Bring on the Meteor VII: The Diversifying

This edition of Bring on the Meteor is coming on a month old, which does make the stories involved out of date, the reason is simple, I was too bone idle to get it finished before taking off to Wales for two weeks where I had no internet, just wanted to be honest and bring this little point up, to hopefully clear up any incoherence in this Meteor, that being said, I wanted to talk about these stories, so here it is, enjoy.
Fortunately this time it won't be all doom and gloom, just some good old ideological cancer, which will make this very fun, one of our cases today is about a Call of Duty game, as well as another that could very well be Ghostbusters 2.0, and a whiny bitch whining about a racist movie about CGI apes, it is nice to not have any serious overtones bearing down on the proceedings, like I said earlier, just good old fashioned cancer. Maybe there is hope for us all yet, or maybe the ideological rot is too bad, and we truly are beyond saving, I suppose none of it will matter when the Meteor arrives, but until then, let's laugh at some of the finest stupidity, that's a few weeks out of date.

Let's start with perhaps the least consequential piece of stupid, a BLM activist getting upset at the new Planet of the Apes. I've actually seen War for the Planet of the Apes, and really should have reviewed it when I had the chance, but for now, apparently that film; a film about a race of super intelligent apes going to war with the last remnants of a dying human race, is actually like super racist, and it's actually like, specifically targeting one individual, who like totally isn't a self obsessed race obsessed moron, that moron would be DeRay McKesson. On the surface you'd think this to be quite simple, it's a film about apes, and we all know how racist that is, after all, if King Kong is racist, Planet of the Apes is almost certainly more racist. Never mind that to think a film about apes is racist you first have to be a massive racist yourself, I mean, seriously, who in their right mind would watch a trailer for Planet of the Apes and think of black people, apart from the kind of idiot that thinks King Kong is an allegory for black hysteria, IE a race obsessed hysterical racist. The sad thing is that that's only part of the problem here, enter McKesson, someone Wikipedia calls a 'civil rights activist', we have truly failed MLK's dream now haven't we, because he's a key figure in BLM, and if you're familiar with the Meteor series, you know how much I despise BLM. Where this story truly begins is with that moron's Twitter, where on the 10th of June he tweeted about a "lack of consciousness" in Hollywood, and showed a poster for Planet of the Apes with the character Bad Ape circled, who wears a blue jacket in the film, much like the one usually worn by McKesson, as well as a picture of a collector's toy of the character. Now this whole situation has taken on a whole new context; suddenly this isn't Planet of the Apes being racist, it's Planet of the Apes targeting a specific individual, and taking the piss out of him by making him an ape. Do I really need to say why that's insane? Again, someone unfamiliar with McKesson would think he's just being a lunatic for thinking a major Hollywood production is specifically targeting him, but here's his damning evidence of the evil racism, ready? Bad ape wears a blue jacket, and you know who else wears a blue jacket, that's right, McKesson... Boom huge Hollywood racist conspiracy exposed. Honestly that's his evidence, an ape wears a blue jacket, and he also wears a blue jacket. Hey McKesson, you know who else wears a blue jacket, the Apes in the original Planet of the Apes which came out 20 years before you were even born you fucking idiot, my guess is that Bad Ape's coat is a homage to that film, and not to some nobody progressive twitter activist who genuinely seems to think he's the next MLK. I'm sure there are some people in the world who aren't terribly familiar with BLM, and would probably incorrectly assume that 'Black lives Matter' is a statement, when in reality it's a movement, and would therefore stand in agreement with the statement, unaware of all the riots and attacks on police that BLM is behind, but tell me something DeRay, when people see you calling out a multimillion dollar production for its racism, on such superficial and downright delusional grounds as a choice in wardrobe, what are they going to think? It really reminds me of Feminists complaining about things like man spreading and sexist air conditioning, you destroy your own movement's credibility, and make it a joke, like feminism, BLM is a bigoted supremacist movement, and people know it, what with all the calls for dead cops, and the cries of "white lives don't matter", and then you go and make yourself look like a paranoid, self obsessed freak, and not only does your movement have no moral leg to stand on, it now has no credibility. Since BLM is such a misleading title, let me preface, I do not think black lives don't matter, because unlike BLM, I'm not a raging racist, but while I believe that all lives have inherent value, I also believe that BLM is a cancerous, dangerous, and deluded movement that needs to die, so their bullshit can be left behind and the problems they claim to want to fix, like police brutality and mass incarceration, can actually be looked at without being obscured by the cries of "what do we want, dead cops," and racist monkeys in movies. DeRay McKesson is stupid, BLM is stupid, and Planet of the Apes will be loved in spite of that stupidity, because ironically, Planet of the Apes says more about the failings of our species than McKesson and BLM could ever even dream of, they'll be too busy obsessing over the dumb shit like a coat.

