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Internet idiots consider The Witcher to be representative of Polish heritage because Poland is a fantasy land of magic, elves, and dragons. The author, Andrzej Sapkowski, told the showrunner to go loving nuts it's a fantasy world.
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Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? I don't know enough about the books to know whether the author ever bothered to specify her skin color, but if he has it doesn't make much sense to me to be changing the source material. And I'm not only defending this when it comes to whatever is the analogue to whitewashing because I remember it wasn't that long ago when there was a huge backlash because of casting Scarlett Johannson for the role of Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and I also kind of agreed with that not being the best of choices. I don't plan to watch the movie but I've heard they even made her look more Asian which made it kind of even worse?
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Sep 9, 2018 17:10
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Henry Cavill is a bigger death knell for the project being good than anything else I've heard, fuckin Christ
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Sep 9, 2018 17:12
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codenameFANGIO posted:I have Old Blood and New Colossus queued up and then I actually have a PS2 Wolfenstein and one for 360 (apparently just called “Wolfenstein” return to castle wolfenstein is fun but i'd rec playing it on pc rather than ps2 cause it's a pretty fast-paced game with some really lovely hitscan enemies and a few really bad forced stealth missions so you kind of need really fast aiming and quicksave wolfenstein is... okay-ish? some people like it but i mostly just found it really dull cause it's firmly in that mid-to-late 2000s Cover Shooter With A Gimmick mold and the gimmick is kind of boring. it's technically a prequel to the new order but the writing and presentation is nothing like it so it's not really worth playing for that either lordfrikk posted:Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? I don't know enough about the books to know whether the author ever bothered to specify her skin color, but if he has it doesn't make much sense to me to be changing the source material. And I'm not only defending this when it comes whitewashing because I remember it wasn't that long ago when there was a huge backlash because of casting Scarlett Johannson for the role of Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and I also kind of agreed with that not being the best of choices. I don't plan to watch the movie but I've heard they even made her look more Asian which made it kind of even worse? they didn't try to make her look more asian. they made the plot about how she was actually an asian girl who was turned into a white girl and at the end she reunites with her asian mom, because american ghost in the shell is very self-aware and smart and understands Things
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Sep 9, 2018 17:13
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) and maybe I will play those after I get all the sidetrophies in Arkham City. If anybody read all of that and somehow has opinions on those other Wolfenstein games, please let me know.
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they did, however, briefly experiment with using the magic of computer graphics to make people look more asian early in production. because,
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Sep 9, 2018 17:16
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lordfrikk posted:Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? Yes, because she’s not real.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:20
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I am really hyped for Assassin's Creed Odyssey now that it's less than a month away. I've been watching gameplay videos and holy poo poo it just looks so amazing.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:29
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lordfrikk posted:Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? I don't know enough about the books to know whether the author ever bothered to specify her skin color, but if he has it doesn't make much sense to me to be changing the source material. And I'm not only defending this when it comes to whatever is the analogue to whitewashing because I remember it wasn't that long ago when there was a huge backlash because of casting Scarlett Johannson for the role of Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and I also kind of agreed with that not being the best of choices. I don't plan to watch the movie but I've heard they even made her look more Asian which made it kind of even worse? How about the film and TV industry is heavily prejudiced against BAME actors and doing whichever improves representation for them is best?
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Sep 9, 2018 17:35
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lordfrikk posted:Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? I don't know enough about the books to know whether the author ever bothered to specify her skin color, but if he has it doesn't make much sense to me to be changing the source material. And I'm not only defending this when it comes to whatever is the analogue to whitewashing because I remember it wasn't that long ago when there was a huge backlash because of casting Scarlett Johannson for the role of Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and I also kind of agreed with that not being the best of choices. I don't plan to watch the movie but I've heard they even made her look more Asian which made it kind of even worse? I've only read Blood of Elves but no, Sapkowski only describes characters by their most prominent features e.g. weird hair colors, scars, build, so on. Ciri has an elf lineage and elves were once described as incapable of being tanned by the sun (not even a description of skin color, just "the sun doesn't darken them") but that's as close as you're going to get. The frustrating thing about adapting source material, especially books, is that they get defined by the details publishers create after the fact and whether or not the author approves the visual language becomes solidified in people's mind as a result. Like Lavender Brown was portrayed by a black actress in the Harry Potter films until the movies suddenly needed her as an onscreen character and recast her as white which is super hosed up. Likewise the only the physical description of Hermione is "brown eyes, frizzy hair" but the iconic art in the original releases followed by the movie casting defined her character forever leading to racist backlash when a black woman was cast as her in a loving stage play.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:42
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Do you guys know any speedrunning tips and/or tricks for despawning a hurricane off of the map? Florence is coming fairly close to where I live and personally I do not like this one bit!
