Some of you are aware that I haven't done work with my new game and I've got some reasons for it.

Plans for projects:

A big reason why I got into game making was because of a project from 2018, where I came up with different kinds of characters and ideas over the years.

At some point, I decided to stop updating a large text file so I could focus on making a game, that used ideas from the file.

But even during Nortubel's development, I still did some edits to the file and then made a second text file with more ideas and even "corrections" of ideas from the previous file.

As of now and since July, the second text is much larger than the first.

All those new characters I drew like Belshazzar, Sola, the princes of darkness etc were planned characters that have yet to be drawn, unlike other characters that showed up in the first game.

(And some like Vahlrossa are newer).

Most of these characters are ideas I needed to get out of my head, even if they may not have proper appearences in the Hirdrih game.

And even then, some ended up being redesigned and changed from their original concepts, as if a lot of these ideas could've used some tweaking even after the years of already changing ideas before being used.

Belshazzar for example would've had a much different design and his name could've been Desmond.

But I like to think I got enough ideas for the future that could just be the way they are, until the right moment.

(Even if I kept telling myself something like this, before I then get yet another set of new ideas and went back to editing the second text file).

The art gallery in Mega with image references and stuff also relates to this, like the art styles I'd like to see my characters in and so on.

In general, the Mega art gallery and the texts are so I have material for various projects, even if there's a lot to learn still and specially when a project actually starts, since can still change.

They're the closest I have to a "bible" that holds everything together, besides maybe the fact that I put my games on Github and want to have enough of my games as accessable and documented as possible.

Real life stuff:

Lot of stuff got in the way: Helping people with stuff like moving objects, a trip where I was off from home for a day and even health related stuff.

The health stuff does come from my paranoid side and part of why I'm obsessed with planning projects that have yet to start.

Let's just say in the next months, some events will keep me busy but hopefully, they can contribute to my gamedev activities some way.

The internet news:

You heard it: Visa/Mastercard, UK/EU ID check laws, etc.

This worries me because it'll affect my interests and those of others, specially if I want my gamedev stuff to grow and be able to pay other people to improve my projects.

I don't want all the years I spent imagining/planning stuff to go to waste because of terrible laws by tech illiterate politicians.

I even end up mentioning it/sharing related stuff on Tumblr, Twitter, Bluesky and Newgrounds.

Other stuff:

I guess there's also the blog posts I made on Tumblr/Newgrounds and seeing other people's art.

And maybe some of my art and Doom mapping.

On the Hirdrih game:

I should mention that Project Nortubel started in mid 2022 but nothing happened until the end of the year, where development got stronger and that's why the game appears to have taken 2 years to make.

Even then, I still had help from other people by posting on different sites for help and even tutorials.

Hirdrih Technologic may follow a similar pattern, specially since much like Nortubel, it's another "Hobby" type game.

But if I get a proper budget and Hirdrih is finished, my third game could be much better because I have some ideas that could work.

Because I want to base my life on these projects and justify it.

Even if I have to do real life changes to enforce basing my life on these projects.

When I focus more on the Hirdrih game, you may see me posting progress posts and maybe ask for help over specific things.

2022:

My computer is set up in my room (Which was originally a kitchen).

Note the wooden garden table, old lady chair and maybe the lamp.

Project Nortubel technically started on this before the pieces started to change over time and the game's development barely went anywhere at that point.

Also the drawing tablet before I gave up and went with the method I used for the game's assets.

2025:

My computer changed over time (New "case", monitor, mouse, keyboard etc).

Got a new table and chair (Not pictured).

Though I still put books under some objects for the sake of an ideal layout.

And the Bart Simpson lunch box is there to "push" the monitor cable because it has to be position right so it's on.

I tend to switch around mouse type because the verticle can't scroll properly and the regular mouse has problems with dragging.

I still have a black cable that's connected to the internet router thing (Which is placed behind a big door for some reason) and a golf ball themed thing that's also internet related.

BTW, might as well make some censorship related rants.

1:

Most people do a terrible job at defending “problematic” stuff they like, in a way that somewhat still aligns with the opposition.

Particularly the “yes, but” part.

