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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 21, 2026, 09:23:44 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rVGiXA1sI

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What makes this whole situation even more bizarre is that the Japanese press were absolutely baffled by the Western reaction to all of this. So several
8:248 minutes, 24 secondsJapanese gaming outlets Rambies is essentially asking why are Western fans so upset. Second cousin marriage is legal in America. What is the problem?
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But here is the thing, the western audience does not approach the cousin question purely through a legal lens. In the UK, in the
8:578 minutes, 57 secondsUS, in most of Western culture, there is a very strong social taboo around this kind of relationship

Woke comments:

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The fact that the general Japanese reaction can be boiled down to "What's the big deal?" clearly indicates that this is a classic case of culture clash.

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It's a reminder of how normal the Japanese writers think this situation is

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Actually, most east Asians doesn’t find this as a problem and consider it a really good story writing way, it is a cultural thing alright

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What happened to "love is love"?

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Westerners are just crying because they're Westerners, different cultures take this marriage as a normal thing.

Westerner comments:

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If they find it fine in Japan then maybe they should have used or made one of the Japanese members of the roster have this storyline rather than choosing an American character considering most of us find that stuff disgusting.

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Alex is an American character that was made to cater to the American audience. Yet the writer clearly doesn't know a single thing about America's marriage structures and taboos. That writer needs to be fired or removed. They weren't up to the task and are woefully inadequate for the job.

After centuries of Western imposition of Western norms onto "non-white" characters whether non-Western audiences like it or not, finally we get the reverse: non-Western norms imposed onto "white" characters regardless of whether Western audiences like it or not! Well done Capcom!

I'm still not going to be playing SF6, though. They have to go back to 2D for me to ever play another SF game. For now I'd rather keep watching Western brains melt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGVDrm8IZG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJfZEiZp8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYFS7rlDPw

 ;D

Further discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1rwwzg4/in_sf6_alex_returns_as_a_a_playable_character_who/

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Honestly getting really sick of the "Step-sister" trope in anime.

It was a classic trope in Counterculture-era live-action dramas too:



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The Second Cousin thing is gross too, but SO many shows just treat 'growing up with someone as the opposite gender' as a fast track to romance.

This the point: it is a form of assurance that neither person is vacancy-filling, unlike in scenarios where either person takes initiative to begin a relationship from nothing upon which the subconscious motivation for the initiative is doomed to forever remain suspect. Non-vacancy-filling is a prerequisite for genuine romance. Which is not to say it has to be relatives. Neighbours or meeting via school/work or chance encounters in general are fine too.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/social-decolonization/msg22535/?topicseen#msg22535

Bonus song (and a reminder that the trope isn't even new for Capcom either):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOyoyvx_j8

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Does this mean Roll is in love with Rock?

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Yes it does this is pretty much her song to him.

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But... Roll is his sister D:

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yeah that is why it’s pure
Posted by: rp
« on: February 28, 2026, 08:11:19 am »

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/15rv4m9/why_must_diverse_characters_always_have_a_reason/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 07, 2026, 07:11:44 pm »

While I understand that country music is intended to be right-leaning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music#Culture

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Country music, during the 1960s and 1970s, served as a foil to the counterculture folk and rock music of the time, supporting traditional and often conservative beliefs.[221]

I worry that many critics of it are fans of Western classical music, therefore are actually criticizing it from even further right, emphasizing country's lack of complexity, as the above video does. Therefore such critics will become our opponents when we claim Western classical music is inferior.

A critique of country that we can endorse must first take the position that it is at least preferable to Western classical, but then argue that it is merely less bad, in contrast to Counterculture genres which are genuinely good. Basically, if Western classical musicians are vampires, country musicians are zombies whereas Counterculture musicians are vampire slayers (who of course can also kill zombies if they need to).
Posted by: rp
« on: February 07, 2026, 06:54:20 pm »

Comments from video'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A&lc=Ugx-YRnqos7Irbm7Fah4AaABAg&si=y6wO7n75ZdVsXXkH
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I was laughing the entire time, but "In Memory of Country Music (1922  - 1999)" was what took me out. I've said for YEEEEARS that 9/11 killed country music, but it was definitely on its way out before then
Posted by: rp
« on: February 07, 2026, 06:04:59 pm »

https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1d6al1y/brocountry_is_a_form_of_country_pop_originating/
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 31, 2026, 06:53:26 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJGBAVeV7U

Woke comments:

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Another point: my son observed this very clearly while he was on a school exchange trip with a school in Jalisco. He lived with a very nice, well-off, highly-educated family. But the boy in whose house my son was staying had been cruelly teased by classmates because he didnt't have "european-white" skin.

