Blog:Stupidity from the Planet Earth Ep. 08

Welcome to the long overdue 8th 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.

As much as I wanted to keep things light hearted, things are taking a dark turn for the worst these days. Let’s begin.

Hong Kong Crisis


My country has been throwing its weight around a lot these days, the reason for that is because we finally have the capital to play the games of capitalism better than the capitalists of the west. I know this sounds very ironic for a communist nation, but TBH, I don’t even know why China’s still bothers with pretending to be communist.

Many of you may not know, but ever since 1997 when the UK returned Hong Kong to the PRC, Hong Kong remained capitalist while pretty much the rest of China remained communist, thanks to Chairman Deng Xiaoping’s policies (this is one of the reasons why Chinese need a special document just to be allowed to enter Hong Kong and Macaw). Many of you many not know this as well, but our current Chairman Xi Jingping is a man who’s not messing about. Under his rule, China saw fit to ban Winnie the Pooh when people starting noticing the similarity between the two chubby characters (This gave Chinese trolls an excellent opportunity to get people banned on Blizzard, by bating people with questions that has “Winnie the Pooh” as the answer).

They also saw fit to ban South Park—a show known for mocking everything—for mocking China.

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

Things started to go south for Hong Kong a few years ago, when the PRC demanded that the governor of HK be someone approved by Beijing. Needless to say this rubbed the people of HK the wrong way who proceed to call it “fake democracy” and do the only thing they can do—protest. Of course, this is a golden opportunity for Beijing to paint the protestors as violent rioters, by letting their own assets mix in with the crowd and act like thugs—smashing property and beating up people.

And now the puppet government implemented by Beijing has gone one step further in tearing down HK’s already shoddy human rights with the fugitives extradition laws. Needless to say, there were even more protests, and Beijing has gone one step further in declared the protests to be “separatist”, showing “colors of revolution” and “signs of terrorism”. Needless to say, judging from ever sign, this is likely gonna end up like Tiananmen Square in 1989 again.

Now what the hell does it has to do with gaming, WENth100?!

Well, as I’ve mentioned above, Blizzard is deep in Chinese money, and when Hearthstone champion Blitzchung expressed pro-HK sentiments (What do you expect, Blizzard? He’s from Hong Kong!), Blizzard not only have Blitzchung removed from the tournament for a year, but also childishly stripped of his rightful winnings of US$3,000.

Needless to say, the people of the free world were furious with Blizzard’s decision and see it as a shameless attempt to keep China on their sweet side (not surprising considering that China is the world’s largest video game consumer and Tencent holds 5% share in Activism Blizzard). Many started with deleting Hearthstone and boycotting Blizzard products (This has gone so bad that Blizzard finally gave Chung the money he deserves and reduced his sentence to 6 months). I for one won’t participate as I’ve never played any of Blizzard’s games and never will. Some people have gone further to create pro-Hong Kong artworks of the Overwatch hero Mei, with hopes that it will trigger Beijing so much that it will get the game banned in China (This has gone so bad that Mei action figures and statues were removed from Blizzard’s merchandize shops). Some even have hopes to get Mei’s VA into trouble with Beijing as she’s pretty pro-PRC.

In fact, not even some of Blizzard’s own staff are willing to put up with this BS.

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The latest news I have is that Jeremey Hambly, better known as “TheQuartering”, has donated $3,000 to the Blizzcon Protest movement, in other words, he funded the ENTIRE protest.

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Now, I have two things to say. No.1—Good one, Jeremy! No.2—Be careful who you let into the protest. Don’t let unruly protestors ruin your event! Even more importantly DON’T LET THUGS SENT BY PEOPLE LIKE ANTIFA OR GOD FORBID BLIZZARD SNEAK INTO YOUR GROUP AND SABOTAGE IT!

One thing I’m 100% sure is that a certain group of limpdick scum of the sociaty known as game journalists will defiantly try and paint this protest as “anti-Chinese” and “racist”, thus the last thing we need is to give them material to validate their claims.

Mark Hamill insults a 3 Year Old For NO REASON! ― By Grust
Mark Hamill best known for Luke Skywalker and my favorite voice for the Joker, recently took to Twitter after Ivanka Trump showing her 3 year-old in a Storm Trooper outfit with the tweet, "The Force is strong in my family," with the response, "Fraud!" and hashtag, #GoForceYourself.

The tweet was shared and well respected by anti-Trumpers on the site with one tweet saying, "Mommy, why does everyone hate us? Because we're terrible, terrible people son.”

Are you FUCKING kidding me, Mark. You once said that people that disagree with you politically weren't your enemies and yet because this kid and her mother are related to Trump, you insult them and win points from your fellow TDS sufferers. No as far as I'm concerned you no longer have any right to be called a celebrity with common sense, as far as I'm concerned, you're just another celebtard. That being said, I'll still enjoy your work as Luke Skywalker... in the original trilogy, and your work as the Joker as most of that work is far behind you.

You know what's worse about this? This isn't the first time kids have been attacked by this. First I know of is the Covington kids who stood their ground when Native Americans harassed them while the media edited the video to paint the kids as racist. Next I've heard of a 7 year old girl named Ava Martinez who made videos mocking Alexadria Ocasio Cortez (an easy feat when you know she'll go down as the most idiot congresswoman in history) had to close her social media accounts after getting death threats. YES DEATH THREATS SENT TO A SEVEN YEAR OLD!!! And now this. Hate towards a 3 year old just for being Trump's grandson. This is disgusting and revolting beyond all measure. Enjoy your work you've done in the past, Mark, because I'm now done with you.

