I remember seeing a guy on Twitter calling people playing Hogwarts Legacy evil because of Rowlings views but in the next sentence said that he supports Nestle, while knowing about the human rights they break.
I unfollowed the Can You Pet the Dog over it because they were defending covering Activision-Blizzard games while attacking WB Games for being tangentially connected to Rowling. All while giving $70 to Trans Lifeline whose founders embezzled over $100k while ignoring actual trans people in need.
The whole ''trans activists are their own worst enemies'' thing can actually apply to ANY group of modern activists: the LGBT community, BLM activists, ambientalists, communists and socialists. They think that being annoying and obnoxious to everyone is going to somehow make people support their cause, and when the exact opposite happens they get even angrier, more annoying and more obnoxious than before. And the cycle keeps going, and going, and going...
I'm sure that applies to more than modern; however, it's also probably more accurate if that was advised to something more like the worst enemies of the their cause, or more specifically, the purported cause. That'd encompass both believers and frauds, as worst enemies to themselves only applies to the believers and that cycle of behavior is very much, at least partially, intentional. Though too, each of those you listed are all inherently based around fraudulent and malicious misrepresentations making it rather unavoidable to not fall into such position of usefulness without some degree of "heresy," even though it'd be better fitting to the expressed principles and goals.
It's much like the previous era of Christian puritans and "won't somebody think of the children"-type busybodies crying and screaming that D&D, Yugioh and Pokemon would turn kids into devil worshippers.
I've personally seen people that otherwise express almost no political opinions state their dislike for these communities, and worse yet, members of them.
I agree, I suppose one of the problem is the "Permanent Call to Action" mentality. This divides people in "with us" and "against us". Every middle ground is burnt since you are either too "privileged" to pick a side or an enemy for not agreeing completely with intersectional tenets. This kind of attitude creates enemies in the long run since you can't shame people forever. It will come a time where people will not be ashamed to be against you anymore and they will be millions.
@@IndirectSoter It's exactly this. They have BECOME exactly what they spent the prior decade calling out, then wonder why everyone is aligning (Mind you, not BECOMING part of these groups, merely aligning with them) with Christians and Republicans. It's simple: They are the less insane, less deranged, and less ANNOYING option. People (such as myself) were calling this more than a decade ago when things first started getting over the top and the words "Racist", "Sexist" and any measure of "Phobes" first started getting misused and repurposed to just attack regular people. We TOLD them that just mindlessly calling everything these words would inherently devalue the words, but they didn't listen. Now people are so used to everything being labeled SOMETHING evil that they're just jaded to it and ignore the insult. When everything is racist, nothing is racist. When everything is sexist, nothing is sexist. If their mission was to prove that they're just normal people like everyone else and have no bizarre elements to their character, they failed miserably and completely. They burned every bridge they came across, made enemies out of everyone even slightly right of their position, ALWAYS jumped to the nuclear option, invaded every book/movie/videogame/piece-of-media to MAKE SURE we couldn't escape their ideology, and to a point: Everyone is sick of it, no one WANTS them or their ideology within a mile of their being, and people no longer care what names they get called because they'll get called names regardless. All of this... Because they literally did not know how to let off the throttle. When Gay Marriage was legalized, that should have been the end of it. Nah, they went and became the liberal version of Westboro Baptist Church.. But on a far more widespread and all encompassing scale.
As a kid of the late 80ies, early 90ies I will never understand how activists went from THIS to THIS. Back then, they actually managed to get people of all ages excited about protecting animals and the environment by pointing out huge corps and the state as the culprit and invoking a "We are all in this together"-mentality. They campaigned for LGB rights (trans wasn't a thing back then tbh) by pointing out real injustices, discrimination and suffering but without blaming the common citizens aka the person that they needed to be on their side and by that just turned the tides of public opinion with kindness and diplomacy. Now all they do is simp for huge crops and politicians and attack and hate on the common citizen. The only explanation I have for this is that today's activists don't give a shit about the causes they claim to fight for, it's all just about feeding their narcissism and narcissism doesn't care if they destroy everything and everyone in their path, sometimes even themselves, albeit unintentionally.
"LGB rights (trans wasn't a thing back then tbh)" Trans *people* were a thing, but transsexualism was treated as a medical condition, like a sub-section of intersexuality. There wasn't much need to fight for trans rights per se, because transitioning was legal already, and for longer than being gay (not gay marriage, just literally *being* gay) was.
The wizard game hoopla will forever be the biggest circus I had ever witnessed. Everything from harassing a very popular japanese Vtuber to force her to retire, to making a website which told people which streamers played the game. It was such a shitshow. I even had people DMing me on Twitter telling me to game end myself, because I simply said these people were hurting my trans friends. While very stupid, it did get a laugh out of me lol
If anything good came out of it - that Japanese Vtuber returned to streaming under a different name and character design. A rebrand if you will call it.
