Remember when people said Ben Shapiro is a retard who can’t win debates against informed adults which is why he always gets into direct debates against teenagers? Hasan is like that but way worse because he proceeded to have his fanbase dox this kid.
Playing God of War: Ragnarok makes me realize that western devs never broke from their design sensibilities from the seventh generation of consoles. They found one winning formula and just completely focused on that to the detriment of everything else.
In record time the word gooner has transformed from describing someone hopelessly addicted to porn to someone just having a normal functioning sex drive.
Speaking as a doctor the people who were going to operate on Ellie were fucking quacks who would not have been able to get any cure from removing her brain.
Sam Raimi’s movies were made as individual, self contained stories about a hero’s journey and not cross promotional products selling the movie equivalent of Call of Duty and I think that’s why Scorsese’s statements are still consistent with each other.
As a dad myself now I find TLoU even stupider now in its attempts at emotional manipulation. It really only works on childless adults locked in their teen mentalities.
Jason Schreier admitted to knowing but not speaking about the toxic work culture at Blizzard that involved sexual harassment so severe that an employee allegedly committed suicide because of it.
He sat on the story so he could write a book and get rich.
Henry Cavill having a hit piece pushed out against him because he didn’t kowtow and genuflect to mediocre white women tells you all you need to know about the Witcher writing staff. That they didn’t know it would have the opposite effect tells you a lot about their social skills.
Remember when Jason Schreier the leftist game journalist sat on the Blizzard workplace abuse story for years because it would affect his bottom line if he reported it and when the story broke he wrote a book to profit off it, while defending them from “filthy gamers”?
I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt here, that the Steam user made that list with the absolute worst of intentions, and even then the corporate response was and is terrible, because it means corporations are allowed to attack private users for any reason they choose.
When I went home the day I lost my first patient (a 19 year old girl who told me on her death bed that she loved me and was happy for the time we had together) my girlfriend at the time complained that I didn’t make dinner for her fast enough.
Awoken by a sizable earthquake, I checked downstairs to make sure everything was fine, discovered that the only thing that fell off my shelves was my RBG action figure. A little too on-the-nose there, 2020.
This only ever happens for Japanese media. Nobody says that translations of Romance of the Three Kingdoms should have culture war references. Nobody tries to insert GamerGate into Parasite. Nobody attempts to mock fans of Hong Kong cinema for wanting original sound.
Isn't Japan rate of child sexual abuse lower than the UK's? If lolicon really normalized pedophilia, there would be an increase in child molestation in Japan right now, but there isn't.
Hey remember when Ocarina of Time’s source code got lost until some guy literally found a copy of it in his garage? “Preserve their content just fine” my fucking ass.
@envinyon
Please, most people don't pirate to preserve things. Companies can preserve their content just fine. It's about feeling entitled to something you can't have or afford.
This "illegal means are ok if I can't do it legally" reasoning should never be used for luxuries.
Someone’s immune to a zombie cordyceps infection and your first instinct is not to run blood test and see what’s going on with the blood brain barrier, but to -remove their fucking brain-? Are you fucking mental?
You cannot look me in the eye and tell me that sterilized corporate media isn’t a thing when something like Saints Row, a game series that was all about over the top satirization of the various aspects of society, is becoming focus tested sludge to appeal to “modern audiences.”
The fuck? “Get back in the kitchen?” The running joke is that Yor is a terrible cook and the only reason she’s good at homemaking is because she spent her whole life cleaning up murder scenes. In canon she’s stronger than Loid, the main character. These guys are fuckheads.
Mulan is what happens when you have whitebread Asians who pretend to be in touch with their heritage and culture but end up viewing everything through a western lens so every single piece of symbolism in the movie has been whitewashed so badly it can be considered a hate crime.
Seeing this cartoon made me remember the early 2010s Tumblr art trends. I’m not gonna criticize it too much because I try not to attack people based on their drawing style but it hits all the usual checkpoints.
Those games don’t force us to murder dogs while also spoon feeding us cutscenes shows us how those much those dogs were loved just to make us feel like an asshole.
Japans new Prime Minister is a big fan of Demon Slayer (especially akaza) and promised to boost the income for people working in the Anime and Manga industry
Gen Z is responsible for some of the most grotesque harassment campaigns I’ve ever seen, and I used to be a channer during the Wild West internet days.
“Learn Japanese.”
“I did.”
“Then you do translation work.”
“I do. I translate medical documents as part of my job.”
“False equivalence! I’mma strawman your argument so hard I’ll be shitting hay for a week!”
I find it odd that if dark fantasy in the west contains rape (for example, in Dragon Age it’s implied that dark spawn rape the women they capture to transform them into broodmothers) it’s generally excused but when a Japanese dark fantasy series has rape it’s suddenly a sin.
