These things are not in conflict. What a strange accusation.
To be fair, they didn't say or imply it was in conflict, just that you being against censorship is because you're racist. It's a dirty smear tactic, but they weren't implying hypocrisy, just duplicity. Which I still resent because, like you, I am legitimately anti-censorship. Anything else is beside the point. I don't like censorship, which is why I'm against censorship. There's no secret agenda, and them calling me racist is just ad hominem nonsense.
I really should find my Twitter account at some point. It was like one computer and three OS's ago. I could just reset my password, but I think it would want a phone number at that point, whereas I think I can still sign in normally if I grab my old password. Eh, laziness strikes again. I know I'm way off topic by this point, but it pisses me off that everything is gated now. Very user-unfriendly. If you're a Twitter user, you want people to be able to find your stuff without logging in. This hurts absolutely everyone except the Twitter bottom line, where they can save on some server costs or whatever. It just feels cheap; this is what alt-tech does, and it annoys me when they do it, even if I understand why. Just let me see the content, dangit.
I wonder why one site grabbed the original tweet, while the other just grabbed the response. It's really quite weird.
Also, these people piss me the fuck off. Everything the people that the original tweet was criticizing said was correct. The Twitter faggot just chose to view things along racial lines. They're the ones racializing things. Point is, yes, that design looks out of place for a JRPG.
Call me a fucking racist all you want, it's true that the black afro girl looks out of place in a JRPG. Sorry, not sorry, as they say.
Also, why would/should that be against ToS? Free...fucking...speech. Fuck you, communists tranny faggots. Keep deflecting, keep arguing in bad faith. The issue isn't just that she's black...the art doesn't fucking match. The people are correct. Fuck you.
Considering our opponents keep going mask off and saying free speech and the 1st Amendment are stifling the government, they can say what they want. They're retarded, they're wrong and, hopefully, we win and they lose.
For real, I'm not going to be lectured by people who are explicitly pro-censorship on how my largely libertarian anti-censorship stances are actually secret racism. For on thing, fuck you. For another, my racism isn't secret, and is completely unrelated to my anti-censorship stance.
I legitimately am concerned by censorship. And these fuckers literally support censorship. Simple as, as they say.
Gotta say, I hope these fuckers continue to go full mask off. I sort of love that "localization" has become such a cultist obsession for them. Yes, keep defending your "translations" and "localizations," accuse everyone who complains of the most heinous stuff...and racism. It just looks hilarious, and I think it's stupid enough where it will even start to wake up some normies again.
This is where we win. The stupid nonsense that looks inane, but where they overplay their hands. "We're making a shit product that feels bad for everyone including normies, but we'll accuse you of being literal Nazis if you don't like it, and our retarded minion NPCs will call you entitled for not buying our shit product." Yeah, no, that's not a winning move...so keep it up.
I suppose to lefties, localization is like locking the doors after starting the house on fire. American media is fully pozzed, so people are turning to foreign media as an escape. Can’t have that if you’re an authoritarian communist, can you? If consumers have choices, they might choose non-pozzed media. Gotta burn those lifeboats.
I suppose to lefties, localization is like locking the doors after starting the house on fire.
The sad part is, no matter how dismissive you are of commies...you're probably still giving them too much credit. That's still much to generous to their mindset. They like localization because, well, Nazis don't like localization. Opponents bad. Localization good. People who criticize good thing, bad.
If consumers have choices, they might choose non-pozzed media. Gotta burn those lifeboats.
Don't fucking remind me. I'm off to watch anime, while I still can.
Speaking of, how funny would it be if it was eventually illegal? I can see the line, actually. FISA reauthorization + TikTok "foreign" media ban leads to jailtime for watching anime. I'm obviously being hyperbolic, but it's sadly not quite as silly as it should be.
To be entirely fair, these designs aren't new for Suikoden, though never this blatant.
Namely, the designs appear in the grasslands region with some of the tribes in that area. Take for example Aila from Suikoden 3. And this isn't a one off character either, one of the 3 protagonists from Suikoden 3 is Hugo who has a similar design too. Suikoden 3 came out in 2002.
It also wasn't the first appearance in the series of these character or their design, though the full body artworks aren't typically seen in game beyond the opening cinematic of Suikoden 2 (1998). And remember, S2 is largely considered the best in the series by most fans, which includes characters like Lucia, whose white outfit is what was used for S2 before she reappeared in S3, Rina and her younger sister Eilie.
