The fact they did a "final video" of the founders playing Halo Blood Gulch for the final time, and Joel wasn't included actually managed to annoy me. I'd long since given up on RT, but that was just a little bit of disrespect that didn't sit right with me. Then again, they got rid of Joel in the most spineless way possible, so it's sadly not really unexpected, I guess I just hoped I was wrong on that one.
And if I'm honest, I'm sorry for the rest of the founders. Imagine being young them as they started the company and what they would think if they could see what it became. That it ended up as the thing they would have earnestly and eagerly mocked. That it became a literal shell that was being propped up not by their own content, but the content of a single dead man (RWBY through Monte). How fucking disgraceful that must be. Yeah, they had a successful career. But what a pathetic legacy that you were above so much of it, to then end up as a company people just didn't care about.
Nobody is really mad at RT. Everyone I've seen talk about RT has spoken in such a way that they feel sorry how pathetic they ended up. They were that toothless in the end of it all.
I miss the days when companies stuck their heads out of this shit. I miss the days when the default was "you can make your own community, you don't need to welcome everyone, and not everyone needs to welcome you" and people were fine with that.
I miss the days where each deplorable little circle could have their own corners and be left alone. Now it's all forcibly homogenised and pushed towards putting certain groups and demographics above others. Towards centralised and sterilised arenas. It's fucking tiring that this whole thing was started by people who supposedly "wanted their own space", but as has now become widely known that they never wanted their own space, they wanted everyone's spaces.
Fuck tourists.
Well that's the thing Don: they're windmills. Not giants. They don't need to be tilted at.
That's not at all what they were saying, but you sure do seem intent on finding windmills to tilt at.
that's what I thought was being referenced
The First Amendment, like all of the amendments, are not in and of themselves human rights. They are laws that are intended to protect human rights. This isn't a complicated concept unless you're one of those absolute fucking morons that believes human rights are something granted to you by a government. You are not "granted" human rights. You innately have them. Whether they are infringed upon is what is different.
You not understanding this fundamental truth doesn't change that it's censorship. You might think it's minor. You might think it's insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But there is no such thing as just "a little" infringement. Either a human right is infringed upon, or it's not infringed upon. This is one of the few instances where a situation is a dichotomy with no shades of grey. There's either infringement or there's not infringement. Where you might draw the line at what you deem is "acceptable" infringement is irrelevant. But it's still infringement.
Freedom of speech is a human right. That you cannot understand that says a lot about what kind of person you are.
1 is a bit rough around the edges, and 3 is solid in my opinion, though it was always my personal favourite. I know some people don't like 3 because there's a little too much in the way of gimmicks where you play as other characters, but I enjoyed them enough.
Ratchet and Clank 2/3 are kind of amazing.
Honestly, what I dub the "Trilogy of Trilogies" is amazing. That's Ratchet and Clank 1-3, Jak and Daxter 1-3, and Sly Cooper/Racoon 1-3.
Yeah, they all have more than 3 games each, some of those others are even good, but their original 3 games are all really, REALLY good. Those years were AMAZING for 3D platformers.
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.
No, it's pretty clear that you don't understand that human rights are not privileges granted to you through the government. That's statist rhetoric.
A game changing graffiti in a game has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is freedom from government persecution
Oh, you're one of those retards that doesn't understand the difference between the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech.
Let me give you a little walkthrough: The Amendments are there to PROTECT human rights, not grant them, and through this, this is how individuals can in fact deny another person their human rights. Is slavery a-ok so long as it's done by private entities? No? So why is the denial of free speech any different when done by private actors?
You're awfully determined to stand firm on "this game needs to change to protect the feelings of a very, very small minority group". It's almost impressive how stubborn you hold onto this if it weren't entirely the product of falsely being told from a young age that such a stance is noble.
Delicate sensibilities are meaningless. Stop defending censorship just because you find it irrelevant. If you need a logical fallacy term, it's the fallacy of relative privation. Just because there are worse forms of censorship doesn't negate that this is still censorship too.
Thing is, regardless of where you stand on that, that type of shit gets dismissed as wacko conspiracy stuff. This doesn't need to have any conspiracy ties. There's nothing secret going on regarding SBI. They are a consulting agency that are credited in these games they work on. They just hate that people are bringing attention to said works.
It gets creepier when you're aware of running themes among pedophile symbology regarding spirals, and then look at the logo for SweetBabyInc.
As per usual, remember that SweetBabyInc Detected ISN'T providing a moral judgement on these games. It is and remains to be, credits. That's it. That's all it is.
These people are screaming and throwing a tantrum because the people who worked on a title are being openly credited. That's it. That's the grand crime.
Tell me, is there any sort of work that could be considered noble or worthy that MUST operate in secret? That when exposed those that expose it are deemed the bad people? I struggle to think of any. In times gone past, some could have argued the intelligence community, but as time has exposed, those agencies have always been incredibly rotten when operating in secret (MKULTRA being the most famous example of that).
These people are crying because they're being credited, and they hate it. They hate that people are paying attention to what they are doing.
