Apu was somehow popular enough to be a playable character in a Simpsons game over hundreds of others.
>>728534013Really though who else could they have gone with if they wanted a non-family character? Sideshow Bob?
>>728534013He's one of the most fleshed out and beloved characters in the good seasons
>>728534079Krusty, Chief Wiggum, Flanders, Disco Stu
>>728534079moethere are like 10 moe episodes of the show
>>728534013Please saar do not misrepresent our people with such an outrageous stereotype
>>728534013>mr saar bart simpson we must defeat israel together and redeem the chosen one>whatever man
>>728534079Poochy
>>728534013>gets the best missions and best soundtrack of every playable characterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTdxeiCwQM>>728534079Flanders.
>>728534013>Apu gets removed from the Simpsons forever>the dam holding back all the truth and hatred for indians and their culture suddenly bursts Why? How? I also wonder if a case study on this will ever be done.
>>728534079Mrs. Krabapple, Principal Skinner, Barney. You could name side characters all day
>>728534592Sure but the game was Simpsons Hit and Run. The character needs to be tied to a vehicle. Barney has Plow King but what do the others you listed have
>>728534079It should have been Maggie but they were too lazy to do a crawling animation.
>>728534705Skinner served during Vietnam and was an Army Ranger, you could easily come up with something military inspired for that.
>>728534559its because people realized the "kind to your face" thing was just an act and when you turned around they stabbed you in the back.It started small, but they got really brave with the card readers, then it was the non stop calls.in the 90's it was Nigerians, but then it became Indians.So much so you can make a career out of harassing Indian call centers.Its one thing for a person to rob you with a gun.Its another for a person to befriend you then rob you with a gun and tell you its for your own good.
>>728534705>>728534804Skinner has his own car in-game. You get it from his side mission iirc
Favourite level? For me, Homer 2
>>728534013>With Apu the stereotype was that Indians were hard workers with funny accents and an exotic religion>Get rid of him>Indian stereotypes are now that they're smelly scamming perverted retards who shit in the street
>>728534079Grandpa
>>728535478I never once thought of Apu as a negative stereotype. Fuck he was shown to be more of an American than actual Americans.
>>728535436Bart 2Love cruising through the mountains at sunset. Great music too
>>728535478haha Apu was a great role model, 1st generation immigrant following the american dream who still had ties to his cultural roots
>>728534013thank you saar come again
Apu had a whole bunch of good episodes, and was a well liked and well rounded character.Second only to Ned Flanders and Principle Skinner, really.
>>72853432110 moe than what?
>>728535907this was a cases of Indians exposing how much more class conscious they are than Westerners. Just the fact that he was poor, and worked a poor person's job felt like an affront to them. As far as most of the audience were concerned, that just made him a relatable character.
>>728534013I don't know if it's necessarily popularity. It was probably availability for recycled assets from Road Rage and him being directly related to the plot since he distributed the cola. It was him or Krusty.
>>728535907There was an episode where it showed that he was a top graduate from a competitive Indian university in computer science and that he had a convenience store because he couldn't find a job in the US. If anything, Apu was the most impactful positive portrayal of Indians in recent media.
>>728534705https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRIbogQPKws
>>728534013he's probably the side character with the most well regarded plots
>>728535907I firstly saw Apu as an vehicle for jokes abaut Immigrants like here, with Immigrants knowing more history than Americans.https://youtu.be/SFwHQYDqf6c?si=qKvzCE7JjywxMCJy
>>728534013apu had multiple episodes dedicated to him, he was a fan favourite character, from the early kino seasons to the middle less than kino seasons, his segment in the short stories about Springfield episode in particular was fantastic
Apu may have been a positive representation of Indian immigrants, but have you considered his accent is racist???? and hes voiced by a white man???? Better completely dump him like his VA just died like they did to Hutz/Mcclure and Krabbapel
>>728535907It's been a while but iirc the reason that documentry on him was even made was over the maker getting bullied at school. Kids would quote Apus "thank you, come again" catchphrase at him to get under his skin. I can't imagine being such a pussy that not only would you still be seething over being bullied in school but proceed to blame the cartoon rather than the kids themselves just being shithead kids.
>>728534079Either Krusty or Grandpa Simpson
>>728534361>Apu potrayed as chill funny guySAAAR NO, we are actually annoying subhumans not a cool guy DELETE HIM NOW SAAR
>>728535478I want to go back to when the only thing I knew about Indians were they ate monkey brains and ripped out each other's hearts in temples. Honestly had a higher opinion of them after Temple of Doom than I do now.Also some of them could punch you from 12 feet away with their stretchy limbs and breath fire.
>>728536716wild there was a "controversy" about apu's supposedly negative portrayal of indians when he single-handledly carried their reputation for years because he tricked people into thinking they are chill dudes
>>728534013He was regularly friendly with the entire Simpsons during that era of the show, and he is probably the most normal person they know. You could argue Lenny and Carl, but they really only interact with Homer on a regular basis. The other characters who interact with the entire family a lot are Moe and Flanders, but they have odder tendencies than Apu.
>>728534559Apu getting removed and the call center epidemic just happened to occur around the same time, it wasn't correlated.
I kinda like that the last mission in the game is Homer and Abe. It's just neat.
