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>Have you listened to any of them, yet?
No. Honestly, another thing is I'm not sure HOW much of the series I should play beforehand. They're supplemental material after all, and so far I've only played two games.
>It's because those forms visually invoke the concept of corruption, and I just don't like it
I thought about it and figured that may be the case, the anxiety over the possibility of seeing her mind and personality become compromised to the point she becomes something other than herself. I hate it too. I stumbled upon a fanfic on Fanfiction.net once with this very concept, up to and including personality excretion and death. Blanc was even the first victim. I immediately clicked off and never read further. I despise Cru's doujins as well, they're just depraved to the core, and he portrays the goddesses as essentially disposable meat toilets. Why'd they have to be the majority of translated Nep doujins?
Anyway, while there is little information available in English on the Chaos forms, of what is there, Blanc was not brainwashed or corrupted by the Chaos energy and somehow retains her normal personality and alignment (at least mostly). How, I don't know, but I like to chalk it up to just her own strong will, especially considering NONE of the other main goddesses, even Neptune, could resist its effects. So you can lay that concern to rest.
>MGR
That's on my GOG wishlist at the moment. Just waiting for a good sale, at least 50%.
>The Joker movie in contrast was given a bunch of labels and ideas attached to it just from a bunch of memes and stereotypes, before anyone even saw the fucking movie.
A self-fulfilling prophecy if I ever saw one. They were told the Joker embodied the incel movement, so "incels" watched it and went "wow, he really is literally me". It probably helped that the movie even referenced the "society" meme in possibly the best way possible.
>I've known too many people that buck the stereotypes of any given identity to really subscribe to any flavor of identity politics.
Well, for me, even before we consider 13/56, gay bathhouse AIDS orgies, E.S.T., etc., I see a lot of shoneniggers disparaging anime fanservice and otaku games, I see a lot of fags joining in with them and also constantly demanding to be catered to in games with romance options, I see women constantly parrot Anita Sarkeesianisms, and most importantly, I see corporate media constantly bending over to cater to these crowds and allow them to shit up the things I enjoy. I can't have Rune Factory now without bara furries wanting to sodomize me, I can't have Xenoblade without DEI quotas and the aforementioned crowd screeching about the fanservice (I consider Xenoblade 2 to be one of the most unfairly smeared games in history. Were you there for the fuckhuge shitflinging fest that was the game's prerelease? Hell, one notorious /v/ shitposter made his whole name spamming this one webm of Kora's Blade Quest deriding it as immature "japanese humor". He spammed threads for YEARS!), and I've seen countless other franchises fall to the pozz virus. In fact, in large part it's what's responsible for driving me to these shameless otaku games to begin with. Here are games where cute anime girls are law and fanservice is paramount, driven by niche devs who exist solely to cater to their base of turboweebs. Here, the faggots and ugly browns (only cute anime browns allowed) cannot touch me, there is no space for them in these worlds. So what do they do? They just fucking kill them by denying them a platform using the typical roastie women and faggot justifications. I can't have FUCKING ANYTHING because of these subhumans! Do you have any idea how much resentment that breeds?
>I agree with this so much, but I just don't see it happening. Hell, I'm shocked anything is being done about the banks.
I like to be at least a bit optimistic. The idea of "brand/reputational risk" is being attacked much more viciously now as THE excuse for corporate censorship, especially when wielded by monopolies or duopolies with near-total control over their domain, making alternatives non-existent or non-viable. And I don't think it's a long leap to go from "this payment processor duopoly with near-total control over online transactions should not have the right to police content" to "this storefront monopoly/duopoly with near-total control over distribution of an extremely popular media format should not be allowed to police content this strictly". Yeah, it's not ESSENTIAL like payment processors are, but video games are a huge industry, and many artists and developers make their livelihoods off it. Livelihoods which are dependent on Sony, Nintendo and Steam and their distribution platforms. If the government cannot police this content, why should they?
>>8514
>There's also the problem that you still "technically" have options
Yeah, "technically" being the keyword there. Much like with VISA/Mastercard, "technically" you still have other cards (that all have the same policies since they use VISA/MC's network) and crypto, but anyone can tell you that crypto doesn't scale and is not really a viable alternative. Video game storefronts are the same; "technically" you have options, but they are so minuscule compared to the major storefronts that they aren't really options. I do kinda wanna see them try to port the Re;Births to the Dreamcast just for the hell of it. Or even better, VII, since the whole story is essentially about rescuing the Dreamcast (Uzume) from oblivion. In all honesty, part of me wants to see SEGA reenter the console wars once Xbox drops out, but looking at them, I can tell they won't be much different from Sony and Nintendo these days.