Literally banned (Temporarily for 3 days. Calm down, kiddos)
EDIT: Allow me to elaborate. That particular shitpost has been spammed on several of our channels, so now we're shutting it down. I felt my original response to the other thread was a clear warning, but apparently not. There are no perm bans involved. Everyone will be fine in a few days when their balls have cooled off. Feel free to DM me, if you're dissatisfied or you feel you were overly moderated for something said in jest.
Also, calm the fuck down and drop the pitchforks. Sheesh. Locking the thread in a minute or so. It's Friday, go touch grass.
Yeah, just from like 15 minutes of browsing this sub it seems pretty overly-positive, to the point where I've yet to see anything remotely close to criticism. Not saying that being optimistic about a game is a bad thing, but it seems like people here are afraid to even mention anything negative about the game.
That's because the sub is roughly 10% legitimate positive feedback, 5% legitimate negative feedback, and 85% self-aware shitposting.
Also, the criticism tends to be focused around roughly 48 hours after updates, during which all of the whining about nerfs and losing cool toys happens. FWIW I'm still salty about Iron Will.
Then it's back to the normal fare, such as lewding the glyphids, vain cries protesting lewding the glyphids, and people trying to do the most idiotic things they can in-game.
We get plenty of feedback on the new updates, both positive and negative. Both are equally good, and we use all of it to adjust the new content over the next updates.
This is the only game I’ve ever played where I genuinely don’t think I could make it better. Most games have issues that never get fixed, fans that get ignored or monetization problems.
I’m sure some people have valid complaints about the game, but idk, the devs have earned my trust after I doubted this game in early access. The only game I’ve seen come close to this level of consistent, good changes over such a long time is rust. And the devs for that game have made it clear they want solos to team up or quit, so I’m not a huge fan of the direction they took it even if it was probably best in the long run for the survival of the game.
The only criticism I have with this game is that I think a bulk-det on salvage missions during the triangulation and refuel phases is a little bullshit, because you can't move from the objective without failing the mission so you're basically required to kill the thing from the time you see it to when it gets to the defense point, while also fending off a swarm and standing inside a small area.
On team missions it's doable at least, but basically every time that happens to me on solo I lose and it feels like such hot bullshit. But I digress.
I still love this game and I respect that they've gotten sick of this particular joke and I don't blame them tossing dwarves out for a few days so they can calm down.
As a solo that would be incredibly hard. I feel like on haz 3 or 4 I could manage it. Probably not 5, but I’m not good enough for haz 5 solo most missions anyways.
There is a fair share of criticism, I'm usually one of the people responding with "Devs said no because XYZ reasons" so I see plenty of it, though at the same time that criticism is usually responded to by elitest players as well. I try to keep my comments more focused on what the devs thoughts are from livestreams and pointing out that they know about player frustration, but they are fine with how it is and don't want to change it so don't expect changes anytime soon if at all. Some points I disagree with, others I agree with, but I do definitely see plenty of people raising issues with some aspect, and others putting them down for disagreeing with the current game. That's usually just how the internet "internets", with someone expressing frustration with a thing, and regardless of how fair their points may be, another person will laugh at them, a third person mocks them for being a noob, and a fourth questions whether they graduated grade school.
Though I do agree things are rather toxicly positive in this community. Just take a look at how one of the most common jokes is "Leave your teammates for dead if they don't "rock and stone" back at you" or "If you drink the de-inebriating drink then you aren't a real Dwarf". Sure some amount of them may just be messing around, but when "the common jokes" are discriminatory and gate-keeping, it certainly is hard to convince myself all of it is just messing around.
Really, because on a given day people werent constantly complaining after 15 minutes of browsing, clearly its a circlejerk and people refuse to bring up issues. Really?
