Ancient Chinese Secret

[Drab]

Just in case you're too young and missed it or too old and can't remember it.

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

[Electric Cupcake]

If the Chinese had any ancient secrets, it would have been either looted by the British Museum or they willingly traded it for opium long ago. Or it was burned by the Hong Weibings.

[Ocelote.12]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/225160/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_Redux/

The protagonist of that game, Lo Wang, says that phrase each time he finds a secret area in a level.

[☎need4naiim☎]

Maybe he can appear in the next installment of Mortal Kombat, as one of the Gods of EarthRealm.

[Drab]

People just don't read these days.

[Grendalcat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMjYgqFrrQ

[MEGA MAN]

the secret of master lu

[Kamiyama]

Ping was a girl all along!

[DarkCrystalMethod]

"Master of Bleeding Obvious strikes again!" (say whenever someone thinks they've just said something new but everyone knows it already)
Felt like sharing an inside joke from way back in highschool.

[Electric Cupcake]

Messaggio originale di NAMEB4NNED:

Messaggio originale di Ocelote12:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/225160/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_Redux/

The protagonist of that game, Lo Wang, says that phrase each time he finds a secret area in a level.

https://youtu.be/vajzUTBchQI?si=YK4QZqLRnFF27905

Screw the remake. Despite the distasteful somewhat racist humor (though it's deliberately non-specific pan-Asian stereotypes and jokes), the original Shadow Warrior is a masterpiece.

[Ocelote.12]

Messaggio originale di Electric Cupcake:

Screw the remake.

This Redux shown above is not the remake, it's a remaster. The remake/reboot is that game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/233130/Shadow_Warrior/

[Electric Cupcake]

Messaggio originale di Ocelote12:

Messaggio originale di Electric Cupcake:

Screw the remake.

This Redux shown above is not the remake, it's a remaster. The remake/reboot is that game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/233130/Shadow_Warrior/

That's what I said.

[Birds]

7's a boring number in chinese numerology. The 3+4 subdivision is absurd because it's a prime, and is a western formulation of the number's meaning. Where it means heaven, except if you took the chinese meanings of 3 and 4 and put them together you'd have a new hell moreso than a heaven, which is the original Pagan belief of the number 7 (as another hell will inevitably have new positive benefits) that was later co-opted into the traditionally inconsistent Christian tradition to describe an illogically idealized world.

They named him Dr. Old, and made 6 of his 7 faces western mythological figures like Merlin, Medusa, Pan, the Biblical Serpent, the Arthurian Legend's version of The Beast, etc, whereas his real actual face (An elderly chinese man) is taken as a mythological non-real figure. Like an orc or a goblin something.

The larger idea of the mockery involved in the 'ancient chinese secret' concept is the British assertion that since they hadn't been smacked in the face with anything yet China must not have anything to smack them with, and the deeply sardonic usage of arthurian figures (also fake stuff whose moral realities the nobility regularly ignores) and the idea of 'old knowledge itself' (hey i'm a young lad over here m80 pass the encore steaks) is largely done to perpetuate these attitudes to itself for itself.

The film was wildly unpopular in the US and screened in like 100 theaters or less, and was only made as a result of a direct injection of cash from the British film industry on the part of an Eisenhower-esque figure who was entering his late 60s and needed to have his idea of reality reflected in fiction as he died.

Lo Pan picked it up as it was a convenient marker point for his wider satirization of Asian American stereotypes and the almost schizophrenic nature of not only the 'Asian identity' in the modern era, but of any identity in any era.