Prepare to Cringe: Crash is the "Dark Souls" of Platformers

It has been almost a week since the Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy came out for the "PS4" and if you ask me, it looks just as good as the originals, though there are some gripes I have with the game (especially in regards to the voice acting of which I feel is questionable in most parts). But alas, the mainstream games journalism must find something "witty" to say when covering the N Sane Trilogy games, namelydeclaring Crash Bandicoot, of all franchises, to be the "Dark Souls" of platformers.

It's stuff like this is why I not only not take mainstream gaming news seriously but also feel ashamed to be a millennial; it seems that the newer generation can't seem to appreciate the classics properly. I get that the games in general are tough but not impossible to beat, heck I just was able to beat them almost smoothy last year for the franchise's 20th anniversary celebration. All it took was raw skill and guts, no hand holding, no mircotransactions, no BS, nothing, and that's what I like about most games back in the day.

At least the good news is that a lot of people aren't taking this well and rightly so and in fact mocking it by making memes out of it, one of the joys of the internet.

Escándalo de Super Mario! Mario "Appropriates" Mexican outfits

Indeed, it didn't take long for snowflake crazies to find something to bash about the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey game; what Mario is wearing in particular when he goes to that Mexican looking kingdom place. I mean people are getting upset that Mario is wearing a Sombrero and a Poncho in the game; and keep in mind that the reason he wears it is to have the one guy get his approval regarding  a dress code in the kingdom in the game. But alas, the mere fact that Mario is wearing them means that somehow the game is racist towards Mexicans; like as if Nintendo would go out of its way to tick off the population of Mexico and its cousins outside of Mexico. Last time I checked, Mario's more concerned about rescuing Peach from Bowser Koopa's wedding that she didn't want and I highly doubt he should worry about the Mexican clothes he dons later on as long as he's...you know, fully clothed and not otherwise.

Thankfully a lot of Mexican people aren't really offended at this and in fact are pretty okay with it, as anyone should be. That and of course folks like AlphaOmegaSin pointing out the absurdity of the whole backlash against Mario wearing sombreros and ponchos.

I don't know about you, but there's a lot of things I'd be more concerned about when it comes to Super Mario Odyssey than a freaking sombrero and poncho and I suggest you do too.

It Once Did Everything: PS3 gets discontinued in Japan and a Potential Memoriam

I really feel bitter writing this considering my liking for the console in question and my lack of fondness for it's "successor" but I must address this since it just happened sooner than I thought: the dreaded time when the PS3, the last great Sony console IMO, is officially discontinued in its home country, Japan. I know some people (SOME people) will just not care and go "oh boo-hoo, an olld console dat almost nobah-dee carez abowt in da wohrld iz goin' de wey of da doh doh but I gawt me sum fancier s--t with moar graphics and spekz and s--t so I dawnt feel bahd" but let me, as one of the presumably few people sticking with an "old dinosaur" console put my thoughts on this.

I'm simply saddened that Sony chose to put a pretty console out into the pasture and basically making us gamers stick to the "PS4" of which will always be a PS3.5 without backwards compatibility nor it's very convenient XMB menu system; all this without even putting back the ability to play PS2 discs in some version that can considered the "swan song"! God, writing that just makes me even more angry at Sony for just canning the PS3; I get it, it's no longer the big system that the gamer community care anymore for some reason but at least give it a few more years before say 2020 and maybe a few more games like Atlus did with Persona 5, of which I will forever be happy to own it as one of the last PS3 games ever made in my lifetime but I digress. I mean the PS2, despite it's heyday fading out by 2008, got to be able to be made until 2013, that's like 13 years since it came out in the year 2000 and with the rather unwarranted advent of the "PS4", I expect the company to do the same with the PS3, in spite of my earlier distaste for the console since Sony thought it was a great idea to get rid of backwards compatibility, disc-wise for the PS2, in their later models (and I will never get over it, never!). But alas, I was wrong and here they are discontinuing the console in their home country of all places, though to be fair they did start this trend in New Zealand almost two years ago so it's technically expected this would happen but not this early.

*Sigh* At least I have the Nintendo Switch as the true next-gen console to look forward too, that system is worth getting for as far as I'm concerned (the PC doesn't count, though I would need to get Win 10 sometime before 2020 but that's another story for another time) .

Slander Fi! The Marines Get Attacked for "Toxic Masculinity"!

Happy Memorial Day! and today I'm going to show you something not so happy. Why? Because it's outrageous and deserves to be mentioned. For some hairbrained reason, Vox, one of the many "respected" mainstream publications, decide to crap on the USMC for being some supposed "rape culture" institution that uses "systemic sexism" of a sort. And I'm like what? All this on a day where our armed forces, in spite of their problems in the past and today, are to be respected for the duties they do? It's as if Vox has a bone to pick with the Marine Corps of all things, especially in a service that's supposed to use "toxic masculinity" to carry out various tasks to ensure the safety of our citizens and other countries around the world; it's a military institution for crying out loud.

And I suppose one can argue they're merely criticizing the past treatment of women and I guess that might be okay; but why bother trying to all negative on a holiday when they should be rightly praising the USMC's attempt to get women into their ranks? It goes to show you that SJWs are never satisfied in a true sense and will criticize anything, even my country's military, just to make their voices heard. Well I got bad news for Vox; the Marines are more worried about ISIS trying to wreck havoc in the Middle East as much as they can before they rightly go kaput and/or try to take down more innocent lives in Europe and the West than some nonsensical "systemic sexism".

