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make the dark knight pale under the armor and the paladin dark under the armor

That's it.

That's literally the simplest and laziest way to try to mitigate the dark colored = evil trope that in western society anyone with a damn brain knows is based in colorism and racism, *especially* when it's coming from Europeans.

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As soon as I can I'm getting a metal coating on him and I put an elemental wall sticker on his take cause my guy can you not take a fucking hit.

And once again interacting with him and man... why the fuck is the player character such a dick in their responses?

Is it a European humor thing that does not translate well? Or does the intended audience that the game developers are writing for assumed to be a certain level of rude asshole?

Cause like? What reason would I be sarcastic towards a guy referring to himself as a hero or make fun of someone for wanting to do cool battle cries when the premise here is that the island is populated by fucking monsters and people from across the multiverse? Like, I just met this person i have no idea what the cultural norms are where Eugene's from nor do I know what his career was before he got isekaied. Why the fuck would I choose to be sarcastic and rude about shit for?

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Eugene's a fucking ronin wanted in several nations for anticapotalist crimes and inciting revolutions. Very much actually uses the archery skills that samurai were historically fucking known for. [Get that sword fellatio out my damn face pop culture.]

Debating on if he has a horse trained in mystic martial arts as well b/c funny, historically accurate, and to be honest... there should fucking be ninja horses in Naruto.

Also, bullying white women hours: But Kayleigh ending up in a different cult in the Naruto world. Especially given the game does not fucking interrogate her actions as the number 2 of a cult enough and has us lie to this woman and tell her that she's a good person when she very much was not being honest about what she did and the game never having any former cultists pissed off at her specifically for the abuses she enabled cause like... it wouldn't have been that much more difficult to have some throwaway lines from npcs if certain companions are with us.

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unless that happens later??

That's worse.

These are the only skin tone options in Cassette Beasts:

[ID: Different shades of brown numbered 01 through 04: 1 is light pinkish tan, 2 is slightly darker, 3 is light brown, 4 is medium brown, and 5 is slightly more orange-tinged tan. End ID.]

And....this is what racists are claiming is so so, so so super super super progressive that you can't ever criticize it at all, and claim prioritizes the Black characters which are a massive minority???

They probably didn't have their eyes closed on the character creation screen!

So adding to the list of things to tell them to add as updates and to the sequel: more skin tones. More darker skin tones in particular.

I literally said out loud, "In disability pride month??"

So, we gotta tell the devs they need physically disabled people in the next game / any updates to this, stat! Give us people with scars! Give us people with canes and crutches and prosthetics and wheelchairs!

Shit, the zote art that Felix does is even said by the game to be his world's cultural counterpart to comics. Why not pick a famous Black comic artist to base a monster on for his signature tape like Dwayne McDuffie.

Or go with famous Black painters or graffiti artists like SAMO (c), Henry Ossawa Tanner, Norman Lewis, or Christopher Ofili. Give folks a rabbit hole to wander into and learn some shit.

Idk, just do anything other than having having one of our two Black companions turn into a monster that looks like a fucking white guy for our time having him as a companion. It feels a little lazy and bit antiblack.

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But the ratio of fat characters to skinny characters is notably extremely low.

Ya got what? 3 captains out of 12.

Of the companions there's Meredith if you count fuckin average as fat.

And as for the more humanoid monsters.... uh ya got what? Fountas, Manisphere, and Kingrave mostly.

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But at least none of the companions have a blatantly racist monster for their signature tape like the Allseer line given I've not seen a single let's player yet not go 'Oh, ancient aliens' on their first impression of that line.

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Very, very telling.

The game's treatment of Sunny, and what others have told me, means I was in fact giving the writers too much benefit of the doubt by assuming we'd meet some of Kayleigh's former victims and actually deal with the actual horrifying ramifications of what she was doing, and the fact that she literally just ran off without any consequences while her victims were left to suffer, and the only thing the game wants us to think about her is "of course, she's adorable and innocent (and hot, probably), so I forgive her immediately!"

Even though we're not her victim, and it's not our place to forgive her, and we aren't even allowed to ask questions.

We should be allowed to ask questions, and we should be not just allowed to, but expected to care about her victims, which should be people with names, and faces, and backstories of their own.

Instead of brushing it all under the rug and then saying "hey! wanna listen to Kayleigh play guitar?"

So now I'm gonna have to make up a bunch of OCs to be Kayleigh's victims for my fic, so that shit can actually get dealt with properly.

Instead of just going "look! cute innocent bubby white woman! She's a pure cinnamon roll! Don't think too hard about her backstory though!"

Very very telling that she's a white woman.

Also I gotta say the fusion thing is way too formulaic. What do you mean I'm fusing with a random dog I just found. I don't even like the dog. It wasn't even a super scary fight. What do you mean my heart is in sync with the random dog's. No it's not.

With Kayleigh it made sense cuz that was the first boss battle in the game so it's meant to be extra tense, but for all the other companions it should vary depending on their quests and personality.

Like, what if me and the dog got stuck on the mountain and almost froze to death, and we fused because of our shared desire to survive and escape? And then we got to move in the world with out fused form to actually get back to safety.

Like what if we fuse cuz we're just having a lot of fun? Or are both really enthusiastic about helping to clean trash off the beach? It doesn't always have to be doom and gloom.

Good for Kayleigh for leaving the cult, but I hope we get to see the actual harm her actions caused while she was there acting as "fixer", aka Abuse Apologist In Chief.

None of the people you fight out in the wild seem to ever get back up??? Are they just gonna stay like that forever???

The game doesn't seem to keep track of how many times you've tried and failed to fight Ianthe, everyone's just acting like it's the first time. It's jarring and weird. Why not just subtitute in dialogue like, "Hey, ready to try again?"

Because they're defending it?

Which forces us to have to continue condemning it and pointing it out even more so?

We wouldn't have to keep making new posts on the same exact topics if people would stop trying to die on the hill of defending the bigotry.

The post about Squirey could have been it for that line's design and the biases behind it, until more data comes to light as I continue to play (like, I had seen a Manispear in the wild / in a NPC fight, but would not have guessed it was a remaster of Squirey, that came as a complete surprise! An unpleasant surprise when I saw its description compared to Palangolin), but they all decided to pitch a fit and claim it's not racist, so now we have to keep explaining this shit multiple times.

Also, they don't seem to grasp that the more and more they claim we're "being so ridiculous and blowing things so far out of proportion", they're just encouraging more people to seek out the original posts they're complaining about in the first place and are claiming are so ridiculously unreasonable, which means those people are seeing how much these racist are blatantly lying about everything.