#*a big company like disney or nintendo

[twow]

i already know that im gonna become a Theme Park Person(tm) when im living in LA like 30 min away from some of the best parks in the country and i feel ashamed about it. im two months away from moving and im already planning my trips down to what i eat and wear and which rides ill ride in what order like i can feel myself becoming obsessive. sorry guys... but fear not i will never give disney a cent of my money that's the one park i refuse to visit. lets all have a mutuals meetup at knotts berry farm or six flags or super nintendo world <3

#one day ticket to one disney park is like double the price of annual passes at other parks its insane #i think they are a vile company and i wouldn't go there even if it was affordable but i think those prices are especially egregious #knotts and six flags are at the top of my list i need to be a knotts annual pass holder #and as soon as the nintendo theme park opens i will have to be a universal studios hollywood pass holder but rn its not great tbh #universal studios hollywood is like the no bitches meme but it says no coasters instead bc they have like 2 #and they arent even big coasters #altho i think the rides they do have are great like jurassic park and the mummy. they just dont have enough #edit: just found out that hello kitty is a meetable character and they have a whole little sanrio store at universal so nvm im going asap

[cesium-sheep]

fantastic news so far on aliexpress I have found decoden cream and hundreds of jank-fuck bootleg kirbies (and some ostensibly legit kirbs as well, being sold at legit prices)

#I have also found lots of cute skirts #and stickers by the fuckin pound #I'm having a good time #honestly why have I never checked aliexpress in earnest before #I will get around to specifically looking for decor eventually #like for sure some of this art is hella stolen I've seen a couple printed with images from artists I follow #but like. use your best judgement. recognize when it's being stolen from an independent artist instead of a company #stealing art from a company is fine tbh #*a big company like disney or nintendo #some artists are technically with tiny companies instead of wholly independent and that's still bad theft #in general things that are sculpted or sewn are less likely to be direct bootlegs of small artists #but things that are just printed images are at far higher risk #altho again if you can recognize it as official art like who cares yknow? #not like sanrio's hurting for cash #enamel pins are also frequently bootlegs of small artists tho #because they're usually manufactured by big companies who don't treat that work like it's exclusive to the artist/customer

[leidensygdom]

Something I really don't understand about AI companies buying the rights to steal content from social media to feed their data training sets is, well. It's illegal as hell.

That content does not belong to the social media companies to start with. Personal data is a bit nebulous as it is, and some countries have better protection about it than others, but posting a picture on tumblr doesn't mean that Automatic automatically has the right to use, distribute and sell it as it sees fit.

I mean. Official accounts for big companies like Disney use social media for advertising. But posting a picture of Elsa on Twitter doesn't mean they're giving Twitter the right to use and sell that picture. But suddenly Twitter sells the nebulous ability to "scrape content from Twitter for AI training", so now Midjourney owns that picture of Elsa? What's the fucking ruling there?

People own the rights of what they have created even without officially registering it for trademarking (which is expensive as hell, by the way). Social media selling content means that they are selling copyrighted material created by its users- Some of it coming from big companies that have trademarked the shit out of everything, some of it coming from small creators who STILL have the rights to what they've created even without a trademark.

Curently, what you produce through AI generators is not actually copyrighted, since it was not made by a human, but what gets fed into the data training sets is often copyrighted material from unconsenting people. It basically is a copyright laundering scheme.

I do wholeheartedly hope that some regulations will be put in place, and hoping that big companies will, at least, do their best to help this case even if its just to protect their own IPs and property. Given how overprotective have Disney, Nintendo and other big names been about their content, I can't expect they'll be happy having it being sold to Midjourney, OpenAI and other crap for free, without their consent.

#anti ai #antiai #fuck ai #fuck ai art #long post

[jasper-crow]

A short list of unity games owned by notoriously lawsuit happy companies:

Hearthstone, Activision Blizzard

Pokemon Go, Niantic and more specifically the Pokemon Company

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, see above

Like 17 different mobile and console Disney games

Genshin Impact, miHoYo

Magic Arena, WotC and their big daddy Hasbro

Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo

The Elder Scrolls: Legends, Bethesda

Super Mario Run, Nintendo

Call of Duty Mobile, Activision Blizzard

Unity was used to render backgrounds for a number of the modern "Live Action" Disney remakes. Notably The Lion King remake in 2019 has been confirmed to have used unity.

