Video games are hugely made in America, so I can forgive people in other countries for caring about whatever is going on around them even if they live on the otherside of the globe with no other horse in the race.
But I don't even remember IMC actually being much of a gamer to begin with, he seemed to be in it entirely for politics which circles back to exactly what you said.
He was part of a group of literal Neo-Nazis online way back, then tried to "repent" by going hard into SJWs before seeing that GG had way more grift potential so he flipped to "our side" during GG's heyday.
So he never had any side or loyalty, just grift.
What's funny is that all of that was soft sells, useful idiots being used as the foot in the door and thinking they were the final solution.
It was obvious even at the time that all of that was just stepping stones to bigger things, and its why guys like me (retards that were losing the culture war as it was back then) don't like any "former Leftists" that try to talk right now.
What's funny is Anita is nothing special other than being radically successful well beyond what even she likely expected.
She came at the tail end of the trend, but it was still a trend with history of feminists faking bullying online to prop up their little brand and riding it to decent little careers in being professional activists online. There were bunches of them every year and its a reason why the pre-GG set up involves a lot of Feminist versus MRA battles. The feminists won most of the time because Progressive Leftism was at its upswing and the Progressive Stack/Intersectionality hadn't thrown White Woman Greivances into the bottom of the totem pole yet.
Anita got used by the bigger and more coordinated elites pulling the strings to be the "face" of their movement, and that propelled her into UN level power that she had no capabilities nor talent to keep. That's why she disappeared hard the moment JoshMcIntosh stopped propping her up and the elites moved to TDS type things instead. She was always a puppet.
So they took a common little internet fad at the time that women used to grow their channels, and turned it into a major cornerstone of why the Left is literally falling apart right now.
The whole "not being marked as deceased" thing really throws a wrench into the excuse given for this prior of "they leave it up so that any files that link to this aren't left dead later." Because you could do that easily and still mark them as dead to prevent any fraud from happening.
But since they didn't do even that basic amount of bookkeeping work, that means there was absolutely a large amount of fraud happening and they just couldn't care enough to take 2 seconds of work to prevent it.
When you think you have no true competition, you begin to consider yourself the one in charge instead of the consumer. Which means you can treat them as little paypigs for your own desires.
Look at the fed employees you've ever dealt with. They literally do not care about you or your life, because they know they have all the power over you and you will dance for them no matter how you are treated. Its why they throw such fits about Space X or private schools, it introduces competition into a market they considered "owned."
Its also why they are throwing every thing they can at Asian media to try and get it literally illegalized, because it means consumers can have choice and then choose not to dance and that's life ruining for them.
Same with AI, which should always be subpar compared to a real deal version because, memes aside, it lacks soul and we can all tell. But they've all made themselves so miserable to work with and unlikeable that people will take that little uncanny valley happily.
Honestly, I like Papillion. He is a fully developed character with a legitimate arc, and nobody pretends he is anything but an uncomfortable freak regardless of it they ally with him. And he is really funny, instead of being some political statement.
If more flamboyant characters were written on his level, they might not be so fucking awful everytime.
Humans are usually 1:1 wingspan to height, so you better add arm lengthening surgery to that too.
People have a lot of instinctual noticing when judging people that they can't consciously think about. Like nobody really thinks about symmetry when talking about hot chicks, but we all notice it and it bothers us if it isn't right. Even a slight variation in that proportion will set off those bells in people's head.
Its why there is that certain short phase of teenager mid puberty that is so off putting. When they have that gangly look about them because their body isn't all growing in at the same rate.
I know the surgery exists, and I can believe guys are stupid enough to get it. What I call doubt on is that someone would just not notice you had it because it just worked so well that you just effortlessly pass as a naturally taller guy.
All of us who watched the original Higurashi figured out what the fuck "-chama" was from basic context clues and that should be the barest expectation of anyone watching foreign media.
Heck I remember when Persona 3 was still this sleeper cult classic in the making and the fact that the English dub kept all the honorifics in was considered a huge plus in its favor.
That still doesn't fix the proportion problem, nor the multitude of other long term issues that breaking bones can leave behind.
I don't doubt the logic is there for how it works, but I doubt that anyone who has it will become anything beyond a notable circus freak that's just also a few inches taller. The same way that a man can get breast implants, FFS, and a rotpocket but its not magic that just works that simple to make you a woman.
