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

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I feel at some point people stopped laughing at the room for the surreal disaster that it is, and started actually thinking wiseau was some auteur with an interesting vision and not the talentless bully he seems to be.

    Are there actual unironic Tommy Wiseau fans out there? My impression was that everything he’s tried to make since The Room has been universally hated