Bye <3 🌸 (i'll miss everyone)

Then you would need to become the admin, Replace @wincenworks as the forum owner. Then you can shoot me and @Watson in back.

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Already on it on the replacing @wincenworks front…

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I understand why you don’t want to stay here any longer and respect your choice. It’s a shame that IOI’s reputation and choices have become so questionable. It can make one wonder what’s going on with it. Is it just bad luck? Is it lack of care? Either way, it leaves a bad taste.

What didn’t leave a bad taste though was your featured contract, and how persistent you were when you made sure to find out when/if the Girl Power themed FCs were coming out. Your blossom ninja mod was neat too. Outspoken ladies in this community aren’t too common unfortunately and it’s sad to see you leave. :pink_heart: We’ll miss you here on HMF. It isn’t the best place to be if you’d like to distance yourself from IOI though, so again, I understand.

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I feel very sorry for you Blossom :confused:

Even if i get your intense feelings, you shouldn’t delete everything and go away just like that because of some bs corporate decisions. Please, take the time to think about this carefully before doing anything…

HITMAN remains one of your favourite games, why not try to get things in a positive way like your nice art and drawings in your topics?

I hope that you’ll change your mind eventually. Cheers :clinking_beer_mugs:

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Eh… I can respect it, it’s your own decision. But to be fair to IO, with these cell ETs it mostly comes down to bad luck, because in all three cases, it came out after the ET. Maybe McGregor is the exception, but they did pull it.

I don’t even know who the ā€œZionistā€ is, but that whole conflict is not as black and white to me that you can just dismiss someone for having an opinion. Both sides have a lot of blood on their hands and to me it’s not exactly ethical to make demands from either side.

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quick update: I can’t delete my account as that luckily hasn’t been invented in the Hitman Forum world yet! Instead, I’ll just log out. I will check back every once in a while and see how you nice people are doing though! This wasn’t something I decided to do on an impulse, and I chose to leave a few months ago. I’ve added most of my friends on discord (blossom_foxy_fox) from here to chat with which is awesome! (I have a bsky account if that is a better option - I’d love to keep in touch with the rest of you too.) I’ve really enjoyed today and playing some dredge with less stress in my life. If you have any things that you want to ask @Combatglue or IO, maybe you can ask @magicdave94 for help! Hopefully they can help communicate your thoughts and questions with ioi like I tried to do. I’m going to send Dribbleondo something about the controversial bits I mentioned to send on by behalf, to distance myself from it. I’ll really miss you everyone! See you in a while when I check back in and thank you sooo much for your kind words :')

A lil thing from tiny glade below with my signature 3 lines thing:

<3 :cherry_blossom:

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Quite literally sent through my DM’s this morning, here are some Clarifications from BlossomFox:

I’m Blossom posting through Dribbleondo for a bit of mental distance! These are a few more things about the bad stuff that made me leave. :purple_heart:

Clarifications:

IO partnered with Ludeo to promote The Splitter Dlc. (the website)

They had made a post on LinkedIn about being ā€œtrueā€ Zionists. Rainworld partnered with them and people found out, leading to backlash and scrapping of the integration. I made Mr.Glue aware about this in private (not surprised they didn’t know before) and didn’t say anything here about it. Sorry for not mentioning it before.

Also, the Disruptor was easily avoidable, and so was the Splitter. (which some people are missing). JCVD has previously been a prominent Putin fan, meeting him for dinner (in 2011 way before his video asking to be a Putin ambassador last month), endorsing Trump and being extremely homophobic and sexist on multiple occasions on french TV, including comparing gay marriage to dogs getting married. No surprise more has come out/ been alleged recently…

These things make me feel so incredibly uncomfortable and upset, and it makes Hitman something I don’t want to think about and something I can’t enjoy. I can’t believe I have to write these things about my biggest ex-interest.

Reminder that amazing queer people (like me), women (also like me!) and Ukrainian / Palestinian / Israeli people are like… awesome and peace loving (hopefully most of them) and more nice adjectives!!! :cherry_blossom:

I hope that I can find more super wholesome spaces on the internet to call home like a couple I’ve been a small part of over time and keep making creative stuff!

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I’m sorry, I still don’t understand what is a Zionist, and why is being Zionist a bad thing.

This is a genuine question.

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It is essentially White Supremacy for Jews. It is fostered and supported by western and European white supremacist policies to wipe out Palestinians, and then probably they themselves at a later point.

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is this about the ETs like connor macgregor and jean claude van damm, or did something else happen??

There’s plenty of Trump supporters out there, so I’m not sure why that’s highlighted and an issue to be fair? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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As @BlossomFox has returned after creating this thread, why don’t we just merge this with the IOI Community thread?

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Just because a lot of people support Trump doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, or beyond criticism, even if it is sadly strong enough to be ā€œmainstreamā€.

I believe she highlighted this that IOI has decided to associate themselves with a person who supports Trump, which in turn implies IOI has no issue with Trump themselves.

I can’t speak for @BlossomFox (and please correct me if I’m wrong), but considering she describes herself as a queer woman, and Trump is an accused rapist, with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and his current war on Trans rights in the USA, not to mention a host of other things like an attempted insurrection, I think it is completely understandable she would be upset that IOI would decide to associate with a man who openly supports Trump.

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Oooooooof, oh god that’s ugly the way they’ve publicly, proudly mentioned that… :grimacing: :roll_eyes:

Anyway, I really feel your pain Blossom, and I’m sorry you feel so disappointed in this game’s team because of all that. Though understandable of course. :pensive_face:

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I wonder if Blossom was aware of what the older Hitman games were about. And I highly doubt there’s any rapists in the company considering what happened with the Wildcard & Connor McGregor ET’s…

Blossom was actually talking about the ETs, IOI’s decision to team up with them.

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To be fair, the older games are a product of their time and viewing them and critiquing them as if it’s a new release within this current landscape isn’t really fair. You can acknowledge that it’s unsavory and not up to modern sensibilities within our culture, but it shouldn’t take away from the overall enjoyment of those older games.

It’s why some developers like Rockstar when they made games on a consistent basis could release manhunt back in the 2000’s and is also the reason why they probably will never release another manhunt in 2025.

The point is IO changed as the times changed. The issues Blossom presented took place during the WOA trilogy with a plethora of business decisions that make them and probably others uncomfortable to continue following and supporting their work.

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Really strange/irrelevant point here. Regardless of what anyone may think of certain themes in the older games, there’s a massive difference between depicting something unpleasant in a fictional world and working with people who do unpleasant things in the real world.

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I don’t want my topic merged, if that is alright. I came back to the thread for a quick final update and I’m a bit confused on what you meant, sorry! :cherry_blossom: :pink_heart: Anyways, goodbye and thank you for being so kind everyone!

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