Hbomberguy Raises 346k for Charity for Trans Kids by Torturing Himself playing DK64 101% (LIVE)
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I know Nintendo wouldn't embrace it, it's just wishful dreaming.
Positivite talk about nuclear energy? Hot damn, I love this.
Positivite talk about nuclear energy? Hot damn, I love this.
I think NCL has simply learned to stifle themselves after the whole Tomodachi Life debacle. There has some progress over at IntiSys with gay and lesbian characters. But on the whole I'd be scared to find out what my favorite Nintendo employees' views are on LGBT rights :/
As much as things need to get better in the US, we can at least be glad it's not as bad as in Japan.
Man, why am I just figuring this out now when I'm about to go to sleep and at work tomorrow.
If he's going for 11 days though. I guess I'll have a lot of time to watch.
If he's going for 11 days though. I guess I'll have a lot of time to watch.
Yeah I can't imagine guys like Miyamoto are very progressive on something like sexual or gender issues, given their age and the cultural approach to those issues.
Like Ivankov in One Piece being held up as a "positive" example of a trans character in their media, even though he's a Franknfurter-esque blatant stereotype, simply because he exists.
The thing that sucks about Sorkin isn't that he's really wrong on paper, but his body of work has contributed so hard to the mainstream liberal "they go low, we go high" kind of attitude that prevents us from hitting back in a meaningful way at times. Politics has to get rough sometimes because we're dealing with such shady characters.
People would run serious thinkpieces asking why Obama couldn't be more like Jed Bartlet and it's like because he's a fictional fucking character, asshole. And more to the point many of the Republicans in Sorkin's universe were sane and principled actors, something Obama never had the pleasure of. Anytime any elected Republican tried to build a working relationship with him (see: Charlie Crist, Chris Christie) they were eviscerated by the base.
That's just a joke. He plans to finish in 6 hours. And he said that like two hours ago. But he's been a bit distracted talking with the awesome hosts, so it could take longer.
i few minutes ago he was stuck in a loop of barrels and it took him several minutes to realize it
Hadn't seen that Sorkin quote yet. It's hardly a new development but I'm always disheartened by how out of touch he is, in pretty much every imaginable way.
Glad I'm listening/watching this. Learning quite a bit from the discussion.
Well, "old Japanese people" is pretty much Miyamoto and an HR director at this point. Everyone else is in their mid-50s or younger now on the Board (at least the internal Nintendo people).
Well, "old Japanese people" is pretty much Miyamoto and an HR director at this point. Everyone else is in their mid-50s or younger now on the Board (at least the internal Nintendo people).
Didn't know who this Burger Becky lady was but holy shit she has an impressive resume:
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,343/
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,343/
Eh, that scene is 15 years old now, so I stand by my comment, lol.
People also praised Niles and Rhajat from Fire Emblem Fates simply for existing too, even though they were made to be walking embodiments of the "perverted, deviant homosexual" stereotype. However, I think Leon from Shadows of Valentia is probably the first genuinely positive LGBT character Nintendo has ever produced. He has feelings for Valbar, and it is treated narratively like every other romance in the game - as a normal feeling from a normal guy. Much as I didn't really like that game that was super cool to see.
I'm just sayin', next time people shit on my fav DK64 I'mma have to ask how much money your favorite Rare platformer has raised for trans rights. Lol.
Headline next month: "Youtuber "Shaun" raises 1.3 million dollars playing Jet Force Gemini"
Oh dang, his in-game time is only at 33 hours? I will actually be a little embarrassed if someone who doesn't even like this game beats my 101% clear xD
Call me in February! Lol.
The feelings of living in the worst timeline but then something like this happens. It's like, if we borrow Robin Hobb's Elderlings saga's lore, hbomberguy is a catalyst who has just pushed the world on a better path in a relatively big way, which is refreshing to see in a world where so many selfish factions are pushing the world on a worse path just for personal gains.
She's legendary. What she did to get Another World on SNES is no less than wizardry.
Fun fact, she also did a webcomic adaptation of a Sailor Moon and Ranma crossover fanfiction.
(and also a bunch of follow-ons to said fanfiction)
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Has he really been going on for 54 hours and half non stop? He pauses to eat and for bathroom reasons right? Even so no sleep? How much longer can he still go before people are concerned about his health?
He's only played for about 34 or 35 hours, so he's gotten a lot of sleep compared to many other marathon things and remarkably donations continued at a pretty good pace even when it's just a couple people talking over a picture of a skeleton.
He's taken sleep breaks, but I think for this last stretch he'll stay up.
Crap, what was that about water in nuclear energy Lindsay was talking about? Didn't quite get the entire phrase.
Yeah, it would have been insane if he was really up for that long with no rest and still with a chunk of the game to go.
I used to do marathons like this (we would raise super-impressive sums of $300 or $400 for charity each year, for massive crowds of 10 or 12 people). My record was 42 hours with no sleep, during which time we streamed all of Mother 3 and EarthBound (I even grinded for the Sword of Kings). The human body can take a lot of abuse, lol.
Japan is retrograde on LGBT in particular, though in a different way than other societies. It's not demonized but it's not something that's to be expressed in public either. In very modern media that's starting to change, but yeah, wouldn't expect 50+ year olds to be down with any of that.
I mean watching Newsroom is such a surreal, painful, almost entertaining purely on a level of seeing how unhinged this man is look into his broken ass psyche. A bunch of old ass out of touch boths sides screeching white dudes... reciting the news.
That's what he thinks is important.
Really says something when you consider that to be the worst position of the entire stream on something.
