I suppose its "no true scotsman" to say "organizations are corrupt and often fall short of their stated ideals."
Glad you got your little Reddit rant out though. Hopefully you feel better. I'll pray for you my nigger.
I don't follow him to know if he has even acknowledged the change, far as I've seen he just woke up one day and started going hard in this direction.
But that is my point, he is the same person he was before in probably way too many ways but just changed targets. Which doesn't make him "one of us" regardless of how good some of these comics are.
The OoT ones I am talking about are entirely stand alone products, using the assets and base of it to create what is basically an asset flip new game. I brought them up because I was just yesterday looking at something that is OoT but nearly exactly what OP is describing there. Perhaps "mods" was the wrong word of me to use, because I am not a tech code guy.
Point being, its a huge massive group of people making dozens of these by the month and they have been nearly uninterrupted for probably 15+ years. They aren't even quiet about it most of the time, as the LttP/Super Metroid crossover game was mainstream famous a few years ago.
There are dozens of Zelda mods like this for basically every game. OoT has the most by a long shot, as it has had roguelike modes, expansions, and other fully created new games using its assets and engine.
Not saying you are wrong, but for every time we see one of these Smackdowns, there are 2 dozen that continue on with no notice from Nintendo because they either stay under the radar or don't run afoul of terrible luck (like AM2R releasing right as Nintendo was making the same game). I say this because I have a bunch of those OoT ones, some of which have been developing for close to a decade themselves.
And the reason why they often keep the same assets and the like is because its not designed like a "real game." They create it fully expecting you to know what every item already does and many of the advanced maneuvers of it, so they can trim all the fat of tutorials and slow introduction pacing of gameplay.
That tiny word "just" vastly changes the meaning
Good thing what I said remains exactly the same if you excise it.
So we went from 'they both rape and pillage but one is more honest' to "they are capable of defending themselves unlike those losers lol" Again, just relabelling it over and over to be "thing I like good, thing I like bad."
Honestly, it was superfluous to begin with, likely a left over from a previous revision of the sentence.
I was just nailing you on your argument that God is supposedly pretty clear on not doing "that stuff".
It was a poor nail because the book is pretty clear on things that the Church did being sinful, no matter how they tried to spin it. Even if you say "the Church wrote the book not God" then its still pretty straight about a lot of basic concepts that they fail to uphold.
I said they were at least honest about it
No, you posited that they were better for being honest about it. Which is where the disagreement all started, before you dropped it to continue to rant about Christianity bad as if this is enough to justify your argument on its own.
I mean, not even a decade prior they had him cut his own face off, then wear it as a mask for all of a single storyarc, and then just retconned that out entirely too.
Joker goes well beyond comic books natural issue with canon and consistency and is basically a new character with every new writer anyway.
A more violent society that is capable of defending themselves is preferable to a society that slaves away for a corrupt clergy class while getting pillaged.
So we went from 'they both rape and pillage but one is more honest' to "they are just capable of defending themselves unlike those losers lol" Again, just relabelling it over and over to be "thing I like good, thing I like bad."
A great example of someone whose point is based on emotion and working backwards from it.
The Church despite being the very foundation of Christianity aren't real Christians?
I know this may be shocking to you. But the Church is made up of humans. Something that is known to be flawed, temptable and corruptable. Its actually a pretty important piece of that book they teach from, and them putting on the fancy hat or learning to read from the book doesn't suddenly make them perfect and the allure and temptations of power will be stronger than most men.
Also pacifism isn't a Christian tenant. Jesus pretty clearly says to always be armed even if you have to sell the clothes off your back. Thinking it is so reveals a pretty lackluster understanding of what it actually teaches.
You've moved the goalpost entirely from "The Vikings were better people in doing it" to now just wanting to say "Christianity has been super violent throughout history" which no one said otherwise. This is just a "Christians bad" spiel from 2000s reddit trying to pretend otherwise.
It was already made "canon" for a while years ago in Batman Comics that the Joker isn't a single entity but three active men who all make up the different "types" like Gangster, Comedian, and Clown that all operate on their own and can't keep straight who did what.
It honestly works in that sense, simply because of how completely contradictory some portrayals are from each other over time depending on "what's popular" right now and how much new writers love to hard retcon literally everything about him.
So of course it got retconned later into "Joker just has Multiple Personality Disorder" which is somehow less grounded and makes less sense.
I'm not sure if you are aware how normal extreme violence was during that time.
