u/MalarkRevern

I wouldn’t care if it was offline only or whatever, but not having a bot gamemode is miserable. I want to get better, but even playing 3v3s, I only get the ball for maybe 15s of each game. I’m struggling the most with shrugging off attackers and keeping the ball once I get possession. I first try 3-starred the practice missions, so they’re not actually helpful for improving my abilities. What am I supposed to do if there aren’t bots to practice against?

I expressed my thoughts more thoroughly in my original post, so please read that if you’re looking for the full context.

Since then, the post has received roughly 450 upvotes, and the overwhelming majority of responses have either agreed with my concerns or, at the very least, agreed that the Pocket flairs are inconsistent with the rest of the subreddit and feel out of place.

At this point, I’m less concerned with whether people agree with my specific reasoning and more concerned that there has been no response from the moderation team despite the amount of community discussion the topic generated.

I’d appreciate it if the mods could acknowledge the feedback, explain their position, or consider changing the flairs. Even a response saying that the current flairs will remain would be better than complete silence.

Whether or not this is intentional, the current flair system creates a clear double standard that results in the only canonically nonbinary character being labeled with an insult (“Homeless Bum”) instead of a character-based ship tag, while other ships use standard naming conventions.

I previously reached out to the mods about this, and the original tag for Mina x Pocket was “Mina x Homeless Bum.” After I raised concerns, it was changed, but rather than removing the insult entirely, it was modified instead of corrected. At the same time, the only other ship involving Pocket is “Paradox x Homeless Bum,” meaning Pocket is consistently the only character framed through insult-based naming, while the other person in each ship is not.

Meanwhile, other ships involving Mina do not use insult-based naming, which makes Pocket’s case stand out as inconsistent with how the rest of the subreddit is handled.

Even if this is being treated as a joke about the character’s situation, the effect is that one character is being singled out for derogatory labeling in a way that no other character is.

I want to raise this because the first rule of the subreddit is “No bigotry,” and I don’t think the current tagging approach aligns with that standard.