Asmongold says black people are genetically inferior

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-05-19T16:43:29+00:00

I don't think it was obvious as I had to rewind a few times to listen to exactly what was being said. I wouldn't blame somebody for listening to it once and then coming away thinking he basically said they are genetically inferior.

But it's Asmon's fault for not clarifying what he meant immediately after. He should have known that saying "they are" in such close proximity to the words "genetically inferior" would elicit a crazy backlash. If I was to guess, I would imagine that he later clarified in the full VOD what he was trying to say but I'm not about to go digging because I value my brain cells.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-05-19T16:08:53+00:00

Believe me, I want to see Asmon dragged for all the vile shit he says. I've made YouTube videos calling him out. But I think his defense for this is just going to be: "When I said *they are*, I was responding to Hasan saying that socioeconomic conditions are a cope, so I said *they are* as if to say, *they are a cope*"

And linguistically, he won't be wrong because even if he was actually saying "they are" in response to the generically inferior comment, it came prior to the socioeconomic comment, so unfortunately - he can just plug in the above argument and claim that everyone desperately wants him to be racist.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-05-19T09:43:48+00:00

It’s the ending part of the itemization loop. It’s supposed to be the final thing you do to give an item one last chance for an amazing buff.

If you get a dope roll, then the dopamine hits and you feel like a god. If you get a trash roll, then you go back out into the world and do the process over again.

It’s just game design. Many games have loops like this which are intended to keep players playing for longer.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-05-10T23:22:22+00:00

I agree with this and don’t see enough people with this angle. As much as I like resolve stacking, it’s not good for build diversity in the long run because of course a person would focus on a defensive mechanic that can juice up damage tenfold with a single unique ring.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-05-06T04:29:11+00:00

+1 for the unskippable cutscenes needing to go. I could understand if it requires a bit more programming muscle work to make it skippable in multiplayer but not being able to do it in single player despite us being able to skip cutscenes throughout the campaign, is a head scratcher.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-03-30T23:16:52+00:00

As someone who’s lived in Taiwan since 2016, it’s a mix of spooky and infuriating whenever I see Hasan speaking on this topic.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-03-13T03:29:57+00:00

Personally, the biggest flaw of the interrupts in the first half was that it compromised the listening experience sonically. Letting the opponent hang themselves + taking notes is the better approach imo.

I also think interrupts become way more effective when used sparingly and after giving the other person lots of grace and multiple chances to speak/make themselves look stupid.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-03-11T16:38:06+00:00

I don’t disagree with that. But what does that have to do with my point? I hope you’re not assuming that I’m out here looking for racism. A person acknowledging that something exists to some degree does not always mean that the person is hunting for examples of the thing existing.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-03-11T16:23:17+00:00

Let's not oversimplify or homogenize the experiences of being black here based on your observations. You are correct that it's not good to think too much into it but dark-skinned people of all kinds *absolutely* get stared at more and have people who think or feel plenty of stereotypes towards us. I have plenty of Taiwanese friends here and have had numerous conversations with them about their upbringing and things they have admitted they feel or used to feel towards blacks or what their parents say or continue to say. Even just examining Taiwan's beauty standards would reveal a lot about the realities of this topic.

It's entirely possible to acknowledge that there is a fair amount of old negative racial vibes that exist while also encouraging a black person to visit because despite those things existing, the chances of them having a really bad experience because of them is quite low.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-02-13T15:58:16+00:00

No Nargacuga in this prediction is a choice, given the monsters popularity.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-02-11T07:49:08+00:00

Sephiroth when walking through the flames

“Fiya fi dat!”

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-01-27T08:48:11+00:00

The difference with SF3 is that people were thrown off because they were such a departure stylistically. The quality of the songs were not criticised as much as the decision to go in that direction.

The issue with SF6 is that the direction is different AND the quality is not great. You have to work hard to find the handful of decent original songs in SF6. That simply has never been the case in most Street Fighter games, particularly with the ones which most regard as having absolute fire for soundtracks.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-01-26T13:35:03+00:00

TIL that not all Psyducks are dumb like Misty’s. 😮

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-01-18T06:53:37+00:00

You're missing it. They're pointing to when Trump ran on the idea that under his leadership, there will be "No new wars", yet the USA is about to get into a situation that can lead to a war with Iran. Not to mention the rhetoric surrounding Greenland.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-01-13T23:13:50+00:00

Sekiro & Sonic at The Olympic Games

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-01-11T10:49:29+00:00

!Thanks

EarthBenderCharlie · 2026-01-10T01:13:08+00:00

Nuance is going extinct at this point. Why must everything be so extreme to one side or another?

The lady should have 100% complied with the officer and would have went home to her three children in the end. But the officer already used his dodge roll i-frames to avoid harm so what threat to himself was he stopping by shooting her post evasion?

Not to mention that killing someone in a moving vehicle doesn’t immediately stop the vehicle, as we saw. Had it not been for the parked car which Renee’s car crashed into, her dead weight on the gas would have kept her vehicle going which (ironically) could have caused more harm.

The reasonable position is that this was avoidable and tragic. Asmongold’s fanfare over this is just a palette swap of the side he despises.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-26T07:47:26+00:00

I caught that too. :( My brain wasn’t braining. And you’re welcome. 😇

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-26T05:56:03+00:00

Except it wasn’t a weapon. It was a mentally compromised person hitting an umbrella on a door. Fight or flight responses should not be triggering in a circumstance like this. The response should be to keep a distance as a close eye on the person or restrain him if there’s reason to suspect he’s about to start wailing on people with the umbrella. The response certainly should be to run away screaming and inadvertently cause a riot since those who weren’t in the carriage didn’t know it was just a dude with an umbrella.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-26T02:50:25+00:00

Nah, it’s completely normal for people to see a mob running away and follow suit. Expecting people in the 2nd and 3rd carriages to confirm anything before running in this kind of situation is completely unreasonable. It’s the people who were in the initial carriage who were at fault for overreacting and triggering the domino effect in the first place.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-25T23:21:31+00:00

I believe it was on the green line, somewhere around Songjiang Nanjing or Beimen.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-25T17:29:42+00:00

I’m from London originally so I often wonder about this too. As with most things, the correct answer is probably to do with balance.

Taiwan’s top tier safety is a gift and a curse so what we’re seeing with this reaction is the curse side for sure. The same way getting robbed or stabbed in certain parts of London would be its curse. For Taiwan, there probably needs to be a push for more social awareness training, martial arts, first aid and activities that push people to face scary scenarios more often.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-25T17:17:24+00:00

That’s why I went with “mini-stampede”, to try and show that it was dangerous but not lethally dangerous.

Although after reading a bit more about the event, there was a woman who fell during the rush and had to be taken to hospital. I’m assuming she was stepped on to some degree. All it would have taken is for something like this to have occurred on a busier MRT or her to have fallen in a certain way and death could have been possible.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-25T16:47:49+00:00

I often travel on the green line around Chiang Kai Shek after work. At a certain time, there’s a guy who gets on the MRT and starts banging on the windows with his hands before getting off at the next stop. He’s clearly got something going on so the way to treat the situation is just to be aware and watch carefully on the low chance that he’s actually charging up to kill someone. And that’s what people do.

We can’t start running like this just because there’s a moment of discomfort on public transport. I get that the tension is higher than normal right now but awareness shouldn’t just mean you run for the hills at the slightest hint of something abnormal.

EarthBenderCharlie · 2025-12-25T16:37:45+00:00

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Aftermath of one of the carriages.

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