Random: Academy Award Winner Brie Larson's Mind Was Just Blown By Doug Bowser

This is cute and wholesome content!
Brie Larson is a national treasure and a delight 🥰

And now we’re gonna argue if Captain Marvel was a good movie or not.

I think it was ok and Marvel dropped the ball by not introducing her earlier and building her against Thanos before Endgame (Thanos was Mahr-Vell’s nemesis in the comics).

@Zuljaras As someone who used to be a fan of Brie Larson and doesn't care for her nowadays, she's been a Nintendo fan for as long as I've known about her. That's part of the reason I became a fan of her back then.

Famous and successful people can like video games too. Not really sure why that's surprising to anyone.

@Zuljaras Pretty sure she's just like us and likes Nintendo and is weirded out that Doug Bowser pointed them out.

But... Doug Bowser is a white heterosexual man? 🤔
Must be one of those so-called fake news 😂

Have to admit that’s pretty damn cute. She’s always been into Nintendo as long as I’ve known about her so probably back when Scott Pilgrim was out. Definitely an under appreciated actress given how incredible she was in Room.

she loves nintendo, she has a fine zss cosplay

every time I see her name I'm always confused with Bree Olsen.

@MisterKorman Gasp. Inconceivable.

I hope nobody makes a comment about how this tweet got her to smile because while I didn’t care for Ms. Marvel (Captain Marvel will always be the one who shouts “Shazam!”), the hate for her and the film was more annoying than the film itself was.

I have my own criticisms of the film, but that’s for a different place, because I am so happy she is one of us, and shows how Nintendo makes people we sometimes don’t care much for actually kind of cool because at least we have that in common.

@Zuljaras

If she's convinced that Mario and Luigi aren't real humans but humanoid, it would makes sense.... Even though those manly moustaches should trigger any radical feminist 🧐

Brie Larson in the title and a comments section underneath... better grab me some popcorn!!

Hey, opinion may be divided on Captain Marvel but at least we can all agree that Dark Phoenix was a piece of crap.

@Lordplops
That's as true as it can be

nah not today

Oh god, this is gonna trigger culture war BS in the comments, I just know it!

Not really a fan, although I'll say that her stature and stern, sour demeanor make me think she'd be a good candidate to play Samus in a live-action Metroid.

@Savino : How do you figure who's white, heterosexual, and/or male?

People with their sanity intact would be right to oppose misandrists like Larson. I'm surprised she's even got a bloke in her life (though STILL not married after six years; can't blame the silly bloke for being reluctant lol).

I have a connection at Nintendo of America, perhaps I should offer to take her with me for a tour.

That’s cool. Every now and then I’m proud to be a gamer when when you see how this hobby touches so many different people.

Edit: after reading the rest of this comment section I retract my earlier comment. But good for BL for a nice geeky moment.

@Silly_G Judging someone else's love life like that comes across as rather sad and bitter. Maybe try to keep those sort of thoughts to yourself.

Short Term 12 though...

@Savino : Doesn't it get exhausting not having a single original thought to call your own and just parroting the same inane rhetoric hell-bent on causing our society to regress?

The fact that you seem to block your ears and ululate clichés because you don't have the backbone to stand by your so-called convictions speaks volumes of your fragility, and to quote you, "Lol".

Wait thought we were the worse evil in the world. Sorry but while she can act I just can't help but think Nintendo being used by her.

@Zuljaras I'm almost afraid to ask, but why hate - like at all? Is this STILL in relation to Cap. Marvel or did I once more miss some pointless internet drama, made up to harass actual people "for reasons"?

Based on what I've seen (Room, Scott Pilgrim, Free Fire, her Marvel stuff and such) she seems like a capable actress with decent range and a likeable personality.

Simple story about a celebrity geeking on Nintendo immediately devolves into orgy of alt-right hate? Must be a weekday at NintendoLife.

@Savino
Feminism should be honored and supported. The problem is what kind of feminism an individual supports.

First of all, it's no good when feminism goes from focusing on equality to dominance. You should be judged by how capable you are for a job, not that there needs to be a equal percent of each gender for the sake of diversity. That's just plain stupid and has a risk of affecting the quality of a product.

