@Th3solution Ha ha no worries dude. Yeah it's a shame Onrush bombed. I didn't like it but prefer arcade racers to sims, so it is a shame to see one not do well. Wish someone would make another Split/Second.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@Jriibz Found Wipeout far too difficult. When I played it I suddenly remembered I was never good at the original games. Never played CTR and may give it a go at some point. Dangerous Driving looks like it could scratch the itch.
I think that sadly applies to most of the internet and society as a whole nowadays not just journalism @Kidfried
Just managed to wade through an article about it (Currently at a teacher's meeting and the news is from places I've never heard of before as the original K article has been taken down)
Apparently it's started because of P5's song "Life Will Change". Apparently Lyn Inaizumi apparently sings the word "retar-" (you fill in thr blanks) instead of "Retort it" with the journalist accusing Atlus/Nintendo of making fun/offensive of disabilities
... with the commenters then calling the journalist racist cus of Lyn's heavy accent whilst trying to sing in English
... I don't wanna live on this planet anymore 😥
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, that whole thing is so stupid, I just try to ignore it. They didn't even reach out to Atlus or SEGA to ask for comments, or the official lyrics or anything like that. They just went with what they presumed were the lyrics. But hey, it works.
It's similar how on NLife nobody seems to like the ''[publisher] confirmed that [game] isn't coming to the Switch'', because a game not coming to the Switch isn't ''news''. Yet at the same time, those are the articles that get 100+ or 200+ comments easily.
So whilst it is definitely true that journalists or news outlets heavily focus on getting clicks more than providing accurate or good news; we, as consumers of said news, also enable it in a way.
It's the same on here with the censorship articles with Sony and the Senran kagura games or the likes where they rack up 200+ comments despite most of them will probably never touch one of those games
We are partially at blame for the outrage culture we seem to be getting nowadays...
It's still disheartening as a teacher that the kids I'm teaching about will grow up with this being more of the norm for them 😥
Ha ha well @RogerRoger I'm a bisexual in a lesbian relationship and I'd consider myself progressive as well... But I'm probably in the same position where I'm not in some way or other 😅
And I'd agree about Kotaku... probably more so in that I only really read the Schreier articles on developer breakdowns... otherwise I just don't use them for information
I'd like to say I'd now boycott Kotaku UK now because of this shoddy journalism just because of my appreciation for actual well written journalism... But I never have used it in the first place... didn't even know there was a UK branch 😂
@RogerRoger for 2020! ... or whatever the election year is you! 😂
You're quite right in that it's what we learn and our empathy that makes us better (or potentially worse) people.
My dad was a roadie, my mom worked for the post office and my partner is Second generation Russian/British, half Japanese and completed university when she was 16!
I learnt from them that rock and metal is awesome, the post office is boring and getting your butt kicked via Boxing, Taekwondo, Judo, Kendo and Karate hurts just as much as losing every round of cluedo to that brainbox 😂
Sadly I don't think I can talk to seven year olds in depth about the topics I teach or bring up... but I try my best
@Jriibz to be honest it's a very nice way to deal with all things in general with research and understanding... What I always try to teach the little tykes in my care
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Well, I mean, it's not like everyone is complaining that those articles about censorship shouldn't exist in the first place. It's a difficult topic, but one worth discussing imo.
And I could never teach seven-year olds; maybe not as bad as teenagers, but that sounds like a nightmare to me
I'm totally not a sheep!
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Baaa! (Bringing that awful joke back once again! )
Fair point @Octane ... those "developer not making X for Switch" articles are not really the same at all compared to the complex nature of those censorship articles...
... still the amount of people being outraged at either one of those is probably more then the people who'd actually buy either a severely downgraded port or an anime "jiggly jiggly" game (as I'm now going to call them!)
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I used to teach reception for the longest time (... Kindergarten if I must say that for any US people/other regions who use the word (Something about it word makes my skin crawl)) before going up to Year 2.
I'm just thankful I don't hear "let it go" being sung by the kids as much as I used to 😂
Sites are well aware what articles will get lots of clicks. The best thing to do is to simply not bother engaging with it.
