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"Bridget being a new character that I’ve become very fond of, I must say I appreciate all the information I’ve learned while speaking my peace and I furthermore respect everyone’s passion here. We all love or loved Guilty Gear and I hoped to sort of bridge a gap in some way, even if it was just to get a clearer understanding of the other side. I am always open to discussion so if there is anything else to add from me, I’ll respond accordingly." LOL!

@@BDB-ub5kjYes, I did indeed say all of that! It is wonderful being new to a game. It is even more funny to see 3 homies scramble all over for each other to prove a purposely FALSE narrative around something you don’t agree with. I mean, it sucks that I have to come to the realization you are obviously a bitter fan of older material who is completely hating on the entirety of Guilty Gear’s direction, not just Bridget’s development. Had I realized this from the start, I wouldn’t have bothered engaging with such spiteful HORSE CRAP. GGz, run it back. Say hi to GrandeAndre for me

@@gourilla9381 K two face. Let's just pretend that you were here to actually learn things rather than poo-poo at people for telling you why the current canon and direction isn't as good as you think it is. You still haven't defended against the fact that the current direction for Bridget is blatant whitewashing of a marginalized identity.

⁠@@BDB-ub5kjYea, or maybe next time don’t bud yourself into a quote that was from someone else’s poor attempt at shaming anyone who enjoys the latest entry of a video game. You all are so content at throwing shade by negatively theorizing a companies motives and their own fictional characters. As if anyone who is able to make sense of the current story has an agenda to push and cannot simply be a fan themselves. Talk about TWO FACE, or maybe just a joker Blatant whitewashing?? Oh, because her conclusion goes back to the fact that she feels happiness in identifying as whom she was raised? That her naturally feminine attributes got her to understand she didn’t ultimately feel quite like a man even after thinking as a teenager that is what she wanted? Oh, she grew up through confusion only to find comfort in herself with the decision she made as an adult. What a stretch!

@@gourilla9381 Holy fuck you still don't get it. Bible thumpers don't fucking like GNC males just as much as they don't like trans people. Certain parts of the trans community also don't like gnc males (47:30) to the point where they mischaracterize them as fetishists, porn addicts, and otherwise freaks. Bridget is representation that many people need in their lives, and now it's gone because apparently having a man in a dress is far too problematic in the year of our lord 2024. Bridget being a femboy who was turned into a trans girl by cynical writers who didn't give a shit about his writing and only cared for bag is 100% whitewashing. You ever heard of pink-pilling and egg culture? That's the belief that any person who presents or gives off signs of being trans is always trans 100%, and that they should be pressured into identifying as such, and Bridget plays right into that myth. This is why we keep bringing up grooming and shit because it actually applies here! I remember back in 2014, we had a better understanding of gender, gender presentation, and gender norms than we do now. You didn't have to identify as a female in order to like wearing dresses. That was where this character was headed! This isn't just about a character 'organically' making 'human' decisions (as if those are even possible lol). It's also about the political and social ramifications behind those decisions.

I guess you must have hit the nail on the head, no if and’s or buts about it! It’s funny because we don’t allow young ones to make decisions in real life because they still have yet to discover what actually is right for them. Yet you and the like minded are perfectly set on saying Bridget knew from a teenager exactly what she wanted! There is NO CHANCE someone who was born a male, raised as female that never had a chance to embrace masculinity, went ahead and attempted to do so only to find out that she in fact felt most comfortable identifying herself as how she grew up, that just wouldn’t ever happen? Regardless of the reasons the company chose to do so, it is absolutely not out of line for someone who became an adult to land on the decision she ultimately did. You completely misinterpret and downplay a character over disagreement which is harsh and disrespectful to those who still are a fan and those who got into the actual game for her. There is nothing wrong with appreciating what we have. That is fine to disagree but please don’t act as though your reasons for the dislike are factual when they are of your own opinion.

