Yeah, I haven't forgotten and agree with you on that. There's just stronger examples to use than Nier Automata imo, though it is still a relevant game to mention from that time as an example of this.
For example, Persona 5 was a game that exploded in popularity worldwide and was even more "Japanese" than Nier Automata (literally a turn-based JRPG with an anime artstyle, a cast of Japanese high school students set in modern Japan, with dating sim elements, and part of the decades-old Megami Tensei/Persona franchise) that came out a year prior, and it clearly also had an influence on the Japanese industry as well. It also went through the lambasting from game journos as well as tranny-lators who tried to attack its translation for being actually accurate.
Then the trannies took over Atlus NA and things got fucked sadly.
While Nier Automata is a great game, if not a masterpiece, that almost certainly had positive influence on the industry, I think he's overstating things a bit here. (Think how Kill la Kill "saved anime" back in 2013).
There were plenty of very "Japanese" games and franchises that existed before Nier Automata. Maybe if he's talking about the increase in number of games that let us appreciate the "better half" of female characters after Nier Automata's release I'd agree more.
Also, I think he should let Yoko Taro speak for himself on the subject.
Still though, nothing wrong with praising Yoko Taro. Man's a genius who deserves it. I'll never forget the time he visited 8chan for an (attempted) AMA. Wish more people in the industry were like him.
The sad part is that our leftists would probably look far-right by comparison to Cucknada's political climate.
It just felt like an inferior version of LttP to me in too many ways.
One of the only things I can remember from the game was the surprisingly fun baseball minigame. Aside from that and the 2D gimmick (which wasn't all that impressive to me), my memory of it is largely just a forgettable blur.
tyranny and mass abuse of power is okay as long as the Jews are dealt with
Nah. Also, maybe you should read the shit you're posting.
This method of debate had the advantage of not raising antisemitic feelings too strongly; and it likewise enabled Charles II, on his Restoration in 1660, to avoid taking any action on the petition of the merchants of London asking him to revoke Cromwell's concession. He had been assisted during his exile by several Jews of royalist sympathies, such as Andrea Mendes da Costa (Chamberlain of Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II), Antonio Mendes (the physician brother of Andrea, who had cured Catherine of erysipelas while in Portugal) and Augustine Coronel-Chacon. In 1664 a further attempt was made by the Earl of Berkshire and Paul Ricaut to bring about the expulsion of the Jews, but the King-in-Council assured the latter of the continuance of former favour.
If Jews are your single issue, prepare to be disappointed.
They need another Oliver Cromwell to crush this entire cancerous establishment tbh.
The only working instance that I use nowadays is inv.nadeko.net
Times like this I'm glad I use invidious.
Though I don't remember seeing anything like that the few times I went to YouTube directly.
Tbh I dunno if I'd consider myself much of a Zelda fan anymore. I'm not interested in the whole 3D open world RPG thing, and the last Zelda game I played (ALBW) didn't wow me like they used to. What I want would basically be a pipe dream at this point.
Either a good, meaty 2D Zelda game or a Zelda game in the vein of Twilight Princess would be nice I guess but I don't see either happening for a while at least.
I gotta give Elon credit. I still view him as an opportunistic futurist, but he's been doing increasingly good work of late.
Thankfully nothing's stopping it from being repealed though.
Just because a regulation was found "lawful" doesn't mean much on its own, so if the regulators/legislators actually bother to do something, this can be rendered a non-issue.
If only the appointments could've happened in his second term.
The guy's just dumb lmao.
He just compared and conflated tenure (which are most strongly associated with either professors or rich high school teachers for) to the usual shittily paid teaching jobs. Nobody who works an actually shitty paying job wants tenure for that job when they could just have a better paying job, period.
