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Evangelical Christianity is popular in America, Star Wars is popular in America, there is bound to be overlap. It’s like all that weird Christian Sonic fan art

So there’s a very real chance this adaptation will get cancelled before they ever even get to the first proper arc

Old Chopper had character, too bad Oda hit him with the kawaiification ray

He obviously skinned one of the other reindeer to make it

Yeah, I was surprised when Chopper said Season 2 was coming out in 2026. That’s like 3 years between seasons, which is insane considering the first season ended right before they hit Loguetown. I’m not sure exactly how much ground Season 2 is going to cover but I hope the entirety of the Alabasta arc is in there. However, if it’s still going to be just 6 episodes like last time it’s all going to be compressed to the point of being unrecognisable.

The actor playing Luffy is going to in his fifties before they hit the timeskip at this rate, not that I expect Netflix to even greenlight more seasons after this one

He does need to exist with a bunch of flesh and blood humans on screen, so I guess their hands were tied to some extent

Considering the huge amount of time and effort it took to make Roger Rabbit, there was zero chance they’d go that route for a modern Netflix show

I personally always assumed everyone was Asian, with some notable examples like Barrett or Cid.

How come Cid is white but Cloud and Aerith are Asian???

As Z_Poster365 said, it’s way better than the unrealistic, cartoonist way anime depicts Asian women. Obviously, neither is real. One is a video game and one is a cartoon of sorts so they have fantastical liberties I don’t think should be denied them but this is great. The less men have some fantastical and unrealistic expectations of women the better. I mean, Tifa already is a bit of an unrealistic expectation in, uh, certain aspects, but I think this is generally a good way to depict Asian women who are love interests in a game mostly targeting and set within an Asian market.

Better they did this than pander to Western love interest tropes which for so long were necessarily some White, blue-eyed, blonde. I’d take a Rinoa over Trish (DMC) in a game any day.

I’m still not convinced Tifa, Rinoa or Garnet/Dagger/Sarah is supposed to look Japanese. Yuna from FFX reads as much more Japanese-coded to me because of her name but mostly because she’s dressed like (and sort of is) a shrine maiden. She also looks very different from her immediate predecessors with shorter, lighter-coloured hair and heterochromic blue/green eyes.

“Umm actually The Left™ went mad with power and took political correctness too far, becoming the pearl-clutching puritans themselves”

The music is the best part about FF8

A spiky-haired young man with a mysterious past is already on his way to your location

I just think it’s interesting that a series that has a huge variety of character designs put characters with very similar vibes in the same exact role three times in a row.

Also I’m not sure how many FF characters are meant to be explicitly ethnically Japanese or Asian outside of maybe Yuffie, though. Race is kind of nebulous in anime and FF* in general so it’s hard to tell

I’m sure Gamers were more than willing to look past his “personal political opinions” back when it was less socially acceptable for them to just embrace them wholeheartedly

In old articles, interviews and blog posts on the Bungie website back from the Halo days the other devs would often talk about how Marty was by far the oldest and most conservative member on the team

lmao, this is what his game studio has amounted to? Kinda funny seeing him going from palling around with Paul McCartney back when Destiny 1 was being made to dumpster diving this limp troop-fellating trash from the dustbin of history and being online 24/7, commenting on every Youtube video made about the Bungie Halos. The guy was so annoying that he even got banned from the fucking Halo subreddit (presumably before it was known he was a rabidly right-wing Facebook boomer.)

Of all the cancelled games in the world why did this one have to come back

Set in the fictional Republic of the Ostregals

The comics tell the story of U.S. Soldiers deployed to a tiny foreign nation in the middle of a chaotic conflict. The description for the series reads: “From the seemingly insignificant country of Czervenia, President-General Adzic and his army set upon a campaign of annihilation against the neighboring Republic of the Ostregals, setting in motion a mysterious plan that could change the course of world power forever. America’s Army must create new experimental combat teams, forged together in secret Proving Grounds, and uncover the General’s insidious plot before time runs out.”

Like I said, it’s all mostly been silly GI Joe nonsense instead of actual conflicts the US is involved in, even in this Army recruitment tool. I think the 2012 Medal of Honor game that glorified bearded operator thugs was set in Afghanistan during the War on Terror, but I obviously never played that. There was also the cancelled game, Six Days of Fallujah that was talked about a lot specifically because it was set during an actual battle

Further, as spotted by Game Informer, the Ukrainian Centre for Countering Disinformation has already had its eye on Squad 22: ZOV, describing it as “a key element in brainwashing the population, reflecting the Russian government’s version of events regarding the invasion of Ukraine and glorifying military service”.

Do you think they’d have a statement from whatever the Russian equivalent government org would be if there was a similar Ukrainian game?

A free-to-play game set in an active conflict that’s being promoted by an organisation that tries to get young people to enlist in the armed forces to fight in said conflict is a new level of ghoulish imo

As if there weren’t a bajillion military games set in the Middle East during the “War on Terror”

I think most of those were set in various Madeupistans or had some kind of corny Tom Clancy bullshit plots with moustache-twirling villains rather than being this ripped from the headlines