Specially when someone else goes “I LOOOOOOVE Made in Abyss but the icky stuff should go” and someone’s response is “yes that’s bad but” as opposed to “it’s not an immoral thing plus the creator wants it that way, maybe it’s not for you”.

Even with Berserk, this happens at time.

Because I was also thinking of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley and how some people even label it as “shock value” when the “shocking” elements are there because the creator wants it and not just to shock people.

Specially since there’s audiences for that stuff, so the goal of such artworks isn’t really “trigger the normies” as people think it is.

There are people whose standards are essentially “anything edgier than Bluey is the devil”, they got no maturity to handle serioues art to begin with.

You do not want people like these as fans of things you like, if the attitude if “I’m a fan but this has to go” makes someone go “I guess you’re right” and ruin something interesting because of these unevolved cavemen.

Also shout outs to guys on /a/ who call others “ironic weebs” and still have a mindset of “I gotta be constantly aware that the stuff I like is gross and hide my power level”.

2:

There are cases where it seems silly to complain about censorship but even then, making fun of people complaining can still set a precedent for how anti-censorship people can be mocked.

An example being Elmer Fudd and how some later Looney Tunes stuff replaced his shotgun with a scythe.

Because the mere idea of the character is that he’s a hunter and who would actually see the basic idea, in a cartoon series about slapstick violence, as some sort of pro gun propaganda anyway?

There’s a reason why this character still had a shotgun for so long, while the actual offensive caricatures are what set up the warning screens like “attention, this cartoon is a product of its time and that’s why some characters look this way”.

If it’s silly to complain that he has a scythe, it’s even sillier to complain he had a shotgun in the first place, anyway.

(Why do people even make guns a pro right/anti left thing to begin with when Karl Marx was pro gun and Reagan wanted to push gun control anyway? How can you fight against evil white cops if you can’t even let yourself use the most basic “click to delete” shit to begin with?).

But anyway, where were some of you during Skullgirls’ censorship?

Also shout out to people who supported remake culture: Really cool that Destroy All Humans has a “campy” warning thing for its content even though it still cut shit to begin with.

3:

Lot of people don’t want to admit that a specific kind of “4chan weeb” nerd was there first to complain about censorship.

You can say what you want about Anita or the rightwing grifters etc but note how the “Christian Conservates” narrative started at least during Pixiv fanbox being hit by payment processors and none of that was around, let’s say, a Dead or Alive game not being sold to the West and someone like Jimquisition mocking people for it, even mocking some exec during a quotation in that video.

Feels like people want to memoryhole shit that we could otherwise learn from because it probably never left.

4:

Furries shoot themselves in the foot when they criticize a certain other fetish.

Partially because the same people genuinely disgusted at that fetish would feel the same about furry stuff.

Because even within furry artworks, let’s say there’s a spectrum about how realistic an anthro character can look to real animals and how many furries are like “no it has to look like a realistic dog, have realistic animal parts and even drawn pissing in a fire hydrant with a raised leg”.

Between that and liking a stylized character like Carmelita Fox, it’s no different from the likes of Shadman going “no dude I gotta draw Keemstar’s daughter lmao” and someone just prefering a stylized character like Roll from Megaman.

I might as well bring up how SomethingAwful goons picked both furries and weebs as targets, but now due to troll’s remorse, they decided that furries are no longer cringe if they pretend they’re some brave inherent LGBT movement (Otherwise, the narrative would be “these racist nerds would rather fuck a dog than admit a black woman can be beautiful”).

(And with weebs, the narrative shifts from “yuri is inherently trans and male weebs don’t get that” and “guys we gotta talk about Junko Furuta and how mysognist Japan is”).

You can be a weeb without liking that fetish, but people seem to forget it always had a place in anime/manga history.

Even some popular anime/manga artists like it, from Miyazaki being “the father” of it, to Toriyama once drawing fanart of To Love-Ru, to even Miura drawing a manifesto defending the fetish and even writing how it could combat actual abuse cases.

(There was an image someone made comparing the statistics of Japan’s abuse cases vs the UK, which bans that kind of art).

