Random thoughts

I really like the new character design with Ashe in Overwatch. I love that Outlaw Aesthetic so much. People complaining about her not being black are just annoying at this point. And I'm halfway convinced the more they bitch and moan about it the more Jeff Kaplan won't do it out of spite.

It doesnt help if Ashe herself had been black thats second black character who would by default be a villian in the lore and thats not a great implication. And while yes the game needs more diversity with its cast in certain circumstances. Being an overall right cunt about it helps nothing and influences no one.

And personally what I'm more concerned with is apparently Ashe is Albino. Which is super cool. However they have her with both A. Fingerless gloves. And B. Her left arm is exposed.

If she's full Albino she would be burning immediately from that. While the whole look is fucking cool. If she is Albino, which she clearly is pink eyes and all. She can't be exposed like that baby will burn and die.

Come on guys. Do more research.

Regardless she's awesome. I like her alot. In fact I would say her aesthetic/skillset makes me wanna actually play Overwatch again despite the garbage toxicity that is its community.

~quick edit~

For funzies I actually counted the amount of diverse people in standards of ethniciry not nationality.

There is exactly.

11 poc

13 white people if you count widowmaker cause she's originally a french white woman

2 animals.

And 3 robots.

So watched the first episode. I like it, it defiently has that fantasy meets Doom feels that people have talking about. The Slayers tiny motiffs/instant personality quirks were cool and identifyable.

The priestess being our green/proxy character worked well. I find it interesting that they adress each other by like job classes or titles instead of names.

The shows hella graphic tho. Atleast in its opening encounter. It defiently sets the tone immediately of why people would hate goblins.

But like this crazy overblown reaction to the first episode. Its trash, torture porn etc. etc.

Like its graphic, its brutal. But if anyone has ever watched Game of Thrones. You have no reason to complain about this show for a bunch of implications or in one case a pretty disturbing 5 second shot.

This is called action oriented mood themeing. Basically it implies the tone of the story content through the actions of the plot instead of exposition. And quite frankly it was done pretty well.

I will say this tho. The one legit criticism I saw was someone saying theyre should be a content warning for certain shows like on Crunchyroll. And I 100% agree with that. To use my previous example GoT does that why not for certain anime so we can identify what were going into cause teasers and posters can be misleading.

Other then that. Its a graphic dark fantay show thats gonna explore some pretty dark themes. People wanna cast this stuff off as edgy because it makes them uncomfortable or they dont understand why. But hell replace goblin with human raiders/bandits. Its the same fucking thing. Like these are horrible notions that go on in rl. There's nothing wrong with telling a story or set piece that willingly explores these things and the emotions it makes people feel, instead of pretending they dont exist.

That being said. I am curious if its overall plot will hook me. Cause if its characters or plot dont continue with the intial impression of the opening. It'll eventually just fade into obscurity on my watch list. So far the slayer is neat tho.

Usually I can get behind any type of cartoon for something in it.

But the new She-ra looks lame to me.

I went through shot for shot most of the redesigns and I feel alot of the original designs were better here and there. Like both have merit I suppose but the originals feel more stylized.

She-ra's design herself is pretty good. And the catgirl character sure, heterochromia is always nice to see. Queen Angela is neet.

All the other ones are just......meh?

Also with this bit from the trailer good god does it look like forced representation.

Like I'm all for representation, but only if its natural and you know treated like it doesnt matter. Cause a persons sexual orientation or gender shouldn't be a gigantic thing for anyone or anything. It just is we move on cause its no ones buisness ya know.

Also....and this is probally the most hot take. What is with all these girls with like washboard chests. Like i'm not talking we need fucking cleavage windows. I mean some kind of artistic indication they are there. Like even grown women in redesigns are flat as hell. Breasts exist, they dont have to be sexualized but they do exist on women you know. Put a fucking cloth indintation or something. (Granted i may be getting ages wrong here i'm under the assumption they're all teenagers if theyre younger then yeah that makes sense. But even on the adults. The hell?)

This show probally isnt gonna be for me. I do wanna give it a shot. But if the narritive doesn't catch me in the first 3 episodes. The art style is too unappealing for my tastes to slog through it.

