Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying!

I mean, some people *were* actively threatening the character’s voice actor and the devs. There’s a difference between good-faith criticism (which the director touches on in the interview) and over-the-top reactions that flatten nuance or breach into threats of harassment or worse. Maybe I’m misreading your comment,…

I mean, I do think it’s possible for creators to lose track of the original themes and strengths of their work. Ray Bradbury has changed his story of what Fahrenheit 451 is about multiple times, for example, and we’ve seen sequels torpedo overarching concepts despite being by the original creator countless times…

Holy cow, I never knew there was a second season!

The first one! I felt like I was the only one that watched it, hahaha

I haven’t actually played any of the Saints Row games myself (I own... Saints Row 4 I think? but never got around to playing it), but I love how bonkers they got when they stopped trying to be GTA clones. I hope whatever new one this is ends up being just as offbeat.

It never would have occurred to me to make this, but now that it’s actually a thing, I’m kind of surprised it took this long. I remember there was a whole reality show about people from the USA being in a Japanese game show back when I was in high school, over 10 years ago. Then Wipeout got big, too. This just…

I agree in a broader sense, but if you want to do any sort of collaborative work that requires you to be (or at least is easier to be) present in person, it’s much harder to do it if you’re not in a place with a higher concentration of people in that field (in this case, YouTubers/streamers).

You’re a Nazi for calling me a Nazi because that’s just fandom coppery, mister.

LOL for sure yeah. It’s not just younger people that fall into these kinds of attitudes, sadly, but they’re a big chunk of ‘em.

By “the sides”/”both groups,” I take it you’re referring to antis and proshippers? I think there’s more nuance to it than US politics (where one side largely wants to actively make life harder for minorities and the other at least pretends not to), but yeah, they’re not the same. I just felt like my comment was…

It’s so frustrating because it’s hard to tell when it’s someone stroking their ego and when it’s just genuine--if misguided--concern. Ugh.

Fair point, yeah! I don’t mean to say that they’re completely unrelated; they just have their own merits as well.

There’s definitely some commonalities, yeah. The specifics vary, though, which can have a huge impact on what’s going on. For example, I’ve seen people of color that speak on racism in media and fandom get labeled as “antis” just for the act of speaking out; discussions of fandom patterns gets flattened into “you hate…

Eh, social media’s brought a lot of good as well. I have multiple close friends that I wouldn’t be nearly as close to (or even have met) without it. It just also has some ridiculously negative aspects. Ugh.

I haven’t played the game yet (I want to, but I have a backlog and I’ve been busy!), so I might get this a little wrong, but. In addition to what Kazuhira (master) Miller said, the devs have a function in the game to let you ignore text messages from the Mom character, so some of the people that are arguing against…

One thing I find so, so frustrating about the anti- and proshipper and anti-anti rhetoric is that *everyone* claims to be about ending harassment, only to aim harassment at anyone that does something ‘wrong’ to that community. There’s nuances to the attitudes that underlie the concepts of antis and proshippers, but in…

Man, I get that a lot of this kind of stuff comes from a place of genuine concern—avoiding triggering people, avoiding harm, working toward better representation as a whole, all sorts of stuff. And there’s probably nuanced discussion to be had about what media depicts, how it depicts it, how we react to and consume…

I’d argue it *does* have to do with gaming culture. There’s overlap, absolutely, but there’s a reason Gamergate happened specifically in video game communities instead of other fandoms.

When it’s misused, maybe. But it’s specifically about the use of white femininity as a weapon against Black people. When whiteness AND femininity are used to harm people, it’s not misogynist to call it out.