Sorry, I'm tired right now, but I'm having a hard time parsing this.
Do you mean more deplorable view? Or am I reading this wrong?
6 posts before Daddy Peterson came out.
How common is this war crime denying in the general population of Japan ? I've had a friend telling me he had also seen Hiroki Kikuta retweeting something along the lines that Nanking/Nanjing was a lie.
What is more interesting than our responses is those of the DQ fans in Japan.
What do they think about this guy?
Do they even care?
As I expected. Disappointing but expected.I asked my brother who lives in Japan and it's not really something the Japanese care about. His opinions horrible as they are, are known for ages. He's still considered a living legend or The Big Boss of music
Thanks for this. The shit espoused by those people infuriates me. I'm glad someone is covering it.Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
Thanks for this. The shit espoused by those people infuriates me. I'm glad someone is covering it.
Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
Very glad this is receiving mainstream attention. But he should have asked SE for comment like any real journalist should if a company's employee/longtime contractor does something like this.Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
I follow Naughty Dog on FB, and man, the outrage they and also Sony received when they changed their logo in June, absolutely disgusting. Fortunately there are also a lot of ppl dunking on these folks in the comments, but still. Just horrible, horrible people.I saw the article on Facebook, their Facebook page attracts some of the worst gamers like flies. I don't get it, it's not even anonymous either and people still share their bigotry. Thanks Kotaku for posting something.
This is a good start.Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
1) About Japanese crimes in WW II - he is wrong and he probably knows it. Just check "Nanking massacre" in Google...
2) He is right about LGBT. "LGBT" is nothing more but another Marxist construct to fight with traditional Christian society. End of story.
Glad to see a large publication shine a light.Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
To be fair to Brian, I learned at the AV Club that the headlines are written by different people, and since they are owned both by Univision (hopefully will change soon, at least with AV Club) and both use fucking Kinja, I think this applies to Kotaku as well...?That Kotaku article's headline is equivalent to that "Protester killed by LAPD bullet" headline.
I follow Naughty Dog on FB, and man, the outrage they and also Sony received when they changed their logo in June, absolutely disgusting. Fortunately there are also a lot of ppl dunking on these folks in the comments, but still. Just horrible, horrible people.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention, it's 2018, one thing they learned is that it's apparently okay these days to be vocal about that shit. I learned that the hard way last christmas with my brother-in-law, let's keep it brief and just say that meeting around that time won't be a tradition anymore.
Bumping this because it's funny and real as fuck.
Canceling my CE preorder. Only partly because of this but also just a ton of stuff coming out in the weeks around it.
Thank you, that's very nice of you. Will suck to not see all my sisters from now on, my mother called me the next day and told me that we won't be doing it anymore, she also had it with that shit, so I'll just visit her this christmas.Oh yes I saw that as well. I've never saw so many people quick to call others snowflakes so upset at a rainbow before.
Any company changing their icons to rainbows got a plethora of abuse.
I'm sorry about your brother-in-law. :(
I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm judging you. It's different. :)
You wanna judge people, we can judge you too. Don't like it? Too bad. Be the better person!
You think war crime denial and laughing at LGBT suicide is the same as being a-okay with time doing it's job to a garbage person.
And please, don´t accuse me of anything for finding many of the post here as distasteful as what is being said.
Unfortunately for you, you aren't.
Glad to see it getting some attention at least. It's still shocking how despite this stuff being tackled quickly when it happens in the west, with a Japanese personality everyone just clams up.Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
Pleased to see Kotaku caring enough to put in the work.Well, Kotaku picked it up with a shout-out to duckroll:
https://kotaku.com/politician-made-anti-lgbtq-comments-on-dragon-quest-com-1827885043
It focuses on Mio Sugita though, but Sugiyama is mentioned
Perhaps people find it easier to rationalise and distance themselves from personalities' problematic sides when there's a language and cultural barrier in place. Can't help but feel that Neil Druckmann couldn't get away with even a tenth of the things Hideo Kojima's been up to without getting calls for his resignation.Glad to see it getting some attention at least. It's still shocking how despite this stuff being tackled quickly when it happens in the west, with a Japanese personality everyone just clams up.
