The more I hear about TPUSA, the more it sounds like it was controlled opposition with a true believer as a figurehead to sell the illusion. Kind of makes me think of Team Plasma and N, a little bit....

Evil cannot create it can only corrupt.

I feel like this phenomenon is due to three things.

1. A refusal to grow up. Not that it's inherently childish to enjoy lighthearted stories, but there's definitely a draw to all the Peter Pans out there that don't want to engage with something that'll challenge their worldview. Having a healthy disconnect and ability to recognize the difference between fantasy and reality is kind of a requirement to engage with darker stories, which acts as sort of auto-gatekeeping.

2. Going to where the children are. Or at least, where they think they'll be anyway. For all the pathological ideologies out there that reproduce via viral infection, you go in and try to hook the kids to your way of thinking early. This naturally leads to the fandom acting childish, due to literal children and people using the excuse to act like literal children. Adult-aimed stories will, ideally, be followed by adults who already have a level of maturity that make discourse more pleasant. Granted, it depends on whether it's "Adult" or "Mature."

3. Safe spaces breed discontent. When positivity is mandatory, stepping out of line brings down the hammer for disrupting the peace. Thus the purity spiral forms and everyone starts hating each other for not living up to the impossible standards imposed by the community. When people come in expecting there to be disagreement and dissent, discussion can happen without shutting down risktakers and independent thought.

This is definitely stuff to think about when making media. Try to draw in a healthy audience that naturally rejects the false positivity mindset. Even if you're making something fluffy, give it some meat to chew on underneath that'll stick in the craw of the cotton candy chasers.

Prioritittys.

I'm an OGGG from the first Kotaku In Action. Some of us still live.

The saddest words of tongue or pen....

It's a tool, and just like any tool, it can be used lazily or as a powerful force multiplier.

I mean, we played Weekend at Biden's for four years. What's a couple months between friends?

Remember that YouTube's downvote button was a casualty of Biden's speeches getting the treatment they deserved.

Prions. Give me a billion dollar research grant.

I think it's also tied to the obsession of shoving sex into everything. When everything is expected to be sexual, and explicitly NOT sexual in normal, heterosexual appeal, it encourages all the weirdos to congregate and seek representation since the boundaries have all been torn down. It's essentially the LGBT movement intersectionality happening on more fragmented, specialized levels.

The Switch 2 is sorely lacking any kind of killer apps. DK Bananza was neat, but it's no 3D Mario title. Mario Kart World is dragged down by its Open World design. Kirby Air Riders is niche and lacks replay value outside of couch co-op. There's just no big "Wow!" Title to pull people in. Everything is niche, a rehash, or otherwise too unimpressive to be a major system seller.

The only raps I've ever gone out of my way to listen to were Knuckles' tracks from SA2.

I read that in Soldier's voice.

Lose the battle, win the war, as they say.

This also explains why she gets pushed so hard, to the displacement of the dog himself. Who wants to see cowardly cartoon canine shenanigans when you can have LESBIAN DETECTIVE!

I have responsibility avoidance fatigue.

To be fair, isn't this a common superhero critique as well? I remember the episode of classic Powerpuff Girls where Townsville was so dependant on the girls for everything that they were incapable of doing basic tasks.

Tobuscus is still kicking? And he's right-wing!? Good for him!

TAL did an hour long breakdown of his downfall while back. I don't remember all the details, but I do remember JustSomeGuy deciding to die on hills that no sane person would be defending. Like Cuties.

yawn just another attempt to put faggotry on the same level as a real relationship. Tis the season.

I have boiled down this concept as simple as it can possibly be

Wow. It's boring now.

I am so smart.

It's a game about soldiers shooting aliens from the 2000s. I'd assume it had rightwing roots just from that.

To clarify, are you saying the first three movies were a consistent storyline, or are you saying that they were rehashing the same idea? Because one of those things will make me mad.

They took to heart the criticism of turning Bo Peep into an action girl when Jessie was already there. As is typical, they completely misunderstood the criticism.