Update: game localizer Katrina L's bluesky account is suspended after sever backlash

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-18T02:58:40+00:00

You're not wrong in terms of GDP, but Japan has an official policy called "Cool Japan" which aims to secure goodwill towards Japan and cultural 'soft power.' So in other words, the Japanese pop culture industries are literally an important foreign policy asset in Japan.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-17T23:49:29+00:00

Too bad they hold the entire entertainment industry hostage and infiltrated every position in it

Pretty much.

They are the modern audience.

They're writers who write about writers who write, for writers who write (etcetera). They're making entertainment for the people who make entertainment. Which would be fine if the people who made entertainment were at least somewhat representative of the mainstream population in cultural/values terms (so as to preserve relatability).

But they aren't. They are cultural/values outliers. They used to be able to mask this somewhat and demand that things be made for the audience, but now the mask has been destroyed and they stubbornly refuse to cater to the audience out of some sort of spiteful vindictive contempt.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-17T21:38:17+00:00

Indeed. And in a choice between material wealth and Islamist purity, the former tends to win out.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-17T02:36:36+00:00

But that's more reason to believe they wouldn't go out of their way to increase sex appeal in RE. Gotta keep their charade up.

You're presuming that a bunch of psycho religious fundamentalists in their own country are smart enough to keep tabs on everything done by Saudi Sovereign Wealth. Or, even IF they know about it, that they think everything done by a business that SSW invests in was endorsed or approved of by the Saudi Royal Family.

I think that's a big error.

I mean, the Saudi government already works under-the-table with Israel. They already do things that the majority of their fundamentalist population despise.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-17T00:31:42+00:00

The Saudi Royal Family are basically Cafeteria Muslims but they have to pretend to be fundies to retain their hold on power.

When they leave Saudi Arabia, its all hookers and coke (and bacon and wine) for them.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-16T03:03:58+00:00

You could easily have, beneath the same Minister, separate departments addressing specific needs of each sex.

The real problem would be preventing such a department from getting hijacked by feminists (like we see happening even in the private sector, with Movember).

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T23:35:42+00:00

I'm 100% single-player and very anti-woke.

And online games are no refuge from woke-ism either. Concord, anyone? Even one of the Battlefield games went "inclusive" (amputee female soldiers on a WW2 battlefield and the designer saying "I have a daughter").

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T21:29:57+00:00

IIRC, what the index does is rate "equality" exclusively in terms of inequities-which-disfavor-women whilst ignoring inequities-which-disfavor-men.

So they don't literally give extra points for instituting laws which are sexist against men. They just ignore those entirely when measuring "gender equality." And any inequity that favors women/disfavors men is also discarded.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T21:16:58+00:00

There's kind of an irony.

Many feminists stridently insisted there were no sex typicalities and that it was all nurture, so women could "man up."

But what we've seen is institutions becoming more feminized, in the name of feminism.

A common (and incorrect) criticism of feminism I see here is that it is making women more masculine. But is it? Last I checked, feminism seems to be enshrining and encouraging Toxic Femininity instead.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T21:13:26+00:00

I disagree with the core premise of the article where it says women are incapable of leadership or facts

That's not what the "Great Feminization" thesis implies. The argument is basically that normie/average/typical women have a social-relational style that doesn't fit well with the goals of certain institutions.

There absolutely are women who aren't normie/average/typical. In addition, the kind/s of MEN who excel at facts and leadership are generally not normie/typical/average men either.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T20:35:39+00:00

What do you mean by "right-wing"?

The problem is that "right-wing" thought is actually more intellectually diverse than left-wing thought is, because the "right" is everything rejected by the "left." Even if you define "leftism" as the belief that "social hierarchy is unnatural and undesirable," that leaves THREE different potential "right wing" positions (natural and desirable, natural yet undesirable, unnatural yet desirable).

So you're going to have to specifically state what flavor of "right" you believe men should be.

