...well I guess that kinda explains why the dude from the "16-bit Gems" videos felt the need to go on a weird tirade about why the term "JRPG" isn't racist...
...well I guess that kinda explains why the dude from the "16-bit Gems" videos felt the need to go on a weird tirade about why the term "JRPG" isn't racist...
Yeah I guess there's some "drama" involving a handful of these folks. What a trainwreck.
Intelligence meaning booksmarts - he obviously knows how to perform research
Wisdom meaning application of knowledge to the real world
He's intelligent enough to do research concerning stereotyping, but perhaps not capable of realizing that the concepts of racism and stereotyping in this instance do not actually apply, because JRPG is a term used to designate role playing games similar in style to Dragon Quest, as opposed to the term "WRPG," which does not include the stylings that developed in Dragon Quest, despite both lineages coming from the same baseline: games like Wizardry, which was in turn based on Dungeons & Dragons. If anything, JRPG and WRPG can be seen as separate from other descriptors, such as dungeon crawlers, action RPGs, strategy RPGs, because both sets incorporate the elements of these various types. But artistic styles, themes and their handling, and societal tropes come from a lineage of these splits. Can Westerns create a JRPG? Yes. And a Japanese developer can create a WRPG. It comes down to their style, which is why I don't find JRPG to be a racist term and instead think this guy is trying to find fault by applying knowledge he has acquired through education without actually having said ability to apply it because he misunderstands the situation.
That was pretty good.
