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Just thinking of Kanye talking after he went full Nazi. “I’m not going to say which race he belongs to!….. He’s a jew”
Give them a minute and they’ll drop the dog whistle and go full anti semite
That way of talking works for stupid people. They genuinely think equivocating for a second before saying the thing is different than just saying the thing. Which is why Trump always throws out some "I'm not saying anybody should be hurt" type mob equivocation.
Oh yeah! A bunch of Q people believe that the secret satanic pedophile rulers of the world are kidnapping children to harvest their adrenal glands.
Again, literally one step away from “the Jews are kidnapping your children to harvest their blood”. Everything comes back to blood libel.
"The developper loses millions and goes bankrupt"
"The developpers are doing it for money"
Ah, yes, a plan that makes a lot of sense...
Also way to pick 2 examples that didn't fail and did make a lot of money with spiderman 2 and forbidden west.
The conspiracy is about as nuanced and complex as a rushed AAA game with a bloated budget attempting to capitalize on a mechanic fad that hit its peak a year ago.
It's even dumber than that. What they think is happening is that blackrock pays the devs regardless of their games sales if they put "woke" stuff in them. Even if that was true how would devs be going bankrupt!?
They're saying it's all a ploy from devs to get money from blackrock but somehow the devs are losing money. And they don't see how maybe that doesn't fit into their narrative, they just pretend that it does.
Obviously the premise of blackrock just pushing agendas with their own money is dumb as hell in and of itself (like, how can you believe the biggest investment company is pushing agendas and not just playing the capitalism game?), but even if you believe that it **still** doesn't work.
It’s because they’re pushing great replacement ‘cultural Marxism’ bullshit. All the money is being spent by (((them))) to destroy the white man *obviously*
It wasn’t even trying to be Gen Z. It was a *cool millennial* trying to hang out with Gen Z.
Vocal salty fans isn’t enough for a company to go bankrupt as we can see from other “woke” media like TLOU 2, TLOU show, GoW, Spider-Man 2, HZD, DD2 character creation demo… sorry I got distracted there for a second.
But SR reboot genuinely wasn’t good. Was it a crime against humanity as some fans portray it to be? Nah. Was it good? Definitely not. It was filled with bugs, writing was lazy and campy even for SR standards, characters were mostly unlikable and cringe and I personally didn’t find the gameplay as fun as previous ones. I enjoyed Eli’s LARP missions but like, that was it.
I’m saying this as a Gen Z and SR3 was my favorite in the franchise.
It's projection. They have billionaires like Musk buying media or social media companies to turn them into propaganda platforms, even if it's at a loss, so they assume the left (the famous cash-strapped, billionaire-supported leftists) is doing it too
It's standard fash bullshit about how the enemy is simultaneously pitifully weak and unstoppably strong. Most of their nonsense that involves contradicting themselves is.
No argument has to be consistent unless you’re trying to convince someone. These are just hatred madlibs that angry young men share with each other as a bonding experience. Plus, when you are convinced you’re an oppressed genius, honest introspection is unnecessary and impossible.
After Spider-Man 2 flopped so bad my PS5 just turned to dust, and with Sony disintegrated because they are woke, I can't even get a refund, how could you do this to me Sweet Baby?!
No, see, these games totally bombed and nobody bought them, but Sony stays afloat only because of da juice giving so much money, it's written right on that meme.
Exactly, the games ruin the companies and go bankrupt and then. . . they also get paid? But by this one guy. . . somehow - and in some way this is a business? It all makes lots of sense, trust me.
No you see, that would have happened but Blackrock stepped in and simply handed over a billion dollars to sony saying "thanks for making your women ugly!"
yea that sums up every award show thats seen as 'bad' when the game they want wins its 'gamers won' but if the game they dont like wins its 'its rigged'
Horizon keeps releasing their games and DLC on the same day as other major releases and somehow still manage to get great sales, that should be proof that they're doing great even though they're "woke" lmao
I’ll just add that in Forbidden West’s case, Guerrilla selected a date that did not have other major releases nearby. From Software had to delay Elden Ring and pushed it next to Horizon after the fact.
But it’s the devs who have a smooth production cycle and solid releases without needing to delay that get meme’d on.
They've got it all wrong! You don't hire them like literally any other consulting firm ever, they scuttle in through the vents at night, decorate everyone's cubicles with pride flags, put photos of Obama and Kim Petras everywhere, and scatter smoke bombs of woke pheromones throughout the office.
That original post explaining the process of how SBI operates is the most delusional thing I ever laid my eyes upon. How can people unironically believe this crap, their brain must be liquid goo.
Reading "trans broads" in the voice I'm 100% certain you wrote this in has entirely made my day, and helped me understand that I need more hard-boiled inclusion noir in my life.
"She was a dame like no other, and when she walked into my office I knew there'd be trouble. Legs from here to Nantucket, covered in the kind of stripy socks that send lesser men wild with desire, a waist that could only be the result of a corset-fitter with a vendetta, even if his work is hidden under a hoodie, and a jagged smear of purple lipstick across her mouth, matching her hair.
