ZombiFrancis

but some of you all are just sick in the head.

immediately cites blahaj

Oof.

I disagree with some of the assertions put forth above about it not targeting the left, etc. And I don’t think the asks is relevant, because we should no longer be trusting anything from this person.

Exactly. Adding instances like maga.place doesn’t mean adding blahaj is somehow unbiased or untargeted. In fact, maga.place actually serves to act as a screen for the deliberate targeting of instances, communities, and users.

But 793-798 though? Not even worth mentioning.

That is true. We never got much Dragon Quest at all in the US. (I’ll just keep my Startropics and cope.)

But nonetheless, if it is just Dragon Quest left in Japan, I think it still was a stagnant genre.

It broke inertia in a genre that had been struggling for a long time. A lot of folks have mentioned games like Super Mario RPG which was the last SNES Squaresoft game.

With the Square-Enix merger the franchises of the companies kinda merged together alongside adopting the innovations of MMORPGs.

And so the turn based RPG fell along the wayside, much like the RTS, until E33 renewed interest. So I think E33 is important for what it represents: the viability of a once popular genre ignored by major studios. There’d been smaller time pixel art games, but that was the sort od timecapsule realm it was stuck in.

It was a 1918 and a whole lot of monarchies were risking the same fate. The Civil War went on for four years after the Romanovs were shot as the whites advanced.

They were killed by the reds, and the threat they posed as royals was the reasoning behind their execution. Acknowledging the historical context to their deaths is hardly defending them, no more than acknowledging that Archduke Ferdinand got assassinated doesn’t make you a Serbian nationalist.

You can make remarks on whether it was a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ thing, but placing value judgements like it is an endorsement of any given politics is kind of this new mentality that is just abusive to history.

Especially when the user reposting only ever responds with something to the effect of “I’m just reposting the reddit thread, don’t ask me about what I posted.”

That isn’t really what he means though. Miyazaki knew this was AI generated and knows what it means. They explain the machine which they sought to create art like humans do ‘learned’ how to move and that ‘it doesn’t feel pain’ and called it ‘dancing’. Then they say it is creepy and could be used for a zombie game.

Miyazaki then states ‘whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is’.

That is the criticism he appears to be levelling. The demonstration of such horror without an understanding pain robs it of human connection.