I assume many are following Jerrel youtube.com/@sungrandstudios ... But if you're not, what are you waiting for? We need to find out what happens if he actually assembles those infinite stones.
That Tifa is killer!! happy to discover this channel and I thought I was goin nutty but yea 80-90s kids are all like wth ppl why are we going in reverse?
Thanks!!! And you know the struggle then lol. All of this is so strange now. I feel like people are living with an alternate history as their head cannon as opposed to the cool times we actually had.
@ReactandDraw as someone who also grew up in the 80s/90s, I can attest to that struggle. People have gone outside they're damn minds these days. Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here like "can we get a fun game with cool looking, and yes, attractive characters?" Is that really asking so much? I guess it is.
Growing up in the 80's and 90's definitely gives us a different outlook. Edit: Having said that a lot of my friends especially the creatives are leaning towards fanatic activism.
I said this before, on the other video, but I'll put it again here. Imagine being a black artist. Imagine working at Obsidian. Imagine your boss as good as telling you, "Of course we hired you because you are Black. It certainly wasn't because of your terrible terrible artwork. Why else would anyone look at your dogshirt portfolio?" And then have the _gall_ to think that they're _helping_ ? Now, I'm not black. But I do fall into a few "diverse" categories. And if I ever found out that my employer hired me -- not because I was the best candidate for the job, but because of my skin tone and sexuality -- I would be _livid_ . I would feel dehumanized, and used, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working there next week.
@@egglordsasuke8532 I'm not 100% sure which way you're trying to go with on your argument, that's why i try to go with both separatly: A: If it's meant more like a gotcha of "oh so you dislike preferential treatment of black people, but not when black people get denied" (using black people as an example considering on what race obsidian focused on - you can swap that with any minority or opressed people you feel like) -> you are aware that especially this situation of obsidian highlights how this get hand-in-hand and how propblematic it is. By focusing and prefering black people over white-crusty dudes, you pretty much do preferental threatment on one race, while denying the same for others because of their race. On top of that pretty much telling black people not being able to do it on their own by their skills and such. And on top of that potentially lead to a toxic working enviroment because such people are then threated or seens as tokenism and even further down the road might fuel even more into this culture war and segregate people even further. Equality based on opportunity is a good thing, because it gives an equal chance to everyone based on their merits, no matter what race, sexuality or whatever. Equality based on outcome however fuels in the same problems as before, because you focus more on gender-identity and race and other social aspects, which just shifts the scapegoat from one to another. B: If it's not the above but you're just hung up on the comment solely focus on the side black people getting preferential threatment but not acknowledging or getting into how white people getting denied in this scenario. I mean just because this person doesn't express it explicitely state this is wrong too, it doesn't mean that this person doesn't find that problematic either. But i'd argue especially in this case/regard, most normal sane people will see and agree that this whole "exclude one race to prefer another one" (doesn't matter if white, black, asian or any other ethnicity or also sexuality and such) is problematic, it's good when people also highlight the other side of the coin as well. Because you've people who argue or wonder why people, who might profit from this system, might have anything against it. Well that person did give a good explanation why...
You, man. People like you are the real deal! It's what we need, not pandering, checkboxes or demoralizing raceswaps. We need interesting, new characters and design, alongside new stories and comics/books/game to populate them with. Your art is great. You need no special rules to open up doors for you, let your portfolio speak for itself. +1 Sub, + Many (I'm sure) likes.
"Why would I buy spite entertainment?" 💯 I was a 90s boy and went to HS in the mid 2000s, you're right that everything was chill. Nobody hyper focused on seeing every possible thing through a racial lens and victim hierarchy. Everything in society treated like a zero sum game now where the powers that be shake the jar and try and keep all the different ants at each other's throats...
100% agree with you. I was born in ‘86, and I feel like the 2000’s (and even early 2010’s) were the best time in gaming. We got great games and everyone just had fun. Also, wanted to say man you are one hell of a talented artist. Keep it up!
Obsidian HAS done politically charged games before. Easiest example is Fallout New Vegas. And people on both sides love that game. They can no longer make games like that now, not only because the people that make them have left, but because of insane people like Matt Hansen, who put ideology over fun. The reason New Vegas worked was cos it was balanced. It poked at all sides of the political spectrum equally. We just can't do that anymore. We gotta "rock the boat" now. So sick of this. I hope Obsidian reprimands that idiot. Sorry for the rant. Your art is amazing and I will be sticking around to see how your creativity grows.
Ehhhh. The difference is that New Vegas was a damn good game with some political commentary that was a natural part of the games flow. That's different than making a piece of political commentary with a game built around it.
