Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

It's tricky to market a game disparaging your own culture while saying another one is better. Japan tends to be xenophobic as well and have a very isolationist stance through most of history.

I do agree that any centralised institution is prone to corruption. Just by the fact that if any group of people start to congregate there will be a leader, then there is sub leaders and eventually along the line some psychopath or opportunist sees a role where they can seize power.

If you watch anime, I've only encountered a single depiction of corruption of Buddhist religion in Japan, which was sword of the stranger.

 

There's still plenty of other religion systems they could paint as bad guys though is my point.
Xenophobic or not they seem awfully focused on the 'evil' west still when all continents including their own can be just as evil. (if not more evil)
It's not that I don't understand it or hate it cause I'm Christian, it's more that the trope is really tired at this point. Again they barely do anything at least interesting with it. And you can call that shit from orbit half of the time even if it's your first adventure.
Apparently Final Fantasy 9 has an interesting spin on it for a majority of the game, but in the end the figurehead waxes typical final boss rhetoric and the final villain ends up being a corrupt god (again)

 

But these days Christianity is the world's favorite scapegoat (ironic wording now that I think about it ). Everybody likes to jump on the big popular bandwagon.

 

There are plenty of 'evil' things the west does that aren't related to Christianity though too.
What about a game making fun of the predatory nature of the gatcha games. A large part of the plot could be about 'whale' hunting (note, not actual whales lol) and how much of the world is funded by it. And some of the other nasty things these companies do to make money.
Japan seems to love satire and that seems like a thing that's prime satire material since I'm sure even japan groans in annoyance when a gatcha game clearly shows it's only interested in 'whales'
Note: 'whales' refers to rich players who have near unlimited money to splurge on gatcha games. They are often the reason that most gatcha games make BILLIONS on launch week.

 

But that wouldn't earn any PC points. And... I'm not sure it really counts as 'Evil'... ?

 

Try being a Free to Play account in any gacha game and then we'll talk lol
At minimum it's very scummy and often frowned upon by people outside that particular market.

 

Probably should annoy me. Or at least I annoy me.

Earlier today I changed my Google password on one laptop, and now the other requires that I sign in with the new password. Well, when I changed the password I wanted something new and memorable, so I came up with something clever. No paper nearby but I was sure I could remember it. Well, all I remember is that I thought it was clever and I think it had a number at the end. So I had to go through the same "forgot password" rigmarole five hours later. But this time I wrote it down my new "clever" password, told Microsoft Edge it could remember it, and put it in my password saver.

Won't get fooled again.

Till next time anyway.

 

Mine would be Sh*t. Something I'd say even if I couldn't remember it.

 

Sh1tsh1tsh1t!

 

Flash prompt?

 

That way people in films, who are supposed to be ravishingly hungry (travellers, people on the run, etc etc), cram the food into their mouths when served that long awaited meal. Why does being hungry mean you have to eat like a pig? They shovel the food into their mouths, then take a gulp of water or milk, whatever, still with a mouthful of food, so that most of it dribbles over their chin. And it’s nothing to do with being grossed out, it’s because it’s so cliched.

 

Have you never crammed your mouth full as fast as you can before someone can take your food away? It's a difficult hunger to describe, but you could definitely show it.

 

I remember one time in boot camp when they gave us three minutes to finish our MREs. Not pretty, especially since we were in the field.

 

I eat like that all the time, but I don’t leave 80% of it spilt all over the table. If they’re that hungry why waste so much?

 

I think it would be like asking why a dehydrated person may spill half the bottle after being saved. Depending on context, scarcity after the fact may not be an issue.

But you make a good point in any case. I'm pretty sure I've seen people stuffing their faces in The Pianist (holocaust movie) and you'd wonder if it'd better to not waste the crumbs. But then again, when you've lived primally for extended periods of time, instincts tends to take over logic.

 

It annoys me that my two main characters don't know that the other is the master thief they're arguing about lol
Though that's kind of the point of the scene, it's supposed to be ironic.
But still, it amuses me and annoys me that they're both kind of derpy that way.

 

The way the dwarfs eat in The Hobbit is very annoying. Are we meant to find it endearing or funny?

 

I understand this frustration in a different way. But from what I have learned about Japan, the Christian Missionaries came over to try and convert them. But the Japanese wouldn't have it and crucified a lot of the priests and drove them out of the country. So, I can see where the Japanese tend to see Christianity as dangerous. (Not that the basic tenets are, like love thy neighbor.) I wanted to add some perspective to it.

Here's some Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Japan#Missionaries (Note, it's Wiki, so not perfect.)

 

Yeah but that's like, ancient history by now right?
I know bad blood is a thing in Japan, but it's not like us Americans still use the stereotypes to mock them etc. Or at least, not near as much as we used to.
At the very least I'd like to see them do something interesting with it.
Like, maybe have the followers realize their god is corrupt and turn against it or something. I'd be more fine with that if it was done with finesse. Maybe even have the protagonists be the first few to realize something's fishy or something.
Super tired of it just being a boring 'haha, yes I am the evil overlord muahaha' kind of villain lol
Heck I'm tired of that type of villain in general, they were ok when RPGs first started being made, but now they just come off as cartoony.
There's nothing wrong with a villain who relishes in their evil nature, but like, the whole cartoony overlord thing needs to either change or be forgotten entirely.

 

Scorcese’s new movie is about this very topic, I think. Haven’t seen it yet.

 

Silence? Yeah, it was. Pretty much hated it though.

Spoiler

Christian monks or priests or whatever go to Japan to convert the locals. There's been a previous mission but the priest went native and renounced his faith. He explains that the Japanese Christians are getting it all wrong anyway. The locals torture some converts to make the n00b priest renounce his faith. He begs the converts to renounce their faith to save his.

In other words, he's willing to damn all them to save his own soul. Not sure what Jeebus would have to say about that.

But anyway, he's told that the local converts have already been tortured into apostasy, and they're going to keep getting tortured unless he gives in.

So he does and spends the rest of his life defending the Empire of Japan from the scourge of Christianity by working in a customs office and spotting secret Christian symbols in pottery and the like.

But (SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!) when he dies we find out that he never really gave up his faith!!!!!!!!!!! Despite living as a Buddhist/Shintoist/whatever and earning a living thwarting Christianity, he's cremated with a teensy-weensy little crucifix in his cold, dead fingers. That he probably didn't put there himself on account of him being dead and all.

You gotta ignore a lot of holes to see it as a tale of faith, but... well, I'm not here to offend our religious members today.

 

How, in the final Hobbit film, when the dwarf army, roughly 3-4 thousand strong, eventually have to accept they’re losing out in the battle against the orcs and start to retreat, are somehow saved by 14 extra dwarfs when Thorin finally decides they’ll leave the safety of the mountain and join the battle.