About Mother 3 “Censored” Edition and some blabla

FCC said:
@kandowontu Per this forum post, Recca is well aware of the different sides of the story, per the Dynamic Designs forum topic:
https://dynamic-designs.us/d-dforum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1173&start=10

@Recca Feel free to re-familiarize yourself with the content you posted on that forum.
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Do they also know that NightCrawler actively removed posts and banned users that mentioned ANY other romhacking site other than the one site he liked, effectively making sure users could not find new hacks anywhere else?

They also do not care if you dont want your hack posted there anymore, as my numerous requests to remove Starfox EX due to it being an older version were all ignored (by the current "staff").

But wait, no, no, radical leftists.
 
I'm not trying to say that Nightcrawler wasn't in the wrong either for many of his decisions, but you're grossly ignoring the fact that the staff there had a horrible bias and actively banned people for merely daring to say something that they disagreed with. Many talented romhackers and translators alike were either driven away or outright banned by the people of that site. Just off the top of my head: MrRichard999, aishsha, Pennywise, Kitsune Sniper, Dr. Floppy, popehentai and Bahamut Zero, among many others were banned for the most ridiculous reasons imaginable. These staff members were often biased leftists recruited from Reddit and ResetEra who closely monitored everything posted at RHDN and got rid of anyone deemed "problematic" to their ideals. But by all means, deny reality and continue posting gifs of popcorn, you're so "winning" this argument through circle jerking one another! ;)
 
Recca said:
I'm not trying to say that Nightcrawler wasn't in the wrong either for many of his decisions, but you're grossly ignoring the fact that the staff there had a horrible bias and actively banned people for merely daring to say something that they disagreed with. Many talented romhackers and translators alike were either driven away or outright banned by the people of that site. Just off the top of my head: MrRichard999, aishsha, Pennywise, Kitsune Sniper, Dr. Floppy, popehentai and Bahamut Zero, among many others were banned for the most ridiculous reasons imaginable. These staff members were often biased leftists recruited from Reddit and ResetEra who closely monitored everything posted at RHDN and got rid of anyone deemed "problematic" to their ideals. But by all means, deny reality and continue posting gifs of popcorn, you're so "winning" this argument through circle jerking one another! ;)
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Pennywise was a RHDN forum moderator up until the site's supposed closure. As for other users, a lot of these are BHDN users. I was not staff during the "great BHDN purge".

These staff members were often biased leftists recruited from Reddit and ResetEra who closely monitored everything posted at RHDN and got rid of anyone deemed "problematic" to their ideals.
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If the staff was full of awful people that responsibility squarely lies on NightCrawler for being a very poor judge of character and letting it go for as long as it did. If NigtCrawler deemed it a problem, he was free to let go of these people at any time. Why would NightCrawler specifically recruit people from ResetEra and Reddit like you claim? Seems like a pretty bad idea and poor judgement if you ask me.

The site should be a whole lot better with those nasty liberals out of the picture. Maybe those people you mentioned could even be unbanned and flock back!

Also, hi there!
https://www.baddesthacks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13008#p13000
 
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To be fair to Recca, I remember some of the old staff expressing partisan viewpoints (American) in off-topic chats. No idea about the current RHDN team. Whether it's the "right" opinion or not should probably have nothing to do with ROM hacking, but these things always lead to drama when you have opposing sides. Usually I find it's best to do your own thing and let others make their own mistakes.

I agree with a lot of the past tension stuff, as well. At least we all have a few more options now and don't have to worry about an imminent scene implosion.
 
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To be fair to Recca, I remember some of the old staff expressing partisan viewpoints (American) in off-topic chats. No idea about the current RHDN team. Whether it's the "right" opinion or not should probably have nothing to do with ROM hacking, but these things always lead to drama when you have opposing sides. Usually I find it's best to do your own thing and let others make their own mistakes.

I agree with a lot of the past tension stuff, as well. At least we all have a few more options now and don't have to worry about an imminent scene implosion.
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Indeed you are correct. I remember RHDN had a politics thread as did the Discord server. Honestly, politics have nowhere to belong in the social media part of a romhacking / gaming community. I was the major voice behind banning politics altogether on the Discord server. Not just right wing politics. An actual political discussion ban. Most sites don't actually follow this.
 
GoldenArc said:
To be fair to Recca, I remember some of the old staff expressing partisan viewpoints (American) in off-topic chats. No idea about the current RHDN team. Whether it's the "right" opinion or not should probably have nothing to do with ROM hacking, but these things always lead to drama when you have opposing sides. Usually I find it's best to do your own thing and let others make their own mistakes.

I agree with a lot of the past tension stuff, as well. At least we all have a few more options now and don't have to worry about an imminent scene implosion.
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I’ll admit rhdn had/RHDI has an issue with grandfathered mods who do nothing but flex their power on discord, but the downfall of the SITE (not the forum, not the discord) could likely be placed on one particular reviewer and nightcrawler.

