Circles.Life controversial advertisement from 2024

Another local controversy coming from a different local telco, Circles.Life came under fire over the controversial advertisement that aired last year. It was about the boy who casted some explicit video from his phone to the TV and his mother then told him after waking up from the bed not to be embarrassed. Where's the discipline in the advertisement? Telling the video caster not to be embarrassed for his actions was not a reprimanding act at all. The worse thing was, that advertisement was aired on TV and available on Circles.Life official YouTube channel.

A few years prior to this controversy, Circles.Life made some defensive statement which didn't sound like they had intention to apologize that they were called out by the netizens again. The backlash was strong enough that they were forced to make an apologetic statement. However, in this controversy's case, there was none of that with no later news articles in sight. The indecent advertisement was part of the "Do Your Own Thing" positioning but there's no excuse to include malicious/indecent acts in the Do Your Own Thing category. They're more like they should belong in the Malicious/Dirty Acts category.

For the advertisement being explicit and indecent, it's outright inexcusable to normalize such stuff in general and it's scummy for any creep to defend that stuff by stating that anyone feeling disgusted from what they saw was whining about it. Unlike the M1 Fringe Festival 2017 which was nothing mandatory that you didn't have to attend, this controversial advertisement of last year from Circles.Life was aired on TV and shoved in the YouTube video player as an ad that would be played before the actual video. I don't know if they would dismiss your reports of that ad as some false and baseless report to silence critique or not but then again, if you see some indecent ad popping up on YouTube website, you should be able to report it. On the TV side, how would you avoid that ad in the middle of whatever show you're watching? What if that same ad was displayed in the public digital signage? Where were the brave complaints against that ad?

Lastly, like the M1 Fringe Festival 2017 controversy, switching ISP/telco due to the Circles.Life controversial advertisement wasn't going to be easy but in this case, you should be able to switch to a different provider without changing your mobile phone number at all.

Date Everything controversy

Passionate or not in making an indie visual novel game, what got in the developers' mind when making Date Everything? When the game was shown in Nintendo Direct some months ago, its trailer from Nintendo's official YouTube channel was bombarded with dislikes and there were people who hated it for wrong reasons that there were defensive tweets about the fact that the developers were fans of the visual novel genre and had passion in developing it no matter how weird it is. Even Goodbye Volcano High had the weird character hybrid but the bigger controversy in my opinion had to do with the fact that one of the former Ko_Op writers had come up with the disturbing Harry Potter and Pokemon materials. She had realized what she had done and moved on to writing articles for Nintendo Life and developing other indie games. I guess that she gained some redemption with later indie games she made that were quite good and I hope that the developers of Date Everything should gain the same redemption with later games that turn out to be good.

If you don't like the weird character hybrid in video games like what Date Everything has where household objects are date-able, stay away from those games. In Date Everything's case, how will you remake it from the ground up with proper human characters and writing, removing most of the degeneracy in the process? To me, it's not worth the effort and anyone else may agree with this fact. However, what's people reaction like should you fix the game unofficially with proper human characters and writing?

On the same month Date Everything was revealed in Nintendo Direct, the JP side had Tokimeki Memorial Emotional for Switch that will come out sometime this year and that is one of the well-known classic visual novel franchises many visual novel games are inspired by. Suffice to say, that franchise remains in Japan only and its dating concept is what attracts fans of visual novel genre globally.

Penda Beats rant

One of the realizations about Taito's Tetote Connect is that it didn't replicate the ballroom dancing like they planned it to as it's essentially a rhythm game where on-screen notes were interacted with touchscreen controls and most of the songs don't seem suited for ballroom dance whatsoever. Also, what kind of gamer would want to play that ever since it was announced and this question is going to be the same for the upcoming Penda Beats from Bandai Namco of all game companies? There was even a clone of Tetote Connect on mobile that's compatible with VRoid but the presentation during gameplay is unspeakably lame as it doesn't look like the avatar is dancing on screen at all.

Penda Beats from Bandai Namco is about the fan glow stick dance from the Japanese idol culture. Maybe there should be a warning from the arcade center or the game against anyone making obnoxious call & response during the song. The thing is, the dance can be done without it throughout the song. The song list is assumed to consist of the songs the nerds know of, including the modern J-Pop songs for instance.

Or so I assumed/thought when I saw a location test video from some tweet from Bean93449015. What were they thinking when making a brand new rhythm game for arcades like that? The VR concert simulation games including the Idolmaster one replicated the live concert experience correctly. The Kinect and VR dance games are still the craze when it comes to full body tracking. Nowadays, there are games that use webcam and AI-powered body tracking technology in addition to VR dance games since the Kinect line of devices was discontinued years ago. A glow stick dance game on VR would have been a better idea since the idea of replicating that dance was done wrongly for Penda Beats in many areas. The cabinet uses the sensors and some area where you tap with glow stick controller and that seems lame in multiple levels. It's like the game's trying to be an unhinged answer to Future Tom Tom where you have to raise up and wave at times during the song or maybe some other Sega rhythm games like Ongeki & Chunithm.

Dance Around from Konami happens to be another dance arcade game similar to Dance Evolution but with different technology that does full body tracking. When it came out in the arcades, the presentation and gameplay impressed the players with motion controls comparable to the ones in Kinect dance games. There's also Starri which uses webcam and AI-powered body tracking so that VR is not needed. Other games on Nex Playground, the family-friendly system Starri is also released on besides PC and mobile have some games you may be familiar with like the Fruit Ninja game for instance which is played a lot like Fruit Ninja Kinect. If there's going to be a proper glow stick dance game for arcades, they could have utilized the webcam and AI-powered full body tracking tool.

So, who is Penda Beats for after you see some location test video circulating on the net? Oh, about the location test video from some tweet, I hate to show links to whatever tweet I mentioned here after the amount of damage done to Twitter that I'll rather show links to posts from other social media sites with proper reputation. I guess that this is some arcade rhythm game you should steer clear once it comes out.