Secondly, I can't support biological determinism... that's too much in the spirit of Baumann

Sheesh, what's with all the silly Brie Larson hate? She may be a celebrity, but ultimately, she's just an actual, normal person like you and me, you know, with feelings? And like you and me, they sometimes do or say some dumb things.

No need to hate on someone for that, unless you're so insecure that you may feel attacked by those comments. Which, by the way, is also not necessary...

@Zuljaras So, basically, she wants her movies to be seen/reviewed by a broader audience? Shocker...

As much as I don’t like Brie and her feminazi behaviour, I think it is safe that she is a huge Nintendo fan. She did dress up as Samus for Halloween, tweeted the post to the game and actually knows who Doug Bowser is.

@Zuljaras It was more that she thought female critics would ‘get’ Captain Marvel more than male ones. Obviously, having seen the film, it draws inspiration from years of feminist media so of course female critics would appreciate that more.

@Zuljaras I was under the impression that she has long since nuanced/toned down those statements, and that some of it probably also needs to be seen in the context of pro-African American and pro-women statements, not so much as exclusion statements.

When the makers of Black Panther were doing more or less the same thing (advertising an almost all black cast, and all black movie crew), it was seen as good, but when a white actress makes statements that are pro-minority, it's seen as offensive or not done, all of a sudden.

To me, the whole hate thing is extremely silly and pathetic. I judge her on her work, not on her person. She can be whoever she wants to be in life, seeing as it's her life, so she should be able to live it as she pleases, and none of that should bother us.

Case in point: I absolutely HATE Scientology, but even though I do, I still watch and enjoy movies from John Travolta or Tom Cruise, because regardless of their idiotic devotion to Scientology, they're still damn good actors/entertainers, so I simply separate the two, and forego judging the part that doesn't involve, concern or impact me.

@danemord : The pursuit of "equality" sounds noble on paper, but is inherently flawed as it disregards the inalienable distinctions between the sexes. For example, there is a lot of talk about this so-called "pay gap", but the reality is that, at least in the developed world, women do get paid the same as men; it would be illegal not to, but they want the average salary of women to be equal, which is intrinsically flawed in practice as it is men working the more dangerous/laborious jobs, and to pay them less so that seamstresses get paid more is a ridiculous proposition and would disincentivise men from pursuing the dangerous (yet better-paying) jobs, many of which are essential to running a productive and prosperous society.

The fact that most workplace deaths involve men says it all, with about 90% of workplace deaths involving men, and I don't think anybody would suggest that we close the gap there, though the modern feminist would not dare raise that issue as it would turn their arguments to Swiss cheese.

I am all for treating the sexes fairly, but the constant peddling of "equality" is ill-conceived and will ultimately result in the sexes being treated unjustly. Just because something may be "unequal" it doesn't make it inferior (which seems to be the common sentiment when the word "inequality" is thrown around, as if it inherently carries negative connotations). Men are no more equal to women than women are to men. There will be variance in our dispositions and capabilities (such as not every women being destined to be a mother, or every man being destined to be some kind of alpha-male strongman), but we are ultimately complementary by design.

I love those threads, always a good time to see who needs to be muted.

@Zuljaras Well, that's just personal taste, and there's nothing wrong with that. Hating on someone that we don't even really know is just dumb and unfounded, and says more about the hater than the object of that hate.

And if you look at professional reviews of her various movies, then the general consensus is that she's actually a pretty decent actress, regardless of what you or I may think of it.

Oh, forgot to mention another great example of this weird focus of celebrities' private lives in my previous comment: Johnny Depp.

@MisterKorman I think if they introduced her earlier and had a sequel about her meeting Thanos she wouldn’t feel like a third wheel in Endgame. Her arrival in the climax would be more “hell yeah, payback” rather than “oh yeah, she exists”. She had no narrative impact.
She came off like that coworker than only inputs a final touch in a group project and claims all the credit afterwards.
I liked her movie, but I didn’t like her in Endgame.

I love how people are so triggered by her. Shows how fragile some of you guys on here are.

@NintendoFan990 Not liking her or her movies is not the same as being “triggered”.
She seems quite awful on social media, but I tend to separate people from art. Her movie was OK.

I really enjoyed the Movie, hope to see more of her soon.

