@Devlind - You understand—as outlined in my giant post—that him "being like a father to her" is actually a part of the problem, right? That they have such a daddy-daughter relationship, and that she is so completely, entirely, wholly obsequious and obedient to him, in such a slavish, child-like way is actually a part of the problem.
The problem is that it was that, and not...
"Samus, you don't have authorit—" "I respect authority, but anyone telling me not to use my best means to protect myself clearly shouldn't be in any kind of command position, 'Sir.' So, with all due respect, ***** you. Varia suit ON."
...is actually a big part of the damn problem. It's fetish-y daddy-daughter stuff and that should NOT be in a video game that targets children. Japan has a weird relationship with porn and children that I'm not exactly a fan of, and it should NEVER make it into a video game that kids play.
Anyway. Samus should be more like Beckett Mariner, frankly.
"Daddy, hey daddddeee... Can I use my protective suit dadddeeee? Lava is hot, it hurts daddddeeee..." "No, daughter. I forbid you. I am your father and you must obey." "Awwww... Daddeeee. Okaaay. Ow. Ow. Ow."
NOAP. NOAP. Friggin' NOPE! That's so many levels of nope.
I mean, okay, I have plenty of fetishes and kinks myself. A sexually healthy person would. I GET THAT. The difference is is that I keep my interests to adult porn sites, among other friggin' adults. I don't put them in front of children who might be damaged by them. I especially don't put sexist daddy-fetish porn in front of young gamer girls who might have their perspective of Samus scarred forever by ths *****.
There's so many examples of daddy fetish throughout the game, too. I mean, even that ***** "rescuing" Samus when she was oh so helpless, left adrift in a "PTSD attack." Other M makes me feel genuinely, legitimately ill. It's horrible. It's absolutely horrible.
You'd have to be kind of psychopathic to defend it, you'd definitely need to have a complete lack of empathy.
This took a badass character and assassinated her just so some creepy bugger could have his daddy fetish porn, using established characters acting entirely out of character. That's indefensible. It's also something that someone should get arrested for, in all honesty.
Nintendo still haven't stopped their shenanigans either. I mean, I'm a little put off by how the EMMIs in Dread assume a dominant, top position over Samus in order to forcibly, aggressivley penetrate her. It's not nearly as bad as Other M as it wouldn't be so obvious to a kid that there's anything wrong there. You'd have to know what you were looking at more in this case, whereas Other M was so blatant with its unrelentingly undermining sexism that any young girl playing it would've gotten the message loud and clear.
I'm not happy that Nintendo are still doing this otaku rubbish, but at least they're hiding it better now. Small blessings, I guess.
I mean, this? This isn't great. What's going on here is clearly obvious to any adult, but... like I said, at least it isn't as bad as Other M where it would actually scar a child. It still makes me leery as the body language of Samus, her being a woman, and the masculine-looking EMMI robot doing its thing? It paints a very clear image.
I'm just tired of it. I wish we could just leave sexism behind and let Samus be a badass. The best game to ever do that was Metroid Prime, because Nintendo had the least involvement with it. It was also the game where Samus looked the least like an oversexed, underaged waifu to boot. I hope Nintendo will be hands-off with the new upcoming Metroid Prime game... I really do.
Defending it as Jon did in the best Metroid games YouTube video, you mean?
I find this genuinely distressing. It's vile and parasitic for the Alt-Right who defend this game to claim that it does anything positive for those with neurodiversity and related concerns, that the language of "mental health" is used at all is a little telling. I actually do have PTSD from over a decade of being imprisoned by an abuser, and I can tell you that it's functionally nothing at all remotely like what Samus experienced.
I mean, let's get out of the way that Samus has fought Ridley many times by the point of Other M, and for her to suddenly have "PTSD" for no reason is incredibly insulting and demaning for those who live with actual PTSD, as it does nothing to help the neurotypical public gain a better understanding of how PTSD works. If anything, I'd say it's more somewhere between a sexist depiction of a panic atack and a parodical take on the public's existing view of PTSD.
It isn't fun for me as an actual PTSD sufferer that this is what people think PTSD is. It's dehumanising. Often the media is very dehumanising with how it depicts such topics. It's why I wish they wouldn't unless they'd not only had an expert on hand to explain it to them, but also have actually spoken with PTSD sufferers about their own experiences with it first. This is "best guess" scenario, and when dealing with armchair experts, it's never an accurate guess. Worse, it's a pervy, fetish-y best guess.
Let's come back to the other word, too. Sexist.
I mean, not only is Samus suddenly obsessed with the baby (the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the bloody baby because I guess she's a woman and women never think about anything other than babies), and not only is the station called the Bottleship, not only is the game called M:OM (Metroid: Other M, and that's sickening in how clever it thinks it is), but there's just so much in the game that's fetish fiction porn, character assassinating fetish fiction porn.