Not to mention tenure does create that phenomenon, people do tend to get lazier when they feel safe and secure, it happens with anything like that. (Not saying that it's inherently a good or a bad thing, job security is obviously something desirable, but let's not pretend that teaching doesn't have a dearth of issues with regards to the general lack of competence in the profession and learned laziness in the talented few who can rest on their laurels). A lot of people simply take teaching jobs because of the sheer lack of qualifications for them. The amount of teachers I've seen who genuinely seemed to love teaching were always in the minority relative to the schools (and ironically most of said teachers tended to be male but I digress).
He's grandstanding to look good in front of his mom and the public and the reporter was a dumbass who framed her question poorly, but you can tell the guy doesn't have a clue about what it actually looks and feels like to be in most classrooms in America if he can pretend like most teachers are passionate about their jobs like this.
I don't really know, but I wouldn't be surprised about it if he was (especially after these tweets). I just subscribe to the idea of him being a massive retard sperg personally.
I don't recall him ever specifically espousing anything leftist in the past, though he was the type to go around blocking people like crazy. He's also a massive westaboo, perhaps one of the most among Japanese game devs.
He's a pretty notable game developer (or at least he used to be).
Creator of Bayonetta, Viewful Joe, Wonderful 101 and made the first Devil May Cry game.
Speaking of attributes we can mock a person for that they can't really control...
I've never seen a mention of Signal being created by the military.
You sure you're not thinking of Tor?
The military doesn't have its own secure applications/devices for these kinds of communications? That's very concerning.
Eh, I blame most departments of modern western gaming for being shit.
Games are often unoptimized, ugly, unfinished, buggy, terribly written, egregiously overmonetized, and I can't remember the last time I cared about an OST from a modern western game (aside from a few indies maybe).
Also doesn't get into poor game design, which isn't talked about much but I feel is one of the most important aspects of why games increasingly suck these days. Any aspect of the game should never (or very rarely) come at the expense of fun.
I heard about none of those except Captain America, and that one was only because of someone's review of it here.
Worrying about being perceived as some oldfag otaku is pointless, especially once you realize how shit/autistic most any /a/-type community's (or really any anime community's) tastes are.
Once you get past their facade/circlejerk, you realize they're just as shallow as any other anime fan, and often miserable and jaded on top of that.
Just like what you like and fuck whatever some annoying fag on the internet tells you you should like.
The last time I heard the word "ultranationalist" was in a Call of Duty campaign lmao
Really gets the noggin' joggin.
Damn, hopefully she doesn't sink the island.
That fat pig is still around?
"anime" tends to be one of the things unique to Japan that a lot of people outside it feel free bashing them for (or at least they did for a long time until it started becoming more mainstream recently).
I don't want to make too many comparisons between what's "more" or "less" Japanese because, like you said, both are still undeniably Japanese in this case, but there are still unique attributes that can mark a work as being different from what the world might consider palatable/acceptable compared to what the Japanese audience would enjoy without issue, and as a result its hard not to look at said things as being "more" Japanese.
Not to mention the more palatable and popular a product becomes to the world (especially if its changed in some way), the more diluted and tenuous its identity tends to become. As an example with food: Sushi is still "Japanese" I suppose, but now everybody has their own take on it (Korean sushi, American sushi, etc.) and its popular across the world. Compare that with something like Natto which is pretty much a Japan-only thing and its clearly and solidly Japanese.
The world doesn't treat all of Japan's products and their aspects equally. There's a difference between someone who says they love Japan because they drive a Toyota Camry, eats instant ramen once in a while, and play Mario Odyssey on their Nintendo Switch, and someone importing "Anime Loli Pantsu Simulator 6: Pride of the Tokugawa Clan" through a proxy service to play on their Japanese Limited Edition Hatsune Miku PS Vita while shitposting about it on 2chan and enjoying some homemade melon bread and yakisoba from his Japanese girlfriend. Nobody would bat an eye at the former, but the latter... lol.
And you'd probably be more surprised if a game like the latter sold well outside of Japan, and not be as surprised at the former doing the same.