>A black, disabled, single father to an adopted child fighting tooth and nail against a major corporate government who are driving severe income inequality and widespread destruction of the planet. Is also a respected leader of a resistance group and is working to redeem himself of his past sins by fighting those who exploited his hometown.>Black people IRL hate himI really don't know what they want.
>>3846735They probably self-insert as Cloud or maybe Sephiroth if they are edgy.
Probably not stoic and edgy enough. Black guys always self insert as Vegeta, Piccolo or trunks. Ff7 doesnt really have characters like those, so they probably dont insert as anyone. The closest would be Vincent but he gets cucked and isnt really angry all the time. Also, as an aside, its funny that they always insert as piccolo like characters when most nerds from thst community our loud goof balls. They're pretty easy the spot out in public.
>>3846735>black, disabled, single father to an adopted child> fighting tooth and nail against a major corporate government who are driving severe income inequality and widespread destruction of the planetThis sounds more like a black man written to appeal to lefty white boys than to blacks.If Barret appeared in current year and not the late 90s, he would be called "woke."
>>3846771You think Barret and his homies ran a train on Tifa?
>>3846774Of course. Pic related.
>>3846735I have never seen any blacks say they hate Barret.>>3846771Barret did appear in the current year in the Remake and people constantly talked about how he was the most improved character from the original.>>3846778>even Yuffie banged Tifa>even the Moogle robot banged Tifa
>>3846790>i have never seen any blacksLucky.
>>3846735>Black people IRL hate himI've never known that to be the case. I've seen much more of the opposite.
>>3846791Edgy and cool.
>>3846774It's kinda funny that people still haven't picked up on Barret being a closeted homosexual.
>>3846735>>3846760>>3846810The vocal complaints about Barret was that he was "too stereotypical".
>>3846976>African-AmericanThese people are 100% white, you have to be a special kind of idiot to describe a black man as "African" or "American" in a world that does not have an Africa OR an America.
>>3846980There's a Texas at least
>>3846985AI generated slop
>>3846790>I have never seen any blacks say they hate Barret.This. I live in a black majority city, almost everyone I've met IRL into FF was black and I've never heard them say anything bad about Barret,
>>3846976Those are fakes criticisms written by that magazine, but Barret's dialogue was stupid. Fuck localizers and their fan-fiction.
>>3846735As a white person it's because he's literally Mr. T and speaks like he's in the hood.
>>3846735they don't. but why do you think black people want specifically a disabled single father character? lol
>>3847036Because they're used to having single moms so having a father is a nice change of pace.
>>3846980The term was much more common in the 90s. Yes, people were too retarded to think through the implications of being African-American in a world with no Africa and no America but it was just a PC term for Black.Incidentally, I had a conversation online with a black guy in the very early 2000s who said he really preferred just "Black American." Liked the emphasis on American part not on the black part and certainly not on the African part.>>3846976What kind of faggot is more likely to write a letter to a videogame magazine? A normal black dude who likes vidya or some grievance studies graduate from Far-Left University? And even if by chance both were to submit, which would the magazine be more likely to publish? Woke hadn't gone mainstream in 1997 but there were still budding culture warriors flexing their critical theory skills and media still liked stirring the pot.
>>3846735>>Black people IRL hate himBecause they see his design and think he looks like some Mr T ripoff or a stereotype.And most black people just want a generic badass like Shaft.
>>3846735I remember being about 8 years old playing FF7 I named Cloud Strife Nigger and I named Barret Wallace God
>>3847408lol, did you get over being a tryhard faggot?
>>3847434He'll grow out of it when he's 12.
>>3846976Yeah leftists hate it when you depict black people who act like actual black people, even when they're positive depictions. But from my limited experience, black gamers seem to like Barret.
>>3846985There's also Korean BBQ. I couldn't find Texas or Korea on the world map.
>>3847503Skill issue.
>>3847497>actual black peopleYou mean lower IQ American former slaves.
>>3847521>import dumb as bricks man-cattle>300 years later they've ruined your country and you can get killed randomly with high likelihood just by stepping outside of your homeThe slave owners should apologize to white people, not to black people.
Is anyone ITT capable of telling the truth?
>>3847528Yes, because there's not an insurmountable number of white idiots in the US. Extremism and ignorance runs rampant.
