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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.

    If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn’t seem unreasonable.

    To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn’t hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.

    But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online… And it’s actually the less historically accurate one.
















  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe Poison in my Life
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    10 days ago

    There were forced historectomies women were made to undergo in ICE custody.

    This is malinfornation and false[1](https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/27/judge-concludes-nbcs-allegations-of-mass-hysterectomies-by-doctor-at-ice-facility-were-false-may-have-been-knowingly-recklessly-false/)

    The official bipartisan US government investigation put it at 2, your Reason link lists 1. So a long way from the “mass hysterectomies” that were the sensationalist claims made. You’re right to push back on it.
    There were still over 40 cases of invasive gynecological procedures done without consent, but it is not the claim made.


  • Fucking over people outside of the US is a short term strategy that means ever more people are waiting for a chance to take the US down.

    Don’t expect all the vassal nations to come to the US’s aid, because the more bridges get burnt and the more the US looks like a hypocritical bully the more the fall will hurt when it comes.


  • There is a baseline of quality that is hard for a plucky individual to match outside of mono-medium media.

    While it is possible for good video games to be produced by a single indivudal or very small team, it is a lot of work on their part and hard to do if worried about paying for food, rent, etc.

    Filmic media (is there a good noun that joins movies and fiction TV shows as a unified object?), a solid level of difficulty above that.


  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comtoGames@lemmy.worldNostalgia and remake culture
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    11 days ago

    Or maybe in a post-modern world we use (mostly empty) signifiers to give ourselves meaning and show allegiance to a subculture.

    Its why we pepper our speech with allusions and cultural in-jokes - but where in the past they were tied to more concrete ideology, now they are simply signs that one has consumed the same media as someone. And the existing signifiers have more cultural clout than new ones, except to signify an interest in non-mainstream cultural products.
    For the self has become simply a vessel for consumption. There is nothing beyond the consumption of product.
    Especially as public allegiance to a non-neoliberal ideology is seen as uncivil. Unsurprisingly more peaceful Left-wing ideologies less civil and more incorrect that violent far Right ones, because the Left will always be more critical of consumption as the purpose of life.

    Despite being wrong, Fukuyama’s inflammatory title has polluted the mind of the Anglophone and European cultural zone.