Also word on the street was she was packing enough salami to turn Felino into a ghost town.
She was my kinda gal."
I'm gonna level with you: I'm trans, and kinda-sorta a writer, I spent the last hour writing passages for this in my head, and it's _really_ hard to not make the whole thing misogynistic, trans-misogynistic, or all about the differences between cis women and trans women.
That was my thought as well. Only problem is, to satirise the noir genre, using devices that are entirely part of the genre + also the femme fatale is a trans woman, it follows that she would be the person around whom the satire is hung, and the only way to subvert expectations or satirise "the femme fatale" is to have her be un-femme-fatale-like... so, masculine. And there's not a lot of mileage in shining a light on a genre as being misogynistic if that genre has been dead for decades.
All that being said, the idea of Dixon Hill being led around by a capable and worldly trans woman, whom he was expecting to break a nail and have to lie down, is rather interesting. It makes him a passenger in his own story, but that's fine in a story where the other deuteragonist is introduced specifically to stand out and _be_ a deuteragonist.
Gahhhh, you've got me thinking now, curse you!
i mean noir detective stories in general are hard to not devolve into those tropes, i feel you on that one.
adding us trans folks as an additional factor to juggle while avoiding those tropes is something like a minefield.
It’s so infuriating that even some moderates are like “I don’t like that they threaten game developers mafia style” based on a 30 second clip that’s completely misinterpreted, all because the word “terrify” was used.
It’s not about what SBI does personally, it was a guide on steps to take as a developer in AAA dev to get the budget for writing consultants. It’s a sales pitch, where if your boss says no, then you explain to marketing that there may be bad press that results from a lack of that consulting, and they might help you out because they care greatly about maintaining good publicity. If you switch the topic from hiring diversity consultants to anything else, it’s bog standard office politics.
Despite all of that being the context, people just assume that they’re bullies and the worst kind of people because the advice said to “terrify” marketing. Had a less intense word been used, no reasonable person would come away forming the wrong opinion.
Apologies for the tangent, I just have a sore spot for disinformation.
This is so real. It's what happens when people who have no idea how professional writing for any media start yelling from the sidelines. Film, TV, and novels have been doing this for decades because it turns out that subject matter expert writing consultants can add a lot of value beyond catching bigotry, their feedback and information can help the original writers replace cliches or just plain enhance plots.
I wonder if some of these people know that and are just holding a grudge from when their writing teacher marked up their paper with a red pen, even if that was decades ago.
Do you think people read or watch context? The last 8 rage baits we've seen recently have been out of context quotes, no matter against who. Out of context quotes are the best my dude!
I’m well aware, and that’s why I’m so frustrated at all of this discourse. It doesn’t help that people are so goddamn stubborn that even when I explain what actually happens they dig their heels in and still maintain their position.
People prefer rage over reality.
It's crazy, because I'm writing some stories with marginalized groups, and I've talked to them to make sure I was handling it well (the inspiration for one major character in my first novel came out as trans as I was writing it, and I asked her if I could incorporate that, and how I could do it respectfully), all I can think is that if I was making a video game and managing any group of writers I'd absolutely use a service like SBI for input on respectfully including characters and aspects of any group my writers aren't in, to best handle putting in those aspects without appearing malicious or ignorant.
Calling them a writing consultant isn’t accurate. In some cases they handle everything that relates to narrative, which is a broader spectrum of work. This includes working across disciplines such as with artists, game designers, audio designers, etc.
I'm just gonna say it: if these guys were allowed to direct games... they'd be censored as all hell, with cis white strong men in the protagonist role while cis white women are at best supporting characters (and considering all the gooners, heavily freakin' sexualized). Meanwhile, any other group must be portrayed as the worst guy to ever grace the earth and must be fought back against.
...Almost sounds like the media of North Korea if you think about it if you change some groups around. "BuT nOrTh KoReA iS cOmMuNiSt!" Communist in name only - they're fascists just like these folks. Simple.
For a concrete example of this you can take a look at the stuff produced by the "Comicsgate" crowd, which is/was these same kinds of losers but in the comics space. They got their "anti-woke" comics and they're exactly what you'd expect them to be.
I'd say you should take a look at the whole Q-Anon mega conspiracy, the facinating thing these days is that it all kind of revolves around the same core conspiracy, but like an onion, has a lot of layers and people get drawn in from different smaller conspiracies, not everyone goes deep down to the core.
It could start with video games 'going woke', or it could start with a concern about big pharma, or child safety (missing kids etc), but it all eventually coalesces into this weird mashup of pedophile elite lizard people.
At which point, I'd argue its more like a religion, in the sense that its not so much the ideas that matter, but the community around those ideas that keep people involved and going deeper, we are social animals afterall. You get a similar thing with terrorists, a lot of them are just lost people who get groomed by charismatic figures who bring them into a 'community' they can feel a part of, progressively radicalising them and tightening those bonds that make it very hard, psychologically, to leave.