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.
It's not like the graffiti is essential to the game.
Irrelevant. Censorship is censorship. Especially when it's compliancy with the perpetually offended.
That's some dramatic whining lol
Yeah, calling ever growing censorship is the "dramatic whining". Let me guess, the Spanish language needs to change their word for black too, right? Or is that Different™ because it's not a white western culture?
This by itself is, as you're basing your entire point on, innocuous. Congrats, because I'm gonna say that you're right on that part. The issue is that it never stops with the innocuous. It never stops being just that one thing.
The more you kowtow to the perpetually offended, the more they will demand and the more momentum they gain. The only way to stop this is to actually fucking stop kowtowing.
And also, "hard r" is not a racist term. Nigger is a racist term. But "hard R" is nothing more than a description of the term, and an effort (and a poor one at that) to pretend there's a difference between nigger and nigga.
Just to make it clear here as well, you're unironically defending efforts at censorship to appease delicate sensibilities. That's what this is boiling down to. Is this really the hill you want to die on? Because I'm more than happy to die on the hill of Freedom of Speech.
Do you think the japanese developers were thinking of this? Does that warrant censorship because some fragile little NPCs are getting riled up by the perpetually offended?
Fuck that. This should be ignored by people like Sony, and those offended should be scoffed at for being so fucking stupid.
This isn't a racism thing. It's not even a thing at all, until those perpetually offended spoke up. Ideally, no attention would be given to this by anyone. But Sony is intervening, so shit like this gets a focus and dumbasses come along and say "well, it does look bad", but never really elaborates beyond a feeling of impropriety rather than anything malicious.
Stop expecting a sanitised world. This whole fucking SocJus shitshow arises from these expectations of sanitised environments. The internet was a bastion of community for all types until it gain mass accessibility in the late 2000s and suddenly everything needed to be scrubbed for normie sensibilities. And this isn't even leaning on conspiratorial aspects. This is hard reality, largely influenced by advertising, something that has lead this sanitisation effort FOR DECADES, if not well over a century at this point. Don't believe me? Here's Rod Fucking Serling talking about it in no unclear terms of EXACTLY that sterilisation of media in 1959.
This shit is a cancer. And until people at large, normies included, stop giving any credence to these sanitisation rituals of the media, nothing will change.
Easily one of the most under-rated sci-fi films. Does that make it a stellar sci-fi film? No. It's just that it's so dismissed by so many people and it doesn't deserve that. It's a good film that far too many pass on, when they shouldn't.
It's not a masterpiece, but it's definitely a film that presents an interesting idea.
That's not the point. The point is that neither should be supported and that it's not for America to be the world police.
This is the problem with you freaks, you hate nationalism and colonialism, yet you still expect The West to police the rest of the world, and explicitly at the cost of The West.
Let the Russians/Ukrainians and the Middle East kill each other. It's not for the West to intervene in their issues.
Man that sounds like a whole lot of cope for being unlikeable. Just totally lacking in any sort of charisma or personality. Just a real fucking sad loser that willingly spends his free time in a place where everyone looks down on him, all so you can maintain your self imposed lie that you're unliked because it's within your control.
i don't need people to like me
Well that's what happens when all you've ever known is being disliked. Why would you want something you've never really had? That you have no concept of?
I mean self-reflect for a second: You're spending hours on here nearly every day. Clicking your profile shows a page of comments just today and just within this sub. All so you can get some attention, regardless of positive or negative, from people you openly dislike. Does that sound like a healthy approach? Does that sound like someone who has known what being liked is actually like?
There is no discernable difference between you, and the freaks that unironically embody the incel stereotype. At least the incels recognise that they're social losers rather than trying to maintain a lie for their own delusions.
Every person that self-describes themselves as a cunt tends to be the kind of person that is just an unlikeable asshole that self-deprecates to help themselves cope with the fact they're unlikeable by making it seem like it's actually on purpose, and not that they actually lack the ability to be likeable.
In fact, that's how I've seen most self-deprecation in more recent years; people desperately trying to regain control of a situation they don't have control over.
AKA it's less that you've "always been a cunt" and more everyone has always seen you as a cunt. It shouldn't be a badge of pride that people instinctually hate you.
Has it ever not been your bad? You misinterpret pretty much everything you come across. And it's either deliberately so, or because you really are that fucking stupid.
So which is it, bad faith cunt, or absolute dumb cunt? I guess it doesn't matter when you're still a cunt either way.
Lysander Spooner has to be one of the most interesting people in American history. Also explicitly proved that the government is an explicit monopoly that will use force to stop anyone that is even a mild threat. For anyone interested, read up on Lysander Spooners mail company that was outlawed because it provided the same service as USPS at a fraction of the cost and the state couldn't compete.
It's almost like the government has never wanted what is best for the people.
Any normal person would have let it go. But we both know you're mentally ill, so I guess that does end up excluding you from the list of "normal people".
Selling out was their biggest failure. They never needed a big budget. They needed to remain independent. But then again, they invited that woke in even before they sold out, so it's no surpise.