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 frontā¦
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I understand why you donāt want to stay here any longer and respect your choice. Itās a shame that IOIās reputation and choices have become so questionable. It can make one wonder whatās going on with it. Is it just bad luck? Is it lack of care? Either way, it leaves a bad taste.
What didnāt 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 arenāt too common unfortunately and itās sad to see you leave. 
Weāll miss you here on HMF. It isnāt the best place to be if youād like to distance yourself from IOI though, so again, I understand.
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I feel very sorry for you Blossom 
Even if i get your intense feelings, you shouldnāt 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 anythingā¦
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 youāll change your mind eventually. Cheers 
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Ehā¦ I can respect it, itās 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 donāt even know who the āZionistā 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 itās not exactly ethical to make demands from either side.
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quick update: I canāt delete my account as that luckily hasnāt been invented in the Hitman Forum world yet! Instead, Iāll just log out. I will check back every once in a while and see how you nice people are doing though! This wasnāt something I decided to do on an impulse, and I chose to leave a few months ago. Iāve 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 - Iād love to keep in touch with the rest of you too.) Iāve 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. Iām going to send Dribbleondo something about the controversial bits I mentioned to send on by behalf, to distance myself from it. Iāll 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 
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Quite literally sent through my DMās this morning, here are some Clarifications from BlossomFox:
Iām Blossom posting through Dribbleondo for a bit of mental distance! These are a few more things about the bad stuff that made me leave. 
Clarifications:
IO partnered with Ludeo to promote The Splitter Dlc. (the website)
They had made a post on LinkedIn about being ātrueā 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 didnāt know before) and didnāt 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 recentlyā¦
These things make me feel so incredibly uncomfortable and upset, and it makes Hitman something I donāt want to think about and something I canāt enjoy. I canāt 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 likeā¦ awesome and peace loving (hopefully most of them) and more nice adjectives!!!
I hope that I can find more super wholesome spaces on the internet to call home like a couple Iāve been a small part of over time and keep making creative stuff!
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Iām sorry, I still donāt 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??
Thereās plenty of Trump supporters out there, so Iām not sure why thatās highlighted and an issue to be fair? 
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As @BlossomFox has returned after creating this thread, why donāt we just merge this with the IOI Community thread?
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Just because a lot of people support Trump doesnāt mean itās a good thing, or beyond criticism, even if it is sadly strong enough to be āmainstreamā.
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 canāt speak for @BlossomFox (and please correct me if Iām 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 thatās ugly the way theyāve publicly, proudly mentioned thatā¦ 
Anyway, I really feel your pain Blossom, and Iām sorry you feel so disappointed in this gameās team because of all that. Though understandable of course. 
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I wonder if Blossom was aware of what the older Hitman games were about. And I highly doubt thereās any rapists in the company considering what happened with the Wildcard & Connor McGregor ETāsā¦
Blossom was actually talking about the ETs, IOIās 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 itās a new release within this current landscape isnāt really fair. You can acknowledge that itās unsavory and not up to modern sensibilities within our culture, but it shouldnāt take away from the overall enjoyment of those older games.
Itās why some developers like Rockstar when they made games on a consistent basis could release manhunt back in the 2000ās 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, thereās 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 donāt want my topic merged, if that is alright. I came back to the thread for a quick final update and Iām a bit confused on what you meant, sorry! Anyways, goodbye and thank you for being so kind everyone!
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