😂

The other factor was Wuk Lamat. She’s a very complex character, and she even has a bit of a complex about herself. Unfortunately, we didn’t delve very far into the background of why she had those feelings, so it appeared as if she left a negative impression. We accept that feedback. I feel a little sorry that we weren’t able to properly depict her.

This is so absurd because Wuk Lamat is on-screen more than any other character except maybe the Warrior of Light. “Weren’t able to properly depict her”… Maybe if they’d done anything other than having her repeat how much she loves peace and happiness every ten minutes? What happened to the fear she showed when fighting that giant colibri in 6.55? Why is she suddenly sea-sick all the time when that wasn’t a thing when she got off the boat in Sharlayan?

One additional thing, there were comments about how we are too accepting of diversity — some people seem to be disapproving of that. I’m afraid one of our staff members received very negative comments and it almost felt like a personal attack, which breaks my heart, because she worked really hard and these criticisms were not constructive at all. [Editor’s note: Yoshida is referring to the transphobic verbal abuse and death threats that Wuk Lamat’s voice actress, who is a trans woman, has reportedly received from some FFXIV users.] It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation, and in the end that could potentially damage the quality of our game and take away from what makes this game so interesting. So if there are any sort of criticisms, bring it to me, because I’m the one approving this material. I wanted to reiterate that, please refrain from personal attacks against our staff.

I’m glad to hear they’re not taking the anti-wOkE brigade seriously. But fuck everyone who decided to gang up on a voice actor, even if they don’t like the character. (This started before Dawntrail ever launched so there’s no way any of it had anything to do with Wuk Lamat’s portrayal in 7.0, and even if it did, that doesn’t excuse the transphobic BS Sena Bryer has been getting.)

This sounds like a plausible thing that actually happened.

Kind of seems like a contradiction

They don’t care. There’s no point in calling conservatives out on hypocrisy. Only a very small number of them will give a shit, and those will be the ones who were already having doubts.

What do you propose as the solution, then? Without any up-front disclosure of the triggering content being present, how can anybody make the choice whether or not to expose themself to it?

There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive

I’d be interested in seeing these studies.

The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.

These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That’s exactly what trigger warnings are for. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?

Trigger warnings enable active avoidance.

Incorrect. Trigger warnings inform you that the content is present in the media you’re about to watch. What you do with that information is up to you.

I was reading Matt Parker’s new trigonometry book and they made some remark about triangles in spherical geometry and I went “wait, what if you did this”

They’re not curved; the space they’re embedded in is curved.

I didn’t even think of that. Another good question!

I’m not asking about a Dorito shape.

I don’t think that can be a thing.

a non-hispanic/latina actress

She’s a white American Latina. If you mean “a non-South American actress”, say that.

You didn’t care that people were attacking her for being trans until she had a dumb take about a bad song?

I’m serious. I want to know exactly what OP is imagining would happen.

How do you envision that going, exactly?

You fool, you’ll bring the end times down on our heads!

They’re trying to break the curse, just like when the little dumbass who lives with me goes after my oat milk ice cream. You can’t let them!

No, in fact Y’shtola pointed out that they had no way of knowing what reflection it was.

At least this will (hopefully?) stop people from loudly proclaiming that it’s the Twelfth.

We felt that we needed to make it authentically and we needed to do a proper job, otherwise the thoughts of those people who live in the ninth reflection wouldn’t be properly conveyed.

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It’s weird though because I never did those events. I just had them as soon as I unlocked the toy chest.