@mushroomer: yes but Dan might run overtime soooo yeah
We also plan to have two streams running on Giant Bomb chat with the bottom stream usually dedicated to a rotation of Giant Bomb users streaming for Extra Life. If there's "dead time" we can move to have both streams be community-run.
You had an opportunity to establish where you stand regarding LittleBigPlanet normalizing shitty feeling jumps in a different console generation and I am disappointed.
Type-Moon STILL not localizing the Fate/stay visual novels, even if they want everyone to forget about its porno past, while they make tons of money on Melty Blood and Fate/stay anime and multimedia stuff is a goddamn crime.
This is a conversation beyond the scope of this game, but as an atheist, I try to avoid media that perpetuates any notion that there's a grand journey to be had with death. I think Spiritfairer, by hook or by crook, perpetuates a lot of those fuzzy mittens myths and notions of death being a journey towards self-actualization. That there's a grand moment to be had or that there's a final opportunity for you or I to find spirituality as we meet our ends. It's likely a delusion because when we die, there's no black void or trail or light because there's no you to perceive those stimuli. It's scary, yes, but it's important to come to terms with that. If you're holding out to redeem yourself in the afterlife, you are depriving yourself and those around you of years of good living.
I think Carl Sagan out my feelings of the matter best:
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. I want to grow really old with my wife, Annie, whom I dearly love. I want to see my younger children grow up and to play a role in their character and intellectual development. I want to meet still unconceived grandchildren. There are scientific problems whose outcomes I long to witness—such as the exploration of many of the worlds in our Solar System and the search for life elsewhere. I want to learn how major trends in human history, both hopeful and worrisome, work themselves out: the dangers and promise of our technology, say; the emancipation of women; the growing political, economic, and technological ascendancy of China; interstellar flight. If there were life after death, I might, no matter when I die, satisfy most of these deep curiosities and longings. But if death is nothing more than an endless dreamless sleep, this is a forlorn hope. Maybe this perspective has given me a little extra motivation to stay alive. The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
@zombiepie: Good lord, is that so? What I've seen of the reaction has been extremely mercurial, so imagining it being twice as bad elsewhere is a scary thought. I guess it makes sense though, with what little I knew about the series before looking into it lately, my perception has been that Bridget was a bit of a mixed bag over here while she was the long-running fan favorite in Japan.
My bad on the Fate fighting games though, I scrolled through the franchise list and somehow completely missed 'em.
Well... see... fuck. How do I put this. Everything I am going to present and say is meant to be taken as a purely educational exercise and that I do not actually believe any of the views I am about to review. Likewise, I understand that these reactions do not apply to the entirety of the Japanese people or Japanese FGC.
Bridget was a fan favorite in Japan because the character was associated with the "Otokonoko" or "otoko no ko" label. The online circles that fetishize and/or relate or associate strongly with communities connected with that identifying label have reacted in one of two ways.
Reaction #1: Dismiss this as another example of a Japanese developer placating "Western wokeness." If you find Japanese artists that are producing Bridget art, you're going to find a vast majority are continuing to bill the art with "Otokonoko" or "otoko no ko" label. On top of that, many account I'm looking at are using a popular meme which roughly translates to "Say something like you were born in the Showa era." In this context, it's being used to recall a supposed time when Japanese media was "its own thing" and absent from Western pressures.
Reaction #2: The Doujinshi Reaction. A friend of mine lives in Japan and went to Comiket 100 and observed a MASSIVE amount of fan art and manga related to Bridget. However, the depictions of Bridget are more closely related to older versions and perceptions of the character than what was attempted in Strive. Part of this is a production limitation as many of these printing were made months in advance for Comiket, but there's a sentiment in the Doujin circle that "Well, if they want to do that with the character, whatever, but I'm sticking to my old guns. The number of times they observed when the word "trap," and its associated Japanese stan-bys, when applied to Bridget memorabilia, was high.
@zombiepie: Are there any Fate/ fighting games? It seems unthinkable that there wouldn't be, given Melty Blood, but I can't find any, and if they exist Astolfo doesn't seem to be in them.
@franzlska @zombiepie: There are Fate fighting games, but none of them have Astolfo.
I checked.
You know... I'm going to come clean and admit that I totally missed the "fighting game" part of this list and thought this was a definitive list of gaming's greatest femboys. MY BAD! In terms of Fate/Stay fighting games in general, you have to go back to those awful PSP games. That said, this is reminding me that I need to write about Type/Moon wanting you to forget about the Fate/Stay VNs even existing.
Anyway, I also want to say that whatever you think the reaction to Bridget has been on English-speaking Twitter; I can definitively confirm that the reaction is 100% WORSE on Japanese-Speaking Twitter.
Also, you can totally rotate the camera with the bumpers.
Ah, this is probably phrasing on my part. You can indeed rotate the camera, however, what I meant by that was the angle of the camera and being able to adjust the x, y, and z-axis. Having angle control would make the camera more free and make analyzing the battlefield much easier. This would be a godsend during boss battles.
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