Spawned In the USA: Far Cry 5 Stokes Politicized Craze

I did not see this coming though I must stress that I really don't care about Far Cry at all aside from playing the first game on the Xbox console of which I enjoyed a lot but lost interest over time nor am I interesting in the upcoming game I will mention now. Anyway it's shown that Far Cry 5 is not only coming out but will be set in my home country, the United States and that the villains will be some fringe, Christian doomsday cult that took over some county in Montana and they are all white. Granted I really don't care if I'm fighting the Nazis, the Soviets, not-Al Qaeda, or Morden's Rebels as long as I know that the bad guys are evil in both historical and/or fictional context, i.e. deserving to be whooped, but I have to stress that description of the villains of FC5 for a reason.

A good number of articles and people on twitter (sometimes I wonder why twitter was ever invented in the first place) are trying to make it out to be some "commentary" on the Trump administration and of the US political scene today. And you can tell I'm not enthusiastic about this agenda pushing nonsense since I feel they definitely aren't contributing to whatever the message the game might present to us and of discussion. I mean I don't see how trying to shove current day politics in pop culture (in a blatant fashion rather) would do any wonders though granted there were numerous attempts in the past since print was invented I guess but I feel like the recent trend of trying to tie stuff about Trump and other political subjects in something like Far Cry 5 is really getting annoying real fast. Heck I called this out when people where trying to tie the Trump campaign to something like the Man in the High Castle TV show of which something like an Axis takeover of the USA isn't worth a lot of political debates and campaigns to deal with but I digress for the sake of my sanity.

And here again, something like an insane doomsday cult that speaks for God yet abuses its Christian ways (and no doubt bringing out the bad from the Bible...no joke the Bible had some bad stuff in it) should not worth getting politicized over as there is nothing political about obviously evil cults taking over innocent towns and whatnot, it's a moral issue and something has be done to defeat them. Thankfully this article points out the stupidity of making FC5 something about Trump and the USA and kudos to him; the more people pointing out the agenda pushing nonsense the better.

And as for me, I'm not getting FC5, not because of the setting and the controversy, but because there's more games worth my time IMO, like the Misadventures of Tron Bonne and Gotcha Force, as they are more expensive to own than they should be but that's another post for another time.

Update: Things are really getting of out hand now that there's a "petition" floating around that basically demands Ubisoft to change the game as to not be "anti-white" yet it has been pointed out by plenty of people that the petition is a fake and that many gaming "journalists" fell for it. I mean the whole line about "harassment of gamers by mainstream journalists during Gamergate" should be obvious that something isn't right about the petition given that while the major of the pro-Gamergate community has not done any harassment, there is a small minority of them that did do the harassment business. Yet, they are rightly condemned by the majority since they like many other asshat trolls, they don't add anything meaningful; the most the mainstream journalists did is shame gaming culture and declare them "dead" of which I will contend help escalate the controversy more than it needed to be but that's another story for another time. But I will link more about how this petition is a fake to this article that explains more in detail than I can.

Bill Nye, the Science Dork: How Low He Fell

(I know some people would object to linking to Breitbart, but f--k it I don't care, as long as mainstream news outlets and sites like InfoWars don't get the clicks and I'm not in the mood to archive links to similar topics right now): http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/04/24/bill-nye-rachel-bloom-team-for-lgbt-sex-anthem-my-vagina-has-its-own-voice/

Well, it happened, Bill Nye, the once proud name in teaching children the importance of science and being featured on that ride with Ellen DeGeneres going back to the age of the Dinosaurs in Disney World Epcot, is now going off the deep end in promoting this crazy idea of gender being a social construct and that gender is on a "spectrum", meaning that men can be women and vice versa. Now I might be missing some things to back up my argument but I know this can somewhat apply to transgenders and this sex change is a result of them dealing with medical disorders that had to be dealt with surgery, but this idea of gender and sex not synonymous at all and that there's more than two is ridiculous (though I personally like to believe there's two and a half genders but that's it). I mean to me, the idea of genders being a "spectrum" that's not related to medical surgery sounds like something out of some nutty fetishist's hentai comic (or manga if you prefer); in fact it's almost like Anime Phsyics for all I care. If that kind of notion is true then where's the instant nosebleeds from looking at attractive people, spiky hairs, and people being punched to the horizon and "turning into stars"? I digress; I should also note that he appears to be shoving this nuttiness down people's faces with the lyrics that sound don't even sound like they belong in a show with Nye involved; it's more like something some left-leaning webseries would have made.

And keep in mind this isn't the only time Nye is getting politicized, he made some false claims about the constitution needing to support sciences and that science is political, though there is plenty of truth to that claim to his credit. Yet ironically he was kicked out of the March For Science well marches for being a white, cishet, male, go figure; I guess that's what he got for being so politicized. I hate to see blacks and non-whites being kicked out for supporting political right wing causes regarding current politics.

Update: Although I must stress that I do sympathize with his claim that climate change must be taken seriously, but he ends up making himself look like a fool by saying that climate change...skeptics need to be locked up and treated on the same page as genocide deniers. Hasn't he heard of like ignoring them since well they aren't completely right on this subject?

Update 2: There seems to be an episode from Nye's old show that explicitly showed that there are two genders and that gender is determined by chromosomes, which would rightly contradict Nye's new view on the spectrum nonsense, that got removed just not too long after the "brilliant" gender "spectrum" episode got released; talk about an act of Minitruth. And now Snopes, the "ever so reliable fact checking site" claims that the "spectrum" thing is true and that the old video that was removed is false the whole time....

I'm going to let this sum up how I feel about the various sites defending this nutty doublethink:

Still Active

Hey folks, in case you are wondering, I haven't updated this blog in like a couple months, various other things had taken my attention, including certain political events of which I don't wish to talk about right now.

So in the meantime, I'll find whatever topic that is fitting for me to do a post on as well as updating my other blog, so stay tuned.