TheInfernoman

Remember this band, Crazy Town? Got some air time on MTV in early 2000's.
 
 
"Where's my money?" *punches* "I love you" *punches*
 
 
 
 

MEME MONDAY: TCG Hamster edition 
 

This lady is the Final Boss of Asian Women Drivers!
 

Being slim doesn't necessarily equal being healthy, and Biden just comes across as frail and with a clouded mind. Someone could have a heart attack but still be of sound mind, and that's more important for a job like president than being able to run a marathon but not knowing what year you're in.
 
That said, no way Trump has a chance. The era of non-elite sanctioned candidates is over, safe to say. Even if Trump were to run a convincing campaign, there's no way they'd let him back into the White House.

It's funny how people you've known literally your whole life suddenly flip the script on you on a dime.
 
My older brother just went on this rant just because SF 6 gives you a third gender option in the customize character mode. Like "why the fuck is 'person' even an option?? Capcom just included it to avoid cancel culture blah blah blah"
 
I never knew he had these hot takes until now. I just asked him how does this affect the game at all and he just went on a tangent about inclusion and yadda yadda.

You got it wrong, the argument is that it succeeded because it wasn't woke, just a movie interested in entertain and give the fans what they wanted.
The same argument used when talking about why movies like John Wick 4, Top gun Maverick, Sonic, etc.
 
 

MEME MONDAY: TCG Hamster edition 
 

This is speculation from my part, but the woke part is probably aimed at the rumor floating around about Nintendo striking down a lot of shit on the early process on the early drafts.
Where Peach supposedly came across as the typical girl boss who put down Mario and other shit like that.
 
Supposedly, the product we have now differ a lot with what Illumination wanted to do.

I realize if we want equality, we need to insult equally more, for each person that says "white people nonsense" I need to say something about black people. It's only fair. 
 
But real talk, the solution to portrayal of historic characters is to stick to *Gasp* who they actually were? You can do a reinterpretation but don't expect it to go well if you're trying to pass it off as historical fact. 

I am pretty sure you and me agree on more things that what we disagree.
Race swapping being one of those cases where is not the case.
Since for me, is lazy, patronizing and even insulting.
 
It would be one thing if it happened that it was that the actor/actress in question is the best for the part (Samuel L Jackson as Fury for example) but when is for "representation" is dumb as fuck.
It only serves to be polarizing and turn for the worse any actual racial issues conversation.
 
Notice how there is a difference in reception between making Ariel black, and making A-Train (The Boys) Black.
If they really wanted to elevate black people and tell a mermaid story, why not make a movie about A Song Below Water, Skin of the Sea, Mother of the Sea, etc

@RSG3Rather than quote that whole block, even if something is not for me, I can still have an opinion on it, same as how you form many opinions on things that will never you. Arent you sharing your opinion about my opinion about a mythical fish? I don't care specifically for the story of The Little Mermaid, but rather I DO care about what she is representing which is a perpetual need to promote white stories with a coat of minority paint. I still stand by that I am all for original black/hispanic/asian/middle eastern/indian/every other minority stories/characters. What is wrong with my preference for that vs race swapping? I just want to hold storytelling to a higher standard. To accept an adaptation based on a culturally white European and race swap/gender swap characters is lazy and takes away from promoting original stories. Heck I'll stand by that for ANY swapping combo. 
 
Disney had a big miss with The Little Mermaid. They actually had a character created years ago they could have built upon. 
 
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriella
 
 Sorry but I am passionate about this as a guy who went to college for animation. Animation is storytelling via pictures, I learned how writing a good character is just as important as designing the character. Saying it doesn't matter is disingenuous. 

@RSG3Rather than quote that whole block, even if something is not for me, I can still have an opinion on it, same as how you form many opinions on things that will never you. Arent you sharing your opinion about my opinion about a mythical fish? I don't care specifically for the story of The Little Mermaid, but rather I DO care about what she is representing which is a perpetual need to promote white stories with a coat of minority paint. I still stand by that I am all for original black/hispanic/asian/middle eastern/indian/every other minority stories/characters. What is wrong with my preference for that vs race swapping? I just want to hold storytelling to a higher standard. To accept an adaptation based on a culturally white European and race swap/gender swap characters is lazy and takes away from promoting original stories. Heck I'll stand by that for ANY swapping combo. 
 
