I think one of the worst parts about Nintendo and other companies making patents over game mechanics and stuff is the fact that a lot of notable or prestigious game devs won't say anything about this.

What I mean is that Kojima will say nothing and neither will Kamiya, Yoko Taro, Nomura, Harada, Romero, Toby Fox etc.

Say what you want about Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore, John K etc but them being artists that also complained about other things, even if you disagree with them, makes them a bit more admirable than most gamedevs going "we're all one big industry :)".

Harlan Ellison shat on so many stories to the point he even refused the label "sci-fi".

Scorsese got attention over his comments on the MCU.

Tolkien was one of the first big figures criticizing Disney.

All this talk about "are videogames art" when some of the best artists are those that are honest and sometimes mean or at least without much of a filter.

Despite clear differences between the two, both Druckmann and Kojima want to feel like movie directors but with games without realizing "maybe people LIKE that Tarantino gets mad and says what he wants to say".

But you'll get Crash Bandicoot and 2B playable in the next Smash probably, so people will ignore this.

You know how Australia is sometimes refered as "down under" and how anal is banned there?

Has there ever been a joke that's someone saying "just because we're down under, that doesn't mean I'm not gonna fuck you... down under"?

Artists obviously have to respect and help each other, but I also think it's worth noting how some historically weren't always the nicest or happiest people.

On one hand, there's guys like Stanley Kubrick who wanted his movies to be so perfect he throws away any unused clip and forces like a hundred takes just to get a scene right. On another, there's guys like Harlan Ellison who made his stories that way because he was angry at various subjects and had something to say about them.

Because lately, people idealized the cute wholesome idea of an artist, that's a "smol bean" that doesn't threaten anybody. But besides people forgetting that some artists were always horny, seeking some sort of attraction/idealization or wanting to touch taboo subjects and break norms, there's also how some either wanted their works to evolve so much even if they came off as sociopaths or felt people needed to see/hear something they're not comfortable with.

And people give guys like Alan Moore or Miyazaki shit for being grumpy and all, but they still did stuff people declare good and sometimes, their personalities can at least be part of it.

(Plus, most people online don't research these guys so everyone is all second hand info and meme based anyway).

Going back to people having cutesy, innocent ideas of what artists should be, it could also be a side effect of fandom culture where art exists for fandom's sake than actually for the artists' sake.

"Who is this for" might as well be an anti-art question because it implies art is just "content" (There's that word again).

Basically, AI art is a side effect of lots of things like this one for example.

Something I once thought about is how certain fantasy/fiction monsters/creatures are basic alterations of humans like how cyclops are just a person with a single eye or how an elf is someone with pointy ears. Of course, there's interpretations that go crazier than that, but I mainly thought of this because of how in real life, the closest to a cyclop would be someone with a deformity where their 2 eyes are fused together. Because I also wonder what happens first: Someone from thousands of years ago creates a fictional monster with clear difference from humans or someone in real life is born with such abnormalities, that either inspires the fictional monster or is compared to one and even has a disease/condition named after it.

Another thing is how fictional races can still have a certain level of "natural perfection" or "rules" where, a cyclop is meant to have one eye, so they don't look the same as someone with their eyes fused into one weird eye. And it's not just a matter of art style (Like cyclop characters looking less uncanny in a stylized/cartoony art style instead of looking realistic), because even with live action, you can still make the cyclop seem natural to their own nature.

Siamese twins are a similar thing: It's not just that someone with 2 heads is unnatural, it's that most of the time, they look even weird than fictional characters with 2 heads, like how some siamese twins have one half being taller than the other. So if an artist wants and has the skill and effort: You can make a character with 2 heads that still looks "idealized" or at least natural in their own terms.

Basically, imagine if someone was born with long ears and they're said to have the "elf syndrom". But their ears are so weird looking, they're not the same as idealized, fantasy elfs whose pointy ears still look fancy.

In a way, what IS more uncanny? A guy born with one eye that looks weird because it's their 2 eyes fused together? Or a perfect real life cyclop where the single eye looks relatively normal and even functions properly?

Part of why I made this post is because I did look up other people's 2 headed characters when designing that female Hellhound for Hirdrih. But during Nortubel, when I drew the character Tfoorie, I remember watching a video of someone's cat born with 2 conjoined heads so they had 2 mouths and 3 eyes. The one eye in the middle was of course 2 fused eyes and there's even clips of both before and after the surgery to get that middle eye removed.