Also I feel like out the gate this show is gonna turn into another Voltron and become one gigantic discourse fire. And that'll suck.

My opinion on it regardless has no trinsical value one way or the other.

And neither does anyone elses.

Next and last example.

Voltron and shippers.

Klance or die mother fuckers.

The stories and the harassment voltron developers have gotten jesus fuck.

And I read some of these things, and its like did you watch the same show????.

Any person who understands narritive and themeing and has seen Voltron knows that

A. Lance has been hitting on girls(and Allura) from the start of the show is not gay. He's just not. If they made him gay after all the horndogging with the females would be reinforcing a very bad gay stereotype. (I hide my homosexuality by hitting and chasing the opposite gender because of insecurity). Yeah none of that please.

And B. Keith, and this is why I bring up themeing. Keiths sexuality is ambiguous to the narritive at best. However since the character Aexa's(may not have spelled that right.) Introduction, they have been creating a thoroughfare of some form of relationship between the two. Opposing sides, they keep fighting but avoiding to kill one another or usually saving the other from the deathblow alot. (Mostly Aexa either stopping it or not taking the clear shot she has herself.) There's something with that. I see it as eventual possible relationship as its a common themeing trope that just works. whether it is or not who knows. But I won't be upset about it either way.

On the flip side in the same show they had the best and only way to handle a gay character. Fucking Shiro's reveal of being gay. One of the most influencial characters in the entire cast.

During a flashback scene he had a talk with his significant other over going on a dangerous mission. Its a guy. his significant other is a guy.

Thats it.

In a later scene Shiro mentions that Adam wasnt happy about it to Keith. Theres zero reaction about him being gay its just passing information like its a common thing.

like its normal.

Because it is normal.

There is this rabid obsession right now with represenation in media. Where we make a character about race or sexual orientation instead of it just being about who the character is.

And yes representation does matter. But you don't get to change the character. An already established medium as something its not because you want it that way.

Lets make this white character black or gay to shoehorn this in even if it was never apart of their original design.

Concepts can be changed.

Sure they can, but fans dont get to decide that creators do.

"Its cool that Shiro's gay but its not Keith. its the wrong character."

Tough. Its not your character or franchise, it doesn't belong to you. Its not your choice.

You know what is your choice.

Making your own content. Based on your designs and wants.

Enough if this rehashing garbage and complaining go make new inclusive content.

Black Panther

Crazy Rich Asians(which is great by the way)

New mediums that mean so much to the industry.

Things that aren't meant for me as far as representation goes. (Trans/White person)

But I enjoyed them so fucking much.

And I wanna see more exciting new things like it so badly.

And thats the full circle moment.

Not everyone can be happy.

Not everything is made for you.

No content or medium belongs to you or any one fandom likes or dislikes aside.

End the toxicity.

Learn to enjoy things even if it isn't entirely to your liking. Appreciate the good thats there.

And for whats not there. Go create something new and inspired instead.

The problem with social media and game development is that in the beginning of all this.

People made games and design choices with a through abd through complete package. Yes. Developers made games so that people can enjoy them to the fullest. But it was done in the sense of a novel or a movie.

Once it came out. And experienced it was already out. There was no changing, there was no listening to fan feedback or social justice mediocrity. That was to be adjusted and adapted and made better in the sequel or the next game by the developer.

You can't please everyone, it isnt even fucking quantifiable to attempt it. But you could attempt to make the best product possible and see your intended story and character development through and through with the use of an interactive medium and a type of experience that is impossible to get with anything else.

Now. With the abillity to interact with developers and content creators on easily accesible platforms. The idea is that we can give them feedback on things were looking forward to or would like to see happen. What ideas are good, what ideas are bad.

The innate problem is how oppinionated human beings are. Every single individual believes that the way they see things is the only singular way to view an outlook over design. And some people can share this "singular outlook." Collaborate the notion with no challenging approach or alternative perspective. What they intially see and or think is the only way....cause they didn't like it.

This negative outlook will continously be reinforced either by lack of desire or more commonly by other people who are similiar minded and just go "Yeah thats right! Fuck this thing I don't like it."

