Proof of fans is absolutely proof of quality. Quality is not universal. I think jazz is total garbage, but there are a lot of people who love jazz. Jazz absolutely has quality too.
Honestly the mindset you’re displaying here is the same kind that “normies” have had about gamers, comic fans, sci-fi fans, and anime fans since the early 80s. I feel like this is just modern era “nerd shaming”.
I don’t read comic books, but I can assure you that hardcore fans will think the writing is great. The fact that there are hardcore fans to begin with is proof of that.
I used “woke” in quotes because the definition of woke is debatable. You clearly identify with a different type of “woke” than what I see as “woke”.
To me “woke” means taking an established franchise that has a core audience that is mostly white male, then change that franchise to target a minority that probably doesn’t like the franchise to begin with. This includes taking away the ability to self-insert for the majority, or making a character less attractive so that someone else can self-insert or be less offended about seeing beautiful characters.
Samus is a strong female protagonist with little personality, and you also barely see Samus outside of her armor. She is therefore a good self-insert for anyone. The reason she was made a woman and not just a mystery is because of the sex appeal, which clearly paid off if you ever search her rule34.
Viewing her sex appeal as problematic and removing it to promote body diversity is a “woke” thing to do, but also incredibly stupid, because of how important that sex appeal is to the franchise. A “woke” company would make this stupid decision, and the core demographic would be rightfully infuriated, because their beloved character was ruined.
I don’t see for example Forspoken as problematic or even “woke” on a franchise level, because they made a new franchise with a new character, rather than ruining an existing one. It is maybe woke on an industry level because they target an almost non-existing demographic (people who can self-insert into the insufferable main character), but in my opinion, the only problematic part about that franchise is the way gamers were shamed for not liking it.
Now where do celebrity voice actors come in, you may ask. And to be honest, it is less about “wokeness” and more of a recent pattern seen in games that tend to be “woke” but it is a weak correlation, and more of a thing I said to highlight these studios inability to prioritize the important parts of games (making the gameplay good). A better example would probability have been only hiring voice actors of the same ethnicity as the character, thereby limiting the available high quality voice actors, and ending up with lower quality as a result. This is a “woke” move because it prioritizes DEI over quality.
About that thing you said about unions. I’m not really sure what wokeness has to do with it. Are you saying the main driving force behind these unions is wokeness? I only see unions as something that improves the quality of the workers rights and life, not the product itself. Not that I would know much about it. The japanese game industry that I’m part of has no unions as far as I know.
It’s like with comic books. The writing has never been great, but incels only had a problem with it when they can’t self insert into a power fantasy.
The writing was great if you’re into comic books, also self insertion in power fantasies is the purpose in these comic books. Complaining about this is like complaining about gambling at a casino.
The lines I’ve heard of Forspoken are also awkward, but there’s way more vitriol for Forspoken. Now why could there be so much more negative attention for that game?
The difference between halo 5 and forspoken is that the main protagonist in halo 5 isn’t insufferable. Of course people aren’t going to like the game if they can’t relate with the main protagonist. Forspoken seemed to target an audience that doesn’t exist in the video game industry or at least is very underrepresented, so you’re going to have mostly incompatible players trying it and disliking it. On top of that the protagonist is so full of herself it pisses off players who aren’t this core demographic (that probably don’t play video games to begin with).
If it came out today by a “woke” studio she wouldn’t be blonde, attractive, or white, and she would use shitty popculture references.
Also, the gameplay wouldn’t be good because the studio would blow the entire budget on paying celebrities to be voice actors, and culture experts.
I used AnySoftKeyboard and Florisboard before switching to FUTO They’re both good, but swipe typing is still experimental on both of them. FUTO’s swipe typing is more accurate, and speech-to-text is faster, which is why I personally switched. The one thing I feel AnysoftKeyboard does better is the ability to scroll through suggested words, while FUTO only displays a maximum of 3.
I’m sure the three brain surgeries had nothing to do with it. Must be fucking energy weapons.
Edit: Not sure why people are downvoting me. He had multiple brain aneurysms. That causes permanent damage, and rapidly progresses dementia related diseases.
“vaccines are bad for you” is extremely absurd and insane, tbf.
Point out where in my message I am forcing my ideas onto others.
Why should they? How about we just accept that a shrinking population is the best way to keep the earth sustainable?