Internet outrage is a modern phenomena that thoroughly irks me. One day people are outraged about one thing, but the next quickly move on to another topic. Often minutae with absolutely no context - because context and facts no longer seem to matter in this crazy age. Even when it's something that is actually important, the next week people have stopped caring. People are so distracted by nonsense on the internet they aren't focusing on what really matters. So yeah, I'm moaning about people moaning.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy My niece was obsessed with Elsa from Frozen for ages. Just be warned, Frozen 2 is incoming... 😂
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Whilst you may not be able to teach young kids certain specifics - like sexuality for example, what you can teach is acceptance and that 'difference' isn't a 'bad' thing, that its something that makes people unique and special. It doesn't matter if eye colour is blue or brown for example, the eyes still see the world so whilst different, it doesn't make either colour 'better' - just different. Its also 'easy' to demonstrate by having children with different eye colours describe a coloured block, which would show that both blue and brown eyed children's eyes are the 'same' even if they are different, that it doesn't make one better than the other.
I don't believe that 'kids' grow up with intolerance to difference - that it comes from the experiences they witness and potentially experience first hand. Whether that is from their parents or from other kids in the school playgrounds because those other kids are behaving a certain way. I know its a thankless task sometimes as a teacher, trying to undo some of the prejudism that the Parents may have influenced from their own beliefs - especially in a larger community school. Most schools also seem to be linked to a religious belief too which also doesn't help. Not saying that 'religion' is 'bad' per se but it can be quite intolerant of difference whilst also preaching to 'love thy neighbour'.
Teachers these days have little choice but to follow the curriculum, tow the 'school' line and have their hands tied to a degree with how they can handle kids behaviour. I am not suggesting that 'caning' ought to be brought back it must be really hard for teachers to handle negative behaviours with the options open to them - even more so if the Parents are reinforcing negative behaviour - like racism for example.
I believe that Teachers should have more support, more pay etc as they are responsible for shaping the future too. The Armed Forces are more for protecting what a country has now for example, where as those most responsible for the health and education of its population are relatively unrewarded, tied up behind red tape and bureaucracy. It would be great to live in a world where people are educated and accepting of others - regardless of gender, sexuality, colour of skin etc. Even if the UK, EU or even the US could achieve that, there are other parts of the world that will not be. Terrorism for example, even the threat of violence from a 'group', regardless of their colour, religion etc, is enough to tar everyone from the same core religion nationality and skin colour with the same 'brush' - the small group of 'extremists' affect the majority who, whilst may be considered in the same religion, have a vastly different viewpoint and certainly do not believe or behave the same. As 'Nazi's' are used in 'video-games', its like saying every German is a Nazi and that every German must share the same viewpoint which we all know is completely false. I am sorry if this has offended anyone - it certainly wasn't intentional and I tried to use something that is used in video gaming to illustrate the point rather than use something that is currently affecting the viewpoints in modern day - of which their are many as we see in things like Hollywood and Movies, Sport inc Football in the UK and the 'fans' where gender, race and religion have all affected people.
I would love to see teachers given the power to teach more acceptance, more understanding etc, to teach those who bully or attack others in some way (verbal, physical and even attitude) can make them understand what it feels like. I am not suggesting that a child that physically assaults another should be on the receiving end of a 'physical' assault to understand what that feels like but have the power to educate them in some way. Its a shame that other parts of the world do not also do this too so that their kids grow up accepting that other people are different regardless of what those differences maybe.
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience!
Why can't life be like gaming? Why can't I restart from an earlier checkpoint??
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You're knowledgeable in just about everything @BAMozzy aren't you?
I do what I can to teach acceptance and the likes. There's so much we have to do whilst keeping our hands tied.
Half the time and my partner (she's also a teacher) bring in healthy snacks or do breakfast for the "breakfast club" because otherwise some of the kids, (whether poor or just have busy parents) won't eat til lunch.
Not to mention me, herself and a few other staff members keep some sanitary products in the staff room just in case the need arises.
At times it can be quite thankless with an increasing workload and ever increasing responsibilities thrust upon us (I've even heard of some teachers even doing the washing for pupils clothes!)
... Rude parents really do get you down the most. But a cheeky little smile and a thanks from them kids makes it worthwhile
Anyway enough depressing talk... Games and stuff!
I completely forgot it was the Easter bank holiday when I ordered Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's memory from base . com and I sure as heck wasn't forking out £6.99 for express delivery
... So I probably won't get it in my mits til like Thursday... Getting quite excited now to play it! I need them silly digital monsters!
A bit confusing in how one goes from a red jelly to an orange fuzzball with a horn, to a weird horned thing that looks like it's wearing something's hide, to a furred wolf and owner of the hide, to an upright werewolf to a mecha-wolf!
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