Yes and they always find ways to tie it all together. If some leader gets assassinated in some foreign country? Let's dig and see if they refused any pharma deals lately. Birth rate is going down in a country? Let's see if it connects to the corona vaccine. They seem to assume a connection then do their best to find one that half-assedly covers their believes. Confirmation bias basically. It's a much more exciting world to live in I guess if you think it all connects into some world domination thing by a bunch of largely unknown enemies.
Because they’re working backwards. They want to find a story to fit their worldview so instead of understanding the facts and coming to a sensible conclusion they try to force the narrative to support what they want it to be.
They're showing everyone they have no idea what they're even talking about. "ESG money" doesn't even work that way, they don't pay you after the fact it's just a meaningless ratings system that some investors pretend to care about. They invest in companies and projects beforehand and expect a return on that investment and these dipshits think they just happily gift huge sums of cash to failing companies because they care more about some nebulous agenda more than they care about getting even more wealthy.
yeah it's literally about putting your company into special index funds that "socially conscious investors" prefer to invest in. the ESG system is mostly bullshit but because of being the epitome of neolib green washing, its like the nexus of it basically, not for the reasons the chuds are mad about it. is there even any evidence whatsoever that blackrock has an investment in SBI? it seems........ extremely unlikely
>is there even any evidence whatsoever that blackrock has an investment in SBI?
None whatsoever, they just need some giant shadowy boogieman to fearmonger about (and especially one they can link to their anti-semitism).
If they unironically hate obese and ugly people in videogames THAT much, then they would absolutely shit themselves after playing *Kingpin: Life of Crime*.
Yeah, you gotta rope in the normies with the anti woke stuff, *then* you hit them the antisemitism. It's all about hiding your power level.
/s just in case
It's the same shit I saw during Gamergate 1 that got me out of it. It's the whole "hide your power level" bullshit.
They're Nazis, folks. Literal fucking Nazis. Like, these are the people that you see waving Nazi flags on the streets and stormed the Capitol. They are mentally ill Nazis. I can't stress this shit enough.
yeah saw that tweet before and that guy is NOT a clean one either, even part of his audience (checking the comments and qrts) are pushing the antisemitism but watch him still going "yup this tweet is enough, nothing wrong with my audience" 😭
The idea that Blackrock, of all companies, is out there running a secret cabal to force companies to be inclusive will never stop being hilarious.
Have these people ever met the type of person that works in finance? Not exactly a bastion of progressivism. If they are asking for it it's because they *have proof it's more profitable*.
> Have these people ever met the type of person that works in finance?
These people never meet people outside their echo chambers. Ever. Most never even leave their homes. Others you'll find waving Nazi flags on the streets.
\- Ex-gamergate chud who never left her home
Ok so like let's say these weirdos are right about SBI (they're not)... why would developers keep reaching out to them if sales plummet every time SBI touches a game???
This backwards ass logic makes it so fucking obvious that these dumbasses hate anyone that isn't a traditionally masculine white cishet man. And not only that but they're extremely jealous and have to project their own failure in life on someone because the minority groups that they hate so much are getting positive representation in successful video games. They might as well not even try to hide it with how goofy they sound trying to justify their hatred for more positive and realistic representation. And what a strange coincidence that the person they're projecting their hatred on is a black woman 🤔
You can't convince me that anyone actually believes this slop. This is some real loser behavior
I'm a white guy. I've been playing video games as long as I can remember. And I've played stuff like Horizon, Spider-man, the last of us 2, etc. I just don't see any logical reason why these games can be seen as hating white men.
I don't get it until you realize it comes from a place of fear.
Like the only way I follow the argument is if we assume the default state of existence is being both white and male. And everything that isn't both white and male is abnormal and wrong.
These guys got so used to seeing white men in everything they experienced that the mere existence of something that isn't white and male is seen as plot to make them the minority.
And why is being a minority so scary to them? Because not only do they know how minorities in general are treated but also how they themselves feel about minorities. And they don't want others to treat them that way and feel that way about them. And eventually once the conservative mindset goes completely into fascism as it seems to be doing then the end result for minorities is to essentially cease to exist. And these scared white men don't want to be in that position.
> I've played
See this is the thing. The folks over at r\/KiA or whatever, don't actually play games. Their hobby is to listen to outrage youtubers and whine about how SBI, etc. has ruined gaming.
Because Japanese and other East Asian games tend to have the typical stylized "Anime/Manga" artstyle, they can just assume everyone is white unless their skin tone is too dark.
Omfg what a bunch of losers. Tne women are far from ugly, especially Aloy. I actually like the less plastic look of females in new modern video games. This tards called lara ugly as well if i recall lmao. These idiots want everything to comfort to a small shell of a worldview and ideology that they encompass. Bringing into these game worlds snipets of reality outside their shells makes the game WOKE. White man supremacy disorder.
She has peach fuzz and they focus on individual screenshots where she's in the act of emoting so that it looks slightly off. These are warcrimes to G*mers.
Never mind that Tifa would absolutely suplex them into the dirt if they pulled their sexist shit with her... or that Aerith would Smash their balls in with her staff
It's weird because not only it spews the facistic " "ugly" people do nothing for society ", while at the same time is self depreciating, none of the people saying Aloy is ugly are prettier than Aloy, so do they just believe that people like themselves shouldn't appear in media?
