I love N4G and visit the site on a daily basis, but as I read the comments, too many times I read someone saying how stupid Americans are. At first, I ignored it, mostly because I understand why; the war, President Bush and most importantly, ignorant Americans that don't know or care about anything outside of the US. But as the anti-American remarks persisted, I feel obligated to bring certain issues to light. Truths that have been forgotten in the rush to find a villain. When we call Americans stupid in a generalized fashion, we are not only calling them stupid, but also the rest of the world. The U.S. afterall is mostly made up of immigrants or descendants of immigrants. That fact is even reflected in the names of many prominant cities like "New York" named after Yorkshire or Los Angeles, spanish for "The Angels". Speaking of which, these two cities are further apart than the entire European continent. So why is it widely accepted that French people are different from Italians, yet all Americans must be the same. This rationalism is fundamentaly flaud and alienates even the kindest and most intellegent Americans. For those who have had a bad experience with an American either online or thru forums. You must differentiate between a stupid American and a stupid teen who is American. I wrote this blog in the hopes that N4G can remain a site for all. An international voice that lets us bitch and complain, in all languages, about what we are all here for...games.
A new Resident Evil Requiem graphics comparison examines Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series S, revealing performance gaps and visual trade offs.
interesting that the Switch 2 version renders at a higher internal resolution. I wonder if they dropped it down to the same as the Series S the game would hit the 60 mark more often than it does.
Solid port though, can't wait to play this tomorrow (or whenever my preorder gets to me lol)
The new cinematic trailer has arrived.
The first trailer for the pending game is here.
The title offended me at first, but I continued reading, and I understand that you take the opposite view.
I know plenty of people who need to read this.
Approved.
I'm afraid that's the way things are. just like every black guy is a gangster, every brown guy is a terrorist and so on. I'm not American and i don't think Americans are stupid. sure there are stupid Americans, but then again there are stupid people everywhere. you just can't judge a whole nation by the decisions that a selective few made. i just hope you Americans remember that before calling me(a Muslim) a terrorist.
I am a very patriotic person. I serverd in the Army and went to Iraq I am now serving my community as a fire fighter. I grew up in Russia with my father and traveled all over Europe and lived in many of its countries and worked in many as well. Let me help explain a little on why we are perceived this way.
Ok lets say a group of American tourists go to England for example. This is a generalization keep in mind. They are fat, arrogant, loud and make themselves targets. They wear T shirts that look like American flags. They wear huge ugly straw hats and Socks pulled up to their knees with sandals and short ass shorts... Sorry but from any standard this looks "Stupid" or "Moronic" Now can you picture yourself being a British business man going to Monoco to do business and your on a plane with a group of American tourists. Maybe 10 of them. They can be heard anywhere on the plane with kids going crazy and mis behaved. Deep southern accents talking across the plane "Ethel where did you put the Suntan Lotion?" Your on a plane jack ass figure it out later. Is this bad? Well in Europe most people don't say something if it's not worth saying. Just from your mannerisms you stand out as an American. Americans seem to talk to hear themselves talk and make cheezy jokes.
Having said all that I have a copy of the constitution on my mantel and love what the United States was founded upon. I can never stress that I think we are the greatest country in the world and I would gladly sacrifice my own life for any American. Saying I am not a patriot pisses me off. My old Platoon Sergeant once told me he would bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stayed red. I follow those sentiments.
You can not help who represents you though in Europe/Asia/South America as far as tourists go. They see these people and think thats who we are. When its old southern money or snobby New York jerks who give us a bad rap going into a Pub and trying to convince the Brits about how great "football" is and explaining that they don't play "football" they play "soccer"
As far as the war in Iraq goes. I could ramble for days about it. Was it right? I dont think so. Granted we got a bad guy. One of the very very many running many many countries. I mean look at the Warlords in Africa taking children and making them bullet shields. Look at the drug lords in South America and Asia. What made Saddam such a bad guy compared to Chechen Guerilla Fighters? Well either way it was a political choice and the world looks at it and thinks we we're stupid for it. When really it was Bush. Another of those stupid southern(I have nothing agains't the south. Some old confederates and KKK type ideals are just more prevelant and historically that is a great area of trouble. Mostly I just hate the accent =P) hicks that I feel promotes a bad rep for us all.
The Principals we were founded upon are the greatest ideals ever. Freedom is not free and the rest of the world knows what we have done for them. Many Jews across the world thanks us every night. Many Brits do too. Those old enough to remember WW2. However in the US you learn things differently. No matter what country you are in you learn history differently. We lost about 500,000 Soldiers in WW2 while Russia lost 26 million.... Who do you think really turned the tides of WW2? You think the US but without Russia we had "No" chance in hell.
Now(Sorry to keep using Europe as an example it's just what I know) People in Europe who think all Americans are ignorant look like tool bags and at the same time how many of your friends can point out Iraq on a map? Apparently 90% of the US can't. I remember a Jay Leno show where he went to a college graduation in the Us and interviewed a bunch of kids and asked them if the moon was a star and they all said "Of course" "yes"... College grads!!!! That is ignorance at its finest. That is what Europe see's. Most of the people in europe speak at least 2 languages and their schooling is a lot more advanced then the US. In 3rd grade Russians are learning about "War and Peace" Most college grads in the US couldn't get past the first few pages... now I think Tony Blair is just as much of a tool bag ass kisser as Bush but how many people in the US even know who he is? How many people in Europe do? A table conversation in Europe involves well thought out discussions on politics, Religion and educated thoughts on all as they have read books by Milton, William Wordsworth, Blake and many other literary figures. People in the US may have read Romeo and Juliet but no one has any opinion on it as they are pretty ignorant and most table conversations are loud and filled with nothing useful.
look the US has a lot of work to do and I understand both sides of the coin. I hope you can see this as well.
I didn't have a lot of time to spell and grammar check this but I hope I got my point across well.
Game on.
A very well written comment and i agree with all of it, except about Tony Blair, he's not our prime Minister anymore. We have a Scottish guy called Gordon Brown who looks like Shrek when he turned human in Shrek 3.
And yes, in europe all we see is the stupid side of Americans, except for John Stuart, he's clever, oh and that Steven Hawking guy.
... and when the US president says things like ""Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- we start to think who the hell picked this guy?
The title of the article couldn't be more correct. As a nation and society as a whole, Americans are extremely stupid. America is a nation of sheep, driven by the simplest and material of possessions. This is evident in Americans WORSHIP of celebrities and television. Americans care more about what designer dress/suit their favorite celebrity is wearing to the next big pointless awards ceremony than what is going on in their own back yard, not to mention others back yards. Most Americans don't even realize they are being controlled and manipulated, NOT by the government or the President, but by the media. The media runs America and Americans are too stupid to realize it, they just follow behind like a blind-deaf mutt. Americans jump on the fastest growing fad, hang on for dear life then jump ship the minute someone else tells them its time.
People don't think Americans are stupid because of the war or the President, people think Americans are stupid because of Americans.
Americans REFUSE to take blame for the mistakes they themselves make, which is why you see Americans suing fast food chains because their kid happens to be fat. Americans are the greediest society in the world and its so blatantly clear to EVERYONE except Americans themselves.
Americans flat out can not think for themselves and that is the highest form of stupidity one can achieve.