I mean, I'm leery of fiction involving established characters myself as I don't want someone who isn't the creator changing how I or others see the character. Still, everyone must be entitled their fetishes and kinks. If Other M had been on a fetish site, properly tagged, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid at it. Except it wasn't, was it? It was an officially published game by Nintendo. Nintendo, the family friendly business, published fetish porn. At kids. Yay.
Why are you like this? I don't mean that in a bad way at all. It's just that I'm kind of used to seeing media outlets using anyone that doesn't fit a certain edict of "normal" as punching bags. It's... nice. It's also kind and decent, that too.
This kind of light-hearted inclusion and punching up though reminds me of really old games journalism, where all games were valued if they were for someone. It wasn't about being dismissive of that which wasn't to the tastes of yon lords on high. I've found very few sites which have really embraced that attitude.
I don't understand where a lot of furry hate comes from, but I do wonder if it's chauvinistic entitlement? What I mean by that is this idea that if one is "normal," one is entitled. How dare this game exist when a game could be made for me? Indeed, how very much dare you spend your time reviewing it when it should be cast into the dark for the sin of existing.
That attitude can also be applied to how many furry artists there are. How dare they have so many excellent artists. It's an odd sort of envy. I mean, it's not like furries didn't earn it, though. A lot of it is putting their money where their mouth is and being willing to be the support for the things they want to see. This is a big reason why Zootopia was a massive financial success, and one of Disney's most successful movies. Furries are money because they get the value of it. So it's not surprising to see more and more games featuring non-human characters.
I'm not furry myself, just furry-adjacent. Otherkin. And I'm very tired of chauvinism. I think it's small-minded, petty, and unnecessary. In a mutualist world we can all be glad that we have games that we can share and enjoy. Games for you, games for me, games for everyone. There's no need for avarice and envy, there's plenty of games to go around. You don't need to zealously gatekeep.
Anyway, this and that LGBTQIA+ article has put NL on the list of sites I read. Thank you for not being jerkfaces who treat people so poorly just because they've committed the most abhorrent sin of being not the same as everyone else.
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Re: Random: Forget Dread, It's All About Metroid: Other M On Twitter Right Now
@Devlind - You understand—as outlined in my giant post—that him "being like a father to her" is actually a part of the problem, right? That they have such a daddy-daughter relationship, and that she is so completely, entirely, wholly obsequious and obedient to him, in such a slavish, child-like way is actually a part of the problem.
The problem is that it was that, and not...
"Samus, you don't have authorit—"
"I respect authority, but anyone telling me not to use my best means to protect myself clearly shouldn't be in any kind of command position, 'Sir.' So, with all due respect, ***** you. Varia suit ON."
...is actually a big part of the damn problem. It's fetish-y daddy-daughter stuff and that should NOT be in a video game that targets children. Japan has a weird relationship with porn and children that I'm not exactly a fan of, and it should NEVER make it into a video game that kids play.
Anyway. Samus should be more like Beckett Mariner, frankly.
Re: Random: Forget Dread, It's All About Metroid: Other M On Twitter Right Now
(Continued.)
I mean...
"Daddy, hey daddddeee... Can I use my protective suit dadddeeee? Lava is hot, it hurts daddddeeee..."
"No, daughter. I forbid you. I am your father and you must obey."
"Awwww... Daddeeee. Okaaay. Ow. Ow. Ow."
NOAP. NOAP. Friggin' NOPE! That's so many levels of nope.
I mean, okay, I have plenty of fetishes and kinks myself. A sexually healthy person would. I GET THAT. The difference is is that I keep my interests to adult porn sites, among other friggin' adults. I don't put them in front of children who might be damaged by them. I especially don't put sexist daddy-fetish porn in front of young gamer girls who might have their perspective of Samus scarred forever by ths *****.
There's so many examples of daddy fetish throughout the game, too. I mean, even that ***** "rescuing" Samus when she was oh so helpless, left adrift in a "PTSD attack." Other M makes me feel genuinely, legitimately ill. It's horrible. It's absolutely horrible.
You'd have to be kind of psychopathic to defend it, you'd definitely need to have a complete lack of empathy.
This took a badass character and assassinated her just so some creepy bugger could have his daddy fetish porn, using established characters acting entirely out of character. That's indefensible. It's also something that someone should get arrested for, in all honesty.
Nintendo still haven't stopped their shenanigans either. I mean, I'm a little put off by how the EMMIs in Dread assume a dominant, top position over Samus in order to forcibly, aggressivley penetrate her. It's not nearly as bad as Other M as it wouldn't be so obvious to a kid that there's anything wrong there. You'd have to know what you were looking at more in this case, whereas Other M was so blatant with its unrelentingly undermining sexism that any young girl playing it would've gotten the message loud and clear.
