Toonzone post about JJBA

I was looking over this topic and HOOOLLLYYYY COWWWWW ITEXPLODED!

I'm with Light Lucario on this general sexism mess being idiotic. How in the hell do you mess up a good guy's motivation fuel with incredible Mood Whiplash? Oh, I know: because to use Joseph's terminology, viewers have 2 brains and the lower one turns on more consistently than it should. That's why this random guy is taking pics of 2 fangirls' *[I][B]LEGS[/B][/I]*. Whatever happened to the value of the face? What is wrong with seeing the individual and any happiness to be had from them?

[URL='http://www.toonzone.net/forums/threads/c-c-jojos-bizarre-adventure-tower-of-gray-8-19.5614721/#post-85581811']I'll admit to having less than chaste interest in the opposite sex[/URL], but I'd rather females make sure they don't get blindsided in some case of stupidity. Believe me, because I would want loyalty mixed with sunny pleasantness by the mile. Though of course THAT would be harder to disrupt if an involved female is already aware of the finer details, so take that as pragmatism if you wish. In fact, you might argue that I'm white knighting for Light Lucario because of this, but her gender is news to me because I didn't think to check her profile before. The reason I'd be wanting to talk to her on something like Skype would be because I have my own story planned and it would have significant focus on knight tropes as a theme, which of course is inevitably going to involve the Chivalrous Pervert trope, and God damn the legs thing never even occurred to me as a possible idea that naturally I'd be glad to avoid like the plague. (Granted, I have something lewd enough in mind, but I'd be wanting it to accommodate Alternate Character Interpretation, so I would want to avoid being explicit about the idea at all.)

Now I will say this: females can pull a LOT of nonsense, and it can become irksome fast. Tropes like Bitch In Sheep's Clothing are named such for a reason, and it becomes worse when they happen for reasons that are shallow and consequently hypocritical. Now the Sheep In Sheep's Clothing trope does exist, but it even comes into play when anybody who seems nice would be anything but. Still, I'd rather believe the opposite sex would earn a lot off of fair treatment, especially if they can be both steadfast and vibrant enough. You'd see where I would welcome a Genki Girl's bravery, but the Genki Girl stereotype is, how fun, that she is an idiot or otherwise needlessly inept, which is where Holly treating Jotaro's insults like they're not and then falling ill simply from getting the basic ability is frustrating. I will grant that a Genki Girl's energy can get ahead of her mind, but all that means is her needing a caboose. I haven't forgotten about Marle's common sense line to her father, Athena Cykes handling the Mood Matrix AI and general psychology, Trucy Wright fixing her own assistant's mistake on-the-fly using physical labor, Mabel Pines remarking things like coming up with -8 as which number she's thinking, Star Butterfly deciding to take active effort to make amends with Marco for her actions in the very first episode, and I can be sure there's more, because oh look, they're creative, which is simply different from being more down-to-earth, but definitely not bad unto itself.

Seriously, why suffocate the opposite sex? Calling out their own general idiocy does work, but said idiocy is generally something that the individual can rise above, and said overcoming shouldn't be gutted with indifference just because of gender.

Going off the topic of female treatment, another thing that irks me is how it likes to scream Broken Aesop about how intelligence is a dominant factor. That is already made worse by the general characters other than the JoJo getting sidelined, but the mere fact that the JoJo is muscular at all and then saying he wins entirely by being smart? I've been through that offensive garbage, notably including from one user by the name of L9999 on Smashboards, who had an avatar of Raven from Fire Emblem 7, claiming that I would need to learn about things like spacing. As a Squishy Wizard of sorts, that *[I][B]DEEPLY[/B][/I]* offends me. I'll just post some example videos showing I'm far from stupid, with some commentary, behind a Spoiler tag for those who would simply take my word for it, to avoid clutter, breaking of any advertisement rules that aren't OTT, potentially excessive audience demand in general, etc.:

[SPOILER][MEDIA=youtube]id=tt1yk3XyyqQ;t=400[/MEDIA]
At the given times I destroy sandbag defenses (1 set of sandbags, would have been 2 if I hadn't misjudged the shot) to create an opening for my powerhouse tanks to rampage against the enemy anti-armor via flanking.

[MEDIA=youtube]0EP6_43G91A[/MEDIA]
Showcasing what you can do with the game's engine.

[MEDIA=youtube]AErfoTZWuso[/MEDIA]
Done within a week of the game's release. Also, there would be plenty of examples of me making use of the Path Of Greatest Resistance trope to get collectibles or even apply to boss battle tactics to usefulness (Landia EX's fireball volleyball and Lor EX's Turns Red tornado) on the blind stream I did if that hadn't been long deleted.