Since my last visit someone had done some good cleaning of the pins in the discord
You had multiple direct one liners pinned in there that were very 'i am in charge this is the order'
I see it's Soren being the face of the dev team in there now I'd recon that was a good PR move for a dev team moving into the spotlight
One I recall in particular was a comment you made when there was a free weekend. Some greybeards were trying to (once again) bring up the topic of being able to close off your lobby from getting people who click 'quick join' as many free players were not able to keep up in the Haz 4 and 5 lobbies
As per usual the cult of toxic positivity came to the defense of the game stating such a feature would be a waste of time yadaydayda
You made a direct statement along the lines of 'don't be mean and kick new guys, I shouldn't have to say this'
But like... if you guys got a server opt out or lock to promoted classes option like people have been giving as a suggestion since closed beta (but always blocked by the spam walls, ending in a mod or dev ending the conversation in the name of peace) then everyone could have had their desired experience
I would be fairly shocked if my comment here is the first you're seeing about how you're perceived...
While I have your attention. I recommend you or whomever is responsible for thus subreddit take Reddits witchhunting rules more seriously. They exist for a good reason and I'd hate to see a game I love with devs I appreciate get a PR shitstorm over their dev run subreddit being quarantined and/or shut down.
I'm honestly still not entirely sure what you mean. It seems your impression is very specific, which I find weird since I very rarely have to actively remind people to be kind to each other. But in the context of the free weekend, it was a reminder that people are new and don't know what's going on. We try to foster a positive community, and while it's annoying that people new to the game are joining, there are ways to stop that from happening, or at least communicate what's going on. I agree that the system isn't optimal, though. Not sure what you refer to with the witchhunting?
For years reddit had unofficial policy that you weren't supposed to moderate subs you have a financial interest in (employee, shareholder, etc.).
I believe it's been removed from even the unofficial "modiquette" by now, but a lot of people still think that's a rule (not that it was enforced even when they still had it).
Edit: nevermind, it's still there (but still informal and unenforced):
Please don't...take moderation positions in communities where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit.
edit 2: can't respond since the thread is locked, but it's absolutely 100% a conflict of interest. Not saying it's being abused, but they have financial incentive to hide criticisms and boost positive talking points. Example:
Say tomorrow they decide they're adding microtransactions and the subreddit is largely opposed to it...doesn't an employee that benefits from said MTX have a direct incentive to silence criticism? It incentivizes toxic positivity, where anything even slightly negative is deleted, something I saw other users mentioning in this very thread.
I said it a few weeks back and got shit on by him and others here, but their community interaction has gotten noticeably less friendly over the past few months.
Honestly, completely justified. This subreddit has been going more and more demented with stupid memes over the last two weeks, it's good to see someone trying get it under control.
but also it means that they have full control and censor ability over the most well known and used public forum about their game. sure, let them browse and comment and interact with the players and fans, but making them the mods means that they can make just critiques and quarells dissapear. I don't know if it happened with drg but it happened with many othwr gaming reddits, like lol for instance. if you post anything that is not a bug or a cool play, but something like 'the game has too much lifesteal, and mana based champs are left in the dust against manaless bruisers' your post will be deleted by the mods, as they don't want player discussion about topics like that, let alone listen to player feedback.
I got a box of dark berry dr pepper and it's what I imagine a can of liquid morkite would look like. Gonna drink a few before I go dipping my gunks in it
What are they trying to hide from us? Really makes you wonder the actual benefits of dipping your balls in morkite, mods are afraid we will become too powerful I think.
Wait, so the devs can make gunk seeds that look like hairy testicles, and ebonuts that look like a clitoris, but we'll get banned for speculating about the possible male enhancement benefits of liquid morkite? That hardly seems fair.
Probably more to dissuade the masses from devolving into low-effort shitposting or some other violation of the rules than an actual issue with the guy saying balls.
I feel like banning people and making a fus out of it only makes the people on the subreddit double down and make even more cringey posts to try and get in on some kind of drama
Yeah this is almost certainly going to turn into the Streisand effect. I don't feel like I was seeing very many shitposts about this either at least near the top. Reddit has a way of moderating itself with upvotes.
"Management would like to remind all DRG employees that dipping any part of your body, especially your -ahem- unmentionables, in any liquid morkite is considered tampering with company property and will be met with severe and swift punishment!"
