hey, they made it work for racist, sexist, etc... at least for a while...
I'd settle for dinosaurs honestly...
don't really have a dog in this fight, because I'm not really into vtubers (neither for or against, just not my thing), but you could easily expand this argument to any kind of social media brand, or hell, really any form of entertainment.
Some examples come to mind:
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Splash, a movie from the eighties/nineties about a man who meets and eventually falls in love with a mermaid, starred tom hanks (I know, I know), John Candy, and an actress whom I forget the name of. the film did well enough to get a sequel, but apparently not well enough to hire back the original cast for said sequel, and it ended up being tonally almost completely different as well. I don't know if there was a splash 3, but somehow I doubt it.
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The King of Random/TKOR youtube channel. When Grant Thomspon, the original creator of the channel, stepped back from the camera to focus ont he business side of things, it was mildly off-putting, although Nate was at least doing some interesting projects, it just wasn't the same as with Grant, the personality was different, the projects were different, and was just not what I personally signed up for. When grant passed away (RIP), it seemed to become a kid's channel, and I just fell off in interest. I don't know how they're doing, but they seem to still be making videos.
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<insert your favorite example of pallette-swapped "new" character replacing the old here> Do you like the new and improved version, or do you want the tried and true og back?
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Game Theory I don't know who else paid attention to this here, but when matthew patrick (aka MatPat) 'retired' from the game/film/food/style theory public face, it set off a conspiracy theories about what really happened(true or untrue is up to you to decide, particularly with his announcement of retirement. It didn't help that Tom, the replacement host for game theory, seems like he was more at home at the writing desk than he currently is in the recording closet. The fact that matt had sold the rights to the brand a few years ago probably doesn't help either.
consuming each others' feces...
=P they just forgot to turn off Big Head Mode
fair, lol.
also, he was one of those actors that teens swooned over when he was younger, wasn't he
right!?!
hard to believe she'll be sixty in a few months...
right!?!
hard to believe she'll be sixty in a few months...
Obama
...that does seem to be the tipping point. I remember my mother calling him a Manchurian Candidate (learned a new word that day, lol), and I remember the campaigning for him being off-putting, though I always chalked it up to him being a Dem, and me coming from a pretty conservative family...
...and I remember the gaslighting at the time about him being elected having "nothing" to do with him being black, and thinking it was bullshit even then...
wow, thanks, you've given me a lot to think about... =)
yeah, but I get it.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt so my inner cynic stays "inner," lol.
...and this is why i'll never be internet famous, lmfao. I wouldn't have even thought about that.
to be fair, I suspect a lot of people probably skimmed that bit of tl;dr on my part, lol.
...it's weird how many examples you find when you start looking for them... people having been posting so many I hadn't even thought of...
I don't disagree, at least for characters who are supposed to be attractive like this one, just clarifying.
...don't really want Aunt May to be played by megan fox or taylor swift circa 2001, lmao... that would be...weird...
in this case, it's a matter of context.
Silent Hill was part of the, for lack of a better term, "holy trinity" of survival horror games(Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark being the other two legs) when it came out, and two was in many ways the defining entry in the series, introducing long-running antagonist Pyramid Head, and composer Akira Yamaoka to the franchise, among other things I'm sure die-hard fans could name that I can't. It's been a fan-favorite of the games for years.
Couple that with the relatively good, but mildly off-putting movies and the HD remakes on the PS3(PS4) where Konami made some rather unfortunate voice-acting choices (Mary Elizabeth Macglynn? as Mary/Maria? really!?! she's been a part of the team forever, and she's a great voice actress, but a terrible choice for the role in question), not to mention konami seeming to go out of their way over the last few edit:years to alienate some of their best talent, and a mediocre remake rises to the level of a refreshing return to form.
...when you then compare it to the state of the industry as a whole with titles like Concorde, Dustborn, etc. and that mediocre remake rises even further to a nugget of polished gold in a sea of diarrhea horseshit.
it's a woman...she's based on the voice actress, she just happens to be in her forties, late thirties if she has an addiction problem...
lol, I remember rolling my eyes at the twilight thing...only to catch myself with a team cap button on my walmart vest years later. 🤣😅
no doubt, lol.
I really don't know if there's anything to it, I just thought it was an interesting pattern is all.
there does seem to be an attitude that it's their role to shape the will of the people rather than follow it...
fair point, thanks. something for me to chew on.
Semi random, but some old dude falls last week, in a fucking hospital lot and no one will move his ass for hours LMAO. There is something wrong with these people. "compassion fatigue" is their excuse.
from the article:
Foster said she was shocked the hospital couldn’t do more for the man, who was injured mere metres from the hospital’s doors. She said staff told her because it was an emergency, it was an issue for the emergency department.
Bureaucratic paralysis... don't know what the term for it is, but that's my best description.
Meanwhile the Premier (I assume equivalent to a governor here in the states?) completely misses the source of the problem, which means he'll make the problem worse (emphasis mine):
When asked about the incident, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said no one should have had to wait that long for an ambulance, and said he’s looking into what happened.
Could doctors and nurses be frozen into inaction by regimented bureacracy be the problem? oh, certainly not, but maybe the doctors and nurses were just at fault for not stepping outside the little box you drew with red tape for them:
“I understand some people have reached out to people who were working inside the building. We’ll try to understand what — is there any liability issue for them to come in the parking lot, all these types of things,” said Houston.
...and here come the gibs...:
He added that while investments are being made in health care, the case serves as a reminder more improvements are needed.
Once more with the ambulance nonsense, the man shouldn't have needed to wait for an ambulance when there's healthcare professionals right fucking there :
“There are standards for sure for ambulance response times. And, you know, we look at the data on how often that’s met. It’s being met more often,” he said.
...People like this make me ill...
two sides of the same socialist wooden nickel...
damn, good catch.
Sega seems to make misttep after misstep... First with the upgrades to the original genesis, which, while cool, didn't really add much in the way of value (and the Sega CD games rivaled the NES for punishing difficultly out of the gate). Then the saturn flopped, so they pushed out the Dreamcast, which had been their pet project for most of the decade, only for the PS2 to drop like a month (two?) later and basically make it irrelevant, which is a shame, because there were some fun games on that console, which is ironic, given the Sonic title for the console was a glitchy mess.
...and of course the failure of the Dreamcast basically killed the one-time rival to nintendo as a console developer, and they've made unfortunate choice after unfortunate choice ever since...
shame, I really liked the blue blurr... the chemical plant zone alone was worth playing sonic two...