Curious about how often those debates are with women who directly critique them.
Relatively often.
First of all there's nothing inherently wrong with being abrasive.
When you're alienating people on your side? There absolutely is.
In fact between me making that post yesterday and now, I've gotten 12 PMs from people thanking me for that post, some claiming they were "too afraid" to say anything in fear of getting banned. Some of those PMs acknowledged that sometimes you make good arguments, but they just don't want to be on your side when you argue the way you do.
Second of all I do not use my race as a shield in anyway shape or form wtf?
You played the "I'm black" card in this very thread. And don't get me wrong, I've played the "I'm a minority, I'm Jewish" card too, but only to give context to my opinion and not elevate it above anyone else's.
And yes in a lot of ways being informed due to actually working and understanding the workflow and intent behind a lot of design decisions absolutely helps in discussions.
But it doesn't make you an authority on it, especially when you're talking about the workflow and intent in other regions that you're completely ignorant to beyond cherry-picked articles that fit your narrative while ignoring the ones that don't.
Many times people do express sexist views while defending character designs like Cindy, Kat's Alts, Quiet, etc.
Which in turn goes back to the point that you're attacking someone's person rather than their argument. You don't just do it with gaming, you do it with politics and other stuff here.
95% of the time I've referenced the information that input in a post. Half the time I put said information in that post via a link.
95% is a gross exaggeration, and on the rare occasions you do, you dismiss all links with counter-claims as either biased or ignore it outright despite them often coming from unbiased sources.
Flowers of evil is not the only anime I've at any point said is worth my time but ok.
Okay, I guess things have changed since
this post earlier in the year (and the rest of that thread is similarly filled with misinformation about anime and the industry from you)? And in another thread from earlier in the year, there's
this post asserting how much more "mature" western cartoons are than anime while later in the thread confirming that you don't even watch anime. You also go on to say there's no point to a wide range of genres in animation because it "doesn't suit the medium", an absolutely bizarre opinion coming from an animator.
People trying to tel me that I'm not black is definitely not something I expects to happen today.
Huh? Where in my post did I insinuate that you weren't black?
Whenever someone genuinely proves me wrong I will apologize. You seem to be so interested in me that I'm surprised that you've missed that. And no I didn't move the goalpost, the workplace not being ideal is part of the same subject matter.
How is that not moving goalposts when the original point was about less women in the industry, which is a false fact?
I didn't realize that she was a famous female cosplayer but that doesn't mean that her opinion on character design flies by default. Especially when it gets to the point that there's nothing wrong with objectification in media. How many times do I have to stress the difference between a character designed for a perceived male audience and a woman wearing whatever she wants in real life being two VERY different things.
You're placing more importance on a fictional character's lack of agency due to who she was designed by than an actual living breathing human's.
It seems that you'd rather I critique but "do it less loudly" so to speak. In which case. I'm just gonna flat out tell you no. Trolling, would be saying something like Japan hates women. Or never makes good female designs.
Do it as loud as you want, but please know what you're talking about first.
And it's not like you're any stranger to genuine trolling when there's a ludicrous amount of documentation out there of you saying stuff along the lines of "you like anime, your opinion is worthless" whenever someone disagreed with you. But maybe you're a changed man now.