The one thing i didnt like in avengers whas the Hulk part, he is my favorite character and Marvel just nerved him completely

@Zuljaras Yeah, we could go on and on, and mention artists like Michael Jackson and so on, but in the end, the most important thing for me personally, is to have the capability to separate these two things: what people say or do as an individual, and the arts that they perform and that I can enjoy. One should not be used to impact the other, and the arts can be enjoyed, regardless of the person being (or perceived as being, because it's all debatable/arguable) a giant tool or idiot in his or her private life.

In any given review on NintendoLife you will see half a dozen comments about how the game was given to the wrong reviewer, how their criticisms of the game are clearly inspired by a bias against that kind of game and how critics don't know anything anyway. Life goes on.

But if a woman says pretty much the same thing about the criticisms of a movie she starred in, she's now and forever a "feminazi" and a misandrist.

(Edited for typos)

@Silly_G
Don't you worry, I agree completely with you
When I say equality, i mean that anybody should have equal opportunities, or in other words: You're rewarded by your efforts, not by what gender you have, not only in economic capital but also in social capital

I kinda hate the favouritism that goes on in our society.
You wouldn't see Doug send a question like that to your average nobody fan. Likewise, I'm not too thrilled by her and what she's said in the past about heterosexual white men (I'm neither hetero nor white but hopefully my opinion is still valid to her!!!) so this post/article certainly isn't winning any points with me.

thank you VERY much!

@Zuljaras I never saw it as arguing. Simply explaining my views, is all. On a side note: I do believe it's the only way to see it, otherwise I could never see any movie of the actors I mentioned, or listen to any kind of song from Michael Jackson, who's music I also still like, regardless of all the nastiness surrounding his persona.

This comment section is so sad... But not surprising.

@Zuljaras Final note, and then I will get off your back...

Well, it only influences it, if you allow it to, and that was basically my whole point. I would feel like depriving myself of good and entertaining media, if I'd allow my opinion of the private life of actors/entertainers to influence my enjoyment of their arts, which would ultimately only be to my own disadvantage, and that is also why I think it is silly/dumb to hold such a grudge against someone we don't really know.

So, that's it for me. Thanks for the polite replies.

@Yorumi Going to play devil's advocate here: in some ways, some measure of that is almost to be expected, and maybe even warranted, seeing as the African American community, and women too, have had to suffer many decades of racism and inequality, so whether or not a point made is too harsh, it isn't like it's coming completely out of the blue. It kinda was always going to happen.

But I do agree that the tone needs to be moderated. Protest against and support for things is okay, and legal, but once it starts going in the direction of extremism, regardless of it being left or right, then neither of them is good, so that should always be prevented, regardless of which side you're on.

That's probably why open-mindedness and willingness to politely discuss/debate things like these is so important.

@SmaggTheSmug I think it’s really boring, but of course it was necessary or else her inclusion in Endgame would have felt very abrupt. As far as lead female superhero origins go, I liked Wonder Woman a lot more.

@Zuljaras She doesn't strike me as the type of person who gives two hoots if sexists hate her. That's what sexists do and their opinions don't matter.

@SmaggTheSmug She destroyed Thanos’ ship like it was nothing. She definitely had an impact and was a huge reason they won.

You might say she’s OP but they’re probably going to need that now as the Marvel universe conflict actually transitions to the galactic scale.

@Zuljaras You know, I had only seen your first comment when I replied, and now that I've read more of them, I know it was a waste of time to reply to you because you are a broken, crying mess of a little boy who can't possibly comprehend the fact that more women doing things isn't some grand attack on men.

@Yorumi I'm afraid I'm not aware of the Ellen DeGeneres thing, so that one eludes me, but we largely agree on things, from the look of it. After all, I also don't blame modern-day Germans for WW2...

All in all, as mentioned before, I believe moderation is key. I don't like any kind of extremism, regardless of which side it's on or coming from.

Thought I was reading Hello! Or OK! Or some other gossip mag for a minute there... News. shrugs

That's not fair, all these people are arguing and left me out. Someone argue with me.

@Xylnox You suck. (Does that help?)

My eyes skipped past the "Mind" part of the headline and I did a quick double take. haha

My low respect for her just increased slightly.

@Antraxx777 I don’t mind OP characters, but her destroying Thanos ship when the last time we saw her was sneering at Black Widow simply felt flat. I forgot she even was in the movie by the time that happened.
It would be much cooler if she had history with Thanos, that’s my point. She was more of a plot device than a character. They introduced her and then had no idea what to do with her, so they shipped her back to space and pushed her into the final fight, alongside everyone else.