This isn't to say that in today's day and age that Eiyuden didn't have any red flags, but the idea that this specific design is foreign to Suikoden isn't entirely true either. And frankly, it seems like the game is mostly okay (not great, not bad) with the main issue being abysmal translation issues and poor optimisation/glitches (like apparently encounter rates being tied to framerate, so playing above 60 fps results in no encounters).
Don't get me wrong. I don't blame anyone for seeing that promotional roster and groaning. Trends set expectation, and trends for the past decade or so scream that there would be issues. But I also don't blame people who hoped it wouldn't be this bad. Sadly, nostalgia is one hell of a thing, and it can be hard to simply turn away from things. But it is what needs to be done, especially now when nostalgia bait and riding on coat tails is the bread and butter of SocJus infiltrators.
The people who argue about this don't even bring up the game, they're just defending ideology.
Because the game isn't the point to these people. They're ideologues. Activists. Entryists. They're not interested in the game, they're interested in spreading their message. The game is a means to their end, and nothing more.
If they're masking their presence with censorship concerns, then maybe... don't censor or purposefully fuck with translations? Then they'll have no where to hide, no mainstream to use as a veil. Clearly, the ones censoring are providing shelter and cover for the far right. Those who lolcowlize are essentially running interference in order to help the literal nazis, at least according to Isma.
I don't care about his morality, and neither should any of you.
I do care about morality, and so should you.
But I agree it shouldn't be the prime concern, especially when our enemies our weaponizing it against us. But there's nothing inherently wrong with moralism, and I do think to say otherwise is dangerous. Let's not be edgy just for the sake of edginess. Let's be edgy because it's fucking hilarious and our opposition are a bunch of faggots.
But, still, we should keep some level of morality in mind. Values are important.
I am both racist and against censorship.
These things are not in conflict. What a strange accusation.
Muh man.
To be fair, they didn't say or imply it was in conflict, just that you being against censorship is because you're racist. It's a dirty smear tactic, but they weren't implying hypocrisy, just duplicity. Which I still resent because, like you, I am legitimately anti-censorship. Anything else is beside the point. I don't like censorship, which is why I'm against censorship. There's no secret agenda, and them calling me racist is just ad hominem nonsense.
Just making the case for racism being a moral good if that's what they're suggesting honestly.
I mean, their argument is too retarded to give any level of logic to.
They're wrong and stupid, so whether or not racism is a moral good is completely separate from their stupidity.
‘Ol reliable just slap and -ism in there and suddenly you have a valid argument.
It’s so stupid that this works but if you wanna see it happen in real time go to a politics Reddit and watch the mental gymnastics unfold.
Does he not see anything wrong with this statement?
Where did he say that?
I really should find my Twitter account at some point. It was like one computer and three OS's ago. I could just reset my password, but I think it would want a phone number at that point, whereas I think I can still sign in normally if I grab my old password. Eh, laziness strikes again. I know I'm way off topic by this point, but it pisses me off that everything is gated now. Very user-unfriendly. If you're a Twitter user, you want people to be able to find your stuff without logging in. This hurts absolutely everyone except the Twitter bottom line, where they can save on some server costs or whatever. It just feels cheap; this is what alt-tech does, and it annoys me when they do it, even if I understand why. Just let me see the content, dangit.
On the scored.co layout the twitter embed looks like this.
It's only going to get worse with AI. Data=power.
Huh, interesting. I just use kotakuinaction2.win, which just grabbed the last bit.
Here's the full scored link for anyone interested, as well as the original tweet.
I wonder why one site grabbed the original tweet, while the other just grabbed the response. It's really quite weird.
Also, these people piss me the fuck off. Everything the people that the original tweet was criticizing said was correct. The Twitter faggot just chose to view things along racial lines. They're the ones racializing things. Point is, yes, that design looks out of place for a JRPG.
Call me a fucking racist all you want, it's true that the black afro girl looks out of place in a JRPG. Sorry, not sorry, as they say.
Also, why would/should that be against ToS? Free...fucking...speech. Fuck you, communists tranny faggots. Keep deflecting, keep arguing in bad faith. The issue isn't just that she's black...the art doesn't fucking match. The people are correct. Fuck you.
