Whoopi used to brag about how many abortions she'd had long before the public had grown ambivalent to them. It was an outrageous number last claim I heard which was in the 90s. She was all IN on Women's Rights expressed as no-consequence sex followed by no-consequence pregnancy (dumpstering every baby her body produced) followed by dancing about it.
This is the least shocking thing I have ever heard said about her by anyone in any context. She had a baby before, during, or after all those proud abortions? I'm reminded of the pregnant bitch holding a baby in one hand at an abortion rally along with a sign in the other that pointed at her belly and read "not yet a baby."
I tried finding it, and of course the guy who posted it here deleted all of his posts. Why is this site so trash to allow that?
This complainer is a long-time concern troll who has dedicated his entire life to this kind of shit. From his own website https://taiuru.co.nz/classic-racist-reply-to-claims-of-cultural-appropriation/ he 'debunks' why he himself is not an appropriator despite using the internet and dressing like an Englishman. In fact, it is racist to question him at all.
He makes a great case for Racism being a completely made up concept. I hope his reach spreads far.
I never heard Salvatori presented as anything by Bungie but a jobber. He had been the lesser composer (working underneath Martin) at Bungie for years before Destiny, and stayed with the company during the Microsoft exodus. It boggles my mind that Bungie would suddenly want or try to present him as anything else because I reckon they never actually treated him that well.
No, it was Paul McCartney (of Beatles / Wings fame). Activision likely pushed for them to have a 'big' name associated with the game, and the new-guard at Bungie seemed gaga over the idea as well. Given the music that made it into the game, it is very obvious to my ear O'Donnell was the primary composer. The beef as I understood it then was that Bungie was pushing for giving McCartney top billing despite all of his contributions being vague and without direct attribution song to song. I still have no clue what music or musical themes are supposed to have been his, though I admit I stopped caring about Bungie during the early phases of Destiny so if they've revealed that information since, very well.
The music sounds like O'Donnell music, you can draw a straight line from Halo (especially ODST) to Destiny very easily. They have to convince me it was otherwise and I certainly didn't see it at the time.
He was never with 343 to my awareness. He stayed with Bungie as they left Microsoft (343 was what remained there). He was fired by Bungie just as Destiny was going out the door in part because they wanted to claim that Paul McCartney was the primary composer of that game (of course, a bald-faced lie).
He was a company founder and partial owner, and had to be stripped of his voting power and title in order to get to firing him. Something they managed to do in a span of hours. It was very shady and almost certainly illegal. He sued them for it, and won big.
DC shows how Batman disappears
Character assassination by modern writers, how quaint. "There is a broken child playing that game." Fuck off.
Hugo Debacle (2023 edition)
Disgraced institution disgraces itself again to remind everyone why they were wrong to forgive it before. What's a little censoring anti-China sentiments for a little payola when you've already censored your political rivals for free?
This is a pretty petty complaint. My own personal experience as a student and later staffer at a university (no where near the 30 years this guy claims) had much more scandal and disillusionment for the entire CONCEPT of universities even existing at all.
'Spin' is the complaint? If you don't spin bad news you are stupid. In any endeavor. Saying one thing and doing another is so far down the list of problems that I'd consider existentially relevant. I might even go so far as to say NOT doing so is a far bigger threat to your future. Politics are important in political endeavors (shock)!
In the meantime, Human Resources departments, formerly called personnel departments, have mostly morphed into ‘departments of people’. The problem is that they do not seem to deal with people. Instead they occupy themselves writing policies on equality, diversity and inclusion and solving problems which do not exist.
We get close to an actual problem in this off-topic statement at the end of the article: parasitic sub-groups that exist to perpetuate their validity and nothing else. This is what corrupts and kills an organization.
I don't care about spin for internal shortcomings. Sometimes you have to call the piss rain to get through the winter. I DO care about spin for external shortcomings, also called 'propaganda.' Carrying the water of a failed state-held philosophy, and lying to the public about the merits or demerits on matters of culture and human condition. These are the things the universities lead the world in, and these are the dangerous and actionable reasons they should cease to exist as they are.
I and others have suggested that the puff pieces over the last month from Sega's and Bandai's diversity departments where they proclaimed total ownership and control of those companies' content output, was them posturing for strength. They wanted to attach shame to the concept of firing them because they had spoken with such an official voice so recently.
What they don't realize, because frankly they are too detached from the real world to understand anything, is that they have handed their companies a free win by laying them off after the public embarrassments associated with their unforced brand damage.
Let's hope those companies take the golden opportunity of: balancing their budgets, cutting loose the employees literally running in the opposite direction of profit, and pivot their image with the public by proudly saying so.
A man can dream.
