It's all hatred against women to fuel male G*mers pipedream about hate fucking and murdering the opposite sex. yea Oh I'm sorry, these are "zombies" (also a stand in for immigrants) so it's permitted.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The zombie fad (I don't mean Romero-era, I mean the post 2000s shit) was a blank check for chuds to jerk it to power fantasies of murdering the others while being praised for being an alpha bro he-man because gun. I hated it and I'm glad it's on the wane. pathetic

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      The zombie fad (I don't mean Romero-era, I mean the post 2000s shit) was a blank check for chuds to jerk it to power fantasies of murdering the others while being praised for being an alpha bro he-man because gun. I hated it and I'm glad it's on the wane.

      As a crushing blow to me this formulated in Resi 6 which was just super-charged with the racism and othering of african men as "savages" and had you playing a white roided out action hero with a gun. Sucked because I'm a big Capcom fan and I still can't wrap my head around that game. Not sure if it was just stupidity on the part of developers that have never visited africa nor lived in a society with african people or straight up racism.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Japanese culture is notorious for racism against black people. Painted with a broad brush Japanese culture is notoriously xenophobic. You'll see similarly fucked depictions of Africans in a lot of anime. I assume Resident Evil 5 was Japanese racism and stereotypes towards Africans being expressed and not directly connected to the American Zombie Chud phenomena.

      • Justaguymakingapost [he/him]
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        I dont won't to be an ass, but did you mean Resi 5? Also, while I agree with you overall, I will say the game could've worked if they leaned more into the colonization angle that's present in it. The main bad guy is a blonde white guy with a fetish for wearing black leather and making people "superior", iirc, all he's missing is a red armband. He's allied himself with a corporate white lady who's completely fine with his experimentation on the local people of the area her company has taken land from and built factories on, as well as morally bankrupt arms dealer Steve Buscemi.

        Hopefully, when they remake 5, they'll push that idea more into the mainplot instead of just finding it in optional notes through out the games. They can still have the notes to flesh it out a little, just have Wesker talk about how using a populace of "globally unimportant peoples" allowed them to carry out their experimentation with less concern of being noticed. Have Sheva talk more about her personal experiences while befriending Chris during the game, like what they did with Ashley ReRE 4. If they want to be a little more on the nose, they could have random bsaa members in the game express how "unhappy" they are to be in Africa.

        It has potential, but it depends on how willing they are to make chuds mad at them for being woke.

        Edit: also, please remove the huts and grass skirts section of the game. Like, just, why would you put that in there?

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Edit: also, please remove the huts and grass skirts section of the game. Like, just, why would you put that in there?

          Why indeed? us-foreign-policy

          • Justaguymakingapost [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I actually played RE 5 again recently, after watching a Castle Super Beast episode featuring SphereHunter in it. A little ways through they mentioned it and said something about "grass skirts and huts", and I thought ,"It wasn't that bad was it?", and played it for a few hours. For awhile, it was just a worse version of RE 4: parasites, murder monsters, slightly better companion mechanic, 80's action hero character. Then I got to THAT part and I legit had my mouth hang open. It really was that bad, honestly.

      • CannotSleep420
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        1 year ago

        I think it was 5 with the racist African depictions, not 6.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The Resi games were good before they became action games deeper-sadness

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Which I always found kinda sad when Carpenter, whether he meant it or not, made very good poignant statements against white hero syndrome in his first few zambooni movies

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Which I always found kinda sad when Carpenter, whether he meant it or not, made very good poignant statements against white hero syndrome in his first few zambooni movies

        We live in a society society where fucking Starship Troopers the movie, made by a guy that hated the book and wanted a long satirical dunk on it, has been declared as one of the inspirations for an entire generation of modern fascists, slogans and all.

        What chance did Carpenter have there? failure

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          I think that's why he never stated it's what he meant (he seems to have a general disgust towards the consumptive habits of movie viewers in rejecting or destroying meaning in film), even though having your black hero getting killed by a white mob of hicks and cops in the fucking 70s is beyond fucking subtle unless you happen to be an alien that just arrived on Earth