It’s now 22 years past 9/11. It’s time to get rid of all this security nonsense. Millions and millions of travelers have been inconvenienced and not a single terrorist has ever been caught.

I just renewed my TSA-Pre status for another 4 years. Let me say, as a member of the legitimate fast track program, this private shitty company CLEAR needs to GO. Kick them out of airports. Of course, politicians love privatization, so they won’t.

There used to be a time when anyone could go through security and hang out by the gates. Remember when your family could great you when you walked off the plane? I’m not saying security breaches are good, but the guy went through the metal detector. He’s no more dangerous than a person with a valid boarding pass.

The negative connotations to “JRPG” tend to be things like bloat, repetetive conflicts, endless grind etc.

Nothing wrong with the term JRPG. They’re pretty distinct from WRPG’s in general, and that’s fine. TBH, I probably find them to be more enjoyable overall because they don’t take themselves super serious all the time, even if the plot isn’t always the best.

I see no problem with using the term JRPG just like I don’t see an issue with JPOP, KPOP, or anime (which is just Japanese for animation, for instance SpongeBob is advertised as anime in Japan)

I’m really not a fan of influencer culture.

I would frame it more as just that this work is a bit exhausting in general (even if, as we’ve noted, this work was pretty much feminism 101 work) than her being bullied out of it; I don’t want to diminish the harassment, as it was awful, but I think she’s also right in that it’s okay for her to say this particular…

My heart goes out to all The Gamers(tm) that are still trapped in their own personal 9/11s that her videos placed them in for the last 15 years.

The ideas where *so incredibly* basic, 100 course level, surface-skimming concepts that the fact The Gamers(tm) reacted the way they did still dumbfounds me when I think about it. I cannot think of a single thought experiment more harmless than any concept she discussed.

I like the label BUT I can see why fans of said subgenre wouldn’t. It does feel kinda dismissively snarky.

It really says a lot about the world we’re living in that a woman doing a basic, surface-level feminist reading of video games became such a lightning rod. I haven’t engaged with everything she’s done, but I watched a few of the Tropes v. Women in Video Games videos and it was very mild and friendly. The way people…

Kind of annoyed that First Person Adventure games got rebranded “Walking Sim” to be honest. If you had a frozen screen to navigate it would just be a Point-And-Click Adventure game. But the moment you can move in 3-D it’s a Walking Sim...

LIZZO hounded her employees to catch dildos ejected from performers’ vaginas. LIZZO cheered loudly to motivate employees to eat bananas protruding from performers’ vaginas.

In December of 2020, Mr. Beast Burgers launched around the country and I was tricked into ordering one.

As a German - had the bombs been ready a few month earlier and the US dropped them on Hamburg and Bremen just some weeks before the surrender instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I’d assume our culture of Vergangenhetrisbewätigung might be a little taintend by deserved bitterness as well...

As others have said, when it comes to WWII war crimes, Japan really isn’t in a position to throw stones. So let them be mad at a harmless social media trend.

i imagine if they took the same approach to things as germany did to their role in wwii, this would be a moot point

I’m not sure japan is the petty party here.