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Protagonist 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Chapter 8:

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Valentine Fantasy abridged

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Here some bad memes

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Free Housamo Sources: Oni

This scholarly work on oni folklore throughout the centuries has realms of information, both on Oni Brethren characters in general and on specific, named individuals, including Shuten, Ibaraki, Red Oni, and even Motosumi (did you know that Motosumi, his twins, and his oni-friendly philosophy are from real legends? I didn't!). The author goes into various iterations and meanings of the oni throughout time, and we can see the disturbing real-life roots of game content like Toji's "Orphan Fangs" and Yoritomo's fictionalized/softened hatred of "oni."

It's a surprisingly easy read and includes some fun details along with the heavy stuff, like the author's exploration of the idea that all oni (not just Ibaraki) are genderqueer and the theory that Shuten may be Spanish.

https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDemonLore/page/n8/mode/1up

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Genociders

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Summoners

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https://www.tumblr.com/littlest-salomon/713885566055415808/warmongers

Me seeing Mephisto in the first pic enjoying being an asshole: Channeling your inner FGO Columbus I see.

idk what that is. basically the only anime i watch are berserk and wolf's rain.

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reminder that in this account we love and support Toji

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incredibly lil salomon

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Warmongers

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If anyone still cares about the Wakan Tanka/Great Spirit Gate discussion:

(I haven't yet read the Invaders chapter where Wakan Tanka's alternate form and more story content is introduced; however, I did notice the reference to US settler's mass bison slaughter in his type and design)

1. Inclusion: In the context of the Housamo world, leaving out Native religions would mean that they had been destroyed and their spiritual beings dispersed or dead; in the context of Housamo as a game, leaving them out would essentially be a statement that they didn't matter as much as other Northern Hemisphere religions, which would leave the Lovecraft mythos as the only representative "religion" for North America.

2. Indigenous identity: Housamo also includes Gates for the religious cosmology of two Indigenous peoples within Japan's own borders--Ainu and Ryukyans--as well as Central American and Oceanic Indigenous worlds. If including Indigenous religions is a problem, it's much bigger than just Great Spirit.

3. Equality: Along with Indigenous religions, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, and more are all represented in Housamo. Every character is designed to be sexy because it's still a dating game and the only ones who can't be in romantic relationships are either beyond evil, overpowered (Wakan Tanka explicitly reigns in his power to be fair to other people/divinities), walking spoilers, your character's legal guardian, and/or not romanceable yet.

4: Representation: Wakan Tanka is depicted as an all-loving, all-good ultimate divinity who chose to incarnate as a person in Tokyo to experience human life and to bring the exiled player character back to Great Spirit, which seems to be a wonderful world. Meanwhile, on the colonist side, the player character is literally Satan and the Christian Eden is written as an aggressive, exclusionary nightmare that some transients voluntarily leave as protest.

Also:

5: It's the Internet: I really doubt that many people who seek out fandoms and DM random members to say that their interest is problematic are solely motivated by social justice concerns. People love doing drive-by attacks on other social groups and fandoms online, especially if they feel like they have the moral high ground: it takes barely any effort and the "win" gives them a serotonin boost. Ironically, Mononobe's description of the App makes it unambiguous (imo) that Housamo's App battles are a metaphor for this uniquely online experience. Attack is much easier than defense: look at how long this defense of one single aspect of this game is, vs the ease of trawling the Housamo tag and choosing a target for whatever "Housamo is bad" argument they have on hand.

6: Who's Asking?: Unless they say they are, it's unlikely that any one given person complaining about Wakan Tanka is Native (note: the person who asked me about it did not claim to be Native, IIRC), even less likely that they're from a nation that worships Wakan Tanka, and even less likely that they've played Housamo long enough to ever encounter Wakan Tanka. Some people treat social justice as a hobby and criticizing video games is a lot easier and more fun than stuff like voting or donating money to reservation communities.

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VOLOS ONLY ZONE

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some more memes

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more Roppongi memes