@@gourilla9381 Dimitri has already explained in the video why all of that is impossible, so instead of insisting on Bridget, I'll try to write down why Strive is just plain watered-down in general. You know Elphelt? When she was released for Strive, it was pretty controversial, though obviously not as awfully-received as Bridget. The reason for that is that Elphelt as a character is deeply motivated by romantic love. She's a howitzer in a wedding dress. Though she obviously goes through her own struggles in her previous stories, her obsession with romance is a huge part of her, ever since her programming more-or-less (it's complicated) backfired and led to her emotions awakening. Strive turned her into a rock star while greatly toning down her desire for marriage aside from A SINGLE CHARACTER, which has very little connection with her as a character. The first and most obvious one is that she was never shown to be musically inclined, and second is that if she WAS to become a singer, she'd probably become a Japanese-style idol singer, which would fit more with her character. Having a character suddenly adopt traits they never showed beforehand out of nowhere is pretty bad. But now I want you to imagine Elphelt if her entire backstory as a Valentine had to do with her being forced into being a rockstar for one reason or another. Maybe she was turned into a singer because her voice had superpowers or something. Then, in this backstory, Elphelt's profile would mention her constantly trying to get away from anything rock-related because of it. I want you to imagine Elphelt developing her tastes for romance specifically BECAUSE she would fantasize about a handsome knight in shining armor coming to save her from a lifetime of rock songs and having to be a tomboy weapon when she's actually a feminine girl. Perhaps in some parts of the story, people would recognize her as a rock singer and Elphelt would look at them with eyes that are either annoyed, depressed, or just plain dead inside, and say "no, you're confusing me with someone else". Finally, her development in Xrd would result in her learning that music isn't all that bad, and learning to reconnecting with music again through different genres, STILL distancing herself from rock because it's the one genre she dislikes. In her endings, it would be shown that she's genuinely happy thanks to her choice, finally being able to express herself without the discomfort that she felt constantly having to sing hard music. Then in this hypothetical, alternate universe version of Elphelt, Strive would come along, shit all over her backstory, and reveal that, actually, all her attempts to get into music again failed miserably, made her depressed, and that Elphelt is the biggest rock fan in the universe now. She loves rock music, she loves singing rock songs, she takes a shit on literally all other genres. Romance novels? Marriage? Elphelt fucking hates that. She's a hardcore loner that despises dating and romance. Then, when old fans would inevitably ask, stunned, what the fuck happened in between games to make Elphelt completely turn against everything she ever loved, and embrace everything she ever hated, teenagers who only played Strive would come along and ask those oldfags how, HOW they could be so media-illiterate to not see how incredible her character development was, how organic it is that she would change into a completely different character that does not resemble her old self in the slightest with absolutely no prompt and completely offscreen. Did you even pay attention to her character, bro? Maybe if you did, you wouldn't have missed out on all the subtle foreshadowing that pointed towards her reverting back to the very person she was programmed to be since day one. Her happiness in the other endings? THAT was her lying to herself. This is the one and only case of her being actually honest. Bridget is Guilty Gear's version of Shaundi from Saint's Row, the only difference is that no one was defending Shaundi when she was completely warped by the third game's bad writing.

@@elgrandeandre5045I don’t understand why you need to jump to such extremes and negate the fact that Bridget was a TEENAGER herself prior to Strive. In fact, jumping in line with my own outlook of enjoying what we’ve been given and that the more I see any of my opponents in Strive, the more interesting these other characters become to me. When meeting someone new, do you demand their entire backstory from the start or do you learn about and get to know them? Even in that, do you listen to what others have to say about said person or do you learn for yourself? All I personally see is characters I would enjoy getting to know, while at the same time not stepping on any previous fans toes. That also doesn’t mean I am ignoring old storylines either but more so willing to try and connect dots rather than naysay or deny development. We can have a total reset of the status quo, which Strive essentially seemed to have done in a way that adapts where you will claim it destroyed. My point is that things will change but these are not your characters or story to tell. At least those currently at the helm now have rights to do so and trust behind them.

@@elgrandeandre5045 This kind of brings up other things I've noticed regarding STRIVE recently. ABA's bloodbags? Gone, replaced with her jealousy meter, Paracelsus's head no longer changes to that of a goat's and instead goes all weird. She has less blood on her body, Slayer lost his big ass cross on his chest, and replaced it with all the smaller cross shaped buttons. Elphelt was a giant Guns and Roses reference, and wore a wedding dress and now she's an idol. Bridget's nun habit got replaced with a habit-shaped coat. It honestly feels like these 'edgier' and 'problematic' characters are consistently being sandpapered down to appeal to the 'wider audience', like you look at their themes and ideas and yeah you can say that they're 'technically' still there, but they're no longer centered as if Arcsys viewed their old versions as offensive and problematic somehow, (Dimitri outright says that the sentiment in Japan is that Bridget didn't come back for Xrd because he wore a nun's habit, and that would be offensive to Christians). To relate to that. I don't think people got angry about Shaundi's writing because tons of people were introduced to the series through "The Third", much like Strive, and the previous games are exceptionally hard to play on modern hardware. They didn't have the context to who Shaundi was supposed to be. There's less of an excuse like that for Guilty Gear obviously, XX and +R are available on Steam for cheap, and ML and X can be emulated (because missing link's steam port is an abortion). For people like Gourilla, STRIVE is the character context and the previous stories are just bonus material as sad as it sounds.

⁠​⁠@@BDB-ub5kjNo, Strive is just the latest game we have, the likes of which you even agreed how Bridget’s story COULD technically connect. Funny how Elphelt was apparently a giant Guns N Roses reference only to become a rock star herself. HMMMMM.. Edit: LOL, oh and reading a bit into Elphelt’s history, she literally was a Fiancé to a death metal singer?? Has no connection whatsoever to music?? Within the actual story, Elphelt got a job in Strive that she couldn’t keep up with and it’s an entire out of character jump that she found herself becoming a rock star when she almost married one.. Yea, just because you are attracted to someone doesn’t mean you become them, however is it out of line for an interest to peak when exposed to such a situation? I’ve been with a partner or two where I got into something they were into first. I don’t know, just different perspectives I guess.