@@nickclemente1923 I hate how people try and use that she came back as way to try and say the Harassment she suffered was somehow not a big deal. Gotta love when Bullies try and excuse what they did.
The best part for me about this whole Hogwarts Legacy situation is that gaming journalists here in Sweden absolutely slammed their American and west European counter-parts for being hypocrites and lacking press ethics. They definitely gained my respect after that.
Nah there's a bunch of reasonable people who make sense too, they just get drowned out by all the noise. Doesn't help that sites like UA-cam and Twitter love to play favourites. It's nice to finally see another trans who isn't insane though, there's still hope for this world yet.
I’m bisexual, hell, i’m gayer than I am straight, but the pride movement has made me desire for their brutal downfall. They have lost sight of their original cause and have let so many bad actors take control, with their flocks of blind followers chanting their messages.
It does sound uncannily like a religion right, I'm not making this a "religion bad" comment, this is just something I've been thinking about lately. With the decline of Christianity these people are more like a flock of lost souls who needs that spiritual guidance, searching desperately for a new Shepard that they'll latch on to just about anything. Something that validates their beliefs in any way, like the internet for example. They demonize anyone who doesn't blindly agree with them, justifying violence to those they deem "evil" and silencing any other views. It's no different from the hardcore religious types.
@GrumpyDerg Who would have thought we'd be right back at "Y'know what? Maybe the closet wasn't such a bad idea?" In less than two decades? I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering not dating period because of them for a reason similar to yourself; I don't want to be associated with them.
Its why allot of LGB people want to split from the others. It was about bein accepted for a different sexuality, not gender identity. I'm bi and consider them to be two different fights, and due to the "we are coming for your children" I see things like gay marriage now being threatened, and full reversal on the horizon. Its wild the slippery slope argument was proven to be true.
Problem is we need to actually put some heat on these people and actually push them to the wall. Fuck if they want to call us whatever they want, we should just have it that we who want to just be your everyday person equal to everyone else and not this worshiped group or “oppressed” group… fuck em.
Some developers clearly have passion even if their overlords force them to add stupid shit. A good example is that when the real money shop in "shadow of war" closed instead of just closing it and leaving everyone out to dry they made a big patch that fixed the XP gain and money find and all that stuff so it was balanced without the real money x2 exp boosts and stuff.
They also patched Shadow of Mordor to be plat/100% offline when they announced they were shutting down the servers. Mad respect for them. I bought the game again on PC for that.
I’ve been diagnosed with Autism since 7 years old. I grew up to be introvert. I grew up watching cartoon shows, one of which is Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom. However, the creator of those shows, Butch Hartman recently became controversial because of his views on autism, thinking of them as disease that can be cured through prayers and thinks introverts are “selfish people.” After hearing those, you think I go on social media like Twitter to tell everyone to do everything in their action to ruin Butch Hartman’s life and his fans who still follow him? Hell no! I went on to something else and separate art from the artist. I don’t waste time to try ruin someone just cause they have views that I disagree with or see it as radical. And that’s the problem with trans activists or “allies” who can’t stop hating J.K Rowling just cause she has a concern on trans movement that affects biological women rather than trans people themselves. I’m not saying I like J.K Rowling but attacking people who plays Hogwarts Legacy just cause some money goes to her (cause she owns the franchise duh!) just shows who’s more bigger threat here.
I have the same feelings when it comes to Tom Cruise. I think the Guy is a bit of a nut, but I can separate my issues with him and his Work. People are almost always going to find something they dislike about an Artist. This whole idea that people have to agree with you on everything is ruining Entertainment and Art.
Welcome back and happy birthday in advance. I admittedly got into a few...no other way to say it, debates with people about the morality of playing this game. Led to much frustrations amongst friends of mine who are LGBT+. Mainly because I pointed out the exact thing you did about Overwatch (a game they all played and loved). This led to a lot of beating around the bush, saying how there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, how they have to pick their battles, etc. Another outright declared anyone who played the game was a piece of shit, I asked them to explain why. They got mad at me for having to, "justify themselves and their existence." when I pointed out they were making a moral declaration and accusation on others. Thus, I felt it was perfectly valid to ask them to explain why they felt it was right. Ultimately, I bought the game, it's quite fun, and it further cemented my opinion that pretty much all activism I see nowadays is performative.
The most interesting thing I learned is that Kate Gray, the Kotaku writer that infamously wrote that article featuring explicit material of underaged characters, apparently, she ended up no longer being involved with Goodbye Volcano High, as at some point when that game got delayed, they fired her and the entire writing team and hired a completely new writing team to re-write the game's story from scratch.
Outrage marketing sadly works more than the first time. People who buy crap because it pissed off the libs are dumber then the libs, dumber the second time.