In short. They. Are. FUCKED

#unity #unity3d #idiots #capitalism #moron ceos #nintendo #activision blizzard #Pokemon Company #Disney #those are the big 4 I'd be worried about #for sure for sure

[vonbaghager]

I don't know if there's a word for the emotion I'm feeling watching disney and nintendo, two companies who made up the majority of the entertainment for the childhoods of three generations, devolve into soul sucking conglomerates hellbent on squeezing their IPs until they're screaming and broken while rapid firing lawsuits at everyone who so much as dares even admit they were inspired to create because of them and literally throwing people in prison for life for pirating their content

But I'm feeling it big time

It feels like they're too fucking stupid to realize that people making content of their creations does not, in fact, impact their bottom line. People have been making LoZ clones forever and the mainline LoZ games still sell millions of units each time they come out! Someone going in to garrys mod and making Mario shoot Luigi in the head with an smg doesn't automatically equate to -1 sale on the next mario game but it feels like they earnestly believe that's what happens.

[centrally-unplanned]

Since I myself have often been a counter-critic to the AI art critics, lets flip that around. Was some of the "IP law hypocrisy" discouse floating around today, you know the stuff - oh everyone hates on Big Brother Nintendo or Disney or w/e for their machine gun copyright lawsuits, but now that generative AI is out its all about IP-senpai being a dashing prince coming in to save them. Either you like it or hate it, right? Pick a lane.

Which, for sure btw this describes some of them. Those who pretty much want AI dead for essentially spiritual reasons, yeah. But I think those are the weakmen, because the rub is that IP law is not gonna change any time soon. Those reform efforts seem pretty dead in the water, the artistic socialist utopia isn't happening. Which means you need to live in the world you have, which means you need to play the game that everyone else is playing.

OpenAI is gonna use copyright law to its advantage! As will Disney and co when fighting/balancing/dealmaking/collaborating with OpenAI and its slate of competitors. Every AI company is going to work as hard as possible to train models as cheaply as possible and sell them as expensively as possible, and part of that is going to be to push IP law in its favor around what counts as fair use, what is ownership, etc.

And while all law is really process, forever contested & changing, that is double+ true for IP law. If you think the New York Times has no chance in its lawsuit against Open AI for its use of its article archives, I think you are insulting their extremely-qualified legal team who knows way more than you. All of this stuff is up for grabs right now, no one really knows how it will shake out.

So if you are an actual career independent artist, there is in fact a lot at stake. What is the legal line for mimicking someone's "style"? Does explicit training on your previous art to generate equivalents count as transformative work? These are quasi-open legal questions, and again since the system is absolutely not going away in any form, its extremely logical to want that system to work for you. "Free art" isn't on the table; the real question is who is gonna be at the table to write the next iteration of owned art. Being at the table is an obvious desire to have. You can still wish there wasn't a table to begin with, that isn't hypocritical at all.

[musings-from-mars]

With everything that's been coming out lately about the state of Rooster Teeth and how they have treated their workers, I think it's important to really look at the dynamic between creators and higher-ups in media companies in general.

The workers, the people to are actually making these productions, are often there because they want to make a career out of what they are passionate about. They're creatives, artists, technicians, performers. They're motivated by the desire to collaborate and create art.

The problem is, in a free market capitalist society, for all of that creative work to be worthwhile for these workers, they need to be paid for it. They can't be the creatives they want to be if they can't make it a career. They have bills to pay, they need to eat, they need to go to the doctor and the dentist, etc. And productions of such size as, say, RWBY, need a whole lot of funding.

That's where companies like Rooster Teeth come in, and that's where the problem lies.

Because these workers are so passionate, so motivated to create and be part of big projects like RWBY, media companies know they are ripe for the exploiting. Sure these companies will pay them, but not enough. Sure they'll fund their creative projects, but they'll put excessive work requirements on the workers to try to ensure the project is as financially successful as possible. They'll turn a blind eye to the issues with the culture and dynamic between workers and their supervisors in order to lighten their own workload and responsibility, while placing more and more of exactly that upon those same mistreated workers.

And it's inescapable. I don't have the first-hand knowledge to make this claim for certain, but this is likely how it is as every major media company. Just seeing the controversy surrounding The Owl House, how the passionate people behind that show had their aspirations curtailed by media mega-corporation Disney. How the products of countless creative workers were just dumped by Warner Bros. Discovery for whatever money reasons.

The thing is, really the only way creative workers can make high-budget projects is via companies like this. Beloved franchises like RWBY, The Owl House (and everything Disney releases, tbf), could not exist without the backing of these media companies. It's inescapable.