Now one argument for defending Mark is that he was targeting Ivanka not the kid, I even heard that he made a tweet saying the kid was awesome. Counterargument, it was meant to be a simple family photo tweet with the kid enjoying Star Wars and free of politics, but Mark came in with a case of TDS and insulted the tweet. So even if it was meant to be an insult to Ivanka, he still insulted the kid.

Mark I am now so done with you, I don't even give a damn if you voice the Joker again. I'm dead serious. It won't matter.

Your thoughts WENth100?

—What can I say?! Don’t ever use celebrities as guidance!

The End is Nigh
Just recently I got the news from Vicious—apparently, Marvel Comics is planning to put an end to several character arcs.

According to Marvel, these THE END comics are about:

“Spanning the near future to the end of the universe, from happily ever after to the depths of despair, these unforgettable and surprising tales follow our heroes to their natural and unnatural conclusions!”

Well, ain’t that a fitting description! Marvel’s various shenanigans, predictable stories and shallow, fan-fic characters has sent comic hobbyists and comic book shop owners from happily ever after to the depths of despair! Especially for the latter who are stuck with inferior comics that nobody wants to read spamming their shelves!

Even more fitting is Marvel’s post-apocalyptic description for all of these issues. Post-apocalyptic will become the best words to describe the mainstream comic book landscape judging from the numbers That Umbrella Guy has shown me. 9 MILLION IN 9 MONTHS?! Seriously, one couldn’t even burn money that fast!

And best of all, the first of THE END series features—Her magnificent flatness and unlikableness Brie “Captain Marvel” Larson!

What can I say? Even if I’m no comic fan, I’m still quite eager to witness the rise of indie comics and the downfall of Marvel’s and DC’s comic gatekeepers. I believe that the day when Zack and Ethan cut the ribbons for All Caps Comics’ first office (Hopefully built the former headquarters of Marvel and DC respectfully!) is a day worth celebrating for all of us. Because companies who pander to the SJWs and their racist, hate filled ideology deserve to go bust and die.

For Everyone Except for Straight White Males!
If one thing She Who Must Not Be Named (Are you sure, my glorious leader? They say not speaking her name gives her power… Okay, okay! Your wish is my command, just don’t send me to the Chrono Prison!) have taught us anything, is that SJWs make researches based off a pre-made conclusion. As they’re more interested in proving their biased assertions than legitimately analyzing aspects of, well, anything.

Recently, BBC posted a particularly asinine Twitter video featuring some sweaty, pathetic SJW claiming that "Dungeons & Dragons is not just for a bunch of beardy boys in a basement, it's for everybody and anybody.”

Now this is a narrative we here have heard from SJWs countless times already. They just look at the fact that D&D is a male-dominated hobby and just assume it's because of male nerds keeping women, etc out of the hobby.

However, if you were to look at the history of things, you'd see that not only are tabletop games like D&D generally created by men (like Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson for D&D), needless to say, their friends who played with them were generally people with similar interests... Which happened to mostly be men (which are also rare types since tabletop gaming is generally a very nerdy hobby and most people, men or women alike are just not interested in it).

My experience with D&D are next to zero, having only watched Sheldon, Leonard, Raj and Howard played them on the Big Bang Theory, or consumed theme related media such as Goblin Slayer or Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep (I have to admit I really do appreciate the game’s customizability). But to be honest, the handful of D&D fans I’ve met are never even close to what the media describes them as.

Another thing I’m sure we’ve all noticed here is that—like with video games and comics, the moment people started claiming that there’s something wrong with our hobby is when it became popular. Before, admitting that you like D&D makes you a laughing stock in your community, and people go like “Ew nerds, go play dungeons and dragons, no one likes you!”

But nowadays, when video games, comics, anime or tabletop gaming etc has gone mainstream, the “normies”, or more specifically “outsiders” who mocked us for our nerdiness in the past, started barging in and wanted to claim the whole scene for themselves.

"Interesting how this kind of thing is always sneering more than celebratory. Not "more people are playing this cool game" but "more people than THESE MASSIVE LOSERS are playing this cool game"."

― Ben Sixsmith

While most of us will go on and claim that there’s no such thing as “gatekeeping” when it comes to nerd culture and never will be, I digress. There always needs to be some form of gatekeeping for the nerd community. Our worlds are never meant to be 100% inclusive, it’s only meant to be inclusive to those who share our hobby and wanted to have fun with us. Letting those who never had any interest in our hobbies and only wanted to exploit it into our community is like diluting wine with water. No… that’s not appropriate, it’s more like letting some douche piss in your beer.

"When I was a kid, boys mocked me for two reasons: my tattoos, and Bunkers & Badasses. I suffered for my geekiness. You don't get to invade my culture just because it's "cool" right now."

—Lilith, Borderlands 2

A Random Case of Stupidity
Last but not least, an SJW who doesn't know when to shut up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191015134833/https:/twitter.com/UnseenJapanSite/status/1183682038173450240

According to Reddit user md1957, this outlet has been trying absurdly hard to present itself as showing the "true" Japan, and TOTALLY not a distorted image that ironically appropriates local analogues to feminism to suit its narrative.

What am I supposed say? China hate bad but Japan hate good? Who the hell are you Baizuos, to call a someone else's culture sexist? It's literally the "whitest" thing I can think of!

Conclusion
Anyway, this concludes our 8th episode of Stupidity from Planet Earth. More insanity will be coming soon! I hope you've held on to yours! Leave your opinions in the comment section and tell me if any improvement is needed! If anyone of you wants to appear as a special guest, please feel free to PM me.

