It's funny to me that fully grown men cry at the slightest signs of diversity in these mature triple A hardcore video games but kids media don't typically get anywhere near the same amount of moaning and griping about "wokeness".
"Freaking Magic School Bus who has a lead female, two black characters, an Asian, and a Jew, a Mexican, what has this world come to."
guys got real upset at Big Birg saying along the lines of "I got my vaccine, it hurts but I'll be healthy" too even though that's practically the same advice to kids for literally decades
I've seen people say beer tastes like pee or something, but having eaten a food item that's literally soaked and fermented in skate pee, I beg to disagree.
In the U.S., I don't like the term "authentic" to describe ethnic food that better matches country of origin. It implies the food here is "faked", "bastardized" or "tastes worse/cheaper" by default, like people aren't allowed to experiment cuisine with different ingredients. Moreso, a lot of the "inauthentic" "Americanized" food were developed by immigrants from their food's country of origin. I prefer distinguishing cuisine as "traditional" and "Americanized".
I'm not the biggest fan of Panda Express, but I like their food all the same, and I've heard anecdotes of middle-aged Chinese immigrants who people think would balk at the food loving the food all the same.
It's weird when the hills in my area are starting to turn green from the recent rain even though it's supposed to be brown and dying season in other places.
Why are Mario games frequently so horrific at options? No sound sliders (like what if bgm get you content ID while you're streaming; there's no way to disable this while keeping other key aspects of the game like sfx and voices; other games disabling music would actually help people detect important noises more easily), no control stick sensitivity adjustments, not a single smidge of accessibility like color blind mode, text size changes, changing audio cues to visual cues, no way to remap any sort of button (like wouldn't it be nice if people with motor issues or don't have a reliable other hand to play can play if buttons were remapped especially for button mashers and control stick rotation minigames; also people going from Xbox/Playstation to Nintendo games will appreciate a remap), no game speed adjustments besides text speed; probably more. I went to Mario Party Superstars's options and it was pretty shocking on how there's so little you can do there. It might as well not even be there.
The game's tutorials and easy-to-explain nature is a plus, as well as the really easy-going bots on easy and the assist modes of other games, and it's nicely baked into the game design, but beyond there, the options menu in Mario games tend to be extraordinarily pathetic. An absolute disgrace of these menus. Do better, Nintendo. And this should be highlighted more.

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