rub my little trash raccoon hands delightfully, and eagerly browse them to see how the story will be exciting.

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: Heliotropic by PunkHazard

Title: Heliotropic Author: PunkHazard Canon: Overwatch Pairing: Lúcio Correia dos Santos/Genji Shimada Rating: Mature [R] Word Count: 68,733 Summary: adjective. 1. growing toward the light.

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[transingthoseformers]

*inhale*

i sWEAR TO PRIMUS THIS COMIC FUC—

[emotionally-anxious-spybots]

INTRODUCTION I GUESS

THERES FOUR OF US ON THIS BLOG AND WE ALL SHARE A BODY

THE FOUR OF US ARE ARTHUR (IT/HE BUT I PREFER IT/ITS), sisyphus (she/her), YMIR (IT/ITS), AND MASHYA (ANY)

IM SCARED A LOT, BUT IM NOT AFRAID TO DEFEND MYSELF OR MY FAMILY AND FREINDS IF I HAVE TO.

THESE ARE SAID FAMILY AND FRIENDS

@pinniped-medibots (BROTHER!!) @emotionally-mature-mechanic (DAD...?) @emotionally-clumsy-soldier (UNCLE JAMISON!!!) @emotionally-destroyed-soldier (MY FREIND JANE!!) @virtuoso-spybot (MY BEST FREIND!!) @chiptune-maestro (MY OTHER FREIND!!)

THIS UNIT HAS FREINDS TOO!

@emotionally-aware-sniperbot (UNIT KANZI! THIS UNITS BEST FREIND!) @curious-clockwork (UNIT SKYE! ALSO THIS UNITS FREIND!)

ooc info under here!

i, the mun, have several names; you can call me felix, benry, sol or scout. i use it/its or any playing card suit based emojipronouns. or he/him, but only if were freinds

my main is @scoutbot, i also run @mentally-forgetful-medibot and @physically-tortured-spybot

dni: anyone who is part of a group generally agreed to be bigots (terfs, alt-right, etc) or is a fan of a creators generally agreed to be bigots (pewdiepie, vivziepop, dream, etc), map/nomap/nop/any term thats basically code for being a pedo, proship, zionist, """neutral""" on the palestinian genocide, hetalia fans, countryballs/countryhumans fans, attack on titan fans

all members of the spybot system are aroace, so please dont ship them with anybody. if you ship them with robotic-medic, mature-mechanic, or clumsy-soldier i will flay you

please do not reblog my threads if you arent part of them and i dont know you, it makes me uncomfortable

[autistic-katara]

writing from the perspective of a character infinitely more emotionally mature than me reacting to something i’m very desensitised to and they aren’t is such a challenge omfg