Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I actually enjoyed the game’s aesthetics on the basis that I saw it as reverse Orientalist. Let’s just mash WWI and WWII together, ignore how they’re each historically regarded and use a tone that is completely off, and just pick and choose whatever aesthetics we think look cool and plop whatever story we feel like into it. I genuinely don’t think there’s any deeper meaning to the bad guys being geographically Russian because that would require closer attention and faithfulness to the setting than anything else about the game indicates.

    If you wanna say that Orientalism is still bad when directed towards Europe, that’s totally valid and fair, and my take is probably bad from an objective standpoint, however, I just personally enjoyed seeing a perspective capable of treating it that way. The concept of “WWI but with the tone of Fire Emblem” is just so alien that my curiosity overrides my sense of it being inappropriate.







  • “Do you want Ukraine to win this war?”

    [Edited] “I want the war to stop. I want to save lives that are being uselessly - people being killed by the millions, it’s so much worse than the numbers that you’re getting. We’re in for $250 billion or more, because they don’t ask Europe [blah blah blah] that being said, I wanna get the war settled. Putin and Zelensky respect me, they don’t respect Biden, he hasn’t even made a phone call to Putin in two years, he hasn’t spoken to anybody, they don’t even try and get it. That is a war that is dying to be settled. That war would’ve never happened. When I saw Putin building up soldiers, I said, “Oh, he must be negotiating, it must be a good strong point of negotiation,” well it wasn’t, because Biden had no idea how to talk to him, he had no idea how to stop it, and now you have millions of people dead, and it’s only getting worse, and it could lead to World War III. Don’t kid yourself David, we’re playing with World War III.”

    “Your time is up, but just to clarify, do you believe it’s in the US best interest for Ukraine to win this war?”

    "I think it’s in the US best interest to get this war finished, negotiate a deal, and get it finished, because we have to stop all these human lives from getting destroyed.