Yes, but we’re specifically talking about something that has been affected—like the Ultraman production—by COVID, never mind that the aesthetic it’s going for is intentionally aping the origins of the series.

Bruh it’s a teaser that they’re making under COVID conditions ffs

What the ever loving fuck are you talking about

Arcueid, the vampire princess, is a different character from Red Arcueid, the vampire princess who has become Joker-fied by giving into her vampiric urges, who is a different character from Archetype:Earth, a vampiric ancestor who borrows her body. All three of these characters, who are, again, the same person,…

I know, but that’s kind of a separate issue. We can’t hold creators who create something in good faith for the actions of consumers who operate in bad faith, or else freedom of expression just doesn’t exist.

As a brown person currently living in a colony of the US, myself, I’d rather the whytes—and especially gamers who are whyte—have the “realities” of slavery jammed their throats even in the smallest, most gamified ways, simply because no other form of entertainment—or education, in some places—is trying to make any…

This is going to veer in extreme whataboutism, but: if someone making a product has to be concerned of every niche weirdo group that might be buying said product for weird niche weirdo group reasons, then stuff like balloons and anime figurines and diapers should carry the same icky feelings as a game that might…

“I can excuse homophobia, but—”

Many countries in South America are also slowly killing off/committing genocide against their indigenous peoples; Japan is still quite literally committing genocide against the Ainu; and just look at what’s happening in the Middle East.

I’m Vietnamese, and I’ve had Spanish speakers endearingly refer to me as “el Chinito”, AKA “the little Chinese boy”. I recounted this to my parents, who found it so funny that even they adopted the term for occasional shits and giggles.

To go off the general comment thread: it’s also very, very, very common for people from Spanish-speaking communities to learn to use the word “Chino” as a way to refer to all light-skinned Asiatic peoples who “look the same”...even though they aren’t from China.

In Spain it may not have that same negative connotation.

Isn’t there a big segment in Driver’s School 101 about leaving a fucking car length between you and the next person you’re behind?

Yeah, like: “I had some dumb but typical Hollywood and Rich Whyte People Views, but changed those views over ten years,” is not quite as in the realm of FUCKING TERRIBLE as being pro-ethnic cleansing and eugenics??? I think????

Additionally, Bialik described herself as a “proud Zionist” in 2017 while speaking to Huffington Post about Israel’s ongoing brutalization of the Palestinian people. She further voiced support for Israeli settlements, which have been deemed illegal by the United Nations due to Israeli colonizers’ displacement of…

Dude, they have a machine that literally brings fossils back to life in the first two games. It isn’t a stretch.

They did what with what for what now? You’re not talking about the PSP remaster?

And yet, DS3 and the upcoming Elden Ring—games hyped beyond all reason, with equally rabid fanbases—had/have nowhere near as much controversy regarding when they were released—to the former—and the radio silence from devs in the case of the latter.

He’s not criticizing the medium, though. Or even anime-at-large; what both people who have read the book and people who only know the meme as context seem to miss is that Miyazaki is criticizing otaku culture and how it’s basically turned anime into everything he despises—something commercial, made for and sometimes…

They get revenue from running ads, ad-links, and through crypt-mining or other forms of donations. A lot of them are also run by the same groups just under different names, a la what happened when the internet found out—iirc—that Mangafox and a bunch of other manga-sharing websites that were marketed as “rivals” or…