>>728537751>call center epidemicIndian call centers have existed for a while back then. Except if you mean the scamming call centers, I think that's a newer phenomenon.https://youtu.be/lbfV7EQpz_I
>>728534559Is he happy?
>>728537751Apu was the magic seal on an artifact containing the truth of pajeets. Once he was gone the entire world was exposed to their demonic ways.
>>728537657People also used to think they had wisdom and spirituality. Now it's nothing but poo.
>>728534808>>728534559But enough about Israel, prostitution, drug trafficking and child genocide.>>728534013The 'multiplayer' mode was great. Wish the CPU got polished better, because those karts maps were great
>>728538941Aside from the accent, what is wrong with Apu? The fact that Sikhs are 7/11 employees, not Hindus?One of the most positively portrayed and gently handled Simpsons characters. Groundskeeper Willie is a violent angry asshole and the Scots love him. Indians should have been thanking the Simpsons writers.
>>728534013I really wish Maggie had been playable.
>>728534013Apu was probably one of the best representations they had and they removed him because of one fag
>>728534361funny how once he was removed, people started to see india in a bad light, rightfully so
>>728534079ned flanders easily
>>728534013As a kid with only a passing understanding of the Simpsons I remember him as being a pretty iconic character at the time
>>728536575The catchphrase doesn't even have any relevance to the character being Indian.
>>728536032heh
>>728539787It was one and no pun intended shit-stirring indian that got him cancelled. Nobody else really cared. Like how a few liberals tried to get Speedy Gonzalez cancelled and Mexicans opposed it. Most demographics seem to embrace stereotypes and see the humor in them. Even more when the character has some positive qualities. Willie works hard, keeps to himself and has a good body.
>>728534559Scam calls aside, it's hard to like indians when their shitty accents is the first thing I hear whenever I'm pissed off and trying to contact customer support.
>>728539787You tell me. Im europoor white and i have an accent even on my own language. Only thing negative about Apu is the accent if you put a gun to my head and made me come up with something. Maybe he is a workaholic too?
>>728538941>2nd gen American immigrant makes a "documentary" about something (actually about himself) how it's super offensive for his culture (not actually his culture) and needs to be removed>singelhandedly causes the jeetpocalypse
>>728535436The Halloween one is absolutely the peak, but Bart 2 is a close second.
>>728540701Indians kind of do sound like that though.I don't buy into this meme that you have to be a certain nationality to play them on TV, and especially in a cartoon. It's silliness. >well isn't it like black face?no.Also, there's a point to be made that black face wasn't as big of a deal as people think.
>>728540472Don't forget the fucking head bob. I swear that shit activates some primal ape part of my brain and makes me blind with rage.
>>728536575Exactly, if Apu never even existed those kids would have just made fun of him some other way. Was he in school when Bib Bang Theory was airing? Because he seems like more of a Raj than a chad like Apu.
>>728539787>>728540701He does sell out-of-date food, but now that seems to be the most accurate thing about him.
>>728534808Nigerians are probably gonna be in the limelight again at some point.Lately I'll be scrolling and see some take so regressive that it feels like it was cooked up in a lab by the CIA/Mossad to sow further division between genders and classes. Without fail, they're always Nigerian.
>>728538941https://www.wbur.org/npr/1169162406/hank-azaria-and-hari-kondabolu-on-apu-and-the-fallout-of-a-calloutHe thinks he's justified still
>>728542216Of course he would. He can't backpedal now.
>'Apu... why do you talk like that?' Guy became a show writer for shitty castlevania show and the dmc one coming up
>>728541101Yeah i know how indians speak english and they do sound like Apu. I went to America in 2017 and had to change flights at Heathrow both going and coming back. I don't know if the shifts were racially segregated but going it was just white brits and coming back it was bunch of indians and you could tell.One thing i don't understand is that people get upset if you can't pronounce something correctly and think thats racist? >>728541563Well yeah there was that but wasn't it more like shop policy or sonething
>>728534013The pajeet that tried to cancel this character is like the exact turning point on their perception
I work with an Indian lady and I like talking to her but their race is so hard on their children, to a point that I would call egregious. Her daughter is a licensed psychiatrist, and she said she was upset that she took her time getting married first before getting her license because that made her look lazy to her employers. They have messed up priorities.
>>728536032
>>728543457>Well yeah there was that but wasn't it more like shop policy or sonethingI don't think the Kwik-e-mart is a chain. He's the owner of the business.
>>728541101>Also, there's a point to be made that black face wasn't as big of a deal as people think.It indeed was a big deal. The difference between this and blackface is that blackface was always trying to be offensive. Voicing a character of a different ethnicity, religion, or nationality is just you voicing a character that is different than you. If you combined Apu being voiced like a white guy with him also being a spouse slaying, streetshitting, rapist, then it would be similar.
>>728542216>This episode was produced by Kumari Devarajan and our intern Olivia Chilkoti, with help from Diba Mohtasham and James Sneed.>Produced by Sneed
>>728534013I remember being younger and apu was the only poo I knew of and thought all of India was exotic and nice because of himThen India got the internet and that went down the shitter
>>728545120Fuck that indian milf to assert dominance
>>728534559Pondering this as well. Up until the pandemic, all i knew about current times India were the memes of "superpower by year X" and the fiasco with the submarine, but afterward all of a sudden the techbros are outsourcing everything to them instead of the chinese.