Your Tifa illustration is phenomenal, brother, like holy moly. Once again, I agree with your observations. It'd be great if we could go back and enjoy games as people again.
Not just the 80s-90s, the 2000s as well were really laid back and chill. It was early 2010s- specificly when tumblr banned porn and Gamer Gate that all of this started
Here from Team Asmondgold, and I want to say you’re absolutely right about growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. We were taught that skin color is just a reflection of what hemisphere your ancestors were from. Not who you are as human being.
Marvel Comic's New New Warriors were made out of spite and it failed hard. Lot's of good character reworks by good independent artists, but damn Marvel, you deserve to go bankrupt again.
I'm glad he showed me your channel, that's an insta subscribe. As an artist myself though a different kind I'm blown away. You're really one YT's gem. Slava
Even with the added context(some covered on yt that he tweeted it during George Floyd's protests) his tweet was horrible, talented artists don't need such bs, if you want to support a certain racial demographic, then uplift them and their names, get them more exposure on your platform, his tweet showed how unhinged he is and exposed the fact that he doesnt know any black artists, There needs to be more transparency in the industry, instead studios exploit artists while filling quotas for diversity.
You're talented, and clearly about the craft. I've been working in AAA games for quite some time (fun fact, twice as long as Matt Hansen has), and it's always a treat when I discover my colleagues behave similar to you, in how you approach art.
keep in mind this video was made before we knew that the entire team behind it was in full support of matt's ideas and beliefs, the whole game and studio is infected
I am a whole ass white guy, and I suck at non-musical art, but if I could draw, I'd be tempted to reach out to Ma'am Hansen under the guise of being a person of color and see if he would be willing to "help" me. Then, when he agreed to lift me up out of the miserable squalor that is my life, I would reveal that I was white and see what happened. I'm guessing the "miraculous opportunity" he'd offered would suddenly disappear.
This is a really dangerous direction because if continued black people in a position of autority will simply be considered inferior and assumed to have received their place not for merits or ability but as a gift by a woke director.
Here from Jerrel's video... The developers need to focus on making good games and get out of politics. By too many only focusing on our blackness, they miss real talent. And white saviours syndrome are just about the worst thing I've been subjected to. This is different than seeing skills that can be honed into being one of the best and happening to be black. I am TIRED of the tropes and tokenization. Matt Hansen is a joke.
i agree with media becoming stale. i think the only new movies i watch are Denis Villeneuve movies. Nearly every game i play is 6+ years old, most of em are indie games. not cause i got nostalgia, but cause AAA is getting worse. And im noticing the same with youtube. even the "information/scientific" genre of youtube vids is becomming extremely surface level and basically slop. the architecture in my country looks more n more like prisons. less shapes and less colours. Then on top of it everythingi s getting political. Even diets cant get away from the politic grifters
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” Accept Christ as Savior and Believe in Him and what He did for you at the Cross. This life is SHORT, eternity will never end and you’ll either spend it with God in Heaven or in Hell with the devil. Jesus paid your sin debt 2,000 years ago with His Blood on the Cross, don’t reject Him for God Loves you and wants you in Heaven with Him. God always has and always will be with you, even now❤. Prepare for not just on earth, but for Eternity. Jesus is coming SOONER than any of us Think!!!!!. Jesus is LORD of lords, KING 👑 of kings, and GOD of gods. God Bless You All🙏👊
I assume many are following Jerrel youtube.com/@sungrandstudios
... But if you're not, what are you waiting for? We need to find out what happens if he actually assembles those infinite stones.
Your art is great man, it sucks when guys like that devalue hardwork and talent and try and be some kind of savior. keep up your grind man.
Thanks man! And yea, I suppose Matt thought he was really doing something with that tweet. Putting down one to allegedly raise up another. Bad tactic.
Came here from jerrel's vid, love your art!
Welcome! Thank you
That Tifa is killer!! happy to discover this channel and I thought I was goin nutty but yea 80-90s kids are all like wth ppl why are we going in reverse?
Thanks!!! And you know the struggle then lol. All of this is so strange now. I feel like people are living with an alternate history as their head cannon as opposed to the cool times we actually had.
@@ReactandDraw EXACTLY!!
@ReactandDraw as someone who also grew up in the 80s/90s, I can attest to that struggle. People have gone outside they're damn minds these days. Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here like "can we get a fun game with cool looking, and yes, attractive characters?" Is that really asking so much? I guess it is.
I do not know how any reasonable person could read Hanson's tweet and not think "Wow, White Savior complex much?".
Awesome channel, subscribed!
Growing up in the 80's and 90's definitely gives us a different outlook. Edit: Having said that a lot of my friends especially the creatives are leaning towards fanatic activism.