Disney had a big miss with The Little Mermaid. They actually had a character created years ago they could have built upon. 
 
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriella
 
 Sorry but I am passionate about this as a guy who went to college for animation. Animation is storytelling via pictures, I learned how writing a good character is just as important as designing the character. Saying it doesn't matter is disingenuous. 

Does Blariel have a dad in the new Little Mermaid movie?

One of the reasons why Encanto felt as a  genuine attempt of representation around here is that the more broad cultural commonalities that are common across most latin american countries felt very authentic.
Like family dynamics, mannerism, micro expressions, like Mirabel using her mouth to point out something, etc, etc.
Not every latin american is afro descendant, but it still had a lot of stuff that felt like something you see a family member will do.
 
Nothing like that would be possible, or at least will be more hard to come across to do, if it was one of the many lazy race swapping shit studios try to pass as something to be celebrated.

@RSG3Rather than quote that whole block, even if something is not for me, I can still have an opinion on it, same as how you form many opinions on things that will never you. Arent you sharing your opinion about my opinion about a mythical fish? I don't care specifically for the story of The Little Mermaid, but rather I DO care about what she is representing which is a perpetual need to promote white stories with a coat of minority paint. I still stand by that I am all for original black/hispanic/asian/middle eastern/indian/every other minority stories/characters. What is wrong with my preference for that vs race swapping? I just want to hold storytelling to a higher standard. To accept an adaptation based on a culturally white European and race swap/gender swap characters is lazy and takes away from promoting original stories. Heck I'll stand by that for ANY swapping combo. 
 
Disney had a big miss with The Little Mermaid. They actually had a character created years ago they could have built upon. 
 
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriella
 
 Sorry but I am passionate about this as a guy who went to college for animation. Animation is storytelling via pictures, I learned how writing a good character is just as important as designing the character. Saying it doesn't matter is disingenuous. 

@RSG3Rather than quote that whole block, even if something is not for me, I can still have an opinion on it, same as how you form many opinions on things that will never you. Arent you sharing your opinion about my opinion about a mythical fish? I don't care specifically for the story of The Little Mermaid, but rather I DO care about what she is representing which is a perpetual need to promote white stories with a coat of minority paint. I still stand by that I am all for original black/hispanic/asian/middle eastern/indian/every other minority stories/characters. What is wrong with my preference for that vs race swapping? I just want to hold storytelling to a higher standard. To accept an adaptation based on a culturally white European and race swap/gender swap characters is lazy and takes away from promoting original stories. Heck I'll stand by that for ANY swapping combo. 
 
Disney had a big miss with The Little Mermaid. They actually had a character created years ago they could have built upon. 
 
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriella
 
 Sorry but I am passionate about this as a guy who went to college for animation. Animation is storytelling via pictures, I learned how writing a good character is just as important as designing the character. Saying it doesn't matter is disingenuous. 

I realize if we want equality, we need to insult equally more, for each person that says "white people nonsense" I need to say something about black people. It's only fair. 
 
But real talk, the solution to portrayal of historic characters is to stick to *Gasp* who they actually were? You can do a reinterpretation but don't expect it to go well if you're trying to pass it off as historical fact. 

I mean...it's not for you anyway. 
 
So what?
 
I don't care about this particular Ariels skin color, no,  and think casting an actual Hawaiian is more important then her being the proper brown color or the proper level of thickness.  
 
And I said I wasn't talking about you or what you said specifically. You're not the only person I've seen say she isn't thick enough and they are talking about her ass. 

LMAO, I am not white, but mmkay
Just so you know, I am a mestizo , a mix of spaniard (and all the mix that implies since the region my family comes from is mixed with muslims as well), native, black and jewish.
 
Also, you care enough to make a fuzz about 2 or 3 fucking disagrees, lmao, talk about fragility.