A mediocre hack-and-slashgame set in a post-alien invasion apocalypse. It would've flown under the radar if not for a horde of disingenuous sockfuckers who attempted to hijack the game and weaponize its main character into an act of revenge porn against women in gaming circles.
"God, this is the fourth time today you've yapped about Stellar Blade. Don't you play any other game? And what the hell's that smell!?"
A video game by the Korean company Shift Up. The main character is Eve, who is a ripoff from Mai Shiranui. It's just a hack and slah game with average plot. Plenty of fanservice here. Also, Shift Up's other game Nikke: Goddess of Victory is just as fanservice-y.
Stellar Blade player: I am playing this game for hours!
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”