And like I once said: A lot of weebs in the 2000’s were old enough to simply say “this stuff is icky” but didn’t.

Nobody said anything about the Ken social link in Persona 3 Portable when it came out.

This sentiment people have is clearly recent and due to a “what would the normies think of me” mindset.

Only people in 2000’s saying it was gross were already goons doing “2 NUKES NOT ENOUGH” jokes, anyway.

The same zoomers that go “this is some diddy ahh blud shi” (They can’t even use basic swear words) would probably go after your stuff as well.

5:

Genuinely wonder if some people refuse to say parents are doing a terrible job raising their kids, because they think any argument in the vein of “most people are dumb” is bad.

Because you’d think with how everyone loves George Carlin, they’d come to conclusions that there are problems with society in general.

But I guess when one worries too much about approval from “the normal ones”, they can’t say something about a specific flaw or attitude in the masses.

The mere concept of parents not monitoring their kids’ use of technology is part of why (Or at least a bullshit excuse) these shitty laws exist now.

I noticed that Gelbooru put up a banner about the payment processor situation.

I feel like NewGrounds should do the same (And also make it about the ID check laws as well).

Like a banner that mentions the situations and even how to contact certain people/entities or how to do some action.

In fact, if you know anyone that runs a website, tell them to do the same.

Try to get Youtubers to talk about this and even bring it up to IRL people you know.

Because these are important subjects that affect everyone.

Even people that want to avoid politics will have their escapism taken away.

Censorship is a black hole that eats anything that gets in the way.

Around Net Neutrality and Article 13, there was always that pattern of the number of people talking about it only significantly growing months after some other people talked about it.

Like "wow a Youtuber is talking about something I already talked about 5 months ago".

That moment of a topic suddenly being more widespread needs to happen sooner.

There's no "right time" to wait for to talk about it because time is money: The more you let it run, the more you waste it.

It's not a matter of "if" but a matter of "when".

Let's not forget:

• People under 18 would still find a way to cheat the system.
• Legal adults that do submit photos may have the system deny them because of faulty AI that will continue to be faulty.
• Payment can be required, which will hurt economics of most people who probably already have shit paying jobs and have to work extra hours.
• The payment requirement may also affect every website that isn't part of the Youtube/TikTok/Instagram/Twitter/FaceBook circle, meaning even NewGrounds can suffer from this, further centralizing the internet even more.
• Wikipedia of all things is being restricted in the UK.
• VPN ban.
• High chances that these laws are anything but "protecting kids" like controlling what people can say or see (Pretty sure a UK politician even said "yes" about controlling what people talk about).
• Visa and MasterCard know full well the games they're banning have nothing illegal on them and even Valve confirmed they didn't really communicate well.
• Said payment processors were also OK with groups behind human trafficking.
• Collective Shout being OK with Cuties.
• An actual solution for kids safety should be parents monitoring their internet activities and not give them access to internet until they're old enough.

Also, one website I haven't seen about this topic is Reddit.

If there's any subreddits where people are talking about this and even ways to warn others or pushback, let me now.

I hope the age verification thing gets as much attention and pushback as the credit card thing.

A fear of mine is that it could push the centralized web since major websites will adopt it but other websites, even something like Newgrounds could refuse it and no longer exist to some people.

So the generalized idea of the net (Youtube, Instagram, Twitter) will be all that's left.

And if anything, age check stuff only further helps kids being attached to devices and the internet, it doesn't prevent it.

They'll still spend hours watching Youtube's literal factory of "slop" (Specially the kind of brainless junk before AI was a thing) and someone will say "at least it's not porn".

Because the true solution really is "be a good parent and don't give your kid a smartphone until he's 16".

And there's also no point in "trying both solutions": Because a scenario where kids are not at all present online is one where the internet becomes recognized as an adult only space, making age check useless.

Most people that do adult art do it with adult audiences in mind and some already put "minors do not interact" on profiles for a reason.

Again, parents do your job.

Back to pointing out irony: Rightwingers spent years saying porn will "rot your soul" and call other people "NPC sheeple cattle" only to help the internet become a more brainless, demoralizing entity than it already became years ago.

Only possible when your goal is "own my enemy".