"Please understand that my criticisms of the game are not criticisms of you." Glad to hear tha-- _"...unless_ you like Sonic, then I think your head needs a check-up." ...oh. ... ... ...dang. I-I'll see you guys later, I, uh... I need to do the walk of shame...
I'm glad you're back after your year long hiatus, I certainly always appreciated the takes as they never came down to tow-the-party-line, even if I am a bit appreciative it hits some small level of confirmation bias, but the arguments and points always stood on their own merit rather than just muh-team-sports. I wish you well in your therapy and pray success and fulfillment find you soon :D
I strongly recommend listening to the podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Despite it's baity title, it provides a balanced look into the controversies around her, including getting clarification from the woman herself.
The state of journalism in the video game industry is tragic. I wish independent content creators such as yourself and other bedroom reviewers were the voice of gamers. I mean, to me, you guys are the voice of gamers. A large diverse group of individuals with different tastes and preferences who encourage relevant, on topic discourse. I want to be apart of that crowd one day. Share my thoughts and opinions on something I care so fucking much about. Hopefully Johnny AAA and large journalists figure out their midlife crisis, because they seem to complicate things and often lose the plot.
Excellent video, making similar arguments to my own. I'm a socially liberal (perhaps even libertine) socialist. It pisses me off how much "activists" harm causes I care deeply about (or even just support on principle) while accusing anyone not buying their brand of bullshit of being the enemy. It's as if they know nothing of history. My brand of considered argumentation and empathy, coupled with righteous anger in the correct circumstances, has lead to the advancements that ALLOWED for them to become outright hateful bigots without consequence. Not because that was the intent, but because they benefit from social and legal protections that were and are necessary. They just exploit it.
Honestly 2023 feels like an slow erosion with everything going downhill as the months go by, with both the game and movie media showing a sharp degradation in quality in favour of money and woke beliefs, even social media is not safe.
I play video games just to have fun, collect & escape from real world shit. It's my greatest hobbies of all time. I'll be damn if we're gonna let these clowns destroy everything we care about.
i went and looked for what ever JK said that was transphobeic and it took me forever because i had skimmed over what everyone was freaking out about because i just did not register it as offensive lol.
Hey Sophia~ First of, welcome back, and wishing you a wonderful birthday! Couldn't agree more on several of the points made in this video, especially with regards to the Hogwarts Legacy controversy. I always had the impression it was being blown way out of proportion back when the controversy was still a fresh topic... Also, glad to hear you're making progress with therapy. As someone who's been struggling mentally for years, and still looking for the means of seeking professional help, I can empathize with finding the right therapist and making tangible progress towards healing. Wishing you the very best there, too!
And oh, Tunic is definitely my GotY of 2022. Maybe even up there in a top 5 GoaTs. As a kid in a country which was never a major market for anything, games only ever came in English or Japanese. No language even remotely close to understandable. Admittedly, I did ended up learning English through sheer trial and error, but Tunic was my Ratatouille moment of reliving child me trying to make sense of pictures and exploring an wild unknown world that contained MUCH more than I could comprehend at first glance. Love that game.
Have youc onsidered booking an appointment with Liana Kerzner/ Kerzner is a damn good counselor with personal experience with post-trauamtic stress. Kerzner also explicitly interviewed and has spoken favorably of Troy Leavitt.
It's always a nice surprise to see your uploads, but one that soon is a real treat! Glad you're doing ok mentally as well! Hope everything goes as good as it can go!
I've long been booted from the LGBT community. Well I say booted but really all it took for me to have one disagreement with the "Community" on Facebook way back in I wanna say 2013/2014 to see the writing on the wall. So I willingly stepped out and watched as the movement became more and more of a solidified hivemind that did not entertain the slightest discussion or criticism. Honestly I just look forward to when it starts to fall apart. When the journos, media, and people leading the charge will inevitably step over and cast aside the "Useful idiot" followers they've created. Revealing they really do not give a shit and never have and just wanted useful pawns to set on those they disagree with.
Blessed be the toothache that woke me up right as I received the notification of your upload. Jokes aside you're honestly one of my favorite UA-camrs, enjoy your 34th fam.
This was a banger, very well said. Happy your back I struggle with ptsd aswell idk if ill ever feel "normal" again but I just try to keep my head above water n keep pushing upstream.
