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@ToshiakiUwUPnda @Grummz @akiman7 Thx. I've heard the same said for many other games, eg. Xenogears. Even back in 1998 that didn't get approved outside of Japan & the US. I played lots of Power Instinct 1 on SNES, played/saw 2 & 3 in arcades. I still listen to BGM from the series. ポリコレ truly ruins everything.

@testo_san @Grummz @akiman7

The creator of Chun-Li is worried that WOKE will sweep all of anime. Not if we can help it! Many gains the past 2 years in the West. Japan needs to push woke out right away, it's their turn. Thank you for creating such an iconic game character, @akiman7

@Grummz He looks like that all the time.

I don’t read too much into this, every tech company is getting rid of bloat from covid hiring binges. But they did choose a great picture. 😂

@ciri2019 @Grummz "Culture war" sounds like it's just differing tastes. DEI isn't about culture, it's a pretty name for political invasion/takeover. They dilute Western language & push low literacy, making it impossible to communicate simple concepts so most ppl only see buzzwords & get emotional.

@testo_san @Grummz It's not about "escaping DEI", we are opposing it. It needs to be dismantled and removed from our games and entertainment. This is the culture war and we have to win it. Any company that tries to push this will eventually go bankrupt because players do have many choices.

What do Windrose and Crimson Desert have in Common? Both games actually started off as MMOs before undergoing a radical pivot. Windrose was originally called Crosswind, a PvP (!) focused MMO. Crimson Desert also started as a full scale MMO. Crosswind became Windrose because early testing showed that players didn't want a live service game and that building an MMO would have taken many more resources. The hard pivot by the team was a huge rework effort: "we had to scrap most of the old stuff and start from scratch in all areas of the game, from under-the-hood tech stuff to the player facing content and mechanics." Likewise, Crimson Desert also threw away all their progress on the MMO version of Crimson Desert, retooling the game for a more epic single player experience that could "tell the story they wanted to tell." This new trend is telling. Both games are huge success without the cost and complexity baggage of being an MMO or live service game. We might be witnessing the rise of single player and focused multiplayer again, in a time where AAA bets on "live service focus" turned out to be fools gold. Meanwhile Windrose is having a great Friday, with over 114,745 players this morning and rising!

@Grummz Reminds me of how many times I catch something interesting in the corner of my eye just as I leave the page (on many different sites), then I click Back & it's gone forever. Modern websites are f**king garbage.

Please fix this, X. 😂

@ciri2019 @Grummz I'm saying mainstream oft ignores/attacks Asian/indies games b/c they don't want consumers to have options outside of approved DEI slop. Most ppl just accept DEI as norm if there's nothing better to compare with. It's not culture war to me, it's stopping brainwashing propaganda.

@Grummz More like why is anyone rolling out ID verification. They won't address any real issues, but they sure want to know exactly who doesn't agree /w them on something.

Why... Why is Claude Code rolling out ID verification?

@Grummz Reminds me of this.

Good Morning. Do not anger the cat.

@Grummz Many reasons: 1. Easy controversy for clicks 2. They hate Japan 3. They hate men/fathers 4. Many women hate all female chars less repulsive than they are 5. JP friend told me that women are known to have very low tolerance for anything they dislike 6. PDFs projecting hysteria

Why do they hate this game? Kotaku and many posts on X (oddly mostly progressive/ left leaning accounts) are really going after father/daughter space game PRAGMATA. I've seen nothing but wholesome from the clips so far. Game is out today and doing fine at 56,905.

@Grummz Both games are actual games /w stuff ppl have long wanted in games & both have/had almost/virtually no competition for several years & in the near (far?) future.

@ToshiakiUwUPnda @Grummz @akiman7 I vaguely recall recently hearing a JP person literally say that, prob a livestream of someone playing one of those games. They said Goketsuji Ichizoku games are full of stuff that would never be allowed nowadays.

@Grummz @akiman7 I think it's Reason why we don't have a New Power Instinct Game or even the Old Ones getting remastered it's cause of the dumb woke ppl

@Grummz @akiman7 Getting older isn't an excuse for getting bigger, either.

@Grummz @akiman7 I saw that. My immediate reaction was "He's 20+ years too late." And have you seen how hideous Chun Li is nowadays compared to original SF2? Her body (not only thighs) keeps getting bigger & bigger, while her face gets tinier/uglier/alien-like. Uglier outfit, too.

@Grummz Like I've been saying, there's a big obvious diff between artists/devs/creators who will use any tool to improve/streamline their creation quality/process, & narcissists who are only in it to jack themselves off.

Andrew Price, "The Blender Donut Guru", dogpiled by absolutely unhinged and hate filled 3D artists. His crime? Saying that AI can be helpful in iterating on art and should be a useful tool for every 3D artist. Famous and beloved for his Blender Donut tutorial series which attracted millions to leaning Blender and 3D, Andrew Price has now firmly shifted his YouTube channel over to the rise of AI tools in 3D production and art. This has prompted artists to attack his account with cries of "grifter", liberal use of F bombs, and calling him a "thief" and a "terrible human being." Look, if he was doing this for a grift, you don't go advocating for AI tools. Everybody knows how hated that is in art and, therefore, unprofitable for a YouTuber. He's doing it because he's trying to prepare artists for the inevitable change and to survive and adapt. He even says so in his X article. I think Andrew is fully sincere in his goal. I've been warning about AI for many years now, even before ChatGPT, trying to get people prepared. There is not a single one of us that isn't looking at our jobs being replaced by AI, and the only solution is to move up higher on the creation chain until we reach post-scarcity. Crying about it isn't going to stop it at this point. That ship sailed long ago.

@Grummz It's almost like DEI doesn't actually have anything to do /w making a decent product that ppl want to buy.

Iron Galaxy Studios, which pushed for DEI, is now having layoffs as the industry changes.

@Grummz Not made much? More like, nothing at all. RE9 was prob the only decent AAA game in a long while. I recently saw a vid /w a clip of when orig RE4 won GOTY vs God of War, COD2, FEAR, WoW & a comment said "Holy sh*t we had it good back then". Now nominations are like TLoU2TLoU2TLoU2

Windrose is smashing into the weekend with 132,647 players! The pirate survival game is crushing Ubisoft's AAAA "Skull and Bones" It's a total embarrassment to AAA studios who have not made much that gamers want in the past few years.

@Grummz They're the same clowns whose entire "review" for Onechanbara R on Wii was crying about a bikini being part of Aya's default outfit. That was decades ago too.

It’s A Single Player Game, Morons.

@mrmrr00195242 @Grummz Yeah, CD loading took forever. I remember it was around 17 seconds between each match for Street Fighter Alpha on Playstation.

@testo_san @Grummz It was also a single speed CD and as a result the load times for games were notoriously slow.

They just posted a video on the 1:1 Neo Geo+ console that's coming out. Looks fantastic. Works with carts.

@Grummz It's prob more about narcissists/women & their white knights/fellow cultists invading other people's spaces & forcing everything to adapt to them. They already own OnlyFans, so they're not interested in trying to force changes on it.

They are still trying the old weird playbook to change games to their worldview. Games can’t be have attractive females, but onlyfans is lauded. Nobody cares anymore. Go home.