This. Thinking they’re against their fans and customers is missing the problem. The problem is that Nintendo is a company ran by old men using business philosophies that belonged in a museum. It’s not that they deliberately ignored the sign of times, just that they’re completely blind at the changing markets around…

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I actually found the Kurusu/mutants to be an interesting bit of the manga. It made it more scifi instead of straight up generic zombie horror.

Thanks for the info. So it seems like they made Hideo an even bigger loser, instead of a weirdo who lucked out and got a girl like Tekko. Did they address his schizophrenia and hallucinations in the movie? Did they address the Kurusu/mutants?

It’s also have a tone of dark humor instead of grim dark depressing like, say, The Walking Dead. Also, the zombies here are not your typical western zombies. They don’t “eat” people. They’re closer to the “zombies” of 28 Days Later. But much more terrifying. Especially what becomes of them later on. Stuff of…

His girlfriend comes to hate him? Did they make Tekko bitchy in the movie? Because that would ruin the scene with her and how heart wrenching that was.

I find this to be fascinating and though I don’t play the game, will be following the news and “repercussions” from this. We all know many male gamers can be misogynistic. Though some male gamers would choose to play as female, they’re most likely doing so because they wanted to ogle at their avatar. “Forcing”…

I partially agree. It’s not that a lot of characters are killed off or that the remaining ones are far apart, it’s more that the new characters are crap. Characters can die and killed, and the impact is admittedly more powerful when the characters were great. The problem comes when the new characters supposed to…

Again, you’re thinking I said this movie should NOT have an asian actor, which I never did. I only said the character Motoko Kusanagi doesn’t need to be played by an asian actor. If you’re trying to think of films where asian actors could launch from, how about... ANY OF THEM? If the story doesn’t require a character…

Except there’s a reason there’s a logic behind “we need star power” because it’s true. But I digress, I’m not even arguing that we don’t need more chances for asian stars, you’re throwing in a strawman there. My point was, there’s no point in GitS’s storyline where Kusanagi’s ancestry came into play. Do I think we…

All of which where her ancestry is not relevant. Her name is actually a stronger link to her Japanese ancestry than the fact she grew up in a Japanese military base or working at a Japanese institution. In fact, a personal friend of mine who looks Asian but with an Irish name (due to his ancestry) and a military…

She has a Japanese name but her entire body is cybernetic, only her brain is organic. The story is set in Japan but there is no plot point that would make her nationality an important factor.

My World of Warcraft got DDoSed and I can’t play? No worries, I’ll just play my trusty Diablo single player!

Can’t wait to see Godzilla jacking it to Mothra’s broken body.

His explanation would be this: “Shut up, Marvel Fanboy!”

“ This is the theme of this industry that when push comes to shove, bow down to pressure from the outside.”

Yuu mean he made the Snake character in the ENGLISH version. Kojima most likely only dealt with the Japanese dub, I doubt he cared much for the English dub. He also had (has?) Hollywood ambitions, to be taken as a serious auteur so he aimed more towards more Hollywood recognized names. The weird thing here in the…

Actually, no. Racist is when you’re oppressing/belittling someone because of their race. Elevating them due to their race because they had been oppressed is NOT racism, that is called EQUALITY. Otherwise pointing out a guy “hey, you’re chinese/japanese/korean/indian” will be deemed racist. It’s not. Telling them to go…

Actually, yes. If they didn’t, we’d still have slavery and honor-killing your daughter for getting raped.

With context, what he said made sense. Saying some bad person as “evil” or a “monster” is hand-waving the fact that they were regular human beings. That we, as a species, could produce a person like that. Those “evil monsters” were not aliens or spawns of demonic entities. They were us. And we will still produce them…