At the risk of over explaining, this is the standard leftist, feminist, and Marxist folly of conflation. The song "Be a Man" is sung as far as the speaker is aware, to an army of men. In this context, very obviously, a "Man" is aspirational, exclusive, and performative, and necessarily not something any boy is born as. This is evidenced by the adult male listeners who do not meet any of the qualifications at first.
The song does not presume or insist on any physical attribute at all, because it is neither important nor distinctive between what a boy is and what a "Man" is. Instead it focuses on spirit, mind, and comportment. The twist is that a girl is listening, and she is indeed not a "Man" nor is she even a "Woman" she is just a girl. She embraces these attitude changes and rises into a positive example along with the now Men around her who have also been influenced by the instruction.
The intentional distinction in the original movie is that a "Man" is divorced from being a male. It is instead an ideal that even adult men do not become automatically.
The conflation now, is that being a good example of the male ideal, is the same as being a man. Plenty of women can learn from the male ideal and strive for it if it is appealing. Not only does nothing in our culture stand in your way; it has been explicitly encouraged for 50 years. The original Mulan was very nearly peak feminist messaging pre-Current Era. "Girls, be great examples of Men," was a very strong message all through the 80s and 90s, and while it was tedious, it was at least largely positive and focused on a pursuable ideal.
The conflation was inevitable, especially as we pivoted into the understanding that women can't actually BE men, so men must be demoted for the desired effect of "equality." Trying to be stoic, trying to be strong, trying to be self-sufficient, these were at least beneficial things to try, but the desired measured outcome wasn't materializing. The female domination in all pursuits didn't show up as believed, so men had to be destroyed instead.
There are too many ironies to admit in the new reality where girls try to physically transform themselves into boys while somehow missing that boys are hated universally by the same forces that are encouraging them to do this. They are being sent down a chute of pain with hell at the other end in every single form. Boys are being seduced similarly with the fantasy that they can escape the ire of the monolith by rendering their body unto Caesar to escape the societal lions. This is obvious entrapment, and pitiable for all caught in its lies.
Summary: Being a "Man" is not the same as being male. Self-evidently so from the material being referenced. Fucking communists.
You're probably right on that point. Shimbori likely doesn't feel the same connection to the characters as Itagaki did, but I recall a mention specifically of battle damage in the past as a complete no-go for those reasons. I'm just unsure of the circumstances and who said it now.
I considered mentioning "core values" but that's just a separate hypocrisy unrelated to any actual effect on the franchise design (so far) since it was over DOA6. You're indeed right in calling the "scene" trash, though. I agree completely.
This commentary is about DOA5, and unfortunately, while that game was quite sexy and had tits and bikinis everywhere, that was not the end of this tale.
I watched this happen in realtime. It wasn't just 'suits' it was tournament organizers and the punditry of the fighting game scene itself.
The director of Dead or Alive used to show up personally at western events where the game was being played. He'd enthusiastically promote the game and do everything he could to grease the wheels of it getting stream time. He would beam in pride and genuine delight in the corner watching guys playing the game. This was in the era of Nintendo garroting anyone who dared stream Smash, so it was notable, appreciated, and welcome.
But, he was also there in several events where bikini costumes were banned. "Vanilla costumes only" was the constant refrain from streamers, TOs, and the puritan sycophants who like to lick boot and ass for brownie points. SRK (a popular opinion site at the time for the scene) published a series of tournament rules for eeeeeveryone to follow that banned any skimpy costumes in any game, but specifically targeted DOA as the example they meant. All this because they wanted ESPORTS legitimacy and "it was cringe anyway."
He was obviously impacted by this direct backlash to his game and he stopped showing up to community events after a while. I expected him to be sad about it and stop prioritizing the west due to his hurt feelings, but the far worse thing happened. He took the advice and tried to do the next game differently.
DOA6 was heavily de-sexed, and instead violence was emphasized. Characters bruised and bled for the first time in the series. Something the creator had famously said would never ever be done, because he thought of the girls as his daughters and they were meant to be pretty and happy, not sad and damaged.
It was clear that this was him capitulating his own values to make something he thought the West wanted. DOA5 was just one battle, and we can see where the series went after. So rather than celebrating this interview, it just makes me more sad.
Gender Dysphoria is diagnosed remarkably similar to how ADHD was diagnosed in the Ritalin episode of South Park. If you walk through the clinic door and ask the question, you have it. It is a policy driven outcome. If some places diagnose it more than others, then that is naturally a function of the degree of convergence of the profession, and the number of patients asking the question, for that location.