There’s a difference between “don’t harass this guy” and “don’t harass this guy *wink nudge*” and YouTube activists - left or right - often do the latter. Don’t even try to deny it, we all know what’s fucking going on, we aren’t stupid.
Did people actually even watch hbomberguy's video on James Somerton? Because he was ADAMANT on telling viewers not to harass Somerton, and is always talking about the importance of mental health.
Reminder that Jason Schreier wrote multiple articles on this and went on video game forums to argue about it but didn’t breathe a single word about abuses going on at Activision Blizzard despite admitting he knew about them.
Every time someone says “we didn’t take GamerGate seriously enough” I think about how professional victims went to the UN and didn’t spend a single second talking about child brides in the countries in their human rights panel and just wasted everyone’s time with white feminism.
People who blame school shootings on “toxic masculinity” and such often seem to forget that the first modern school shooter was a girl who did it because she, and I quote, “hated Mondays.”
Reminder that it’s literally impossible that game journalists, as “industry insiders,” didn’t know about the goings on at Activision Blizzard, because if I’m reading all the documentation and testimonials correctly this has been going on for at least a decade.
I feel a little concerned that there are men who obviously love it when women care about them and do nice things for them and people are boiling it down to mommy issues rather than valuing individual acts of care and comfort on an interpersonal level.
But this take is right. Actually using Cloud as trans representation is pretty insulting because he’s literally a trap. He pretends to be a woman to trick a man into bed to trap him. That’s... that’s a major story element.
Almost everyone I see defending Jada Smith fucking her son’s friend loses their shit if there’s an age gap of more than two years between an older guy and younger girl and it really serves as a direct example as to what they’re all about.
Most of the people who talk about how Japan is a high trust society based around following the rules and the law would never be able to live there because those very same people would reject the individual contribution required for it to work (such as sorting their own garbage).
Western localizers screwing with Japanese media & being flippant about it is like if someone translated Romance of the Three Kingdoms & said “what’s with all this dumb Chinese shit,” rewrote it, made it the only official translation available, then mocked people who take umbrage.
This is emblematic of why this current generation just cannot handle politics. They can’t view politics in any way other than through the lens of popular media. Pop culture HAS to have some political message for them to relate to real life; they simply cannot engage like adults.
i don’t even like hasan that much but this video pissed me off so bad like he was literally saying one piece is political and gave examples and they all just laughed at him and acted like he was crazy😭😭
@BruhKept
That’s literally what I’m talking about. Western game studios have not done anything new after 2012. Everything has been a derivative, if iterative, take on the games from back then, with no real innovation or change, barring increasingly pretentious stories.
“Victims of communism deserved it because they were all rich people anyway” is the tankie version of “Jews deserved the Holocaust because they secretly run the world.”
I hate that my generation is filled with 30 year olds who are so fucking stupid and poisoned by irony they cannot for the life of them talk about politics without making any pop culture references.
Asians know when to engage in politics and when not to because the previous generations’ political ambitions brought bloody ruin & untold destruction on our culture & society, the aftereffects of which are still felt today; something internet “activists” will never understand.
Now they’re complacent and going through the motions, just relying on old hits and trying to emotionally manipulate their audience into liking them again as they just do the same thing over and over. Like a producer who’s past his prime, they too do nothing but pine for the past.
A good rule of thumb for slogans and the like: if you have to explain it to reconcile it with your audience, you’re going to be fighting an uphill battle to bring people over to your side of thinking.
It never ceases to amaze me that people are shocked that young boys love tiddies and a manga aimed at young boys is probably going to have tiddies somewhere.
The irony is that western devs rose to prominence precisely because this happened to JAPANESE devs during that era and the variety of western games took the generation by storm and coupled with the accessibility of the Xbox 360 made them the leaders of contemporary game design.
Look I enjoy making fun of “south will rise again” people but holy shit, if we want to move forward as a country we need to start thinking seriously about pulling EVERYONE out of the mire, not just people we happen to like.
People accusing fans of the Joker movie of being inconsistent about riots confuse the hell out of me. The entire point of the story was that the rampant chaos and rioting was a BAD thing and one of the reasons Arthur stopped being sympathetic. Did we even watch the same movie?
MGR is a critique of the military industrial complex and how it manipulates governments into creating forever wars for the benefit of a select few at the cost of millions of lives, not a cynical rehash of undergrad gender studies theory.
Akira Toriyama went "I'm going to name all these characters after underwear" and everyone on the planet went "Yeah we'll accept that and never question it and continue to take these characters 100% seriously"