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Here is another example of Capcom being woke, and in a particularly disrespectful way. The trailer below shows Terry Bogard, a guest character in Street Fighter 6. The character model looks pretty bad but worse is the female character at 0:34. That is a black woman with a particular appearance, i.e. she is a woke version of the blonde bombshell Blue Mary, which is incidentally the canonical love interest of Terry Bogard. Well, Capcom turned her into Black Mary.
After having been found out, Sweet Baby Inc. removed the list of clients from their website. At some point they probably will also ask to be removed from the credits of a game. Once you shine a light on such people they scurry like rats.
https://archive.ph/fBrxT
Guys, here’s a clip from the 2005 movie, “Waiting…”. Check out when the Mexican cook marks the tally on the white board titled, “Beeeaatches vs. Bastards.”
Pretty funny, and could never fly today:
https://youtu.be/dXcdwX5RoRE?si=yknrZI6Nl06_RGb-
This is a pretty decent movie, but the shock humor in it, such as in this scene, makes it a bit unpalatable to me. The depiction of the Karens at that table is great. These women exist in no small number in society, yet they seem to have almost completely disappeared from movies.
Hahaha, the 10:1 ratio of “beeotches” vs. bastards cracked me up! 😀
The Karens are one thing I don’t miss about the U.S.A. (though ironically, one of the most competent women I ever worked with was an American woman who was literally named Karen).
Thought I recognized the kid working with Ryan Reynolds – it’s John Francis Daley who played Sam Weir in Freaks and Geeks!
I wonder how this scene would have played out in real life, by the way. With a waiter looking like Ryan Reynolds, I reckon the Karen would have been more likely to slap his ass than give him a hard time. 🙂
“I reckon the Karen would have been more likely to slap his ass than give him a hard time. ”
or if she does give him a hard time, it may well be because of this:
https://blog.aaronsleazy.com/index.php/2023/12/24/guest-post-hallucinated-rejections-by-alek-novy/