Relieved to hear things are genuinely going good, towards good, for you. Putting work into ourselves is rough, but no matter where we go or run towards, we will have ourselves there with us. I still think it’s something that worth working on. Btw, how do you get 100% on launch? Usually takes me months, if not years to do it
I never heard of your channel until the Saints Row when I was sick earlier this week and your voice and style of video is really nice. You’ve definitely earned a sub. 👌
I was wondering where you were, all this time. I'm sorry to hear you're going through a hard time. I hope you will emerge on the other side victorious and renewed. Welcome back, and Happy Birthday! 🎉
First happy late birthday more likely and second, it wasn't for the fact you have great content and you give a point of view that's really intuitive. I appreciate your videos as well as some of you cooking stuff when it comes to your tweets
to the achievements, you see it on enthusiast games vs AAA titles. the more people buy a game, the lower the achievement rate will be. 24% is actually not that bad, which in turn means its a pretty short game... for comparison, just 32% finished borderlands 2... though, the difference is made by humble bundles and sales, probably a lot of people have bought BL2 later in its life cycle for 2 bucks.. TLDR: comparing stats without reference frame is apples to pinecones, not even the same species.
one of my coworkers got the game and i said "beware morons will dox you if you post about playing it." he goes "i don't give a fuck." also i really hate cry bullies cause my brother would pick on me and piss me off and when i would snap at him he would play the victim, did the same with my sisters and we had none of it. and my dad had none of it. people like that really piss me off.
It does suck how terminally online so many people became and this game shows it. The witch hunts/harassment for people that just wanted to play it to trying to smear the game and anyone else as some kind of hatemonger. Heck, an online forum I was part of for over 10+ years went full nuclear when this game came up and were spamming the thread about how JK is pure evil and the mods wouldn't do anything about it. On the plus side, it got me to leave that festering craphole because of how current year they were and made me realize just how insane this trans allyship movement is.
Anything that goes in an EXTREME direction can backfire! I'm gay but unfortunately the LGBTQ community is being too extremist! Like life is already too hard for us can you please give us a break!
I feel like your well-put-together video might also resonate with the current mess of Skullgirls. Hidden Variable has made some bad changes including censorship that also alters Big Band's backstory, removing perks that were funded by the Kickstarter campaign years back, and trying to get back into EVO even though the esports event has had its own history of sexual misconduct. Every post from the SKs Twitter account is bombarded with pushback against the recent patch even though they claimed that they made the choices under "careful consideration among the current development team."
I remember seeing a guy on Twitter calling people playing Hogwarts Legacy evil because of Rowlings views but in the next sentence said that he supports Nestle, while knowing about the human rights they break.
"Conservative gun owners are evil!"
"Hey Stev--" *Bam*
"You shot him!? Why!?"
"He deadname me"
I unfollowed the Can You Pet the Dog over it because they were defending covering Activision-Blizzard games while attacking WB Games for being tangentially connected to Rowling. All while giving $70 to Trans Lifeline whose founders embezzled over $100k while ignoring actual trans people in need.
It’s my 34th birthday in a couple days so consider this video my gift to you. I even included timestamps for once.❤
Happy Early Birthday 🎉
Wow timestamps!!!!1!1
Happy b-day
@@sanfayyaadI’m evolving
Happy birthday Soph!
The whole ''trans activists are their own worst enemies'' thing can actually apply to ANY group of modern activists: the LGBT community, BLM activists, ambientalists, communists and socialists.
They think that being annoying and obnoxious to everyone is going to somehow make people support their cause, and when the exact opposite happens they get even angrier, more annoying and more obnoxious than before.
And the cycle keeps going, and going, and going...
I'm sure that applies to more than modern; however, it's also probably more accurate if that was advised to something more like the worst enemies of the their cause, or more specifically, the purported cause. That'd encompass both believers and frauds, as worst enemies to themselves only applies to the believers and that cycle of behavior is very much, at least partially, intentional.
Though too, each of those you listed are all inherently based around fraudulent and malicious misrepresentations making it rather unavoidable to not fall into such position of usefulness without some degree of "heresy," even though it'd be better fitting to the expressed principles and goals.
It's much like the previous era of Christian puritans and "won't somebody think of the children"-type busybodies crying and screaming that D&D, Yugioh and Pokemon would turn kids into devil worshippers.
I've personally seen people that otherwise express almost no political opinions state their dislike for these communities, and worse yet, members of them.
I agree, I suppose one of the problem is the "Permanent Call to Action" mentality.
This divides people in "with us" and "against us". Every middle ground is burnt since you are either too "privileged" to pick a side or an enemy for not agreeing completely with intersectional tenets.
This kind of attitude creates enemies in the long run since you can't shame people forever. It will come a time where people will not be ashamed to be against you anymore and they will be millions.
@@IndirectSoter It's exactly this.
They have BECOME exactly what they spent the prior decade calling out, then wonder why everyone is aligning (Mind you, not BECOMING part of these groups, merely aligning with them) with Christians and Republicans. It's simple: They are the less insane, less deranged, and less ANNOYING option.
