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emo barbenheimer retweeted
I’m so jealous of ppl who live in places with pop culture ads on billboards bc where I’m at they all look like this:
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The problem with appeals to normalcy is that the default human experience is shitting yourself to death in a cave.
I don't care if mass literacy is a historical aberration, so are vaccines, so is widespread soft bedding, so are workers rights.
Obscurantism is plain evil.
DOGE got rid of a thousand tiny programs doing this thing not understanding a single concept of soft power
Douglas MacArthur was correctly criticized for many actions and policies in his time.
However, one opinion is objectively correct: He was an amazing choice for the occupation of Japan.
His natural desire to be popular and keep things running smoothly (to not disrupt his political career) made him a likely 'father figure' to the Japanese. The famous photo with the Emperor helped establish him as sort of a 'cool uncle' type of person and the Japanese personally sent him letters.
Thousands of letters. Perhaps upwards of a million letters.
These letters contained thanks for not being as brutal as the Japanese were to their own POWs/occupied countries. These letters contained special pleas for assistance (a starving family, a roof over a shrine that was collapsing, rebuilding a food storage system). These letters contained thoughts on policy that would more resonate with the Japanese people.
Did Dougie-Doug just rip them up and discard them? No. He processed them and had people read them to better help direct resources and also to pay attention to what the common-person in Japan knew.
He knew that in order to prevent Japan from rebelling or forming another nationalist movement, he had to demonstrate it wasn't necessary against the USA. That we could be bigger in friendship than we were in war... And we were tremendous in war.
Dropping the bombs proved we could defeat them. The US military, under MacArthur, proved we could build them up. That 'the war' truly was pointless. That it is always better to have America as a friend than an enemy. That even as dark as some things can seem, there is always another chance.
Douglas MacArthur is ONE OF the reasons the phrase 'be the American the Japanese believe you are' is a thing.
I don't hate Douglas MacArthur, and I accept much of the criticism of him and share it. But his occupation and reformation of Japan was near perfect... Carried out by 1,000s of men under him, true. But still... Lesser, more hot-headed and petty generals would have ruined it. Easily. And 'hot headed' is even a relative term considering what Dougie-Doug wanted to do to North Korea... 'Radioactive sea of cobalt' meme, etc.
If you value Japan as an ally and a friend, you at least owe Doug a 'thank you' for not messing it up... Before you go back to (justifiably) critiquing him.
This reminds me of that post where someone was watching Casablanca and their comment was “it’s too full of cinema tropes”
OoT is part of a category I call Sgt. Pepper Media, which is to say that it is so influential on nearly every piece of related media that came after it that it's difficult to judge objectively by today's standards.
Every adventure game you love post-OoT takes cues from it. Most albums you love post-Sgt. Pepper take cues from it. Most western comics take inspiration from Watchmen.
At a certain point, related media is taking inspiration from this category of art without even noticing it sometimes. There is media so influential to it's medium that it can feel like a fish not knowing it's in water.
I don't really like OoT and never really have, but it's something that has been so influential that you have to really appreciate it.
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emo barbenheimer retweeted
OoT is part of a category I call Sgt. Pepper Media, which is to say that it is so influential on nearly every piece of related media that came after it that it's difficult to judge objectively by today's standards.
Every adventure game you love post-OoT takes cues from it. Most albums you love post-Sgt. Pepper take cues from it. Most western comics take inspiration from Watchmen.
At a certain point, related media is taking inspiration from this category of art without even noticing it sometimes. There is media so influential to it's medium that it can feel like a fish not knowing it's in water.
I don't really like OoT and never really have, but it's something that has been so influential that you have to really appreciate it.
emo barbenheimer retweeted
Close enough. Welcome back FF7 shipping discourse!
You do realise Link and Malon are far more likely to be siblings, right? We're never told Zelda's mother was dead or absent before the throne was usurped. Malon's mother COMPOSED Epona's Song, but we don't know if she taught it to her personally. She's absent, possibly dead. And whose mother DIED during a war? Link's. She might even have fled while pregnant.
Malon could easily be Link's older sister. Same eye shape, upturned noses... Granted, she's a minor NPC, so naturally her character model is less detailed, but still 🫠
The remake even emphasises the visual differences between Link and Zelda, seemingly killing off the theory that THEY were siblings. Show me these three without context, and I'd assume Link and Malon were related, not Link and Zelda.
Bombshell dropped. Bye 💣
(I feel like I've just played an UNO Reverse Card.)
Nintendo actually went woke when they gave Samus 2 bird dads but the right wing globalists won’t tell you that
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Raven Beak for Smash and Metroid 5/6 Samus almost feels like a “Must Add” for the next game
Bold to remove Adult Link
My changes:
>Noah/Mio combo base game (Ouroboros Final Smash)
>Xenoblade Genesis for DLC
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emo barbenheimer retweeted
It's difficult to remember and capture the context of the time period when something released which means people think that Portal 2's humour is born from Reddit, as opposed to reddits humour being born from portal 2
There are white counties in Alabama that are only mildly civilized because the New Deal gave them sapience
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emo barbenheimer retweeted
una persona sardina de unos 8 años me ofreció matrimonio dándome una piedra luego de rescatarla de las entrañas de una trucha gigante, peak gaming
My hot take on the Big Walk House House AI thing is that Unity does not care about hiring and training support staff who can actually help their customers and would rather said customers just use AI to figure out and solve the issue themselves.
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emo barbenheimer retweeted
Be Sqaure Enix:
> Drop PlayStation exclusivity
> It fixes the entire company
Lmao
Square Enix Latest Financial Results!
- Net Sales: +21.9%
- Operating income: +42.2%
- HD Games net sales and profits up due to solid performance from games such as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for Switch 2 and Xbox and The Adventures of Elliot. As well as growth in sales of catalog titles.
- MMO sub-segment sales and profits up YoY due to announcement of the new FF14 expansion
- Games for Smart Devices/PC Browser sub segment sales and profits up due to Dissida Duellum FF and Dragon Quest Smash/Grow
- Publication Net Sales: +9.9%
- Amusement Net Sales: +13.2%
- Merchandising Net Sales: -9.6%