Years of calling others "degenerate" as if their beliefs and personality aren't a product from spending hours on niche websites that would make their conservative and religious normie parents panic.

Maybe Twitter will be the one website left for them to act edgy but only because of Elon pandering to them and even they hate him.

Like with the US' Kids Online Safety Act, even anonymity online could end: How do you browse imageboards and cheer for this stuff at the same time?

4chan ruined the right in the same way Tumblr and SomethingAwful ruined the left.

Also, even the US has the Kids Safety Act or whatever is called.

I guess Moldova, who saved sadpanda, could be the one country safe.

Since even Japan has to add pixels here and there.

Anyway, reposting this https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Please share it around.

I think another thing weird about websites demanding age verification is when you realize your personal details are out there, because there's like 5 different types of you being spied on.

Your internet provider, website, brower, country and even operative system.

So if a corporation wanted your ID and private info, they could just ask someone else, who also spied on you.

Like you have 5 different cameras looking at you and they look at each other sometimes.

Even third parties and creepy organizations might know already.

Something else on the credit card situation

In a way, there's irony to rightwingers defending the VISA/Mastercard censorship.

Not just because of how a decade or a half, they were the ones going on about being persecuted or even how the other side was ok with corporations pushing for censorship (Therefore being useful idiots).

But because some rightwingers online are edgy and corporations love to act clean and politically correcty for good image.

So if adult art/topics are banned, who's to say they won't go after dudes that say the N word constantly online?

Remember: The main argument for censorship is "normalcy": In a strict society where adult material is banned, so would be anything slightly resembling of racism, even the most basic jokes that people don't find that harmful.

It makes sense the Sharty kind celebrate this because they're fetuses who copycat the likes of Kiwifarms and ED without truly getting them and what happened to them.

Shit, their stances on adult material is the same as the other zoomers influenced by Tumblr refugees and the ones that type "diddy ahh blud".

Imagine celebrating censorship while using imageboard sites where people can post fucked up shit.

(Also never forget one Sharty guy hacked ChibiReviews' accounts to put actual CP in there and the only response he got from his group was "you forgot a VPN"; They have no moral ground).

But if you're someone who was around 2015 and even went through Gamergate: Chances are you might've become the SJW you complained about (Unless you were consistent with the intention of "stop censoring shit" and realized both sides can be puritans).

"You lost", everyone did, you're both getting fucked.

Goes back to what I said "Tumblr and SomethingAwful ruined the left, 4chan probably ruined the right too".

Rightwingers got a bit of a raise thanks to guys mad at SJW's getting games censored; When Sargon talks about "weebs being creeps", that should hit him hard.

Won't be surprised if Jim Metokur is going "lmao based corps making the wokies mad" after making videos like "it's literally 1984 that I can't constantly say the N word thanks to the SJW's", no wonder you got cancer.

Kinda funny that people want to pretend Gamergate shit never happened when it might as well be tied to current events.

Of course people love remakes: They want to rewrite history more than revisit it.

Also

This page could help with fighting against the credit card companies.

I'm hoping someone does something similar but for the age verification thing on the EU and UK.

South Park went from “we got nothing left to say about Trump” to making Late Show tier jokes like Stephen Colbert saying “Trump and Putin are gay lovers” before he had to apologize for being homophobic.

They even reused the Saddam Satan bit.

Like I said it before that Zach Hadel could’ve made a proper Trump joke than most people but instead, Smiling Friends’ president episode felt like it was meant to be basic and simple in ways anyone can enjoy, instead of being specific.

Like something more universal and not tied to someone in specific or even current events.

Zach Hadel, who actually is interested in politics, made a political episode of his show that is rather simple and not annoying.

I guess when you truly care about politics, you’ll also get when people are annoyed by it, that you’ll find a way to make something about it not as annoying.

Ozzy and something about metal music

After Ozzy’s death, I wonder how many Gen Z people listen to metal at all.

Because you look at what Zoomers are into, you wonder if they’d ever be into metal.

Because I wonder if your music tastes would correlate with what else you like.

As in “if you like heavy metal, you probably read cool comics with Simon Bisley art and cool videogames”.