>>728546016Not even though. Sometimes blackface was just a matter-of-fact element of acting. Like Alec Guinness blacking up in Lawrence of Arabia. I'm not saying you necessarily should do it (because it's patently ridiculous), but I'm not going to feign offense over it. People was just like that back then. No one knew it was supposed to be a bad thing.
>>728545120That's just most immigrant parents in general. They want a successful kid that makes a lot of money so they can live out "The American Dream" through their kids income and feel validation in their coming to this country. Their biggest fear is the possibility that they wageslaved for the white man for years only to have nothing to show for it.
They could've made it through the do not redeem stuff if they just took it on the chin but they're another fucking Face culture so they decided to all become insanely angry and spam the dumbest, barely intelligible memes everywhere.You read the replies of any comment about india and it's full of FUCK YOU MOTHER DO THE ONLYFANS PAKI CHARLIE KIRK YOU WILL BE REPLACED YOU SHITSKIN WHITE! and man, no one makes them do this lol, they just decided this is what they're gonna be towards everyone on the net all the time now.
>>728545120It's the hinduism that does this. Terrible religion that only serves capitalism, grow grow grow earn earn earn. Fuck Indians and their retarded religion
>>728547979Apparantly even official news networks just throw out juvinile insults at whatever they think is making fun of their backwards ass ways. Jeets are such a meme.
Hit and Run should have been released on GOG
>>728538698iirc didn't Ape die in the UFO explosion? lmao
How do you even handle indians in media and make people forget how they really are?
Its so fascinating to me how colorless the world was growing up, I always assumed most indians where just like Apu, dude was great, genuine family man, hard worker, loyal, OWNED A FUCKING CAMARO.It was the same with cartoons and other shows, all kinds of characters, all colors, hell my favorite dude in an old cartoon called C.O.P.S was bulletproof, a black detective.Then the internet gave me all the exposure theraphy I never wanted, and now Im like WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENEDWe almost had a world where people didn't give a fuck about color, now its worse than ever.
>>728548896You forgot the gigachad image
>>728534013game came out when they were really pushing Apu as a more rounded and interesting character, sad to see it was all for nothing though as he was still deemed to problematic to keep around despite no longer being a 2D charicature of an Indian migrant
>>728548896I'm latinx m8, take your white accusations elsewhere.
>>728534079Flanders
>>728534079Milhouse, Krusty, Grandpa, Otto, Barney, Moe, Smithers, etc.Apu isn't a bad choice, mind you.
>>728549280only if he game overs if you break any traffic laws and all violent buttons are disabled
>>728548896Stereotypes exist for a reason.Just saying...
>>728548746The recent years the political parties have pushed much more radicalization on both extremes, possibly as a consequence of the internet being accessed by the masses in the erarly-to-mid 2010s. Maybe there are nutjobs who actually believe the ideals they vomit onto the masses, but in the end it was mostly a move to force stagnating people into picking a side with the classic "with me or against me" threat.There's a staggering amount of people not happy with their situation that don't want to speak up because they're afraid they'll be ostracized.
>>728534559Overpopulation, immigration and relentless scamming. If you go back and look up videos of India in 2000's you'll notice that most people echo same sentiments that are still said today about India, it's a poor, dirty shithole, with most people trying to scam you for their daily bread. As more and more indians are born and immigrating into civilized countries, they will do their usual tricks in their host countries, and with the internet and cameras everywhere, information will flow.
>>728534079Obviously
>>728540472>call from unknown number>thickest Indian accent in the world>"Good morning saar this is Ryan from XYZ"
>>728548746People lied to you and served you a fantasy that people who arent anything like you, are just like you if you believe. And then you met reality and realized that these people take pride in the fact that you are not like them. The world you imagined never existed and cant exist.
>tfw Rajesh doesn't want to work at 7-ELEVEN anymore
>>728547141
>>728549273>latinxno you are not, they hate that word.
>>728547141okay Mac
>>728540207this why not "LET ME POOP FIRST" or "DO NOT REDEEM" right, retard?
>>728534559That's the power of SJWism. In their crusade against racism, bigotry, and hate, they've caused a massive increase of racism, bigotry, and hate.
>>728534559Apu was the only positive Indian person in common culture, and he endured decades. Then that one guy got assmad so the void was immediately filled by the scam bait Youtuber. DO NOT REDEEM is as synonymous with pajeets as THANK YOU, COME AGAIN now, if not moreso.
>>728548746Because they want us divided, not united. The sooner you realize that most of it is bullshit designed to make you fight your fellow slaves, the sooner you can resist it.
>Who needs the street to shart?
>>728534013Only time I'm fine with playing as a jeet.https://youtu.be/a2m4kEwcLWwhttps://youtu.be/WqTdxeiCwQMhttps://youtu.be/qzv1sBsCGPc
hawk tuah man
>>728553797LMAO he's doing the dhalsim thing haha how he do that?
>>728553710>I... dooooooooooooo
>>728535478>Indian stereotypes are now that they're smelly scamming perverted retards who shit in the streetI’m not sure if it’s even a stereotype at this point. Seems more like a fact. You see so many reports of Indian immigrants shitting in public and seeing no issue with the people giving them weird looks. Every video inside their country shows garbage and filth everywhere and them being apathetic to it. All their “pure and holy” rivers are infested with trash and rotting corpses. Not only do they shit in the streets, they have literal poo flinging festivals and think having a cow shit and piss on you is super holy. If not that then it’s footage of vendors trying to sell tourists cheap knockoff handbags for $250 and after telling them to fuck off ten times they go “How about $35?”. At my old job I used to dread having a shift with indians because they were the worst coworkers imaginable. They were constantly loud and obnoxious, always left the place trashed, and smelled like they shat themselves. It’s like their culture revolves around being filthy and deceitful.
