thefeelofavideogame:
Okay so a lot of people are asking me who Aaron Diaz is so here’s my semi-comprehensive post on who Aaron Diaz is and why he’s a joke.
Aaron Diaz is, in theory, the author of terrible webcomic Dresden Codak. I say ‘in theory’ cause he updates about once a month and often less than that (and has been caught faking the dates on his older comics to make himself appear to have a consistent update schedule.) Dresden Codak is the adventures of Aaron Diaz’s fictional girlfriend, a fit asian girl with robot limbs, because Aaron Diaz is basically Joss Whedon with an amputation fetish.
Dresden Codak is… bad. Diaz has copied parts of Ghost in the Shell point for point before (and indeed, only changed his fantasy waifu’s hair because she kept looking more and more like Makoto Kusanagi). Diaz doesn’t understand page layouts and very obviously includes his fetishes in the comic; I wasn’t joking about his amputation fetish. Multiple times his waifu loses her limbs and just kind of flops around uselessly, presumably cause it gets his dick up. He gets 6k a month on patreon for it and regularly whines that he doesn’t make more, because getting 60k a year for doing basically nothing isn’t enough for him, I guess.
Also once he had a Japanese character sit at a desk with a giant pagoda over his head and a bunch of Katanas around cause you wouldn’t know he was Japanese if Diaz didn’t do that.
Diaz himself is a joke too. Imagine every negative stereotype about a ‘male feminist’. Seriously. Talks down to women, casually racist, dresses like a clown, balding with a beard, white dude, perpetually angry, cowardly, paper thin skin, etc.
Diaz is all of those things. He is a stereotype come to life. You probably couldn’t make a caricature of him that was more ridiculous than Aaron Diaz himself is. He regularly insults women who disagree with him, while simultaneously boasting about how feminist he is. He pontificates about how much he ‘loves smart women’ but gets cowardly and cries when a woman corrects him or when he encounters a woman in STEM or another difficult field. Cause to Diaz ‘smart’ is just a tag he puts into a search engine to try and find porn. Diaz wants a woman in a labcoat getting fucked over her Bunston burner. that’s what Diaz wants.
Also he has repeatedly boasted about how he knows martial arts and someone googled where he ‘trains’ and it’s with children. Aaron Diaz does karate with children and brags about it.
Now, while in his tiny black heart Diaz likely wishes he was best known for his terrible webcomic, he is probably best known for his utterly terrible Zelda pitch. You can see it here, and while I don’t want to devote this entire post to that, I’ll just rundown the reasons why it’s dumb real quick.
It supports the idea that ‘feminine’ roles in stories can never be proactive or competent and that the only way for a woman to be useful or competent is to take on a traditionally male role.
It ignores every single character trait Zelda has to paste her over Link, obliterating her as a character (some lip-service to the Sheikah does not change this.) fuck, he even dresses her up like Link. She can’t even have her own outfit?
Not gonna nerd out on MUH ZELDA LORE but he obviously has never played a Zelda game and only did rudimentary googling before doing this thing.
He tries to hamfist steampunk into it.
He gives 'Prince Link’ a hat. Zelda already has a hood that evokes the hat. Why does Prince Link need a hat? Aaron Diaz thinks you’re so stupid you won’t understand PRINCE LINK is supposed to be Link, unless he has on a hat it makes no sense for him to be wearing.
Anyway the point is it’s stupid. I may go over it point for point later to explain why but that’s not what this post is about. It got picked up by a bunch of sites and showcased and game journalists praised Aaron Diaz because most game journalists are borderline illiterate dipshits but it quickly passed and he faded into semi-obscurity.
(For the record, he also did a bunch of 'redesigns’ of comic characters that were also stupid, also including his casual fetishization of asian women again, and then when everyone made fun of him including industry professionals he made a really passive-aggressive post where he 'redesigned’ his imaginary waifu into a fanservice character, which is made more hilarious by the fact her design basically slowly trended to being a lot like that.)
After that, he mostly kept acting like a bag of hot air, until, after he posted a bunch of sexy pin-ups of his protagonist and claimed they were 'empowering and feminist’ he got ribbed. He got gently ribbed. Very gently ribbed. Seriously, Mary Cagle (cubedwatermelon on tumblr and artist of many webcomics) basically gave him the lightest jab in the fucking world.
Aaron went MENTAL. He cried and whined and moaned and vagued about her on twitter, until he eventually cried in her tumblr inbox and she blew him the fuck out.
Diaz lost it, deleted the tweets, deleted the pin-ups, and went dark on twitter for THREE MONTHS. This fucking loudmouth was so butthurt at the softed, weakest possible ribbing that he imploded and vanished for a quarter of a year. He later re-uploaded the pin-ups and claimed he 'accidentally deleted them before’ which is literally an excuse that makes every lie detector within 100 miles of you commit suicide if you ever say it.
Anyway he mostly shut up until Nintendo announced Hyrule Warrior Legends.
And Linkle.
Linkle is a character in Hyrule Warrior Legends that looks a lot like a girl Link. She ISN’T girl Link, but her design was initially meant for Link’s younger sister and they repurposed it. Aaron Diaz responded in the most hilarious, passive-aggressive, histrionic way imaginable.
Yes.
You are reading that right.
Aaron Diaz thought that a japanese company saw his pitch from SEVERAL YEARS AGO and stole it. Stole the idea of 'a girl dressed like link’. Except Linkle’s outfit only evokes Link’s, it’s not the same. So really the idea of 'girl’
Aaron Diaz invented women.
Now, predictably, everyone made fun of him, so instead of just deleting the tweets and hiding in shame for a week or so Diaz TRIED TO BACKPEDAL.
It needs to be kept in mind this was THE DAY LINKLE WAS REVEALED. The same day. Almost immediately after.
And of course everyone kept making fun of him and he cried.
The most recent dumb-ass thing he did, and which seemed to have left him butthurt enough to mostly stop being a windbag on social media, was this tweet.
Even discounting the fact that Will Eisner is one of the most talented creators to ever live who has forgotten more about making amazing comics than Diaz can learn in ten lifetimes;
Will Eisner was Jewish.
Will Eisner was Jewish in the 40s.
Jews were not particularly well loved, in the 40s.
Everyone jumped on Diaz for this. Literally everyone. Industry professionals tore into his 'redesigns’ and mocked his comic. All his boatloads of haters lept from the woodwork to screencap and laugh.
People who tolerated him cause they share ideology used it as an excuse to dump him (nobody likes him, anyway.) Everyone pointed out that he himself is the definition of 'mediocre white man’. He blocked anybody who even looked at him for like two weeks, and finally went into semi-hibernation.
WHERE HE WILL HOPEFULLY BE FOREVER.