@MoeBritannica Mojang is more than just lazy now. They really cannot just add all of the features? What's going on over there that they have to pick and choose single implement features? I doubt it's anything legitimate because they have time to make animated trailers, which would've been better just showcasing the new additions... IN THE GAME.
If anything, the community engagement is less genuine now because instead of just making the game better with ALL of the features to promote community discussion, they have the dribblers fight over one to go in.
Oh wait sorry everything I'm proposing is stuff that devs that love their game and video games as a whole would do. Mojang doesn't love their game, nor do they love video games as a whole, so why would they try to make Minecraft better?
@Minty Ironically Toph was one of the most respected and well liked characters BECAUSE she was strong. But not just strong, she was funny and crass. Her power growth was also rather reasonable (technically you could argue it was deus ex machina).
What people don't understand is that in the modern context, "strong girl" often comes attached with "shitty writing." That was not a problem in TLAB. @Echigo
@lina The problem is that stuff that you could argue is just a nothing burger and isn't actually really prevalent, is suddenly appearing in your life. I asked once to a group of university mates, "Does anyone actually identify as latinx?" And one replied "I have a few friends that do."
That's the crazy part to me. It's simultaneously an invention of a minority and a total nothing-burger, but is also finding its way into lots of people's lives. I forget the numbers but it's something like less than a third of the total population in the US actually uses social media.
But my sampling could also be biased because it's among young university students and graduates, the ones extremely likely to have social medias and thus engage in online ideas.
@lina >i just think that latinx is a spawn of businessmen trying to make sure as few people as possible are offended by anything happening We can go a bit further, where did the general sentiment of trying to offend as little as possible come from? My theory is that terms like latinx and the sentiments for "inclusivity" are a product of something much more abstract. I think simply someone either in academia or the business sector came up with it as a RESULT of what started in the sociopolitical sphere with small things like political correctness. Gradually, people's way of thinking and speech became, in a way, sanitized, and they sought ways to implement that sanitization in other areas of society.
That's just my uneducated analsysis, though :shrug:
@lina Of course, intent matters. I forget where I first learned the idea from but "intent matters" is something I've been holding onto. Even the intention behind intentions; like when someone does something malicious and then feigns ignorance (it was just a prank, bro).
>and a whole other thing when you're ignorant and you call someone latinx because you think that's inclusive That's the tragic part to me. People who don't know any better end up using the term and causing confusion. The way I see things, it's superficially innocuous or benign, but there's an extra layer of insidiousness that I don't think most people care to realize; not necessarily out of malice but just because there are other things demanding their attention.
One of my friends is actually taking a "Latinx Studies" class as (I presume) the general ed portion of his degree, and he has vehemently voiced his hatred and boredom of that class. Ultimately though, he just suckers up and does the work so he can proceed in his... something medicine and therapy related degree. I'm very curious what the other students think of it. I think most people would rather move on with life rather than bring up the issue and stop it. Like I mentioned before, I can't blame him because that's far above his goal in that institution, but yknow, that's also how stupid ideas like that proliferate. A strange philosophical conundrum; are we duty bound to challenge stupid ideas like this no matter where they spawn? Perhaps it's easy to say yes if you have a lot of time on your hand, but some people are probably just way too busy and don't have the mental affordance to.
Part of me actually thinks "Latinx" is a spawn of academia rather than online mental illness. The latter is the disseminator, since academics tend to have a mental/social space utilizing social media.
@lina I think generally it's received indifferently. Of course, the internet =/= reality, and that term is only something we see perpetuated online. At worst it probably causes confusion.
And yeah it's not as powerful as "nigger" but you can't deny that the term is rather insulting. The romance languages are what they are because of the male/female typing, and this is basically coercing change in the language.
@kamehamic Yeah. The point is, the term "latinx" fundamentally undermines whole languages and cultures to fit some mental illness conceived in the US. :shinobu_kaka:
@ninja8tyu There was some but she wasn't the most popular character. Honestly Dragalia's cast was pretty one-dimensional, so none of them *really* stuck out except for a few that were preferential likes. For me, it was Julietta and Ku Hai. Loved those two, haha.