>>728534079Skinner, Ned and Moe are the only non-simpsons I would really see working. Skinner I would have absolutely loved and wish it actually happened. Grandpa would have also worked given he's actually is a Simpson.
>>728552470Yes we hate that word so I am reclaiming it.
>>728534079
>>728548746End of 90 and begging of 2000 was the peak of our society. Internet was at its infancy and people could connect to each other easily, without regulations, without prejudice, just ideas. We saw to see each other as kindred spirits ( Orkut had a ton of communities that's connected people, like I hate Mondays and etc) and the world was slowly truly connecting.This was a threat to all governments, because people realized more and more how useless they were. Most didn't care about politics or ideologies, just how to earn enough money to have a peaceful life.(((They))) corrupted the very thing the kept us together and used it to turn into each other. While before we were understanding how heach other think, now we only care about our opinion and turning it into absolute truth, using social media and algorithm as a way to reforce that kind of idea.Hell, even 4chan changed, especially after the pandemic.And this is just going to become worse and worse when the economic split becomes wider and wider.
>>728534079Mr. Burns is basically the main character outside of the immediate family for the first 4+ seasons, and he ends up doing all manner of random mundane shit
>>728554939>I’m not sure if it’s even a stereotype at this point. Seems more like a fact.Thing is, stereotypes are more often than not based on truth. They ain't just made up out of thin air. And yeah, I know not every single jeet shits in streets but enough do for it to stick.
Why did this game have a better premise than the movie? They even managed to adapt Treehouse of Horror.
>>728534286>disco stu over apucome on now. i guess he'd work for a gimmick character on rollerblades
>>728550189>There's a staggering amount of people not happy with their situation that don't want to speak up because they're afraid they'll be ostracized.That's exactly the point of cancel culture. If you slap down each individual who speaks up, you can stop people from realizing that the vast majority disagree.
>ApuIsn't he called Pepe?
>>728556243Eh, I think the movie's worse moments are the 'topical' stuff and stuff that went no where like Lisa's boyfriend. The premise is about as 'fleshed' out as Road Rage, with a few more contextual cutscenes and dialogue that's more about fan service.The benefit of Hit & Run over the movie, is the game has more looks into Springfield and you the player can experience all of it at your pace. The movie doesn't really show 'down-town', it's mostly the general town, the neighborhood, the school and then Alaska.
>>728556243The movie was focused tested to shit. So many things were cut and altered because they wanted people who never even seen a single episode of the show to be able to watch it. Most famous example was bringing back Hank Scorpio as the villain. Idea scrapped due to fears that the audience wouldn't know who Hank Scorpio was.
>>728534321This.
>>728534559Unfortunate timing, honestly. Apu was removed in the late 2010s, which is right around when major companies started laying off thousands of employees in hopes of replacing them with pajeets that will work for pennies.
>>728556586Apu/Helper is the cute retarded looking one.
>>728554939Even “tolerable” indians are fucking obnoxious and creepy, like they have zero social awareness or concepts of nuance and personal space. And then they smell horrible.
>>728546091I'm noticing
>>728552470It’s funny how that word is so hated by Mexicans they consider it a worse slur than beaner, causing that term to have the opposite effect of its intended purpose.
>>728534559Immigration from India surged over the last 5 or so years so people gained actual experience with dealing with Indian people beyond that one smelly boy who was in one of your classes in middle school, and the occasional gas station employee.
>>728541398As someone with a physics degree, I think The Big Bang Theory has caused immeasurable harm to my life.
>>728557123>Immigration from India surged over the last 5 or so yearsWhich country? Not the US.
>>728557106Another SJW success story, just like The Problem with Apu.
>>728557215Canada's gotten it the worst, but most Western countries. The UK got more Pakistanis than Indians. It's absolutely been an issue in the US with their clannishness causing them to take over various businesses by hiring their own over hiring qualified employees.
>>728557343>It's absolutely been an issue in the US with their clannishness causing them to take over various businesses by hiring their own over hiring qualified employees.But every first/second generation ethnic group does that here.
>>728557190It was blackface for nerds.
>>728548746>We almost had a world where people didn't give a fuck about colorNo, we had a world where most white people were accepting of others and expected that that would cause others to be accepting back when it turns out that others viewed it as a weakness to be exploited. It was a well-meaning delusion.
>>728535907Truthfully, almost nobody in The Simpsons is a good person including Apu
>>728534013When they removed Apu they went from Simpsons to simping for saars.
>>728556196Stereotypes are usually true for a minority, not the majority.
Indians are objectively the funniest race. It's hard not to make fun of them when they constantly do goofy shit like ping 400k people just to say this.
>>728557461The average person's thoughts when they heard 'physics' went from Einstein and Newton to a fictional autist.
>>728557452Yes and it becomes a much bigger problem the more of them there are. Look at Minnesota's Somali problem suddenly cropping up as soon as a ton of them were sent there. India has more than 4x the population of the US. They have the sheer numbers needed to drown out the rest.
