Yeah, Nintendo was pretty genius in "marketing Mario as a very universal type character" and it wasn't just the natural result of Miyamoto's character choices:
Quote:By Miyamoto's own account, Mario's profession was chosen to fit with the game design: since Donkey Kong takes place on a construction site, Mario was made into a carpenter; and when he appeared again in Mario Bros., it was decided that he should be a plumber, because a lot of the game is situated in underground settings.[19] Mario's character design, particularly his large nose, draws on western influences; once he became a plumber, Miyamoto decided to "put him in New York" and make him Italian,[19] lightheartedly attributing Mario's nationality to his mustache.[41] Other sources have Mario's profession chosen to be carpenter in an effort to depict the character as an ordinary hard worker, making it easier for players to identify with him.[42] After a colleague suggested that Mario more closely resembled a plumber, Miyamoto changed Mario's profession accordingly and developed Mario Bros.,[22] featuring the character in the sewers of New York City.[43]
(08-16-2023, 04:09 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-33#post-110351839
Deleted member 15709
User-requested account closure wrote:Saturday [Aug 12]
Hi I have been gaming a long time just found out about this forum. I look forward to discussing games and also other chat in the non gaming section. 
He was A UFO nut who got threadbanned:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/uap-ufo-ot.745789/page-49#post-110358424
https://www.resetera.com/threads/uap-ufo-ot.745789/page-49#post-110454151
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I wonder if the other shoe will ever drop and people will get really mad about the fetishizing of gay relationships and all the other problematic stuff archive of our own hosts
They already do. Dunno about yaoi/bara, but Yuri communities can be bitchy about whenever something is authentic if it was written/draw by women or men, or if the demographics are horny guys or closeted middle age lesbians. Is so stupid… guys, you are being elitist for a fetish genre about girls on girls.
Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) Also there is a interesting three way war with certain sub genre that predicted a lot of shit today. Let’s say this factions are: Women, women with certain packages and fetishist.
BTW, for a genre, whose main demographic is women, there is a lot of Rape in Yaoi.
Miyamoto always has such simple logic for all those design choices compared to other developers
After reading that thread it's funny that for a forum so in tune with cultural bigotry that nobody mentions how Nintendo of America really couldn't introduce anything too Japanese into 1980's America, they had enough trouble already following in Atari's wake.
Remember when having a cross in your Vampire Hunter game was problematic and offensive?
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/irony-is-dead-british-museum-investigating-missing-and-stolen-treasures.753796/
Quote:Of all the people to complain about theft…
“Those people are going totally give back those treasures to their respective cultures and not selling off in the black market so can be sold to unscrupulous rich people”.
Front loading this problematic post by saying something or other is wrong and bad or whatever.
There’s a moment I found funny for the wrong reasons in Spiderverse 2. There’s this infinite multiverse of worlds and possibilities. One dimension is this futuristic Mumbai crossed with Manhattan. It’s the main hub for that universe where its Indian Spider-Man operates. Still, the movie stops a beat for him to complain about the British Museum stealing their stuff. Even in the idyllic India supremacy universe, somehow, they were still robbed by the British. They couldn’t imagine a universe where colonialism didn’t happen.
Both me and my son pissed ourselves laughing at that scene where he mentioned the British stealing everything! Chefs kiss of a joke that!
(08-16-2023, 10:16 PM)Boredfrom wrote: Remember when having a cross in your Vampire Hunter game was problematic and offensive?
Much better to call it a boomerang, which isn't culturally appropriating from anywhere we care about.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-problem-with-linus-tech-tips-accuracy-ethics-responsibility-gamers-nexus-up-allegations-of-abuse-by-former-employee-of-ltt.753088/page-37#post-110526187
Quote: User Banned (1 Week): Misogynistic Slur
Vexii wrote:Unsubscribing from all of their channels. If anyone can pinpoint me a way of blocking a channel completely on YouTube, or a browser extension that removes certain channels from recommended feeds that would be swell.
Cunts. I hope Luke is still a good one there but everyone in a position of power there just seems to be a complete and utter cunt right to the core.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/aldi-to-buy-winn-dixie-harveys-supermarket-adding-400-grocery-stores-across-southeast.753754/#post-110517847
Quote: User Banned (2 Weeks): Classist Xenophobic Rhetoric
PanzerKraken wrote:I've hated every trip I've ever taken to an Aldi. It's like some third world country grocery, with everything just in random locations with no reasoning to the stores organization.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-288#post-110407474
Quote: User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization; Ignoring Staff Post
texhnolyze wrote:Korea and misoginy, name a better duo. Sigh..
