The controversy is that clearly the developers at Respawn don’t want to publicly trash their colleagues at Infinity Ward (the devs of Infinite Warfare), but EA is doing it on their behalf. You may remember, BTW, that Respawn was formed from a large contingent of people departing Infinity Ward, so there’s no doubt that…
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I can only cosplay as an old man:
It has been 9 years since I deployed to Iraq. I spent 15 months there doing convoy recovery. Since I got back I’ve dealt with at times crippling PTSD, and about three years ago my therapist recommended I try playing a more realistic war game, as it apparently helps many people (though honestly I don’t know how). At…
What year A8?
Counterpoint: Hot sauce is great. People who don’t like it should go back to Canada. We’ll build a wall of pepper plants, and make boring people pay for it.
This just stinks of cultural appropriation. It’s like saying that a jazz song isn’t jazz unless it is played by an African American. The origin of the person who made it matters very little as long as they present it in the spirit of its roots. Anime is more about its style and the culture surrounding that style then…
A better question to ask would be “can we count Thunderbolt Fantasy as anime?” My vote is yes.
And the redditors of /r/Anime have been sending them death threats over it, which is pretty insane. Followed, as is typical of reddit, by the usual gaggle of incoherent idiots laying on even more abuse, while accusing them of lying about the death threats.
All you thirsty people need Talos.
Mods on /r/anime have been removing Shelter threads because someone thinks it isn’t anime.
Haha, come on. You’re trying way too hard. Words have context. Using Mecca as a metaphor does not require a literal analogue to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. New York remains a nominal Mecca, the place people think of first when it comes to hip hop, and a destination for rappers to visit, perform, and pay homage. It’s also…
It’s true tho. Hip-hop has become almost completely decentralized, and the only contemporary artist from NY currently in the mainstream is Nicki Minaj... who is Not Real Hip-Hop.
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Nah. If he’s involved in something interesting, we’re posting. Here we’ve got a playful way to look at the general pointlessness of pre-ordering video games. It only works because of the scale of his success.
Yes yes yes. I wouldn’t even call myself an anime fan but my ignorant self has been terribly confused about everything Anita Sarkeesian was doing and even my wife didn’t understand why she was making a fuss. Needless to say the article sparked my curiosity because I wanted to see if it was more or the same or if I…
This. i want a good story and quality, i don’t need certain things jiggling on my screen every second. I really liked Cooks ideas and support her. I might not mind fan service if it’s not the driving force of the show and moderated.
I felt the exact same way. My biggest question is how to change it though? Starting a dialog is one thing but convincing the people making money off the lowest common denominator to change their course and make anime that does appeal to feminists seems like a much larger challenge. I’d imagine to a lot of the creators…
D’Anastasio: Really, that just seems to be fan service. What’s the issue? It’s like, “Here’s the meat of the anime, with a little pepper sprinkled on top.” It’s not the whole thing.
