Culture Wars General - KiA Diet Coke Edition

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Grandpa Simpson said:
Seems to be a pattern.

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It's things like this that make me feel like that even with legit problems one could get with white people or with something in a game, these people don't make good arguments for it. With white people, I feel their claims would have some substance if they came up with some shit that wasn't "some white guy disagreed with me" or "I feel some white guy is gonna kill me." Former gives me the feeling it mostly comes from butting heads with some Twitter sperg while the latter just screams of paranoia. With something like Warcraft, I can imagine the Horde is more than just "non-human races that take some non-white aesthetic" since all I could get from a distant glance was "most evil of them were formerly living humans that were also generic fantasy Europeans serving an evil undead lady" and Blizzard made the Horde something other than "evil non-humans racially coded for POCs" in Warcraft 3 with something like an orc redeeming his people after killing some demon.

BrokenWokenBespoken said:
A Weeb indie dev did exactly just that, it's called Idol Manager.

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Like most typical western takes on anime, it air the same "This game is so much better because it actually takes a serious look into Idols instead of the brady bunch/Full House family sitcoms" smugness expressed only by self aware weebs. Not wrong mind you as even the worst rivalries in idol anime never ends with someone taking one last dip into the nearby river.
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The "so much better because serious look" thing and the like can make it sound insufferable whether it was from weebs or someone that wanted to argue how the game has to be art or political or whatever from the non-weeb group. Then again I won't be surprised if for all the "serious look" one could go for, a weeb game about idol management could still get moments of not being serious.
 
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c-no said:
The "so much better because serious look" thing and make it sound insufferable whether it was from weebs or someone that wanted to argue how the game has to be art or political or whatever from the non-weeb group. Then again I won't be surprised if for all the "serious look" one could go for, a weeb game about idol management could still get moments of not being serious.
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Maybe to play Devil's advocate, but playing it unsafe shows that there is still some innovation from devs. That their souls haven't sucked out by publisher who wants pandering content.

And Uppers has finally got past publication hell and a pc release is announced and the anti Sony brigade is already doing their dunks as there is no announcement for a ps4 release.

 
BrokenWokenBespoken said:
Maybe to play Devil's advocate, but playing it unsafe shows that there is still some innovation from devs. That their souls haven't sucked out by publisher who wants pandering content.

And Uppers has finally got past publication hell and a pc release is announced and the anti Sony brigade is already doing their dunks as there is no announcement for a ps4 release.

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I remember Uppers reception being pretty awful. Especially now that Streets of Rage 4 and other games have come out. You're not exactly starving for brawlers.

That and this is basically Final Fight Streetwise.
 
Marissa Moira said:
I remember Uppers reception being pretty awful. Especially now that Streets of Rage 4 and other games have come out. You're not exactly starving for brawlers.

That and this is basically Final Fight Streetwise.
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Still the war against Sony censoring shit is a rallying cry as if they weren't being ashamed of Vita's library they wouldn't have created the situation where they couldn't localize this game solely for the ps4 while allowing a pc release
 
BrokenWokenBespoken said:
Still the war against Sony censoring shit is a rallying cry as if they weren't being ashamed of Vita's library they wouldn't have created the situation where they couldn't localize this game solely for the ps4 while allowing a pc release
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It's kinda falling on deaf ears since the games they're championing are nothing of any major worth.

Out of all the censorship things I've seen in games, this is one that's falling on more the side on curation than censorship. All the prominent to mid range developers haven't had issues and this has all fallen pretty much on low end software. Most small japanese games are brought over by larger western branch publishers like Atlus, Square Enix NISA, Bandai namco and others. There's games that Atlus has published in the west that they did not publish in japan.

They thought they had something briefly with Atelier Ryza 2 being censored but Gust put out a statement that nothing is censored and the trailer had post effects put up, and all the games will be the same across all platforms and regions. If you want an anti-censorship movement to be successful they have to be censoring something of quality it also helps if it's from something relatively well known.

Case in point the bitching about Lootboxes would have never gotten as big as it did if Star Wars never was targeted. Not only is Star Wars well known there were also expectations with the name Battlefront since it's was a well known series inside the fandom itself and there were expectations to be had. If this happened to a franchise nobody gave a shit about nothing would have changed.


Also Xbox just called DSP out

 
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Marissa Moira said:
It's kinda falling on deaf ears since the games they're championing are nothing of any major worth.
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“I personally don’t like these games, so it’s perfectly fine for them to get censored”, you argue for the millionth time. Dude, you’re like a broken record.
 
Bread Fetishist said:
“I personally don’t like these games, so it’s perfectly fine for them to get censored”, you argue for the millionth time. Dude, you’re like a broken record.
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I know and I keep saying the same things to Black Lives Matter about not simping for every criminal that gets ventilated because nobody is going to give a shit that a serial rapist and domestic abuser died.

But you know what, they're free to scream and shout mistruths.


Just don't come on my lawn.
 
Marissa Moira said:
It's kinda falling on deaf ears since the games they're championing are nothing of any major worth.
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It's not falling on deaf ears. You keep saying the same argument, and we keep repeating the same counter arguments. From AAA companies are too big to censor, to weebs actually spending money while SJWs refuse to buy the games they got censored, and all the arguments in between.

It's unconvincing, especially when your definition of what makes a small developer seems to be "they make games you don't like".