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Unfortunately, that applies throughout all of Latin America. I'm a dark skin Puerto Rican and I don't see people that look like me in Puerto Rican TV and Advertisements.

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One day, we will WAKE  up and realize that there are more colored people in the world with than white people.

Gente de color should all support each other. Making programs for ourselves. Most culture comes from people of color.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 02, 2026, 12:59:37 am »

Not this Eurocentric (and implicit Arctic Alliance) **** again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA-py0UdQ8Q

Posted by: rp
« on: October 17, 2025, 10:50:36 am »

https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/w3lkrg/just_leaving_this_post_here_for_the_fun_of_it/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 27, 2025, 05:28:50 pm »

Contd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv37D-58NOc

I of course had previously mentioned Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman in this post:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/media-decolonization/msg30495/#msg30495

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This is what I would like to see going on more between non-Western movie industries, an excellent folkist practice that began during the Counterculture era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi_and_the_One-Armed_Swordsman

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Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (Japanese: 新座頭市・破れ！唐人剣; Chinese: 獨臂刀大戦盲侠), also known as Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman and The Blind Swordsman Meets His Equal, is a 1971 chambara-wuxia crossover by Japanese film director Kimiyoshi Yasuda and Chinese film director Hsu Tseng Hung. A Japanese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman Zatoichi and Jimmy Wang Yu as the "One-Armed Swordsman" Wang Kang.[1] It is a crossover of the long-running Zatoichi series and the One-Armed Swordsman film series.

Another collaboration (non-crossover) movie I had previously promoted was Spy Games:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/japan-to-export-jets-missiles-to-12-nations-bid-to-counter-belligerent-china-in-/msg15879/#msg15879

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8TlSf7V6g

Yet another (from which I had in the same previous post only posted one of its songs) is You Are My Destiny, now fully available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xWRoQwl4Zo

which is worth watching for just the bicycle scenes alone!

As for Fist of Fury, I would add that in its 1994 remake Fist of Legend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNKesjwV5to

(which I also consider to be a better movie overall), Chen Zhen is portrayed with significant positive relations with several Japanese characters, including a love interest*, absent from the original. Note also that Fearless, previously mentioned here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/yandi-vs-huangdi-myth-confirmed/msg12893/#msg12893

can be considered plotwise a prequel to Fist of Fury/Fist of Legend, as Huo Yuanjia's death at the end of Fearless is what kicks off the story in Fist of Fury/Fist of Legend.

(* This idea actually originates in the 1981 TV drama version of the same story, The Legendary Fok, which is my personal favourite version of the story. Unlike Fist of Legend where Chen's girlfriend is openly Japanese (and non-combatant), here she is a Japanese spy who presents as Chinese in public, while also infiltrating Western colonialist spaces, and thus is able to see things from multiple perspectives. Fans are shipping this pairing to this day:

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1AF411w7m2/   :) )

As for the point about the anti-IJA faction in Japan, the following recent movie elaborates:

https://yts.mx/movies/revolver-lily-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wmEU8WJL8

Woke comments (returning to first video):

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**** the west trying to set up the asian countries against another

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it would be nice if you research more what fascism really is. you keep saying fascism even though it doesnt fit in the context of the sentence or the topic at hand.

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"One day I'm certain, we'll be friends again"

I hope so

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This one is hard. As time passes, new media takes over, old classics get buried in the rumble of new media content. There will be some that watch it, chasing the classics and having a new glean of perspective towards things, but they are far too few to matter in the balance of things. The majority will crowd out the voices of the reasonable few

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It's all just a representation of the old culture of China unlike the modern China which is ruled by the silly northern people. It's a culture that doesn't exist anymore on the mainland and the only place you might find some resemblance is Hong Kong but the culture of politeness was long gone ever since the Mongol's came down and ruined everything. Before that we had great relations with China.

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The current LDP primary election is only making it worse, all thanks to Sanae Takaichi’s “Nara Deer” comments.

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Hopefully china will forget the daft idea of invading Taiwan dragging everyone into a pointless war
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 13, 2025, 08:25:45 pm »

Continuing from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/japan-to-export-jets-missiles-to-12-nations-bid-to-counter-belligerent-china-in-/msg13719/#msg13719

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1NJf6bw0M

In my opinion, only the first Kingdom movie is any good. All the sequels suck.

