Just Realized The Timing Of Signing Of The Declaration Probably Overlapped With The AIDS Crisis.

我是造了什么孽 一天天都看到些啥

As someone who’s Chinese w/ a degree in social science + (art) history regarding East Asia I’m always super intrigued and interested to how others interpret changes in new titles on older religious texts- but I will ask in particular if you have any personal ties to Buddhism/Taoism/Confucianism (and Chinese culture) when you find yourself interpreting BM:W’s change in allegorical use of Buddhism as contemporary political adherence! BM:W’s religious and soul mechanics follows their previous game without much overt linking between the two.

Overthrowing Gods in East Asian media is a very common trope in videos specifically due to player involvement (contrast to books where you are separate as the audience) and often is used as an allegory for the system/recent events we exist in. In such it does shift a lot from the original text in base but I think it’s not supposed to relay the same allegory due to the time period in which the writers exist! Wukong’s story changing to him still being chained by the principles that envelop life is far more relatable to late-stage capitalist environments viewers and artists exist in- as such he fulfils the contemporary variant of his original role in JTTW!

I think the change in purpose the Buddhist mythos serves in this game is decisive by nature due to inherent bias present in the original text as a religious piece, and such is core to the allegory. However I don’t think BM:W is supposed to relay that allegory, I think it is supposed to branch off on its own as an alternate contemporary extension of the foundation JTTW set out (plus with the 2 DLC’s on the way, there is plenty of time to extend the universe in game to validate a shift in religious purpose compared to the cut 7 chapters planned during development). And such i think attributing it to the CCP can be a bit of a touchy statement (especially if one doesn’t have long standing ties to East Asian culture or Regional religious practice!) and can accidentally play into sinophobic phrasing and attitudes.

Buddhism as a practice and way of life has a very different presence in writers centuries ago compared to now, as well as how we use religion in audience-involved stories. And such I find it an interesting shift regarding a game made with an international and widely multi-religious audience (that isn’t consuming it as a psycho-socio poem compared to a much smaller and more culturally homogenous readerbase. I think the friction caused by thematic changes is more due to how the game relays the physical journey so closely with reusing characters and having to shift them according to the foundational changes- if it was closer to other written “sequels” that created characters connected to the original cast through descending from them etc, the changes wouldn’t grate on completed arcs or how we compare the experience to wukong’s parallel one

No, I do not have any direct personal cultural connection to Buddhism, Daoism, or Confucianism. I live in Asia, though, and beyond my research of JTTW, I do study religion here (with more of an emphasis on folk religion as it pertains to the Great Sage). My negative view of Black Myth: Wukong is colored by my deep love for the original story. In general, I don't like adaptations.

Thank you for your explanation of the game.

did you see the interview where Hilary Mantel said “Mary is emotionally compromised or, as she would see it, morally compromised, because of the attraction she feels to him. She is angry – with herself.“? ☠️ Mary was not attracted to cromwell lmao; she was just being polite to an important administrator. What do you think of the Cromwell-Mary relationship, or how wolf hall handles it?

Why does every woman in the Tudor court have to have weird sexual tension with Cromwell?! Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Jane Seymour, now Mary... I am not a fan lol.

I think the Cromwell-Mary relationship was nothing more than Mary interacting with him because he was her father's chief advisor and unless you'd done something horrible, Mary seemed to be nice to people. I'm sure she also thought being friendly with him would help her situation, via Cromwell influencing her father.

But I can just see they're going to use the fact she drew him for a Valentine irl to portray their relationship more romantic ew.

没有书桌 客厅没有门 餐桌不平 只能把音量放大 于是总耳鸣

给翻看旧帖的自己：千万不要再回国。记得这次回国回家的遭遇有多难受。身体+精神+work受到多少影响。

可能比6月更早

到底有没有一家ktv歌单里面有《心甘命抵》，我已经从6月忍到现在了

I was just trying to find videos on Zhao but then this one comes up. The last bit is Thatcher in 立法局?

Hong Kong people never have a say.

China doesn’t care about the agreement at all.

我已经给这最后一段写了一篇小作文了 😓

一直在把《吃定我》歌词reserve for later，今天一不小心听完了。真希望可以这样爱着他哦。

“liking something in fiction doesn’t mean you condone it in real life” but instead of dark fanfiction tropes it’s about liking jeeves and wooster while being a socialist

我从床上坐起来，被子都堆积裹在腿上，浑身有点燥热，《mad》编曲总让人怀疑窗外有救护车。

看到一个歌名《明日再会》。在听《mad》，想起颁奖礼。羡慕徒弟。想看小林给黄填歌词，顺便想起《最高分数》。

看见《如何说再见》五个字都感觉林夕可能写过这标题的歌 果然猜对了