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Message: [QUOTE="Cantarella, post: 177910, member: 481993"] Sure, just saying that generalizing is necessarily extrapolating from the specific to the general. i.e. extending to all. think we're on the same page there and definitions are boring. Yeah I don't think I would disagree that America probably produces more violent brainrot, in like, gross value, than maybe any other country. Even pound for pound, intuitively that would feel right to me (maybe britain could give us a run for our money there, not sure.) S'just that america is too stupidly huge and contains so much that it feels that we must narrow the labels further, even if the stupid hollywood crap is what is seen fit by those with big pockets to push out onto the globe. I was thinking a lot about rpgs with respect to this, actually. Specifically bc it's a genre where, in my eyes, the game does exist to serve the story. And it's also a genre where you get stronger from killing. In most rpgs it feels like it's not even in the service of fun but something that's been thoughtlessly included because 'rpgs must have many battles that test the player's ability to overcome the same puzzle dozens of times.' In jrpgs this is usually just handwaved away by making almost every enemy an animal/robot/slime/dust elemental/gamer, but, uhhh, 'as a vegan,' this always felt a little bit like a copout to me. last jrpg I played that really gave voice to these voiceless monsters was tales of eternia. There's an interesting side-discussion with respect to sympathetic antagonists in jrpgs but I haven't fully formulated my thoughts on that yet. [/QUOTE]

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