Japan sure doesn’t have enough land to sustain everyone without global trade. When that global trade ends in a few years due to global food shortage, Japan is cooked. Better to reduce the population as much as possible until then.
Ecmascript was made to standardize JavaScript, but it isn’t based on JavaScript. Actionscript is then based on ecmascript, making Actionscript a sibling to JavaScript, not a subset.
Arbitrary code execution is a vulnerability where you write and execute arbitrary code outside of the intended environment
Just because Actionscript is a language doesn’t mean it has the functionality to do whatever to your machine. It lacks most of those functions because it is mostly a graphics library. It would have to run an already prepared external script via some improper memory pointer somewhere for it to be arbitrary code execution.
And Actionscript is not built on top of JavaScript. Both JavaScript and ActionScript are based on ecmascript. They are different, just like Typescript and JavaScript are different.
Actionscript was object oriented and had proper types unlike JavaScript which to this day is one of the worst programming languages.
Are you sure I’m the one misunderstanding the problem of evercookie? Was the problem that you could access the same cookies from multiple browsers because of ActionScript, or was it that evercookie maliciously restored said deleted cookies after they were supposed to no longer be used? One is a feature that allows transferring sessions between browsers on the same computer. The other is essentially malware.
Flash didn’t allow arbitrary code to run. It had a very limited scripting language (which design-wise is superior to JavaScript, by the way) to control canvas elements and playing sound. You couldn’t execute programs on your computer.
If by late you mean right before action script 2. I was making flash games back then and I remember it being unable to access virtually anything without first triggering a prompt, which you could disable by right clicking, and going into properties.
Your legitimate concerns about JavaScript are blockable by the browser.
Yes, through NoScript. And it should be blocked, not blockable.
It is funny you mention evercookie because that was a JavaScript library, and affected all cookies, not just flash cookies.
Flash cookies being sharable between browsers was bad, but you could still easily clear those cookies, that is until a certain JavaScript library started restoring them automatically.
You really can’t. If it was only HTML and CSS, any accessibility program would be able to select any part of the page, and easily alter the CSS and HTML. That is next to impossible now because of JavaScript.
It shouldn’t be up to the website developer. It should be up to the browser developer. You don’t blame a lemmy instance for poor accessibility with Jerboa.
We still use plugins. In fact you most likely have one installed right now for video encoding. JavaScript not being a plugin is the reason we only have two major browser cores. Chromium and gecko. JavaScript prevents new browsers from entering the ecosystem due to how hard it is to implement unlike how easy it would have been as a plugin.
Flash had vulnerabilities because of neglect from adobe. The core design of flash and its earlier stages made by Macromedia were great. It had a sandboxes environment, and later it even was integrated into a browser sandbox just like JavaScript, eliminating most vulnerabilities.
Flash was very limited in the malicious code it could run, as opposed to JavaScript which can automatically redirect you to malicious websites, install tracking cookies, access the browser canvas to install tracking pixels, freeze your entire browser, take control of your cursor, look at your entire clipboard history, collect enough information about you to competely identify and track your footprint over the entire internet.
Flash couldn’t access your clipboard or files unless you clicked allow every time, couldn’t access anything outside of its little window, and if it froze, the browser was mostly unaffected, and flash had almost no ability to collect any data about your browser.
Accessibility is orthogonal to JavaScript if the site is being built to modern standards.
In other words, accessibility is in the hands of the developers, not the visitor. And the developer really wants that scrolling background and non-selectable text, so tough luck, people with no hands, I guess.
It takes 2 clicks to get a website to work. It took a few minutes for me to get all my most commonly visited websites to work. And you can backup and restore so it takes a few minutes to sync the customization to all devices.
Flash was containerized, and completely safe until adobe just stopped supporting it. A million times better than what JavaScript has become in terms of privacy. There is a reason noscript is bundled with Tor.
And preference is definitely a reality. It is niche at the moment but I see a future where more and more people see JavaScript for what it is. Bloat.
I’ve been using noscript for years. I don’t even have to open up the blocklist anymore because I’ve successfully unblocked only the necessary scripts on all sites I ever visit. I get no trackers, no bloat, no google analytics, no Facebook, no microsoft, no ads, and no adblocker notifications.
A masterpiece. Just not to me and you.