We had another video by this creator posted here about a year ago. In it, he blames the 'downfall' of SquareEnix on the rise of Tetsuya Nomura and the creation of FF11 (separately, but they're somehow related also). It was a very casual take lacking in facts beyond what he "remembered." I wasn't impressed then, and won't waste my time this time.
Also, this thumbnail is ludicrously insulting, and I presume based on his other videos is not related to the topic of discussion. Saved my click.
Yet another property Sony snapped up that I'll wait an extra 5 years or never get to play as a result. I was really looking forward to Project Eve, especially after that fuckboy at Digital Foundry compared it UNFAVORABLY to Forspoken due entirely to it's protagonist being actually pretty and not a black lesbian side-shave like he wanted.
I hate Sony too much to buy any of their consoles ever again. So I'll grab a few streams when it comes out, sigh, and move on. Sad.
The best explanation I have heard from the start is that the Twitch admins are themselves thirst-fiends. Despite how stupid this is, it covers their many strange behaviors nicely. The comically soft touch (Amoranth banned for the 60th time in a year for only 24 hours), the willingness to invent categories for specific people, and the fact that the admins hang out in streams all the time and yet don't shut down shit that goes too far until far too late. Thus, some one (or several) admins are themselves deranged simps who can't see past their erect pee pee to run a business.
Now, an alternative theory that is more complicated, is that they are captured by the modern belief that women can do no wrong. Empowered by their sexuality, too pure to game a system, victimized by all of society for all of history and thus deserving a break. Some collection of these beliefs along with a fear of the media (who so far have been very willing to trump up any controversy involving a thot with her as the central sympathetic character) cow them into inaction, passivity, and enablement.
A significant 'meta' on Twitch right now by these chicks is to deliberately skate policy of mentioning porn sites by bundling their 'external links' (twitter, instagram, etc) within an externally served list that includes their strip-cam accounts as well. The explicit intention is to pipeline their easy-to-obtain audience on a popular site to their much more profitable sex hustle. Realizing this should have had the admins come down on them with terrible fury for fear of being implicated in a wide-spread grooming project, but they didn't. Were they more afraid of being the only culprits the media would mention? Do they perceive themselves as barely containing a no-win situation with placation and perfunctory micro-action?
I don't have a definitive answer myself.
He also thinks of himself as a "journalist and a historian." He's far above us and the fray. Just an academic observer.
From this you should not expect him to 'get' anything, and he won't. He's a hardened casual of the worst sort. One who believes himself to be a stoic intellectual.
He'll juggle some facts and names, do some leg work to write his book. And never come close understanding the subject.
Since the author was Solomon as he was aging and agonizing over the fact that he'd built his kingdom into something vast, powerful, and wealthy, and was about to die and give it to his recognizably worthless sons. This rings poignant.
They went to impressive lengths to demonstrate fundamentally that practical effects are perpetually superior and timeless in Fury Road. This is a cgi skin-suit, and an unwarranted, undesired rehash, down to repeating set pieces with inferior style.
This movie doesn't even have anything to bait you with. It is an obviously bad copy that prances around wearing the name of the real protagonist in the title ("A Mad Max Saga" shut the fuck up). Every moment of the trailer has you asking "What's Max doing though?"
All i can say is that I hope it was expensive. Very, painfully, expensive.
To the reader, it isn't. To the magazine, it's the difference between paying a human to write valueless tripe, and having the editors generate it themselves with between 5 and 10 minutes work. When you're 'talent' is indistinguishable from a random number seed and a prediction engine, you don't have any.
Interview people, research facts, uncover news. You can't be replaced by a machine being fed what to say if you're not ALSO doing that already.
Firstly, sheeeeeesh.
Secondly, Disney only does female characters one way, villains even moreso. Everything she ever did wrong was actually a man's fault. Everything else she did that seemed wrong, actually wasn't. Anything remaining about her is forgiven or ignored. See: all of them.
Lastly, by these same rumors, she's playing a gender-bent Silver Surfer. The decline continues, unabated. Even if she plays Frankie instead (a later herald of Galactus originally from Earth) Disney will confound the concepts on purpose to have their cake (representation!) and eat it too (it's totally Silver Surfer guyyyyss).
I know it hurts to meet your heroes, because it re-contextualizes the things you previously liked about them. You can read a book and think it's perfect, then learn a little about the man behind it and suddenly the secret meanings are unlocked, corrupting the entire work and souring your previously pleasant memories of it.
I imagine that's like finding the medium account of an author you thought decently of, like here. I haven't heard of this guy before today and I scanned one article and checked his previous headlines to arrive at the confident position I now occupy.
I speak harshly as a rhetorical device, I don't actually blame you for being disappointed after looking. I'm glad you did and brought it up. Thanks for the research.
Add it to the list