If a Naughty Dog composer showed up on Fox News regularly as a commentator laughing at kids in cages, how would that go down?
Wow. Just like the other place I feel afraid of saying anything here now. I'm actually pissed off tho because people put words in my mouth. I did not set out to equalize anything. Obviously this dude is a horrible human being but two wrongs don't make things right and me saying this does not automatically mean that I'm putting those wishing for his death on the same level. Geez!
Glad to see it getting some attention at least. It's still shocking how despite this stuff being tackled quickly when it happens in the west, with a Japanese personality everyone just clams up.
If a Naughty Dog composer showed up on Fox News regularly as a commentator laughing at kids in cages, how would that go down?
The "but his music is great!" argument: maybe the argument kind of meant something back in the days of the seminal DQVIII (if you're a person who advocates for a separation of the art from the artist). However his newer work sounds like absolute shit both in terms of composition and quality. It doesn't seem, to me, like there's much talent left for people to try to rationalize support for.
Maybe you should be afraid to post here if your first thought in coming off a 5-day ban is "I should continue wagging my finger at people who are expressing anger and frustrating towards an evil, despicable man." Maybe instead of stewing in your own saltiness for those five days, you should have asked yourself why it makes you more upset that people are angry at Sugiyama than you are with Sugiyama himself.Wow. Just like the other place I feel afraid of saying anything here now. I'm actually pissed off tho because people put words in my mouth. I did not set out to equalize anything. Obviously this dude is a horrible human being but two wrongs don't make things right and me saying this does not automatically mean that I'm putting those wishing for his death on the same level. Geez!
You seriously just bumped a thread about a man who laughs at the idea of LGBT people committing suicide to whine about how unfair you think your temp ban on a gaming forum was?Wow. Just like the other place I feel afraid of saying anything here now. I'm actually pissed off tho because people put words in my mouth. I did not set out to equalize anything. Obviously this dude is a horrible human being but two wrongs don't make things right and me saying this does not automatically mean that I'm putting those wishing for his death on the same level. Geez!
It's probably because it's more easier to do something about a western person in a west media than the contrary. It's why many things with japanese companies don't go anywhere most of the times. And they can't interfere unlike here as well since it's happening in Japan where they don't have influence.
Also, if a Pedophile like Kenshin author did the same in the west, he wouldn't be back on his job on few months later without any punishment by the jury but here we are with the actual reality where the contrary happened.
I mean, we're allowed to think that something is great even if the person is a shit. We're not talking about objectivity but subjectivity as well when saying things like that.
Wow. Just like the other place I feel afraid of saying anything here now. I'm actually pissed off tho because people put words in my mouth. I did not set out to equalize anything. Obviously this dude is a horrible human being but two wrongs don't make things right and me saying this does not automatically mean that I'm putting those wishing for his death on the same level. Geez!
On top of my suggestions, Takayuki Hattori could very well replace Sugiyama for the soundtrack of Dragon Quest. His music is excellent and he also worked with his father on Final Fantasy compositions. Japan isn't lacking skilled composers who could boot Sugiyama out of this earth.
Wow. Just like the other place I feel afraid of saying anything here now. I'm actually pissed off tho because people put words in my mouth. I did not set out to equalize anything. Obviously this dude is a horrible human being but two wrongs don't make things right and me saying this does not automatically mean that I'm putting those wishing for his death on the same level. Geez!
Even that is asking too much. I can see them ignoring this and hoping people will forget. I mean, most don't really care anyway and will buy the games he is working on.Well, all I can hope is that he dies and his replacement isn't a complete cunt. I'm not expecting anything out of SE other than a 'please understand' and a bow.