https://x.com/Mangalawyer/status/2111158023343218838/video/1?s=46

This video link summarizes her thoughts well. Wondering what people think of this woman and if her take adds to the discussion?

Ok so I noticed it starting with Pragmata where they were just accusing anyone of liking the game of being nonces because despite all their claims about wanting men to be going against the gender stereotype mould and caring more about kids and being the carers for kids they were man men suddenly felt the desire to protect and care for Diana. I brushed this off though considering how many of the woke side have terrible relationships with their parents.

Recently though I'd noticed they just going more unhinged from them defending Wolverines fart trails just to "Own the Chuds" and saying it's how all games should be to a recent interaction with some woke types relating to the Malfoid trend (for those unfamiliar some on twitter decided to do a gender swapped Draco Malfoy and from there it went to basically meme re-writes of Harry Potter to be a mix of insane and edgelord and also insanely cute all at once). What happened with Malfoid was a Japanese artist on Bluesky did fanart for Malfoid in her normal style and Bluesky fucking lost their mine and harassed the artist so badly they took down the art and apologised and then didn't stop so the artist deleted her account there. I brought that up and had some woke people come in saying it was all a plot by Russia to spread division and that all the anti-woke chuds were just being played by Russia as usual....... I've seen similar sentiments getting spread by the woke side in relation or other controversies too, mostly ones they created like trying to re-write the backlash to Hogwarts Legacy as just a myth spread by Russian bots and no-one actually was shitty to people over it other than the anti-woke side who were mean or something. Oh and there's even been multiple videos about how Malfoid is some secret grand plan from the KKK or something to recruit people.

I mean, I know the woke side aren't the most attached to reality at the best of times but claiming everything is some secret Russian plot. Defending stupid shit to "Own the Chuds" and suddenly a shocking amount of them are sounding like Alex Jones, only without the tiny nugget of truth that made Jones's rants more interesting.

If not for KIA and maybe TrueUnpopularOpinion, I'd have stopped using this garbage site a long time ago.

Every other community is run by power-tripping basement dwellers who will censor and tone-police whatever you say. I'm not even talking about ones that are primarily focused on politics, I'm talking about EVERY SINGLE ONE. You're required to behave like you're in an HR meeting, down to the words you choose to use. One of my posts (Which had hundreds of upvotes by the time of its removal), was removed yesterday solely for saying "mogged." Another time, I was permanently banned from a sub for lonely people because I'm active here. I didn't even break any rules. Oh yeah, the same thing happened in one about a disability I have because I used a no-no word (The "r word" in this particular case), to describe myself.

Half the time, I can't even submit anything before a bot scrubs it automatically.

This is the only place I feel welcome. Thank you to whoever created it.

While it doesn't adapt the source material 100% faithfully. The new live action street fighter movie is probably as close to a faithful adaptation of the source material as you can expect from modern Hollywood.

The movie actually has sex appeal in it. Nothing too dirty, no more than what you'd expect to see in a Connery/Moore Era James Bond film. Cammy's outfit actually has exposed thighs, in the scene where Ryu fights Blanka in the prison there are female prisoners with exposed cleavage, there's a shower scene with Chun-Li like in the SF2 OVA (though no full frontal), and also they allowed Vega/M Bison (a villain inspired by Muammar Gaddaffi) to actually have his harem of sexy Ninja Henchwomen known as 'The Dolls'.

Though admittedly they do not fully adapt the edgier plot of the games and Udon Comics of the Dolls being human trafficking victims who were brainwashed by Bison to be his personal battle harem, as well as his literal harem. That just wouldn't fly today.

But the fact they adapted any sort of sex appeal in this movie at all. Even if it's purely cosmetic. Is miles ahead of the sanitized stuff we get from the MCU and DC movies, where almost all the sex appeal (eg. Revealing outfits, Appealing Character Designs, 'kinky shit' for lack of a better term) in the source material is sanitized out for the modern audience. I guess Capcom realized that sex appeal and character design was just too integral to the Street Fighter Brand to just let Hollywood slopify it.

The casting on the other hand, is all over the place and not authentic to the game. The actor playing Ryu is half white, not fully Japanese like the source material. The actor playing Dan Hibiki is literally a white guy, not a drop of Japanese blood in him. Blanka is Brazilian (before he's experimented on and turned into a monster) in the original games, but played by a Mixed Race Polynesian Jason Momoa (though Blanka's mother IS white in the original games).
The only characters who are cast authentically and aren't white in the source material, are Chun-Li and Dhalsim.

Edit: And Balrog.

It doesn't hurt the movie that much for me personally. I'm grateful the adaptation is as faithful as it is. But it does kind of take you out of it if you're really into these characters and the games like me.

All that having been said? I was expecting more vocal criticism of the movie from the usual suspects on the usual websites over some of the choices the film made made (eg. Mary Sue, Racebending, Blue Sky, X and Tumblr). And i'm not seeing much if any complaints about this movies at all by those people. Not like the backlash you would have expected for a movie doing the same thing if this movie had come out in 2010-2016. (See the backlash to both Shymalans Last Airbender and 47 Ronin for both 'inauthentic casting' and in the latters case 'fetishing' female characters).

In the post Weinstein post MeToo Hollywood, Sex Appeal of mostly any kind has been sucked out of entertainment. Even in source material that got it's original success because of said sex appeal (See Game Of Thrones graphisc scenes of female nudity, vs no female nudity in a plot where several characters are literal whores in Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms. Or literally any post Disney buyout MCU, The CW/Arrowverse, Post-James Gunn DCU movie where none of the designs in the comics make it to the big screen.)