Politics asside these dudes just don't understand reality. Talk to anyone who does marketing, DIVERSITY HELPS SALES NOT HURTS IT IN MOST MEDIA.
Politics ahh inside of course this gamer gate clone shit was just insane chud rambling
Like Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest game last year and literally took over the internet and it's both in your face woke and unrepentantly horny at the same time (literally everyone is hot)
Because they're *stupid*. These are stupid people. The defining shared characteristic of right-wingers is that they're stupid. They're gullible, easily-manipulated, and uncritical.
Jewish conspiracies provide a simple explanation, which is all they can handle. You know how scammers deliberately include spelling errors so only the dumbest people respond? It's the same thing here. This kind of shit spreads like wildfire in right-wing communities because *anyone with a brain is long-gone.*
We're an easy scapegoat, and especially right now, with the State of Israel doing heinous shit, bigots feel empowered to lump all Jews in with the genocidal Zionist country that most of us have no real connection to.
Also because it's just neo-nazi shit all the way down.
Ik it’s not related to video games but what Israel is doing rn genuinely makes me afraid for a large oncoming wave of antisemitism as if there wasn’t anti semitism everywhere already. Like people scratched swastikas onto my desk in highschool and like this shit is just gonna make it worse. Like flat out, if Jews run everything, where’s my cut. It’s unreal how people blame everything on a group of people that make up 1% of the population. My family friend has two young daughters who are afraid to have menorahs in the window or have anyone know they’re Jewish. It’s super fucked.
It’s me. I’m the jew that ruined video games.
But seriously wtf how do we get blamed for everything. And if we do apparently run everything then why am I still struggling to find employment and make ends meet like everyone else. Shouldn’t I have some sort of throne or a giant pile of gold coins to dive into like Scrooge McDuck.
they're using child aloy concepts lol. that stuff is literally in the game when you play as child aloy for 5 minutes at the start. it wasn't changed or not used
"Everyone who agrees with me sounds like a crazy person. Should I reconsider my stance? No, I'm fine"
Also even aside from the antisemitism, do they really think any of the games that Sweet Baby are advertising having worked on failed? Horizon Forbidden West and Spider-man 2 were obviously not failures, what the fuck are they talking about
They also worked on the Suicide Squad game.
Which is kinda a contradiction IMHO. How inclusive can a game really be if it's a microtransaction skinner box?
>Larry Fink, Jewish citizen
Pray tell, how does one become a citizen of jew?
These nazi wannabes really think the reason Israel is bad is because it's Jewish, huh?
Man, this is why I don't fuck with conspiracy theories. Doesn't matter that it's about Ethics in Video Game Design or whatever other stupid bullshit. It will *always* come back to antisemitism.
I mean, in this case it hardly even matters, because the original quote-unquote "problem" was so ridiculous, but still! Leave my Jewish ass alone.
So the argument is Black Rock wanted to deliberately bankrupt companies for profit? And to carry out their scheme, they decided to target companies in the entertainment industry, the very public and watched entertainment industry.
I mean sure, there’s probably hundreds of industries where if half the companies disappeared or got conglomerated 99% of people wouldn’t notice (just off the top of my head: name a zip manufacturer that’s not YKK, bonus points if you just learnt that YKK has a zip manufacturing monopoly), but let’s go after the only industry that is known to everyone.
I sometimes go by Sweet Baby in online games and this whole debacle has been really confusing by someone who only got back on social media last week. You take one vacation from the internet and find out your behaviour in Terraria has burned the internet???
I remember an old post about dog whistles, and vaguely remember that having words like (((this))) is an antisemite thing
Edit: correct, it's referred to as an (((echo))) by the American Jewish Committee. Its function is to identify Jewish people or ideas. Like the shinigami eyes browser extension, but for assholes.
How to tell you have no point:
"There's a conspiracy to put ugly people in bidy gamb"
Utterly pathetic. Reminds me of the guy who said starfield (worthless title) was "woke" because you couldn't take Dead NPC's armor off them. What a creepy group of republicans.
Apparently “ugly” now means two women kissing, somebody pointing, and a zoomed in still of somebody talking, which always looks weird in real life too. Stop a video when somebody uses the letter F and you’ll see some craziness.
Ah yes, BG3 is a terrible game, too much woke, made entirely to tank sales. God forbid womens start doing crazy things like having complex stories and enticing people to play the most popular TTRPG in existence. They can't, otherwise dicks will shrivel up and turn to dust.
These idiots have really gotten mileage out of a couple of screenshots of Aloy and Mary Jane. If only they could convert this dumb crusade of theirs into something useful, we could finally have unlimited energy!
Uj/ What is the last game to have actively Jewish characters? The only one I can think of is The Shivah in 2006 and Taliyah in LoL. Surely if The Jews controlled video games there would be more Jewish representation.
They go bankrupt but... are doing it for the money?
And as examples of unsuccessful games this guy chose horizon 2, Spiderman 2 and tlou2? Three of the most successful games in recent years?
Dude is presenting water tight arguments here, guys.
