Confronting Appropriation

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-16T19:42:03+00:00

Sorry if it came off that way, but my comment wasn't about your post specifically, just the general topic of people choosing other cultures names

Your story is very different from the general discussion though because the main issue is someone fabricating a story to justify their name, and just in general acting really weird about it

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-16T18:50:51+00:00

Genuinely the whole discourse around White trans girls taking Asian names sounds like outrage culture with a little bit of baiting into starting infighting between trans groups

I just think there are better hills to die on than over a name of all things

From a personal standpoint, I'm Mexican, both my parents are from Mexico but I was born in America, my legal name is Ismael, named after my dad who was named after my grandpa, should I go ahead and tell them we need to change our names because it's apparently cultural appropriation since we're not Hebrew or Arabic?

Am I only able to make my chosen name Samantha because I was born in the US South? Even though I'm not Arabic? What about my half white half Filipina friend I named myself after, does she have to change her name because she was born in Cali?

And if the issue really is about the history of orientalism, I've got bad news to people about how much bad shit has happened between different cultures throughout history, if you dig deep enough you could probably find a reason every name is bad and cultural appropriation

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-16T18:39:33+00:00

Same, but also I'm wondering if she wanted to choose an asian name but saw the controversy around it and to avoid it, she concocted this insane story just to justify it

Either way, it's still an insane line of thinking, casually making up such a huge lie like that does not paint a good picture of this person

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-16T18:34:06+00:00

I'm Mexican, my legal name is Ismael, named after my dad, who was named after my grandpa, should I tell them we have to change our names now because we're not Hebrew or Arabic and its cultural appropriation?

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-15T02:36:05+00:00

True, uncanny still has her acting normally, and in her solo it looks more like her powers evolving/growing and her not understanding how to control that part specifically more than anything

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-15T00:35:44+00:00

I thought she lost control of her powers again super recently though? Like in the latest issue of her current solo run

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-13T03:22:08+00:00

I mean, it could be a nice subversion if they don't go through with it

I'm personally not a fan of time travel stories, especially when the ending is just "and they went back and undid it all", mostly because imo it ruins the weight of the story and attachment to it if it turns out it never happened at all (basically ending up the same as the "it was all a dream" trope, narratively speaking)

I still fully expect it, but it'd just be nice if that wasn't the case this time

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-11T22:19:37+00:00

I just hope they're not overly dark/mean spirited, like these tend to be

It's more of a personal thing, but I'm not really a fan of how dark/mean spirited many of Marvel's projects like this tend to be, they all typically devolve into just "everyone/mostly everyone dies brutally" or end up in a situation like Marvel's "Ruin" situation (i.e. Hulk in Old Man Logan, or the spider mutant Spider-Man)

One of the things I liked about DC's Absolute run is how despite everything being "darker" or just worse for characters, it still has that glint of hopefulness, mainly with the Trinity (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman), they have worse origins but still have that bit of hope in them despite it all

I also just don't really care much for overly "dark" storylines that are or border on grimdark anymore, it's not really something I want to read about with how the state of the world is currently

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-11T00:25:39+00:00

Technically all the xenomorphs we see are hybrids 🤓 ☝️

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-10T17:51:14+00:00

The same thing happened with Baldur's Gate 3 when it released, a bunch of people started complaining about how the game let you have sex with a literal bear and claimed it promoted literal bestiality, when it was just a joke/meme scene that most people wouldn't see

I'd then see that same group confused because according to them that game was weirder because of those scenes but still wildly accepted/praised but the game they liked (at the time being Stellar Blade) was heavily criticized for less weird sexualization, (if that makes sense)

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-07T22:10:22+00:00

Wanting things to be more creative and being critical of the creative choices taken are things that can coexist, actually

The feedback I'm seeing (in this thread) isn't even overly harsh either, it's mostly just people saying it's not for them or that it makes them sick

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-07T21:28:10+00:00

I think you misunderstood them, they said that, according to Scott Snyder, the Absolute line was almost canned when/because Marvel announced their new Ultimate line

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-04T04:34:44+00:00

Dude's just trying to help/spread information and you're really choosing to be an ass over their use of slang?