But yeah, their MMOs are all looking the same with perfect body, beautiful female characters with alluring postures/gestures and catwalk moveset.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-288#post-110446618
Quote: User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization; Ignoring Staff Post
LauraLaMer wrote:It's kinda wild that Korean weird nerds turned out more misogynistic than Japan's when a lot of the worst traits of Korean geeky pop culture were inherited from anime and Japanese games.
Hap Shaughnessy dateline='[url=tel:1692231718' wrote: 1692231718[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/aldi-to-buy-winn-dixie-harveys-supermarket-adding-400-grocery-stores-across-southeast.753754/#post-110517847
Quote: User Banned (2 Weeks): Classist Xenophobic Rhetoric
PanzerKraken wrote:I've hated every trip I've ever taken to an Aldi. It's like some third world country grocery, with everything just in random locations with no reasoning to the stores organization.
Third world groceries still organize their shit.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/los-angeles-council-member-heather-hutt-introduces-motion-to-ban-cashless-retail-businesses.753577/page-2#post-110499031
hachikoma wrote:i'm not gonna buy the phone and sim i use to coordinate running hrt and mifepristone around the south with a goddamned credit card. and anyway, it should be illegal as fuck to go cashless at any point before a public cashless option, because otherwise it would be literally impossible to buy something without being required to allow some third party corporate middleman to skim off their 3% fee or sell your data for private profit and that's dystopian as all hell. there are already enough layers of mandatory rent-seeking sludge in the economy for me, thanks.
god i fucking hate capitalism
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(08-17-2023, 12:33 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-288#post-110407474
Quote: User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization; Ignoring Staff Post
texhnolyze wrote:Korea and misoginy, name a better duo. Sigh..
But yeah, their MMOs are all looking the same with perfect body, beautiful female characters with alluring postures/gestures and catwalk moveset.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-288#post-110446618
Quote: User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Generalization; Ignoring Staff Post
LauraLaMer wrote:It's kinda wild that Korean weird nerds turned out more misogynistic than Japan's when a lot of the worst traits of Korean geeky pop culture were inherited from anime and Japanese games. Quote:The misogyny was always there, culturally. It's more like they adopted some elements of anime as representations.
Is this not the same exact generalization and ignoring of staff post?
Hap Shaughnessy dateline='[url=tel:1692233098' wrote: 1692233098[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/los-angeles-council-member-heather-hutt-introduces-motion-to-ban-cashless-retail-businesses.753577/page-2#post-110499031
hachikoma wrote:i'm not gonna buy the phone and sim i use to coordinate running hrt and mifepristone around the south with a goddamned credit card. and anyway, it should be illegal as fuck to go cashless at any point before a public cashless option, because otherwise it would be literally impossible to buy something without being required to allow some third party corporate middleman to skim off their 3% fee or sell your data for private profit and that's dystopian as all hell. there are already enough layers of mandatory rent-seeking sludge in the economy for me, thanks.
god i fucking hate capitalism 
Why the fuck she thinks a commie government will tolerate her drug addiction and trafficking?
08-17-2023, 12:50 AM
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Princess Bubblegum (On Break) is still posting about poly stuff in that thread even as everyone else moved on to MMO whining:
Princess Bubblegum (On Break) wrote:Also with harem branded "poly" there's almost always (because I'm sure some exception exists out there) never any genuine romance between the women, which is what makes it a complete fantasy.
Where the hell are (good) depictions of polycules comprised only of women or women and enbys? Oh right, because then we would start getting complains from fragile men that queer women get more of a spotlight because we're "palatable" to men.
Getting as close as possible to admitting that they're actually just mad that it's not their particular fetish that is being catered to
Do you think they really believe that there's "genuine romance" between Mormon "sister wives" or whatever the Islamic equivalent is?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-85#post-110507005
Amalthe wrote:I'm pretty sure a lot of those media and politics types aren't so much afraid of trans women raping cis women on the toilet than that they themselves might accidentally rape a trans woman (or one of those mythic cis rapists dressed as a woman) and that this would hurt their toxic masculinity.
08-17-2023, 01:01 AM
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Princesa Chicle is so transparent about this being a fetish that is painful.