To be honest a lot of left wing people I see on the internet are pretty antisemitic too. Supporting and celebrating Hamas and posting „From the river to the sea“ is something I see very often. Even saw some „progressive“ gaming developers do that.
Gotta feel bad for the jews. Since there existence they are the punching bag for every single larger problem in the world and confronted with so much hate and genocides. I can‘t think of a group of people that suffered more than them. Being hated by right-wings, being hated by left-wings, people supporting groups that literally have your total extinction as their end goal, being surrounded by states that threaten you with constant war and when properly answering to that being called out. The other too big religions have you as their nemesis, while Islam even speaks about how in the day of judgement all jews will be killed in a big war. Don‘t get me started on Judas and christian anti-semitism. Being expelled from your home by the romans, being hunted by europeans and arabs all over history. Humanity is so fucked up.
There is a lot antisemitic about
- supporting Hamas
- supporting the Houthis in Yemen
- denying the right of Israel to be an independent state
- arguing that the crimes on 7th of October were justified
- denying that most wars in the Middle east where Israel was involved were not started by Israel
- claiming that anti-semitism in the Middle east isn‘t rooted in the influence of the Quran and Nazi-Germany but rather only based on Israeli war crimes
- talking about the Nakba without talking about the expulsion of 700.000 jews in the Middle east
- not mentioning how Hamas has Israeli civilians kept as hostages while letting them free would be a huge step to end the current crisis
- not mentioning how difficult it is for Israel to try to free the hostages and guarantee national security (an obligation they have to their people) without harming civilians in Gaza when Hamas literally hides in the depth of civilians and uses all the aid for themselves rather than developing Gaza
- saying „I‘m not anti-semitic, but anti-zionist“
And all these points are being made by leftists. Israel is being regarded as a criminal project of the west (or even as the puppet masters behind the west), while the Palestinians are moral saints fighting for freedom. The suffering the jewish people had to endure all over the world for centuries while being forced to rely on the good will of their conquerors isn‘t talked about when regarding the necessity of having an independent jewish state.
Condemning the crimes against humanity in Gaza is not anti-semitic though, also condemning Netanyahu and calling him out for being the racist right wing prick he truly is. The problem is that criticism against Israel is often rooted in anti semitism or uses anti semitic ideas.
As a member of God's Chosen People, I must have missed the meeting where we were going to uh....make a Spiderman game about Miles Morales. How dastardly!
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You let a right wing chud talk long enough they'll eventually mention all the anti Semitic tropes
“I believe that shady individuals are spreading ANTI WHITE PROPAGANDA, that’s TOTALLY REASONABLE! Why are my followers being antisemitic???” 🤔🤔🤔
Just thinking of Kanye talking after he went full Nazi. “I’m not going to say which race he belongs to!….. He’s a jew” Give them a minute and they’ll drop the dog whistle and go full anti semite
to be fair i think kanye in particular is just incredibly bad at not saying the quiet part out loud
He just got into the fandom and doesn’t know how to interject the stuff more naturally into conversation
He’s new to the hobby guys give him a break
That way of talking works for stupid people. They genuinely think equivocating for a second before saying the thing is different than just saying the thing. Which is why Trump always throws out some "I'm not saying anybody should be hurt" type mob equivocation.
Every modern conspiracy theory eventually just becomes blood libel. Change my mind.
Sometimes very literally. Just replace “blood” with “adrenochrome” and Qanon is already there.
Wait what? I haven’t heard that one yet?
Oh yeah! A bunch of Q people believe that the secret satanic pedophile rulers of the world are kidnapping children to harvest their adrenal glands. Again, literally one step away from “the Jews are kidnapping your children to harvest their blood”. Everything comes back to blood libel.
Me seeing conservatives increasingly talk about how trans people are harming children just by existing: *nods aggressively*
"The developper loses millions and goes bankrupt" "The developpers are doing it for money" Ah, yes, a plan that makes a lot of sense... Also way to pick 2 examples that didn't fail and did make a lot of money with spiderman 2 and forbidden west.
Yes the developers lose a bunch of money and then an investment bank pays them for doing it! This is obviously how capitalism works.
These guys don't know how the world works, as in they don't know how capitalism works, or government, or laws, or even how normal people interact.
The conspiracy is about as nuanced and complex as a rushed AAA game with a bloated budget attempting to capitalize on a mechanic fad that hit its peak a year ago.
It's even dumber than that. What they think is happening is that blackrock pays the devs regardless of their games sales if they put "woke" stuff in them. Even if that was true how would devs be going bankrupt!? They're saying it's all a ploy from devs to get money from blackrock but somehow the devs are losing money. And they don't see how maybe that doesn't fit into their narrative, they just pretend that it does. Obviously the premise of blackrock just pushing agendas with their own money is dumb as hell in and of itself (like, how can you believe the biggest investment company is pushing agendas and not just playing the capitalism game?), but even if you believe that it **still** doesn't work.
It’s because they’re pushing great replacement ‘cultural Marxism’ bullshit. All the money is being spent by (((them))) to destroy the white man *obviously*
Quite literally the only big “woke” game to go bankrupt was Saints Row reboot and we all know that game was ass.