Nothing will change until more eyes are on these controversies and the culture within media companies like RT, and nothing will change unless we get behind the creatives, the performers, the workers who want to create. The people who work to make your favorite shows, games, films, need more support. These workers need heavily supported unions, these media companies need reform, and us, the fans, need to pay attention.

I love RWBY, I love The Owl House, I love playing Splatoon on my Nintendo Switch. Sure, none of these things would exist without all the money the companies that published those projects put into them. And none of these things would exist if the workers behind them didn't have the love and passion they do for their craft. In the kind of economic system we live under, there's really no changing the fact that both workers with talent, and companies with funding are each required to make things like this. The thing that does need to change is how those companies treat those workers.

#rwby #rooster teeth

[tymime]

I'm very alarmed by how many people are dismissive of the lost media community, even going so far as to spread misinformation about them. I've seen them characterize lost media seekers as ignorant whiners and brats, and that they're wasting their efforts. Do these people have any idea how difficult it actually is to find this stuff? It can take years, if copies even exist. Don't they value art preservation?

You'd be astonished by how many shows that are barely twenty years old that have simply vanished, with no clear indication of whether or not the copyright holders kept a record of it. When fans try to contact the people involved in the show, they often refuse to answer emails. These aren't old, aging shows from fifty years ago, decaying in some film can. These are shows from as recent as the 2000s and 2010s.

There's been a toxic attitude going around big media companies for a couple decades now, treating their IPs (and their customers) as disposable, moving on to the next thing as soon as profits dry up. This is a big part of the reason media becomes lost in the first place. Old show not getting enough ratings? Need to make room for a new show? Just get rid of it! Now, some of these examples aren't lost media, admittedly- but they definitely could have been, if not for an on-the-ball internet pirate downloading and backing them up. There's a series from 2002 called Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? which hasn't been on the air in about twenty years. The original audio track was missing for many years, and had to be pieced together from several sources, with the video elements coming from a foreign dub. There was a music track heard in an episode of SpongeBob called "Humpback Hop" with several minutes cut from it, unheard of for two decades, and even the composer had lost all of his copies of it. It seemed like even Nickelodeon didn't have it in their archives, because they rerecorded it for a DVD menu. It's a miracle somebody finally tracked it down. There's a series from 2007 called Out of Jimmy's Head, whose original English version is still half missing. Even though by all accounts it's a crappy show, I still want to see it. (update: This show has been found, thank goodness.) And even though I'm not a fan, there are dozens of 2010s Cartoon Network shows that were once on HBO Max, that are simply gone. They're not in reruns, they're not officially streaming. You have to resort to piracy to view them. I wouldn't wish this fate on anybody. The Willow series from 2022 was taken off Disney+ mere weeks after its debut, just because not enough people watched it. It's stuck in the middle of a storyline.

Nintendo has been notoriously bad about this. They don't want you to play any NES, SNES, GB, or N64 games that aren't the most iconic best-sellers. They take down ROM websites, even if most of the games there aren't first party or being sold in any way. The only way to legally play a game that isn't available on the Switch is to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a working console and cartridges. Most people can't afford to do that.

If it hadn't been for the efforts of unofficial programs like Ruffle and Flashpoint, thousands of flash games and cartoons would be unplayable and unwatchable.

Even if the cartoon is safe and sound locked away in some vault, instead of missing entirely, it still winds up unseen that way. The public has a right to see a show they used to be able to see and enjoyed, instead of it being unviewable for all eternity. "Oh, but they have a right to not let us see it! They own the rights to it, after all, and can do whatever they want!" some might say. What if WB went out of their way to destroy every DVD, Blu-ray, and video tape of Looney Tunes, and locked away all their copies? Would you feel the same way then? Would we not have a right to see them? Would you just roll over and take it, and let corporate overlords tell what you can or can't watch? Just shrug it off and say "Oh well, guess I'll never see it again"? How would it not irritate you? TV and movies aren't the same as some painting or statue where usually only one version of it exists in some museum or private collection. Media is meant to be distributed and seen worldwide, for everyone to enjoy in their homes. If they're stuck in some warehouse on some hard drive, they may as well not exist.

It extends out into other aspects of our lives- old buildings get torn down instead of getting restored, vintage interiors get torn out or covered up by something modern or ugly. There was a time when films and video tapes were routinely destroyed to make room for new ones, because nobody thought anybody would want to see them again. We need to get past this destructive pattern.