>>728557190It is always shit when pop culture ruins things.
>>728534286>Krustyone-note character. too full of vices>Wiggumthe flabby arm of the law. too much of a departure. would probably feature missions about apprehending people and stuff>flanderssuitable but too obvious and predictable>disco stunot relatable enough>>728534559everyone who's had the displeasure of interacting with indians already knew the truth about them. it's just that immigration has really ramped up this last decade and shows no signs of slowing down
>>728537751That means it was correlated. What you mean to say is that there's no causal relationship.
>>728538941Him being a comedian was the most insane part of this story. How do you do comedy but be so upset about a cartoon character?
>>728535851grandpa is family
>>728557876Chinese mainlanders do many of the same things (including street-shitting) but don't get nearly the amount of crap for it that Indians do.
>>728558186And Indians didn't get much shit for it in the West 10 years ago outside of very niche places online because it wasn't relevant to westerners. If China starts mass exporting their bottom class to Western countries then I can guarantee you that you'll see the same shit directed at them.
>>728558508it helps that we imported chinamen to build our railroads back in the daywe only import jeets to steal all the lazy computer jobs that white boys want so that adds to the hate
>>728558186China hate isn't as bad online because for the most part they are segregated from the rest of us due to their firewall.
>>728541702I wonder who’s behind this post
>>728541398>>728557190Born in 2000 here. My own fucking parents would compare me to Sheldon because I liked videogames
>>728534079every simpson should have gotten an alterdeuterovirgiltagonist>Bart - Sideshow Bob>Lisa - Nelson>Homer - Shellbyville Goofball>Maggie - Unibrow kid>Marge - uhhhhh... Shadow Ghost Liquid Flanders Wife?
>>728559056Mom even bought me a shirt that said 'Bazinga!' for birthday
>>728559083Marge's are her sisters
>>728559083The closest antagonist to Marge would be Helen Love Joy or Agnes Skinner
OOOOOHOUTTA CONTROL!
>>728551721The problem right here
>>728558508Most workplace accident videos are already from China
>>728558839Reddit has a lot of China sympathizers, though
>>728534079It really should have been grandpa but if they wanted a non-family character, i think moe would have been funny, but ultimately i think apu was a fine choice
>>728556640I was so upset that they had Moe fumble having a shortstack gf because of the running joke that Moe must always be lonely and miserable. It hurt even more when even comic book guy could get a japenese gf. So I’m glad they brought her back instead of making her a one off character.
I miss Apu, I am sure if he was still there, you fags wouldn't be shitposting with Indians non stop
>>728559783I am pretty sure I heard stuff like designated shitting streets well before Apu was taken off from Simpsons. And there also always was outsourcing to India among tech circles, that's been a pretty recurring "joke" (rather, reality) in the tech field.
>>728558508We did, it led to the Chinese expulsion act or summat
>>728538941Why are some minorities so onions? We've been seen as terrorists and goatfuckers for decades now and it's never bothered me. Never saw no arab baseding out over muh representation or oppression. Mexicans are cool too, never seen them bitch about any of this stuff either.
>>728550189>that imageYou're absolutely retarded.Modern right is just the left from 2003.
>>728538941>Apu never took a shit in the Kwik-E-Mart parking lot>Apu never tried to rape Lisa>he is an unrealistic Indian stereotype that only exists in cartoons
>>728560139(Shut up)
>>728534079>Abe (family)>Willie>Krusty>Barney>Moe>Otto>Clancy>Ned (should be one of the first choices)>Lovejoy>Snake>Frink>Montgomery>Seymour>Joe>Lenny>Carl, I guess>Kent>Julius>Nick>Lionel/Troy (if his voice actor wasn't murdered by this point)>Rainier>Herman>Comic Book Guy>God (literally)>HankApu is only liked by first gen Asian-Americans.Personally I would say you shouldn't make playable game characters beyond Homer and Bart in a game that's supposed to have a story. Marge and Lisa are very bad characters even when not protagonists... which is why they're written differently in any video game to be self defeating jokes to be laughed at like Homer and Bart are in the show. It's surprising the show's execs never forced the game writers to comply with the show's canon that Lisa can both never be wrong and must annoy the viewer.
>>728553710>>728554582
>>728560218No. You're a stupid moron who is simply intellectually lazy and trying to frame is as a form of apolitical moderate stance.
>>728560139The left from 2003 didn't think hitler was cool and shit on every race that wasn't "white".
>>728558186the great firewall protects them
>>728560404The modern GOP doesn't do that, either. The modern GOP has the stance that the Iraq War was a stupid waste of resources and that immigrants are scab labor. Just like the Democrats did in 2003.
>>728560103I assumed that's them being westernized (propagandized to by jews) into believing things no one in india is privileged enough to consider a problem
>>728539787>Hari Kondabolu>born October 21, 1982, in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, to Uma and Ravi Kondabolu, who had immigrated from the city of Tenali in the Coastal Andhra region of South India. His mother was previously a physician in India, and both parents became the heads of New York area medical labs. Ravi Kondabolu had immigrated to the United States in 1978.>Kondabolu is the older brother of Ashok Kondabolu, who is a former member of the group Das Racist.>Indians should have been thanking the Simpsons writers.You could say he stopped being Indian and became American. That's why he hated an Indian cartoon character. Or maybe he didn't like the Jews who made and vocied Apu. Who can say?