And now for the story that would piss me off the most if it wasn't for Sledgehammer, but it does really piss me off, and I in fact reckon it's Ghostbusters 2.0, for a reason I will now explain, a female Doctor Who. My love of Doctor Who can be traced back to March 25th 2005, more than 12 years ago, when I was a wee 8 year old. My dad showed me Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 AD, the 1966 movie starring Peter Cushing, because Doctor Who, the famous British Sci fi series, was coming back to TV, and I fell in love with it, I just thought the Daleks were so cool, and I really liked the movie, and probably still would if I watched it again now, so the next day, when Doctor Who's first episode, Rose aired, I was completely on board, and stayed madly in love with the show for a full five years. My love for the show effectively died however when Russell T Davies left, and was replaced by Steven Moffat, and by the end of series 9 I had just had enough, and wasn't even interested in watched it any more, despite enjoying some of the newer episodes like Mummy on the Orient Express, and thinking Peter Capaldi was great casting. But Moffat has a habit of writing stories that trick you into thinking they're good, just look at Sherlock for proof of that, and a lot of Doctor Who's newer episodes have either downright sucked, or really not been that great upon reflection. Which leads us to this point, a point that I honestly think is the moment Doctor Who, as a series, dies, because after years of Moffat seeming trying to run the show into the ground, new show runner Chris Chibnall, who did Broadchurch, a show I hear is great from my mum, gives me hope, or at least he did, until Jodie Whittaker was cast as the Doctor. That's right, the Doctor is a woman now, and it pisses me off to no end, but not for the reasons you'd think. In a perfect world, I wouldn't mind a woman being cast as the Doctor, but this is not a perfect world, this is in fact a world where the BBC is infested with deluded ideologues who want to force arbitrary diversity quotas for their staff, fire people who don't conform, and who are more than happy to force their cultish obsession for diversity on their TV programs, just take a look at Bill Potts for instance. Now they're committed the ultimate vandalism on Doctor Who and gender swapped the character, which in and of itself isn't a bad thing, just like Ghostbusters, it's not the female recast that's the problem, it's the reason for the female recast. And it's a reason we all know; because it's [current year] and making the Doctor a woman is the progressive thing to do, it's a statement to challenge the outdated and patriarchal conceptions of the character of the Doctor, and take the character in a 'bold' and 'brave' new direction. In other words, this is purely ideological, and that's why I hate it, that's why this recasting has killed this show for me, it's a commitment to the ideology, and not to the show itself. But wait, you ask, how do I know this is ideological, how do I know I'm not just being a cry baby about this recasting, oh that's easy, that's real easy, first, common sense, and knowledge of the progressive agenda currently infecting every facet of the BBC, that too nebulous for you? how about an interview with the new Doctor herself, Jodie Whittaker.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/633b5583-f0b1-4917-baf5-eb02ca44552a
This interview to be specific.

