The Exigent Duality
Fallen and Replaced - 05:41 CST, 11/01/21 (Sniper)
First you had "Doke V", and now you have "Honor of Kings: World". The Chinese and South Koreans went from making cheesy knock-off video games to the two most graphically cutting-edge titles I've ever seen. Even the writing in these two games looks interesting-- no wokeness here.

As the United States has died, eaten alive from the inside out by value-less, post-modern, hedonistic Marxist forces over the past thirty five years, its culture has become vapid and empty: no first order things of any value are created. Simultaneously, Japan has degenerated into a hopeless place where businessmen hang themselves in the woods, and young people don't even bother having sex anymore much less trying to procreate. Their culture too has become a pale imitation of what it once was.

But then you have China: they have a cultural identity and aren't afraid of flaunting it and promoting it. You can see their swagger in their emerging cultural output. South Korea seems pretty vacuous and materialistic, but even they seem to be a step ahead of Japan these days.

American nerd children from the 70s and 80s always wanted to learn Japanese, so they could import video games and manga. I wonder if American nerd kids from this just-started decade will all be teaching themselves Mandarin or Korean? That is, if we even have functioning electricity or running water by then.