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Sep 9, 2018 17:44
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Raxivace posted:Do you guys know any speedrunning tips and/or tricks for despawning a hurricane off of the map? Florence is coming fairly close to where I live and personally I do not like this one bit! During Irma last year I jokingly thought "why don't we just nuke hurricanes" and when I looked this up later, found that the most powerful atomic bombs ever created by man would basically do nothing against even a relatively weak tropical storm.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:50
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exquisite tea posted:During Irma last year I jokingly thought "why don't we just nuke hurricanes" and when I looked this up, I read that a volley of the most powerful atomic bombs ever created by man would basically do nothing against even a relatively weak tropical storm. the weather is OP
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Sep 9, 2018 17:51
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What does BAME mean? Also, remember when Harvey Dent was played by Billy Dee Williams in the 89 Burton film but then when Batman Forever came out they gave the role to Tommy Lee Jones? That was lovely of them. Then the Lego Batman movie had Billy Dee Williams voice Two-Face.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:55
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Black and minority ethnicities
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Sep 9, 2018 18:02
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When will we get the first Indian Bond Or, hell, Sikh Bond??
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Sep 9, 2018 18:09
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Rarity posted:Black and minority ethnicities Thank you 
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Sep 9, 2018 18:14
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corn in the bible posted:When will we get the first Indian Bond Still waiting on them to make James Bond a woman.
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Sep 9, 2018 18:21
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lordfrikk posted:Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? I don't know enough about the books to know whether the author ever bothered to specify her skin color, but if he has it doesn't make much sense to me to be changing the source material. And I'm not only defending this when it comes to whatever is the analogue to whitewashing because I remember it wasn't that long ago when there was a huge backlash because of casting Scarlett Johannson for the role of Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and I also kind of agreed with that not being the best of choices. I don't plan to watch the movie but I've heard they even made her look more Asian which made it kind of even worse? It's like how people tried to point to Japanese people, in Japan, not really caring that a white person was playing Motoko in the Ghost in the Shell movie, as some proof that it wasn't hosed up. Of course people living in Japan don't care, they live in a country where 98% of the population is Japanese. Literally every Japanese-produced movie they've seen has starred a Japanese person. It's a poo poo move for Japanese-American actresses in Hollywood and Asian-American viewers, because context is what's important here, not some vague binary.
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Sep 9, 2018 18:21
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gently caress, an i5 just isnt enough to emulate jet set radio future at 60fps and I cannot groove and skate at half speed. Options being wait for sega to remaster it (lol), or get a new laptop (lol) chumbler posted:Still waiting on them to make James Bond a woman. Or gay
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Sep 9, 2018 18:22
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lordfrikk posted:Do arguments like "she's not real" really hold up for these kind of situations? I don't know enough about the books to know whether the author ever bothered to specify her skin color, but if he has it doesn't make much sense to me to be changing the source material. And I'm not only defending this when it comes to whatever is the analogue to whitewashing because I remember it wasn't that long ago when there was a huge backlash because of casting Scarlett Johannson for the role of Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell and I also kind of agreed with that not being the best of choices. I don't plan to watch the movie but I've heard they even made her look more Asian which made it kind of even worse? It's a positive thing for film adaptations to differ from books. Books translated directly into film would rarely work. Ciri is a side character, granted she is the second most prominent character in the single most successful part of The Witcher series. But she is still just a side character. To get Ghost in the Shell green lighted as a major movie it was probably integral that a big Hollywood star be on screen to draw in the every day cinema goer. If they tried to do a ridged faithful live action version it would have certainly failed spectacularly. The crux of the matter was finding the middle ground that sadly the movie failed on.
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Sep 9, 2018 18:23
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Golgo13 posted:Ciri is a side character, granted she is the second most prominent character in the single most successful part of The Witcher series. But she is still just a side character. What the gently caress E: pretend I quoted the entire post Dr Cheeto fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Sep 9, 2018 18:25
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https://twitter.com/ikazombie/status/1038095029971996672 The JP dub of the Spider-Man game has a reference to the insane live-action Japanese TV series. "An emissary from hell! Spider-Man!"
