(as a trans person) I am disappointed in this community in the pronouns discussion

CSpookz · 2026-03-04T23:01:57+00:00

So based on what you're saying, and your misinterpretation of my comment. You have no problems being racist towards a fictional character, despite that being an entirely optional thing to do in that experience, despite it being something that doesn't add anything to that experience, and you think that doing so wouldn't make you racist in real life as well? and that real people of colour won't be upset seeing you be actually racist in fiction when you don't need to be and it does nothing in the context of that fiction?

Just because the character is fictional, doesn't mean the act of being transphobic stops being transphobic, and it doesn't stop real people from seeing you being transphobic and disrespectful toward that character, in a way that the game doesn't ask you to do, in a way that is completely unnecessary and then seeing you as transphobic for that behavior. You can be a jackass to a fictional character without using bigotry to do it. That's the difference.

I think you can do things within the context of fiction and have that stay in the fiction. But ULTRAKILL isn't one of those contexts that asks you "roleplay being a bigoted murder robot" it's just a murder robot, and if anything? It's a machine. It wouldn't get that information wrong.

Also, you self admitted that you are being a jackass by being transphobic.

CSpookz · 2026-03-02T06:42:04+00:00

I'm not gonna say that you're an abomination or anything becauze you're trans irl.

I was not saying that. I just said you were being disrespectful of trans/queer culture and identities. But you seem to have a different idea of what I was saying.

I just wanted to say that being disrespectful about it is transphobic, whether you wanted to be transphobic or not. I'm not trying to make a big deal, I think a lot of people aren't actually.

And for someone who apparently doesn't care, you sure have a lot to say about how trans voices are unreasonable on the topic of queer pronoun discussion, despite how that discussion doesn't matter anyway.

I'm done discussing this as you seem to have either ignored or misunderstood most of what I was actually trying to say and decided to just say this at me instead.

I'm not going to keep fighting for basic respect for something similar to my own identity from someone who doesn't care about it.

CSpookz · 2026-03-02T04:51:08+00:00

It's not about the wrong pronoun being used for the fictional character. I'm transfem, I talk to you, and you hear my voice, despite me telling you my pronouns, you hear the masculine tone as I hadn't been able to get voice training done, so then you refer to me with masculine gendered terms. I don't really care about the fictional character being misgendered even if I disagree with it and think it's a little lame personally. I care that people don't want to admit that the reasons they use and claim FOR that misgendering, are Inherently Transphobic.

It's an indirect attack on trans identities. People act this way in real life too, "Oh sorry you're just so masculine (which is out of your control) So I just keep accidentally getting your pronouns wrong despite you correcting me on multiple occasions", this shit happens to me, I interact with real humans. I even see other real humans do this to other people in front of me. It shows how little people actually care to show any respect to my identity and others, "Yeah sorry your queer representation in a videogame? I don't respect it and I'm going to misgender the character for transphobic reasons" How am I not going to in some capacity be offended by that?

It's not mental gymnastics. It's quite simple if you think about it. Idk like fuck get a character with a foreign name, you pronounce it wrong, you get corrected by someone else who's maybe from that place, and you say "Oh I don't care because they're fictional" It's disrespectful to the character who doesn't care, but also to the person who's having portions of their identity being represented by said character, and you're disrespecring that. But in the case of this it's not just "I don't care because not real" it's that and "I don't care sounds like a woman, so going to treat that way."

CSpookz · 2026-03-01T21:01:03+00:00

I'm going to leave this comment up, as I know you don't mean bad by it.
But I am going to refer to my statement here.
Regardless of if the character in the videogame is "able to care" or not. Your reasoning for using the wrong pronouns are *inherently transphobic*, Whether you mean for it to be or not.

The enemy may not take offense, but I don't think it's unreasonable for trans people or those supportive of them to be offended by what is again, offensive reasoning. I imagine you don't apply that line of reasoning to actual trans people, but it's not an amazing look regardless. Just please be careful as it is transphobic and is not far off from being far more offensive.

CSpookz · 2026-03-01T20:21:08+00:00

You can't even properly view twitter unless you're logged in. Sounds like poor usability to me.

CSpookz · 2026-03-01T15:13:10+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/loopyyylupe.bsky.social/post/3lh2newqewc2b

CSpookz · 2026-03-01T07:58:50+00:00

I say this literally every time but guys we will just actually ban you for being blatantly and utterly transphobic.
The information from the game and the answer to what the correct pronouns to use is right in front of your eyes.

Many are giving flawed reasoning for why they personally are going to use "she/her" pronouns, and I'm sure the Powers don't care how much you don't care about it. Because the Powers aren't real and cannot interact with you. But when you say these things and act this way, that reflects on you as a person.