Unless the Heavy Metal type nerd died along with the Gears of War “dudebro” from the 2000’s.

And then you have stuff like Guilty Gear lowering its metal/rock influences or Warhammer 40K fans being overly conscious about being “media literate”.

Hogan

Hulk Hugan always came off to me as a real life cartoon character, so I never got the point of going “what a heckin piece of shit” over him when he’s the same guy that lied about being in a band and thought a year was like 400 days long.

Also, never forget that Gawker leaked a private video of him and they’re the same organization that tried getting someone in trouble on his job for being gay.

I already mentioned that I'm in other sites though these changes are more about country/continent policies than the mere websites.

Age check stuff going on now.

Something I had in mind for a while is specific versions of my first game based on different languages.

Because I don’t feel like updating a game I want to stay as is, specially with something complicated like adding another language.

So in theory: IF there ever is a moment where it could happen, an idea would be a version of Project Nortubel with a different language, that wasn’t in the original settings (EN and PT).

And because the game is on GitHub, it could be something that someone else could figure out (Even if the game’s structure is a mess).

First you have the game’s texts for everything: NPC text boxes, cutscene text, stuff like menus etc.

So when you open the game in Godot, you have to look at specific texts in some text bosses and then look back at the localization file.

If you look at the LibreOffice (Calc I think) file for the localized texts, you’ll notice that some texts in Portuguese for example have spaces in them.

This is because I couldn’t find a way to make the placement of the text dynamic, regardless of language.

So I had to sneak in spaces to make text seem centered when it otherwise wouldn’t.

And then you have stuff like customizable “export var” texts for recurring scenes like the lore texts or the conversation system for NPC’s.

And of course scenes that have their premade texts and no “export var” stuff.

You’d have to seek every text possible and understand the context and where it’s used, to make sure the new translated text fits where it’ll be placed in.

Every level, cutscene, character, object, scene etc.

Then you have the controls.

Because I wonder if keyboard layouts can be very different, when it comes to other countries and languages.

I think most Japanese keyboards for example include both the ABC alphabet and Japanese characters.

So I wonder if there’d be some changes in the text explaining the controls or even the controls themselves.

And then there’s the passwords.

Which could lead to a similar point as above.

But I guess as a bonus, I’d get rid of passwords and make it so the “secret” board in the main menu could instead lead to a menu with buttons that take you to specific levels.

And the endlevel text would have something to do with them.

Regardless, this may never happen since I still haven’t started my new game.

This was just me thinking about stuff as usual

A specific behaviour some people have is constantly talking about a subject and being upset that you don’t take it seriously, but when something happens that contradicts their point of view: They stop talking about it and act like nothing happened.

Like as if they’re pretending they always had a position different from before the “reality shattering” event.

The kind of people that establish an narrative, beat you on the head with it, then wait long enough to change their narrative and claim it was the default all along.

It comes off as someone traumatized by years of other people telling them the phrase “I told you so”.

The kind that will never ever say the phrase “ok I was wrong that time but now I changed my mind”.

Robot stories and shit

I guess discrimination/inequality stories between humans and robots will probably not work anymore due to the current state of AI.

But I assume some people were already cynical towards that because of the notion that “robots are technically objects” even if that comes off as basic cynicism.

(Something something “insert Detroit Become Human vs Nier Automata debate here”).

I wonder how many settings go the route of robots being “born” instead of made like settings where metal and all those materials are treated the same was as our universe treats flesh and bone in how we come to existence.

So robots are the natural order and maybe we are the artificial ones.

(I think some versions of Transformers lore kinda goes with “natural” robots).

Another idea is how robots get their consciousness, like if they are on par with humans mentally because some were humans.

Like maybe someone is about to die and wants their personality carried by a machine.

Or even it turns out they had a microchip in their brain and it saves their personality after they die, so they’re reborn as robots.

There’s a lot of metaphor at play, from people with disabilities that require objects to go through life, to even stuff about organ transplanet and how it affects people or even conspiracies about people dying just so their organs are taken early.

"Maturity" in modern writing

Besides insincerity, I think another problem with modern shows, movies, games etc is the lack of eloquence or etiquette or “maturity”.

