casting white people is racism now?
Casting white people as non-white roles is racism which deserves to be righteously rebuked. Casting non-white people as white roles is, of course, progress which deserves to be celebrated and anyone who disagrees is a racist.
anyone who disagrees is a racist
OHH GAWD!!! I am getting Tumblr flashbacks.
Or Wikipedia, apparently.
Non-traditional casting, or integrated casting is the practice of casting a role without considering the actor's ethnicity. It derives its name from the medical condition of color blindness. A representative of Actors' Equity has disputed the use of the term "color blind", preferring the definition "non-traditional casting." Non-traditional casting "is defined as the casting of ethnic minority and female actors in roles where race, ethnicity, or sex is not germane."[1]
Cringe is the standard that live action adaptations of animes and videogames aspire to. Not literally, but that's how it seems a lot of the time.
I'm pretty sure it's an acceptable outcome, at the very least.
That or some kind of weird trap that keeps luring in rubes with promises of vast amounts of money, then inevitably becomes too complicated after it's already too late to back out. I'd wager on it just being a name grab they know is going to most piss off people who are either going to see it anyway or would be pissed off at anything, though.
At least the D&D films embraced it.
I enjoyed the first one waaaaaaaaaaaaaay
too much.Been reading (not watching, as usual) KonoSuba. It's pretty cute and silly, despite a few spineless cliches. It seems more slice of life in a video game setting than properly fantasy/video game itself, though; that stuff comes up, but it's mostly "'friends' dicking around near monsters for personal reasons" rather than anything important or especially motivated.
Also I feel a little dirty for being taken in by Worthless Goddess stealing food. This is some here squee over a sack of kittens shit, but it's working.