beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

@icedquinn that's very interesting, i'm white as fuck and not an actor so i wouldn't know, but i wonder if there are actors of other races that do not want to play roles specifically for someone of their race because they don't want to be seen as that token black person or whatever?

@icedquinn apparently her hair being chestnut rather than auburn is a translation error (because there's no polish word for auburn). the author himself has called her hair red before and in lady of the lake, yennefer calls her hair red. all of the fan translations and book-accurate recreations of triss i can find, she still has at least somewhat red hair.

either way she's not supposed to look like this:

@icedquinn most of the time i couldn't care less if there were black people in a tv show or cartoon or whatever the fuck else. black spiderman is fine because he's a completely different character, for instance. he's actually one of my favorites.

it's when there are either character replacements (as has happened in rings of power and witcher) or characters who are black in a setting that makes absolutely zero sense for them to be there (as has happened in rings of power and witcher). that's what bothers me. there's no respect for accuracy in world building or retelling stories, it's just soulless to fill a diversity quota and that's it.

it's not even just black people either, it's shit like ATLA from shyamalan too. none of these characters are accurate. as much as it pains me to say, the netflix version actually does a pretty damn good job with its casting.

@sjw @s8n ehhhh i'll pass

@kerosene @hideki me and my brother used to play some n64 games on his laptop just using the keyboard lol, horrible times but funny memories.

@hideki it's getting pretty close to 10 years ago that i got my first gaming PC. 2015. back then all i had were office computers without GPUs and pentium processors. maybe i could have run the original half life on it, but i couldn't even run l4d unless i wanted 10fps on minimum settings.

but i'm not saying the n64 emulation was particularly great back then, just that it was something i could barely run. source games were completely out of the question. i was really happy to get my first gaming PC because i could emulate dolphin because i wasn't even able to do that before.

@hideki @kerosene idk what you guys are smoking but n64 emulation is currently really good. there was a period of time where it sucked and had a bunch of plugins you had to juggle around (and it was often times better to emulate n64 games within dolphin's virtual console emulation), then there was the whole project 64 debacle, but it's been great for years now, check out m64p.

kaze's work was built on the back of years and years of work from plenty of n64 emulator devs and the decompilation project. still very impressive, i'm not trying to dispute that, but to say it's only kaze that's done anything impressive is completely incorrect. the only optimization you can actually use on default mario 64 right now is his audio code optimization. the rest of it is either stuff that mario 64 might need that he knows his mod doesn't, or is otherwise intertwined with other things his mod does, so he'd have to do a lot more work to get it into a retail ROM without causing bugs.

it would be cool to see people fixing up other games and actually releasing the code, but at this point as far as n64 goes, the actual emulation of the console is already pretty good and offers enough enhancements. the main focus of the community seems to be on decompilation projects right now because they'll be able to do more with that than they ever could an emulated game.

i'll agree that there's too much unnecessary drama in that space. comes with the territory i guess. there was drama with cracking groups forever as well and i'm sure there still is.

one of my friends was telling us that he's been watching rings of power and that it isn't that bad. he's like "i haven't really noticed any SJW stuff and it's really cool seeing more of middle earth, there's only like 2 black people in it."

i'm like, nigga, there are 3 black people in the OPENING.

this is how they get you, though. they'll make a show that is at least decent, so you'll be like "oh if there are black actors replacing white characters it's fine as long as the show is still good." hook, line, and sinker.

@kerosene @hideki I can't wait to play hunt down the freeman afterward.

@sjw oppai loli is also sacrilege

@hideki I didn't get a PC capable of playing anything beyond half speed N64 emulation until I was 19.
Hadn't played portal until last year and I just barely beat portal 2 and half life last month.
Just never got around to it until now lol. It's wild though, nobody else in my house has played half life either.

What's with the furry obsession of morbid obesity? Like fuck man I just wanna see a shapely vixen with nice titties not that violet chick from willy wonka post-incident.

@sjw a loli with a hairy butthole is no longer a loli

@DuckKingLoow @Riamu without that large amount of influence over what people see, their memes would have never caught on.

@hideki haven't played it yet but I'm going to soon(tm)

@DuckKingLoow @Riamu (((the left)))

@ehhh @fizrot@baraag.net I "watch" "ben 10" all the time and I'd say it's pretty good