ARRRRRG. /rage
Considering our opponents keep going mask off and saying free speech and the 1st Amendment are stifling the government, they can say what they want. They're retarded, they're wrong and, hopefully, we win and they lose.
For real, I'm not going to be lectured by people who are explicitly pro-censorship on how my largely libertarian anti-censorship stances are actually secret racism. For on thing, fuck you. For another, my racism isn't secret, and is completely unrelated to my anti-censorship stance.
I legitimately am concerned by censorship. And these fuckers literally support censorship. Simple as, as they say.
Gotta say, I hope these fuckers continue to go full mask off. I sort of love that "localization" has become such a cultist obsession for them. Yes, keep defending your "translations" and "localizations," accuse everyone who complains of the most heinous stuff...and racism. It just looks hilarious, and I think it's stupid enough where it will even start to wake up some normies again.
This is where we win. The stupid nonsense that looks inane, but where they overplay their hands. "We're making a shit product that feels bad for everyone including normies, but we'll accuse you of being literal Nazis if you don't like it, and our retarded minion NPCs will call you entitled for not buying our shit product." Yeah, no, that's not a winning move...so keep it up.
I suppose to lefties, localization is like locking the doors after starting the house on fire. American media is fully pozzed, so people are turning to foreign media as an escape. Can’t have that if you’re an authoritarian communist, can you? If consumers have choices, they might choose non-pozzed media. Gotta burn those lifeboats.
The sad part is, no matter how dismissive you are of commies...you're probably still giving them too much credit. That's still much to generous to their mindset. They like localization because, well, Nazis don't like localization. Opponents bad. Localization good. People who criticize good thing, bad.
Don't fucking remind me. I'm off to watch anime, while I still can.
Speaking of, how funny would it be if it was eventually illegal? I can see the line, actually. FISA reauthorization + TikTok "foreign" media ban leads to jailtime for watching anime. I'm obviously being hyperbolic, but it's sadly not quite as silly as it should be.
To be entirely fair, these designs aren't new for Suikoden, though never this blatant.
Namely, the designs appear in the grasslands region with some of the tribes in that area. Take for example Aila from Suikoden 3. And this isn't a one off character either, one of the 3 protagonists from Suikoden 3 is Hugo who has a similar design too. Suikoden 3 came out in 2002.
It also wasn't the first appearance in the series of these character or their design, though the full body artworks aren't typically seen in game beyond the opening cinematic of Suikoden 2 (1998). And remember, S2 is largely considered the best in the series by most fans, which includes characters like Lucia, whose white outfit is what was used for S2 before she reappeared in S3, Rina and her younger sister Eilie.
This isn't to say that in today's day and age that Eiyuden didn't have any red flags, but the idea that this specific design is foreign to Suikoden isn't entirely true either. And frankly, it seems like the game is mostly okay (not great, not bad) with the main issue being abysmal translation issues and poor optimisation/glitches (like apparently encounter rates being tied to framerate, so playing above 60 fps results in no encounters).
Don't get me wrong. I don't blame anyone for seeing that promotional roster and groaning. Trends set expectation, and trends for the past decade or so scream that there would be issues. But I also don't blame people who hoped it wouldn't be this bad. Sadly, nostalgia is one hell of a thing, and it can be hard to simply turn away from things. But it is what needs to be done, especially now when nostalgia bait and riding on coat tails is the bread and butter of SocJus infiltrators.
Because the game isn't the point to these people. They're ideologues. Activists. Entryists. They're not interested in the game, they're interested in spreading their message. The game is a means to their end, and nothing more.
your buzzword isn't an argument.
If they're masking their presence with censorship concerns, then maybe... don't censor or purposefully fuck with translations? Then they'll have no where to hide, no mainstream to use as a veil. Clearly, the ones censoring are providing shelter and cover for the far right. Those who lolcowlize are essentially running interference in order to help the literal nazis, at least according to Isma.
Battle of the world’s dumbest usernames...
I do care about morality, and so should you.
But I agree it shouldn't be the prime concern, especially when our enemies our weaponizing it against us. But there's nothing inherently wrong with moralism, and I do think to say otherwise is dangerous. Let's not be edgy just for the sake of edginess. Let's be edgy because it's fucking hilarious and our opposition are a bunch of faggots.
But, still, we should keep some level of morality in mind. Values are important.