I said this before, on the other video, but I'll put it again here.
Imagine being a black artist. Imagine working at Obsidian. Imagine your boss as good as telling you, "Of course we hired you because you are Black. It certainly wasn't because of your terrible terrible artwork. Why else would anyone look at your dogshirt portfolio?"
And then have the _gall_ to think that they're _helping_ ?
Now, I'm not black. But I do fall into a few "diverse" categories. And if I ever found out that my employer hired me -- not because I was the best candidate for the job, but because of my skin tone and sexuality -- I would be _livid_ . I would feel dehumanized, and used, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working there next week.
So, you feel bad for the people getting preferential treatment but not the people who got denied a job because of their race.
@@egglordsasuke8532 way to miss the point, and make it about an agenda. wow. Impressive.
@@egglordsasuke8532 I'm not 100% sure which way you're trying to go with on your argument, that's why i try to go with both separatly:
A: If it's meant more like a gotcha of "oh so you dislike preferential treatment of black people, but not when black people get denied" (using black people as an example considering on what race obsidian focused on - you can swap that with any minority or opressed people you feel like) -> you are aware that especially this situation of obsidian highlights how this get hand-in-hand and how propblematic it is. By focusing and prefering black people over white-crusty dudes, you pretty much do preferental threatment on one race, while denying the same for others because of their race. On top of that pretty much telling black people not being able to do it on their own by their skills and such. And on top of that potentially lead to a toxic working enviroment because such people are then threated or seens as tokenism and even further down the road might fuel even more into this culture war and segregate people even further.
Equality based on opportunity is a good thing, because it gives an equal chance to everyone based on their merits, no matter what race, sexuality or whatever.
Equality based on outcome however fuels in the same problems as before, because you focus more on gender-identity and race and other social aspects, which just shifts the scapegoat from one to another.
B: If it's not the above but you're just hung up on the comment solely focus on the side black people getting preferential threatment but not acknowledging or getting into how white people getting denied in this scenario. I mean just because this person doesn't express it explicitely state this is wrong too, it doesn't mean that this person doesn't find that problematic either. But i'd argue especially in this case/regard, most normal sane people will see and agree that this whole "exclude one race to prefer another one" (doesn't matter if white, black, asian or any other ethnicity or also sexuality and such) is problematic, it's good when people also highlight the other side of the coin as well. Because you've people who argue or wonder why people, who might profit from this system, might have anything against it. Well that person did give a good explanation why...
You, man. People like you are the real deal! It's what we need, not pandering, checkboxes or demoralizing raceswaps. We need interesting, new characters and design, alongside new stories and comics/books/game to populate them with.
Your art is great. You need no special rules to open up doors for you, let your portfolio speak for itself. +1 Sub, + Many (I'm sure) likes.
"Why would I buy spite entertainment?" 💯 I was a 90s boy and went to HS in the mid 2000s, you're right that everything was chill. Nobody hyper focused on seeing every possible thing through a racial lens and victim hierarchy. Everything in society treated like a zero sum game now where the powers that be shake the jar and try and keep all the different ants at each other's throats...
100% agree with you. I was born in ‘86, and I feel like the 2000’s (and even early 2010’s) were the best time in gaming. We got great games and everyone just had fun.
Also, wanted to say man you are one hell of a talented artist. Keep it up!
Obsidian HAS done politically charged games before. Easiest example is Fallout New Vegas. And people on both sides love that game. They can no longer make games like that now, not only because the people that make them have left, but because of insane people like Matt Hansen, who put ideology over fun.
The reason New Vegas worked was cos it was balanced. It poked at all sides of the political spectrum equally. We just can't do that anymore. We gotta "rock the boat" now.
So sick of this. I hope Obsidian reprimands that idiot.
Sorry for the rant. Your art is amazing and I will be sticking around to see how your creativity grows.
Ehhhh. The difference is that New Vegas was a damn good game with some political commentary that was a natural part of the games flow.
That's different than making a piece of political commentary with a game built around it.
They will probably give him a promotion. Because, sadly, the people in charge of the studio are all of a similar mindset as him.
Your Tifa illustration is phenomenal, brother, like holy moly. Once again, I agree with your observations. It'd be great if we could go back and enjoy games as people again.
Not just the 80s-90s, the 2000s as well were really laid back and chill. It was early 2010s- specificly when tumblr banned porn and Gamer Gate that all of this started
I randomly found Asmongold's video and subscribed to all 3 of you from that one video. So far I'm loving your art.
I def found you through both of them and I am glad I did!
You and Jerrel both need to be running these studios. 🙌🏻 Thank you for using your platform to speak on behalf of so many normal gamers.