I think a good example is when people put clips of old Star Trek and new ST, just to show the differences in writing and all.

Guess it goes back to stuff about Millenials.

It also means that the topic of “politics in art” shouldn’t be a “left vs right” one, but more of a generational one.

How people handle certain subjects in different time periods and cultures.

Haven’t seen the new Superman, so I probably shouldn’t judge over one clip but during whatever talk show it was on, they selected a clip of Superman shouting at Lex Luther over his dog while Lex drinks his coffee and acts passive aggressive.

Like that clip felt specifically made to be shown like that vs how Reeves Superman entered Lex’s office and how the two interact in that scene.

I guess this is why the meme phrase “Talks like Sephiroth” exists.

I can see Zoomers say that old Star Trek is written like “trying to talk like Sephiroth”.

Irony on Zoomers

Kinda funny that Zoomers want to search for lost media pilots of kids shows even you would hate as a kid but think beloved PS2 titles need remakes or else they’re unplayable and outdated.

My explanation on John K

A way I kinda describe John K is:

Imagine if there was this popular game dev of a beloved arcade game.

And then the dev starts criticizing modern games, specially those that lean more towards being story heavy.

He even goes on about “game writers” and people think he sounds mean.

And then it turns out he’s a horrible person, which causes people to ignore most of his opinions, even if someone else shares them or even had them first.

So now whenever someone talks about how they don’t like story heavy games or something, someone else goes “Guess what! You know have the same opinions as that horrible piece of shit game dev!”.

Food

Think I saw someone posting on Twitter about eating rice with their hands and how bourgeoisie it is to “force” others to eat with spoons and forks and all that.

At some point, you gotta stop attaching politics to terrible habits and admit you have to grow up (And this is me speaking).

But I also wonder about how both sides currently view processed foods too.

On one hand, the left could go about how capitalism leads to ruining our foods with chemicals while the right says “it’s another global warming tier nonsense” and that lefties complaining about it have no real problems or how it’s food for business and shit.

But another possible thing is Alex Jones tier rants about what the elite put in our water vs lefties defending chemicals in food and deciding that mean gym bros love natural foods way too much than cute hippie girls.

Or I guess depending on which side fetishizes the farm lifestyle a lot more than the other.

Dril humor

I feel there’s something specific to the kind of humor in Dril, Tumblr “funnymen” and even TheBestGamers.

Something around bad grammar and acting childish/dumb, but in a “cool, detached, ironic” way.

A kind of humor that may have roots in SomethingAwful’s FYAD and both in that place and early Dril tweets, there were occasional edgy examples, some with slurs.

But as time went on and people on Tumblr adopted the humor, it became sanatized and just bad spelling and pretending to be dumb.

But there are instances of people essentially talking that way but serious, like people referring to an actual politician they dislike as “smelly bitch” like a 13 year old.

Like, they reach a point where they’re not being ironic and actually are mentally children.

(I guess there’s also an aspect of censorship where people talk like this as if they can’t use actual insults).

Anyway, shout outs to Rockcock64 from TheBestGamers for once apologizing for his humor and blaming it on 4chan, when SA might as well be the actual source.

And shout outs to Dril for sending his fans to attack a man for saying the following:

“it isnt a mischaracterization. i have been posting in the same environments as drill for 15 years and everyone else outgrew the wacky concepts + erratic punctuation and spelling style, while dril and the rest of the weird twitter fyad dudes cultivated an audience of dullards”

Something about Bronies

A bit of a take I sometimes wonder if it could have some truth is “the internet spent years making weebs look bad to hide the fact that cartoon fans became worse, just look at the cultural overlaps between Tumblr and SomethingAwful”.

I wonder if some believe that “weebs are weird, cartoon fans are not” and that’s why bronies were noticeable.

Like some people thought bronies were an exception among cartoon fans, before the current state of fandom and shows like Bluey.

Grok anime girl

Some people going “I wish artists didn’t draw the Grok anime girl” when there’s plenty of non-characters that artists still drew just because, like the Wendy’s mascot or the blob character thing from Duolingo turned into an anime girl.

