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One time my parents were visiting and a nearby highschool had a minor traffic jam of students leaving the school and my dad saw a driver with pink hair and was like, "Hey I wonder what HER pronouns are?" And I just replied with

"I don't know man, I'm 30 years old, why do you think I'd care about some high schooler's pronouns?" And he didn't have much to say after that.

Still remember when a homo- and transphobic acquaintance tried to bring up JKR’s views on trans people in conversation and I shut it down with «oh yeah she’s been saying a lot of dumb shit on Twitter after she finished writing Harry Potter, like when she claimed Dumbledore was gay, just to be politically correct», which made it absolutely impossible for him to admit that he agreed with anything JKR had ever said. Sometimes you just have to weaponise people’s homophobia against their transphobia.

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Media on-demand subscriptions were supposed to be a convenient way of renting products and somehow they've completely replaced actually buying them.

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Punch. Kick. Slash. Heavy Slash.

DUST

Yeah, that checks out.

I'd fucking retire dude are you kidding me

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I heard reference to something about how all anime are required to have good looking cabbage because of That One Time. So simply looking up "anime cabbage" I found the source.

Some harem anime way back in the day had an episode where the characters cooked, and they animated cabbage so terribly like this it left a bad mark on the anime community forever. Apparently this is part of the reason why all food usually looks good in anime, even moreso than the regular show sometimes. With cabbage being especially well drawn.

A complaint, apparently in a paper.

The first show when released internationally was reanimated in this part.

And high quality or low quality cabbage is sometimes referenced.

I learned of this because the most recent Hologra episode has noel eating cabbage, tearing apart a fine quality cabbage into two low poly halves.

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you’re hearing it more and more

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When I was a kid my mom brought this from the library because she didn't know what to get for kiddies movie night, and I was grossly unprepared for how smooth this animation was for a Disney movie I never heard of.

Um.

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It sucks that there's no way to obtain TV/Films for free so that you don't support these companies, when they're not even compensating their talent with your streaming subscriptions. 😉

It's not like libraries are a thing. Or used bookstores, video/game stores that sell secondhand DVDs for really cheap. Or certain virtual seas and torrential storms to find these digitally in wayyyy better visual/sound quality than streaming.

If there was, you could like... Watch your media that way and then use your streaming cash to contribute to the Entertainment Community Fund which SAGAFTRA uses to help keep picketing union members from starving to death. That would be a neat way to join in solidarity if it was possible... If you have the financial means I mean.

I think if a studio exec says they want to force you to starve to death so you’ll be made to accept garbage wages, you should crush them in a hydraulic press incredibly slowly

Like the fact that rich people have gotten to the point where they think they can just be like “oh yeah I’m literally trying to kill you” without fear of repercussions is beyond infuriating. They need to know what it feels like to be beaten to death by hammers.

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DNF Duel is mostly developed by 8ing, which also did most of the development on Marvel vs Capcom 3.

doing internet searches for the dev leads behind licensed arcsys fighters

Persona 4 Arena: A mixture of Persona and Blazblue staff, including the directors of both, artists from Atlus, and a designer from Blazblue

Dragon Ball FighterZ: Largely an ArcSys production actually, directed by the guy whose idea making Xrd 3D was and produced by the Blazblue guy, Toshimichi Mori. I should mention it was co-produced by someone named Tomoko Hiroki, who worked on Xenoverse 2 prior, and I bring them up because I'm pretty sure based on their name that they're a woman? IDK, cool to see.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: The director and producer are both from Cygames, but they got a designer from Xrd to handle the actual fighting game aspect of it

DNF Duel: Who the fuck are any of you. Seriously, I tried to track down literally any of the creative leads behind the game and came up extremely short. If you can find literally any info on Tatsuru Tazaki, please tell me. This is a scuffed game. This is an SCP of a game.

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Not just the iconic voice of Mandy and Azula, Grey DeLisle is Hellena Taylor's castmate as she voices Bayonetta's BFF/rival Jeanne in Bayonetta 1, 2 and we've heard her in trailers for 3!

If the voice of Mandy from Grim Adventures and Azula from Avatar dragged me, you would simply not see me ever again, i would cease to exist in real and digital life all together.

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So apparently the arguments have devolved from “but it doesn’t say that in Japanese!” to “being given multiple years to escape and self-reflect and reach your own conclusions is grooming!” and “later entries in a franchise can never change a character they must remain exactly the same forever”.

