Thanks!

I was talking about the remake, lol.

What’s the YT series roasting TLoK? I’m interested.

Another example of something that upsets me, unrelated to this, is glorification of capitalists. Prime example is Duck Tales. I genuinely like the show, except when they bring up how he got rich from “hard work” and never explain what exactly it is that he does to be rich.

Another example, Legend of Korra, where Asami is literally perfect. No bad qualities at all, and she’s the young venture capitalist. Even the two capitalist villains get redeemed and use their industries to create wonders for society by the end.

And what really upsets me, and makes it slightly irrelevant to your post, is that the stories are so enjoyable that even though that shit made my eyes roll and my blood boil, I sat through both series. It somehow hurts worse when the storytelling is actually good.

Back to your topic, I guess when people offer dogshit analysis of media that promotes prejudices, capitalist rhetoric, or fascism, that’s when it makes me so mad I can’t listen anymore. For all the faults of liberal media, I can usually ignore their shitty politics if it’s entertaining. Only example I can think of where I couldn’t was that godawful remake of V back in 2009.

Star Wars is an especially contentious subject that every “enlightened centrist” and lib manages to project onto history in some offensive way. Really, it’s more like a mirror for backwards education of history, so they can just go “when Star Wars does X, it reminds me of how I was taught such-and-such people did stuff.” Perfect example being the Ottomans “stealing” children (neglecting the fact many parents offered their children to the devshirme because it could increase their status).

Another example, one that upset me, was some YT video about the Clone Wars episode where the Pantorans claim an ice moon and the Chairman is trying to kill the indigenous alien species, and ultimately Senator Chuchi makes peace with them by respecting their sovereignty. Somehow, someone argued that the aliens were little better than animals, brutal savages, and Chuchi betrayed her people’s interests by letting them keep their planet (which didn’t even have significant resources). His defense of that was that it wasn’t racism, because these are aliens. I’ve seen other scifi videos where they justify using flamethrowers on bug people (Geonosians); and a “pro-human” speech for the movie Avatar where the villain conflates humanity with building wonders, not primitive connections to nature.

I guess what annoys me to where I can’t listen is where people find a way to be racist by using proxies so when you point out “that’s racist”, they just roll their eyes like you’re too sensitive and tell you it can’t be, because it’s an alien.

Mmm. Gumbo. My only guess is that by 1492 the Catholics forgot what syncretism was.

And any red-blooded being with taste, true. But I don’t think European pagans knew they existed when Ester was a thing. If they had, it very well might have been a staple in Easter too.

Most Americans aren’t vegan. Also, the egg is symbolic for fertility and much of Easter traditions are based on the pagan Ester traditions, which celebrated spring and fertility. Hence the eggs and bunnies. I think it might also be because of how they’re dyed and how that might not work on potatoes. Maybe it’ll be a new tradition though.

Ugh, the AI personalities are even offensive caricatures to boot.

I suspect Chinese diaspora are not particularly patriotic or communist. When they come to the capitalist West, it is likely with an expectation for a higher material quality of life. There is a powerful incentive, monetarily and socially, to sell oneself as a “victim of communism” who overwhelmingly loves liberal and capitalist values. Now, if a patriotic or communist Chinese person was willing to leave China for the US for whatever reason, I think they’d quickly be met with hostility and suspicion for challenging the anticommunist narrative. To back this up, I have some anecdotes to help illustrate my point if you feel like reading them.

I recommend a humble Blahaj for your bed or sofa.

I live in the US and joined a party, but I really don’t have much hope. The general mentality I’ve seen in most USians is that when Trump acts like a despot, they immediately turn to comparing him to socialists. “What are we, a bunch of Asians?!” is unironically how a majority of them act. If capitalists take over government agencies and privatize them, they call it socialism. If capitalism fails and grocery stores run out of food, they call it “communist bread lines”. If fascists push for anti-diversity policies and a bloated military, they’re equated to the DPRK. As much as I hate to give credit to Orwell, he was very correct about “doublethink”.

More and more Americans are being radicalized, but I fear it’s not happening fast enough. Maybe I’m being pessimistic, but I think meaningful resistance will be hampered, if not outright betrayed by anticommunist liberals.

Hold up, are we suddenly not all secretly necromancers?

It has the energy of a middle schooler seeing how far he can get away with it, but having a shitty excuse to backpedal with.

“But, teacher, I wasn’t doing that! I was giving my heart out to the class! They’re totally different!”

It is uplifting. I’ve had friends ask me about China since it happened, and it’s been nice.

I did it and don’t regret it. I’m actually considering posting videos of actual conditions in the US eventually. Show Chinese libs what American prosperity really looks like, from an American.

Just came from a CNN article rambling about Chinese censorship on Rednote. There’s something really ironic about American media trying to paint China as the villains for censorship when the thing that prompted the migration was the US banning an app just for being Chinese. It’s the same kind of two-faced hypocrisy as when they got caught spending years of making Russia a villain for Ukraine, then dismissed the highly visible crimes of Israel in Gaza.

At some point, I’d hope more Americans will realize there’s a big difference between what the US claims rival countries are doing, and the very visible reality of what allied countries are doing. I’m glad to see thousands of Americans realizing they’ve been lied to, but I know millions more are only going to see the cultivated media response and reaffirm their programmed biases. Hard to stay optimistic, living in the Imperial Core.

I remember something about the colonization effort being unsustainable and basically doomed to failure unless it was properly guided, so there was an undercurrent of the decentralized anticapitalist choices would ultimately kill everybody. But again, years have gone by. I could just be misremembering.

My one complaint about the Outer Worlds is you still don’t get any communist faction choices. In fact, you’re kinda led by the narrative to choose balanced, liberal capitalist choices. If you go full anti-corpo, there’s usually some dialogue implying things will be bad, and the full-corpo route is just comically evil. Balance, though, is usually presented as sensible and sustainable. The anti-corporate choices also all seem to lack anything like socialism, just different flavors of anarchism.

It’s been awhile since I played it, though. Maybe I missed something. The self-aware anticapitalism was great, but the limited solutions and presenting anticapitalism as violent anarchy with questionable demagogues was… disappointing.

And then everyone acts like it’s the greatest game ever, with astounding writing that no game since has matched.

Warframe is free to play, just had a major update, and the community that I’ve seen is pretty inclusive. It’s also pretty addicting.