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>>728560659No, it's the opposite. They've identified a weakness in their host countries that they can exploit for their own gain and lack the sense of honor to feel shame in doing so.
>>728534079Barney, because burping funnee
>>728560794>born ... in the Flushing neighborhood
>>728557642Didn't Apu literally take a bullet for James Woods? But yes there are many jokes with Apu being an shameless business man selling the worst industrial slop to customers without blinking an eye. And probably worse as they started locking horns with Family Guy in a "who can do the most horrific shock value?" contest.
I fucking hate Indians
>>728561345HE CAN TALKHE CAN TALKHE CAN TALKHE CAN TALKI CAN SIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
>>728562576I think my explanation makes more sense. It's not like they want to deliberately turn the west into the places they fled from.
>>728564325It's not a matter of wanting that, it's a matter of that being the way they do things whether or not it will lead to that which is why their countries ended up that way to begin with.
>>728558418Sorry, not a meme
>>728563705I HATE EVERY GAME I SEEFROM TRIPLE A TO SMALL INDIENO, YOU'LL NEVER MAKE A GAMER OUT OF ME
>>728560404The modern right is the left from 2003.The modern left is the far-right from Germany 1933, minus the fashion sense.
>>728560103>Never saw no arab baseding out over muh representation or oppression.They certainly were 20-40 years ago, when popular media near-uniformly portrayed them as terrorists.You might have noticed that games like the recent Call of Duty installments have taken pains to have not only good-guy Arabs to fight the terrorists, but a few Arab characters (including villains) who have nothing to do with terrorism.
>>728538941100% this dude wishes he could go back to being Apu and pushing the 711 worker stereotype now that everyone knows indians are street shitting, low iq, rapists.
>>728566065>Oh my god I was wrong!>It had games, all along!
>>728558065'Modern' comedy for the 'modern audience' is all about "punching up" (up meaning white conservatives only), getting offended over trivial jokes gives them more clout with the modern audience.
Remember that representing Indians as hardworking family men who are valued members of their community was considered offensive.
>>728557747"You miss every shot you don't take" sounds like good life advice until an entire subcontinent starts doing it at the same time.
>>728557461For me it was harry potter
>>728568625It reminds me of finding out that leftists considered Sara Bellum offensive. Child me always remembered her as the level-headed brains behind the dim-witted mayor, she was literally named after a part of the brain.
>>728534079Either Abe (if you meant only the core family) or Flanders. Other than them Skinner comes to mind, and Homer's mother would've been an interesting choice too.
>>728568625>hardworking family men who are valued members of their communityWe are talking about Apu "I'll tell everyone you were untouchable" Nahasapeemapetilon, right?The one who sells expired food, right?The one who pretends his meat is meat, right?The cheapskate who hates big stores for giving a fair deal, right?The one who works extra hours so he doesn't have to see his wife, right?The illegal immigrant, right?The arranged marriage guy, right?The joke was everyone loved him whilst he was ripping off or poisoning them. And then there was an occasional "India, lol" joke by someone who thinks India is a place on Mars.
>>728570932Are you trying to imply that Apu is uniquely bad in his actions and that Homer being in charge of safety at a nuclear power plant while having no clue how to do his job isn't far, far worse? Homer should be removed from the show for showing a negative image of white men.
>>728558065He's a really shitty comedian, so it makes sense.His brother is ironically much funnier than him despite not being a comedian. He was the hype man for my favorite pretentious hip-hop group.
Craziest thing about this to me is that it also got Hank Azaria to stop voicing Lou.
>>728570932apu is neither better nor worse than the other people in springfield.he fit right in all things considered.
what was matt groening thinking
>>728558065because every jeet no matter if second of third generation is a ticking time bomb thats ready to melt down openly when they feel their honor gets attacked.really the only thing that changed is that weak retarded whiteys started listening to morons like that.
>>728560103get real arabs and specifically muslims play the victim muh racism card all the time.they just also believe that you can act macho at the same time.>>728564325>It's not like they want to deliberately turn the west into the places they fled from.of course they want that, retard. they want that+the money they can siphon from the west.
>>728538941He wanted Indians to be known for what they truly are. Scammers and rapists who eat shit and pollute every inch of everything they touch.
>>728534013yeah, because the pre-S10 Apu episodes were funny
Family guy won
>>728569901The Sara Bellum actually angered me when I first thought about it. Not because of the censoring at first but ultimately the message behind it. They’re basically saying a woman cannot be intelligent, composed AND attractive, maybe even saying beauty is synonymous with anti-intellectualism. But these same people want to promote equality and logic for whatever rhetoric or believes they have. How does that not kill their narrative? Its the same thing with Jessica Rabbit, shes hot but shes not idiotic or goofy.
Well /v/?
>>728541398Yeah, how do you choose Apu as example of bad indian representation when Raj exists? Hell even in the ending Raj still was a loser
>>728573301its most of all an alliance of undesirables.when blizzard made their inhuman minority points calculator your character got a higher score if it was ugly.
