A fascinating thread, and as a fellow Japanese person it's interesting to see how Yellow Peril manifests itself in the worst way possible as the genre gets more co-opted by western corporate powers
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Yellow Peril refers to the racism and phobia of East Asia, which was characteristic of western countries in the 20th century (ironically, since this was also the age of Orientalism and Japonisme)
While Yellow Peril can and does refer to anti-Asian immigration laws and then internment during WWII, it does extend out to very uncomfortably recent times...
I think the funniest thing about CP77 is not the wealth of bugs but also just how automatic and everywhere bug finding and reporting is
I don't follow gaming news relaly, I don't really seek it out - it either ends up on my Twitter timeline or via some means like YouTube subscriptions
but like a couple of mornings ago I woke up, checked a random Telegram group chat I'm in and someone found a bug where they could accelerate by walking along street gutters like they were on a CSGO surf server
I don't want to talk about Mastodon because I felt like I said my piece, but everything under the sun for the past week or so has seemingly tried to compel me to talk about it
What is immensely frustrating is that the stuff I tried to be more sympathetic and excuse as just personal preference in my original piece ended up happening anyway in more or less the worst possible way, and now I feel annoyed at myself for not being more assertive originally
I think I've mentioned it before, but I'll mention it again:
If you have even a remote interest in online platform development, ESPECIALLY when developing to take on an entrenched competitor, @FoldableHuman's essay on Vidme is a must-watch