@SmaggTheSmug I agree they rushed the character in and she still didn’t feel comfortable in that universe yet, but there’s no doubt they wouldn’t have won that fight without her. It make a lot of sense why Fury was saving her callup for last.

I have never even heard of this person. I'm a gamer. I spend my free time playing video games. I have no idea who any celebrity after, like 1999 is. Seems like a fun celebrity marketing op.

@Ralizah What culture war? There's people that want to control everybody else's thoughts and words, and then there's everybody else... That's not a war, that's an occupation.

@JasmineDragon As I said, I have no idea who this person is, or what the controversy are about beyond what's in this thread. But just from what I see here, I think that's a flawed argument in that, the people criticizing NL's critics are other third party viewers/players/observers/consumers disagreeing with the publication's analysis or basis. In the case of an actor doing the same, it's someone that's part of the business of SELLING the product being reviewed attacking critics, and worse, using personal attacks by attacking them on demographic information. We don't get Jade Raymond posting on NL about how the criticisms in the review of the AC trilogy on Switch is unfair because Damien is a white Brit. That would be the equivalent.

@MisterKorman I think the whole point Yorumi and his mentioned Ellen story is precisely about what you're responding though. You're starting with a black and white pretense "the guy did this for false reasons." But I think that's the point everyone is making about having dialogue with people you disagree with rather than echo boxes. You haven't talked to him about it. You haven't talked to other people involved. You don't know their motivations, or feelings, etc on a personal level to really understand what happened and why. You have pundits telling you cliff notes analyses of things and forming hard opinions based on watching pundits of either side reaffirm their own viewpoints. Obviously most people that aren't rich like Ellen aren't going to have a chance to just chat with a head of state and ask "hey so what WERE you really thinking when you did X? Why did you do that?"

But the point Yorumi and Thanos are making is that if you COULD sit down and just chat with the involved party, talk about the thinking and the reasoning and why things happened the way they did and what led to it, are you positive you'd still walk out with that same opinion of "this was all done for false pretenses etc etc." Or might you come out with the opinion that "I still think it was the wrong thing to do, but I think I understand where he's coming from and why he did things the way he did instead of the way I would have....I'm not sure who's right, things could have gone differently and I wouldn't have had hindsight to look back on."

That's where we SHOULD be, but instead we take hindsight details (some of them not always true or complete) and evaluate individuals we already dislike in a cold box with only those details and no real thought to what else went on.

Sure there are individuals that are just cold, selfish, criminals that really have no motives, or attempts at doing right, they're just in it for what they can get. And many of those individuals end up in politics and business. Those people usually only barely disguise their contempt for everyone that isn't themselves.

Funny, how she is nervous to talk to an old white guy. I guess she is trying anything to work on her shattered image. SJW garbage.

@flapjack-ashley Cheater! We're supposed to establish the rules first.

1. No attacking personally
2. No saying "you suck"
3. Oh nm, lets just fight.

Round One! Fight!

You suck.

@MisterKorman Yeah, but for a character whom they were hyping up since the end of Infinity War it was a big letdown for her to basically be a last minute missile with little connection to the actual plot. She may have just been an energy beam from a ship piloted by Stallone’s character or Adam Warlock. Not good enough for a “Captain Marvel”.
Kind of like Infinity War hinted some deep character development and conflict for Hulk/Banner, only for him to suddenly appear fine in Endgame, with all the interesting story skipped. Just wasted opportunity.

Good for her! Allways nice to see celebritys enjoying good games

@NEStalgia Brie Larson said something like "I'm not interested in the opinion of white men" or something similar about a movie she starred in before Captain Marvel.

I demand Luigi meets Captain Marvel fan art!

@NEStalgia
When you have two or more ideological factions who think the other is dangerous, refuse to compromise, and vie for cultural dominion, you have a culture war. Not sure what's difficult to understand about that.

Like most ideological conflict, though, it's mostly a smokescreen to protect the real power brokers from excessive scrutiny. Especially in America. Dumb poor-to-lower-middle-class people snipe about Brie Larson and transpeople going to the wrong bathroom whilst a tiny group of people at the very top of society work tirelessly to continue enriching themselves at the expense of the rest of society.