08-17-2023, 01:04 AM
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I tried to find out if there's some name for the extra wives in Islam but I kinda glazed over reading it so I can't tell you but I did find this and am posting it because it's great:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obedient_Wives_Club wrote:Though the Obedient Wives Club is an Islamic organization, they are open to any woman, regardless of their denomination.[12] The Obedient Wives Club claims to fight divorce, domestic violence, and other social ills by teaching wives how to please their husbands.[3] As one member put it, "A man married to a woman who is as good or better than a prostitute in bed has no reason to stray. Rather than allowing him to sin, a woman must do all she can to ensure his desires are met."[12]
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In October 2011, the Obedient Wives Club published a 115-page book, guiding wives through the physical and spiritual aspects of sex. This book, titled Islamic Sex, quickly stirred controversy.[4] Many groups, such as Sisters in Islam,[13] Aware (the Association of Women for Action and Research) and the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, criticized the book, calling it backwards and disrespectful to women and men.[8] In particular, they disputed the club's assertion that if wives serve their husbands like "first class prostitutes" they will be able to maintain happy marriages.[14] Critics argue that the values being promoted by the club involve objectification of women, and places unfair responsibility on wives.[13] They further argue it reduces Islamic marriage to a sexual exchange. As a representative of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore said, "Happiness in a marriage goes beyond receiving sexual fulfillment from one's wife."[8] Minister Shahrizat Jalil of the Women, Family and Community Development agreed, noting "To hinge fidelity, domestic violence and the fulfillment of a husband’s responsibilities purely on a wife's capacity to be obedient, stimulate sexual arousal … is not only demeaning to wives, but to husbands as well."[15]
In conjunction with the launch of the book, a stage performance glorifying Islamic sex took place. In the performance, the performers claim that Islamic sex is "many times more amazing than the forbidden sex of the Jews" also raised eyebrows.[16]
Other groups have criticized the book for promoting group sex between a man and his wives. However, the Obedient Wives Club claims that this is a purely spiritual exercise and not a physical reality.[17]
In November 2011, the Malaysian government banned the book.[18] Finally someone providing the world with some realistic poly representation.
benji dateline='[url=tel:1692233971' wrote: 1692233971[/url]']
Do you think they really believe that there's "genuine romance" between Mormon "sister wives" or whatever the Islamic equivalent is? 
I imagine they don’t think in Mormons and more in a mind break doujinshi were they become slutty sla… alternative lifestyles like Alan Moore getting cucked by his wife poly relationships or that dude that created Wonder Woman.
(08-17-2023, 12:44 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/los-angeles-council-member-heather-hutt-introduces-motion-to-ban-cashless-retail-businesses.753577/page-2#post-110499031
hachikoma wrote:i'm not gonna buy the phone and sim i use to coordinate running hrt and mifepristone around the south with a goddamned credit card. and anyway, it should be illegal as fuck to go cashless at any point before a public cashless option, because otherwise it would be literally impossible to buy something without being required to allow some third party corporate middleman to skim off their 3% fee or sell your data for private profit and that's dystopian as all hell. there are already enough layers of mandatory rent-seeking sludge in the economy for me, thanks.
god i fucking hate capitalism 
This is why people shouldn't be doing crack, folks
08-17-2023, 02:24 AM
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(08-17-2023, 12:44 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/los-angeles-council-member-heather-hutt-introduces-motion-to-ban-cashless-retail-businesses.753577/page-2#post-110499031
hachikoma wrote:i'm not gonna buy the phone and sim i use to coordinate running hrt and mifepristone around the south with a goddamned credit card. and anyway, it should be illegal as fuck to go cashless at any point before a public cashless option, because otherwise it would be literally impossible to buy something without being required to allow some third party corporate middleman to skim off their 3% fee or sell your data for private profit and that's dystopian as all hell. there are already enough layers of mandatory rent-seeking sludge in the economy for me, thanks.
god i fucking hate capitalism 
Someone really needs to report the drug running trans junkie to the FBI...
Why do these communist apologists always have the most free market approach to their own commerce? Boy these people are in for a huge surprise when commandant nepenthe implements her take a carrot, leave a carrot economy.
08-17-2023, 03:35 AM
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(08-17-2023, 02:24 AM)Potato wrote: Someone really needs to report the drug running trans junkie to the FBI... The FBI doesn't give a shit about somebody moving non-narcotic prescription medication, if they're even doing that and not LARPing.
The State of Louisiana probably cares, not about the armed drug runner who openly advocates violence online, but about the doctors they can bring the hammer down on.
But, ACAB.
I just read out the last few posts to my missus starting with Monsiuer Bubblegum and she left the room with a very confused face and asked me to turn off the internet, but she did express interest in the forbidden sex of the Jews.
Fucking landord in Nepenthe's neck of the woods gets what he deserves:
(08-17-2023, 03:42 AM)Besticus Maximus wrote: I just read out the last few posts to my missus starting with Monsiuer Bubblegum and she left the room with a very confused face and asked me to turn off the internet, but she did express interest in the forbidden sex of the Jews. FACT CHECK: The forbidden sex of the Jews is inferior:
Quote:Islamic sex is "many times more amazing than the forbidden sex of the Jews"
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