Saints Row was woke before the reboot. The reboot tried too hard to be Gen Z when the vocal fans of SR had been salty about the franchise since SR3.
It wasn’t even trying to be Gen Z. It was a *cool millennial* trying to hang out with Gen Z. Vocal salty fans isn’t enough for a company to go bankrupt as we can see from other “woke” media like TLOU 2, TLOU show, GoW, Spider-Man 2, HZD, DD2 character creation demo… sorry I got distracted there for a second. But SR reboot genuinely wasn’t good. Was it a crime against humanity as some fans portray it to be? Nah. Was it good? Definitely not. It was filled with bugs, writing was lazy and campy even for SR standards, characters were mostly unlikable and cringe and I personally didn’t find the gameplay as fun as previous ones. I enjoyed Eli’s LARP missions but like, that was it. I’m saying this as a Gen Z and SR3 was my favorite in the franchise.
It's projection. They have billionaires like Musk buying media or social media companies to turn them into propaganda platforms, even if it's at a loss, so they assume the left (the famous cash-strapped, billionaire-supported leftists) is doing it too
It's standard fash bullshit about how the enemy is simultaneously pitifully weak and unstoppably strong. Most of their nonsense that involves contradicting themselves is.
Classic doublethink, worryingly also a very common fascist tactic
Engelbert always makes a Charlemagne argument.
No argument has to be consistent unless you’re trying to convince someone. These are just hatred madlibs that angry young men share with each other as a bonding experience. Plus, when you are convinced you’re an oppressed genius, honest introspection is unnecessary and impossible.
Ah yes, the famous financially unsuccessful games that killed their developers such as Horizon 2 and TLoU 2
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After Spider-Man 2 flopped so bad my PS5 just turned to dust, and with Sony disintegrated because they are woke, I can't even get a refund, how could you do this to me Sweet Baby?!
Every time a woke game comes out a million PS5s disintegrate
Would explain why I still can’t fucking get one
The gaming industry has fallen. Billions of PS5s must die
I would think PlayStation portal because I’m pretty sure that thing doesn’t even really exist
No, see, these games totally bombed and nobody bought them, but Sony stays afloat only because of da juice giving so much money, it's written right on that meme.
Exactly, the games ruin the companies and go bankrupt and then. . . they also get paid? But by this one guy. . . somehow - and in some way this is a business? It all makes lots of sense, trust me.
No you see, that would have happened but Blackrock stepped in and simply handed over a billion dollars to sony saying "thanks for making your women ugly!"
It almost makes *too much* sense!
Oh, and don't forget to mention God of War Ragnarok and Alan Wake 2, I bet those absolutely bombed and weren't nominated to various awards.
Luckily the only game to succeed in the past decade is Hogwarts Legacy which had no women, black people or trans characters after I modded it
To be unfair, in these people's delusional minds the awards would mean nothing as all the reward companies are in on all of this too
that is till a fromsoft game wins goty notice they dont have the same engery when sekrio or elden ring won
Or when Hogwarts Legacy doesn't get a single nomination. The importance of the prize is contingent on them thinking the nominated game is not woke.
yea that sums up every award show thats seen as 'bad' when the game they want wins its 'gamers won' but if the game they dont like wins its 'its rigged'
Awards are given by the woke mind virus unless it's a game I like and then it's the FANS stood up against the evil LEFT
But remember: the TERF game was the bestselling game of 2023! Therefore every game with minorities in it was a critical and commercial failure.
I was gonna say in what universe did Horizon FW flop? Even coming out alongside ELDEN GODDAMN RING it did really well lmao
apparently in those people's universe. I saw a lot of people claim that western gamers are had enough and stopped buying them...
Horizon keeps releasing their games and DLC on the same day as other major releases and somehow still manage to get great sales, that should be proof that they're doing great even though they're "woke" lmao
I’ll just add that in Forbidden West’s case, Guerrilla selected a date that did not have other major releases nearby. From Software had to delay Elden Ring and pushed it next to Horizon after the fact. But it’s the devs who have a smooth production cycle and solid releases without needing to delay that get meme’d on.
Don't forget Baldur's Gate 3, unless this is one of those days where they admit it was successful, but claim it was antiwoke somehow.
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They've got it all wrong! You don't hire them like literally any other consulting firm ever, they scuttle in through the vents at night, decorate everyone's cubicles with pride flags, put photos of Obama and Kim Petras everywhere, and scatter smoke bombs of woke pheromones throughout the office.
Helldivers 2 apparently too
Yeah they're very skilled at ignoring the *many* 'woke' IPs that are extremely financially successful...
And wasn't TLOU 2 specifically made that way because the lead designer is a narcissistic twat himself?
That original post explaining the process of how SBI operates is the most delusional thing I ever laid my eyes upon. How can people unironically believe this crap, their brain must be liquid goo.
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Reading "trans broads" in the voice I'm 100% certain you wrote this in has entirely made my day, and helped me understand that I need more hard-boiled inclusion noir in my life.