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@@sirkinsella9831 talkin bout briggy gilly gee like its a CIA conspiracy

@@hotvomit That man doesn't understand Bridget's experience therefore it is not plausible, couldn't ever happen, is bad story telling, (insert whatever negative trope here) Seriously, is there even any other character or side character the previous Bridget could seemingly understand acceptance from while being a boy that is girly? In the world of Guilty Gear, in Bridget's direct contacts not ONCE has she ran into anyone quite like her. There are men and there are women. There is Bridget meeting Baiken, but if I am not mistaken, Baiken never claimed opposite sex. Within the previous story, Jam notices Bridget for whom she was born at which gave younger Bridget a new feeling at the time it happened. One can assume Bridget remained herself though which by Strive's time and years passing, led to a still very feminine adult Bridget concluding that's who she truly is at heart. A female.

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"I am prepared to live the last of my days in misery, for it may not look like it, but I am an actor." -Bridget alluding to his former life within the village. Baiken's Story mode in X2

@@BDB-ub5kj Yes and as I addressed, this was prior to her understanding she was indeed comfortable presenting as female. Nothing that goes against her current growth in development.

@@gourilla9381There's no growth in development. That's character flanderized and derailment for people like you wanting “representation”.

@@gourilla9381 Maybe if you actually played the story where this quote comes from, you'd see that isn't the case. In +R story path A, you'd see that Bridget was portrayed at his happiest with Jam... who acknowledges and affirms him as a male. To the point where this is the only time in the entire series he is portrayed without his shackle. Yes, the point is that he learns to be comfortable in portraying himself as feminine, but that doesn't make him less of a man if he wants to identify as such, which throughout the XX series, was what he wanted to identify as. Bridget's initial excursion into bounty hunting came because "He was an actor" playing a part that he had no desire to play (that of a female), his outward 'cute' disposition is an attempt first and foremost to make others not worry about him, not for his own happiness. It's a mask that is seen through by his family more and more as his childhood progresses. In STRIVE, it's not a mask, but his genuine personality, hense Sirkinsella's quote about flanderization. This is why that analogy of being an actor is so important to me. Because that's all he was until he left to pursue bounty hunting, and even during that time, he still had to hide the fact that he was male ("Likes: Trying to be a man IN THE SHADOWS") because it could have gotten back to his family and gotten them in serious social hot water. This is why Neo-Bridget disgusts me. We take that deep character, and made that mask the genuine personality rather than... a mask. One of the lyrics of "The town inside me" states "No matter what changes it will no longer change me", but we see that is utterly false. You look at the parts of the video where Dimitri goes into the social issues surrounding this change and you can see that Bridget's former identity is no longer socially acceptable, and thus, he was whitewashed into Neo-Bridget, and we were told that it was always meant to be this way, and was always going to end this way, when it is utterly clear that it is a lie. Neo-Bridget could have been a good character if she wasn't Bridget and rather was the twin that went missing at the end of +R. It would make sense that she would present herself as her twin, and would have much less of the ick factor that Neo-Bridget currently has, and would allow us to tell stories with an interesting dynamic between the twins.

people on "your side" are just bored and like getting mad so they'll literally make up a reason to get mad lol.

@@snowballeffect7812 People on "your side" don't know what a woman is.

@@Meizuken ironic, because yes we do lol. it's basic science.

It keeps getting worse the more you think about it. Personally, I'm just waiting for Mori's NDA to run its course so he can give us the insider's perspective.

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If you think that's bad, wait until you hear about the psycho freaks who tell tomboys/tomgirls to sterilize themselves because they don't want gender non-comforming people to exist.

Said self-hating bigot. Edit: I almost forgot that you are the same person that is likely against Vivian's (localized) gender from other video.

Did you hear about a series known as "Guilty Gear"? It's really good, you should give it a shot.

Vague accusations of wrong doing and bad faith, and a subtle hint towards bigotry being the driving force. You didn't watch the video... did you. You're just here to try to deflect other people from watching it.

Tldr

Bridget of XX is still exist.

@@sirkinsella9831 yeah but that's the past.

Because he was whitewashed obviously.

@@sirkinsella9831 what excuse? You are the one who made an excuse

⁠​⁠@@Xs2865Then why are you using “that's the past” as an excuse to justify Bridget's current “canon”.

they just want to blame games being bad on anything other than their own buying practices lol. plus there's just an undertone of racism and sexism that small children joke about but then apparently it becomes sincere in a minority of kids when they grow up.

That's remind me of some fans telling them are fake gay/lesbian or even bisexual for againsting Bumblebee (RWBY) ship and Korra x Asami ship. At the same time, I could say the same about to tell people to detrans for againsting Vivian's localized gender (mainly English and Italian one).

K Kanye.

oh, so the rich are the problem? surprisingly leftist take.

There's nothing wrong with the translation. The Sonic X release does have some minor quality flubs where a 4kids edit slipped through the cracks and was still on the disc, for example, there's a scene where they are supposed to be drinking champagne and the subs even say this but the 4kids edit with orange juice is still on on-screen. Some text is missing from buildings in a few instances. This likely happened because the Sonic X uncut version Discotek compiled used more than one source for the masters, including spliced footage from 4kids' dub edits. It's possible TMS did not provide Discotek with complete footage--we don't know as nothing has ever been revealed about the production of this particular Blu-ray.