People (such as myself) were calling this more than a decade ago when things first started getting over the top and the words "Racist", "Sexist" and any measure of "Phobes" first started getting misused and repurposed to just attack regular people. We TOLD them that just mindlessly calling everything these words would inherently devalue the words, but they didn't listen. Now people are so used to everything being labeled SOMETHING evil that they're just jaded to it and ignore the insult. When everything is racist, nothing is racist. When everything is sexist, nothing is sexist.
If their mission was to prove that they're just normal people like everyone else and have no bizarre elements to their character, they failed miserably and completely.
They burned every bridge they came across, made enemies out of everyone even slightly right of their position, ALWAYS jumped to the nuclear option, invaded every book/movie/videogame/piece-of-media to MAKE SURE we couldn't escape their ideology, and to a point: Everyone is sick of it, no one WANTS them or their ideology within a mile of their being, and people no longer care what names they get called because they'll get called names regardless.
All of this... Because they literally did not know how to let off the throttle. When Gay Marriage was legalized, that should have been the end of it.
Nah, they went and became the liberal version of Westboro Baptist Church.. But on a far more widespread and all encompassing scale.
As a kid of the late 80ies, early 90ies I will never understand how activists went from THIS to THIS. Back then, they actually managed to get people of all ages excited about protecting animals and the environment by pointing out huge corps and the state as the culprit and invoking a "We are all in this together"-mentality. They campaigned for LGB rights (trans wasn't a thing back then tbh) by pointing out real injustices, discrimination and suffering but without blaming the common citizens aka the person that they needed to be on their side and by that just turned the tides of public opinion with kindness and diplomacy.
Now all they do is simp for huge crops and politicians and attack and hate on the common citizen. The only explanation I have for this is that today's activists don't give a shit about the causes they claim to fight for, it's all just about feeding their narcissism and narcissism doesn't care if they destroy everything and everyone in their path, sometimes even themselves, albeit unintentionally.
"LGB rights (trans wasn't a thing back then tbh)" Trans *people* were a thing, but transsexualism was treated as a medical condition, like a sub-section of intersexuality. There wasn't much need to fight for trans rights per se, because transitioning was legal already, and for longer than being gay (not gay marriage, just literally *being* gay) was.
16:00 as Razorfist properly put it: Not everything needs to be a McDonalds commercial.
The wizard game hoopla will forever be the biggest circus I had ever witnessed. Everything from harassing a very popular japanese Vtuber to force her to retire, to making a website which told people which streamers played the game. It was such a shitshow.
I even had people DMing me on Twitter telling me to game end myself, because I simply said these people were hurting my trans friends. While very stupid, it did get a laugh out of me lol
If anything good came out of it - that Japanese Vtuber returned to streaming under a different name and character design. A rebrand if you will call it.
@@nickclemente1923 And she's great!
@@nickclemente1923 I hate how people try and use that she came back as way to try and say the Harassment she suffered was somehow not a big deal. Gotta love when Bullies try and excuse what they did.
The best part for me about this whole Hogwarts Legacy situation is that gaming journalists here in Sweden absolutely slammed their American and west European counter-parts for being hypocrites and lacking press ethics. They definitely gained my respect after that.
damn, i had a good laugh on twitter during all of that and missed that part. that would have been the cherry on top
Sophia - the one voice of reason in this crazy world.
Ironic
Nah there's a bunch of reasonable people who make sense too, they just get drowned out by all the noise. Doesn't help that sites like UA-cam and Twitter love to play favourites.
It's nice to finally see another trans who isn't insane though, there's still hope for this world yet.
Amen, brother.
I really missed her takes. Glad she's back.
@@Vaguer_WeevilHow about Contra? Or is she a bit too woke-adjacent?
It’s nice to see you back, Sophia. Here’s hoping for more content soon!
I intend to have another video in the next 7-10 days.
@@Sophnar0747 Very nice.
I’m bisexual, hell, i’m gayer than I am straight, but the pride movement has made me desire for their brutal downfall. They have lost sight of their original cause and have let so many bad actors take control, with their flocks of blind followers chanting their messages.
It does sound uncannily like a religion right, I'm not making this a "religion bad" comment, this is just something I've been thinking about lately. With the decline of Christianity these people are more like a flock of lost souls who needs that spiritual guidance, searching desperately for a new Shepard that they'll latch on to just about anything. Something that validates their beliefs in any way, like the internet for example.
They demonize anyone who doesn't blindly agree with them, justifying violence to those they deem "evil" and silencing any other views. It's no different from the hardcore religious types.
Same here. Can't come soon enough.
@GrumpyDerg Who would have thought we'd be right back at "Y'know what? Maybe the closet wasn't such a bad idea?" In less than two decades?
I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering not dating period because of them for a reason similar to yourself; I don't want to be associated with them.
Its why allot of LGB people want to split from the others. It was about bein accepted for a different sexuality, not gender identity. I'm bi and consider them to be two different fights, and due to the "we are coming for your children" I see things like gay marriage now being threatened, and full reversal on the horizon. Its wild the slippery slope argument was proven to be true.