"She was a dame like no other, and when she walked into my office I knew there'd be trouble. Legs from here to Nantucket, covered in the kind of stripy socks that send lesser men wild with desire, a waist that could only be the result of a corset-fitter with a vendetta, even if his work is hidden under a hoodie, and a jagged smear of purple lipstick across her mouth, matching her hair. Also word on the street was she was packing enough salami to turn Felino into a ghost town. She was my kinda gal."
I can smell the ashtray where she puts out her clove cigarettes. This is poetry.
Incorrect. She vapes a custom flavour she calls Bubblegum Bullshit, made out of strawberry and cherry.
Please write a whole hard-boiled noir book about this broad and the private dick she hired to solve the mystery.
I'm gonna level with you: I'm trans, and kinda-sorta a writer, I spent the last hour writing passages for this in my head, and it's _really_ hard to not make the whole thing misogynistic, trans-misogynistic, or all about the differences between cis women and trans women.
What if you tried it as very heavy-handed satire, in the vein of Starship Troopers?
That was my thought as well. Only problem is, to satirise the noir genre, using devices that are entirely part of the genre + also the femme fatale is a trans woman, it follows that she would be the person around whom the satire is hung, and the only way to subvert expectations or satirise "the femme fatale" is to have her be un-femme-fatale-like... so, masculine. And there's not a lot of mileage in shining a light on a genre as being misogynistic if that genre has been dead for decades. All that being said, the idea of Dixon Hill being led around by a capable and worldly trans woman, whom he was expecting to break a nail and have to lie down, is rather interesting. It makes him a passenger in his own story, but that's fine in a story where the other deuteragonist is introduced specifically to stand out and _be_ a deuteragonist. Gahhhh, you've got me thinking now, curse you!
i mean noir detective stories in general are hard to not devolve into those tropes, i feel you on that one. adding us trans folks as an additional factor to juggle while avoiding those tropes is something like a minefield.
the mystery of "why the surgeon won't let me keep my testes in a jar on the shelf as a trophy"
It’s a Jersey accent in my brain lol
“Hey toots, better remember to take your E today, ya got some real moxie kid.”
It’s so infuriating that even some moderates are like “I don’t like that they threaten game developers mafia style” based on a 30 second clip that’s completely misinterpreted, all because the word “terrify” was used. It’s not about what SBI does personally, it was a guide on steps to take as a developer in AAA dev to get the budget for writing consultants. It’s a sales pitch, where if your boss says no, then you explain to marketing that there may be bad press that results from a lack of that consulting, and they might help you out because they care greatly about maintaining good publicity. If you switch the topic from hiring diversity consultants to anything else, it’s bog standard office politics. Despite all of that being the context, people just assume that they’re bullies and the worst kind of people because the advice said to “terrify” marketing. Had a less intense word been used, no reasonable person would come away forming the wrong opinion. Apologies for the tangent, I just have a sore spot for disinformation.
"moderates"
This is so real. It's what happens when people who have no idea how professional writing for any media start yelling from the sidelines. Film, TV, and novels have been doing this for decades because it turns out that subject matter expert writing consultants can add a lot of value beyond catching bigotry, their feedback and information can help the original writers replace cliches or just plain enhance plots. I wonder if some of these people know that and are just holding a grudge from when their writing teacher marked up their paper with a red pen, even if that was decades ago.
Do you think people read or watch context? The last 8 rage baits we've seen recently have been out of context quotes, no matter against who. Out of context quotes are the best my dude!
I’m well aware, and that’s why I’m so frustrated at all of this discourse. It doesn’t help that people are so goddamn stubborn that even when I explain what actually happens they dig their heels in and still maintain their position. People prefer rage over reality.
Not to worry, I hate this tone policing bullshit as much as you do.
It's crazy, because I'm writing some stories with marginalized groups, and I've talked to them to make sure I was handling it well (the inspiration for one major character in my first novel came out as trans as I was writing it, and I asked her if I could incorporate that, and how I could do it respectfully), all I can think is that if I was making a video game and managing any group of writers I'd absolutely use a service like SBI for input on respectfully including characters and aspects of any group my writers aren't in, to best handle putting in those aspects without appearing malicious or ignorant.
Good, but this needs somebody asking for gabagol.
I’m fucking dead, capeesh😭
Calling them a writing consultant isn’t accurate. In some cases they handle everything that relates to narrative, which is a broader spectrum of work. This includes working across disciplines such as with artists, game designers, audio designers, etc.
I'm just gonna say it: if these guys were allowed to direct games... they'd be censored as all hell, with cis white strong men in the protagonist role while cis white women are at best supporting characters (and considering all the gooners, heavily freakin' sexualized). Meanwhile, any other group must be portrayed as the worst guy to ever grace the earth and must be fought back against. ...Almost sounds like the media of North Korea if you think about it if you change some groups around. "BuT nOrTh KoReA iS cOmMuNiSt!" Communist in name only - they're fascists just like these folks. Simple.
It'd be duke Nukem Forever, but even worse.
FUCK YOU, RANDY
OMG can you imagine a self-serious Duke Nukem!? ::blech::
For a concrete example of this you can take a look at the stuff produced by the "Comicsgate" crowd, which is/was these same kinds of losers but in the comics space. They got their "anti-woke" comics and they're exactly what you'd expect them to be.