“Radical leftists” just makes you sound a bit crazy though, recca. Just being honest.
 
will this work with the earthbound 2 romhack of mother 3 since this fits the bill perfectly plus also i have a title screen edit idea for this game using this titleimage (40).webp
 
Agreed, that was my point as well. Politics should be left out of the hobby entirely. The problem with RHDN and the gaming community in general is that left-wing ideology keeps creeping into every game and low effort romhack which exists solely to pander in these recent times. Hence, that quote which I posted on page one of this thread about talented and experienced writers being replaced by political activists who are only interested in pushing their own narratives and advancing their political ideology without any effort being put into actually writing a good story for the games that they work on. The reason I'm so fixated on the left is because they are currently the ones who are doing this sort of thing the most, by far in fact. I mean, kandowontu, you yourself were called a "right-wing extremist" if I remember correctly back when you posted on RHDN last year by some of the members there. So you've seen for yourself firsthand just how toxic the community there can be. Meanwhile, such users are allowed to run amok harassing others while the moderators there only focus on banning the people that they disagree with personally, even if they're well known members of the community who had been actively contributing to both the site and hobby as a whole for the longest time.

Which brings me to the part about Pennywise. I was actually the one who recommended him for the position of moderator to Nightcrawler. After I had my posts deleted yet again by some random moderator at RHDN, I contacted Nightcrawler via private message to point out the obvious double standard of seeing certain posts (right or even centrist leaning) such as mine being consistently deleted while others (left leaning) were allowed to freely insult and harass users without repercussion. Nightcrawler responded by saying something along the lines of not having much choice in the matter as to who becomes a staff member since most people aren't interested in signing up for these positions. He then went on to ask me in a rather sarcastic way what he should do if he got rid of the current problematic staff there. I suggested to him that he should instead focus on recruiting people for these roles who are actually interested in both the site and hobby in general. In other words, romhackers and translators that have actually contributed to the site. Afterwards, he wrote back again asking me if I had any suggestions, to which I gave him a small list of users that I thought would be a good fit for the role of either submission reviewer or moderator. Out of all of them, only Pennywise was assigned as a moderator.

During a heated debate in their PoPoLoCrois PS1 translation release thread, some nutjob alt-leftists started accusing aishsha, Paul_met and Pennywise of being "abelists" towards the deaf by not including subtitles to the game's intro narration (which was already dubbed in English by them). They basically harassed the team, just as they had done before to the translator of the Goemon games, a user named Tom who then left the site and possibly the hobby as a whole afterwards because of this toxic community allowed to run amok on RHDN (he was also constantly harassed across various social media platforms as well, but that is not really relevant to RHDN itself). Pennywise, of course took the side of his teammates and was placed on "Resistricted Access" afterwards, which basically means he can still login, but is not able to post anything without a moderator approving it first, which of course, they never do. So, he was essentially banned in a manner of speaking. Sorry for this long-winded story, I tried to quickly summarize all the important parts as best as I could without leaving out any of the relevant details. So anyway, that's basically what I meant by the whole "radical leftists took down RHDN" thing. A bit exaggerated for sure, but not far from the truth of what slowly started rotting the site from the inside out long before that whole fiasco happened last year.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that I myself was also offered the position of submission reviewer back in 2017, but refused it since I didn't have the time to overlook and approve the submissions for such a large site with a massive userbase. Not that it matters, since like Pennywise, I was also placed on Restricted Access on RHDN and can no longer post there anymore either. I might be able to contact someone about this and have it removed as I've done in the past, but there's really not much point in doing so since the site is practically dead now anyway.
 
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There's definitely been cases of politics going too far. I'm not aware of the PoPoLoCrois situation, but I am aware of the Tom situation. With years of retrospect, people sending hate to Tom over a slur in Japanese (newhalf) being translated as a slur in English is silly. I have also come across slurs in one of my translation project (okama) and merely opted on romanizing the term. It would produce the least amount of controversy and no other English substitute really fit anyway. Even if I were to redact the term, it would require a major overhaul of the game truly change the nature of the game.

As for left-leaning politics permeating the romhacking scene, this was very much a wider thing: it was an English-speaker thing, up until 2025. Overall, websites and the overall political realm was more left leaning. That's just how the world was at the time.

As for the patch in question. This isn't like with WildBill or working designs where a game has politics added with no other option. This is an optional patch which you as a user can choose to ignore. If you don't like the Harvest Moon Truve Love hack or a censorship hack, no one is forcing you to play it. We may reach a point where hacks of this caliber have to be removed because they're no longer compliant with regulations with how things are going right now anyway. So this whole discussion may be moot in the end.
 
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