@Ralizah But mostly we have one faction vying for cultural domination against the rest of the population that is of various mixed cultural opinions on all things. There's really only one "consensus"/"agenda" driven voice in that "war". It's less a "war" and more, one side mobilizing and invasion force while the other "side" (really many different "sides") just keeps trying to build spikier barricades to keep them out and ignore them. (Which is always claimed as an open assault by the other "side")

Though "dumb poor-to-lower-middle-class" as the description there kind of sounds like a culture war right there... From past conversation I don't think of you as in the "only backward rednecks are against sophisticated PC culture" category....

Otherwise I agree.

I was reminded of a certain style of writing (or typing)* while reading this part of the article:

"Um you’re Doug Bowser and now I’m nervous and um I love Nintendo and Luigi is my favorite character and thank you very much for everything omg!!!!!!!!"

(*casual)

@SmaggTheSmug I wouldn't say it's just not liking her or her movies for some people. Have you not seen those weird channels on YouTube who make like 40 minute videos complaining about Brie and Captain Marvel? Some people take it to the extreme.

Not a fan. Not gonna explain why.

I'm surprised she would even take the time to respond to Doug Bowser, what with him being white and male, two of her most hated things.

@NEStalgia It wasn't meant to be a statement of condemnation against cons or libs or whatever arbitrary dichotomy exists at the moment. Rather, it's frustrating to me that these people, en masse, allow themselves to be played for suckers by the ruling class. One long-established and effective means of controlling labor movements and revolutionary forces in society has been to exploit divisions between the working poor. Exacerbating racial animus between blacks and whites, for example.

This shouldn't, and needn't, be a partisan issue. Economic (and resultant social) inequality, the fact that a few megacorps control basically the entirety of the media, the corrupt relationship between the U.S. government and various massive industries... none of this benefits 99.99% of humanity. Yet pretty much all I see are people sniping at one-another about things that I doubt even they care about.

@Ralizah Indeed, I've said the same numerous times. All the different "groups" and "divisions" are mere distractions to keep everyone fighting each other and not looking at the man behind the curtain.

That's more like it. All agreed. I also find "partisan issue" to be a funny expression. There's no such thing as "partisan" because there's no such thing as "parties." There's two brand logos, but that's about it. The two brands may SAY different things but when you actually bother to look what they DO there is zero difference and they work in tandem, and both serve the same audience cooperatively, and just continuously change their positions to suit the moment and whatever audience need to be grabbed, except their associated "brand trademark issues."

Mostly fully efficient/advanced capitalism appears, to me, indistinguishable from communism. It takes a different route but ends in the same place. If you compare now to the height of the USSR, can you spot the difference? I can't.

@Zuljaras Well, I remember that, which means I am still up-to-date, thx

Curious though, that was like summer'ish last year? That's decades in internet years.

And most Hollywood critics are kinda ... well, male, caucasian and stuff. As a white male, when someone 'tells me', that I certainly seem sure the world revolves around me and my ilk, I am like ... "yes that has indeed been my general life-experience" (it's an obsevation, nothing more and nothing less.

If I were to look around at media, advertisement and such, and make an educated guess, who matters as a consumer at least, caucasian male would have been and still is my go-to deduction. But then again, in central Europe, what does one expect? Until 20 years ago - around here and legally speaking - a wife could not be raped by her husband, imagine that.

That aside, I still think: good actress, decent range, likeable personality (based on extensive 2nd-hand long-distance analysis ^^).

Moral Superior: Insert "wOw LoOk at aLl tHesE hAteFul coMmeNts" response here

NOTE TO ALL BRIE LARSON HATERS:

If all she said, a couple of years ago already, is that she isn't interested in the opinion of white men, and THAT is what all of you are so up in arms about, then I'd STRONGLY suggest all of you to reconsider your useless waste of time and energy fighting, debating and flipping out over that, because she REALLY doesn't care (and rightfully so), nor does anyone involved and/or relevant, and the entirety of Hollywood also doesn't think much of it, as is apparent by her still having a job in the business.

So it's just you, shouting all alone in the desert where no one can hear you, so all you're doing, is losing your own valuable time and energy, that is much better spent in other ways, which will also be more to your own benefit...

And the statement really isn't all that bad to begin with. It's just a reactionary statement, more than likely taken out of context to emphasize the "offensive" bit. Sticks and stones, and all that...

