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Thinks about how Fallout 1 introduced bottlecaps as currency but Fallout 2 moved on from this because a new society was in place that had developed paper money again but then Bethesda took the franchise and went back to bottlecaps in Fallout 3 because it was more iconic so then Obsidian set New Vegas in a region where both forms of currency are present with the reason that people don't fully trust the stability of the paper money in that region and meanwhile Bethesda just kept it bottlecaps-only for 4 and 76

demilypyro

I guess I'm making some kinda point about how the original Fallouts and New Vegas are interested in telling a story in a cohesive world while Bethesda Fallout feels more like they're selling you "Fallout" as an aesthetic

demilypyro

Yeah exactly that, something about Bethesda Fallout feels like it's just going down a checklist of Iconic Fallout Things without really building on it in a way that makes sense

pudinaluvr

gay people meeting up for brunch

flork-of-cows-official

pileofknives

etirabys

probably no one else finds this funny and I’m driving away my friends a fraction of a percent at a time every time I do it, but I think the height of comedy is when you react to an emoji with the same emoji in a chat medium that permits this

rasairui

Keep seeing pronoun positivity posts is about he/they and she/theys. That's cool and all but this one's for the she/hes. If you're a she/he I love you and you can take as much mint as you want from our garden

strawberri-draws

Dumbass x also a dumbass but self aware is the best ship dynamic

max1461

thanks, shinigami eyes

hellsite-yano

did they do something problematic??

guerrillatech

carrie--fishers

hgsn-moved

taproot-bread

A friend made a bad joke so…….

taproot-bread

I’m so happy someone said it out loud

tamamita

Is it true Dragon Ball Z uses blackface?

Yeah, the character Mr, Popo.

I have absolutely no idea how Toriyama has been able to get away with it even until today...

uchanekome

This is actually a rather interesting. In japan they have a huge problem with the belief that they are a completely homogenized country when they aren’t. Like 98% of people in Japan are Japanese. They see the world through stereotypical colored glass and see nothing wrong with said stereotypes because there’s not enough people who care enough to correct them actually living in the country. It’s not just blackface, they also have whiteface and brownface. The problem though lies in the fact that diversity itself isn’t recognized, cultivated or respected. Most Japanese people don’t see this as a problem because they’re taught not to. It’s treated as “no big deal” and even encouraged by media. Most Japanese people don’t even know blackface is wrong at all and even to some extent consider it flattery. This is a Japanese woman with blackface.

(You know the mentality that imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery) But here’s the thing...IT ISN’T...at all...in fact it’s demeaning to have your race be boiled down to a fashion statement. The sheer lack of self-awareness in Japan is a MAJOR problem. While in animation this problem pops up here and there the biggest issue is with Japanese reality TV, variety shows and fashion. In fact you will usually get the best representation from anime and manga simply because it has a wider demographic and audience.

However this doesn’t change the fact older anime and manga wasn’t made with this in mind and a lot of artists based there style off of 1920s animation was popular in Japan and sparked a kind of style trend. (1920s animation was filled with blackface and steriotypes by the way,) Starting with Osamu Tezuka and Astro Boy/The Mighty Atom. But here is where the problem for Mangaka like Toriyama. They had never seen a black person before let alone knew how to draw them. Back then there was no internet. Only media to base his character off of and the popular style. I’m not standing up for Toriyama in anyway. But he wanted to tell a story of a boy who travels the world...and the world isn’t only filled of Japanese people. He knew that and tried to incorporate it into his story and failed at making the representation look well...kosher.

Again I’m not trying to say he didn’t simply add to the stereotypes but I also would not be surprised if he simple assumed this was an acceptable way to draw black people because of how media presented blackface as no big deal. However when Dragonball became popular overseas Blackface in America was shunned. Yet it still took people a while to notice. >_> Really Americans aren’t all that great when it comes to recognizing systemic racism either. Anyways this has been an essay as to why you’ll find Blackface in old manga and why there was never any attempt to change this fact later in the anime adaptations of said manga.

sew-birb

This style of drawing black people has persisted in more modern anime like One Piece, too:

It's even seen in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood to some extent, although much more toned down:

The idea that it's because "Japanese people don't know what black people look like" is particularly weird, though, since I'm pretty sure Japan has had a long-running obsession with American and British film and television for at least the last 30 years.

It's likely (particularly in the case of shows like FMA where it's less pronounced) that this has just become the traditional style of drawing black people - in which case this is a tradition that needs to go ASAP.

Plus you'll never see it in the works of Shinichirō Wanatabe, who seems perfectly capable of researching what black people look like and drawing them properly, even way back in 1998 when Cowboy Bebop was released. Looks like being Japanese doesn't actually require you to draw black people as caricatures!

straightboyfriend

there is no medical component to a trans kid transitioning

if a little trans boy comes out to his parents & is like 4 all youd do for his transition is cut his hair, buy a new wardrobe, & switch pronouns & possibly change names

no one is gonna put a little 4 year old on testosterone OR puberty blockers until theyre actually about to start puberty & then they give them a few years to really decide if they want to start hormones

a trans kid existing isnt “child abuse.” child abuse is refusing to let your kid live their lives as they truly are & forcing them to present as a gender they arent

straightboyfriend

radfems who interact with this post will be blocked & your argument will not be read or even considered. i do not care about the opinion of a transphobe & my original post still stands.

gwenfrankenstien

a few years ago a kid in my preschool class transitioned socially and the only consequence was that as soon as her best friend discovered that changing your name is allowed she wanted to change hers to Detective