Problem is we need to actually put some heat on these people and actually push them to the wall.
Fuck if they want to call us whatever they want, we should just have it that we who want to just be your everyday person equal to everyone else and not this worshiped group or “oppressed” group… fuck em.
Good to see you back and I look forward to seeing you tackle the Six Days In Fallujah situation.
Some developers clearly have passion even if their overlords force them to add stupid shit. A good example is that when the real money shop in "shadow of war" closed instead of just closing it and leaving everyone out to dry they made a big patch that fixed the XP gain and money find and all that stuff so it was balanced without the real money x2 exp boosts and stuff.
They also patched Shadow of Mordor to be plat/100% offline when they announced they were shutting down the servers.
Mad respect for them. I bought the game again on PC for that.
I’ve been diagnosed with Autism since 7 years old. I grew up to be introvert. I grew up watching cartoon shows, one of which is Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom. However, the creator of those shows, Butch Hartman recently became controversial because of his views on autism, thinking of them as disease that can be cured through prayers and thinks introverts are “selfish people.”
After hearing those, you think I go on social media like Twitter to tell everyone to do everything in their action to ruin Butch Hartman’s life and his fans who still follow him? Hell no! I went on to something else and separate art from the artist. I don’t waste time to try ruin someone just cause they have views that I disagree with or see it as radical.
And that’s the problem with trans activists or “allies” who can’t stop hating J.K Rowling just cause she has a concern on trans movement that affects biological women rather than trans people themselves.
I’m not saying I like J.K Rowling but attacking people who plays Hogwarts Legacy just cause some money goes to her (cause she owns the franchise duh!) just shows who’s more bigger threat here.
I have the same feelings when it comes to Tom Cruise. I think the Guy is a bit of a nut, but I can separate my issues with him and his Work. People are almost always going to find something they dislike about an Artist. This whole idea that people have to agree with you on everything is ruining Entertainment and Art.
Welcome back and happy birthday in advance. I admittedly got into a few...no other way to say it, debates with people about the morality of playing this game. Led to much frustrations amongst friends of mine who are LGBT+. Mainly because I pointed out the exact thing you did about Overwatch (a game they all played and loved). This led to a lot of beating around the bush, saying how there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, how they have to pick their battles, etc. Another outright declared anyone who played the game was a piece of shit, I asked them to explain why. They got mad at me for having to, "justify themselves and their existence." when I pointed out they were making a moral declaration and accusation on others. Thus, I felt it was perfectly valid to ask them to explain why they felt it was right. Ultimately, I bought the game, it's quite fun, and it further cemented my opinion that pretty much all activism I see nowadays is performative.
The most interesting thing I learned is that Kate Gray, the Kotaku writer that infamously wrote that article featuring explicit material of underaged characters, apparently, she ended up no longer being involved with Goodbye Volcano High, as at some point when that game got delayed, they fired her and the entire writing team and hired a completely new writing team to re-write the game's story from scratch.
I love how the "bOyCoTt" only encouraged more copies.
Also, Otanjoubi Omedetou Gozaimasu. (Happy Birthday)
They call that “The Streisand Effect.”
Outrage marketing sadly works more than the first time. People who buy crap because it pissed off the libs are dumber then the libs, dumber the second time.
"Please understand that my criticisms of the game are not criticisms of you."
Glad to hear tha--
_"...unless_ you like Sonic, then I think your head needs a check-up."
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I-I'll see you guys later, I, uh... I need to do the walk of shame...
I'm glad you're back after your year long hiatus, I certainly always appreciated the takes as they never came down to tow-the-party-line, even if I am a bit appreciative it hits some small level of confirmation bias, but the arguments and points always stood on their own merit rather than just muh-team-sports. I wish you well in your therapy and pray success and fulfillment find you soon :D
WELCOME BACK!!!!
finally a Reporter that does actual Journalism!
Glad to have you back, Sophia, even if it's just for a moment. You're definitely a welcome voice of reason!
Chaos ketchup is what happens when you give a toddler a bottle of Heinz.
I strongly recommend listening to the podcast The Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Despite it's baity title, it provides a balanced look into the controversies around her, including getting clarification from the woman herself.
The last game I boycott that really hurt was Chivalry 2. I boycotted Tripwire games after they fired their founder for an anti-abortion tweet.
When the World Needed her most, She Returned!
When Sophia has Trackmania of all games as her favorite of the year. Nice. NFS (at least the black box era) and Burnout is more my speed, though.
Return of the based Queen. I missed you.