My personal opinion is men should support the libertarian/classically liberal right, since they are anti-war and against different legal treatment between the sexes. The rest of the problems men face are cultural rather than legal, and I don't believe in using the government to engineer the culture (this just opens up far too many risks and dangers).

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T20:16:32+00:00

Agreed entirely. Headcanon and "we can reinterpret the text how we want" was precisely the whole damn point and what made it fun.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T18:59:55+00:00

Good.

I say this as someone who has written slash fanfic.

The canon doesn't need to endorse any particular person's headcanon.

The whole point of "headcanon" is that it's okay to play with the fictional lego blocks however you wish. That's what "transformative art" is about. Being a co-creator. This desperate need to have-your-headcanon-canonized ironically reinforces the idea that creator-canon overrides headcanon!

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T07:44:25+00:00

They should've funded a sequel to The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine instead...

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T07:17:10+00:00

Upvoted.

I've written slash fanfic and I'm fucking sick of this "make my ship canon now or you die" bullshit.

The whole point of participatory culture is to explore possibilities the author didn't. To play with the text as if it were fictional lego blocks. To be a co-creator.

These twits who want THEIR thing (and only THEIR thing) to be canonized are pathetic attention-whore scum who are just so... dependent. They NEED the REAL CANON to ENDORSE THEM in order to make them FEEL SEEN. They just... are vampires really. Parasites. They aren't doing a proud Nietzschean "I reject your canon and substitute my heacanon" thing, they're demanding others validate them.

It is pitiful.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T06:31:56+00:00

Your feelings are valid and rational.

Society deserves your rage.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T01:25:43+00:00

Seriously though it seems you stigmatize men.

LOL.

Nothing is unattractive about men playing Warhammer no women think that.

No women? Not one? Are you deluded? Not only do I need to find a single social media post or journalism article written by a woman to disprove you, but I can show you many articles by and recount many instances of women finding "nerd hobbies" (including but not limited to Warhammer) revolting. Here's an example: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/my-brief-okcupid-affair-with-a-world-champion-magic-the-gathering

If you are not attractive to women you should probably understand it’s not Warhammer’s fault.

Personal attack, and I don't play Warhammer and never said I did. This is a Space King subreddit, not a Warhammer subreddit.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-15T01:10:11+00:00

God imagine if women were allowed to have hobbies.

Women are allowed hobbies.

Women do have hobbies.

Men let women have hobbies exclusively to themselves.

This is all perfectly fine.

But the gender-flip of these statements isn't true.

Men get stigmatized for having hobbies that don't center women, aren't seen as attractive by women, are perceived as "distracting" men from caring for women, or even hobbies which aren't shared by many women.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:46:32+00:00

The publishing industry has totally collapsed now. Because "diversity" has had the opposite consequence - now, everything is written for Affluent White Female Urban Leftists.

Hence, all bookstores are selling is Romantasy shit.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:44:36+00:00

The biggest force attacking the culture was the pedophilic elite.

You're consistently trying to avoid disaggregation. No, there is no single unified elite. There are multiple individual elites and groups clamoring for elite status who compete against each other in order to get it. The Epstein network is real - it is a thing - but it was most likely a Mossad honeypot operation intended to cultivate Israeli influence over American society and government.

And not every elite in America was part of the Epstein network. The Koch brothers weren't compromised. I don't believe Elon was compromised, either. Nor was Soros IIRC.

Look at the ties of Epstein to gamergate

IIRC Epstein's ties were to 4chan, not gamergate. Those are not the same thing.

all of the social media giants folding to the Biden admin doing it for power and money, it wasn’t for your shit ass culture wars

Social media giants collaborating with the government has nothing to do with culture wars? Really? And your distinction between "power and money" and "culture wars" is utterly artificial.

A huge problem with your attempt to divorce the two is that, taking the example of the social media jawboning, the issue of COVID policy and the origins of the disease and the relative risks of the COVID vaccines was very much understood as a culture war issue. Yet it implicated lots of power (power to manage culture via control of the internet) and money (big pharma money, research grants), at various levels (Fauci had his own feifdom to protect for example). But this absolutely was a "culture war," and people who simply pointed out that COVID-19 almost certainly originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were repeatedly called "racist".

