CCS never showed any promise. Its main purpose hass been to be a “future technology” for rich people and politicians to point to as an excuse for why they’re not doing more right now.

Not reading, per se, but the video “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System” by Philosophy Tube comes to mind. Check out the sources if you’re looking specifically for reading

I mean what else is supposed to be the outcome of decades of defunding social services? There is no choice (for you or me)

I’m guessing by “reform” they mean taking the whole thing private? What is it with these ghouls having such a hard on for the us

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Guilty of doing this lol

Right? How can anything truly be “apolitical”? Apolitical to me means that it’s not ruffling any feathers politically, which would mean it has the politics of hegemony.

Also an apolitical game from a studio who sent out memos to influencers to not talk about “feminist propaganda”? Idek what’s going on there exactly, but it sure is political in some way

This is what makes me think the “creative differences” were the execs putting their foot down on making a copaganda film, when the creatives probably had something else in mind.

Expecting big cringe in 2027

(not a game (game room))

based in other European philosophies

It didn’t appear entirely in a European vacuum; there are no “purely European” ideas; Europe is a fake continent. Marx was at least in part inspired (invidious link) by the writings of anthropologists studying the legal systems of the indigenous nations of Turtle Island, who were (and are) being genocided by euros.

None because they all predate dialectical materialist philosophy

Please, this is such a eurocentric perspective

heckin love this artist

A peculiar case of capitalist realism. Reminds me of the dull, fan pandering hollywood remakes like the recent Avatar live action show, where the people working on it have no idea what makes the original great and just end up reproducing the signifiers of the story (“omg it’s that character I know!”, “I found the master sword!”, “the princess is getting kidnapped!”) without the substance to back it up - it’s like one huge reference to the previous work.

And then when someone dares to play with investors’ blood pressure and rethink the formula a little bit (like BotW) it gets seen as incredibly innovative, because the norm is for the industry to be stagnant asf. Indies stay winning tbh

I completely agree with you and it actually is exciting in a way to see the zelda formula messed with in this way - I’ll be the first to hate on combat being the primary way you interact with the world around you. The problem is that it comes across like nintendo is only changing things up because girl game, and the mechanics they do change end up feeling sexist asf when viewed in that context. At the end of the day, you’re still put in a role where you identify with and play as a royal, which I don’t find nearly as exciting as the person in the vid.

I am unfortunately serious. It doesn’t feature combat as the main way to interact with the world, but it does feature a swordfighter mode for zelda, during which she is posessed by link’s ghost and is therefore able to swing a sword now. She couldn’t do that on her own ofc because girl.

What new thing would you do with it?

There are lots of people young enough to have never seen a new F-Zero game be put out on a console they have access to, so imo that’s all they’d have to do to make big bucks, even if it’s just pretty much the same game with shinier graphics

Oof, yeah that stings. Classic Nintendo tho. It’s almost like they view these characters as some kind of archetype that repeats itself across time - Link is the hero, Ganon is the villain, Zelda is the girl. So then if someone is getting kidnapped, well that’s Zelda’s role, couldn’t be anyone else of course

Yeah the idea of a female link is not that wild and definitely makes a lot of sense. The video brings it up as something the fans were half expecting instead of a princess zelda game because of some promo art that looked like it portrayed a more femme, but still androgynous link. Turns out, nope, nintendo says that’s just our main manly man link smh

where’s Link

The upcoming Zelda game answers this question with “Possessing the princess whenever she needs a man to show her how to use a sword”

Trust me, we definitely couldn’t possibly retcon any of this important gender stuff like we’ve done a million times with other things