Something about "troll's remorse"

2007 was when the internet was starting to get more popular among the masses, due to FaceBook (2004) and Twitter (2006) being novel.

Also the same year where FYAD was already having weird leftists, meaning SomethingAwful was planting the seeds for modern culture wars.

Maybe this is what people mean when they say “4chan was always lefty”: Anons being overself conscious because of normies were already a thing then.

At the same time, I think it’s funny to go “4chan was lefty until 2016 election tourists” because in a way, the negative reception the website had for years does come from somewhere.

So if a normie learns about An Hero or Zippocat: They don’t care what the politics of 4chan where nor if you “became a better person” by quitting in like 2016.

Because there were, in fact, a lot of horrible, even illegal things in that site, that some guys saying slurs don’t compare.

Shit, Normies might as well assume you shared the site with the worst people ever.

It’s the thing with these Troll’s Remorse types: Their “growth” stories have holes that only make normies more confused, they might as well say “I never used the website EVER!”.

Unless they want to pretend the politics they adopted in 2014 were always the standard in the 2000’s, which is also why Gen Z/Alpha get fed a revisionist idea of 2000’s internet and even anime fandom.

Same thing with people blaming Elon for making Twitter worse when they were already complaining about the site years before he got near it (Remember when ISIS of all things were allowed there?).

Also going back to the anime fandom part: There’s a chance that plenty of weebs, specially 2000’s ones, didn’t mind a certain kind of art related to anime culture.

So if you’re going to tell me that the Ken Amada social link in P3P for example is wrong: Should’ve said it in 2009, not wait years for the internet to become this oversocialized, corporate panopticon to do that now.

In that period when anime fans didn’t complain about that art, the kind of people that did were already anime haters that did “2 nukes weren’t enough” jokes.

Because depending on what standards you’re setting up and your position: You might still shoot yourself in the foot.

By equating certain art with a real dark subject matter, you’re coming off as not taking said matter seriously to begin with.

You make Zoomers go “Diddy ahh blud” and suddenly they’ll turn against you.

White people ruining the word "woke"

Honestly, if black people are going to attack white people over the misuse of “woke”: Do it to both sides.

Not just the rightwingers that post tradcath Wojak memes and complain about woke food brands, but to those that draw Hatsune Miku with their projected beliefs onto her and edit Bernie Sanders to look like Venom Snake.

Whites of both sides took the word “woke” and made it as a wrapper around “SJW” so normies don’t think much of the source of these culture war shenanigans.

Before that, people saw it as a “lol Tumblr nonsense” but the plague has been spread.

At the same time, if you want to reclaim the word “woke” back, maybe stop adopting the modern politics from these same white people.

After all, “hood weebs” complaing about “diddy ahh gooners” over anime have to come from somewhere.

On suicide

On that Twitter user that commited suicide: Some people are pointing out shit like “they supported white genocide” and “the same people crying for them were cheering for someone else’s suicide (Was it Shondo or her mom? I Forgot while writing this)”.

I still think there’s a bit of a questionable moral discussion if you mock this person over their suicide while also believing that a certain dev pushed that NITW dev to suicide over false rape accusations.

Because there’s also a clear political context in this and even guys going to the location posting Wojak memes; Whereas with “An Hero”, you had a new meme being made out of it and a specific context about someone freaking out over a lost iPhone.

Yes, that is also another fucked up context but like I said: There were no politics behind it.

(Also, An Hero happened in the 2000’s AKA the time people will tell you “when 4chan was always lefty and /pol/ didn’t ruin it”).

Because the thing with these Wojak obsessed types and Kiwi etc is the bounce between “being edgy for the lulz” and the occasional “I’m doing it for a good cause” mindset that they have.

At least with LowTax, he was so awful of a person, even his suicide was done to avoid paying his ex-wife: His own death was an act in bad faith.

Also, if you believe this Twitter user was a “victim of grooming”, only more reason to look off when you mock them.

Same shit with “those filthy muslims are ruining Europe” and then making jokes about 9/11 or the 2015 Paris terrorist attack.

Getting some facts wrong probably but I heard David Hayter never met Kojima personally, nor was he his choice for Snake.

