On the politics of persona
Watching a Persona challenge run video and... look, I'm just interested how you went about doing something I have no interest in doing myself. You whined about failing fights a bunch with your ruleset, but fuck it man, you did the work I didn't so I'm not about to give you shit, armchair quarterbacking your decisions.
But buddy, when you look at dozens of articles by queer people disappointed in how P4 handles queer themes and say they're getting it all wrong - buddy. I'm gonna vague-post about you, and you're gonna have to live with that shame.
The whole fucking persona thing is literally bookended with "Thou are I, and I am thou". There's no ambiguity there. The shadow versions of them are reflections of their true selves, not exclusively other people's perspectives of them. They have to live with those aspects of themselves whether they want to or not, because that's who they are. Kanji alone disproves the idea that it's external pressures driving their self-denial.
That's so incredibly core to the theming of the first 99% of Persona 4. That's why the epilogue is a kick in the face to queer folk - every queer narrative is resolved with "ah, but it's so much easier being normal with my complementary gender romantic interest."
Look, I love P4, it's the first one I played and it still scratches the same itch it did in 2009 - but you've got to reckon with how that biases your reading of it if you're gonna post about it in your video.
Buddy, I was gonna follow you until you decided to bring your "I could write an essay" shithead analysis into your unrelated challenge video. You didn't have to say shit about it, but here we are.
Dipshit.