There's been a lot of these PR's lately. This is feedback to #28028 , #30130, and importantly the cat centric PR's merged & unmerged #28148 #27711
Catpeople do not add anything to the game, they are exclusively a luxury allowance on part of the hosts gracious nature with the motive to bring more people to the server and we still operated functionally well prior and initially afterwards but then these unwelcoming prs came though. They violated their no feature clause put in place while they were being-when they became real mutants, but thankfully are easily revertable to humans. The ear organ specifically is a gross violation of that agreed code clause, and even with a debuff, being so shut out of head roles, inhuman and disrupted by sonic weapons its a wonder that catpeople are trusted to handle any job at all, not least security officers which notable statics like kevinz skylar plays.
- Blob cuddling was a unnessecary step that was snuck in with the emergent purpose to spam blobs, a mindless form of murderous antag that cannot be 'friendly' that caused problems later with its chat bar being filled up with hugging messages, breaking communication. Blob players justifiably complained.
Most of these PR's had to be merged out afterwards, and the people who are perpetrating this problem of either 'entirely passive HRP pr's' or 'nyaa alt culture fetishism' aren't improving our code at all as much as servicing themselves by misusing their contributor status at risk of alienating others, and forming meta-cliques around themselves for people who do enjoy & tolerate that content.
Whatever you may think of each presented issue, whether catpeople deserve to be disadvantageous in exchange to getting features, this counter culture by either very good coders or coders with not enough technical experience but the motivation to put contributions that does not enrich the codebase and effectively wasting time is a problem. Its neither a feature, nerf, buff, correction or alteration.
Its pointless self serving fluff made as irrelevant as possible to sail through and feed a counter culture movement that often creates emergent problems by its implementation. As the saying goes, give them a inch and the take a mile.
Feel free to step in and correct me as you please on my facts, its usually a easy talking point. There's a lot of bad pr threads floating out there, not just these, but these all have the same trend
- This is reactionary as things have already come to pass but by all seriousness im trying not to be hysterical as i have been in the past about the issues and i would urge you to not act hysterically either. Just please impart your thoughts on how PR's like these ones act upon the code