So I expected the one example of a movie or show that didn't toe the line, to attract a lot more vocal haters. Is this a sign that culture is finally starting to heal? Or did this movie just slip through the cracks because nobody expected much of it to begin with given the track record for video game adaptations?

https://gonintendo.com/contents/66213-atelier-karia-devs-detail-weight-change-mechanic-costume-choices-and-more

"Fan voices have been heard"

I'm not judging anyone's preferences, but nowadays so many villains end up having too much nuance or a sad backstory instead of simply being evil and reveling in it. I just wanted to see if anyone else misses the old bad guys, or if I'm the only one.

Hear me out: I’m not saying Street Fighter (2026) is a masterpiece, or even that it’s especially well written. The writing often takes a back seat, and plenty of the criticism is fair. The movie has its flaws.

Still, some of the complaints I’ve seen feel a little overblown or at least not like deal-breakers to me.

The first thing that struck me was how much it felt like a movie from the ’90s or early 2000s, and I mean that as a compliment. The humor, the dialogue, the fan service… I honestly didn’t think a movie like this could still get made in 2026. It’s clear the people behind it love the franchise, and the character designs are remarkably faithful, including the women’s.

I never thought I’d see a big movie in 2026 that wasn’t afraid to draw attention to Chun-Li’s thighs and Cammy’s ass. The film doesn’t censor that part of the source material; it leans into it, and the people making it are happy to promote that. It’s also one of the things the “specialized” press seems to complain about most. To be fair, I think some of the coverage makes a much bigger deal of it than the movie does. There’s fan service, sure, but reading some reviews, you’d think the whole thing was basically a porno. The ’90s animated movie showed a lot more.

I even saw one journalist get worked up over a scene where Chun-Li takes a shower, even though she’s completely covered by steam. Meanwhile, nobody seemed bothered by the shot of a sumo wrestler’s ass. Funny how that works.

The humor and dialogue get a similar reaction. The movie mixes ’90s-style comedy with 2020s internet humor “Ahhh, yes, step on me, Cammy,” for example. It’s not exactly DEI-friendly humor, and that seems to have pushed some critics’ buttons. One journalist even accused the film of homophobia because it used the word “freak.”

There are lines I never expected to hear in a modern movie like this, either: “I don’t get why he’s obsessed with your thighs” and “Careful, hot stranger women are coming you know what to do,” delivered in a very pervy way. Basically, it has pretty much everything the “male gaze” crowd could want, female characters included.

Some reviews also seem to overlook the film’s strengths. Take the fights. People keep saying there are no tournament fights. Technically, that’s true: the movie skips some matches between minor characters. But we still get plenty of fights with the three leads Chun-Li, Ryu, and Ken. From the way some critics describe it, you’d think there were only two or three fights in the whole movie. That feels a bit misleading.

The character designs stick close to the source without looking cringe, and the movie doesn’t shy away from the fan service. The fights are generally well choreographed, even if they’re not mind-blowing. My favorite part, though, is the anime-style sequences. They’re so well animated that I caught myself wondering if this should’ve just been an animated movie.

Without spoiling anything, a few of the reveals genuinely caught me off guard. And even if the writing is mostly an afterthought, the characters’ lore is at least respected. Ryu and Ken get some interesting moments. Bison, though, is a big disappointment the animated movie did him so much better. I also would’ve rather seen Cammy’s personality given to another character, maybe Juli. That’s just my preference, though. Cammy’s personality works; it’s simply not what I would’ve chosen for her.

So, should you watch it?

I’d say yes. This movie is clearly aimed at geeky guys somewhere between 25 and 50 who play video games. If you’re in this sub, there’s a decent chance that’s you.

People here complain all the time about censorship, unattractive female characters, woke content, toned-down humor, and fan service disappearing. Well, this is a chance to support a movie that actually brings some of that stuff back. I’ll say it again: this doesn’t feel like a movie made in 2026. Even if you don’t end up liking it, buying a ticket could be a rare chance to show studios there’s still an audience for this kind of movie. Sometimes you have to vote with your wallet.

Niche Gamer was where most of my gaming news was coming from. Given the recent pining for censorship they seem to have, I'm once again searching for a good outlet or source for gaming news. Preferably some site that just tells it straight, without articles about opinions on why we need more main characters with vitiligo.

Just... come on man... I can't even refund cause I pre-ordered. Other statues you can 'interact', these you must destroy. Tarot card wielding protagonist smashes statues of Holy Mary for personal gain. Pretty sharp change from a series that was pretty black and white "Christians vs Vampires".

They don't say the name in game as far as I can tell, but everyone I've asked all says it's immediately obvious that it's supposed to be the Virgin Mary and several unofficial guides refer to them as such.

Can't play this game, that's a line I won't be crossing just to chill on the couch.

OBVIOUSLY TYPO IN TITLE, I AM ON MY PHONE SORRY

It's from volume 13 of Cerebus, the Aardvark which is part of the "Going Home" arc.

It's creator, Dave Sim, was one of the only comic book writers in history that was critical of the feminist movement and he once said in an essay that if feminists get too much control over the comic book industry, there would be a huge push for cencorship and that the way women would be portrayed will be changed for the worst. He was later shunned and forgotten from the comic book industry because of this and other similar statements.

The skeptic in me in no way trusts Congress not to be bought off, and I’d still take any odds that this never this sees a floor vote and dies in committee. But at least the conversation has begun (in the US; the EU has far better consumer protection laws).

This sentence is the publishers’ worst nightmare: “Consumers must have the right to own, the right to play, and the right to transfer the games they buy,” Torres said in a press release. “A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale.”

https://x.com/house_house_/status/2110599487228117283?s=46

What’s funny is that this is having the opposite effect, most people are shitting on the devs for being brainbroken by Isreal (even on the woke ass Xbox sub) more than they are paying attention to the so-called “genocide”, it’s almost like gamers just want to play video games or something.