@Yorumi Ah, I see. Well, for the record: I did not interpret your comment as derailing things. I just honestly had no idea what it was about.

Liked your echo chamber analogy. Agreed with it as well, and also with most of what @NEStalgia said. He gets it, as do you.

Too bad that hating on people that we don't even really know, and getting your reactionary comment in is still all the rage nowadays...

@GamingFan4Lyf Let me guess... an uncle?

How can she love Luigi if he's a straight white man?

@Yorumi Yeah, that's why so-called "wedge issues" are so invaluable to politicians and the ruling elite in general. They're things that people care passionately about and, as you mention, are either unsolvable or so contentious that there will never be a settled consensus on them.

I'm not surprised the corporate media and social media pundits keep trying to inflame tensions between political factions. That leads to the sort of political instability we've "enjoyed" since the Obama years. And while too much instability is bad for business, you also don't want a government that actually represents the real desires of the people if you're benefiting from the current social arrangement.

The only way out of this sort of scenario is for people to talk to one-another. But we're living in a society that is gradually being redesigned so as to make legitimate discussion with other people outside of your faction or clan impossible. How on Earth are social media technologies supposed to facilitate discussion between people with differing viewpoints when they're explicitly designed to impede complex thought and drive people seeking (consciously or not) social validation to conform their thoughts and behaviors according to the positive feedback loop engendered by their design? That makes it where social media services become echo chambers, and, if I know one thing about echo chambers, it's that, with no moderating influence or dissenting opinion, viewpoints become increasingly narrow and extreme over time as people keep telling eachother things they already agree with, only increasingly purified of nuance and sympathy as people compete for likes or upvotes or whatever operant conditioning tool the service they're using employs.

@Yorumi True, and especially accepting that not everyone has to agree with you seems to be an almost insurmountable hill for certain people nowadays. Maybe I'm just getting too old for all this crap. I've read all she said, and I'm as white and as manly of a man you could possibly imagine, and not even the smallest cell in my body was even remotely close to being offended.

If someone doesn't like her acting, or the movies that she stars in, then fair enough, because we all have a right to have our own opinions and tastes, but I'm getting REALLY tired of all these apparently light-hearted and positively intended articles turning into some kind of completely unrelated hate-fest...

Sometimes I feel bad when I don't know celebrities. Sometimes.

This comment section is why I almost never tell someone I’ve just met that I like to play video games.

Let me explain the reasons we hate Brie Larson.
She acts like she's THE greatest actress in the world, but really she's just an okay actress when she actually tries. She allows Disney to groom and paint her as this idol of diversity, but misuses it as a shield to do and say whatever she damn wants. She thinks she's the symbol of female empowerment, but in reality makes it mediocre at best and cringy at worst. I have feminist friends who hate her guts, because she's making them look bad. Though I personally blame Disney for consistently stroking her ego and making her act this way.

Brie Larson has earned this hatred by constantly and purposefully angering nerd fandoms, unnecessarily kicking up hornets nests, and start flame wars in said fandoms. She constantly gloats on how Captain Marvel is the deepest, greatest, and most fantastical character in all of Marvel and then she barely even tries to show it. She treats all criticisms, including constructive ones, as a personal attacks and insults. She talks big game, but never delivers. She gets childishly angry and extremely spiteful whenever that's pointed out.

All and all, she's poison. Whether her intentions are good or bad, her mere presence starts conflicts. Even now, right here in this article. And she has earned it.

@neufel I’m not sure which side of the argument you sit (I’m just a happy bystander not getting involved) but I wouldn’t recommend muting those with whom you disagree.

They say the problem with social media and people getting indoctrinated is the algorithms which just feed them content they like and agree with without giving them opposing viewpoints.

I know this isn’t the same and you’re entitled to just relaxing on this site, but I’d recommend keeping dialogue paths open. Especially as someone you might disagree with on this topic may have valuable contributions to a game you like on another article.

@BoyfriendOfDeath Couldn't have said it better myself.

SJW and identity politics aside, why does anyone care about that stuff? Just ignore it and it literally doesn't exist.

We also have a huge celebrity worship problem. Why do people care what these people have to say? Do you care of the political opinions of porn stars?

I don't really watch movies so I have no idea who this chick is. How is she important to Nintendo?