The state of journalism in the video game industry is tragic. I wish independent content creators such as yourself and other bedroom reviewers were the voice of gamers. I mean, to me, you guys are the voice of gamers. A large diverse group of individuals with different tastes and preferences who encourage relevant, on topic discourse. I want to be apart of that crowd one day. Share my thoughts and opinions on something I care so fucking much about. Hopefully Johnny AAA and large journalists figure out their midlife crisis, because they seem to complicate things and often lose the plot.
Excellent video, making similar arguments to my own.
I'm a socially liberal (perhaps even libertine) socialist.
It pisses me off how much "activists" harm causes I care deeply about (or even just support on principle) while accusing anyone not buying their brand of bullshit of being the enemy.
It's as if they know nothing of history. My brand of considered argumentation and empathy, coupled with righteous anger in the correct circumstances, has lead to the advancements that ALLOWED for them to become outright hateful bigots without consequence. Not because that was the intent, but because they benefit from social and legal protections that were and are necessary. They just exploit it.
Honestly 2023 feels like an slow erosion with everything going downhill as the months go by, with both the game and movie media showing a sharp degradation in quality in favour of money and woke beliefs, even social media is not safe.
Have really missed these vids...
Can't wait for the next video and hope it's soon!
WELCOME BACK SOPHIA!! missed you and the insight about Gamers and games and the love of it.
I play video games just to have fun, collect & escape from real world shit.
It's my greatest hobbies of all time. I'll be damn if we're gonna let these clowns destroy everything we care about.
i went and looked for what ever JK said that was transphobeic and it took me forever because i had skimmed over what everyone was freaking out about because i just did not register it as offensive lol.
I actually came back to this channel not that long ago, when I realized I hadn't seen a video in awhile. Was wondering where you went. Welcome back!
Welcome back Sophia. Looking forward to hearing/seeing more from you.
Great to have you back Sophia. Glad to see you're up to making content again.
My favorite based video essayist. Your rational takes and comedic bits is much needed in this space. Welcome back Miss Narwitz!!
Glad you're back. I missed your content.
Hey Sophia~ First of, welcome back, and wishing you a wonderful birthday! Couldn't agree more on several of the points made in this video, especially with regards to the Hogwarts Legacy controversy. I always had the impression it was being blown way out of proportion back when the controversy was still a fresh topic...
Also, glad to hear you're making progress with therapy. As someone who's been struggling mentally for years, and still looking for the means of seeking professional help, I can empathize with finding the right therapist and making tangible progress towards healing. Wishing you the very best there, too!
And oh, Tunic is definitely my GotY of 2022. Maybe even up there in a top 5 GoaTs. As a kid in a country which was never a major market for anything, games only ever came in English or Japanese. No language even remotely close to understandable. Admittedly, I did ended up learning English through sheer trial and error, but Tunic was my Ratatouille moment of reliving child me trying to make sense of pictures and exploring an wild unknown world that contained MUCH more than I could comprehend at first glance. Love that game.
Have youc onsidered booking an appointment with Liana Kerzner/ Kerzner is a damn good counselor with personal experience with post-trauamtic stress. Kerzner also explicitly interviewed and has spoken favorably of Troy Leavitt.
I've been listening to her for years, and I have to say, she's much more easier on the brain.
Time stamps in Soph video? Truly a birthday miracle.
Good to hear from you. Missed your videos, keep up the good work
It's always a nice surprise to see your uploads, but one that soon is a real treat! Glad you're doing ok mentally as well! Hope everything goes as good as it can go!
I've long been booted from the LGBT community. Well I say booted but really all it took for me to have one disagreement with the "Community" on Facebook way back in I wanna say 2013/2014 to see the writing on the wall. So I willingly stepped out and watched as the movement became more and more of a solidified hivemind that did not entertain the slightest discussion or criticism. Honestly I just look forward to when it starts to fall apart. When the journos, media, and people leading the charge will inevitably step over and cast aside the "Useful idiot" followers they've created. Revealing they really do not give a shit and never have and just wanted useful pawns to set on those they disagree with.
Happy birthday for whenever it is Soph. Have a lovely day!
Hope you manage to get your head sorted soon!
Thank you for coming back, Sophia!❤
It’s been a mental last year Soph. Excellent catch up though!!
Really happy to see you back in the groove of things, keep up the good work.
Blessed be the toothache that woke me up right as I received the notification of your upload.
Jokes aside you're honestly one of my favorite UA-camrs, enjoy your 34th fam.
This was a banger, very well said. Happy your back I struggle with ptsd aswell idk if ill ever feel "normal" again but I just try to keep my head above water n keep pushing upstream.
A wonderful gift during a long night at work, and the second video in a month? Awesome.
Happy Birthday Soph! Glad to see you're doing well.
Yay. Good to hear from ya Soph.
It's good to hear that you're healing! Looking forward to your FF XVI video.
I missed your content! Loved the HL coverage
Relieved to hear things are genuinely going good, towards good, for you. Putting work into ourselves is rough, but no matter where we go or run towards, we will have ourselves there with us. I still think it’s something that worth working on.
