I anticipate that come opening day, a huge crowd will amass outside the gates who, against better judgement, already bought their tickets. The gates will begin to open, only for the staff to realize that the hinges are broken.

Some people will get in, most will remain outside until they fix the doors a week later.…

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about being represented by Nami.

I smell a GM tool. Yes.

So many of these are baffling to me. A lot of these encounters could have been handled really well. I get that the clerks may be concerned that customers buy a shitty game, but, y’know, talk to them, discuss the game in a friendly and supportive manner, as you would with anyone, instead of scoffing.

If someone enters…

I really don’t think that OP had any issue with the clerk, but with an annoying business practice.

I do. I do think it’s an issue, but one of idealization, not objectification. I am also well aware of differences between looking and acting young. Sometimes they correlate, sometimes they are causalities, sometimes not.

I think we’re doing ourselves a disservice by pawning it off as an aspect of Japanese culture. Pretty much the same things, some differences in execution, some differences in medium perhaps, but largely the same themes of sexualization, objectification, infantilization etc. are present in pretty much all culture that…

Whether or not it’s possible to recreate in movies isn’t really the issue though. It’s rather a matter of infantilization in media, i.e. making people appear juvenile or childish in appearance, at least in terms of face and manneurisms, often while still having adult, so to speak, bodies. It’s not isolated to games,…

She doesn’t look like a child!!!! infantilization in media is not a thing!!!!!! because I say so!!! /s

And yeah, I fully expect all your replies of how I should go toss myself off a cliff and take my unfair SJW Hitlerian agenda with me, coupled with all the usual excuses and profanities.
Knowing this, you can take those replies and stuff them in advance of writing a reply. Thank you.

Frankly, this combination of an increasingly-adult body (rather, male-gaze caricature. Real adults rarely have such bodies.) coupled with a face that is infantilized.

It’s a downright scary development. I don’t want characters in media to be children with sexualized adult bodies, thankyouverymuch.

So it’s like pre-ordering combined with a shitty MLM scheme.

That last one. Glorious case of malicious compliance.

All of these were glorious. Yes.

I think this is a really cool theme, and from a lore/story point of view a very good finish.

Only problem is that I desperately need a job so I can buy this, and the rest of the DLC:s, and the game.

I think that the takeaway is that people who don’t know bra sizes probably shouldn’t discuss bra sizes.

Well, honestly, most people who talk about bra sizes should shut up and stop commentin peoples bodies. But that’s a whole ‘nother discussion.

Just putting it out there that this person, who cannot phone, is probably trusted with guns and other weapons. And your safety.

Pretty sure that’s exactly what Floyd asked as well when presented with his paychecks.

I’m personally of the opinion that things should look like what they are. Plastic isn’t wood, and shouldn’t look like wood.

Also the words “LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES BUT A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE” as the sole descriptor of the game idea and mechanics.

Lasers, yeah, meh. Add the sound it makes. You’re driving peacefully absolutely wrecking your cars in 300MPH around downtown, when suddenly... *BRRRRRRRRAWWWWAAUAUUUMMMMMMMMMM*