full offense but the mcelroys encapsulate modern nerd culture a million times better than the big bang theory ever could.
Counterargument: The McElroys do not embody the sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry often found in “Nerd Culture” anywhere near as (unintentionally) effectively as TBBT.
Counter-counter argument: the McElroys embody true nerd culture while BBT emvbys fake geek culture. You know the kind that thinks deadpool is straight.
I was so foolish. Now I have seen the light. I am now clear minded.
pokemon: “we put a Great Ball in a trash can on the SS Anne once and players are now compelled to check literally every single trash can in every single game”
roxy lalonde accidentally one upped rose and kanaya by getting married when she met her wife face to face for the first time
also, marrying a skeleton who formerly shared the same body as the avatar for death and destruction is twelve times more goth than marrying an alien vampire
STOP HAVING WHITE VOICE ACTORS PLAYING NON-WHITE ROLES
stop depriving non-white actors opportunities to act and get recognized!
Voice actors often don’t know who they’re reading for or what franchise they’re in (that’s what the strike was recently about, so they’d know whether they were in a small first time game or the 4th installment of a major franchise, if they were replacing a beloved voice actor, etc.) so please don’t harass the actors, until recently they legally didn’t have the right to know who they were reading for and were usually not told until months or even years later.
Definitely go after casting, directors, and studios executives. Those are the people making the decisions.
They still don’t have the right to know. They got fucking nothing out of that strike. They can know the code name (which might be a serial number or whatever) and if it’s a sequel. That’s it. That’s the extent of the “transparency” they won from the strike.
As a perfect example of this controversy, if you haven’t looked up interviews surrounding Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross, it’s worth it.
Laura Bailey herself explained that when she auditioned for the role, she was given no information about what the character looked like. It was only after she was hired and arrived for recording that she was shown concept art and discovered the character was a WOC. She was uncomfortable about the situation.
Meanwhile, Neil Druckmann revealedthat they were already working on concept art of the character when they hired Laura Bailey. They finalized the character’s design as a WOC after they’d hired a white voice actress, so that was a conscious decision. He was also very flippant about the situation as a whole.
Like people above have said: Yes, whitewashed casting is a legitimate and real issue. But unlike actors in film and stage, voice actors are often totally blind to what they’re auditioning for. They get fucked by NDAs and legal red tape bullshit. Go after the casting directors and execs and high-position game devs that knowingly make these decisions.
The Porn Bot ARG is just the latest news about Death Stranding. Kojima made Norman Reedus learn how to make gifs and use tumblr so he could fuck with us
Mads Mikkelsen, eating potato chips in his pajamas and editing angel images on photoshop to make glitchy gifs, as per Hideo Kojima’s instructions: “Haha, I don’t know what’s going on! This is fun!”
okay, but the whole “Do you like to teleport” is a reference to the music video that was released to act as a prequel to the storyline of death-stranding; where it’s explained the whole “time being fucked up” thing is caused by a teleportation experiment gone wrong by some mobster like figures, and the lady in the icon is the same lady from the video that ends up becoming the first one of those black shadow things…
So I’m not sure if this was meant to be a shitpost but you’re literally right
The more I try to stray away from sanity, the closer I get to Mr. Kojima’s vision
there was a futurama episode but it was the result of mistranslating a martian calendar. all the rich folks ended up going to the planet that was actually going to be destroyed while earth remains safe