Let's cut to the meat and get straight to question 6, "What does it feel like to be the first woman Doctor?" Whittaker's answer is what convinced me to never want to watch Doctor Who again, and now you'll see. Her Answer: It feels completely overwhelming, as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you’re told you can and can’t be. It feels incredible. Lets pull this shit apart shall we; first of all, what the fuck is she on about being boxed in, like there's some social stigma to being a woman in a lead role. How about fuck you, movies and video games have had female leads for decades; Alien, Tomb Raider, Hunger Games, Labyrinth, more recently shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, two of the biggest shows in TV history, not to mention the last two Star Wars films, and the recent Wonder Woman, which probably isn't going to hit that sweet $1 Billion, but has still come three quarters of the way, and is definitely going to hit $800 million by the end of its run, the idea that there's some kind of stigma when it comes to female leads is something I've debunked before, but I'll repeat it, there isn't one. There's a stigma against bad writing and blatant agenda pushing, which is one of the many, many reasons Ghostbusters failed, and will inevitably be one of the reasons this fails. But the most telling part by far, "as a feminist", notice the order those words come in, feminist first, woman second, that makes it very clear that to her, in this situation, being a feminist comes before being a woman, which just confirms my biggest fear, this is Ghostbusters all over again, which puts the BBC in a very, very dangerous position. The BBC now has a decision to make, it might be unfair to assume her character will be crap, but I have no hope at this point, but the BBC could get this right; they could listen to the fans, they could reassure the fans and ask them to not be overly concerned and just give it a try, that would be very reasonable to do, and then even if the next series sucks, people would still give it a chance. The sad truth though is the BBC's power in this mess is limited, a lot of that power is in the hands of all the feminist journos, and we all already know what they'll say, it'll be all talk about how progressive and right this is, and how everyone who hates this is just a sexist man baby, and never once will they learn from their mistakes. It's entirely possible that the ratings could tank for this, and they'll inevitably say it's all just sexism, because obsessing over identity is how they hide their lack of merit, making the gender or the race the thing to celebrate and not the actual quality, they tried it with Ghostbusters and it failed, and I don't know if the next Doctor's going to be good, in fact I don't care, my love for Doctor Who died in 2010, and this blatant, unapologetic agenda pushing has made me never want to watch it again. Just like Ghostbusters, there is still a love I have for the franchise, and part of me wants it to go well, if only for the sake of the franchise, but at the same time there's a part of me that really wants this to fail, because I hate this shit, I hate franchises I love being turned into mouth pieces for political agendas, most notably cancerous political agendas like feminism, in their desperate efforts to belittle and pathologise men and masculinity, just think about Kevin and Rowan, and think, if they could make a character like Bill Potts, or like Vastra and Jenny, ones that tick all the progressive boxes, just how bad is this going to get. Also remember the Master is a woman now too, I'm sure that the relationship between the Doctor and the Master won't be 'expanded on' at all here, just to tick one more progressive box. And finally we must look at this from a historical perspective, in ten years, assuming Doctor Who is somehow still running, how is Jodie Whittaker going to be remembered, will she be remembered for being a really great Doctor, or will she be remembered for being a woman, that's the ultimate failure of pedestalising identities, when history remembers them, they won't be remembered for who they are or what they did, you can see it right now, no one's saying, 'Jodie Whittaker is the new Doctor,' they're all saying 'The new Doctor is a woman,' because that's what really matters here, and it's not me saying that, it's the media, it's the BBC, it's Jodie Whittaker herself. So when the agenda is finally defeated, and we can start rebuilding our society, or at least our entertainment, no one's going to remember Jodie Whittaker like they remember Christopher Eccleston or David Tennant, in fact no one's really going to care, and that's just so indicative of the problem with this whole mess, because pedestalising someone's identity belittles the person in a way feminists and SJWs will never understand.

So, BLM's credibility is dead, the BBC's most internationally successful show alongside Top Gear is dead, what's next, ah yes, history is on the march, or more accurately in this case, historical revisionism. Do you remember that really great Call of Duty WWII reveal trailer, that one that was dark and violent and atmospheric, and looked like they were actually trying to be historically accurate, well for the multiplayer at least they seemingly decided 'fuck that, let's be PC,' because this shit just never stops. From what I hear this shit only applies to multiplayer, so at least there's that, but it doesn't take a genius to see the problem. Let's start with the least sickening part, Sledgehammer are removing the Swastika from multiplayer, given that the game will have Nazis in it, you'd think that's a bit weird, but to be honest this is the change they made I can most understand, since there are parts of the world where you're not allowed to show the symbol, but that still doesn't apply to the majority of markets, it's like torching a house to fix a mouse problem. What I find weird however is the Swastika has become a symbol of evil and hate, for 70 years the Nazis have been an excellent guide line on how to be the ultimate evil, and everyone already knows how evil they were, no one likes the Nazis, apart from neo-Nazis, which the vast, vast majority of people aren't. So why sensor the symbol of that evil, is it to avoid offending people, because removing that symbol of hate disembodies that hate, and why would they want to do that, to make the Nazis look less evil? It's not like Wolfenstein was going for historical accuracy, but they still didn't shy away from portraying the Nazis as honestly, and therefore as brutally as they could, yet here you're censoring some of that imagery, while also trying to be historically accurate, it's really dumb. Sadly though ,while I find that weird, there is one element to this that I just straight up hate, and that is their push for diversity in the multiplayer, oh yes, we're talking about black Nazis. The reason they've given for this is that in the single player they want to be historically accurate, but they want to make the multiplayer as social as possible, and as marketable to as many demographics as possible, but you know what, Sledgehammer, I for one am not letting you get away with this, because you can't hide the real reason. I'm sure you've noticed that picture, the one of a Sledgehammer dev with Anita Sarkeesian, and isn't that picture just so revealing. Anita Sarkeesian, in addition to being a liar, a bully, and a charlatan, is also someone who doesn't care one bit about video games, which is something she has said in the past, not liking video games because they're gross for example, for her it's been about two things, herself, and the agenda, she wants to get influence, and she wants to push her ideology wherever she can, and it would appear that, like Sledgehammer, she doesn't mind revisionist re-interpretation of history, something I find utterly sickening. When it comes to Anita having influence in video game development, things could get seriously bad very fast, as her desire isn't to make a good game, it never is, and when you have her getting friendly with video game developers, that could ruin a game. What pisses me off isn't that though, since WWII is actually shaping up pretty good, my issue is of course the historical revisionism, the Black Nazis.