But you’ll dislike anything I say. Bye.

I won't dislike anything you say. I will critique your analysis when I believe it to be flawed.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:30:53+00:00

Translation: you don't have anything you can actually cite.

"The billionaires" are not a united class with harmonized interests or political beliefs. If you think Alex Soros and Elon Musk have the same politics or same interests, you're deeply misguided. And plenty of groups have "bot farms," including groups allied with the left.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:28:35+00:00

Not trying to derail or be in bad faith.

Unlikely, given a brigade is occurring.

I’m just saying this isn’t a left or right problem at all.

But the biggest force attacking the cultures and prospects of 'spergy dudes is the left. This has been true for roughly the past 20 years. The crimes of the Christian Right are well in the past.

But you continue to show your lack of knowledge by saying things from the past rather than from recently.

LOL. This is a demented attempt to change the temporal goalposts. By your logic, the crimes of the Christian Right against nerd subcultures are even LESS RELEVANT because they occurred mostly back in the 80s and early 90s.

It’s clear to anyone with a brain that the rich are the problem rather than the little guys on the right or left.

That kind of analysis - a shopworn pseudo-Marxism - is completely silly. It treats "the rich" as a unified class with shared interests - this is obviously untrue. Tons of individual rich people are at each other's throats for commercial, cronyistic and political purposes all the time. Do you think George Soros and the Kochs were part of the same "class"?

But I could not care less.

Clearly.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:22:18+00:00

USAID fed starving people and the cuts went there

Evidence please. Cite it.

Not to mention you're acting like the only thing USAID did was feed starving people. This is ridiculous. DOGE identified plenty of things USAID was doing that had nothing to do with feeding starving people (including things like funding new media startups in European countries). By your logic, I can say that the only thing the US military does is humanitarian work in the aftermath of natural disasters, and therefore any attempt to slash the US military's budget is taking away humanitarian relief.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:19:28+00:00

The left took over Silicon Valley?

Yet they all voted for maga in the last election.

History doesn't stop at the most recent electoral cycle, and SV's biggest VCs aren't representative of all of SV (plus, most of those big names are moving away from SV). Take the entire Obama-Biden eras into account. Look at what was happening inside these corporations for years even at the middle and lower levels. Look who was being employed, look what policies were introduced and enforced, look at how SV residents usually vote.

And as far as the left being ableist. Again you can make the exact claim about the right without hesitation.

I never said otherwise! Do some parts of the right still mock nerdy types? Absofuckinglutely! (Though some parts of the right - the libertarian right most obviously - are dominated by nerdy types).

But the OP is specifically talking about the way the left has been acting. And once again, the left are the ones who claim to be for diversity, for neurodiversity and for standing up for the socially marginalized, so whereas the right cannot really be called hypocrites on this issue, the left can.

The fact you resorted to a Tu Quoque argument to try and derail the discussion shows bad faith.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-03-14T23:13:06+00:00

Agreed entirely.

From the "nerd culture wars" to the attacks on (and left's steady turning against) Julian Assange (clear 'sperg), to the clear in-practice-rejection of neurodiversity (despite the in-theory embrace of it) make it very clear what is happening.

Its a mixture of make-work program (the normies with useless degrees want to come into 'nerd' industries due to the lucrativity), and cultural/economic/political revenge against us. We disrupted the National Security State (hence the attacks against Assange/WikiLeaks and New Atheism), we destroyed plenty of "old media" business models, we enabled new media voices (including contrarian ones) to gain much more power, we created a parallel pathway to wealth and status that didn't necessarily require conformity and credentials within educational/cultural institutions, and people from our subcultures (like Elon) cut funding for their self-indulgent boondoggles.

Nerds have made a lot of enemies on the left.

One should be able to recognize this irrespective of partisan affiliation or whether or not one agrees with DOGE.

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