Blog:Stupidity From Planet Earth Ep. 02

Welcome to the second episode of Stupidity from the Planet Earth. This is where we take a look at various ridiculous events taking place in the video game industry and more.

Woke Light
It is known that Sonic has been steadily going down hill over the years. Its most recent game, Sonic Forces, isn't exactly splendid. The blue hedgehog's feature film is also on a collision corse with an iceberg. And now, it appears that not even Sonic's developer themselves cannot treat Sega's mascot character seriously anymore.

First and foremost, Shadow doesn't belong in this image. It's as out of place as JSDF's itasha AH-1S Cobra.

Secondly, this doesn't feel encouraging, it feels desperate and insincere, little more than a publicity stunt. I have once warned that we should never trust a company that pushes politics, as they will never stand up for their statements when their profit can be compromised for this. We already have examples such as Blizzard claiming that they stand up for LGBT rights but did nothing when their Tracer comic was banned in Russia for containing homosexual/"unhealthy" content, or when EA claiming that they "stand up for the cause" but did nothing when the Sims was banned in multiple conutires for allowing homosexual marriage in it.

I'm pretty sure Hard Light's virtual messaging will end up with the same result once some other homophobic regime decieded to "sanitize" thier content. But now, I'm pretty sure Hard Light's tweet already needs serious sanitizing, judging from all the furries infesting it...

Activism, Not Journalism
One of the reasons we loathe journalism these days is that these people love to overstep their boundaries and play the role of moral police instead of story teller, often for their own egotistical, selfish needs.

A mobile game most of us likely never heard about Sniper 3D Assassin: Shoot To Kill just recently got censored. Apparently, a HuffPost writer decied to pressure the game's developer into remove a level involving sniping a dirty journalist who's bribing a cop. I can't help but wonder if this HuffPost journalist himself is guilty of the same thing in real-life.

I also can't help but wonder what will his reaction be when he found out about the "Snail Rail" mission GTA San Andreas where you have to assassinate a journalist under the orders of Officer Frank Tenpenny so that his dirty little secrets remains secretive. Is he gonna censor that too? I hope not! Because I'm pretty sure modders will retaliate by literally creating a "Assassinate the Journalists" game mode.

Cop Hate Is Good Hate
It's undoubtable that diversity is the selling point of many games, while games/mods like Mental Omega takes pride in diversity of play style, Overwatch takes more pride in diversity of skin color.

However, dealing with SJWs is like driving on thin ice... in a Tiger tank. Things are down to go wrong, eventually. After all, how are you supposed to pacify a group whose sole purpose of existing is to complain about stuff? I know how, but that's a different story...

Just recently, Overwatch teased a new skin for Brigitte Lindholm styled in a suit of Riot Police Armor. Naturally this got the NPC mod riled up and engage their BlackLivesMatter.exe, swarming to vent their righteous anger on the 280 Characters of Hate that's Twitter.

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Now, I'm not going to ponder why NPCs always automatically process the word "police" as "Gestapo", instead, I'll simply leave the fact that the game we're discussing here is a shooter. So essentially the SJWs are whining about the prospect of shooting a cop, and promoting the ability to kill other people of color. That's... logical. Right?

Write Your Own GoT Fan Fic
So, Game of Throne's final season managed to come off as extremely disappointing as many. I have yet to see those episodes, but what I've heard is enough to convince me to stay the hell away from this dumpster fire.

If you're still wondering just how bad GoT's season 8 is, well. I checked the petition to rewrite GoT season 8 yesterday and the signature number managed to break 1 million, today it has nearly broken 1.5 million. (Here's a link to the original petition) Fans signed it knowing this petition will probably be ignored, but signed it anyway just to show their discontent.

Just recently, I came across this nice little piece of reporting stating that "David Benioff and D.B. Weiss fired back with their own rebuttal petition, asking fans to create their own GoT final."

Now, I kinda wished that this is true, but then deep down I knew that people couldn't have been that stupid. My experience with playing video game mods serves as a good reminder that creators should never challenge the fans lightly, because regardless of the fact that 99.9% of fanfics are rubbish, there's always that 0.01% that will emerge and 1-Up your original work.

Mental Omega, which I've mentioned before, is considered by many C&C players to be a better sequel of the original Red Alert than Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge combined.

But maybe, just maybe the fans will take up the challenge just for fun. And even if we don't get a better GoT finale, at least we'll get lots of porn!

Arthur Gets Censored
Now moving on to a show that has been running for... like... an eternity: Arthur. I'm genuinely surprised that after giving Steven Crowder a job the show remains on air. It's most recent controversy involves an episode featuring homosexual marriage, or as Billy D likes to put it: "Getting Woke".

Now, I consider Billy D the epitome of siege mentality and anti-SJW paranoia, but I do agree that the "message" this episode brings do felt like insincere virtue signalling, especially when the creator claims that "I’m really proud of that episode", this just sound like your typical SJW "white saviour" complex.

And Alabama & Arkansas's recent decision to ban the episode also triggered a lot of SJWs, and filled many anti-SJWs with glee, as even though quite a few of them opposes censorship, they still find it satisfying that the woke left is finally getting a taste of their own medicine.

As for me... well, I really don't have a take on this. I'm just mentioning it to see what you guys think. Do you feel cheered that the regressive are finally on the receiving end of the censorship game? Or that Alabama's actions are not justified and this makes them virtually no better than California? Let me know in the comments below.

