UBON'S PROFILE

that's why I said it was a tangent! the things said reminded me of other things said. I think everyone else is well-enough involved with the actual current subject to permit me a strange interlude.

though my last lines, re: buycotting and so on, were more direct and the bit in quotes probably wasn't doing you any favours. my bottom line, though, is still that people are generally pretty well-aware that marketers aren't really our friends; part of why I disagree with the question of 'is this a feminist film' on its basic premise, actually. (the other big part being that it kind of asphalts over the interesting and meaty points of feminist analysis in favour of a pithy tagline)

as for whether it'll make a difference, a great thing about people is that we can apply our chisels and fulcrums to many different cracks at once! while I have my own doubts about games' world-changing properties on their own, being lashed to the same desperate and monstrous marketing and profit engines as other things, they're just one method of approach.

going on a bit of a tangent, but it's always interesting to me how people will pretend that the narrow, sexist design modus of a lot of media these days is just a simple matter of market demand, and then immediately turn around and decry any shift in that (because women, trans people, and nonwhite folx make up more of the market than people often admit) as unnatural

like, there really isn't much substance to the 'well, sex sells so this is okay' argument besides being another reskin of the whole 'the unspoken majority is on my side so feminists should shut up' thing.

that said, there are discussions to be had about the ineffectiveness of 'buycotting', and how readily companies will try to capitalize on social issues (see: how many awful companies started selling rainbow merch as though they had been there for gay people all along), but those are issues that educated activists stay abreast of; their presence doesn't invalidate entire avenues of change.

like, it's not really anyone's place to say 'well games won't change anything anyway so you might as well leave them alone'. they matter to people, and that's enough.

the REmake of the first game on Gamecube was absolutely wonderful, as I remember it. while Capcom's kind of changed since then, I hope this lives up to the same standard of quality.

I'm kind of curious if they'll do the same thing they did for RE1 -- that is, sticking with pre-rendered backgrounds to give themselves more room to make the models gorgeous. it really worked on the Gamecube, and there have been a least a few games since then that took the same tactic. I'm fairly sure pre-rendered backgrounds made with current tech would work just as well, and I'm eager to see.

does this count as vaporwave too

I was gonna say, yeah. keeping track of two stream-of-consciousness threads is gonna get weird.