Sometimes i feel like i don't really matter.

I was thinking about how we don't have as many black -fill in the professional position here-, and i thought about our history as black people in this country ( Read more... )

Iron Man 2 SUCKED. Did they forget how to write scripts between the first movie and this one??? WTF is wrong with Hollywood ( Read more... )

I recently had a client who wanted me to do animation for a game he's producing. I figured, no problem, I'll follow the character designs and get paid. YAY ( Read more... )

Why are video game characters so often white, even when they're made in Japan?

There are a lot of arguments about this; most of them are dismissive one way or another. From the above linked article (with counter-arguments):

-Game sites don’t report on things like this because they’re not political.

I beg to differ. Many game sites publish ( Read more... )

Well... I guess I'll see everyone at Otakon, then?

This one actually looks like they followed the story of the game. Might still be stupid, but it looks WAY more accurate, and i'm far more likely to pay to watch it.

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And Jin Kazama is actually played by someone half asian (though not japanese; his name is John Foo).

Well, you knew this was coming.

Gordon Chan directing, Hong Kong crew, so the fighting will be watchable, but basically the only thing to do with this movie is steal a bootleg DVD and skip all of the dialogue, because they've totally ruined yet another fighting game by making it into a movie.

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And for some goddamned reason they made KYO KUSANAGI ( Read more... )

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I just watched this trailer and i JIZZED. IN. MY. PANTS.

"Stuff Black People Don't Do"

I found this article to be particularly interesting, especially in light of my previous posts about race and racism. Why is it that black people feel that camping is out of their depth? Or that rock music is not within their cultural lexicon (Jimi? Hello?)?

I'm also linking to that particular blog (Racialicious) ( Read more... )