🐾THIS.🐾
If said fictional character brings out the absolute worst in you as a human, you're clearly a garbage person I have no business engaging with.
Miss me with your hate, your racism, your bigotry, & your vitriol. Don't even try to approach me or my human at an event.
Valko as Raf’s foil.
Foil does not mean antagonist.
Foils can share a ton of similarities while possessing contrasting characteristics that bring certain aspects of the other character into sharper focus.
Here is how the creative team is setting up the symbolic contrast:
1. Occupation: Artist vs. EonCore Chairman
2. Character Archetype: God vs. Hacker/Scientist
3. Thematic Domain: Divinity/Mythology vs. Science/Technology
4. Mythological Identity: Mermaid/Lemurian vs. Werewolf
5. Natural Association: Ocean vs. Forest
6. Animal Symbolism: Fish vs. Wolf
But let’s dive even further.
Both characters are associated with mythological beings, strong connections to nature, and appear to explore philosophical questions concerning human perception, identity, and connection.
They approach those themes from different perspectives.
Rafayel:
A literal god, says that naming something is what makes it special and binds two beings together and his stories keep returning to naming, identity, devotion and belonging.
Valko:
A STEM guy who questions the limitations of human sensory perception (“Humans have five senses… yet they sense such a narrow world.”), while simultaneously being a werewolf whose attraction to MC is heavily associated with her scent.
He even describes their relationship as a sort of “you’re mine” dynamic.
Are you seeing the potential literary foil yet?
They’re exploring the same underlying philosophical questions through contrasting frameworks.
Symbolic/relational vs instinct. Devotion vs. desire. Chosen vs. driven.
Almost like… their archetypes are ways to also show and represent the contrasting frameworks.
The same underlying philosophical concerns, approached through contrasting forms of connection.
There is a reason certain games have become extremely successful. And is not because they keep making the same stuff that everyone does.
Innovation is a risk but also has great success. Don't hinder creativity because you are afraid of changes.
"Save this game" by getting them into trouble with the government, sending them cow dung, and threatening the safety of the people who worked there? Oh, okay—and how did that work out for them so far?
not the first person to make this as a point
the cake doesn't list out ingredients to you meanwhile infold's message about the event "post screenshots or PHOTOS" photos being recreation of these drinks irl with these things listed as ingredients
don't touch the billion $ company
So maybe I’m abt to expose myself as a massive fucking idiot, but when I saw the recipe post, I didn’t really read it, I just saw it had the cocktails w a recipe & thought “oh, that’s cool that they made irl drink recipes so ppl can make them at home” and then kept scrolling.
Was I gonna make it? No. But I hardly think I’m the only one who had that initial reaction. I didn’t even consider that it was “obviously fake” bc ppl make drinks/food from movies/tv shows/games all the time & it seemed like the kind of thing LADS would do, since they constantly collab w irl food & drink places.
I also don’t know shit abt plants, & I didn’t know datura or flame lilies were toxic. I’m glad oomf posted a warning abt it, bc it spread awareness to ppl like me who don’t know shit abt plants, but who might’ve actually wanted to make the drinks.
I also don’t think it’s unreasonable to think there’d be someone out there who trusts Infold enough to not consider that they might post a drink recipe that will literally poison them, esp if there’s no disclaimer that it’s just for funsies.
This whole drama feels like everyone suddenly became an expert on plants overnight just to act condescending af and harass others. The level of vitriol & hostility over ppl trying to warn others abt potential danger is actually crazy.
Like god forbid someone try to prevent ppl from possibly harming themselves. Guess ppl who wanted to make it should’ve just died then, huh?
Y’all saying “natural selection” & “I wish they made it” are no different from the ppl saying they wish the girl had jumped. I’ve never seen a fandom so eager to wish death upon random ppl.
PPG give me Valko back so I can gtfo of the festering abscess that is ladstwt.
#BringValkoBack
btw, any (valko) antis finding humor in infold responding within 24ish hours about the cocktail nonsense, that it’s simply a “global issue” because global are the only ones who complain about stupid stuff……
have yall forgotten that it’s also global who has complained for 365+ days about the lighting issue for darker skinned players? is it still funny that they chose nonsense to respond to before their players of color?
have yall forgotten that crow mains have been “demanding” better treatment for 365+ days yet they decided nonsense was worth more responding to than yalls lack of content?
laugh it up, please, that “only global is stupid”, that “after 100 days, they still won’t listen to you valcunts”, that “infold doesn’t care about global concerns” because that bullshit yall pulled 100 days ago about valko supporters being performative about real issues with this game yet here yall are, not only giving yalls 5* reviews back, but finding sweet pleasure in the fact that infold DOES HEAR GLOBAL COMPLAINTS & blatantly ignores us (yall included, btw) so all of us still fucking lose at the end of the day.
yall’d be pissed as hell if anyone found the content disparity funny lmao #BringBackValko #ValkoIsLoved
Who harrased who now? Y'all have memory loss or something? Aint y'all the ones calling Valko names? Calling his supporters slurs? Y'all are hypocrites. Throwing Valko accusations saying chocolate and lily of the valley is deadly and now that we on this shit y'all gonna say "it's fictional. Chill out." What stupidity are you on?
Character Image Cocktail 🥃🍸
↑ IT’S FICTION!!! 😡
🐺 “Could you treat my wounds?”
“Hello from the balcony!”
↑ IT’S TRESPASSING!! HE’S TRYING TO RAPE HER!! IT’S MISOGYNISTIC!! RAAAAAAAGH!!!
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
The level of mental gymnastics here is genuinely impressive. How are people struggling this hard to understand such a basic distinction? 😆
Mario having a fictional mushroom power-up is NOT the same as an official account publishing something literally labeled a “Recipe,” listing Datura alongside normal edible ingredients, and then saying “shake, swirl… and take a sip.”
Nintendo isn’t posting “Fly Agaric + juice = recipe, now drink it.”
You can defend Infold all you want, but at least use an argument that makes sense. This comparison is embarrassingly stupid.
#valko
#NoValkoNoMoney
and if i say that those YTMs who made a bitch fit about valko "pandering to foreigners" don't deserve a disney collab (FOREIGN brand 😀) then what does that make me 😀
I warned yesterday that people might use the holiday to stir everyone up again, and here we are: an unverifiable quote from an unnamed “official department,” already being used to argue that we simply need to escalate harder.
At first glance, the alleged logic sounds plausible: both choices cause trouble, so the company chooses the “lesser evil.” But think one step further. This is a business. Which side is actually the greater long-term risk: a loud minority that does not financially sustain the game, or the larger paying playerbase that keeps withholding its money?
Our leverage already exists: revenue, retention and the fact that the current situation is not sustainable.
Trying to “out-riot” CDG would erase the distinction between us. Infold would no longer see one side attacking Valko and another demanding his return. It would simply see Valko causing chaos whether he is released or not. That does not make bringing him back safer. It makes removing the common denominator look safer.
And before anyone lets this claim whip them into action: there is no source, no screenshot and not even the name of the supposedly contacted department. “Someone will release it later” is not evidence.
Being moderate does not mean being nice, passive, pro-PPG or willing to accept whatever they do. We are still boycotting. We are still withholding our money. We are still demanding Valko’s return.
The difference is that we understand how businesses work and apply pressure with strategy and logic instead of throwing ourselves at the first rage bait placed in front of us. Discipline is not surrender.
#全世界都在等敖尹 #SpeakUpInfold #NoValkoNoMoney