Listen, I'mma spell it out real thorough-like. Bridget knew she was assigned male at birth. She knew her options were to either dress like and act as a woman, or get either herself or her twin brother exiled or KILLED. She willingly accepted dressing as a woman until she got an opportunity to escape, to prove the superstition wrong without endangering her family, and almost immediately declared herself Male, to anyone and everyone who asked, and several who didn’t. She then proceeded to wear a nun outfit and feminine clothing for what turned into years while out on the road hunting bounties. In that time, she was able to claim many bounties, bringing the money back to her village, and thus convince the village its superstition was wrong. At that point, if she wanted, there was no longer pressure whatsoever from her home village to keep presenting femininely, and if there was? She was a successful bounty hunter! She could just leave! Never come back! Live how she wanted! She kept dressing femininely. This clearly affected her, as by the time we see her in Strive, she’s deeply introspective.  When she encounters Goldlewis Dickinson, her statement of “I’m a boy” is hesitating and apologetic - completely unlike her previous brash confident declarations of masculinity.  Over the course of her arcade mode story, Goldlewis is comforting and supportive - “you don’t need to tell anyone anything you don’t wanna” - while discussing this “true self” that Bridget is hiding “for the sake of other folks”.  This is clearly meant to imply that Bridget is hiding something - but Goldlewis is fully supportive and non-judgemental, stating how he’s “riding that horse too”. Eventually, Bridget gets into a spar with Ky Kiske, to show how far she’s come.  If, in the previous fights, Bridget lost a heart - winning the round, but not winning all fights in the round - Goldlewis Dickinson jumps in as support.  If a heart was specifically lost in the previous fight, Bridget confirms that she’s become a top-class bounty hunter and, quote, “made lots of money”, further cementing that she has the means to remove herself from any coercive situation involving her village - but also, Goldlewis will state “you don’t look as confident as you sound”, further affirming that he sees something troubling her. At the conclusion of the fight with Ky Kiske, a number of possible cutscenes can trigger, depending on if Bridget lost any fights in previous rounds.  If Bridget lost a fight in previous rounds, she is openly reluctant about something, while both Ky and Goldlewis are supportive.  If Bridget flawlessly finished all stages up to this point, the fight with Ky ends with her asking if it was “scary” to go public about Gears, to reveal that truth he’d kept hidden.  If Bridget’s heart loss was in the fight before Ky’s fight, she openly says “no more lying to myself”, followed by affirming that “I’m a girl!” after prompted by Goldlewis calling her cowgirl, before correcting himself to “cowboy” based on what she’d requested in their previous conversations.  If the final fight after this is unlocked and completed, Ky also manages to convince her to “live as [her] true self”. While the exact specifics of each scene vary, the tone across all the cutscenes is the same - reluctant “admission” of being a boy in the fight against Goldlewis, Goldlewis recognizing her having some trouble she’s keeping private on during their second fight, doubt about something that isn’t her combat abilities when sparring against Ky Kiske, and eventually an affirmation to live as her true self, no matter what others think - including in one specific ending, loudly and proudly proclaiming “I’m a girl!” Furthermore, in Bridget’s design in Guilty Gear X-2, her headband sported a prominent Spear of Mars, alternatively known as the “male symbol”, an indicator of her then-perceived gender identity as a man and that she was not hiding it.

However, in the Guilty Gear Strive incarnation of Bridget, the male symbol is no longer seen, having been replaced by this symbol:

This symbol, neither the Venus symbol nor the Mars symbol, is called a couple different things, but most notably as a symbol for the “androgyne” gender - a gender label used by some people who feel either both male and female at the same time, or as being somewhere between male and female - but it is also utilized as a symbol for transgender people in general in some contexts, if rarely.  Regardless, this is a pretty clear design decision that indicates Bridget no longer identifies as purely male, and thus falls under the trans umbrella. With her responses to the fight against Ky Kiske, her reactions to support from Goldlewis and Ky, and the alterations to her design, it’s very clear that Bridget should no longer be read as male, and it’s equally clear that through the canon of the story, she reached this conclusion on her own, after multiple years of self-reflection. But, of course, you might be opposed to the canon of the story and oppose Bridget being trans on some idealistic ground - the most common complaint levied outside of her being ��groomed” (again, she publicly rejected being female IMMEDIATELY upon leaving her village, and only came to identify as female after years of self-reflection long after any grooming could have taken place,) is that this is a loss of representation for effeminate men. While technically statistically true, in that losing one possible member of representation is, technically speaking, A Loss - anyone can tell you that [x-1] is less than [x] - Bridget is far from the only example of the archetype.  Furthermore, Bridget in particular was an especially problematic example of the archetype - her nun costume, her giant handcuff belt thing, and frequently discussing how “I’m a man!” all lend to the image that she was meant to be seen as attractive, and fetishized, for being an effeminate man. This also led to an infamous internet meme on 4chan that has since entered the lexicon of much of the online sphere - namely, that people would post images of effeminate male characters (in particular Bridget), in order to “trick” people into finding the character in question hot and reveal that “you’re gay that’s a man!”.  As the knowledge of the character spread, people began to reply with a particular image or gif:

The sheer prevalence of that particular “prank” led to “tr*p” becoming a slur levied at effeminate men, trans women, and intersex women, with the implication that they were “tricking” or “trapping” straight men into finding them attractive. I should not have to explain how that’s fucked up. So instead of having a problematic memory of a transphobic meme, Arc System Works has taken Bridget and transformed her into a thoughtful and interesting trans character, simultaneously both removing an extremely problematic representation of an effeminate male character, and adding a nuanced representation of a trans character.  This is a gain for both sides. Hopefully, I shouldn’t have to say this, but just in case here it is anyway:

If you continue to believe that Bridget either is not actually trans, or should not be trans, you are transphobic.  You are actively ignoring both interesting lore that explains her identity, and the problematic real-world past of the character that is being left behind in this update to the sensibilities of our current day.

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Ikumi Nakamura is wonderful and lovely, but she was an environmental concept artist on Bayonetta. Mari Shimazaki was the lead character designer that came up with Bayonetta's visual design though.

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it just shipp 🤷‍♂️

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It is absolutely wild that despite being released at the dawn of the War on Terror the game was so successful that it, combined with the positive reception of Marth and Roy in Melee, convinced Nintendo that the West could handle Fire Emblem.

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let’s play dress-up!