[MEDIA=youtube]36kwyoWRaCE[/MEDIA] (voiced, starts with an RL recording clip for humor)
Following up with the next game in the series, and this was done only 3 days after THAT game's own release. Oh, and for those wondering, I'm wishing I had videos of Grid Reading in Kid Icarus Uprising because it actually tries to balance Slip Shot, Bumblebee, and Power Thief at the very least, but there were simply too many overwhelming imbalances in KIU due to the absurd attack multipliers that could be achieved.

[MEDIA=youtube]1CG0knmjyj0[/MEDIA] (voiced)
There's genuine Fake Difficulty, most notably Gear 5's real difficulty being tainted by Interface Screw, but in general, I'm making a point about a level everybody complains about in an already notoriously difficult game.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJWtcOrqrI[/URL]
The mere concept of this speaks for itself. Brute forcing isn't happening within the concept, even if the melee VS range balance of the game didn't have too many problems.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Px_yz3Czi0[/URL]
Since this video came before that spacing remark I railed upon.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVmCW3cQInE[/URL]
Yes, the first match in that was literally my first experience against the opposing character and I didn't even use projectiles. I was able to wall the opponent and get analysis going in the process. That's not even going into the other matches in general.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_yH2BMK12k&t=55s[/URL]
Seriously, I was trying to read a Farore's Wind there.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcaZlS9_Q[/URL] (Ace Attorney spoilers, voiced)
1:04:20. For context on a potentially confusing part, Maya mentioned beforehand seeing blood in the pool before Tahrust's death. My hunch paid off at around 2:03:08 when Datz effectively confirms it and I IMed a friend in response to a CMOA courtesy of the rebels' location-based insult to the broken system of the setting's country.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfaY4h63x04[/URL]
Anybody care to guess the bit of creativity involved here?

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENk9iroto4U[/URL]
Shattered Throne is a case of Needs More Love if ever I saw one. It still sucks to have to spoil the answer to a given puzzle map, but at this point, I'm at It Gets Easier levels with this. I should also point out that I helped balance the game, but I didn't come up with the puzzle maps, just solved them, including this one, on my own. This one is the puzzle map that can be the most confusing, and that's because it requires a double turn power being charged up and used multiple times to even be approachable. Oh yeah, and the player's faction needed the most active balancing job to prevent it from being OP, speaks for itself.
[/SPOILER]

The videos involving the real time games would be more impressive, because I have problems handling speed, and of course gaming doesn't look kindly on people who aren't fast. That latter part would be a given, but I swear to God it tends to be taken to an UGLY extreme, especially once multiplayer gets involved, and ESPECIALLY if the games are made in Asia. It doesn't help that people like to pull Unsportsmanlike Gloating out the rear and generally spread toxicity like what happened with the Advance Wars subreddit as I complained about in the pinned comment [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoP1L8evwDc']here[/URL]. No, instead, they claim to be smart, but their toxicity reveals the truth: that they hide behind power that they gladly abuse and they conveniently have cult followings to work with who would be glad to be just as arbitrary.

JJBA I would want to say at least tries to be genuine on this angle, but it's still a Broken Aesop for it to claim intelligence does more than strength does. Yeah the JoJos fight against supernatural foes who have raw power, but so does only about any other hero ever. We have heroes like Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and Dipper Pines who do not need to be buff to manage their achievements, and it actually shows. JJBA's design ultimately screams masculinity contest, which becomes harder to look past than it should, especially when it just asks for power creep with the threats needing to be increasingly stronger to keep up, rather than involving more sophisticated design such as incomparables making use of unique strengths and weaknesses. Yeah, that's another thing: in a good action work, there should be clear weaknesses all around that don't suck. I don't mean simple character flaws like hubris that speak for themselves, or blind spots where a given ability isn't always useful. What I mean is each side being negatively affected more by a relevant aspect before any superpowers and that's why they have to think, because brute forcing efforts will generally just get walled before they can even deal any damage thanks to the weaknesses. It would make the creativity stand out better when the players have to overcome themselves in addition to their foes.

It's insulting to be told to be smarter by people who will tell me to "git gud" because [URL='https://pastebin.com/1syqVDPg']I figure out freaking Smash 4 Cloud's weaknesses that aren't the freaking recovery[/URL]. (I would link the Miiverse post I made with that list, made last November, but Miiverse is closing down this November and I don't know if it will be archived or not.) Those same people would gladly ignore that I have [URL='https://pastebin.com/j4DfY77j']come up with concepts in helping to make sure game balance is up to code[/URL], wanting instead to wallow in their own hackneyed superficialities. Unfortunately, that's exactly what I feel JJBA in general does, and that, in combination with the sexism, is why I would need to write this post.

Dated or not, JJBA should at least have the courtesy to not have a bloated ego if it is going to have these problems.

*[I][B]PHEW![/B][/I]* (Sorry about that.)