And I think he even retweeted Blaustein once: That one MGS localizer that Kojima hated and is why Twin Snakes exists.

So it’s funny if MGS fans use him as an authority over what MGS is as if he still doesn’t hold a grudge on Kojima because of MGSV.

An interesting phenomenom is when adaptations/remakes/etc make a story change that makes the story worse.

A basic example is I think Games of Throne not letting a female character be evil, so when she does something bad in the show, it doesn’t make sense.

Maybe I forgot what that was because I never read/watched GOT but there’s other examples like this.

Also, was it Kevin Smith or Seth Rogan that wanted to make a reboot of Darkwing Duck where he’s a loser and one character turned out to be fake?

This, along with the Velma show and the Golden Axe comedy cartoon represent the worst of Millenial nerd culture: Abusing different properties into shit that has none of the appeal and feels like outright parodies.

Same thing with what Adi Shankar did to Rayman in that show.

Something I remember is Jay Z and Rihanna I think buying an ugly house and people realized it’s a possible apocalypse bunker.

Like if WW3 starts of if global warming gets worse.

Basically, people whose jobs is to entertain the masses get protection before scientists, engineers and doctors or anyone that could find ways to make mankind live a little bit longers.

(Or actually contribute to society).

At the same time, these celebrities rely on the masses.

So think of weird guys that believe in conspiracy theories and hate celebrities because they think they’re glow-in-the-dark alien reptoids.

All the lowest common denominator type masses die while dudes that think Hollywood is full of Satanic aliens survive somewhere in a bunker.

But I guess famous people don’t need to produce music at that stage.

GTAV

If Rockstar wanted, they could easily add a “Youtuber/streamer mode” for GTAV where characters say words like “unalive” and shit.

Probably set it by default too.

Link

Bullshit theory I thought of is that Link’s recent designs are because of Nintendo wanting him to look less like Peter Pan.

This is mainly because, due to their patents and themeparks, Nintendo wants to be the Disney of videogames and is probably aware that even Disney can still bite them in the ass.

Though Donkey Kong is still a gorilla with Kong in the name but whatever.

On Kojima

Everyone does these memes about Kojima being the sole creator of his games and always getting credit even though:

• There was stuff like The Making of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Pretty sure MGS2 even had a menu where you could see the people behind the game
• Kojima wasn’t that into “a game by Hideo Kojima” at some point
• MGSV only had the credits in missions because of Konami removing his name in the box art
• MGS Survive having easter eggs about some devs missing him and then there’s how others left Konami to work with him

Maybe I’m getting details wrong but I also think it’s worth address: While games are a team effort, there’s still the director who comes up with most ideas and controls everything.

This isn’t new, since it’s common in so many mediums.

So basically, you could make the same Kojima jokes with Stanley Kubrick or Martin Scorsese or any other director of most stuff.

“Wow dude, David Lynch did everything even played the actors himself lol”.

Nobody does that because other people would look at you like an idiot but videogames are a nerdier medium that wasn’t taken as seriously.

Here in Portugal, abortion became topic of discussion because of some anti-abortion video.

Guess a bit of a general take is "no child should pay the price for the mistake of people who didn't use a condom".

But there's also other factors to consider:

• What if a woman might die from giving birth, if she's on a very frail state?
• What if she was raped?
• What if the family cannot afford to have another child due to economic and quality of living based factors?
• What if the baby is proven to have severe disabilities and will have a painful life that won't last that long?
• What if a woman finds out the father is her cousin, so the baby is inbred?

These are all scenarios you want to avoid but can't always.

I feel like saying to be "pro life", might as well be pro life to the lives that currently exist: Your family, friends, people you look up to etc.

Because then there's some guy bringing up shit like "overpopulation", so you want to make sure every life as much as possible is valued and worth it.

Edit: Also, should bring up when people have abortions for really bad reasons like Feminists who abort their kid because it's going to be a boy or even stupid shit like losing bets.

Something about the Lilo and Stitch remake

Hearing about a very stupid story change in the pointless Lilo and Stitch remake reminds me of a point I once made that lot of things people like could have good messages or something to learn from them

LOTR being a friendship and hardship tale, Spiderman being about responsability, Dragon Ball being “seek what you enjoy and makes you happy” etc.

