Also, I agree with Lusi.

Great article :D

I laughed uproariously at this for a good long while. It made my morning.

Also,

They’re all *loons*, and the second we start making reasonable people have to apologize for every loon out there that might superficially agree with us, we’ll all be stuck apologizing until the comet Gochihr strikes the earth and ends our pathetic existence in seas of boiling metal.

This. Forever.

Did I make any mistakes SiliconNooB?”

Everything you say is 100% factually correct, though there is a little extra that can be added. This is the fourth game on the trot that NoA [Treehouse] have butchered. They butchered Fatal Frame V and Xenoblade Chronicles X by removing content. They butchered the most recent handheld Zelda by filling it with internet memes. And now they have butchered Fire Emblem Fates by both cutting content AND filling it with internet memes. The result is basically what you’d get if Working Designs weren’t funny or good at writing dialogue – that is to say a translation which isn’t at all faithful to the original work, while at the same time emitting a pungent air of self-satisfaction at how clever it is [when actually it is neither funny nor clever].

The case of Zelda is particularly funny, as NoE obviously felt that the NoA translation was so cringe that they opted to completely retranslate the English dialogue to have it read normally.

These people have the self-awareness of gnats. Is there anything more dazzlingly stupid than for one anonymous person on the internet to accuse another anonymous person on the internet of hiding behind a computer? All the lazy clod would have to do is Google the text in my screen capture in order for him to gain access to a photo of me and my D.O.B., and getting my name from there probably wouldn’t be much more difficult. Doubt he has the mental bandwidth to think of that by himself though.

Throwing your hands in the air and just pretending that there isn’t an issue doesn’t make the issue go away. That “Megaphone” is being held by more and more people. It’s not a few loud voices anymore. How do you think these people get to be so huge, do you really think that there are THAT many trolls?

Also can we stay on topic here?

Alison Rapp is a terrible person. I have seen it myself that’s my opinion can’t take it away. This was just an added case of C4 that blew my mind and made me double take because I couldn’t believe it until I saw the document myself.

Alison Rapp is an SJW and a member of Treehouse a group of Nintendo Employees that were recently responsible for Fire Emblem Fates Localization. This resulted in much of the game being cut for no other reason than the staff didn’t like it never mind what the development team wanted included.

Did I make any mistakes SiliconNooB?

Look, the Internet has brought us many wonderful things, but it’s also acted as a megaphone for idiots, who congregate with other like-minded idiots, and create a soup of idiots. And these idiots (many times) come from people who have, for better or worse, been subject to ridicule and marginalization for their views (e.g., nerds and geeks). There’s an almost instinctive intent to “circle the wagons” whenever an outsider critiques a member of the “in-group.”

The “left” (not being a monolithic entity) no more needs to clean house than the “right” (which nominally includes fascists, etc.) needs to clean house. Holding leftists responsible for Stalinists is as silly as holding right-wingers responsible for Hitler and neonazis. The less-extreme middles bear no responsibility to silence the more extreme ends. If this Rapp person is as big a numpty as you say, then boo to her, I say. I ain’t sticking my neck out for her, even if she and I are both Marxists (which I am). You know who else was a Marxist? Lenin. Also Mao. But my Marxist theory isn’t Leninism or Maoism. Marxism, like any political idea, is a big tent, and no one is at the gates enforcing ideological adherence, so any lunatic who wants to be a Marxist gets to join up and start saying ignorant shit all over Twitspaces or Faceybooks or whatever young millenial bucks are shitting up my bandwidth with today.

But I give it the same amount of credence I give UFO websites, the TimeCube guy, people who think anime or Harry Potter or the Matrix are real, or the rants of white supremacist bloggers who are scared black dudes are going to fuck their nonexistent girlfriends. They’re all *loons*, and the second we start making reasonable people have to apologize for every loon out there that might superficially agree with us, we’ll all be stuck apologizing until the comet Gochihr strikes the earth and ends our pathetic existence in seas of boiling metal.

I don’t know what this kerfuffle about the new Fire Emblem game is about (as I think the series went majorly off the rails a few releases back and is now a dating sim/bad anime with occasional tactical battles), but cringe-worthy Japanese minigames are not the equivalent to child porn (whether virtual or real).

