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The Black Culture Thread |OT7| Luigi took our stare
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How often do people change their opinions on things like this?
I'll pass lol, game looks horrid. Right now I am playing PS1 rpgs I missed like Grandia, Vangrant Story, Legend of Dragoon and Arc the Lad. Later I am going to emulate Rogue Galaxy and other ps2 games I can't get on the store.
playing FFX HD and the shit has been crack
Happens enough that its worth it from time to time.
Gaborn, shidoshi, and dream almost completely turned around my views regarding anything and everything transgender about two years ago. I used to be a hardline liberal democrat. Anti-Monitor singlehandedly got my head out of my ass when it came to dating. Bish restored my faith in black Canadians. Just talking about myself...
and there are people who do change their minds on things. Expecting it to happen in one conversation over the internet is complete lunacy though. It won't happen like that. So there's no 'rush' to 'catch' someone and 'expose' them when it comes to stuff like this. It doesn't even matter if its the person you're debating with or not. I've got more PMs from people who didn't even quote me in those types of threads than from anyone else.
But you'll never see someone post "holy fuck, this has completely changed my mind and the past 2 decades of views I've had are utterly wrong. THANK YOU" it doesn't work like that. People somehow expect that though. And its part of the reason why they get pissed off in those threads.
I been meaning to pick that up. I've been debating which system to get it for though.
Brother Kuma, let me talk to you about MMORPGs.
Manmademan
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is this one actually legit? i picked it up on a whim months ago. it's been sitting in my collection gathering dust ever since.
It has some pretty good humor. If you liked the .hack games you will like this series.
Posts by stump, devo, mumei, Lime, faceless, Fiction and others have proved very illuminating on some topics I was sorely naive or flat out wrong about, particularly female/gender issues.
But a person has to want to be open minded, and that's not easy at all. Dy is right, it will take much more effective and consistent messaging to curtail the fuckery that surrounds these discussions.
But a person has to want to be open minded, and that's not easy at all. Dy is right, it will take much more effective and consistent messaging to curtail the fuckery that surrounds these discussions.
I know about MMO, I played WOW for like 4-5 years. I don't play MMO because I don't have a PC capable enough of running them(I broke my old one lol).
Manmademan
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never played those. I don't do MMO's, so a console game emulating an MMO just didn't appeal to me.
I'll just keep it in the pile of games I'm saving for retirement. I'm going to buy a yacht, fill it with games I've bought over a few decades, and no one will ever see me again
Manmademan
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Don't forget this
oh man. that was back when iron man was still in marvel's scrub tier. the license for those two characters combined couldn't have been more than 19.95.
Prototype Viktor
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Lol just noticed they didn't put the name in the description when I copy pasta'd I'll edit in that its pharoahe monch
Yeah that was one of those license games that taught you just because you can play as a character doesn't mean it will be good.
Prototype Viktor
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Racist gaf is on the rise. See you guys I got to go with the heat!
I've dressed in black face
Is this time to say that black people (probably) ate white people once?
We are all one on this planet but that thing only applies to where you live
Is this time to say that black people (probably) ate white people once?
We are all one on this planet but that thing only applies to where you live
TheKaeptain
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Yo a friend of mine brought up something. He said he notice during the group stages of the World Cup that it was rare to see a supporting crowd that was mostly black even when the majority of the team was mostly black . The exception was Ghana. I noticed something similar with the darker Hispanic teams.
Anyone else notice that?
Anyone else notice that?
Outside of Rocksteady Batman and Marvel Ultimale Alliance, superheroes games are straight ass.
DCU is a quality superhero game, friend.
I don't think that's weird at all. Plenty of reasons why it may look that way,
I don't think that's weird at all. Plenty of reasons why it may look that way,
I remember liking that Fantastic Four brawler on PS1.
100% agreed. That's why I'm laughing at it, dude's on some Afrocentric shit haha. There's been a couple of them lately...
TheKaeptain
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I don't think it is weird. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed it. I bet it has to do with wealth inequality. Since Soccer is the cheapest sport to play since all you need to start out with is a ball.
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is another exception.
TheKaeptain
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I don't think I will ever get people that white-wash/black-wash history.
Yup... and I dig history and all, and I'm down for knowing where you come from, but I don't get people who base their self worth on their ethnicity's accomplishments. Who gives a shit. It's always people who ain't shit in real life too. Yeah, your people had glorious empires, but you're working a dead end job and sharing walls with mom and dad. Congrats.
The Genesis Batman games was dope. No Hyperstone Heist shit there
TheKaeptain
Banned
It's obviously a inferiority complex.
Depends on the game I was writing for. It worked for a few instances in The Walking Dead, for example, because the game's about character relations. But for a lot of games, I don't think it would be necessary.
Angelus Errare
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No, but it seems to be an excuse cats are using on gaming side to explain why there aren't black characters.
TheKaeptain
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What do you mean?
Thats the problem, folks don't see black people as people that just happens to be black.
Prototype Viktor
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they'll get there after they figure out that women are people
then people are animals
then how many midgets it'll take making a pyramid where it would be sad
Depends on the setting.
If it's the wild west, that shit is gonna come up at some point.
If it's Star Trek times, who would care? (hopefully)
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
No. If you have to justify a minority as the lead then you've already gone too far.
I mean it like do you feel like you have to explore the nature of that "otherness" in the world you have created. Even though that would limit the potential for universal appeal.
Can you have a black character just be black? I just figured a minority writer might feel different about it, and maybe feel a greater sense of responsibility, so thats why I dropped it here.
smh
TheKaeptain
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When I write I don't really get into that shit.
mark of a shitty writer imo
No. Unless bringing it up was part of the story
I mean it's kind of a hard thing because like you mention it feels like a responsibility to mention it but I feel like you should focus more on making the world/character great itself. The character should be strong enough where it speaks for itself. If that makes sense.
Why are you hating on hyperstone heist? It was a harder turtles in time.
I'm starting to basically use forums as virtual argument simulators.
I found it hilarious how after he went to MIA people not fans of the Cavs were more upset then Cav fans themselves for the longest.
TheKaeptain
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Nah Bay isn't that good of a director. He's nowhere near the real Blockbusters GOATs Cameron and Spielberg.
This is one of my main annoyances with black characters in film/television shows. They always have to go through "minority" issues. Some form of discrimination or a look back into black history, etc... that other minorities/white characters in these film don't deal with. This is fine in historical stories/time period pieces, but this doesn't need to be in fictional stories. If I create a fantasy world where characters are shooting fire balls or living in some made up city, why the hell would I reference the slave trade or how hard it was for my character growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn?
For example, the movie "The Man With The Iron Fist" with the RZA. This movie is set in a fictional city in 19th century China, but there are all sorts of non Asian characters in the film and crazy/fantasy things are happening. But it's only with the RZA's character that we are given an "explanation" on why he is there and how he got so skilled (being a slave and escaping his slave masters to China where he is taught how to fight by monks). Whereas Russel Crow and Batista's characters had no backstory like this. They were just thrown into the movie and you just knew "hey white guys that kick ass, ok fine" and that was it.
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