I think what makes multiple eyes weird is the fact that the human brain wastes more energy for the sake of extra body parts. It's almost the same reason why people that are taller than usual tend to have shorter lifespans. Even if humans are different from each other and change based on evolution and other factors, there's always some rules that makes us limited. Because one thing is people that look ugly or weird because of deformities or just poor health habits and environment. But it also means that if someone looked very beautiful/handsome and has so many traits like being tall, that could still come with a price.

The game takes place in a cinema or something movie related, where you get access to some of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time.

And the main villain/horror monster is an animatronic of Roger Ebert.

The animatronic has a weird open mouth, because it's based on when he had his jaw removed.

And when he catches you, he opens his weird mouth and reveals rows of sharp metallic teeth and eats you.

Maybe the game revolves around going to some theaters and you "watch" the movies as if you're getting inside them as if there's levels based off made up movies in the game's universe.

Also, there's a creepypasta about a game called The Theater.

Actually, the whole reason for this post is because of the idea of making a horror monster out of jawless Roger Ebert, like how there's an urban legend about the Ayuwoki MIchael Jackson animatronic.

One thing you'll see is people going "YES, HE'S OUTED AS AN ABUSER".

Why are they doing this? Because in an age of the oversocialized internet where everyone is a virtue signalling performer seeking for approval: It's not enough to hate someone because you think they're lame.

You need to have a morally justified reason, even if all it does is feed your ego and approval seeking while not showing actual respect or care for the victims.

(Never forget some people wanting to paint ChibiReviews as a pedo, then saying nothing when an hacker came to his account to post actual CP in it).

You'll also have meme gimmick accounts saying shit like "Saberspark added to the naughty list" because people have no etiquette online.

Equivalent to someone hearing news about a mass shooting and responding with a drawing of Super Mario crying.

(To be fair, a lot of "funny wacky" meme accounts always break character like this, I think that one "things that aged badly" account with Blinx the Cat is the most notorious example).

It also happens that most of these allegations always involve various texts and info but people only hear this from second hand info and not even research it properly.

Basically why, for a period of time, Jontron was labelled as a Nazi: He was basically tricked to join some stream by Destiny (AKA the "Ethical CP" guy), expressed some points badly and that was used to make him look bad.

Basically, anytime someone says "I heard he's a piece of shit", what they meant is:

"I heard LITTLE info about this person and I'm too lazy to look it up, correct what I know while at the same time feeling comfortable being among with likeminded people and with the little I know of".

Even then, I myself know little of this situation but felt like commenting on how people are treating it, because it says a lot about modern internet and there's some things to be learned (Even if in a "how NOT to behave").

Otherwise, I don't care much about cartoon Youtubers who probably have a lot of bad opinions and taste in animation.

Actually, I have a bit of a theory:

People treat sympathy, sincerity, normalcy etc as vague concepts that you can easily perform as long as you say you do them.

Basically, "fake it until you make it".

On one hand, you have the oversocialized internet where everyone is on each other's necks, like one of those dystopia stories where people are against each other so the authoritarian regime doesn't go after them.

(A coincidence that a lot of people "grew up and changed" in an age where people say "unalive").

On another, you also have how limited internet interactions are.

You can be nice to people online and do stuff like donate them money.

But what is the online equivalent to helping an old lady go across the street?

With these 2 in mind, you have this environment where everyone is concered with "having a normal one" and being a "decent fucking person" but don't really do much to show it.

But because they get likes/retweets/upvotes/etc they don't have to.

All it takes is finding enough people on their level and they think that's the norm.

Recently, I tried to advertise for /v/3 with some art of my characters but I may stop because of 2 things:

• My mouse is having weird issues with click-and-drag, so I switched to one that instead has weird mouse wheel issues and is also of a vertical design.
• Pixiv got my account suspended because of those images because of some policy related to advertising to outside websites.

If nothing else, I'd like if some of you retweeted those images I posted on Twitter about /v/3.

You can also see all images on 8ch moe's /vb/ thread I made about /v/3.

Portugal had a major power outage in almost the entire country. And apparently, so did other European countries. From what I heard, it's due to something going on with the atmosphere and it started on Spain.