Am I grateful for streaming services and the content they make available? Of course I am. But as many have said before, they could take it all away, and a show can simply vanish, leaving fans to resort to piracy just to see it, if anyone even bothered to save it beforehand.

Being dismissive of these efforts is the sort of attitude that's part of the reason media gets lost in the first place.

#lost media #streaming #cartoons #animation #disney plus #cartoon network #disney #hbo max #flash #ruffle #flashpoint #nintendo #media preservation #preservation

[magz]

@trans-leek-cookie

Yes, Karla Ortiz and other big popular artists in her group in the anti-ai art scene are basically pro-capitalist grifters.

They helped with + promoted nightshade n glaze (made by UCLA and Chicago Uni), and established part of the narrative surrounding these tools as "solutions" while barely understanding it; so this groups' influence on these discussions can't be understated too.

(Am going to focus mainly on Karla Ortiz tho) The popular artist groups in question established:

The "Concept Artist Association" as a non-profit org in september 2022, with little transparency. This does not trustworthy. It used to also be a private LLC.

Made gofundme of $270k us dollar for part of class action lawsuit and lobbying, "protecting artists from AI technologies", while hiring and become part of Copyright Alliance (with notorious members such as Adobe, Disney, UMG). These tactics are known for making the lives of artists and creators hell (example: the many comic artists, writers, illsutrators, musicians that don't own their stuff n can't make anything of their creations IP because it's owned by Disney, or Marvel, or Nintendo now.)

Has supported and followed other "pro-artists" that try to extend this crusade of being against "art stealing" and "copyright stealing", to the Internet Archive being a menace. And gave support to others' efforts to shut down Internet Archive's library book lending, using same rhetoric. Synonymizing "book publishers" and big companies with "creators". (Though atm, only have 1 foto abt it on hand bc it's been a while)

Those professional popular artists have been criticized by smaller artists as copyright expansion benefits bigger rich artists while harming small ones n those that don't have resources to go against giants like Disney.

In the case of Karla Ortiz, she is known to do whatever benefits her as a big creator n barely listens to smaller artists. Support of NFTs, pro-capitalism pro-copyright, anti-archival, being generally reactionary about art. Whatever.

Obviously, with nightshade and glaze specifically, there are other criticisms to be made. like the apps' high requirements to run thus inaccessible to many, the technology and premise being outdated, this barely affecting the "big companies" people are worried about, the users' not understanding how any of this works, the doomscroll spiraling n fearmongering that many of its users do (inducing panic attacks in some artists about their "art is going to be stolen" bc they can't glaze their work).

Honestly, it gets very repetitive and it is very easy for people to start being anti-piracy classists (example: "don't pirate banned books even when it's by definition not accessible to you bc it's stealing from authors" is a common one) + anti-archival and pro-copyright when someone frames things a certain way, even when basically grifting and harming. Its a whole overarching cycle.

Tweet threads of related old discussions:

About concept art alliance.

When searching "karla ortiz nft".

#text post #o post #ai art discussion #tag #capitalism #sij

[gay-jesus-probably]

i’m replaying totk and i forgot how bland of a character rauru is right from the get-go. first time i played the game i really thought he was being set up as a twist villain because i figured there’s no way they would write a character to be this boring and one-note… and yet! anyways have you heard the murmurings that totk’s main scenario was outsourced & written by a studio that makes mobile games

Funny you should say that anon, I'm also replaying TOTK! And yeah, from the start I was always like "oh yeah, this is all waaay too simple, they've gotta be building up to a twist". And then it just... never came. Like, the Zelda dragon thing wasn't even a shock to me honestly; I only realized there was a new dragon in the sky when I snapped a picture of it from a distance for the compendium, and then the second I read the entry I knew Zelda had somehow become that damn dragon. The game cannot stop obsessively licking Zelda's boots whenever she comes up, so the compendium entry fawning over how much I must adore the Light Dragon was all I needed to figure out it had to be Zelda. It was all so, so bad.

As for the script issues, I could totally believe that... but I could also believe that a bunch of managers at Nintendo micromanaged the ever loving shit out of the script to try and make it as Broadly Appealing as possible, and the end result was this fucking garbage. I mean god damn, have you seen Disney's latest movie? They were making a big deal about their 100 year anniversary, but their victory lap of a movie is getting slammed in reviews for being boring, poorly written, and blatantly designed to fit an equation of what the executives think makes money. Huge companies can absolutely make their own garbage these days, considering that most of them are terrified of making anything that may not test 100% well with the focus audiences.