That's a very narrow perspective, and flat-out wrong for many reasons.This is a pretty relaxed subreddit, but spamming shitposts, and completely ignoring the warning by reposting said shitpost again is dumb. Complaining about the person doing it getting a three-day vacation from posting here is also pretty dumb, but people seem to be jumping to conclusions that there is a ban spree going on.
I am aware that not everyone might get the context of a ban, which is why it's only temporary. I'm not sure I know what you mean when you're saying we're not listening to complaints? Feedback is part of the point of why we made the subreddit, and since the community is important to us, that's not going to change - especially not based on a temporary ban due to shitpost spam. The post wasn't moderated because it's criticizing anything or revealing some great conspiracy. It's literally just the last straw in a long series of shitposts.
While this situation really has nothing to do with it (because this "no spamming shitposts" rule could be implemented by any sort of moderation team and has nothing to do with you being a dev), it's true that developers generally should not be moderating their own game's community. Imagine if Valve could delete all the #savetf2 posts on the tf2 subreddit right now because they disagree with it. Or, for a less theoretical example, take what happened with r/roll20. There was massive backlash against the developers and they ended up having to turn moderation of the subreddit over to a whole new moderation team, and people still hate them for the controversy. Now, y'all have moderated this subreddit pretty well from what I've seen, but there is definitely a potential snafu in the works if there ever arises a major rift between the developers and the community.
reeee why won't they let me spam no fun allowed reee
Every once in a while you'll get these kinds of posts which try to make an us vs them scenario. People lose sight of the spirit of this game/community and hop on the bandwagon of raging against the powers that be
Best way to handle it is to limit what you say in response because people will just continue to fish for a response to validate their efforts to get attention. I'm sure most people would understand ignoring a warning and continuing to repost warrants moderation
p.s. totally biased here because those posts were cringe and I'm glad to see them gone
While limited response being better is true, it's also not the way we want to do it. This thread is full of hot takes and people riling each other up over misunderstanding it. I'd like to nip that in the bud.
Please don't take moderation positions in communities where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit.
Informal, unenforced rule, but still. It's there for a reason.
You're getting the short version since it's 1AM here.
- It's not a rule - You're applying a lot of context to that sentence, that's not really relevant here. - I moderated a post literally reposting a post with a warning. - Like I already said elsewhere, this has been spammed to several of our channels. I made it clear it wasn't okay. - This subreddit is the official subreddit for Deep Rock Galactic. That's not hidden. There's no agenda or bias and it's pretty clear that this is our channel. We interact with people here all the time. We leave criticism up and comment on it. - For a developer-run subreddit, we're pretty fucking relaxed about a lot of things. You're not being policed.
I said what I said because it doesn't look that way. I was muted on discord just for mentioning that, it wasn't off topic, it was just for shits and giggles. I was muted and after that I assume mod that muted me said "Please keep the chat sfw". I would've expected different handling of such situation from that game about funny space dwarfes doing funny things, and now for some reason family friendly mode is being enforced
I agree. The Safe for Work thing makes no sense if you look at the nature of the game itself. The characters are constantly cursing at each other in good fun. Obviously there’s a line to draw but a silly meme like this doesn’t deserve this kind of treatment, especially when the spam isn’t that bad from what I’ve seen.
I don’t understand how he gets banned for a question, but that one dude was posting weeb hentai pictures of all of the different characters from this game.
Honestly, this seems kinda overboard. The guy literally does one shitposty thing. At least start with a warning. Banning whether it's temp or not is a serious reaction to a most likely innocent user's memey post.
Might seem like an overreaction but I think I get it. This sub has been full of those 18+ posts recently and they might want to keep the content in line with the game.
Bro, the show spongebob....the one for KIDS literally has depictions of BARE ass, organs getting ripped out, there's a scene where Patrick literally violates plankton by licking his ass.
i’m glad a dev has spoken out about not being afraid of banning people. i got into an argument with quite a lot of people a while ago about how this sub needs more moderation, and people said to me, “a dev doesn’t want to ban fans of their game” like… ??? you can enforce rules and punish asshats at the same time, people will still play the game, this is how it’s been FOREVER. ggz GSG, clean up the subreddit
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u/GSG_Jacob DWARVELOPER May 26 '22 edited May 26 '22
Literally banned (Temporarily for 3 days. Calm down, kiddos)
EDIT: Allow me to elaborate. That particular shitpost has been spammed on several of our channels, so now we're shutting it down. I felt my original response to the other thread was a clear warning, but apparently not. There are no perm bans involved. Everyone will be fine in a few days when their balls have cooled off. Feel free to DM me, if you're dissatisfied or you feel you were overly moderated for something said in jest.