88% and 95% are basically guaranteed when you roll it, but 95% is still a bigger number and you'd probably pick those two if the option was presented. Which means that difference clearly means something
One is honest, the other is hypocritical
Alternatively, one is naturally evil and the other is tempted to be.
You seem to be really mad at the Church itself, and don't realize that its not comparable to the Viking rank and fodder's willingness to commit evil on their own.
Unless the Vikings were doing it for their Gods in which case the Christians were still the lesser evil because the Christian God is pretty clear in not doing that stuff that the corrupt Church was pushing, whereas the Viking ones tell them to straight up do most of it.
Humiliation rituals only work if its something that can humiliate you. Dragon Age is a long dead IP that is primarily only played by trannies anymore anyway.
Especially with this being a teaser trailer for the game, meaning they also don't get your money or being able to waste your time.
I don't underestimate their evil, I just don't think the rank and file losers are smart enough to be playing complex games like that. That's more the realm of the Elites focusing on things like Joker 2 or John Cena with massive eyeballs on them.
I liked it, but it needed more time cooking to add more enemy types and levels to keep everything from being so samey. But there is a really solid baseline there I hope other games pull from.
But its a good example of a game that no one even knew came out and then it just passed by with zero acknowledgement. In fact, the most press it got was people complaining that it was "woke trash" very briefly.
She had plenty of flirtatious scenes with Ivy in the same series she was introduced in. But, as you said, she also flirts with Batman a few times too in that same series. It was less a "clearly she is into this person seriously" and more of a "there is still a girl under the costume craving affection/kindness."
The problem with her is that they never actually ironed out her character, so it has never been actually solidified to prevent her from being changed so much. So a couple of flirty fanservice scenes with Ivy during a random teamup becomes "full lesbian."
They still haven't decided if she slept with her professors to get through school, was a hard working if dumb girl doing her best to escape being white trash, or an actually smart person who did it on her own and the Joker took advantage of to ruin. All of which massively change everything about where you can take her from there.
Honestly, the issue with Alien is that its a massively multimedia franchise that most people don't even know exists.
For every bad movie there was a solid non-mainstream game or comic or whatever that came out. In fact, its filled with extremely good games across dozens of genres for decades but most people only know Colonial Marines (for the meme) and Isolation (which hit mainstream press).
Which I imagine is what keeps its value as high as it is.
The change is so minimal that it almost raises the question of why even acknowledge it. Like, games with detailed character creators for years have just not even bothered having a boob/butt slider to avoid the entire controversy.
It really feels like they intended to allow bimbo level customization, for the AGB trannies to create their fetishes, and then the Feminist Wokies overrode it.
We don't, but that doesn't mean we just roll over and accept them willy nilly.
Otherwise you get the problem we have going on here. Where we have a bunch of retarded SJWs, but on our side, screaming incoherently in contradictions to manipulate you. Because their personality is still just as broken, even if their targets are more "correct."
Unironically my first waifu and I still have strong opinions about her to this day.
Including that yes Ryoga and her had actual good chemistry, so much so that the OVA specifically designed to sink their ship ended up just making it look stronger, and that the "perfect partners" Takahashi stuck them with are offensively awful.
Honestly Ryoga in general was more interesting than Ranma and I wish the series focused on him more.
So making religious excuses for your despicable actions makes those actions better?
Yes because it shows that you need an excuse to do it instead of it being so normalized that you don't have an ounce of hesitation to even question doing it in first place.
Like, you see how a random person needed God to justify it before he went and started committing evil to be different from someone who just did it on his own, right. It doesn't make either good, it just makes one worse than the other.
there is significant repentance because he understood that he had managed to basically let her die because he implicitly trusted people solely because of his ideology
Just admitting to your sin isn't repentance. Its a solid first step, and is better than a lot of "former Lefties" get because the bar is just that fucking low, but its still just the first step. Since I don't know the exact person you are talking about I can't criticize further.
To use a different example, someone going Sober has to spend everyday focusing on it, including constant meetings with AA or similar. Part of that is making a list of everyone you hurt from top to bottom and then making those amends no matter how big or small. As well as taking inventory of their own flaws, defects and failings that lead to them being able to fall into that pit to begin with.
What most of these "former Lefties throwing hands" are doing is skipping all that and just going out demanding Alcohol be banned, skipping all the personal accountability nonsense. They are still the same person but now swinging a different way, with the same exploitable defects as a person.
His entire association with Gamergate was him barging in and saying he was under attack before anyone even knew who he was.
Like, it was a big thing for those few months that ZQ and a few of the other actual big names were pissed at him trying to force himself into the circle.