| ▲ | wholinator2 3 hours ago |
| What's woke about xbox? |
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| ▲ | ryandrake 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yea, I'd love to hear specifics. OP is all over this thread vaguely insinuating about "political content" but notably hasn't yet pointed out any specific examples that are objectionable. |
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| ▲ | tracker1 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion... Lets start with Spider-Man... MJ was a self-insert of a less attractive woman than typical for the character... there was a lesbian side quest that served no real value, while being excluded from international editions altogether. The pride flags through the city... That isn't even all of what went into that single game. But sure, pretend it doesn't exist at all, and that there aren't lots of examples of game studios injecting game elements for political motivations. I'm guessing that uou either aren't paying attention, lying or willfully ignorant if you can't see it. | | |
| ▲ | ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | None of those examples are political. They might be things you don't like, which is fine, but that doesn't make them politics. What makes the attractiveness of a 3D game character "politics"? What makes a useless gay side quest politics, but a similar useless straight side quest not-politics? | | |
| ▲ | tracker1 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Injecting LGBTQ+, then excluding it for certain markets is absolutely political. | | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Having a realistic amount of LGBTQ people/interactions in a big story shouldn't qualify as "political". Removing it for certain markets is much more political, and they should not do that, but I get the impression that isn't the outcome you want. Edit: Also the average level in the real world is a lot more than 1%. 1% is like just the trans portion. |
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| ▲ | newaccountman2 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What do editorial decisions in some specific game have to do with the news item? | | | |
| ▲ | pyth0 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Just so I understand your objection, they are woke because in the game one of their studios made, the woman in the game wasn't attractive enough for you? | | |
| ▲ | debugnik 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Not even their studio, his example is from Sony. | |
| ▲ | tracker1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And you totally skip the "self-insert"... But I'm sure you'd cast Lizzo as Helen of Troy. | | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Who was the "self" being inserted here? That's a confusing term for a game made by so many people. | | |
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| ▲ | jamiek88 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Anyone else deeply deeply weary in their bones about people doing this? I hate this timeline. We can’t even talk about fucking corporate margins without some chud shoehorning some of this shit in. |
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| ▲ | ToucanLoucan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's by design. The outrage merchants post day in and out to signal allegiance to this bizarre cult. People also don't respect how WILDLY influential GamerGate as been. There's good arguments to be made that Trump and his shitty White House would never have come to pass if not for moot re-enabling political discussions on 4chan at the behest of some combo of Epstein and Bannon, explicitly to stoke reactionary rage at anything "gay" in games. Like don't get me wrong it's deeply stupid and perhaps respect is the wrong word, but it's crazy how much those old events are shaping current culture war nonsense. | | |
| ▲ | vel0city 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I agree. A lot of people assume rational actors and don't understand "meme magic". | | |
| ▲ | ToucanLoucan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Even calling it memes is overly charitable. It's deliberate stoking of rage at scale to accomplish political ends. |
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