Read a reddit comment section by mistake of a post asking why people like Guilty Gear more than BlazBlue and the amount of comments using "anime" as an adjective sums up why I can't trust westerners to have meaningful conversations about Eastern media. Nobody made a comment that can be localized.

youtuber who does old console ROMhacks for a hobby: i made the n64 do raytracing just to see if i could and it does five thousand FPS or something triple-A game studio: if you're experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??

guy whose mission is to defend corporations: nooooo you don't understand, it's not a fair comparison because the youtube guy is doing small-scale experiments motivated by an in-depth understanding of the hardware, while triple-A studios have a scope set by executives who don't know anything!

Every "debate a vegan at a college campus" video I watch involves the animal hater using blatant eugenics or ableism to explain why non-human animals can't be considered people or of equal moral value ijbol (I'm mentally handicapped so yes I got a pass to say it makes me think of ableism)

Getting stuck causes players to explore the world. Dying causes players to think about what they're doing. An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible. We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.

Part of me feels like Dark Souls wouldn't have caught on if the first game had difficulty settings. It'd be "cheap", "pointless", etc. Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".

I wonder how big the Qian Jin fanbase would be if Link Click was released in the 2000's. I wonder how big the Tohru Adachi fanbase would be if Persona 4 was released in the 2020's.

A regular Waddle Dee being playable in Air Riders in addition to Bandana Dee seems like a gag addition but I don’t think it can be understated; Waddle Dee is probably more popular than 90% of gaming characters in Japan right now

As much as I don't really care for AniKirby, the Fumu-tan scene is quite possibly the most failed media literacy test.

Seeing discourse from afar on whether Otome games should allow you to select your protagonist's gender is interesting. I see "Well what if we asked for a female protag in BL games huh??" but really, in both genres, most of the time the protagonist is an actual character instead of a blank state.

i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!

"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby

A thing about that Horses blacklist is that you may find the scene they cut and replaced distasteful but we're literally setting a bar here that the TV show South Park couldn't clear.

liking game genres that spawned from the arcades condemns you to forever suffer cuz no one outside of the bubble gets it and every developer wants to the appeal to the guy who doesn't get it

The Japanese version of Pokemon Emerald had an item in the Safari Zone that was impossible to obtain because it mistakenly placed inside the wall. This was fixed in the localization. This Bulbapedia screencap explains in more detail. (Also, not to brag but I was the one who submitted this info!)

It's always interesting to observe which games get turbobanned from Steam - and which ones don't.

yearning? you mean you're self-shipping with a real person you know?

The existence of a genre of lesbians who like bishounen anime and BL suggests a genre of gay men who like bishoujo anime and yuri should also exist, yet most people will say they don't. I think in spirit they do, they just discovered T***** S***t before bishoujo anime.

Realized how few BL games are actually romance simulators as opposed to dialogue option text adventures. I think as far as the Eastern side goes, the PS Vita ports Gakuen Heaven might be the only BL games that play something like, say, Tokimeki Memorial?

In Blazblue, the character Platinum the Trinity has a jab where they do either rock, paper or scissors This makes no difference in almost all situations EXCEPT when they are fighting another Platinum. If they both jab each other at the same time, the "winner" gets the hit

This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.

I would love to tier list all the Kirby boss rushes on difficulty based on playing as Normal Kirby but unfortunately Super Star hates Normal Kirby and playing The Arena ability-less isn't fun.

Honestly funny to see a few people going "Shut up Adeleine, Ribbon, and Kirby 64 fans! You got Zero Two in Air Riders!" When Air Riders's Zero Two does nothing recognizably Zero Two-y in the fight that it might as be an OC at this point.

Reviews of the Dark Matter trilogy Kirby games and the Sonic Advance trilogy on the internet are honestly a shining example of the discrepancy of "playing a game to beat it vs playing it to have fun" and how binge culture and internet review mentality can ruin a game.

Air Riders thoughts with slight spoilers.