I’m telling you, the genuine article in this case is disturbing in so many ways, that anyone thinking to defend it or those who consume it as some part of a misguided attempt to stick up for the downtrodden have clearly backed the wrong horse (and I say this as an attorney who has represented people facing these charges; there’s a difference between presenting a legal defense and arguing that they did nothing wrong).

There are plenty of actual marginalized groups if you feel you must fight for a cause; pedophiles and child molestors are the *oppressors* in this situation, and children are their victims (and I include here non-offending pedophiles because, while a very few have managed to go their entire lives without offending, that number is dramatically small, with most engaging in some degree of predatory behaviors, e.g., grooming or illicit contact with minors online).

You might even think it’s a contradiction to support legalizing Child Porn but maybe as an SJW it’s fine to help out and support child pornography because of the poor marginalized pederasts have been oppressed by the Patriarchy.

Anything can make sense when you think of things in terms of SJW thoughts. It doesn’t matter if something contradicts your values as long as the person doing it can be considered somehow oppressed or that they happen to have more melanin in their skin.

Personally I think as long as it stays fiction I don’t mind. Thus why I find it funny that Fire Emblem was censored and when one of the people in charge of that censorship is in favor of real life harm to kids for the poor oppressed pederast.

Side note: I am a gay man that enjoys furry art but more than that I like my fiction the way the creators intended it. I want the ‘gay conversion’ scenes and my ‘tickle me comrade’ mini games back goddammit. It’s OK to include content that some viewers might find offensive- let them be offended. Offense isn’t given it’s taken. Like thieves these perpetually offended take offense at anything and everything without so much as a look into the context.

Anyway sorry for the long replies I just enjoy sharing my thoughts in long form.

Second, there is no evidence consumption of child porn has any effect on rates of child molestation, any more than consumption of adult porn decreases or increases a person’s sex drive.

And a third thing, as someone who has both prosecuted and defended individuals charged with possession of such material, to have seen it and argue for it’s normalization deserves scorn and perhaps a visit from friendly Mr. DHS.

https://archive.is/SFQlA

See, they just ruined what could have been a perfectly reasonable conversation about how a person who is involved professionally with games we may care about is supportive of something we could all be agreeing in perfect harmony is grossly reprehensible. Or even the other news. Instead, a troll did their duty for the team and tried to derail. Not that it made a whit of difference.

You know that feeling when you’re driving perfectly fine and someone next to you flicks you off for no reason? And then you have to spend time trying to figure out why, when really they just want to spread negativity, trying to make themselves feel up by putting you down. Waste of time, nincom-fuckin-poop.

“Let this be a warning about saying something nice about Nintendo on this guys site.”

I must have missed the part where he said something nice about Nintendo… ^_^

https://twitter.com/Stealth___/status/704259458755645440

“Stealth” you win the internet. Tell him what he’s won bob. What’s that? Nothing? He doesn’t understand what criticism is? He is a loser at life? If you want to troll Gamer Gate go to twitter where ideas go to die.

Seriously though, you are the kind of person that most reasonable people should ignore, ridicule, and laugh at. The reasons being are that you think that just by writing an entire group off as a group you don’t like without any evidence at all this means you are absolved of responsibility of investigating. It’s easier for you to just ignore anything anyone says by saying “Lol Gamergate”. I don’t take part in the Hashtag movement and I can’t speak for the author of this article but I don’t really think it matters. Did you even READ the PDF that was linked that shows word for word evidence of what he said about this group? No? Because you are too hardheaded to investigate and change your mind about things? Good- we can ignore you now.

TL;DR: Carry on everyone the troll has been vanquished.

^ That’s dragon for “I’m a massive faggot who came here to shill Nintendo“.

Joking aside I honestly just… I don’t…. what? Like as contemptible as Alison Rapp is (I read her twitter- I KNOW how bad she is.) I didn’t expect this to be a thing. If any more scandalous links appear to the Treehouse I honestly agree with this idea: Chop the Treehouse down burn it and piss on the ashes.

I am even going to give FE Fates the benefit of the doubt and look at the game for myself to see JUST how bad it is. To see just how much I miss or want those features and conversations. To hear the voice acting and decide if it’s as stunted as believed and after that I will not be buying anymore localizations under Treehouse’s guiding hand.

I bet they are the same people responsible for Linkle aren’t they? We had ZELDA you morons. We didn’t NEED a female Link. You morons.