As for Chun-Li, I would argue that she is a tribute to multiple action stars rather than to Mao alone. The first that comes to mind would be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpfrMHojAig

In fact, if you look at early concept sketches, Capcom drew Chun-Li dressed (centre) almost exactly like Khan in the second ITLOD3 scene:



prior to settling on the eventual outfit (right) but which employed the stockings from the first ITLOD3 scene. Khan herself was almost certainly aware of this, hence she (as they always did in the Counterculture era  :) ) returned the compliment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puaaNeaMTmk

Woke comments (returning to first video):

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honestly japan's take on china sometimes feels more relatable to me than mainland china

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there is a difference between showing reverance to that you perceive as "good/influential history" and dislike for modern mainland chinese cultural norms

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It's too bad there's such a weird taboo from the CCP about what otherwise can be a close-knit region with some very interesting history to be explored.

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It's unfortunate that I can't just pick up a magical book and get transported to a fantasy ancient China.

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Chinese/HK and Japan is so intertwined culturally speaking. It is foolish of us to fight against each other so much. I'd be happy that in this life to see both China and Japan put away their "face" (i.e. pride/ego), move past previous conflicts and just reach new heights in terms of peace and collaboration. It simply can't be understated that if both work with each other, they can easily surpass EU/West.

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it's all started because of west invasion of the east. If you read history about Sakamoto Rhoma, you will know he travels to China and realize how European power are messing with China.

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I hope Japan escape the shackles of the West and reconcile with China

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it always brakes my heart seeing Japanese government being in the way of reconciliation.

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YES China and Japan's relationship are sour in the past 150 years, but 150 years is nothing compared to TWO THOSUAND YEARS of mostly peaceful relationship.

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They both should learn and evolve together for better future.  Western ideology may not be the answers and solutions for what their needs are and will be.

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Japan thinks of ancient China the same way the US and European men thinks everyday of the Roman Empire.

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Speaking of Roman Empire analogies, the Xu Fu story is to the Japanese basically their version of the Aeneid, where Rome links their lineage to ancient Troy

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Correct.  Furthermore.  For Japanese, ROC = rump Byzantine Empire.  PRC = Vandals.  This is how many Japanese  are pro-classical China but anti-PRC.

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The way Italians are not Romans.

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The people of Hong Kong and Taiwan see themselves as the preservers of older Chinese culture, distinct from the Mainland.

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Meanwhile Korea steals Chinese and Japanese culture and claims them to be of Korean origin and discredits the originators
Posted by: rp
« on: July 31, 2025, 10:01:01 am »

https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/1je7xh5/smash_bros_sakurai_says_japanese_devs_should/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 27, 2025, 07:09:29 pm »

""Unrealistic" = High Sexual Dimorphism."

My previous reply already took this into account.

"He seems to be saying that high sexual dimorphism should not be glorified."

I agree, but inclusion is not necessarily glorification. When you have high sexual dimorphism and low sexual dimorphism side by side, you can compare and contrast:



If you have only low sexual dimorphism, you remove your own ability to make a point about sexual dimorphism, including the point that high sexual dimorphism is inferior:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVjl83NlCQ

To believe that inclusion of high sexual dimorphism implies glorification of high sexual dimorphism, on the other hand, suggests the believer actually considers high sexual dimorphism superior, but merely wants to avoid saying so. This is False Leftist behaviour.
Posted by: rp
« on: July 27, 2025, 06:21:54 pm »

It seems to be a poor choice of words from Spencer. "Unrealistic" = High Sexual Dimorphism. He seems to be saying that high sexual dimorphism should not be glorified.

I supported the broader point of Xbox moving away from its "dudebro" image of being known for hyper masculine FPSs, catering to a certain type of audience ("White" males), and now promoting indie games (which are mostly 2D), whose developers are mostly "non Whites" and women.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 27, 2025, 05:58:36 pm »

Are you saying we should support realism? Is not realism more Western?

I myself do not mind unrealistic bodies, to the extent that they enable greater visual contrast between different characters, especially between those low in sexual dimorphism and those high in sexual dimorphism.

Posted by: rp
« on: July 27, 2025, 12:05:31 pm »

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1bpmlad/xbox_ditched_their_dudebro_audience_and_niche/