Because I’m not allowed to read the article to know if this is mentioned: a big reason why this would aggravate Wukong fans is that Nintendo is a Japanese company.

You can’t reason with racism. They believe he was essentially an Arab, and that is the source of his violence. Also, his race makes him unworthy to attack white Christians no matter how “righteous” the motive.

It’s kinda like the Daniel Penny vs. Luigi Mangioni dynamic. Murder is not wrong per se, just who has station and authority to kill whom.

This is like a soup joint that’s trying to see how much they can piss in the broth before customers notice.

The ironic part is that the sexist marketing was formulated by non-gamers who had nothing but mocking contempt for players.

The classic ads where dudes would choose to play games rather than touch a beautiful woman was meant to be ironic. Video game players back then were stereotyped as people too young or too pathetic to have access to a woman.

The first half of your comment is an acknowledgement that you don’t understand American culture and the second half is you casting declarative judgement upon it.

I don’t know which one of your minds to respond to.

It’s neat because this seems about half-way between an East Asian dumpling and an western European savory pie, and it’s about half-way geographically too.