When Portugal had electricity back, it started on the North and took a while to get down there. Though there's still stories of airports on hold and stores being robbed, at least in some areas.

During this time, me and my family had to cook some food because of the fact that the fridge stopped working. We still had some phone battery/data but had to save a bit of it just in case.

As of now, it's back. A big lesson here is to prepare and be carefull as usual.

Don't really like George Carlin that much but the idea that he'd be considered "woke" today is goofy.

One obvious reason is when he shits on political correctness.

But another is because of the whole schtick of "most people are fucking stupid" which doesn't work with a culture of fake positivity and people prending to be nice.

Think of Tumblr artists when they fetishize vitiligo and stretch marks and go "you're so beautiful" which is something corporations and brands even caught on as part of marketing.

Doesn't work with a mindset that thinks about masses culture or shit like that, outside of maybe when some Americans go "most Americans are dumb but at least the rightoids ones. Good thing us lefties are the good ones" when an outsider would think "fuck you, you're both bad".

There's also the fact that concepts like sincerity and sympathy are best done naturally and through action but the internet is this virtual space where what you get out of most people is just written words.

So some people put more effort into shouting "I'M A GOOD PERSON, I'M A GOOD PERSON" than actually proving it.

It's the same reason why everyone is overly self conscious and why plenty of movies/shows/games/etc have "self aware/meta writing".

For the same reason people join online mobs to attack others for moral superiority when deep down, they too have skeletons in their closers.

Guess there's also how the problem with humanity isn't that we're all the same, if anything we're too different from each other.

That's why, if culture wars mean anything, people love having a black-or-white view: It's easier if everyone is either X or Y.

If you lean left/right to the extreme but someone on your side is "not lefty/righty enough", you'd hate them more than the other side because they confuse you like an eldritch being.

Going back to Carlin, there's also the fact that the left didn't really embrace political correctness (At least as much as now) until like the 2010's.

It's what makes the existence of "dark woke" silly because it's them going "yeah turns out we don't mind edgy jokes and slurs, we just wanted to police people lol".

Stephen Colbert made a gay joke about Trump and Putin and his audience hated it.

Trevor Moore will still be the most popular WKUK guy because he remained a 2000's Leftist while the rest of the group got a Windows 10 update to "grow up".

"Wow I can't believe they said slurs on CumTown OMG" you're the reason why zoomoids say "ahh" instead of "ass".

Remember when someone on Tumblr wanted a picture of fruit to be tagged as "gore"?

Anyway, Carlin did say some interesting things but he also felt like he said basic shit and got popular for how he presented/delivered them.

I could say in a way, the attitude of "you know what mother fucker?" *drops some FACTS* predates Youtubers and grifters going "you've been owned with FACTS AND LOGIC" and those Tumblr threads that go "ALRIGHT MOTHER FUCKERS HERE'S A HISTORY LESSON".

This cartoonish idea of "being smart" that's prevelant in a lot of shit, specially with adult Millenials.

With that in mind, it's one way that George Carlin, despite his intentions, actually made people stupider.

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Surprised I didn't see anyone insult Pope Francis online and I wonder if it's because of what I said earlier that even very leftwing people are afraid to come off as "Reddit Atheism" over religion.

People make jokes about JD Vance leading to the Pope's death but what happened to the "good, I bet he touched kids" people?

Guys, it's ok.

Rightwingers brought back making religion look stupid with their "CHRIST IS KING/BASED" whatever, nobody will reply with your opinions on Christianity with Fedora Shrek anymore.

They even do Wojak memes with Jesus, you can't get lower than that.

At the same time, it may never happened but the idea of a black Pope is kinda funny because of how some racists will react to it when:

• Nowhere did the Bible said anything about race like "God created the chad aryan whites and Satan created brown people".

At most, you have stuff there that has to do with women and gays and that's because other religions have something similar, which brings to the next point:

• A lot of these Western religions were created by people from thousands for years ago that were anything but caucasian looking.

If "aryan" blonds did exist back in like 8000000 BC, they were probably in what became Sweden and most of Northern Europe and were ice dwelling cavemen, whose skin was very pale because of the dark, cold environments.

I even say jokey shit like all these religions being part of a "MCU expended universe" equivalent at their time and that being Christian that hates Judaism is like a Starfox fanboy that hates F-Zero.

And that Jesus did exist but he was just proto-Rasputin.