[mable-stitchpunk]

Fnaf definitely needs a Scott Cawthon again.

And i dont mean pulling him out of retirement, but there needs to be someone who can take the reigns for him. A single, creative director who has a real vision, and is allowed to oversee all avenues of the franchise - games, books, comics, McDonalds Pogs with hidden lore scraps, whatever - and can properly coordinate everyone with that vision. I mean, maybe there is already someone for that, but if so they need to be replaced fast, cause they’re not working.

I know that’s sounds like a hard sell for what’s become a multi-media conglomerate, and it would not be easy for sure, but i think you need that driver at the helm who can chart the course for everyone else around them to work out the details.

You're absolutely right! And it's not a hard sell. Disney, Nintendo, Sega- plenty of huge companies who have big properties have that. They have something or someone, or someone(s), overheading and making sure quality doesn't slip and the brand sticks to its goals.

Fnaf is big enough now that it needs that, but I don't think Scott put anyone in charge when he retired from that portion of the community. I think he basically gave Steel Wool rights to the games, Scholastic rights to the books, and occasionally sends a suggestion here or there- but if the Steel Wool interview is any indication, not much at all.

And this can be a problem. Needn't I remind you of the Sonic comics and what happened when Sega didn't keep too close of an eye on what was going long. At least in that case Sega had the ability to step in and change what they wanted. If Scott sold some of the rights to these other companies, then he doesn't have any say in what they do.

And that's the issue here. Bendy, Oddworld, Mario- all of these game series' have a backing development team behind them. One that owns their rights and manages their property.

Fnaf does not. Fnaf has Scott, Steel Wool, Illumix, Scholastic, Funko, Youtooz, and none of them seem to be over-heading the operation since Scott retired/moved to focus on the movie.

#fnaf #management #we need a lorne lanning

[shellyshroom]

★____ABOUT ME____★

Name: Shelly/Shell/Shelby/Kin names

Sexuality: Fictoromantic if that even is a thing???

Things I like: "It's a Small World", Steven Universe, the rubies, taking breaks away from politics for a bit, Ryder from Frozen 2, Kristoff from Frozen 2, Shroomy from SMG4, The Buddy 3000 from Jingle Jangle, Hermey the elf, Art, Literature, History, Science, Shooting games usually playing them to get rid of my anger, RPGs, Party games, creative games, Life sim games, whimsical games, the countryside, big cities, camping, amusement parks, beaches, cruiselines, airplanes, any other cool vehicle, outerspace, the wood smell, the gingerbread smell, lemonade especially raspberry lemonade, soups, anything spicy, ramen, deviled eggs, coffee, hot chocolate, collecting pins and plushies, happy music, fantasy related things, different countries and their culture, robots, puppets, Walt Disney NOT THE COMPANY!!!! THE COMPANY CAN DIE, Pixar, Rankin bass, Nintendo, Christmas/winter related things, toy soldiers, rabbits, ladybugs, butterflies, caterpillars, reindeer, dogs, cats, dolls, the swirl design, Hetalia, Elsamaren, Kristanna, Sufin, Sawpin, selfshipping, getting mad at those who deserve it it's usually to try defending myself..., creating memes to try and cope with whatever is stressing me out, using fictional characters to help cope with my UNCONTROLLABLE anger Anti shroomy, 2p Finland, and Angry unikitty, and object shows

Things I do NOT like: Most politics because it messes with my head, zionists, puking, headaches, having a cold, math, cockroaches, flies, wasps, bees, yellow jackets, hornets, mosquitoes, the stupid "it's a small world is terrifying" joke, my own anger issues mainly because it's an annoying mental issue I have had for years usually calling this my "evil side" to try cope with it, people who are purposely trying to push my buttons, people who refuse to separate the Disney art from the company, people who like hurting people's feelings for no reason especially if it's my friends or family, people who unironically hate happiness, horrible/stupid people in general, the whole proship vs anti bullshit, multiple people talking at once in vcs, the feeling of forgetting what I was going to say, the acronym "KYS" I know I'm sometimes saying it to TERRIBLE PEOPLE ONLINE but I'm feeling bad saying it right after, like this acronym is bad and I have some SHITTY memories with this word, and accidentally staying up until 6:00 AM

My fears: Anything sharp except for swords and butter knives I am ESPECIALLY scared of shredders.... I've had several bad dreams related to this machine, being an extremely problematic person, giant ass spiders, my family or friends getting hurt really bad by someone or something or dying in front of my eyes, the pitch darkness, being told I act nothing like my kins or that I'm trying so hard to be like my kins, being told that another character fits me more than my original kin, losing my friends, being told that my apologies are extremely weak, severely hurting someone with my anger issues especially if it's a person I love, getting hurt really badly to the point I'd need to go to the hospital, loud alarms playing out of nowhere in a quiet room, death in general, going blind, people jumpscaring me out of nowhere when I'm not looking, and passing out idk if this is because it was traumatizing to me or what..

