It's getting out of hand...
I want Setsuka more than anyone but that's just pure retardation.
Holy mother of lack of perspective...just how entitled can people get?
I want the next DLC as much as anyone, but the way these guys are taking the delay is ridiculous. They should be grateful that we even got a second season for SCVI at all. I swear the worst of the Setsuka fans are starting to become just as bad and disrespectful as the toxic Mileena fans on the Mortal Kombat side of FGC.
While I can only agree with the rest of this commentary, I think it is very much worth reiterating the point that Dante (I think it was Dante) was making here the other day: this isn't tied to any one character, and we could expect essentially the same reaction at roughly the same level of volume (and with basically the same complete lack of attachment to reality), no matter what the content was. This is about much broader trends in our community, in fandom more broadly, and indeed, writ large across our culture. Closing on half a million dead, the world headed into what could prove to be the most rapid and severe recession in modern history, that will drive tens of millions into extreme poverty and have severe impacts on the well-being of virtually everyone in the impoverished and middle classes even in relatively well-to-do nations for the next ten years, and....these nitwits are bitching because their tots favourite video game character is --maybe-- going to be delayed a few weeks. I mean...
And even if we don't consider the larger context here, there's still that obnoxious habit of rushing to conclusions in the shape of wild conspiracy theories: "The characters are actually all done, and they are just keeping them from us! ...for....reasons. What reasons? Well I didn't get something that I wanted on exactly the timetable that I wanted it, so surely something nefarious is afoot, thwarting my perceived right to it on my own terms." Nevermind that if one made even the most trivial of efforts to learn how the content they enjoy is produced before spouting of this half-baked nonsense, it would become immediately apparent that we're not even beyond the average of what it has taken them to produce previous similar content even before there was a life-changing/-defining pandemic slowing down every sector of production imaginable. Nevermind that the proffered solution is "Just work from home, guys---because you're a business that will find it both feasible and affordable to move tons of high-end hardware and software out of centralized and technically complex office spaces and into the crowded homes of countless employees, right?"
But again, I'm quite certain that if we look, it's everywhere in fan and consumer culture, coming from those people who have so insulated themselves to extremely problematic degrees in their favourite pop culture obsessions and allowed themselves to become so disconnected and useless in every other productive area of life that they have a very limited sense of the real human tragedy unfolding all around them, or even enough understanding of how the content they enjoy (or for that matter, other more crucial products) is provided for them, such that they would have anything approaching the amount of sympathy and gratitude for those who are still willing to work hard to produce art and other content even in such an environment. I mean, wow...I'd love to believe these people are due a rude awakening as the economic reality of the current global situation sets in, but with obliviousness at this level and critical thinking skills of that caliber, I think it probable that many will never really appreciate just how tone-deaf their commentary in this area really is.