This article aptly captures the real state of Japanese game dev right now. For years, companies have prioritized outsourcing/contract hires because of fewer legal obligations. But as this piece describes, it also lets them skirt around layoff laws by ceasing to contract that external work at all.
Fantastic video discussing the ways that the Gerudo are depicted as well as how orientalism from both Nintendo and the fan community do a disservice to the real world peoples they borrow from, and what ways this can be improved.
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Want to reshare an old video of mine. It looks at how disability portrayals, particularly Tourette Syndrome changed in the 1990s-2000s after the passing of the ADA in the US. It looks at how the propaganda of the disabled faker serves the interests of the state.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuKM...
Make sure you please support and if you can't, at least share around.
While I enjoy the games I don't think they do, or at least they repeat the same tropes that are associated w/ Hawaii but were instead used to ease the reality that Hawaii was and still is violently occupied to the exclusion of its Indigenous population. I think that's interesting to discuss though.
For sure. That'll be part of the conversation. A lot of it will focus on how a lot of this can be made simpler by disentangling who specifically we're talking to and most of the focus will be on the ways that Black people with TS have been thrown in the hot seat and shared everywhere w/o consent.
THE USA AND ISRAEL ARE BOMBING IRAN.
Let me be EXTREMELY clear: Trump and Netanyahu do NOT care about saving the Iranian people from the current brutal regime.
They care SOLELY about installing a new genocide-enabling, fascist, puppet government.
Republican say that Trans folks are child rapists and groomers.
Yโall see where this is going, donโt you?
I don't want to speak too rashly.
However, I do want to directly acknowledge the very recent news that the US and Israel have launched an attack in Iran using almost the exact same war on terror logic.
It is disgusting and this is another extension of imperialistic violence.
The big goal in this is to use Pokemon as a space to understand how the media helps sell and normalize the occupation Hawaii and the erasure of Indigenous peoples and the disconnects in representing things as "authentic" Hawaiian culture. endhomelessness.org/blog/long-ov...
For example much post WW2 Japanese films set in or are about Hawaii dealt a lot with a "healing" of sorts as one author argues and directly references the deceased following the war.
doi.org/10.1080/1037...
I've been looking Indigenous Hawaiian texts (and plan to colab/consult) to engage w/ how media historically has been intertwined with the occupation and propaganda surrounding the exploitation of Hawaii. It'll integrate this w/ American & Japanese film/TV history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3rr...
This is valuable to consider given the history of the real observatories the space is based on but in the context of the game presented in an entirely depoliticized context from its real-life counterpart. apnews.com/article/3459...
A great example of this comes on Ula Ula Island.
It's stated Tapu Bulu, the island deity destroyed a supermarket there for being built on sacred land.
The same island is home to a major observatory that's also the site of your grand trial that is left untouched and thereby endorsed by the deities.
Nowhere is that more relevant than sun/moon's Alola which is based on the land of Hawaii. Everything about Alola's culture is constructed as centering the perspective of a Japanese tourist. The Indigenous characters in the game take a different context when their practices are open to everyone.
images of maps from "Pokemon go" which are based on using real-world maps to create a space to capture and interact with pokemon.
Think about how we interface with pokemon games as experiencing pokemon by restructuring land based on real spaces to interact with them. In the most direct sense, you could look at Pokemon go, but we also see this idea with the pokewalker from HG/SS. Early ads of gen 1 games focused on portability.
As many are aware, every region of Pokemon is based on real spaces in the world.
The decisions in which landmarks are chosen, what's omitted and who the intended audience is in the spaces made in the Pokemon world raises a lot of compelling questions about what that says.
screenshot from pokemon sun and moon featuring Ash Ketchum and his dusk form Lycanroc. Lycanroc is an orange and white wolf with red eyes.
Since it's Pokemon day, wanted to share more on one of the projects I've been researching--How Pokemon Sun and Moon depicts Hawaii! I've also been learning Hawaiian for this.
I think the fact that Pokemon games are also in many ways depoliticized travel games based on real locations is important.
I've posted about it a few times on twitter to get input but I do plan on covering something about the whole Tourette situation. I spent the whole day researching years of material so I think I feel prepared since it's not really new to me
A lot of yโall just want Ugly Laws 2.0 (laws that had made it illegal for disabled folks to be in public).
And Iโm saying this as a Black person with Touretteโs.
I need non-Touretters to STOP saying โIโm Black and disabledโ as if that makes them able to speak for Black Touretters.
If you donโt have Touretteโs syndrome, you DONโT speak for Black Touretters. Plain and simple.
people taking a scene about shadow encouraging a latina's agency and then making a meme about shadow objectifying latinas...
[right-to-left] Watched this and it inspired this silliness lmao
Please give the video a watch, it's pretty solid lol
I wrote about the anti-Indigenous tropes in AoI. The vanishing myth my behated
www.tumblr.com/blackautmedi...
many video games want to refine their design so that you naturally figure out how to experience them without realizing there was a tutorial
board games just want you to read the manual
art museums just put a little paragraph next to each piece explaining what to think about it
Pathologizing Palestinians to Revive Eugenic Genocide: english.almayadeen.net/articles/ana...