Which is why I call doubt on this story, his wife would absolutely have known without him having to tell her a short two years after he had the surgery, when he was probably still learning to walk again.
The tranny one works only in what a Lefties idea of the world is.
We believe what you are born as strictly defines what you are for your life, so if you are born the wrong gender than we accept that and let you live as the correct one forever. We cannot question this whatsoever as we are caught in our logic trap!
Its actually enlightening on how they see the world, and why they don't fear the savages and barbarism of a lot of non-Western people. Because they think they can just Marvel quip them into submission by outplaying them with word games and sassy hits.
This feels like one of those stories that isn't true but is spread randomly to "legitimize" these types of surgeries, like all the penis enlarging ones.
Because everything I've heard about these surgeries is that you live in horrific pain for a very long time and end up looking extremely fucking goofy because of your off body proportions. The kind of goofy that just being tall doesn't beat in women's eyes. Especially if you are still only 5'10, which is still manlet status and a woman won't 180 her opinion on you because you are eye level with her in heels.
If these types of surgeries actually worked this well, we'd hear about it constantly. It would be the talk of every town and there would be businesses cropping up to give you payday loans to pay for it, like there is for all sorts of other cosmetic surgeries. Doctor's would be bragging about being the 6" guy instead of the 4" one. And since its as simple as just snapping your fucking bones, it can't be restricted to just the ultra rich either like certain transplants are.
I feel for the short kings of the world because they do get pretty unfairly treated, but these types of stories are meant to literally prey on them and their insecurity to mangle and deform them for a lot of money and almost no improvement on their life.
Dragon Age 2 was probably one of the early landmark cases of woke in AAA production, and the change from Sten to the Arishok is one of the cases of that.
It went from a deliberately designed foreign culture that was extremely different from ours but seemed to work if you put all the elements together, to retarded savages that are meant to seem so backwards and foolishly stubborn. Until Inquisition made them like totes progressive instead and had to pretend all the ones you ever met before were just wrong about everything.
That's just basic realism. A giant nog in the land of short nips will absolutely body their paper architecture and noodle arms.
One of the other reasons why a game about stealth and assassin's was the worst place for him.
The necessary safeguards and additional steps to make something secure are also usually slower and more annoying, which is just how it will always be.
So what keeps fucking happening is that military personnel are more interested in being able to text and use the internet easier, and so they break security doing shit like this.
Ubisoft is still seething to this day that the "we tacked on a male MC at the last second because we were forced to" from Odyssey ended up being like 70%+ of the player choice. They bring it up constantly and you can tell it fucks them up.
Ironically that the MC Alexios and antagonist Kassandra work way better because the writing staff were trying so hard to make him a petulant child and her a badass marysue, leading to him being fun to play in regular quests and her a decent villain.
The biggest shake up since Black Flag
I guess Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla ditching most of the major mythos in the modern world to just become historical pieces and Action RPGs with stealth elements instead of pure stealth with combat backup elements just don't count.
Because from everything I can see, this is literally the same exact game as those were in a new setting, so the sentence lies in every single way.
"hurr durr what about things that have no direct translation"
People who think like this are the same people who think translating every instance of "-san" to Mr./Ms. is acceptable, as if high school students go around addressing their fellow students in the exact same manner as their teachers.
A lot of it is booming because there are a bajillion Chinamen and they will buy anything made in China because they have strong nationalistic tendencies like that. So its probably mostly actual, but non-indicative of anything beyond "was made in China."
The Wukong game broke so many playercount records you'd think it was a generation defining masterpiece, but instead it was forgotten within a few months and nobody has thought about it since because it was just "decent action game, but China".
None of this is a problem really, but its one of those necessary contexts when comparing their industry to our own.
Unless you think Transformers and Fast and the Furious are the best franchises in American movie history, because that's what China thinks is "top dollar quality."
Snow White is one of their most important franchises and most of their previous live actions broke the billion dollar mark, even the ones that were completely forgotten in a week like Aladdin.
Number autism aside, they absolutely expected it to break a billion easy like Lion King (their other most important franchise) did.
And, yes, I do think Ubi's launcher is more used than EA's, so it's not apples and apples, but still.
Ubisoft will just straight not allow you to play their games without it, even a lot of their console versions will force you to log in to it to play.
I don't play many EA games but I don't think its been nearly as forced Ubi with it, at least not as openly and directly.
Honestly, it was some variation of faggot, gayboy, and other loving terms of endearment boys that age use.