All success to you brother, solid coverage.
Found you because of the callout on Asmons video of the original video. Looked at your channel and subbed. Love the work and content 🤙
Same. Glad to see such a talented artist getting more recognition.
hello all! Have a great day. POE2 starts in 3 hrs
Here from Team Asmondgold, and I want to say you’re absolutely right about growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. We were taught that skin color is just a reflection of what hemisphere your ancestors were from. Not who you are as human being.
Marvel Comic's New New Warriors were made out of spite and it failed hard.
Lot's of good character reworks by good independent artists, but damn Marvel, you deserve to go bankrupt again.
So true… and I still want to see that book 🤣 I would review it on livestream asap
I'm glad he showed me your channel, that's an insta subscribe. As an artist myself though a different kind I'm blown away. You're really one YT's gem. Slava
Happy to have found you and your content!
Damn, Tifa drawing is lit. I really need to draw again once everything is settled.
Even with the added context(some covered on yt that he tweeted it during George Floyd's protests) his tweet was horrible, talented artists don't need such bs,
if you want to support a certain racial demographic, then uplift them and their names, get them more exposure on your platform, his tweet showed how unhinged he is and exposed the fact that he doesnt know any black artists, There needs to be more transparency in the industry, instead studios exploit artists while filling quotas for diversity.
You're talented, and clearly about the craft. I've been working in AAA games for quite some time (fun fact, twice as long as Matt Hansen has), and it's always a treat when I discover my colleagues behave similar to you, in how you approach art.
keep in mind this video was made before we knew that the entire team behind it was in full support of matt's ideas and beliefs, the whole game and studio is infected
Someone should DM Matt and see just what kind of help he offers.
I am a whole ass white guy, and I suck at non-musical art, but if I could draw, I'd be tempted to reach out to Ma'am Hansen under the guise of being a person of color and see if he would be willing to "help" me. Then, when he agreed to lift me up out of the miserable squalor that is my life, I would reveal that I was white and see what happened. I'm guessing the "miraculous opportunity" he'd offered would suddenly disappear.
subscribed!!! me and my kids love your art.
I actually found your post about that Concord drawing on my own, but I did see people using that character drawing story, but not with your name...
Your art is incredible and I really appreciate your perspective. Keep up the awesome work man.
At least I found your ch ty Matt I guess
😂😂😂 Welcome. I suppose Matt’s actions may of good then.
This is a really dangerous direction because if continued black people in a position of autority will simply be considered inferior and assumed to have received their place not for merits or ability but as a gift by a woke director.
Dude your art is so damn beautiful. Its seriously so pleasing to look at.
seeing a 4k boost in subs is awesome, and so is seeing tifa!
i've been saying that mr. hansen's attitude really shows in his work. Avowed visually looks bland and lifeless.
“Skyrim-Killer” my arse!
I'm really hungry for your art. Please be successful so I can enjoy it!
Beautiful work!
The irony of this video is glorious
Here from Jerrel's video...
The developers need to focus on making good games and get out of politics. By too many only focusing on our blackness, they miss real talent. And white saviours syndrome are just about the worst thing I've been subjected to. This is different than seeing skills that can be honed into being one of the best and happening to be black. I am TIRED of the tropes and tokenization.
Matt Hansen is a joke.
hahaha, thats it, a new pr technique indeed!
kendrick created art based on hate, just saying
thanks for the video!
Matt the white savior 😂
That's a lovely Tifa. That's all I wanted to say
i agree with media becoming stale. i think the only new movies i watch are Denis Villeneuve movies. Nearly every game i play is 6+ years old, most of em are indie games. not cause i got nostalgia, but cause AAA is getting worse. And im noticing the same with youtube. even the "information/scientific" genre of youtube vids is becomming extremely surface level and basically slop.
the architecture in my country looks more n more like prisons. less shapes and less colours. Then on top of it everythingi s getting political. Even diets cant get away from the politic grifters
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” Accept Christ as Savior and Believe in Him and what He did for you at the Cross. This life is SHORT, eternity will never end and you’ll either spend it with God in Heaven or in Hell with the devil. Jesus paid your sin debt 2,000 years ago with His Blood on the Cross, don’t reject Him for God Loves you and wants you in Heaven with Him. God always has and always will be with you, even now❤. Prepare for not just on earth, but for Eternity. Jesus is coming SOONER than any of us Think!!!!!. Jesus is LORD of lords, KING 👑 of kings, and GOD of gods. God Bless You All🙏👊
I came here from Asmon G's channel. I'm a 90's kid so your viewpoint on most things is basically the same as mine. Like/Subscribe