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some bit venting
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 04:59Here's some venting that I posted on bsky/twitter :
Also, being a trilingual is truly a nightmare. Ever since I study french, I feel my linguistic skill is getting more terrible. My Indonesian and english is sucked
it's funny to me how tumblr of all PLACES are the only one where you can meaningful queer analysis of mahoako of all things.
yes, on fucking tumblr.
legit that site seems the only place that embraces mahoako & see the series on postivies outlook, twitter would never
if people want more coomer game to be made, you guys should support niche mid-small budget ecchi otaku games instead clinging to big mainstream JRPG dev that was backed by big publisher.
I think you shouldn't put too much stock on ecchi stuff on japanese console games these days.
Like, CERO has been getting more anal about depiction of violence & sexuality. on top overseas platform is just pretty unfair to JP games most of the time. manga, gacha & anime is unironically a place where ecchi can thriving rn.
it's fucking suck now gacha are the only gaming medium where we get most anime coomer stuff. truly tragedy.
sorry I am gacha/soshage hater lol
Found this post about CERO
And people still don't believe me when I said CERO is more Draconian lol. People are too culture war-brained & think all evil censorship is from west, while Japan has actual censorship that's mandated by fucking law. Even their goddamn porn media were still fucking censored.
Btw CERO just recently banned panty shots or camera angle that show panties for teen rated games cmiiw. It's why most jrpg girls nowadays wear spats.
I feel like Ishihara era seems to be the catalysts that CERO become stricter, puritan and demanding. Just my opinion.
People who think it bcus le evil woke forcing CERO are fucking idiot because even before culture war become big they've been getting stricter. Like i remember seeing a couple of JP devs complain about CERO strictness about violence/sexuality depictions in the 2010s.
They're just getting bolder in the 2020s now.
Like CERO brand of puritanism doesn't feel like puritan wokies but more of typical conservative Japanese boomers who despise otakus & sex in media.
Anyway, fuck rating boards, they're true Agent of Censorships.
I saw a post about how people shouldn't trust youtuber review on game too much & I am fucking agree, especially on this post
it is just like what happen to FE Engage. A lot of youtubers act like that games kill the whole franchise & the worst shit ever created. Then you play the game, it's good & fun. Sure, it's very flawed & story is mediocre, but it's not fucking bad like what youtuber screaming. Also, Engage has better replayability compared to 3H & the story doesn't make me mad because of 3H horrendeus pacing.
Also, being a trilingual is truly a nightmare. Ever since I study french, I feel my linguistic skill is getting more terrible. My Indonesian and english is sucked
I need more podcasts about people talk about Japanese game that genuinely appreciate them & it's anime trope.
It's just annoying how most games podcast I listen always being Weird about jrpg or having ''toned down'' Phil Fish-tier opinion.
''this jrpg is good because there's no cringey anime trope'' shut the fuck up!
I never trust people opinion on JRPGs or japanese games if they tried to dismiss anime/otaku trope. fuck that shit.
So saw this post about idiot execs, making a ''survey'' that game devs (read: AAA devs) wanted to know what teen what and according to their survey 75% teen don't want a romance game and want more friendships (lol).
Absolute baffling, Even if it's that true, how come their conclusion is to NOT include romance options to not alienate the remaining 25% audiences??
Surely that survey is legit & valid, not some execs making up shit.
I swear exec are truly braindead.
Romance & Friendship element in the game can fucking coexist, most Japanese games are fucking doing it.
With how dogshit current social media climate are.
Normalize writing your intrusive thoughts or /any/ controversial opinion on blogging site.
Please I beg you make a blog, make dreamwidth/bearblog/neocities.
Those sites are ''semi'' dead w/ no shitty algorithm -that put your posts outside your circle/audiences who will mad/ratio/dogpile your post because they don't fucking get your sense of humor/personality-, nobody will mad seeing your idiot takes there.
At worst, if someone disagrees with your post they probably leave a shit comment, but, the chances of getting dogpiled a la Twitter are low.
You’re basically screaming into the void & some people do ''listen'' to your screaming, but they don't give a fuck!
Blogging or journaling also helps to articulate your thoughts, forming your opinion coherently, and regulate your emotion better.
tl;dr start blogging NOW
legit, after I finally go back to blogging (I made 2–3 blogs for different purposes) it does help me a lot & feels therapeutic.
I can express myself better w/o the baggage of horde people that's outside my circle dogpiling me because they're not my fucking audience/mutuals who know me.
So far, I recommend dreamwidth if you miss old-school livejournal-style blog!
It has a lot of feature that make it easier for people to interact w/ you. Also, some socmed-like feature w/ customizing ur layout, icon, tag, etc.
Bearblog is also a good alternative if you want more ''secluded'' vibe, also has very simple & minimalistic design. Basically, if you're just there for ''pure'' blogging reasons.
I haven't used it, but according to my friends it much better alternative compared to neocities. Don't use wordpress/blogspot/ big corpo hosted site because they will feed your content to AI or sell your data.
Some venting
Thursday, 6 February 2025 14:17I think people need to learn to accept that sometimes, a subset of groups they don’t like might enjoy or latch onto their favorite series. Instead of doing mental gymnastics like "Uwaah, why are chuds liking this series despite it being woke?"—it would be better to just not care about it.
If homophobic people can still enjoy BL and yuri, what makes you think that just because a series is "woke/queer/progressive," chuds won’t latch onto it if it happens to appeal to their tastes? I've seen plenty of right-wingers enjoying Disco Elysium, for example.
Not to mention, there are also leftists who enjoy works created by conservative authors or works that clearly have pro-right-wing ideologies. People need to understand that sometimes, others can enjoy certain media even if its message or creator’s views oppose their own. It's normal & very common to a lot of people.
And trust me, that doesn’t mean they’re ontologically evil or secretly support the ideology present in those fictional works or being bigot. If a piece of media is good and appeals to someone’s tastes, they’ll like it regardless of the political ideology behind it or the beliefs of its author.
I’m also not a fan of the whole "this work is woke/conservative, so there’s no way chuds/wokies will like it" argument because, most of the time, it’s not even sincere. People just want to "own" the side they’re against in the culture war rather than actually caring about the media itself.
I see this a lot: the woke side tries to justify their favorite media as "woke and gay," only for it to have a pro-imperialism ideology and being a straight because they dislike that chuds like their favorite media. Meanwhile, the chud side tries to justify their favorite media as "based and redpilled," even though it promotes anti-capitalism and anarcho-socialist ideas because they also hate that wokies liking their favorite media.
Honestly, it just comes off as so damn annoying. Just enjoy the series within your own circles/terms and stop caring about which opposite side is latching onto it. You don’t need to make convoluted reasons why the series aligns with your ideology (it doesn't). I promise you'd be much better off mentally if you stopped giving a shit & it's not healthy, man.
Like, literally just block people and also learn to accept that you can enjoy media that doesn’t align with your values/ideology—and that’s fine. You’re not ontologically evil, I promise. Instead of trying to justify why *insert work/media* aligns with your views, just enjoy it for what it is.
The last part is more of a vent because I’m so tired of seeing people call certain games "communist" when you literally play as a freaking imperialist meritocracy emperor. *cough* FE3H *cough*