>>3847547I already told you, Blacks just self-insert as Cloud.
>>3846771Honestly games were much more woke back then, now it's mostly just empty tokenism.
>>3847617Not just games but films, comics, etc. I remember someone pulled the whole "X was always political" and one response was "Fine. Now name a more recent work thats on par with what you posted" No response.
>>3848376They can't even tell the difference between political commentary, allegory, satire, and themes
>>3847617>>3848376Sorry, girls. Your empttiness is not a bug it's a feature and the goal. Older media just isn't soulless enough, no matter how awoken you think it is.
>>3848392There's been a slow and steady process of subversion in media for the last 80+ years. Cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School are not new. However, if you go back 3, 4, 5+ decades, the focus was on making quality (and profitable) entertainment first, and subverting society's morals second. That inverted in the last 10-15 years Smith-Mundt Modernization Act in 2012, and ramping up the culture war and identity politics in general, to defuse occupy wallstreet and all forms of entertainment generally went to shit, pushing a sloppy and ham-fisted message first, and letting the quality of the art fall into the dumpster. Especially once you got things like ESG dollars from Black Rock, where being profitable wasn't even a concern. They'd just funnel infinite fiat dollars straight from the "Federal" Reserve printing press and pay to shove propaganda in media, doesn't even matter if the fans don't like or want it. It's OK to lose money, the propaganda is the primary goal, profit secondary.
>>3846735>Black people IRL hate himSource? Am I supposed to believe that some sort of survey has been conducted? Or that, even more prepostrously, OP actually knows a significant amount of black people "IRL" and has solicited their opinion on Barrett from FFVII?
>>3846980>you have to be a special kind of idiot to describe a black man as "African" or "American" in a world that does not have an Africa OR an America.Oh wow, you pedants actually think you're smart. That's it, huh?
>>3847528>import people>try and keep them as stupid as possible>after freeing them actively sabotage all of their attempts to become active and productive members of society by demonising their business attempts, giving them drugs, and burning their communities down>Codify how much you hate them in laws they have to fight to undo>Why aren't they all productive members of society :( why do they hate us :(Genuinely what was the game plan here?
>>3847528>The slave owners should apologize to white peopleYour anti-Semitic bigotry has no place here, chud.
>>3848937Same thing it's always been, keep artificial demographics, like White and Black, fighting against each other and not for their own interests. Divide et impera.
>>3848937>bro what if whi' people and black people sung kumbaya to unite against the elitesstfu you stupid ass faggot hippy
>>3849206for >>3849040as well
>>3849207I accept your concession.
>>3848913We already have an inclusive and generic word for black people.It's "black".
>>3848937>mfw it really was about the content of their character this whole time
>>3849214There ain't one type of black person, just like there ain't one type of white person, or one type of asian. Bring back sub-races! Fuck this fake solidarity.
>>3849212You can imitate the mexicans on /dbs/ all you like, but race is very real my friend.
>>3849233Of course race is real, as well as caste, but power is the only thing that matters in a world run by international cartels of individualists.
>>3849234>but power is the only thing that matters in a world run by international cartels of individualists.A tautology that almost conveys a coherent view... but regardless, the european man and negro male have absolutely no trait of commonality with one another, save through race-mixing.
>>3849239The European man has no commonality between him. I do not identify with a Greek or a German or an Englishman and certainly not the mutts of Southern Spain. Most of my fellows can't understand a word I say. We already exist in this atomized world, shattered by the printing press and Progress. I just see no need to claw at other serfs and subscribe to fake denominations. Don't worry, I don't hope to convince anyone of anything.
>>3849206>>3849217>>3849239Glow harder, why don't you?>actually be tribalistic! Stopped entering mutually beneficial partnerships! Don't get along!! Why? Because uhh... you can't get along! So don't do it!
>>3849265it's kinda funny how multirepliers invariably can't follow subtext
>>3849234>power is the only thing that matters in a world run by international cartels of individualists.This is completely backwards. The world is ran by an international cartel of collectivist ethno-nationalists, who prize the in-group above all.Individualism is what they push for you and your family, goy.
>>3849330>international cartel of collectivist ethno-nationalistsYou don't understand cartels or how tribal elders work.They absolutely are willing to sacrifice their "people" and their children for a smidge more power. Any portrayed loyalty is just to create a class of managers that give them their loyalty. Beyond that they got high on their own supply.