BrokenWokenBespoken said:
And Uppers has finally got past publication hell and a pc release is announced and the anti Sony brigade is already doing their dunks as there is no announcement for a ps4 release.
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Cool. I imported that on Vita, but haven't got around to playing it yet.
Marissa Moira said:
I remember Uppers reception being pretty awful.
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I remember it being well received. Though you're right that there's been many brawling games since then. I wonder if the success of SoR4 is why it's getting published now.
 
Judge Dredd said:
I remember it being well received. Though you're right that there's been many brawling games since then. I wonder if the success of SoR4 is why it's getting published now.
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Uppers wasn't well received. The people who bought Senran kagura hated it because of the guys taking up too much screen time, the fan service involved an RNG mechanic to see up the skirts.

From a gameplay perspective it's actually less elaborate than senran kagura.

It's more than likely being released now since the publisher is just throwing anything at the wall hoping something sticks because they've had a huge string of underperforming games. Marvelous hasn't exactly been doing well.
 
All the sperging about AoE 3's "problems" with colonialism and native cultures lately. I don't get where this seething hatred of colonialism comes from from all these people aside from it being the cool virtue signally thing to do by totally ignoring anything good that ever came of it and focusing on the shitty parts only, pretending it was a black and white good and evil issue. Then complaining that the game was racist by having Indians dance around a fire pit while its European factions spoke garbled mixes of their languages and had cartoony portraits. It's not supposed to be realistic, you fucks.
 
SiccDicc said:
She doxed a white dude and his kid over a fucking disagreement on Facebook thinking he was that African Immigrant that ran over those two protesters. Never got fired for it. Anyone asking she resign or be fired or some form of punishment for trying to ruin an innocent man's life and bringing his kid into it got banned from the forums. Even the lefties of the forum were disgusted by her.

Fuck ArenaNet.
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Grandpa Simpson said:
I think that points to the problem really, in most of the entertainment industries. Theres indie devs or writers with great ideas out there. But the people who are getting the industry positions are the ones who are the people who are aligned politically. Which keeps on diluting the skillbase. And the products being churned out are getting worse and worse, especially in the Western market. Since the key development areas are centered around largely "woke" metro centers.
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Wow, I didn't think after posting about the cronyism diluting the skill base. What we talked about would actually happen.

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Fagnacious D said:
Whenever I see posts like this, I want to support companies that are "boys clubs" because they seem to produce better content and have less faggotry.
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I remember thats what happened to the Woman who decided to start an all Women company. By the end of things it convinced her that she thought she would hire majority Men, maybe even only Men. Due to issues with PMS, relationships, and inter-office drama.

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ScatmansWorld said:
Casual reminder that Garry Newman is not safe from "the culture war."

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These are the actions of a man who's trying to get into the pants of some yet to be named e-thot.

Nobody and I mean nobody flexes their jannie muscles unless they're trying to show that they're a big deal on the internet thinking it makes the twitch whores wet.
 
Garry is the luckiest man alive. He's like Notch in the sense that he can't program but just so happened to make a massively popular game that sold a shitload of copies. Example of this genius computer programmer at work: He jumped on the "Linux as the next gaming OS" trend by porting Rust to Linux, which I guess he outsourced or something, because days after getting a bunch of attention/sales for the port he announced that he regretted the decision because his mouse wasn't working properly in Linux, and he therefore wouldn't be able to work on it himself. The best part is that he refused help to get the mouse working and just wrote off the entire port despite its popularity among a group of people that were hungry to support any game that supported Linux. Years later he blamed the port's failure entirely the OS itself and Valve forced him to give refunds to anyone who bought the game for its Linux """support""", regardless of play time.
 
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Tranny with help jappenese Aid has locked hentia & some anime from AUS.

Australia Bans Import of Hentai And Other Adult Anime Products from Japan!


Australia Bans Import of Hentai And Other Adult Anime Products from Japan!
Spencer Baculi October 20, 2020 Anime, Censorship

In an escalation of the country’s campaign against anime and manga, Australia has banned the import of adult anime media and products, including hentai, into the country.



Related: Australian Senator Stirling Griff Accuses Sword Art Online, Goblin Slayer, And Eromanga Sensei Of “Child Exploitation”

This new ban was first reported by popular Japan-based online anime retailer J-List, who informed their customers on October 14th that “Australia is killing off any chance of waifus entering the county because we’ve had to stop shipping there.”

“DHL Japan called us last week, informing us that Australian customs have started rejecting packages containing any adult product,” explained the retailer. “They then advised us to stop sending adult products to the country. Following that, current Australian orders with adult items in them were returned to us this week.”




J-List then stated that adult items banned by Australian customs include “onaholes, hentai manga, doujinshi, cast-off figures, JAV DVDs, and any product marked with a +18 symbol on the product’s thumbnail.”

As to why these items were now banned from the country, J-List pointed to the Australian Customs’ ban on “illegal porn,” which includes “child pornography” and “publications, films, computer games and any other goods that describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex […] in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults are not allowed.”





“Make of that what you will, but the best way to avoid getting anyone’s hopes up of receiving something new, shiny, and for adults only is to cease shipping adult products to Australia,” concluded J-List. “We’re incredibly sorry about this. Fortunately, we can still ship anything else that isn’t an adult product to Oz, so maybe they haven’t banned all the fun, yet.”




This widespread embargo on the import of adult anime products follows a specific ban on the sale of the seinen manga series No Game No Life within the country, itself a result of an ongoing campaign of censorship against anime and manga by the Australian government.
 
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