I’d say declaring “I’m a terf and proud” in the midst of seismic anti-trans laws denying basic human rights getting passed is advocating for something incredibly terrible, but hey that’s just me.

I agree! But for the average fan to see him as “feminist” is quite laughable I’ll admit. Quiet’s character is proof of such.

Kojima has never really been prescient so much as he’s been observant. He wrote MGS2 during the dual Y2K scare and dot com bubble burst at a time when Wall Street had gotten heavily invested in automating trades to maximize profits.

Probably because I want to give him some credit for his ambitious projects from back then. The climax of MGS2's sociological messages and how tech/AI plays a role is an effective way of “pulling a The Simpsons”. But, as I said, his ego has been bloated long after his prime. He comes off more like a privileged creep…

You can learn a lot about a person through their crafts and projects. If MGS5 and Death Stranding are the most recent indicators: Kojima can be a celebrity-chasing creep, overthinks sociological/philosophical messaging in his storytelling, and a tad insecure, with his writing feeling like something a College senior…

Context matters.

I’m well aware that they’re still listed in the level select. But that doesn’t mean the levels were finished. They had to be aware of what they were doing was going to add up to be an out of control size for a platformer on cart.

Hey, some are named after appliances. Or pieces of clothing.

It says a lot to me that the majority of people upset by this seem more concerned with the possibility of losing money through loss of revenues than any social concerns. I’m done with Youtube.

Tomek... there is no confusion.

And his “sorry” right after saying the word reminded me of this guy.

He’s calling someone a black person in order to put them down. There, that’s how it’s racist.

Let me humor your point for a second here. You claim he’s a non-malicious ignorant person. Yet this is not his first offense (and I’ll bet it won’t be the last). He even apologized before for his racist/bigoted remarks before and claimed he had grown up from it.

It is all about context and intent.

This is not how language works, generally. Context and intent are integral to figuring out if a word is offensive or not, or is being used in an offensive way. If I say “Your post is shit” it’s meant in an offensive way, but if I say, “shit, I never thought of that” it’s meant as a compliment. Same word.

hahaha, I don’t actually follow him. I just follow people that love to dunk on him when he tweets out his very bad takes

someone else follows sticky ant-man gamer on twitter, lol

Also from The Dark Knight Rises:

FINALLY SOMEONE TAKES A DEADLY SERIOUS ISSUE IN OUR LIVES AND CAN MAKE A PITHY ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE PARALLEL- NOW WE CAN MAKE PROGRESS

Don’t ever post a fucking movie quote again...