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Sep 9, 2018 18:34
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al-azad posted:Internet idiots consider The Witcher to be representative of Polish heritage because Poland is a fantasy land of magic, elves, and dragons. The author, Andrzej Sapkowski, told the showrunner to go loving nuts it's a fantasy world. Andrzej is salty he sold the game rights for like 3 goldfish crackers and a backrub he wants to get that netfliz money
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Sep 9, 2018 18:37
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Raxivace posted:Do you guys know any speedrunning tips and/or tricks for despawning a hurricane off of the map? Florence is coming fairly close to where I live and personally I do not like this one bit!  I was just out getting storm supplies and picked a bag of these because I thought "Kojima" 
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Sep 9, 2018 18:39
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codenameFANGIO posted:Good morning friends. Today I am going to play Wolfenstein: New Order and probably Etrian Odyssey Untold, because games where you have to draw maps are extremely cool and I love them. With Wolfenstein I have gotten into the trap of getting all the collectibles and reaching Platinum/100% Completion, because those things satisfy me immensely and they seem easy enough to do. I am tired of the dumb cutscenes which have to play at least partially to cover up loading but I am at 74% and I have unlocked a mode with infinite ammo and absurdly overcharged health on the hardest mode so I am pumped to see what else unlocks. Solving even a cheap math puzzle to get the unlocks is actually pretty cool and feels sort of like you’re actually breaking a code. Unlocking Perks by doing cool poo poo is also really satisfying. They really went out of their way to make you feel cool for accomplishing stuff, I like it. All Wolfenstein games are good.
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Sep 9, 2018 18:42
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A. Beaverhausen posted:gently caress, an i5 just isnt enough to emulate jet set radio future at 60fps and I cannot groove and skate at half speed. Options being wait for sega to remaster it (lol), or get a new laptop (lol) you're probably not getting jsrf emulating on any kind of laptop because workable xbox emulation is such a recent thing tbh i'm amazed to find out jsrf emulates now at all but at least the fact that xbox emulation is now actually developing might mean it might not be so inaccessible in the future i guess The Colonel fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Sep 9, 2018 18:52
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Are those the ones that make people violently ill?
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Sep 9, 2018 18:57
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chumbler posted:Are those the ones that make people violently ill? Live, Snake. That's all I can tell you.
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Sep 9, 2018 19:00
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Thank you for all the answers. I guess I don't have a good reason for why she should not be played by a person of color, I was just interested in other people's perspective. The only thing that comes up is that Ciri's white appearance was made super famous by the recent Witcher 3 in the minds of people and that her skin color doesn't matter (probably, don't know if it can have some implications on the wider cast as well given her lineage). You can apply the latter argument both ways, though, so it's kind of a moot point, and the first argument doesn't hold that much water either.
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Sep 9, 2018 19:02
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chumbler posted:Are those the ones that make people violently ill? WHAT A THRILL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aHQnDTd1y4
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Sep 9, 2018 19:06
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I don't like that scarjo got cast for the lead role instead of an asian actress, but at the same time I really really liked the live action speed racer movie and I don't really have any way of defending one case of whitewashing while condemning another. Cognitive dissonance I guess. Closest I can come to anything resembling an explanation is that I think the speed racer cartoon dub and the mach gogogo original ended up so different due to the dubbing and presentation, but I don't know if that's a "valid" reason since I think that would just mean that the cartoon was whitewashing the original
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Sep 9, 2018 19:09
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Also, regardless of representation, ScarJo sucks as an actress and the movie was bad
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Sep 9, 2018 19:11
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What's that one anime adaptation movie coming up where they use cg to make the main character's eyes look bigger like an anime girl's
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Sep 9, 2018 19:13
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 this is a drilling game where your health bar is a slowly emptying drunkness meter and you restore it by pressing a dedicated beer button that makes your fat, bearded minor guy pull out a bottle of beer and empty it into his mouth
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Sep 9, 2018 19:14
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FirstAidKite posted:What's that one anime adaptation movie coming up where they use cg to make the main character's eyes look bigger like an anime girl's Battle Angel Alita
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Sep 9, 2018 19:15
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FirstAidKite posted:What's that one anime adaptation movie coming up where they use cg to make the main character's eyes look bigger like an anime girl's Battle Angel Alita?
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Sep 9, 2018 19:15
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I can't say I support a video game about fat bearded minors getting as drunk as possible 
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Sep 9, 2018 19:16
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I can't believe James Cameron has been trying to make Alita a film for literally two decades and that's what it's gonna be
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Sep 9, 2018 19:17
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The Colonel posted:Battle Angel Alita Andrast posted:Battle Angel Alita? Yeah that one!   
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FirstAidKite posted:I don't like that scarjo got cast for the lead role instead of an asian actress, but at the same time I really really liked the live action speed racer movie and I don't really have any way of defending one case of whitewashing while condemning another. Cognitive dissonance I guess. Closest I can come to anything resembling an explanation is that I think the speed racer cartoon dub and the mach gogogo original ended up so different due to the dubbing and presentation, but I don't know if that's a "valid" reason since I think that would just mean that the cartoon was whitewashing the original This all reminds me of Geppy-X, a PS1 shmup basically made to resemble the 70s version of Getter Robo, complete with opening and ending credits and toy ads, and one of the secret modes you can unlock is the Starvengers-like whitewashed american version. Chev fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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