Goes back to some points I said:

• How some artists draw popular characters mixed with memes and trends.
• What makes a “waifu”? A character with an actual personality and story? A character that actually looks cute in source material? A character from a show/game/comic you actually watch/play/read? Because there’s a lot of characters that don’t even fit that criteria to most artists.
• People bringing up fanart making character prettier but their examples are always already good looking girls and not, you know, cartoon blobs or ugly “realistic” game characters drawn in cute art styles or even the opposite where cute girls are drawn ugly with body hair and stretch marks.
• Maybe debates about gacha characters and VTubers vs actual games and anime/manga characters.

PC Gaming

I honestly think the main reason to brag about PC gaming is if you make it about the actual control you can have with it: Mods, emulation, “free” games etc.

The minute you start going “BASED GABEN” and praise a storefront like Steam, you’re not too different from the console brand cultists.

Unless people just don’t want to be overly nerdy with shit like Linux and some programs and shit.

Joss Whedon

I recall when people were doing parody posts of Joss Whedon’s writing and a lot felt really annoying: Not even in a “wow you’re getting exactly how lame it is” way but more in a “it’s almost like you’d be the kind of person to enjoy/make it” way.

Kinda goes back to what I said about AI art where anti-AI people don’t do a good enough job at fighting it, with great examples of manmade art or understand that AI art is a side effect of humans making bad art.

Also reminds me of people that once said “MEMES ARE FUCKING CANCER” now doing Wojak memes or speaking meme based language.

Same with people that try to be cynical online, as if they’re not still basic at it and using a certain template we saw many times online.

Like when people shit on most movies they go “wow, the hero saves the day, how clever” but never point out the shitty ironic/“subversive” writting: Because pretending to be “so aware/critical/analytic” over tropes and shitty irony/subversion focused writing to hand-in-hand.

(Didn’t it turn out that TVTropes started as a Joss Whedon fan site?)

Superheroes and fairy tales

In a way, I think superheroes are like fairy tales in the sense they will always be popular because of how basic they are and if they have good lessons or morals behind them.

Because people often talk about how boring Superman is, as if he’s not meant to be THE superhero (“Actually, the Phantom and Golden Bat” I know but still).

This also means: If Superman gets the likes of “what if… he is the BAD GUY?” stories, fairy tales get stuff like Shrek and any take that tries to be funny and “clever”.

I recall a series by Cartoon Aesthetics, talking about how Disney used to present fairy tales in a more genuine manner before at some point, since Aladdin, taking a more “cool, funny” approach.

"Common sense"

The phrase “common sense” is a weird one because it implies that “correct good ideas” are very common, even from people that otherwise think “most people are stupid”.

Guess it’s the same thing on whether “normal” means what’s correct and logical or just what’s more common.

“Nothing to hide, nothing to fear” is also another one because there’s always a social context behind it.

Even if what you do isn’t illegal or wrong, people will always judge based on perconceptions of stuff like what’s normal etc.

And because we humans are all too different from each other, so things can get chaotic if too many people are forced to look at each other.

Part of the internet being the way it is now is because of “oversocialization”.

You have have situations where people act like angry mobs and forget what they’re fighting for or everyone just stand and watch as someone could be having a heart attack but nobody comes to help anyway.

Drama Youtubers

I think a big reason why I dislike Youtubers like Turkey Tom and DaftPina is because they’re part of that modern Youtube culture of “gotta say Unalive to get around the monetization system” while making what is essentially an extreme diet take on lolcow culture.

Doing drama shit but still pandering to overt sensitive zoomers with Realistic Panic Attacks and using Wojak memes like everyone else.

It’s why I think MisterMetokur is less bad for the fact that he’s edgy: You’re making videos about other people and calling them weird, might as well make edgy jokes and give people the impression you’re a psychopath.

You have no moral ground by making these sort of videos anyway.

Even Keemstar saying slurs unironically puts him above Turkey Tom because again, who are you to act like a hero?

Something about Rowling, Musk, Shankar etc

Every time people bring up shit like those Simpsons episodes sucking off Elon or JK Rowling, I feel like it’s worth remembering the context when those were loved by everyone for some odd reasons.

