The early 2000s were wild, a dev could just say shit like this in interviews and still get treated like a gaming celeb with magazines shooting ego-stroking promo videos where he plays with swords while wearing sunglasses indoors.

You’d never get a director like Tomonobu Itagaki today because of woke mind virus cancel culture!!! rage-cry

I’m watching Grim Beard’s new video on the Tekken spinoff Death by Degrees which includes a funny tangent about the one-sided feud between Tomonobu Itagaki and Katsuhiro Harada where he shows this interview

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    15 days ago

    and started actually thinking wiseau was some auteur with an interesting vision and not the talentless bully he seems to be

    Exactly, I don’t get it because people like…I dunno, Cronenberg or whoever were able to get interesting stories out of student films on a shoestring budget. Wiseau was able to buy high-tier equipment (even if he had no clue on how to use it), and the best he could come up with, and he did seriously think The Room was his masterpiece, was shit-tier sexist nonsense.

    Plus, from contemporary accounts he was a creep and an asshole to the people on set.