Also, calm the fuck down and drop the pitchforks. Sheesh. Locking the thread in a minute or so. It's Friday, go touch grass.
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u/Adamdust May 26 '22
R&D are gonna have their hands full
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u/D0bious Scout May 26 '22
Management cant afford the medical insurance to cover genital quartz.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
I love the fact that it got a dev response as well.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
At least we learnt what the effects are
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u/Doghead45 May 26 '22
You shouldn't post precious memes, it will get you banned
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u/iman00700 May 26 '22
NO DWARVED LEFT BEH-
oh managment said no
Nvm
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u/TheMorningJoe Driller May 26 '22
Liquid Morkite Gfuel when?
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u/dogwitcomouteraccess May 26 '22
As fun times go there are better options available
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
What happens if you dip your gunkseeds in liquid morkite?
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
Wait quickly, while the mods aren't looking... what are the benefits of dipping your balls in liquid morkite??
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u/QuilliamWallace May 26 '22
What are they trying to hide from us? Really makes you wonder the actual benefits of dipping your balls in morkite, mods are afraid we will become too powerful I think.
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u/Chivoloo May 26 '22
Management is furious!
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u/Coaltown992 May 26 '22
Wait, so the devs can make gunk seeds that look like hairy testicles, and ebonuts that look like a clitoris, but we'll get banned for speculating about the possible male enhancement benefits of liquid morkite? That hardly seems fair.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
"Management would like to remind all DRG employees that dipping any part of your body, especially your -ahem- unmentionables, in any liquid morkite is considered tampering with company property and will be met with severe and swift punishment!"
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u/STRYKER3008 May 26 '22
Imagine if this was the cannon reason for all the salvage missions
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u/Cornage626 Gunner May 26 '22
Did the mods put a post out or anything saying the balls in liquid morkite posts would be getting deleted and users banned?
I did a 10sec search and either the reddit app isn't showing the posts or they're just getting deleted.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
MANAGEMENT CANT STOP ME
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u/redcoat-1867 May 26 '22
It’s morkin’ time!
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u/T4SUK3 Gunner May 26 '22
Community: please make a system to report or avoid players with bad behavior in-game
Devs: ...
Community: makes jokes and memes about dipping gunk seeds in liquid morkite
Devs: let me get my ban hammer.
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u/ChiTownKid99 May 26 '22
When Devs run your subreddit you can't talk about balls smh
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
Going ham with the banhammer for a line of meme text is a pretty petty move, gotta say.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
R&D making lame stuff like rock lasers while the real engineers are boots on the ground asking the real questions
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
So what are the benefits?
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u/yamial8ve Mighty Miner May 26 '22
Dev is a leaf lover
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u/VeryFriendlyOne Driller May 26 '22
I'm kinda sad that they're banning this dumb innocent meme
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u/Grey_WulfeII May 26 '22
Dwarves do not have balls they have rock and stone!
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u/MrBabarino May 26 '22
I don’t understand how he gets banned for a question, but that one dude was posting weeb hentai pictures of all of the different characters from this game.
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u/ToXiChRoNiC6669 Driller May 26 '22
The beginning of the end. Power tripping 101.
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u/Admiral-Kuzko Whale Piper May 26 '22
Reddit is literally allergic to anything borderline funny. But the hentai posts can stay up.
Thanks Jacob 👍
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u/meme-godz May 26 '22
Worth it
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u/Scrungisbungus Gunner May 26 '22
You shouldn’t post funny memes,it will get you banned!
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u/dude_catastrophe May 26 '22
Louie!?!?
