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I'm not feeling very safe here and I don't want to let a certain friend down and flip out on everyone.
do what you gotta do for your happiness, imo. and if I can help in any way personally (or if I'm part of the problem itself!), please let me know -- things sound rough, and I wanna help improve that a bit if I can.
We Are! Talking about One Piece~
I was watching the fansubbed version on a friend's suggestion, personally, and I have no complaints. if I get an ereader at some point I might switch to the manga, but having a soundtrack and some colour is really nice too. I can't decide!
Which Castlevania Game is Your Favorite?
so I picked up SotN again (like, the single reason I have a Vita besides P4G) because of this thread, and like
I love how many things there are to just find in this game. I could see a few of these things being frustrating for new players, of course, especially ones expecting the 'find an upgrade' kind of solution, but at least most of those things are non-essential; the pocketwatch thing just gets you some fake armour, the switch (LET'S PRESS IT AND SEE) grabs you some items, too, and the Holy Icon hidden beenath that frustrating breakable floor isn't progress-critical either, for all that it's really nice to have.
a lot of metroidvania games feel pretty uniform, since they boil the formula down to a point where the movement powers and other upgrades you find are basically only used in a single specific way. since SotN came along before any of that was even a thing, I feel like it was a bit more free to have weirder interactions; enemies with strange gimmicks, hidden passages inside hidden passages, tiny setpieces like the confessional in the church, the whole thing with the super jump and the Librarian... it's just a super dense game, and even having beaten it multiple times I still get the sense that I'm exploring.
and yeah, the aesthetic is amazing. I want to live in Dracula's castle, it is the most gorgeously-decorated place.
also there are few game songs that get that rainy-night mood in the same way this does. I love it.
I love how many things there are to just find in this game. I could see a few of these things being frustrating for new players, of course, especially ones expecting the 'find an upgrade' kind of solution, but at least most of those things are non-essential; the pocketwatch thing just gets you some fake armour, the switch (LET'S PRESS IT AND SEE) grabs you some items, too, and the Holy Icon hidden beenath that frustrating breakable floor isn't progress-critical either, for all that it's really nice to have.
a lot of metroidvania games feel pretty uniform, since they boil the formula down to a point where the movement powers and other upgrades you find are basically only used in a single specific way. since SotN came along before any of that was even a thing, I feel like it was a bit more free to have weirder interactions; enemies with strange gimmicks, hidden passages inside hidden passages, tiny setpieces like the confessional in the church, the whole thing with the super jump and the Librarian... it's just a super dense game, and even having beaten it multiple times I still get the sense that I'm exploring.
and yeah, the aesthetic is amazing. I want to live in Dracula's castle, it is the most gorgeously-decorated place.
also there are few game songs that get that rainy-night mood in the same way this does. I love it.
We Are! Talking about One Piece~
I really need to pick that show back up sometime. a friend got me into it a couple years back, and I binge-watched it up to the start of the whole Alabasta thing(?), but after that I kind of left it for later and never got back to it.
really fun and good-natured show, with a great aesthetic and a better approach to the whole shonen fighting thing than just comparing raw power. it has a lot of the typical shonen anime problems going for it, at least at the start, but I hear Oda took some serious steps to fix that at some point, so that's neat.
... Oda's by all accounts a ridiculously hard-working person, too. I remember seeing his daily schedule once. in a week, the guy sleeps enough for maybe four days.
really fun and good-natured show, with a great aesthetic and a better approach to the whole shonen fighting thing than just comparing raw power. it has a lot of the typical shonen anime problems going for it, at least at the start, but I hear Oda took some serious steps to fix that at some point, so that's neat.
... Oda's by all accounts a ridiculously hard-working person, too. I remember seeing his daily schedule once. in a week, the guy sleeps enough for maybe four days.
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oh, and to Feldschlacht re: the lack of progress, since I missed that earlier: trust me, activists feel that way too. zeitgeist is a powerful thing, especially when the venom you're trying to protect people from is backed by so much capital and social momentum. things are getting better now, at least, than they have been, and progress is a constant process. I'm often not confident that any kind of serious lasting change can be made beyond, like, how we view and contextualize media or whatever... but in their time, the divine right of kings also seemed unbreakable.
Sated, go home. you're doing literally nothing but moving a goalpost around and yelling at people for not engaging 'correctly' with someone whose only purpose here is to end the discussion. why you aren't directing any of that scrutiny at that person himself is a mystery to me, but I think I have a good guess!
Sated, go home. you're doing literally nothing but moving a goalpost around and yelling at people for not engaging 'correctly' with someone whose only purpose here is to end the discussion. why you aren't directing any of that scrutiny at that person himself is a mystery to me, but I think I have a good guess!
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I don't see how telling someone to retire themselves from a thread isn't "dismissive". Serious question: Do you even know what the words you're using mean?
that's not how you phrase a serious question, that's how you phrase a smug pseudointellectual insult. try again, please.