My kinlist: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13lvGokYgbepTtFsycxka_yZMVisbsmHhGamFe8_jstA/edit

A fun fact about me: can't believe I forgot this tiny detail about me! This is like almost my whole personality..! 😭 I'm able to eat almost anything that you're tossing infront of me! I love food so much! But sometimes I'm eating less due to my random stomach aches.. My stomach pains get way worse when I'm in a hot area or stuck in one room, but I'm still able to see the positivity and know everything is gonna be ok! I also know exactly what to do when my stomach begins acting up so we're ok here!

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#about me #smg4 shroomy #smg4 #kinlist #kin stuff #walt disney #waltdisney #disney #hetalia #object shows #Boto #brawl of the objects #anime #Fortnite #Pokemon #camp camp #cookie run #the disney company can rot in hell #anti zionisim #zionists DNI #Usually taking breaks from politics #I would gladly steal Pinocchio Frozen and IASW away from Disney #Oh and other Disney stuff too #The Disney company sucks

[bridoesotherjunk]

hey we cyberbullied hollywood into changing sonic's design, maybe we can cyberbully them to get rid of crispy mouse and replace him with someone who ACTUALLY sounds like mario

I doubt there's anyone in the world that can bully Nintendo into doing something they don't want

I dont think I've seen a company quite as strict and protective since Disney went around striking down every t shirt website that had their art on it.

It would be nice to bully them, but they'd have to record Mario's dialogue over again- possibly reanimate if the lips don't sync up with the new person, and they still would have to pay Crisp Rat. Because he already recorded everything and technically provided his services.

I doubt they'll do it.

At least with Sonic, the only problem was just the design. And studios love to abuse the VFX artists and the animators already anyway, so to them that's never as big of a deal. Paying a celebrity when you're not even going to use them? Yeah, they don't like that. They hire these big people and they know how much it will cost. They build a budget around the celebrities.

#Mario #Sonic #Crisp Rat #Sonic movie #Mario movie

[not100bees]

Disney is evil, as any large company is. But I just don't think they're uniquely evil. I think why they get so much specific vitriol is because as well as nintendo they've made such a big part of their brand squeaky cleanness. It's very easy and fun to point out when they do typical big companies shitty stuff. Because they have a squeaky clean brand, it's all the fun of pointing out hypocrisy and you get to feel anti-capitalist at the same time. When they're not any worse than any other company of a similar size, it's just more fun to hate them than like. I don't know. ExxonMobil.

[grooviestsadpapaya]

Like I love the gerudo but that is very low on the list of outfits you should be wearing in the desert, especially since their original purpose was desert Bandits. Genuinely upsetting.

Yes! Like people can say they were “inspired” by Mid-Eastern and African culture all they want, but they weren’t. They were INSPIRED by the West’s idea of those cultures. They were INSPIRED by minstrel shows and caricatures. Same thing goes for stuff like Aladdin that weren’t actually based on the country they were SUPPOSED to take place in, but the very broad umbrella term that is “the Middle East”. Like there are a ton of unique cultures and lifestyles in that area of the world and Nintendo (as well as other big companies like Disney) were like “hmmmm… tan with baggy pant” LIKE… Idk I could rant about this enough to fill an hour long PowerPoint presentation but I’ll do that later lmao. Hope you enjoy my lukewarm take <3

#gerudo

[kiwikipedia]

FGO does it’s first non Type Moon crossover, everyone is waiting with baited breath. Is it another mobile game like Genshin or Arknights? Is it’s a big name company like Disney or Nintendo? Is it some weird obscure manga or franchise that’s referenced Fate in it or something Nasu and Takeuchi are fans of?

The stream starts. The lights are dim.

Silence.

And then you see the silhouette. Twin pigtails, slender form.

And then you hear the music.

It’s Hatsune Fucking Miku.

#she’s also the first even savior class lets gooooooo #I mean In fgo idk what Buddha is doing ngl they used him in one game and never again which #fair #fgo #fate #Hatsune Miku #kiwiki speaks