I'm not happy that Nintendo are still doing this otaku rubbish, but at least they're hiding it better now. Small blessings, I guess.
https://youtu.be/KZ4akBGUw50
I mean, this? This isn't great. What's going on here is clearly obvious to any adult, but... like I said, at least it isn't as bad as Other M where it would actually scar a child. It still makes me leery as the body language of Samus, her being a woman, and the masculine-looking EMMI robot doing its thing? It paints a very clear image.
I'm just tired of it. I wish we could just leave sexism behind and let Samus be a badass. The best game to ever do that was Metroid Prime, because Nintendo had the least involvement with it. It was also the game where Samus looked the least like an oversexed, underaged waifu to boot. I hope Nintendo will be hands-off with the new upcoming Metroid Prime game... I really do.
I feel genuinely bad for Samus.
Re: Random: Forget Dread, It's All About Metroid: Other M On Twitter Right Now
Defending it as Jon did in the best Metroid games YouTube video, you mean?
I find this genuinely distressing. It's vile and parasitic for the Alt-Right who defend this game to claim that it does anything positive for those with neurodiversity and related concerns, that the language of "mental health" is used at all is a little telling. I actually do have PTSD from over a decade of being imprisoned by an abuser, and I can tell you that it's functionally nothing at all remotely like what Samus experienced.
I mean, let's get out of the way that Samus has fought Ridley many times by the point of Other M, and for her to suddenly have "PTSD" for no reason is incredibly insulting and demaning for those who live with actual PTSD, as it does nothing to help the neurotypical public gain a better understanding of how PTSD works. If anything, I'd say it's more somewhere between a sexist depiction of a panic atack and a parodical take on the public's existing view of PTSD.
It isn't fun for me as an actual PTSD sufferer that this is what people think PTSD is. It's dehumanising. Often the media is very dehumanising with how it depicts such topics. It's why I wish they wouldn't unless they'd not only had an expert on hand to explain it to them, but also have actually spoken with PTSD sufferers about their own experiences with it first. This is "best guess" scenario, and when dealing with armchair experts, it's never an accurate guess. Worse, it's a pervy, fetish-y best guess.
Let's come back to the other word, too. Sexist.
I mean, not only is Samus suddenly obsessed with the baby (the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the bloody baby because I guess she's a woman and women never think about anything other than babies), and not only is the station called the Bottleship, not only is the game called M:OM (Metroid: Other M, and that's sickening in how clever it thinks it is), but there's just so much in the game that's fetish fiction porn, character assassinating fetish fiction porn.
I mean, I'm leery of fiction involving established characters myself as I don't want someone who isn't the creator changing how I or others see the character. Still, everyone must be entitled their fetishes and kinks. If Other M had been on a fetish site, properly tagged, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid at it. Except it wasn't, was it? It was an officially published game by Nintendo. Nintendo, the family friendly business, published fetish porn. At kids. Yay.
(Continued.)
Re: Review: Winds of Change - A Polished, Absorbing, Animal-Filled Visual Novel
Why are you like this? I don't mean that in a bad way at all. It's just that I'm kind of used to seeing media outlets using anyone that doesn't fit a certain edict of "normal" as punching bags. It's... nice. It's also kind and decent, that too.
This kind of light-hearted inclusion and punching up though reminds me of really old games journalism, where all games were valued if they were for someone. It wasn't about being dismissive of that which wasn't to the tastes of yon lords on high. I've found very few sites which have really embraced that attitude.
I don't understand where a lot of furry hate comes from, but I do wonder if it's chauvinistic entitlement? What I mean by that is this idea that if one is "normal," one is entitled. How dare this game exist when a game could be made for me? Indeed, how very much dare you spend your time reviewing it when it should be cast into the dark for the sin of existing.
That attitude can also be applied to how many furry artists there are. How dare they have so many excellent artists. It's an odd sort of envy. I mean, it's not like furries didn't earn it, though. A lot of it is putting their money where their mouth is and being willing to be the support for the things they want to see. This is a big reason why Zootopia was a massive financial success, and one of Disney's most successful movies. Furries are money because they get the value of it. So it's not surprising to see more and more games featuring non-human characters.
I'm not furry myself, just furry-adjacent. Otherkin. And I'm very tired of chauvinism. I think it's small-minded, petty, and unnecessary. In a mutualist world we can all be glad that we have games that we can share and enjoy. Games for you, games for me, games for everyone. There's no need for avarice and envy, there's plenty of games to go around. You don't need to zealously gatekeep.
Anyway, this and that LGBTQIA+ article has put NL on the list of sites I read. Thank you for not being jerkfaces who treat people so poorly just because they've committed the most abhorrent sin of being not the same as everyone else.