>>728556806I worked at Tata and the rampant nepotism and classism actually shocked me. The Brahmin caste is pure cancer and they treated dalits like human garbage, they couldnt go to the bathroom during office hours because they would contaminate the higher castes, they eventually built a cuck shed with a bathroom and shower outside the main building.. Still they would rather hire a dalit than any non Indian. I was fired as soon as they could replace me with a jeet. Every company with a jeet CEO will eventually be all jeets. It happens so fast and they are so blatant with what they are doing that is almost impressive. First they fired all the non Indian workers they could and after it was mostly Indians they started culling the dalits to replace them with the (worker caste ?) idk what it's called. It was pretty fucked up because they went out of their way to make the dalit ex employees get deported. You don't get deported here (Uruguay) unless you are a criminal so they didn't succeed but the fact that they even tried and were seething they managed to stay AFTER they fired them, it was eye opening for sure. I heard the stories, but it was way worse to experience it first hand.
>>728573405Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?
>>728538941No, they removed Apu and used him as a scapegoat despite him literally just asking them to be a bit more sensitive when writing the character. He never asked for a new VA, and he never asked for the character's removal. I still think he's a bit dumb for making the documentary in the first place, but the simpsons writers really screwed him over to avoid backlash.
>>728577287You think what happened to the indian visage is the fault of the Simpsons axing Apu,
>>728554939that's the definition of stereotype you dumb bitch
>>728577462What does this have to do with my post?
Simpsons should have ended after season 8
>>728534013It's not that surprising, on classic Simpsons only Krusty had more episodes focusing on him and Krusty seems too apathetic and selfish to help the main heroes.
>>728575932>there's jeets in fucking uruguayno place on earth is safe.
Is it worth sitting down and watching all of the Simpsons now? Family didn't let me watch during the golden age so I missed it and never really got into it.
>>728573301Yes that’s exactly the leftist mindset of women can’t be intelligent/competent AND beautiful. I’m pretty sure it’s them coping that they are, in their mind, smart but are seen as undesirable.
>>728534013Apu was a fine choice. He was a fully developed character in the show, especially by the time the game came out. Flanders could have worked but maybe he didn't fit the car mayhem theme.
>>728579943Golden Age is worth a watch. All of it sounds like a colossal waste of time.
>>728579943Absolutely. I've been doing just that lately.I started from the beginning and am on season 16 and still enjoying most of what I'm watching.Seasons 1-9 are as good as they say, but I've still seen a lot of quality TV from seasons 10 to 16 so far.
>>728579943Right from the first episode of season 2 it's fantastic until season 10. You really should watch. And it gets better and better as you keep going through. Season 1 is a little rough so I consider that skipable. Don't miss the michael jackson episode they removed it from streaming.
>>728534286>Krusty, Chief Wiggum, FlandersI would have taken all of these>>728557983you are MASSIVELY gay
>>728580935Yeah people always quote 3 to 8 as the golden age but season 2 is well worth watching and I don't really know why it's considered not part of the golden age.
>>728579643Theres jeets in Australia, Somalia, South Africa, Norway, Ireland, fucking everywhere. The best part is nobody fucking likes them. Nobody wants to be around them in any land they invade. Its uncanny that a majority of humanity can only agree on one thing, we all fucking hate indians.
Keep Apu, replace Lisa with Moe.
>>728581132Really, people don't consider 2 the Golden Age? That's so crazy
>>728575932>Uruguay you're literally the dalit of latam so stfu about dalits , dalit
>>728560103>Mexicans are cool too, never seen them bitch about any of this stuff either.
>>728582284oh yeah and remember emilia perez ?
>>728570691>Homer's motherNo way. They only dig her up for emotional moments, you wouldn't want that for a video game. Abe though? Absolutely.
>>728542568>coming upAnon that shows been out for like a yearDemons are poor heckin browns oppressed by the US government
>>728551334mah nigga roy
>>728557747>That time some Indian influencer urged a ton of CS students to go minor edits/spell checks to big open source project so that they can put "Open source collaborator" in their resume
>>728579943Yeah it's pretty good for the most part.Probably don't watch the full seasons once you get past 20.
>>728557343Yeah, Canada is miserable with them. They've taken over all shipping since they use the trucks to smuggle drugs and they're a nightmare in the winter. I live in an industrial town and the fuckers are blocking the roads taking 20 minutes to back into a lot in the winter.
>>728536032lol
>>728535436The first level. The most iconic part of Springfield and the music is great. I didn’t have enough space on my memory card to save hit and run so I played through the first level a bunch of times.
>>728556806I'm Canadian, even normie girls I know started quietly muttering about how much they hate Indians for being creepy weirdos.
>>728557190I'm autistic so parents friends kept telling me I'm just like Sheldon.
>>728539787Indian culture is super caste oriented and working class jobs are looked down upon. It’s why India is filled with literal garbage, only the undesirables class will pick up trash.
>>728579943the golden age might as well be mandatory for anyone to watch. So much of it is consistently quoted around here, its tv history, etc…Golden age changes depending on who you ask, but usually people consider season 1-10 as the golden age. I would say season 1 and parts of 2 aren’t great, but still worth the watch and the show starts to really decline around 9-10 but really it just becomes more hit and miss until it starts missing more often around season 11everything onwards is considered “zombie simpsons”.
>>728586450They're literally too proud to better their own living situation. It's insanity. That's where the delusional ego comes from
>>728577287Apu was the most virtuous intelligent characters in the show. If he wanted them to be more sensative, to reality maybe they should have him host a call center scamming grandmas.