This is something I've heard from the devs themselves, which really makes me question their motives even more, but World War II isn't as popular a setting as it used to be, the last Call of Duty game set in the war came out in 2008, and there hasn't really been a high profile World War II shooter since then, so for a lot of gamers, particularly younger ones, this will be their first high profile exposure to the war, undeniably a massively important part of history, alongside maybe films like Hacksaw Ridge and Dunkirk, both of which are phenomenal films I'd highly recommend. To that end, shouldn't being historically faithful be a top priority, to represent the conflict as honestly and accurately as possible. I know it's just a game, but this game has a responsibility, bestowed upon it by the devs themselves, to introduce a new audience to one of the most significant moments in human history, and shit like that has to be done right, I for one am pissed off by the disconnect a lot of people today have with history. Which is why Historical Revisionism pisses me off so fucking much, it sickens me to my very core. Because nothing shits on history quite like a black woman Nazi, nothing ruins a game's authenticity like this PC agenda that we know is behind this. Because it doesn't matter how they explain this away, they can say it's about 'creating an inclusive social space' and 'making the game appeal to a wider audience' but that's bullshit, it's political, it's ideological, it's Anita and other Social Justice Paragons whispering in their ears saying, 'you know what's cool, diversity, I mean, you don't want to be a racist misogynist do you.' And that's assuming they're doing this out of fear of those Paragons, in their ideologue infested industry, and not all on their own. Make no mistake, this is historical revisionism for the sake of a narrative, this is trying to rewrite history so it's 'inclusive' and 'diverse' and 'representative', but that's what truly matters to these people; race, gender, not making a good game or doing history justice, but doing social justice. And since this is going to be how a lot of younger gamers are introduced to the war, the historical revisionism could destroy their interpretation of history, all for the sake of a narrative. And this does a complete disservice to both the men and women of the War, the men who fought and died defending freedom, and the women who kept society from falling apart back home, not to mention the downright stupidity of a black Nazi. Never mind the whole master race thing, the whole killing non-Aryans, including black people, in the gas chambers, how does doing this pay respect to them. Seriously, in what way does making the Nazis ethnically diverse pay respect to all the ethnic minorities who the Nazis slaughtered, it doesn't, it's disgusting, how does it pay respect to the men who fought to save the world from their racially pure authoritarianism to force in women, it doesn't, it's disgusting. Again, don't be fooled by their excuses, they can try to sell this however they want, but at the heart of this is an ideology, one that seeks to change people's perception of the world itself, in this case by reinterpreting history. And even if it's only the multiplayer, again, bullshit, because why do people buy Call of Duty, this answer has been known for years, it's for the multiplayer, the only part of the game this cancer has infected, and certainly the only part of the game the typical teenage n00bs will bother with, the teenage n00bs who have lived in a world slowly being taken over by the PC agenda, and not getting thought about this history when they really should be. But Politics is a pendulum, and eventually it will swing again, so idiots like the devs at Sledgehammer really must consider how those teenage n00bs will be looking at this, events like the 2016 election and the Great Meme War prove times are changing, the pendulum is beginning to swing already, and rather poetically, in their effort to rewrite history, they've just ended up on the wrong side of it.

It was fun while it lasted, no world ending, freedom revoking topic, but I'm sure Theresa May and her minions are hard at work somewhere, but the enemy must be fought wherever it's found, and people must be given the information the enemy wishes to deprive them of. That is something I want for everybody, to not simply believe, but to look at this shit for themselves, to have the facts, and to come to their own conclusions, and to be free to share those conclusions, whether they're right or wrong. Hating Doctor Who's recasting doesn't make you a misogynist by default, hating the forced diversity in WWII doesn't make you a racist by default, these are the simple answers, and things are never that simple. As ever, if you think I'm wrong, I have no problem with that, I'd prefer it if we could all think for ourselves. I also wish Doctor Who never went to shit, so we can't all get what we want, but if you'll pardon the hyperbolic quote, it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees, better to make your voice heard, no matter how small it is, than to live a life of silence, and to take the slings and arrows your voice may bring.