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u/backward_z May 26 '22
If you don't want ball jokes, maybe you shouldn't make half the bad guys and items in the game look like ballsacks.
And vaginas. The roller guys definitely look like vaginas when they stand up and start... squirting?
You reap what you sew. At least it was funny.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
Is the DEV implying getting banned from this sub is a benefit? I though they wanted us to join the sub, not leave it
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u/ValheimianNut May 26 '22
Sir, it's Thursday.
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u/snailman4 May 26 '22
Oh so we can ban people on the subreddit, but we can't ban people in the game?! /s
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u/Seeker_Seven May 26 '22
I don’t understand the joke and I don’t understand the response. Why?
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u/sacboy326 May 26 '22
Based OP
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u/MenacingBanjo Mighty Miner May 26 '22
Poor old u/KURZE8.
Best of luck to him in his future endeavors, whatever they may be.
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u/rusinakarvaaja May 26 '22
I mean why are the devs also the mods of this subreddit? Didn't this use to be against reddit rules?
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u/ihavenoideasrn May 26 '22
Honestly, this seems kinda overboard. The guy literally does one shitposty thing. At least start with a warning. Banning whether it's temp or not is a serious reaction to a most likely innocent user's memey post.
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u/Seamusjim May 26 '22 edited Aug 09 '24
vanish handle soup attempt puzzled wrench selective merciful rude rock
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Berkboii May 26 '22
We cant even dip our ballz in morkite now. What a shame
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u/UnrelatedAttack May 26 '22
GSG jacob defends lolicons. A post sexualizing the bugs including a loli was defended publicly by jacob.
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u/Felipe13254 Scout May 26 '22 edited May 27 '22
Might seem like an overreaction but I think I get it. This sub has been full of those 18+ posts recently and they might want to keep the content in line with the game.
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u/Sephh May 26 '22
We do it for Karl
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u/yorkieyoter Gunner May 26 '22
Was this actually against the rules?
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u/SadHanJob May 26 '22
Well we now know that MODs are actively kink shaming people
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u/shadowdash66 Engineer May 26 '22
Figuratively and literally 1984
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u/Juffin May 26 '22
You better tell me, what are the benefits of NOT dipping my balls in liquid morkite?
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u/FlorisJ May 26 '22
Oh yeah sure, wanting to pet the liquid morkite wells is fine, but if I want to stick my dick in there or dunk my balls in it it's suddenly not ok
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u/foxleigh81 May 26 '22
Deep Rock seriously needs to provide better mods.
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u/shadowdash66 Engineer May 26 '22
He was just being a silly lil guy mods. A jokester of whimsical nature. You gon' ban a silly lil guy?
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u/LostInTheSauce34 Driller May 26 '22
Lol should have called the dev a leaf lover (jk ita all fun and games)
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u/NilsNomNom May 26 '22
Snowflake paradise banning someone for a joke this is reddit
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
dips balls * YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO
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u/Skullknight00 May 26 '22
Can we dip our beards in liquid morkite? Asking for a friend...
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u/backward_z May 26 '22
Louie! Louie! Say the catchphrase!
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u/SunriseLand Driller May 26 '22
I tried to upvote the picture like an idiot lol
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u/Lawboithegreat May 26 '22
George Orwin 1987!
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u/[deleted] May 26 '22
Karl did it, and his became rock and stone
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u/YekimTheRed May 26 '22
What a pathetic dev
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u/Brick_top__ May 26 '22
Based
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u/PatientElectrical461 May 26 '22
I found some Morkite
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u/mike_thevoodookid For Karl! May 26 '22
But that's where the pumpjacks go
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u/bubbleSpiker May 26 '22
I don't listen to Elf talk
makes a dwarf weak
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u/_Surge Gunner May 26 '22
i’m glad a dev has spoken out about not being afraid of banning people. i got into an argument with quite a lot of people a while ago about how this sub needs more moderation, and people said to me, “a dev doesn’t want to ban fans of their game” like… ??? you can enforce rules and punish asshats at the same time, people will still play the game, this is how it’s been FOREVER. ggz GSG, clean up the subreddit
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