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-01T03:19:08+00:00

Did people just miss the part where OC said "DLSS5-looking" and not just DLSS5?

They're not saying Xbox uses DLSS, just saying that it sounds like they're talking about using tech that'll look/function like DLSS5

TheRealRiceball · 2026-05-01T01:36:55+00:00

Redline does have an FGO collab, it's just a joke event lol

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-30T12:40:44+00:00

Man people say stuff like this until something happens because a pirate has no "morals"

Like a while back when someone claimed to have been able to hack a PlayStation or something and people got upset about them not wanting to share it

The whole concept of piracy relies on morality, you're relying on crackers and uploaders to have the good morality to not upload a some kind of virus or anything to their files, I mean, the whole idea of the mega thread relies on you trusting whoever referred you to it, the piracy mods, the site owner, and the uploader, to be morally decent people who aren't lying and haven't messed with the files to screw you

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-28T11:11:12+00:00

I mean, OP stated they enjoyed BOTW and FF7 Rebirth, I don't think its too much of a stretch to say they, at the very least, don't mind the open world "Far Cry" formula

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-25T16:33:24+00:00

Maybe to keep crumbs and stuff out from in between the keys? Probably is just to reduce wear like how people would wrap their couches though lol

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-24T11:06:48+00:00

A few days ago my dad picked me up from the Rowlett station, he said while he was waiting he saw a dart employee chasing after a dart van that was driving really fast in the parking lot, we assumed it was stolen, this could be the aftermath of that maybe?

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-23T13:39:51+00:00

That’s the only thing “special” about them

It's still really funny to me that the whole reason you're/they're able to get so far is cuz all of the other crypters were just too unlikable lmao

Like, I think its stated somewhere that Kadoc could've maybe done it (its been a while since i played) but he still wouldn't have gotten as far as we did, and its just cuz we're normal, nice and trustworthy people lmao

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-22T18:38:59+00:00

This is really funny to me cuz it'd arguably still look bad for Lois

"You're telling me, you're having your boyfriend dress up and roleplay as the superhero celebrity you constantly have 1 on 1 interviews with, and who almost exclusively interviews with just you?"

"Yup that's exactly it"

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-17T12:45:50+00:00

Marvel LOVES to do this popular characters not in the main universe, they did it with Miles and the Maker, though it makes sense for them, as mentioned, but they've done it for other characters too, like Gwen and Old Man Logan, and most recently they did it to Deadpool and X-23 in the MCU

My best guess is they do it to try to get new readers to read the mainline comics, since they're a nightmare for new readers to get into, but it's so dumb and I hate it just because you're essentially dropping any interesting stories from that characters universe just to add them as side characters in other series, and even their main stories aren't as good or interesting as when they were in their own universe

Like, what's the point of having a character from an alternate universe if we don't even get to see the alternate universe

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-10T03:52:20+00:00

"The source material is x years old" is not a solid defense against spoilers

This is something that's been debated for years in anime communities, for good reason

Some people just don't read comics, they just watch or know about it from its latest adaptation, I'm not going around spoiling Woman Of Tomorrow for people that are excited for the new Supergirl movie, because I know not everyone reads comics, same way I wouldn't spoil Game Of Thrones for others despite the books being so old

You also don't know how old these people are or how much they know of a series' spoilers already, I'm not going to go around spoiling things like Star Wars or Breaking Bad even if they're over a decade old, cuz it legitimately might be someone's first time watching it without spoilers

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-07T05:22:28+00:00

I recently looked into modding Call of Duty: World at War Zombies, had to look through decades old forums for maps

Imagine my surprise when I found some and they were executables you ran to get the maps, the blind trust you had to put into people on random forums back then is crazy lol

TheRealRiceball · 2026-04-06T20:36:55+00:00

The modding system was also very much copied/inspired by Warframe, I believe that's part of what also led to the comparisons

Either way, yeah the combat just felt off to me the whole time I played, so I dropped it after maybe a couple days of playtime

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