>>728586829>Apu was the most virtuous intelligent characters in the show.I agree but literally all the creators had to do was say they're going to improve his character then do nothing different.
>>728536575They should make a documentary about all the kids named Bart and Homer who grew up in the 90's. Basically the real life Max Power episode.
>>728534013Apu was one of the more fleshed out and beloved background characters back when I watched The Simpsons in the mid-90s.
>>728534013apu was probably the most prominent secondary character back then so it only makes sense
>>728553263I hate commie faggots like you so much
>>728534013Apu was the most developed side characters when the game was made, but then after Moe was more explored after.So it makes sense since Apu had his entire life elaborated on the show.
>>728534079skinner or ned would be the only ones that come close, although they work more as foils for the simpsons so that's likely why they weren't chosen, grandpa would be the best option for another playable character after apu
>>728543573The "DO NOT REDEEM" video happened around the same time, too.
>>728534559complete coincidence. apu getting removed was all to help the bruised ego of some americanized indian dude (the one who made the castlevania and dmc netflix shows actually) and the modern indian hate is mostly the result of rich people and elites mass importing people from a place with a shitty scammy rapey culture that is largely incompatible with western culture all for the express purpose of short term profits.
>>728535478The Kwik-E-Mart was frequently depicted as scammy, and occasionally shady, but it always felt more like a dig a convenience stores in general, and not at all out of place with the rest of Springfield.
>>728534559Apur being removed was a symptom of the indian nepo-baby >>728538941 being allowed influence via tossing money at projects.
>>728557123>be Canadian>have to listen to indian women and chinese women screeching at one another in broken accents over whom is more Canadian
>>728534079Krusty had many vidyas so...
>>728590974where in Canada does this happen?
>>728592363Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, but I'd bet a pretty penny it occurs just as frequently in Victoria of British Columbia.
>>728534079Krusty? Lenny? Carl? Milhouse?
>>728579943Interesting to me you wouldn't be allowed to watch something as inoffensive as the Simpsons. Something like Family Guy I understand. But I've been watching Simpsons since I was 5. My favourite shows growing up were that and Spongebob.
>>728592529strange, I've never seen this occur or don't even know under what context it would
>>728592607Simpsons depicts blood, and uses minor cuss words (damn, hell, bitch, ect.), shows childhood delinquency in a good light, and to top it all off it’s fairly political and pokes fun at a lot of conservative beliefs, so I could see it if they’re REALLY protective over what their kid watches.
>>728534559Do not redeem Apu
>>728535436Level 4 gotta be my favourite, fun missions, best music, it has the best car, it's in the best map but better. Fuck Frink though
>>728582284To be fair if any race was depicted like that, there would be a fuss. I like when it was first revealed one of the comments was “You couldn’t draw a more racist depiction if you tried”.
>>728534079i remember when i played this as a kid i just assumed that otto would be playable after apu, and couldnt believe he wasnt. he would have been such a perfect character to do with his bus and rock and roll lifestyle
>>728535436Lisa level.https://youtu.be/VVTkvaeNH68
Is there any way to play this on PC?
>>728573301That was the mindset back in the 2010’s. Now progressives are pushing the narrative that strong capable women are actually trans. It’s funny that these people pride themselves on being progressive but are basically saying “normal women are too weak and helpless to be a heroine” and call you an ist or phobe if you disagree.
>>728595427https://shar.zip/Yes. Not sure if the above link comes packaged with Lucas' Hit & Run Mod Launcher, but it's pretty much essential for bug fixes, modern resolutions and shit.
>>728595427Pretty sure you can find it somewhere online easily, there's even people making mods for the game
>>728595427https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Hit_%26_Run
>>728534013I loved my nigga Apu
>>728534013Apu is the only Indian I saw in a positive light, then they killed him or something.
>>728577287It was a pitch for him to be casted as the new apuvoice, and fox execs responded... negatively.
>>728537135Some of them had telekinetic powers, like hadji from johnny quest, or that guy from annie.
>>728536575>over the maker getting bullied at schoolI think he made that dmc cartoon, maybe he didnt get bullied enough
>>728540472this. and the "customer support" they offer is somehow WORSE and more scripted than AI.
>>728581837That that was paraguay
>>728577287the dirtnigger was happy he got his 15 minutes of fame, he didn't give a shit about what he was complaining about
The funny thing is that Apu was a hard working guy but in reality indians are the type to do least possible to get the bare minimum result and never strive for excellence and native born ones are beta soibois more often than not.The perception of indians actually took a hit as a result of Apu being removed and only leaving reality behind.
>>728577287It wasn't just Fox, all industries were going through that, the idea of using a white guy to voice non white characters was racist and exploitative so there was no way they would only go half way if they were going to kowtow to those type of fags and cunts.
>>728557642Apu was unironically like top 5 people with golden hearts in the show
so i heard that crash tag team racing was made by the same team and probably used the same engine as simpsons hit and run, i only played cttr so can anyone else confirm this?i notice the open world and the weird handling are almost identical.
>>728548746Ignorance was bliss
>>728550189Centrists are mentally ill
>>728573301You made the mistake of assuming that your enemies would at least attempt to put forward rational arguments, and to value competency; it turns out, they're either lying or retarded.
>>728575932
>>728579943>>728580330Pre-movie simpsons is GOAT.
>>728601540so true xister fuck those chuds for not choosing a side!