It’s why people have the right to complain about modern entries that try to be “subversive” and end up changing characters like TLJ with Luke.

Lot of reboots, remakes, revivals feel outright demoralizing because they mostly contradict the message of the previous works, that often times resonates with both casual audiences and plenty of fans.

Even Proud Family (That Disney cartoon) had a reboot and it had awful messages compared to the original.

Lots of modern franchise iterations either do this for “subversive” reasons or even culture war reasons.

I recall there being a Spiderman comic where some nerdy girl is written specifically to “logic own” Spiderman over his “with great power, comes great responsibility” message.

It’s a very good argument to preserve the movies, shows, games etc you like, specially in an age of services not making stuff accessable, censorship in remakes and the whole “lost media” craze.

I guess it could also be another way to look at “media literacy”: People look for stuff to have their exact political beliefs before whether or not something could have a good message, that is then ruined by additional works, often not by the original creator.

But also situations like a shitty Garfield movie being forgotten and someone goes “this movie had a message about capitalism” like who fucking cares.

It could also be said that not every piece of art has to make a message or be made for everyone, but still.

Postal

Does anyome remember when Postal 2 had an expansion pandering to Gamergate and even having Milo Whatshisname as a guest?

Kinda makes the current state of the series funny in retrospective.

“Postal Dude hates everyone equally” like Postal 2 didn’t make fun of specific groups.

(The statement also comes off as “we’re an edgy series but we’d never make fun of specific groups, even if some people in it don’t care about edgy humor when they have actual problems in real life”).

This also goes back to what I said about people associating “edgy, mean humor” with rightwingers (Until “Dark Woke” leftwingers get to make edgy jokes and bring up Christians mad at things or whatever).

Guys like Zach Hadel, Trevor Moore and Garth Ennis didn’t have to be rightwing to make what they did.

Also, wasn’t it Brain Damaged that had a Karen joke? Remember when people said Family Guy’s lowest points is when they use literal internet memes like the peanet butter jelly banana?

Anyway, I hereby give Postal the title of: “The Howard Sternn of videogames”.

Karl Jobst

Karl Jobst making so many videos about the Billy Mitchell thing and even having them sponsored by Raids Shadow Legends is funny in retrospective, but remember that other Youtubers will make videos about him and also have them sponsored, even if they too get in their own situations.

Like a cycle of who sensionalizes who and whose controversies are sensionalized by others and so on.

Youtubers love having their own TMZ and gossip culture even if they’re both the “host” and the subject.

At a certain point, you might as well have a Truman Show moment where everything is fake and you just try to escape it.

Something about Zoomers

Sometimes I wonder if zoomers think artists are soulless or lame because they draw popular characters and with memes involved.

Because why do that when their mere beliefs and personality are a result of oversocialization and trying to fit in somewhere.

So many people online are “meme bound” one way or another.

This also makes me wonder how many people are anti-AI art until they accuse artists they dislike of using AI or even hoping they get their style replicated by AI… who am I kidding? It already happens.

Love and hate

If the true opposite of love is indifference, then that’s part of why I think one can’t have true love without some form of hate.

Maybe this statement is a bit too literal and could be presented/said better.

But in a way, it could be seen as “I love eating and HATE starving”, not something like “I love my loved ones and someone is out there to kill them”.

I think a good use of this term is if you’re an artist and you want to make sure what you make is really good.

So you have to look at what most people watch, so you feel sick in your stomach and try to make something good, to fight back mediocrity.

Zach Hadel

Something I usually bring up is that culture wars makes more sense when you realize it’s a side effect of older nerdy Millenials overcompensating by going crazy with politics (e.g. SomethingAwful users with Troll’s Remorse).

And on that subject of how Millenials talk about politics, I just remembered how Zach Hadel has an actual nerdy interest in politics to the point he brings up failed candidates in OneyPlays but still talks about goofy videos he watches with Chris and Cory.