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that's why that thing I mentioned is so important. bigotry is defined not by individual bigoted people but by the societal tendency toward bigotry, the decades and centuries of influence that those attitudes have had on how things are structured and how we view the world.
activism is not just some sisyphean struggle to make everyone Act Nice -- properly practiced, its purpose is to root out and replace systems of oppression so that they can no longer have that terrifying and subtle impact on vulnerable people's lives. ingrained white supremacy, ingrained sexism, ingrained xenophobia -- these and more are all present in our culture and our way of life, and they're not going anywhere until we learn to recognize them.
activism is not just some sisyphean struggle to make everyone Act Nice -- properly practiced, its purpose is to root out and replace systems of oppression so that they can no longer have that terrifying and subtle impact on vulnerable people's lives. ingrained white supremacy, ingrained sexism, ingrained xenophobia -- these and more are all present in our culture and our way of life, and they're not going anywhere until we learn to recognize them.
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interesting historical note on 'political correctness': its first real entry into the broad political lexicon was as an ominous-sounding term for people to get upset by. from the very start of its political usage in the 90s, it was nothing but a boogeyman to rebrand the concept of respect and progressivism into some artificial political initiative for people to rally against.
'political correctness' is not a goal of any activist movement. 'political correctness' is the term used by people opposing them to make the activists sound more sinister and monolithic than they are.
never forget! conservatism is the art of using the language of progress to make the status quo seem like the progressive option, and the progressive option the tool of the enemy.
Wikipedia for a quick source, since someone will ask. it's fine, this isn't a college essay.
I have some thoughts on what you said about artificiality too, but they basically boil down to 'avoiding shitty bigoted behaviour isn't the Herculean effort it's cracked up to be' and 'someone who's cognizant of their bigoted tendencies and avoids them for other people's comfort isn't 'artificially' nice, that's just legitimately a nice thing to do'
'political correctness' is not a goal of any activist movement. 'political correctness' is the term used by people opposing them to make the activists sound more sinister and monolithic than they are.
never forget! conservatism is the art of using the language of progress to make the status quo seem like the progressive option, and the progressive option the tool of the enemy.
Wikipedia for a quick source, since someone will ask. it's fine, this isn't a college essay.
I have some thoughts on what you said about artificiality too, but they basically boil down to 'avoiding shitty bigoted behaviour isn't the Herculean effort it's cracked up to be' and 'someone who's cognizant of their bigoted tendencies and avoids them for other people's comfort isn't 'artificially' nice, that's just legitimately a nice thing to do'
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yeah, that's the difficult thing -- we've more or less proven at this point that it's not possible to hold this kind of discussion here.
unless people get better at giving people breathing room to state their concerns, and identifying bad-faith arguments and calling those out when they occur, and in general prioritizing open-minded discussion instead of encouraging assholes who come in with a shrug and say 'well, I don't understand so this is obviously all bullshit!'
like, you wanna accuse anyone of being closed-minded? you come back after you've taken a good hard look at the people who came in purely to dismiss the concerns in this topic out of hand, and the people who followed after to twist this into yet another strawman symposium about how bad SJWs are. the burden of being 'open-minded' does not solely fall on squeaky wheels like us.
if your only purpose here is to equivocate everything that's happened in this topic into 'SJWs vs. channers' or whatever, then you're acting in favour of the people who came to shut this discussion down.
unless people get better at giving people breathing room to state their concerns, and identifying bad-faith arguments and calling those out when they occur, and in general prioritizing open-minded discussion instead of encouraging assholes who come in with a shrug and say 'well, I don't understand so this is obviously all bullshit!'
like, you wanna accuse anyone of being closed-minded? you come back after you've taken a good hard look at the people who came in purely to dismiss the concerns in this topic out of hand, and the people who followed after to twist this into yet another strawman symposium about how bad SJWs are. the burden of being 'open-minded' does not solely fall on squeaky wheels like us.
if your only purpose here is to equivocate everything that's happened in this topic into 'SJWs vs. channers' or whatever, then you're acting in favour of the people who came to shut this discussion down.
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Do you really think some poor black kid in the ghetto gives a fuck about microaggressions?
this is, in essence, a hasty reskin of the 'why do women care about catcalling when (stereotype about the Middle East)' thing people love to throw out in other cases. it is inappropriate to use the suffering of one person as a bargaining chip to invalidate the bigotry someone else experiences.
microaggressions are not some concept spearheaded mainly by white allies. they aren't something that 'real' marginalized people don't care about. and the idea isn't that I'm going to haul off and punch someone every time some well-intentioned person acting on ingrained transphobia asks me about my genitals.
microagressions, as a concept, simply illustrate that people who would think of themselves as progressive and thoughtful are still capable of acting in bigoted ways without thinking. that the root of racism, sexism, and so on isn't individual racist or sexist people, but the cultural norms steeped in bigotry that influence our views and how we treat other people. the subject of microaggressions is there to provide examples of the ways we can and should critically examine our views and our 'common sense', as we can easily and unknowingly hurt other people.
at least, that's how I've come to view it! I'm sure there are other facets.
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