"in all of 2024" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when it's fairly easy to see. It gets even worse if you search "retro."
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First of all, that means you're going off on me for repeatedly raising something I haven't raised in at least six months. Maybe it's heavy lifting, or maybe it's been
six months.
We raise a lot of the same things a lot more frequently than that. And since we get no developments, and it's mostly the same people, a lot of us keep the same opinions. This one of mine is honestly pretty infrequent, in the grand scheme. I've kept and shared many other opinions which conflict less with characters you like.
Second, go ahead and search. Often I'm using it as a counterexample to a western equivalent, a counterexample I probably detract more from overall, but somehow it's only Takamaru I'm getting attacked here for. At least once last year was because
someone else had already raised the Japan-only thing.
You don't need to pull out the whole "actually he'd fall under the Japan only ruling" (despite Smash 4's roster being decided BEFORE Mysterious Murasame Castle got an English release) or "actually Retro Characters don't exist" (despite NoA specifically using that terminology for the amiibo Retro 3-Pack) thing every time these characters get brought up or called likely in some regard.
Well listen, it's not inaccurate, it's not trolling, it's not flaming, it's not name calling, and it happens, on average, what? Once a quarter? Sometimes twice a year?
More over, people have every right to ignore me, if they don't like my post. But I have every right to say it, and at the current rate I've brought it up: it sounds like it's a you problem.
What purpose does it serve to stomp out a grassroots campaign? To prevent a manifestation of something through word of mouth?
You know who actually stomped out the frequency with which we speak about Takamaru? Not me. It was Sakurai.
My statements are not nearly frequent or impactful enough to stomp out any campaigns, especially since I wouldn't even be posting in that character's thread, once those are a thing - where a campaign would actually be centered. Sometimes I go weeks without posting at all.
Also, if you want to start a Takamaru campaign, you have to get used to the main point against him, which is that Sakurai **** all over characters that are Japan-only (or effectively so). If one person saying that derails the campaign, it's not a campaign that's going to work.
I'm not hypocritical for not being annoyed at this for Every Character. But it gets really annoying when something is obviously a targeted thing against a specific subset of characters I enjoy. It makes people less likely to engage in conversations about them because out of the blue, there will always be a person parroting the same talking points that people have debunked but still take as gospel. It's annoying. It's frequent. And it always just shifts the thread back to the cycle of Doomguy/Dante/Octoling/Monster Hunter/Officer Howard for the umpteenth time.
It's targeted at these characters because it applies to these characters. I didn't say anything about the other retro characters, other than there's no longer a token retro spot... which is also the truth. Frankly they were lucky there was at one point, because no other past era of character was allocated such a spot.
You're on me for saying things you don't want to hear, because I've also spoken about characters like Doom Slayer, Scorpion, Rayman, Arle, Reimu, and even Chief who I believe are also all hindered to varying extents by their lopsided status. In fact, you liked my posts about Reimu, which is very close argument-wise, given most of Touhou's titles are unlocalized.
If you think I have the power to quash conversation on Takamaru for six months because I raised that Sakurai has virtually taken him off the table, you're giving me far too much credit. I talk about how I think Doom Slayer is too niche in Japan to be as likely as people think he is (and I like Doom Slayer btw), and we talk about him like every other day. If people aren't talking about Takamaru, it's because Sakurai virtually took him off the table. My comment isn't even enough to end the current conversation. You'll see that in the search as well.
And it's not out of the blue either, the conversation entailed predicting retro characters. These are retro characters, and predictions have to do with actual chance, not just wish. When people make wishlists, I leave well enough alone. If there are predictions, it is fair game to be objective.