You guys are talking about how every anime and game you like has your political beliefs, this guy is talking about how Nixon had a prepared message for if the astronauts died in their mission before he suddenly talks about the Irate Gamer or the deaf guy kissing his granda’s corpse.

Because most of modern political discourse boils down to failed adults obsessing with politics, then there’s this Newgrounds guy actually being interested in it without sacrificing having fun.

If culture wars never started, Zach would still be talking about American politics history

Also, this sounds like one of those "media trope expert" shitty takes but a way to "generalize" aliens in fiction is to think of these 3 "pillars" or "categories" or whatever of influences:

• Specific animals that are weird like certain insects and water creatures
• Your fetishes
• And something based on real cultures

So an example is: "this alien race has weird transparent tubes like those weird fish. Then it also has big dick sucking lips and 4 ass cheeks. And it also carries a spear and its language consists of "oo's" being used a lot. No I'm not racist why do you ask?".

Edit: Now I kinda regret this post merely because of the fact it comes off as a quirky unfunny Youtuber trying to make some shitty generalization for the laughs.

And with the kinda projects I want to make, this feels like artistic poison in a way.

(Plus, I went back to designing "hidden characters" again and one is a female alien).

MCU made Thanos about "resources and balance in the universe" and shit while in some comics, he just wanted to fuck a personification of death. The comics version is more ambitious because it makes him feel so alien that he is in love with a concept like death, like something so mystical. This stupid shit about balance is like the lamest "morally ambiguous character" example.

I remembering hearing that the Tau in Warhammer 40K are inspired by asian cultures and pop culture and then I remembered their faces. Because I just had a funny idea: You know people said some aliens in Star Wars were based off racist stereotypes? What if that happened with the Tau's? Only makes the "WH40K is a satire about fascism, you're not meant to idolize the space marines" shit even funnier in hindsight. Like "orcs are based on black people" all over again.

Was it Kamen Rider that had a show where they added a George Floyd "I can't breathe" reference (Which sounds like a /pol/ joke edit) and had people going "this series was always woke" when said show had messages about violence and "fighting back" when said series was more "pacifist" previously? Forgot (And being wrong about this maybe) but I also recall a Japanese mangaka saying Japan's idea of justice is just "Making things fair" while the American idea leans more into "punishing the bad guys". Maybe American cops are as brutal as they are because of something to do with American culture that even ACAB people have but won't admit. "Marvel's Punisher is just an edgy character anyway, you can't just kill everyone that has ever done something bad when there's systems that can make people change and-" same people fantasize on killing someone for the wrong opinions.

BTW I'm almost half asleep while writing this shit.

It's one of those "I wish someone else said it because it'd be kinda funny" things.

Supporting an artist can come in 2 or 3 ways:

• Money
• Attention
• And of course: actually getting invested in their art

This is what anti-piracy people forget: Besides how hard it can be to have access to some things, if you really like something, you want to actually "get into it" even if you don't buy if officially. A lot of stuff I like that even influenced my projects is stuff I didn't really pay for. (Even if deep down I wish I could support my favorite artists more and I wouldn't bring that up if I met them personally maybe, but with the second part it's also because we're in an age the internet made too many people too close to each other). Most people don't get this because fandom culture is more about "socialization" than actually "consuming the media" as they say. So the part of "I actually read this comic/manga series" is thrown out the window to these people if you bring up not buying it. But at some point, lean too hard into the other extreme and you're not even supporting the actual artist but rather the "copyright owners" and you're a few steps away from the MCU Funko Pop guy people make memes of.

"Art is about expression" as a phrase is honestly vague and can be twisted in a lot of ways. One mischievous, almost in-bad-faith way is assuming that every artist supports everything they put in a work. When in reality, artists just happen to explore ideas or concepts that they otherwise don't support/enable/endorse/etc. A complexity of human intellect is that we use art to do stuff like this. But so called "pro art" people don't get this, which is why they suddenly think "fiction affects reality" and act even crazier than Jack Thompson. Essentially, they point out their low IQ and take pride in it. Makes you wonder why people even brag about liking concepts like "morally ambiguous characters" when they have brains behind those of literal children.

Monkoloid

"You filthy fucking monkoloid, get the fuck in here"

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.