Btw, how do you get 100% on launch? Usually takes me months, if not years to do it
Glad you are back, even on a limited basis. Yours is one of my fave commentary-style channels on der Webz!
I never heard of your channel until the Saints Row when I was sick earlier this week and your voice and style of video is really nice. You’ve definitely earned a sub. 👌
I was wondering where you were, all this time.
I'm sorry to hear you're going through a hard time. I hope you will emerge on the other side victorious and renewed.
Welcome back, and Happy Birthday! 🎉
Have a great birthday, have a great day any day! 🥳 Your content is worth waiting for. 👍🏻
Oh my God, I've missed the actual good takes you bring, happy birthday in a couple of days and it's great to have best girl back
Hey Sophia, love your content. I'm glad you dropped this video, it's a delightful view. Thank you!
Welcome back Sophia, you were missed
I wasn't aware of Arcade Paradise. Cheers for that. Great video
What do you think of the System shock remake. I loved it. Also happy upcoming bday
Thanks for the uploads, Sophia.
There's also the Skullgirls issue
Hiya, Sophia! :D Thanks for another upload!
First happy late birthday more likely and second, it wasn't for the fact you have great content and you give a point of view that's really intuitive. I appreciate your videos as well as some of you cooking stuff when it comes to your tweets
11:29 I'm more of a Percy Jackson man myself.
Happy birthday! Hoping to see more videos from you. Cheers.
I've kept up with the news of the last year and even I'm shocked how much can happen in a short time
Epic return of the queen
to the achievements, you see it on enthusiast games vs AAA titles. the more people buy a game, the lower the achievement rate will be. 24% is actually not that bad, which in turn means its a pretty short game... for comparison, just 32% finished borderlands 2...
though, the difference is made by humble bundles and sales, probably a lot of people have bought BL2 later in its life cycle for 2 bucks.. TLDR: comparing stats without reference frame is apples to pinecones, not even the same species.
Good to have you back Sophia.
one of my coworkers got the game and i said "beware morons will dox you if you post about playing it." he goes "i don't give a fuck." also i really hate cry bullies cause my brother would pick on me and piss me off and when i would snap at him he would play the victim, did the same with my sisters and we had none of it. and my dad had none of it. people like that really piss me off.
I can't wait for the Goodbye Volcano High video.
what gets me is this all happend over a mid game that has pretty much already been forgotten about.
Looking at the opening segment, it's hard to believe all those things have just been in the past year.
I infinitely prefer the longer videos. Rant as long as you like Sophia. Please keep bringing up disgusting trend of making everything online only.
Glad you're enjoying FF16. I'm loving the hell outta it. The end of the demo had my jaw on the floor.
It's honestly competing for my favourite Final Fantasy I absolutely loved it I'm going through New Game+ ATM trying the Final Fantasy mode
So what was that last game called? Couldnt quite make it out but the second you mentioned Alpha Protocol my attention was drawn really quickly.
The Last Oricru
21:37 "Something clicked this time"
Was that an intentional pun or accidental?
😊
The Oricru rap will never not amaze me
Pure magic
Welcome back Sophia :)
As usual, Sophia fucking nails a year in gaming!
Saddest part of this video is that you platinumed babylons fall you have my condolences
I discovered you from the Saints Row video. It’s cool you’re back. Happy Birthday 🎂🎉🎁🎊🎈
Thanks for taking good care of my second favourite journalist
Music at 17:46 pleaaasee!! Can't find it
Quoting my grandpa: extremism only leads to extremism, nobody wins
Man, Sophia out here spitting the hottest fire.
It does suck how terminally online so many people became and this game shows it. The witch hunts/harassment for people that just wanted to play it to trying to smear the game and anyone else as some kind of hatemonger. Heck, an online forum I was part of for over 10+ years went full nuclear when this game came up and were spamming the thread about how JK is pure evil and the mods wouldn't do anything about it.
On the plus side, it got me to leave that festering craphole because of how current year they were and made me realize just how insane this trans allyship movement is.
Have you had any time to play Tears Of The Kingdom? I'm interested in hearing your opinion of it.
Anything that goes in an EXTREME direction can backfire! I'm gay but unfortunately the LGBTQ community is being too extremist! Like life is already too hard for us can you please give us a break!
Welcome back! Top video, looking forward to more
I feel like your well-put-together video might also resonate with the current mess of Skullgirls. Hidden Variable has made some bad changes including censorship that also alters Big Band's backstory, removing perks that were funded by the Kickstarter campaign years back, and trying to get back into EVO even though the esports event has had its own history of sexual misconduct. Every post from the SKs Twitter account is bombarded with pushback against the recent patch even though they claimed that they made the choices under "careful consideration among the current development team."
She's back, baby!