“Capcom has instead seemingly dug into my brain and pulled out the version of the game I remember playing in 2005”

She probably didn’t, but also she strikes me as the kind of person who’d still get a smile or a chuckle out of it herself.

And it’s cold, unloveable bitches like her that make the world go round! 

I did not realize that her character’s full name is “Deirdre Beaubeirdre”. And I thought I couldn’t love that movie more. 

“But I think the most important thing is inclusivity and ... basically just fucking more women anywhere, anytime, all at once.”

I think what needs to be recognised the US society (specifically, not so much the West in general) had a huge, gigantic increase in xenophobia from post-9/11 stuff, and particularly kids growing up over the ‘00s watching adults IRL and on TV/news constantly engage in demented xenophobia (I only hesitate to say…

It was still going on after 2008, it just pivoted into the “all the games coming out of Japan are shit and JRPGs especially are behind the times” discourse that happened around 2008-2012 or so. During that period where eg Keiji Inafune was out there talking about how behind Japanese development was, the JP publishers…

I feel like the Jack Daniels-born clickers would be total bros who would annoyingly yell “Freebird!” at every concert.

As someone who was an adult in 2006 I can assure you that saying stuff like this was gross back then too.

I definitely understand your point and can get behind the sentiment as a general rule. I just think, in this case, it was - somewhat - of a necessary evil for the sake of pacing - and the utilization of the medium they’re using. Is it manipulative? Sure. But it’s effectively so - in that it immediately gets that…

Nope

And no one said that was ok.

This has been all of the dialogue on Reddit/Twitter/even here on certain threads ever since the first person was “bullied” for playing the game on twitch. Whether or not the “bullying” was genuinely cruel or not, astroturfed or not, or even actually present in a quantity or not, every conversation now starts with

“If…

the amount of people who were “calling for war” as they put it, against trans folks over this and literally hoping people would kill themselves over the harassment was *insane*. It was the most brain poisoned, mind addled, chronically online group of anime avatars I have ever seen. It was legitimately kind of scary to…

I mean it doesn’t even sound like the initial backlash against the stream plan was all that severe, at least the way it’s presented here. If the worst thing that was found was people threatening to unsub, that’s like, nothing comparatively. If they genuinely graduated her over that, then fucking geez did they start a…

I decided to click on the trending tab and take a look at this for myself for some ungodly reason, and holy shit, the amount of people who were “calling for war” as they put it, against trans folks over this and literally hoping people would kill themselves over the harassment was *insane*. It was the most brain…

I wonder how much of the extreme fallout for this game are actually "false flag" operations to show the LGBTQ+ community in a bad light

Over the long run, 99 percent of Funkos are worthless outside of whatever depraved joy fans get from occasionally making eye contact with the ones lining their shelves.

Unfortunately, “Not bad” is now synonymous with a failure in AAA land and the completely disconnected execs in charge.

Playing Forspoken right now, I’m in Chapter 7 and honestly it’s not bad. It’s not going to break into my GOTY Top 10, but I’ve played plenty worse games than this. And to be quite honest, Twitter poisoned the well that most people saying “game’s bad” haven’t played a minute of it, they’ve just seen the same three…