Specially in political related contexts.

Even Adi Shankar is an example: At some point, someone would tell you he’s an SJW for putting black characters in Castlevania and all that stuff, years before it turns out he loves Henry Kissinger and assister Trump’s inauguration.

Maybe keep an eye on people who you severely admire a lot because, who knows.

/pol/

In the same way that Tumblr and SomethingAwful ruined the left, I wonder if the same can be said about /pol/ and the right.

Like, would certain rightwingers act so racist and edgy if not for spending too much time on /pol/?

Specially if one goes “watch out SJW’s, my edgy humor will trigger you” without realizing it’d also “trigger” the “family values” conversatives.

Also, worth thinking about whenever they go on about “degenerates” as if guys complaining about SJW’s censoring games weren’t part of why some rightwing Youtubers got a push.

Sargon talks about weebs being gross as if he didn’t peak in 2014/5 in terms of popularity because of a certain event going on there.

Maybe they need to be hit with something so hard, they walk back and go “suddenly the cool black guy agrees with us and the left are the real racists”.

Epstein

I remember when rightwingers were the ones freaking out about Epstein while some lefties were like “who cares, you paranoid asshole”.

Even South Park made fun of RW guys over this, because at some point, barely did leftwingers went “well Trump is in there too”.

But, like with any topic dominated by “If you’re leftwing you’re X and if you’re rightwing you’re Y”: The positions switched so now the other side takes it seriously and the other doesn’t, while both pretend it was always like this.

Either way, I was sure some files were already released with is why I recall Bobby Kotick and Stephen Hawking also being involved.

But still, no matter what side a specific figure is part of, any can have dirt behind them.

Trump is definitely in the files and so could be the Clintons and then you have shit like the P Diddy and Joe Biden’s son or I guess the Trump piss tapes.

Even Elon might be involved, which makes him go “I’M GONNA RELEASE IT, JUST YOU WAIT” kinda funny in a way.

PayPal

A way I see the payment processors situation is: Imagine if a company behind your silverware got to decide what you can eat or cook.

You alread bought their forks, knives, spoons etc.

But they are not the ones behind what you cook or the food you bought.

So why do they think they get to tell you what you should or shouldn’t eat?

Because your money isn’t owned NOR created by these companies, so why do they decide that you shouldn’t play a game with “bad drawings” while these same companies were fine/got involved with groups related to human trafficking?

“All this over anime games?” Yes, because if there ever is a pusback againt these giants, you will soon find out who to thank for.

Zelda movie

In theory and reality, a live action Zelda shouldn’t exist to begin with.

People did a lot of Ghibli Zelda memes but a well done animated movie and/or OVA would be ideal, at least.

Then again, a Mario movie by Illumination is also not ideal but we got that anyway.

Judge Dredd

On one hand, one could argue that plenty of people never read a single Judge Dredd comic and how the 2012 movie doesn’t have the same tone as most comics.

But on another, I still don’t trust a MCU writer to work on the series.

And between this and The Incal, is culture so lame and limited that the only way to people acknowledge comics outside of Marvel/DC is to get their latest movies’ writers behind them?

I recall some people disappointed that The Electric State movie was directed by the Russo brothers.

Does this mean we could get like a movie based on Corto Maltese that also has the Russo guys or Waititi behind it, so people get to acknowledge Hugo Pratt at all?

It reminds me of news that the Zelda movie was going to have Tom Holland and Zendaya as part of the cast.

Fixed and Genndy

A big difference between Fixed and the likes of Family Guy is that Genndy’s new film is an animation drived project by an animator, which is a contrast to “writer cartoons” where the animation is flat and stiff.

And with his story of getting screwed by execs, I think he gets to make a silly comedy movie before he probably gets another idea for a project that people could like more.

Still, cartoon fans spent years not championing the more interesting stuff and not having high standards anyway, so nobody gets to say Genndy is washed out or whatever.

Edit: Forgot to mention how Family Guy’s animation being so stiff is what inspired that Go!Animate art style.

Edit: Also, how many people complaining about Fixed watched Unicorn Warriors Eternal?