>"I cowrote 1 mediocre story in 1993"
These online left-wing "fandom" types are always about "respecting artists" until those artists have non-leftist political opinions, after which said artists suddenly have always sucked. It's petty, juvenile, and pathetic.
Love that an internet race war is starting because the Pop Team Epic guy drew a video game character's skin tone "too lightly" and people who otherwise swear they aren't "culture warriors" and hate "culture war bullshit" got really mad at that.
The amount of Twitter zoomers going "did you just sexualize a real person???" in the replies and quote tweets makes me so happy that Trump won on Election Day 2024, because it shows there's no reason whatsoever to give these people the time of day.
Every time someone posts something to the accord of "I want a nice upper-middle-class family and house", "I want to live in this nice suburban sprawl", "here's a nice video of a 2000s school", and now an admiration of some Bavarians dancing, you get these weird freaks screeching
I can never bring myself to even strongly dislike Mark "Grummz" Kern, when his haters are invariably anencephalic psychotics whose sole purpose in life is to nip at his heels (like this guy right here).
The only reason videos like this exists is because Anglophone internet left-wingers have ideological anxiety over "inherently evil" fantasy races/species due to believing that they are (or can be used as) analogues or allegories for real-world nonwhite ethnic groups.
Sweet Baby Inc employees are squirming. They're feeling the heat. They're feeling the pressure.
Good.
Capital-"G" Gamers need to keep up the high-intensity, high-accuracy, high-volume, high-quality pressure on these people, so that they'll finally stop fucking up video games.
The entire controversy surrounding this image post shows that there is still a little bit of hard work that needs to be done before the world of online/digital artistry stops essentially being held hostage by left-wing millennial burnouts and zoomer wokescolds.
You might find the "rape game" known as "No Mercy" distasteful, but you have to notice that every single argument for removing it from Steam is predicated on, at base, believing that violent video games really do cause violence in real life.