Richard Oakes, born on this day in 1942, was a Mohawk indigenous activist and leader within the Red Power movement, playing a prominent role in the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island from 1969 - 1971.
Oakes promoted Native American studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change U.S. federal government "Termination" policies (policies regarding assimilation of indigenous people into the culture of the colonizer) of Native American peoples and culture.
In 1969, Oakes led a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. On January 5th, 1970, Oakes' 12-year-old daughter, Yvonne, fell to her death from concrete steps. After her funeral, Oakes left the island.
In 1972, Oakes was shot and killed in Sonoma, California, by Michael Morgan, a YMCA camp manager. Allegedly, Oakes violently confronted Morgan, and Morgan responded by drawing a handgun and fatally shooting Oakes.
Oakes was unarmed when he was shot. Morgan claimed he acted in self-defense, and was acquitted on charges of voluntary manslaughter.
"We do not fear your threat to charge us with crimes on our land. We and all other oppressed peoples would welcome spectacle of proof before the world of your title by genocide. Nevertheless, we seek peace."
Richard Oakes
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The armor in CP2077 is weirding me out. It's not 80s retro, it doesn't look like 20th century webgear. It's not contemporary sci-fi tactical armor, the kind of slick surfaces real-robot look that Blomkamp brought in to the forefront of cinema. What it really looks like, more than anything, is cheap air-soft gear from the early GWOT. Like there's no cool GitS, Appleseed, Captain Power, any armor that hits that stylish 80s Manga thing, nor is there any of the hypermodern, real robot, slick helmets with no visors stuff for V to wear. As near as I can tell there's just these aramid vests that look like crappy 90s flak vests. And all the tactical gear is weirdly out of place. Like again, it's not 80s webgear, but it's not modern webgear either. Everything is heavy stitched nylon, velcro, web straps. there's none of the slick face, laser cut, positive retention gear you see in high end modern tactical kit, or any attempt at doing a futuristic version of that. It's super weird. It's all archaic, but not archaic enough to be stylish so it just looks, idk, dorky.
And, like... idk, they're definitely not drawing from ACRONYM or Stone Island or any of the major techware vibes for their looks. Nor do they really nail the 80s glam look. Really, the only term I can come up with for this game is "Poser". the ultimate sin in punk is to try, and CP2077 is trying so hard and it's so embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUwaKEXuFJQ
On that note, this was the best TV show ever, if you had a VCR in the early 90s.
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I think I played most of my save in some combination of Motoko Kusanagi and Lucy from Edgerunners outfits modded in
Yeah, i saw those and they're reasonably well done, but it's not my look at all. The Kusanagi outfits I've found are the horny manga ones and I much prefer the more grounded tactical 1995 look. Like i'd legit go in to battle butt ass naked if someone did Mokoto's barbie-doll anatomy full replacement cyberbody. And i can see they were trying to do something like her flak vest, some of her civvie clothes. But it just doesn't land. I keep coming back to the contradiction between one of the game's mottos, "style versus substance", and my subjective experience. If your style has no substence, if it isn't arising organically from who you are, what you know, what you do, then you are trying to be cool. And if you're trying to be cool then you are, by definition, a poser.
Found more cp2077 slander i like; https://carminerodi.blog/2020/12/13/cyberpunk-2077-style-over-substance-review-good-but-not-so-good/
This game is fascinating, utterly fascinating, because it fails to be what it claims so hard. It calls itself Cyberpunk. It claims the title, it claims authenticity, throws it's knife in to the dance floor linoleum and dare's anyone to pick it up. It cannot reject any challenger. And it fails! At every turn! And the people who crow about it, who hold it up as the best of the best, are exactly the kind of square, conformist dorks the punks at least pretended to despise. It's just an astonishing work of accidental art, the ultimate expression of banal corporate memphis that can't even manage to masquerade as punk. And, to attain even hire plateaus of irony, punk had a large elemnt of corporate marketing influence! I cannot look away!
Do you remember the side mission where you find a website full of (weird, rambling, semi-incoherent) theory and Johnny basically turns to the camera and goes "only losers read theory" and you find out the site is a LLM made to troll anyone who might be considering having any actual ideology?