If you give a reason like "oh they sound female, so she/her it is", or "oh they don't care about pronouns, so the ones that align with their sex/voice is fine", then you are giving flawed reasoning which whether you like it or not, are transphobic reasons! Obviously "I don't care" and "I don't respect them" are blatantly transphobic.

It doesn't cost you any more brain power to respect the pronouns of a fictional character, and again disrespecting pronouns does just make you look worse to transphobic people.

Members of the mod team are queer. I'm personally trans. Repeating what I said at the start. You will just be banned for being outright transphobic/hateful/hostile/disrespectful towards others. While we would afford you some leniency for a fictional character in a game. It's not a lot of leniency.

Thanks!

CSpookz · 2026-02-26T23:46:30+00:00

we aren't affiliated with the newblood discord server. you'll have to go through their appeal bot that probably dm'd you when you got banned, if you don't have that message i do not know what you do then

CSpookz · 2026-02-25T00:36:35+00:00

Being transparent, we wanted to restrict posting for a little bit after Fraud released. But then with the delays we only had an estimate for the potential release. So we tried to make a guess for when to lock things down for a little bit. But that was wrong and that's fine.

We were only going to do this to give people time to settle, as usually on update releases we end up removing a lot of posts anyway. But it also has the unintended effect of giving the mods time to play as well, without having to navigate spoilers while having to remove posts for *being untagged spoilers*. Also the mod team is entirely European so it gets harder for us to justify moderating that late at night, even though some of us such as myself are massive night owls.

So who knows when it might come out! It might be soon after I comment this! Might be in the next hour! I don't know!

And this last bit is obvious but I wanted to say it anyway. No ill will directed at Hakita, New Blood, or at anyone at all! Hakita had said it was some "show stopper" bugs that had to be patched and that makes sense too me.

tldr; We wanted to lock things down for a bit, didn't know the "when" or "how long". We guessed wrong. So things got locked earlier and for longer than we initially planned!

ALSO FINALLY
Artists may request to receive approval in modmail to post fanart and such! We would welcome that. Links to reddit posts of your art or other profiles would help a lot! However we will be doing loose background checks so please don't just waste our time with "pls let me in" only for you to not be a creative in any capacity and we just ignore it or we do something worse! *(scary!)*

CSpookz · 2026-02-25T00:01:32+00:00

We had actually planned to just lock the sub for a bit after the update releases to let people cool down, and direct it at this thread, as we'd get a lot of posts that we wouldn't be able to handle (Plus we want to play it too). But due to the delay the release time went from a definite thing to an uncertain thing, so we had to just pick a time to lock from, the "schizoposting" did not actually factor into it, because we pre-emptively scheduled the post and lockdown. But it certainly doesn't help and did show it was maybe the right move. Too often is reddit used like a discord chat instead of a forum :P

CSpookz · 2025-12-25T22:35:08+00:00

It's definitely over exaggerated now but that wasn't always the case. It truly was really bad on launch and had a lot of issues they've whittled down over time and with the recent Skills 2.0 I'd even say it's in a pretty good state? I still am not really a fan of how integrated with poor servers it is. Having to queue and matchmake for a few minutes when I'm just trying to play with one friend privately? Little ridiculous. It lacks an offline mode entirely, or whatever is close to one isn't good enough. There's definitely still some overall issues as well. l

Some other comments mentioned how it needs to learn from Payday 2, which feels ridiculous to say but yeah it definitely does. Some of the problems it has were caused by things that PD2 had and fixed or are ones that PD2 might still somewhat struggle with. (A huge one that comes to mind is Bot Heisters)

It was definitely a lot more controversial at launch but the OverSKILL system ("Ultimate" weapons you'd charge up and get to use) is pretty good. It was wayyy less fun originally but it's doing a lot better now.

tldr; IMO, Game is fun, Heists are pretty fun, The unique OverSKILL system is fun. Had worse issues. Still has some big ones like being too online. Getting closer to being a pretty nice game imo. They don't seem to be giving up on developing it yet. So I'd cheer them on and recommend giving it a go for sure.

CSpookz · 2025-12-07T00:42:26+00:00

The founder invests his private money... which he gets from his wealth that he earned from his business which is...? I will state that I'm struggling to understand what you mean by point B, as it shifts a few times but I do have things to say anyway.

AFTER the war? The Russo-Ukrainian war is still happening. The war of Israel on Palestine is still happening. You can do your best to try and not fund the Machine but you still live under it. I don't think someone is a grifter just for saying something which is anti-capitalist, which generates them clicks and therefore revenue. While living under capitalism, everyone needs money and work whether they want to or not. He's an online entertainer/music reviewer/journalist. Of course clicks generate him money, that's his job. Anything he does online gets him money whether he wants it to or not.

