Call me old I don’t really care but seriously why even bother with social media at all in today’s climate? I used to have a Twitter account years and years ago.
It's an essential networking tool for anyone who wants to work in almost any type of media these days.
They just skim over the chat logs, which is a bummer because my understanding is that there's some really wild stuff in them. I've only seen a few screenshots, but they contained some surprisingly bold statements for a Nintendo game (such as one conversation where Pearl and Marina get increasingly uncomfortable as a fan is backhandedly racist as shit toward Octolings with stuff like "I don't see species" and "Marina, you're just so ARTICULATE!")
I'm all for criticality in when it comes to race in media but she's saying she's articulate sarcastically because Marina is just replying with ellipses...not that she's articulate for a member of her race or something like that.
Cuttlefish keeps saying he doesn't see species, at this point in the chat he's said it like 5 times and both Pearl and Marina just ignore him. The game plays with age and the past, Cuttlefish is old and thinks he's helping by saying that stuff. The story is about exploring the past and accepting that things change.
Again, totally willing to listen to criticism of biases and whatnot but I just don't see it here.
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