I recall her writing a journal not too long ago about how people tell her she “can’t do/write/draw certain things regarding her POC characters (IE, the black couple)” and how she scoffed at that because other POC think she’s brilliant and she just thumbs her nose at haters or SOMETHING. It had to do with the black guy’s cousin (who he hates) having an “African heritage costume party” where they all dressed like stereotypical native Africans in feathers and jewels (and were half-naked, natch) and how LOL HILARIOUSLY AWKWARD it was of one of the White guys to dress as a big game hunter/slave-trader and he wanted to bone the black guy’s cousin or something….ugh.

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Concerning the Ghetto Hikes tumblr, according to Jeff Fecke it’s a big ol’ lie (maybe?):

You know those awful Ghetto Hikes tweets? They’re by a wimpy white dude from Texas who has obviously never met a black person. Fuck that.

Oh great, the whole “LOL WOMEN CRY RAPE” meme? This is an aside, but I also hate how she’s constantly taking potshots at feminism/feminists as “self-deprecation” because since SHE’S a feminist, that makes it totes okay! I guess I’m a NO FUN ALLOWED kind of person but as far as I’m concerned, the last thing feminism needs is its own kind making fun of us for being “LOL MAN-HATING LESBIANS WITH HAIRY LEGS AND FLANNEL SHIRTS”. I think she drew Lilith (Adam’s first wife) as looking kind of like Andrea Dworkin in a recent strip because some people consider Lilith a feminist icon.

I think it was some variation on “Don’t fuck Swedish girls, lol, know what I mean?”.

How problematic was it (ie, was it a LOL RAPE/victim blaming kinda thing)?
She might have wound up deleting it due to TEH DRAMAZ…I know she deleted a picture or two having to do with one of her characters raping his own (underage) daughter ‘cuz he’s TEH EBIL~!!1one

Sylvia Sybil: I don’t think the people criticizing Arkh are trying to constructively criticize, you grok me?

I agree with what you say to an extent, because most of the people who are “criticizing” (read = attacking) ARKH are doing so for all the wrong reasons, ie, BAWWW REVERSE RACISM/HOMOPHOBIA/MAYBE SEXISM~!!1 Whereas most of the stuff discussed in the SF_Drama post is pretty valid, at least to me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got a bone or two to pick with a handful of people on SF_Drama for their hypocrisy; saying Riley accuses anyone who disagrees in the slightest with them as being “white-identifying” (which reeks of Neo_Prodigy accusing any queer person/POC/QOC who disagrees with him of either being a “house queer” or a “house negro”) while simultaneously dog-piling on any supposed dissenters with “OMFG STFU HOW CAN YOU BE THIS STUPID AND STILL FUNCTION BLARGH”, combined with the fact that if you’re a furry they’ll harass you so bad it derails the thread (as has already been illustrated in my link). I’ve even seen them dismiss legit comments that contribute to the thread just because you ~might~ be a furry. In another thread one person was talking about how she was emotionally manipulated/prude-shamed by her boyfriend and someone replied “I’d feel bad for you but I saw your icon” (the icon is a cartoon koala bear girl, I think).[/end rant]

Side note: I’ve never actually seen proof that Riley was the blogger behind the screen name that posted those rants. The post being linked to as “proof” is one where Riley mentions being white-identifying in the past, with no specific screen names.

I get that there are valid criticisms. I just don’t see how one can make the leap from “there are some problems with character design in the very earliest preliminary stage” to “so no one should donate their money to the project”. (No one here has made this leap, but a lot of people have.) I mean, I’d rather have a video game with a Black protagonist who has some design flaws than one with a White protagonist. At least Arkh is doing something, even if there are some problems with how they’re doing it. I don’t think the people criticizing Arkh are trying to constructively criticize, you grok me?

Sylvia Sybil:
Patrick McGraw,
There’s a lot of stuff going around about The Arkh Project. Some of it is just plain wrong (the project started December 2011, so 2 months ago, not 2+ years), and for the rest I suspect it is based in racism/transphobia and ignorance of the crowd-funding model. They criticize Arkh for not having a design document, despite some dude named Tim Schaefer raising $100,000 for a game without one. They criticize Arkh for focusing on concept art first, not realizing that visuals are what sells the game to more donors. Etc.

The difference between the Arkh Project and Schafer is that Schafer has produced highly-respected (at least within the adventure game community) games (Day of The Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend). He has about twenty years experience in the video game industry, enough contacts in the industry to BE a major contact in the industry, and a cult fanbase, so people trust him to back up what he’s offering, and they have a general idea of what he’s going to make based on what he’s made before.

Arkh, on the other hand, have zero experience in the industry, and, to put it diplomatically, have made a few amateur mistakes that give cause to question whether or not they even have goals, let alone can achieve them.

The situations aren’t really comparable.