Fjords Are Just Big Friends, Change My Mind (you Can’t)

~with a sense of poise and rationality~

i almost had linda in the second column as well. linda says bruh but only in the soul rider discord gc

there is literally nothing worse than accidentally eating a really soft grape

concorde never died she tucked her legs into a ball and just rolled away

HI GUYS

Can we, collectively as a fandom, pledge not to thirst over the new James

oh my god do people here like toto’s africa ironically? but… i genuinely love it. jt’s so good.

realistically how hard would it be to create a master post of all the terrible decisions sse has made

Not hard at all lmao, though community input might be necessary because obviously not everyone is going to be aware of everything. Here’s what I got off the top of my head, maybe if people pitch in we can make a more detailed post!

-antisemitism around Christmas and Pi the witch

(-Hiring Julian)

-problematic redesign choices, this one could be split into several subcategories like Chiyo, Sabine, Holdsworth,,,

-firing freelance workers, leading to the discontinuation of comics, books and music.

-the mistfall series (maybe not the worst idea in theory, but I can’t imagine it brought in more business and money than it cost)

-the fucking candle

-relating to the candle, clearly wanting to sell their players things but releasing absolutely 0 merch

-horse girl is a slur

-back when it happened, collabing with jojo siwa was a big controversy because people didn’t think she fit the game

-AI art

-They’ve been reported to Konsumentvert for breaking laws regarding advertisements toward kids.

-Maybe a personal gripe of mine but not being more active during women’s day for a company that advertises itself as by women for girls. I think one time they posted “every day is women’s day on jorvik” on Instagram and that was. Questionable.

no talk me angy

Right. I came across these on Facebook in a response to somebody (crossing their name out to be safe). I’ll translate first: 

Hi [name]! Thank you for expressing your worry for the well-being of those of us working at Star Stable. We are aware that some players have recently discovered Glassdoor, which is a website where current and previous employees anonymously review companies.  While we take all feedback about our company seriously, the anonymous reviews on Glassdoor are just one source of information among many. We are already working hard to solve some of the challenges that have arisen around the engineering (?) and will continue to do so in the future.  We have a strong and happy friendship culture at Star Stable, which is also reflected in the same reviews.  We appreciate your worry for us, but we promise that we are very happy to be part of building the fantastic world of Star Stable - and naturally that includes more quests and even bigger future surprises! 

Now… I’m glad they do appear to actually be aware that people have found the reviews online. That’s a good start. 

But I’m sceptical about some of this. I’d understand wanting to really ensure that people know they’re fine, but some of this comes across like, “They told me to say this” or something? 

I realise it’s important to highlight that there’s both good and bad in reviews about SSE as a workplace, but saying “We have a strong and happy friendship culture” does come off a little “we’re a family here,” I suppose. As does “we promise that we are very happy to be part of…” actually. The very last part of the sentence talking about more quests and surprises in the future feels especially out of place for a response to a comment worrying about the well-being of employees. Sort of “Here, we’ll promise you highly requested content in vague terms, that should settle you, right?” 

Look, maybe I’m reading too much into this response to a Facebook comment. Maybe I’m not. I don’t really want to project my own personal worries and versions of reality onto something that might be totally different from my perception of it. But my main takeaway from this is, I do think management needs to 1) Make a proper statement and not just social media comments (though, the more of these are made, the more it’ll have to push them to actually make a proper statement) and 2) Not just say things, but put words into action and fix whatever is wrong with working for them. 

Promising that the staff are fine would absolutely calm some people down, why would you want to believe they’re lying about that, but it’s not enough here. They need to rethink how they respond to these types of situations, and I do think that to some extent - even if I don’t know to what extent - they are trying to diffuse the situation a tad with this. At least it comes off that way.

(My brain isn’t at 100% right now so feel free to add on or highlight something I might’ve missed or elaborate on what I’ve already said)