Saying a disagreeable opinion with Link Click pfp so people can reply "Of course you have an anime pfp 🙄" and I'd go "ACTUALLY it's from a donghua."

Baiting someone who says "i hate anime" by replying with "Anime is just the Japanese word for animation, you hate animation?" And see them desperately try to avoid saying something as out of pocket as "I hate animation made by Japanese people."

whenever ppl comment on big titty art with something akin to "wow her back must hurt" i wonder if they ever thought the train was actually going to come out of the tv and hit them too

after months of research i've compiled the definitive timeline of the magical girl genre. be sure to show all your friends who like magical girls

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

New generation AA fans deciding Franziska/Adrian is problematic because of their imaginary, arbitrarily chosen, plot-irrelevant ages is funny. First of all, if they were real the ages wouldn't be the only problem. Second of all how does one hold the 18 year old WHIP PROSECUTOR to realistic standards

add a "best doujin game" category

I think it was very cool of Mega Man Star Force to make the traditional Proto Man / Zero archetype character a girl, thus forcing the writers to make a complicated female character with plot relevance and screen time.

This is a thing I've thought about a lot and why it's important to have media with predominantly (or entirely) female casts to force people (including the writers sometimes!) to engage with the idea that "girl" is not a character trait like "the smart one" or something

Western Kirby lore fan and Eastern Kirby lore fan talk about Kirby lore but then the Eastern Kirby lore fan gets confused when the Western one says side modes aren't canon (what is that word?) and that Galacta Knight never made a single canonical (again, what is that word?) appearance.

The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

very important for the government of the USA to explain the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia while visa and Mastercard must defend Western morality by blocking anyone from buying games with illustrated school uniforms in them

Hmmm I think I will blame all the brainrot in modern Pokemon fanbase discussion on XY onwards gentrifying the series for people who absolutely hate RPGs.

Video game series that decide "We're not going to appeal to nerds and weirdos and perverts like we used to anymore, now we're going to appeal to normal people who hate old video games" are weak when both indies and other corporations still successfully do the former.

It's ironic that although Super Star is the combat-focused Kirby game, the boss design is pretty quantity over quality, in that they're all short bosses with most having one gimmick while the non-combat focused Dark Matter trilogy has some great boss design with varied attacks and multiple phases.

Not a Metroid fan but seeing redditors say "Metroid appealing to people who don't like Metroid is good! It needs to sell well!" just makes me more sad than anything. People think gentrifying video games for profit is the progressive take.

slot machines disguised as phone games control far too much of the beautiful animated women industry

I wish modern Pokemon criticism wasn't so graphics focused. The best graphics ever would not fix the small volume and excessive streamlining to the extent it defeats the point of some of the game design. Inspired after learning about Beast of Reincarnation. Will it have deep actual gameplay?

Westerners whose only knowledge of Japanese entertainment is Otaku Culture are gonna be in for a rude awakening when they find out what normie live-action Japanese TV shows are like.

Seeing someone who unironically thinks Donkey Kong is sexy taking proship discourse seriously (in the sense they are scared of "proshipping")... ????? Mate you cannot even use that "but they're an anthro" argument, that is just a cartoon monkey.

Dude you would not BELIEVE how much this pisses me off! The contradictory stances are insane. "Why is everything so bland and boring now? Anyway here's another 5 hour video on how liking a character makes you basically a rapist"

Again, if Animal Rights didn't make 99% of the population activate their fight, I'd love to point out how it intersects with the double standards between sex and violence and how fiction can't make people agree with something they inherently don't want to agree with.

this is what i've been saying. swerfs play a MASSIVE role in what's going on here, but so does the "you do fandom in an icky way" discourse. it enables fascists to capitalize by propagandizing their viewpoints as ones that self-proclaimed progressives tend to agree with.

"oh it isnt censorship its just getting rid of the icky evil bad fiction!!!" except they're going to keep broadening the definition of 'icky evil bad fiction' until the mundane shit you like is included just for having two men hold hands lol.