i’m really not trying to sound like i’m bragging about my career or whatever, only mention this to clarify to a thread of discussion that has now been deleted in case it comes up again:
i have been to many game conferences and stuff, made friends with many many game developers, etc. when i complain about the things i complain about on here, it is 100% from my own experience - not some imaginary person i’ve invented to dislike. lol. the Annapurna stuff bothers me because it directly affects the dynamics of a space that i’ve been a part of and know a lot of other people who are a part of. i just find it strange for someone else to make the assumption that i am not coming from my own direct experiences when i talk about this stuff. as if the last 10 years of my life didn’t happen! i dunno! feels bad, man!
I think this being a space of largely dialled-in amateurs means that sometimes there’s a weird tendency for us to second guess ourselves when we’re being overly on-the-nose, even when that is actually representative! it is a kind of presumptuousness that becomes more difficult to avoid from a medium distance, imo
i just am not fond of the many experiences i’ve had in the last 10 years of my life being called into question and invalidated because someone is assuming something about me that has next to nothing to do with reality about my life. it’s kinda weird! i dunno. being a trans woman in the space, i’m used to people talking down to me condescendingly and calling into question things i do. and it sucks! but i guess i’m pretty used to people not believing me and not taking me seriously regardless of what i’ve said or done by now.
yeah it does suck, but I’ve also caught myself projecting in weird ways like that before when I find I can too-accurately summarize conflicts that other people have lived through (and make their villains seem implausibly obvious) and I have to like… not have a conversation that presupposes that. it’s not about you specifically in that respect, you’ve just been like, actually closer to the problems at hand. sorry though, if any of that makes sense.
this is the last thing i’ll say about this but i guess in general to anyone else on here: don’t assume things about people! i don’t know what anyone else’s experience on here is, i can only speak for myself. something that you say that you might think is being supportive may actually come off as really condescending and invalidating to someone else.
I’m sympathetic because a bunch of the times I’ve eaten shit have basically amounted to “well, it really is like that and I have nothing to add!” after unthinkingly taking someone’s lived experience as Exhibit A en route to some other conclusion
quick, somebody make a trailer-mashup with that song, to trigger the biggest lawsuit in history ever that will obliterate Nintendo, because you cannot win against Amazon, and we can be the point where it all started.
in two thousand years there will be scholarly debates concerning if the romance of the three kingdoms was popular before koei started making video game adaptations
The answer is yes! Mitsuteru Yokoyama made a 60 volume unabridged adaptation of R3K that ran from 1971 to 1987, which was in turn adapted to an anime that ran for nearly 50 episodes.
Koei was doubtlessly influenced by Yokoyama’s adaptation when they made their games.
