I've caught onto a bit of hearsay, where the terms "PS1", "Y2K", "troon" and "slop" are mostly separated from one another - but I don't see a point in starting a new thread over it, nor am I aware of a better place to post it in, so here goes.
Remember BallisticNG? I've actually been following it since early access (less so, now that I've got real life to deal with), and I've always been thinking the visual designs there have been kinda nothingburger, compared to what's in the Wipeout games, - turns out about 80% of visuals, including the whatever Neognosis logo, were done by... I think his first name was Aiden "Minty" Pearce? He's no longer with the main dev team: either he got booted out by the lead dev, or he left on his own volition - but that was after 1) he trooned out and 2) kept procrastinating on campaign videos due to "uni stuff".
There's a private mod server, - invite-only, - which used to have Minty in there for a good couple months, and his most memed-on message from very early 2020's goes
fuck all jews they should die
which could've easily passed as an edgy joke in said server, but now that we're in [current year], and sucking cocks for Hamas in the name of "normal
GazanPalestinian people" is normal, I'm... not even sure that quote was ironic, not anymore.
He has troonnamed himself Rin Pearce, by the way - after getting autistically hooked to Porter Robinson's Shelter. And last time I've checked his postings either on Twitter, or on YouTube, which was a while back, he's
gleefully checking all the checkboxes of a "I'm a real girl" kinda autogynephiliac.
But wait, there's more!
There's also BNG Discord's resident tard wrangler and one of three/four admins of the mod server, alias Radracer. I don't know much about him personally, but apparently, BNG Discord being full of downright spergy lolcows was a contributing factor to why he's been described as draconian - by one of the people who were in the private server, but left due to disagreements with the guy. I've asked if he behaved in any way that makes him a secret libtard, and aside from him owning a big-ass collection of vidya in his garage, being able to do Sonic impressions and being the only admin who outright loathes vtubers, there's apparently nothing. Pretty much all members of the mod server were invited by popular vote, the majority of active ones were hardlined anti-faggotry, Rad included.
And then, early 2023, he invited Remi (
whose PFP checks out), - supposedly a next-door neighbour, - a few people dropped the server several weeks after, and then Radracer trooned out. I remember him having a Punished Snake PFP, - which looked like he was cosplaying the man, but probably not, - and now he's got a featureless clipart of a woman as the PFP, with the pronouns "she/her" on Discord. I have no idea why that happened: actual gender dysphoria, peer pressure from Remi, or him secretly being an autogynephiliac all along, - but unlike Minty, he's still around.
So yeah, it's not half-life levels of controversy like what happened with Formula Fusion/
PACER, R8 Games and Ian Anderson (the sole remaining member of The Designers Republic), but a bit worrying, still. Feels more like a case of "great game, based dev, suicidal community managers", honestly.