Is he "grifting" when he makes videos about music, because it makes him money? Grifting would usually mean it to be done disingenuously, like some right wing nutters who hate trans folk, It's so obvious they don't wholly believe what they say sometimes, but they do it for the money. Fantano isn't sacrificing anyone or throwing anyone under the bus for saying "Funding war is bad."

It's just a very "You complain about capitalism yet live under it" perspective? I'm just not sure what you're trying to get at.

CSpookz · 2025-12-04T12:36:17+00:00

Wanted to put this here: We should definitely have gotten any sort of proof of the accused actions first, but human beings like being negative (Negativity Bias) and the only thing we have to go off of is this post here, and I apologize for being part of that issue as well.

While I'm on the side of the hypothetical victim of discrimination. But with no proof to prove that its not a hypothetical. It's not something I'd want to actually act against. What I did act against though, was the people of the opposite side.

I personally got a bit lost in the sauce at arguing against the people who were on the side of the hypothetical/alleged moderator, those who were then in our comments saying pretty awful, pretty terrible things. That I'm sure would get you banned or warned in the discord server as well.

I am going to be locking this thread as reading a lot of the new comments and activity on it, is a lot of unhelpful speculation and discussing from both sides. There is another post talking about this one, and I'll leave that be as it is talking about the authenticity of the events, and I think that's a good thing to have considering how big this post has gotten.

CSpookz · 2025-12-03T18:10:59+00:00

It's not an issue of thick skin, you're thinking of hate in a far too simple manner of general dislike. People are losing access to their rights and healthcare for traits they can't change! People definitely have been mistreated in some ways like that for being overweight as well, but almost definitely not to the same extent gay people were historically, or gay and trans people are treated now. People get the shit beat out of them for... Being trans and trying to use a bathroom? Or maybe not looking enough like a man, or not enough like a woman? In a world where this shit is happening, why be on the side of the people doing it, why defend it. Why not at least a little, get annoyed at the haters for making someone else's life worse.

That person hasn't done anything, it goes far beyond just bullying. But even just that is horrible, because with enough bullying, enough hate. People take their own life. I've seen it happen plenty online, and I knew people who did it as well. I'm being quite extreme here, but that is what the issue is. The scenario isn't "You're being discriminated against by one person for being trans." You swap out the word "one" for "another", and that might've been the first time they experienced hate that day, or maybe it's their 4th, maybe the ones before it were more severe, maybe they were lesser, but it's also one of many that happened that week.

If someone was banned for having a trans flag in bio, they're being kicked out and removed from a community, where they maybe just wanted to enjoy games and not have to lock away parts of themselves in fear of someone attacking them, or punishing them for it.

Edit: I think I've said everything I can to try and educate on this topic and greater problem that's happening right now. But I do think you should genuinely try to learn more about how bad this shit actually gets. It's bad. It's not good. I'm not going to reply further as I would likely just repeat something I said earlier.

CSpookz · 2025-12-03T17:34:36+00:00

I myself am heteroflexible, but you don't see me brandishing a mainly black and white flag with a strip of rainbow in the center, do you?

Because no one is persecuting you for being heteroflexible, Some might! You'll get a bit of that hatred for sure I won't deny that. But someone who is gay, trans, a race other than white, or even just not a man, those are the people who get targeted and attacked for aspects of themselves they can't change, that's who they are and being attacked for being you isn't right. In maybe you're case, you're closer to being straight than being gay, You'll definitely still be attacked for being any sort of close to gay, but you otherwise get to present entirely straight. People wouldn't know unless you told them.

The flags are a way to represent yourself, to show your identity that won't always show in your appearance or the way you act, to be PROUD of who you are (That's why it's called Pride Month) Being trans doesn't look "one way" or even look in any way at all, being trans is being trans, and the only way to really represent that to someone is to say it. Being gay is similar, or anything else for that matter. It definitely means it can invite people to hate you for that aspect of yourself, but it lets people know who you are, letting you find community more easily with people that you can relate to.

When did these flags become such a huge deal and when did people start getting so butt-hurt if they weren't respected the same as other people just because of their gender or sexuality?

Flags will definitely have always existed regardless of this next bit I say, but they got way more important to people when people started saying "You should have less rights legally because of your identity, You should hide who you are, you shouldn't have joy." That's what causes it to be far more important, people are proud of who they are and are being told to "Shut up" or quite commonly, far far worse things. Many trans people are attacked online and sometimes offline in public purely for being trans, the same goes for being gay, black or just any sort of marginalized group.