>>3846735>blacks should like him because he's black!Typical retarded white libtard faggot tranny nog worshipperThis idea that he is some profound character is zoomer black worship revisionism.He's an obvious Mr. T "angry black man" cardboard cutout comic relief character with a few obligatory "deep moments" that the developers always throw into JRPGs to make the cast seem rounded out.Fucking Cait Sith had the same kind of thing.
>Black people IRL hate himOP sounds like a /pol/nigger making shit upYou should get kirked desu
>>3846735He IS based on a black stereotype (Mr. T) though.
Black people IRL are too busy working two jobs to barely get by to play weeb games.
I used to do freeform roleplay with a black kid on the bus ride to the gifted school I went to. I can tell you guys are unexceptional simply because you are focused on the unexceptional.What a mundane life.
>>3846735I'd call a gatling arm with infinite ammo "enabled", if anything.
>>3849451I wouldn't. I'd rather have a hand holding a gun. Hands are waaaaay better than guns for doing things, including using guns.
>>3849369He lost his home, his best friend, his arm, and is a victim of corporate backstabbing that caused his entire hometown to turn against him. He has every goddamn right to be an "angry black man".
>>3849461>you can’t hug your children with firearmsReally makes u think
>>3846771he should be guzzling 40's and doing drive bys all blinged out.
>>3846735>Black peopleCan't read nor comprehend basic concepts
>>3850380>Black people can't readThousands of black people have 100%'d FF7. Could you 100% a 3 disc PS1 JRPG with the language set to French?
>>3850943>the soft bigotry of low expectations
>>3846741I would hope no one self-inserts as Sephiroth.
>>3846735proto woke DEI
>>3846735>Black people IRL hate himThey do?
>>3846976I guarantee you female hands wrote this.
>>3852951Oh jesus fucking christ, child, you have no idea the horrors we survived in the '90s.
>>3846735Sage
>>3846735Black people only hate him because the localization made him a racist stereotype.Remake Barret isn't hated at all, because he's no longer localized as a Mr T joke.
>>3853977Nobody but fart-huffing academic faggots hated Mr. T.
>>3853977>Make a black person talk black>Racist stereotype>Don't make him talk black>Whitewashed, talking white, etc.Can't fucking win.
>>3854099>Can't fucking win.Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.
>>3853991>Completely misses the pointIt's like you enjoy being retarded>>3854099>A racist pretending he isn'tDiscarded.
>>3854136No, I got the point, you just can't admit you accepted faulty premise.
>>3854526No, you didn't. Typical american.
>>3846735Barret works because he happens to just be a black guy in a magical world where Africa doesn't exist.
>>3847346The American Negros have a set of terms used to refer to them that they constantly rotate through in order to keep whites walking on egg shells for fear of "offending" them. All the terms are just there to maintain a power dynamic. There are nigh infinite examples but for a quick one, it is considered deeply offensive to call a black person "colored" and reminiscent of Jim Crow yet the NAACP doesn't seem to feel any sense of urgency to change the way they refer to themselves. Any term used to refer to black people in the US can and will be interpreted as offensive at any moment, it's really just up to the person if they want to make a stink about it or not. That's because everyone intuitively understands that there is something deficient about being black but it's considered an extreme faux pas to ever draw attention to the fact.
>>3853977>Black people only hate him because the localization made him a racist stereotype.Speak for yourself.
>>3854589Nothing I said contradicts your point, except for the part where I point out you had a faulty premise.Who taught you how to be this retarded?
>>3846735True Barret was based AF. Would be considered "woke" now-a-days from /pol/, Conservatards who ain't never had to struggle for nothing. Liked him in the remake games too.
>>3846735Barret is a good dude that just happens to be black.
>>3846741The amount of black weeaboos who want to be edgy DBZ ninja goku including the spiky anime hair is insane, you just rarely hear from them.
>>3854099Racist black stereotypes are funny and kino tho.
>>3847003FFVII was famously translated in-house by an ESL Jap
>>3846735if ff7 came out today performative "gamers" would be yelping like bitchless dogs being beaten with leather belts about the main cast.
>>3855377>the blonde haired evil businessman lives in a big TOWER in the city and wants to rule everyone with fear? Um, sounds like they're making a Trump reference!
