Culture Kotaku: Cuphead is racist - If you don't self-flagellate at every opportunity over racism you're a racost

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Cuphead was a very good game with a great artstyle and theme, but I thought that they went a little bit too far here:
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Boy have I got bad news for any of their editors who like sweet foods:
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Cuphead is a lovingly, painstakingly crafted and respectful tribute to the better aspects of 1930's animation. If you're going to let a few exaggerated depictions of black people from 80+ years ago ruin your enjoyment of (or make you look down upon) a videogame today, and if you actively ignore the fact Cuphead avoided including that kind of imagery, you might be trying just a bit too hard to earn those brownie points. Sorry for the run-on sentence.
 
By taking the “good” parts of this tradition of animation and leaving the bad, Cuphead ends up whitewashing the past.
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Ffs. They'd probably say the game was racist if it did include the bad.

There's literally no winning with these people.
 
I've been skimming the comments section, and even black people are getting sick of Kotaku's white knighting and race baiting:


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And of course, Kotaku's resident token troon has to jump in, since there are no black people on the staff to act as shields against criticism:
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I honestly have to ask why anyone even dignifies Kotaku with a visit?

I don't mind the pedantic twits that go there, I mean all of you here. You're at the very least clever enough to see through their silliness. Let gaming's National Inquirer go unnoticed.
 
Fulda's Gap said:
I honestly have to ask why anyone even dignifies Kotaku with a visit?

I don't mind the pedantic twits that go there, I mean all of you here. You're at the very least clever enough to see through their silliness. Let gaming's National Inquirer go unnoticed.
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Where else would you read which game is better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World Expansion Pack?
 
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Friendly reminder that this is one of the main developers of the game. And yes, you're reading that name tag right.
Somehow kotaku seems to assume that this literal Chad can be shamed into becoming another socjus doormat.

I'm frankly astonished they only started instrumentalizing Cuphead now instead of three weeks ago, probably not wanting to be too blatant after it showed everyone how shockingly clueless journos are with vidya games.
 
It's not a game about racism. Therefore it's not obligated to go into any sort of detail about the social issues of the 30s. It's just a game about a anthropomorphic cup with 30s style visuals and music. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It's like if I made a game styled after the 60s and failed to have civil rights marches and buses full of black school children being overturned on every level. Even if the game was only about the style of the 60s I'd make a huge faux pas by not making it all about civil rights and my white devil tears.

You can't win anymore.

No one playing this game is thinking about the Chitlin Circuit and lynchings but the SJWs getting triggered by it because Kotaku told them it was triggering.

Trash Eater said:
I think this is right on the money. This kind of thing is basically the end game for most [Demographic] Studies majors. They spend 4+ years learning how to look at everything through the lens of "how does this oppress people" and nothing else. So when they get their first job, say, writing about video games, all they can manage to shit out are articles like "here's how Cuphead is racist." It's the only thing they know how to talk about.
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People get so pretentious after they get their fancy social sciences degree. Hell, they are pretentious and insufferable in class as well. It doesn't help that they went to school in a generation that has drilled into their head that everything is racist, ableist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic and every other type of -ist and -phobic out there. Humanity is the cesspool it is right now because we allowed that type of "everything is offensive" rhetoric to take hold in the first place. I hate the "No fun allowed" generation.
 
I agree, the racist subtext surrounding classic animation is obviously somehow relevant to a video game created in 2017.
 
Ngut said:
View attachment 312412 Friendly reminder that this is one of the main developers of the game. And yes, you're reading that name tag right.
Somehow kotaku seems to assume that this literal Chad can be shamed into becoming another socjus doormat.

I'm frankly astonished they only started instrumentalizing Cuphead now instead of three weeks ago, probably not wanting to be too blatant after it showed everyone how shockingly clueless journos are with vidya games.
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Kotaku shits out a stupid article. News at 11.
 
Dysnomia said:
People get so pretentious after they get their fancy social sciences degree. Hell, they are pretentious and insufferable in class as well.
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It's an easy way to get good grades. You can get excellent grades by doing actual work and having new takes on things (unless you're stuck with a terrible prof, but those aren't as common as thought outside of weird places like Evergreen), but well. Work. People who worked hard for excellent grades don't end up writing for Kotaku.
 
I saw another article on this recently I wonder if this is their new method of attack on cuphead for shaming games journalism like those filthy gamergates.
 
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