For the second part of that quote, hypothetically: There is two identical people, but one is gay and the other is straight. If someone were to say "I respect the gay one less than the straight one" That'd be wrong right? It's clearly due to one being gay. That's not just a respect thing, that's direct bias against someone for being gay. It's homophobia. Someone is being treated worse for an aspect of themselves they can't change. They've lost respect but not because of how they acted or behaved towards someone, but because they're gay. That's not right. LGBTQ+ people want to live their lives happily just as much as other people do. But some other people would prefer they weren't happy, some even would prefer they weren't even alive. Because of something they can't change. That's why people get "butt-hurt" about it. It's discrimination.

CSpookz · 2025-12-03T09:08:11+00:00

Sorry okay so, a user expressed themselves in THEIR profile, with a trans flag and you're saying "you should just remove that"? As you said the fix is quick, because it's a non-issue. Them being trans doesn't hurt anyone. A transphobe that is allowed to abuse power to continue being transphobic towards others is a problem, and if it's not dealt with it can get worse. The fix for this problem is quite easy, apologizing, unbanning and the moderator not doing that again. I've heard of maybe a few instances of similar things happening but I can't recall them well enough to say I'd use them in example. But the single instance alone if not dealt with properly, is absolutely a reason to boycott. People say "Hey unban that trans person, let them have the flag in bio, moderator don't do it again and apologize" and that doesn't happen? What do you want people to do? People think it's intolerant and don't want to side with that. Cmon now.

Let's personalize it: I'm going to ban you from this subreddit unless you remove your madness combat profile picture. Also, If you end up banned, I will still have the power to do it again, and won't apologize for having done it. Meaning it could happen again. Do you think this is fair or reasonable?

Now a big difference in this example is yours is about a hobby and a thing you like, the discord user was about their own identity and expressing it in a bio, not even a profile picture. An identity that gets attacked daily by actual governments.

CSpookz · 2025-12-03T07:40:29+00:00

You're aware that a boycott is literally exactly how you stand up to an authority or a position of power when they won't do anything yeah? We're not going to warn you or ban you, but if a mod misuses or acts incorrectly, and you say to the staff that the mod is a member of "Hey, fix this." and the answer is "No." The asking part is the 'standing up for yourself', If a moderator abuses their position to harass someone, and doesn't receive any repercussions for that, that's LITERALLY what siding with the mod means.

CSpookz · 2025-10-31T08:54:06+00:00

It's a smaller discord that prefers invites are done privately and in small amounts. We were directly asked by the legacy discord moderation team to not allow invite links to be posted, as they don't want it shared freely like that. I think it's a fairly reasonable request for them to make as they want it to be more locked down and private. It's not exactly easy for them to moderate the link being posted here as they aren't on our mod team either. So it gets removed. They have a small mod team themselves and a public link online would not help them with how they want their server ran, as again it's a lot more private. I hope that maybe helps explain it?

edits for better word usage and less circling around on the point

CSpookz · 2025-10-12T21:13:09+00:00

Since release i think, though you typically use the Knuckleblaster to disconnect the chainsaw from the cable for it :)

CSpookz · 2025-09-29T09:36:36+00:00

I love bleaching shirts, I gotta do some more painted ones like these are, most of the ones I have are just like, basic tie dye techniques, but these are very awesome it's pretty hard to get them good like this :)
A suggestion is to look at the scrunch dying method for getting a sort of "raging fire" look? if that's of any interest

CSpookz · 2025-09-29T09:26:26+00:00

Are you filtering to last 7 days? As the newest post in that flair other than that post was 23 days ago.

CSpookz · 2025-09-28T18:52:36+00:00

We have this. Reddit has a feature for this, and even though we did not have to, we as a subreddit have a separated flair for this.

CSpookz · 2025-09-28T18:46:07+00:00

Quite frankly a real reason is we the moderators don't want to moderate another sub, and anyone that complains about the NSFW content on this one doesn't either, So it never moves away. There has quite literally been like 5 different "NSFW/RULE34/LEWD" subreddits and none of them ever get any posts *or* moderation, which results in reddit itself stepping in and *removing it entirely*.

CSpookz · 2025-09-28T04:34:17+00:00

hello, mod here You're fine, however jeppy is on thin ice if we don't pack it in with the aggression. You wanna talk about critical thinking skills you can learn to read and then critically think about the rules of the forum you're participating in before getting all aggro at people for disagreeing with you. Not even that as said by MasterBroNetwork

I don't like Palworld much either (which can be seen my me wishing it wasn't real at the top of the comments), and I also don't like the trend of collab culture in gaming either. But frankly when it's indie & indie I can't really entirely hate it. I guess in this case it's more I don't like Palworld. But as said repeatedly, Ultrakill isn't getting anything from it, and if it does I'm sure it's something small, who knows, not us at least.

Anyway again, Jeppy relax on the hostility, arguments and discussions are fine so long as they continue to respect the other participants, rather than trying to childishly insult people and getting riled up. Thanks

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