Wow. If there's so much hate and insecurity masqueraded as "reason", we truly are doomed as society.

@Pixel_Perfect Actually, a recruiter.

@Yorumi Haha, thanks, but not to worry: it doesn't affect me that much. As soon as I click on another article or forum topic, my mind is already busy with more important thing than irrational haters.

@kuromantic : Please enlighten me exactly where women are being paid less for doing the same work, and I'm not talking about the sports/entertainment industry or executive positions where the pulling power of the performers in generating revenue is what drives their value. I'm talking about the overwhelming majority of non-glamorous work in the real world where everybody is given a set wage for work regardless of sex.

I can't vouch for the entirety of the planet, but it is illegal to pay a woman less for doing the same work as a man, at least in Australia, but current dialogue pertaining to the "pay gap" seems to revolve around the fact that the average earnings of a woman is less than a man for the reasons that I had specified. You can't expect a seamstress (most of whom are female) to earn as much throughout their life as a construction worker (most of whom are male). Why do you suppose that is? That the element of strength, resilience, and danger has nothing to do with the fact that the latter career path is intrinsically deemed more valuable? A man can decide to work as a seamstress and get paid the same as women, but why should he if he is capable of doing (and earning) more? Likewise, why should a woman over-exert herself and attempt to compete with men in fields where she is inherently disadvantaged? The reality isn't sexist, and one would have to be utterly daft to turn to CEOs and other executive positions (which constitute such a negligible portion of the workforce) as reason to be indignant or cry sexism when the overwhelming majority of laborious work is performed by men, hence the "gap".

@BoyfriendOfDeath
I really dislike your underlying argument, that the existence of "internet outrage and argument" has any bearing on there being an actual fault at play, which does rest wit, in this instance a person. No, the fact that people get mad about something, does not retroactively mean, there was a justified reason for that, and that said reason was brought forth, so to speak, by a person xyz.
It does kinda extend to a lack of justification for being 'hated' for running afoul of this or that fandom.

Sidenote...
"I have feminist friends who hate her guts, because she's making feminism look bad."

Is "feminist" a stand-in for female here? Because without rocking any boats here, feminist has nothing to do with one's own sex, just saying.

Does it mean, that by having "feminist" friends, you can not possible be a misogynist yourself (aka, I have a black friend-theory)?

Does that mean you yourself are not a "feminist"? Like you being opposed to legal, social and economic egality of the sexes?

I get that people like to throw the word "feminist" around, certainly gets attention in it's broad associations, but I feel anyone who is truly still stuck in the 1800s should really stay at home and out of the public sphere (think about all the dangers out there: typhus, tuberculosis or polio and what not ^^)

@Yorumi Hah, to a degree I agree with that though it depends where you live. If you haven't been following some of my posts on the forum sides in my ongoing conversation with Thanos, there's a saga they've turned where I live into a living nightmare, effectively taking what was once livable suburbia and very rapidly turning it into an expensive, luxury, urbanized nightmare over a period of about 4 years. Virtually everything I knew, everywhere I went, any place that mattered has been or will soon be bulldozed and built into hideous high-rise luxury apartments complete with yoga, fitness center and smoothie bar, the roads converted to 6 lane highways all quietly in a year or two (never even knew it was happening, one day you go somewhere you've gone for decades and have no idea where you are, there's now 8 lanes across including turn lanes where they used to be 2 and a guard rail. I basically won't really ever leave the house again other than to get food. There's nowhere for "my kind" left, and even if there were, getting there is a nightmare of travel of the very type that I never went some places to specifically to avoid. They crammed all this stuff in as fast as possible so they could quickly import "young, upper income" New Yorkers in massive numbers (now about 60% of the population is them, and they control the local elections by fiat, and most of the candidates in local elections are them as well.) It's safe to say that my local and regional politics are even WORSE and more corrupt than DC, where we were literally sold down the river with a living nightmare built secretly atop of us without ever having been informed even. Someone, somewhere decided your suburb is going to become an urban utopia, and you'll find out once it's built. So I find national politics downright soothing compared to the now entirely unwinnable battle of what amounts to invasion and occupation by NY and the forced adoption of their entire culture and spending habits. At least national has a debate. Locally everything is done in secret with backroom deals with national (and foreign) land developers for muli-hundred-million dollar projects and densification programs.