Well let me be real with you for a second.

I don't care.

The developers shouldn't care.

No one. Should care that you don't like a design choice or a storypath that you disagree with or don't like.

The reason I state this is as entertainment goes. You're developing a product. Whether its niche or not it fits a specific style and audience. This is defined by genres.

People who like rpg's more often then not, don't like shooters or action games. (Or atleast not in the same way as you can like multiple genres). The point of mentioning this is that when formulating a product within a genre it follows a set of mediums and thoroughfares that fit into that genre as all of these things have been predefined at this point with tropes and junk.

And secondly(but technically more importantly) they follow the creator/developers vision. Their storylines, character concepts, gameplay types, etc. etc. Its their individual vision and ideas become realities.

Not.

Yours.

You didnt make it.

You in fact didn't have anything to do with it.

At best you are exactly as intended a fan.

Fans when it comes down to the bare basics. Do not get to decide what a developer should and should not do with their vision. Whether you as the individul, as the fan, as a collective, or alone like it or hate it with every fiber of your being.

When it comes down to it. Truthfully. Even as a fan and something happens within a medium or a product you just, barebones morally disagree with. Stop supporting it. Move on.

What you shouldn't do. I want to say can't but thats never gonna be the case at this point....shouldn't do is harass, be vile, or hateful, send death threats or the worse style of harassment to people who

A. do enjoy these choices and can find some sense of joy or fun from the product.

Or worse B. do this to the developers.

Telling someone they should go die because of blah and blah is flat morally wrong and makes you a shit person and not worthy of an ear to listen to.

And No. you can't call blabbering like a child over your distaste as criticism.

Criticism is analytical, constructive in both postive and negative and has a purpose of creating a better product.

If social media worked like this towards developers and content creators it would be ok I like to think.

But its not. And we're not going to pretend it is.

I look at development in video games and anime as a hobby. I don't work in the industry but i throughoughly love watching creativity unfold.

And please believe me not all of it I find positive. In fact its a healthy middle of both. Somethings I get really excited about. "Oh thats really cool." Somethings its like...."Why?"

Investigate the reasoning and decisions, and decide for myself whether or not i wanna continue to support or be a fan.

Easy example. Any game that has lootbox styled orientation mechanics in anything. I will never buy. Something that has happened to many of franchise I have loved. But once it happened. It didn't matter that I was a fan. It dont agree with that concept as a gamer. I moved on.

And when talking about these games that has had this happened to them. I explain my choices. i won't support it and let others decide for themselves. But my money will never touch that product.

But this is where the real issue lies.

Fandoms.

Fandoms as a collective tend to think products belong to fans.

But they don't.

The only people who can lay claim is the people that made it. Full stop.

Right now. Which is what started this rant few will fully read, are complaining about the redesign of Sheila from the Spyro trilogy remakes.

Why?

She went from a bald kangaroo to a kangaroo with red hair. And she looks more feminine.

Feminity is not a negative. Girls can be the typical style of feminine if they choose to be. They can also choose to be butch, androgyness, or anything else. None of those are negative character archetypes but its not we "want" so we make them negative....and thats not only the wrong way to look at it but wrong in general.

What I wanna describe it personally as they added visually a fully realizied characterization. Which is what they've been doing with every single redesign. From her to the dragons.

Hell all the dragons went from generic pallet swaps of the same model to fully fleshed out visually. None of them even remotely similiar to the original designs.....AT ALL!!!!

So why is this ok for them and not her?

She looks like she has a ridiculously tiny waist now and they're sexualizing her.

Ok?

I don't get the sexulization argument. Cause i've looked at this same image. I am attracted to females. I like furry characters. I took one look at Sheila's redesign and went "oh hey thats a lot more vibrant visually contextulizes the character better. Why'd they change the eye color tho? The original i think was better."

Yes..that was it the eye color was the only thing worth noting that was upsetting in the slightest.

Annnnnd then I moved on. Still hyped for the game. It wasn't a huge deal, and even if it was. whats my options harass a developer....nah man don't buy it.

I didn't design it. Nor do I work.on the staff that is developing it.

My opinion on it regardless has no trinsical value one way or the other.