So yeah, the whole national garbage, be it trade tarrifs, walls, wars, or bathroom uses seems a nice, pleasant, actually winnable debate in contrast.

@Wavey84 Yep. Absolutely agree on the joke of a medical complex. That's the other thing they've overbuilt my area with, endless expanses of medical complexes. I still don't get who's consuming all this "medicine." Back 30 years ago you went to a doctor, they examined your symptoms, diagnosed the problem and suggested treatment of medicine, doing nothing, etc. etc. paid him is $150, and went on your way. Suddenly a medical trip needs a trip for a referral, then 3 different lab sessions in 2 different buildings, then a trip far away for some scan, then 2 consultations, then 3 specialists, finally they put you on $150/mo of drugs for life (with or without another 2 surgical trips and follow-ups. To the combined tune of $75,000, but after insurance it's a mere $8,000 They turned a 1 time doctors visit into a 14 month way of life consuming medicine like it's retail. It's a bizarre system designed to sell medical and drugs as a product you desire rather than a service you need...and I will never understand that. Hypochondria as a lifestyle seems en vogue.

Inevitably whether it's Yoga classes or "Big Pharma" (with a population almost entirely drugged into submissiveness) this is all inevitably going to collapse once the era of decadence needs to be constrained. I can't imagine what nightmare forms after that.

Well as a white heterosexual man,I despise her as much as she does me. So she can F=%$ right off back to her virtue signalling Hollywierd life with the rest of those immoral nutjobs. She likes Nintendo? who cares and why is this news?

@Yorumi Yeah, people suggest that, and I may daydream about it from time to time, but in reality it's not as doable a thing as it would seem. The costs associated with even trying to move would wipe out every penny I have if not incur debt to do (debut I probably couldn't actually take on without absurd interest if even that.) I can't afford to stay, I can't afford to leave. It's a perfect prison built around me in a few short years. It sounds good to try to get away from having to spend $20 for every meal and living as a miserable hermit, but when you arrive at your new "better" place with little more than the shirt on your back, jobless, and not a penny saved, are you actually better off than having just stayed? If you're in the right position at the start that's viable. If you're not, you kind of get stuck having your life and future annihilated by outside forces.

I'm basically a Sears with feet. I guess on the up-side I may be a society of 1 with absolutely zero connection to the world around me, but I a least feel connected to Eddie Lampert....that's something, right?

Jesus Christ! I know NintendoLife has problems, but up until now, I thought the commenters here were at least more civilized!

Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on people. If this article was about someone like Dana Loesch, Kid Rock, or The Amazing Atheist, I doubt I would keep my hatred of such people to myself.

Brie Larson getting an academy award means they are now as meaningful as the nobel peace prize.

Y'know what blew my mind? When the article pointed out Brie was in Scott Pilgrim. Never made that connection until now.

@Wavey84 The media these days is ruled by narcissists and their sycophant cronies.

@JayJ : Well, Pitbull's also won a Grammy, I think. shudders

@kuromantic Yes, there is a wage gap in Sweeden, there always will be, and frankly always should be. Certain jobs should get paid more than others. But Sweeden has a strong social safety net that effectively provides everyone with basic needs, and props them up during hard times. That is what a place like the USA lacks. Well, not lacks, but we have this overly complicated patchwork of half-measures that a certain political party is always trying to dismantle.

@kuromantic Sorry, I wrote the wrong country name. But my comment about the strong social safety net applies to both, especially when compared to the USA.

@Kienda I think I mostly agree with you.
The people who (I think) can be muted are the accounts you never see except on "political" threads and who just want to attack, be angry, and most importantly 'pretend to misunderstand what you're saying so they can pretend you're an idiot'.
Basically all disingenuous commenters who are just here to stir the bs.

But you're right, there's no problem in having different opinions, and my original (really tired of this s***) comment wasn't clear.

@neufel yeah, I agree with that and I completely understand the sentiments of your original comment. There are many trolls and they should be ignored. To be honest though, I’m not good at telling the difference between trolls and real viewpoints.

I’m not really sure why I made my comment and to you in particular. Maybe I thought you’d be more receptive (which you were) than other people on this comment section who made similar remarks. It was meant more of a “Hey man, don’t let them get to you” rather than telling you you’re doing it wrong.