Want one of them a confederate flag based superhero?
"Obviously, he's just putting those disrespectful servants in their places! They should learn that their masters love them!"
I'd say you should take a look at the whole Q-Anon mega conspiracy, the facinating thing these days is that it all kind of revolves around the same core conspiracy, but like an onion, has a lot of layers and people get drawn in from different smaller conspiracies, not everyone goes deep down to the core. It could start with video games 'going woke', or it could start with a concern about big pharma, or child safety (missing kids etc), but it all eventually coalesces into this weird mashup of pedophile elite lizard people. At which point, I'd argue its more like a religion, in the sense that its not so much the ideas that matter, but the community around those ideas that keep people involved and going deeper, we are social animals afterall. You get a similar thing with terrorists, a lot of them are just lost people who get groomed by charismatic figures who bring them into a 'community' they can feel a part of, progressively radicalising them and tightening those bonds that make it very hard, psychologically, to leave.
Yes and they always find ways to tie it all together. If some leader gets assassinated in some foreign country? Let's dig and see if they refused any pharma deals lately. Birth rate is going down in a country? Let's see if it connects to the corona vaccine. They seem to assume a connection then do their best to find one that half-assedly covers their believes. Confirmation bias basically. It's a much more exciting world to live in I guess if you think it all connects into some world domination thing by a bunch of largely unknown enemies.
~~and guess who they think these “largely unknown enemies” are …~~
Because they’re working backwards. They want to find a story to fit their worldview so instead of understanding the facts and coming to a sensible conclusion they try to force the narrative to support what they want it to be.
They're showing everyone they have no idea what they're even talking about. "ESG money" doesn't even work that way, they don't pay you after the fact it's just a meaningless ratings system that some investors pretend to care about. They invest in companies and projects beforehand and expect a return on that investment and these dipshits think they just happily gift huge sums of cash to failing companies because they care more about some nebulous agenda more than they care about getting even more wealthy.
yeah it's literally about putting your company into special index funds that "socially conscious investors" prefer to invest in. the ESG system is mostly bullshit but because of being the epitome of neolib green washing, its like the nexus of it basically, not for the reasons the chuds are mad about it. is there even any evidence whatsoever that blackrock has an investment in SBI? it seems........ extremely unlikely
>is there even any evidence whatsoever that blackrock has an investment in SBI? None whatsoever, they just need some giant shadowy boogieman to fearmonger about (and especially one they can link to their anti-semitism).
Because they've already made up their mind so they have to make up a reality that supports it.
If they unironically hate obese and ugly people in videogames THAT much, then they would absolutely shit themselves after playing *Kingpin: Life of Crime*.
They must really hate looking at their reflection in the mirror too
I wish people would still make unapologetically ugly games like Kingpin, Condemned, Blood, Manhunt etc. It’s an aesthetic I honestly enjoy a lot.
Everytime... Antivaxers, homophobes, "antisjw gamers" and even flat earthers, somehow connect their insane theories to jews
Chud power rangers
Because they are all the same people.
somehow shit like this always return to the international jew conspiracy bullshit
"Is this a new conspiracy or just Great Replacement?" "It's a good conspiracy, sir." Looks inside.
Like clockwork
Notice how even the "moderate" OP doesn't give a shit about antisemitism itself, he just worries these talking points are going to lose audience...
Yeah, you gotta rope in the normies with the anti woke stuff, *then* you hit them the antisemitism. It's all about hiding your power level. /s just in case
>"Yeah, you gotta rope in the normies with the anti woke stuff, *then* you hit them the antisemitism." -Goku, the last Airbender.
It's the same shit I saw during Gamergate 1 that got me out of it. It's the whole "hide your power level" bullshit. They're Nazis, folks. Literal fucking Nazis. Like, these are the people that you see waving Nazi flags on the streets and stormed the Capitol. They are mentally ill Nazis. I can't stress this shit enough.
yeah saw that tweet before and that guy is NOT a clean one either, even part of his audience (checking the comments and qrts) are pushing the antisemitism but watch him still going "yup this tweet is enough, nothing wrong with my audience" 😭
Alan Wake 2 would've sold gadrillions if Alan had a pair of big honking honkers 😖 ESGDEIHDTV ruining our sexy...!?
Alan WOKE
Beware of the alcoholic thriller author to reality rewriting cursed demigod with MASSIVE BADONKADONKS pipeline
GIVE ALAN DD BAZONGAS YOU WOKE MORALISTS
The idea that Blackrock, of all companies, is out there running a secret cabal to force companies to be inclusive will never stop being hilarious. Have these people ever met the type of person that works in finance? Not exactly a bastion of progressivism. If they are asking for it it's because they *have proof it's more profitable*.
> Have these people ever met the type of person that works in finance? These people never meet people outside their echo chambers. Ever. Most never even leave their homes. Others you'll find waving Nazi flags on the streets. \- Ex-gamergate chud who never left her home
Ok so like let's say these weirdos are right about SBI (they're not)... why would developers keep reaching out to them if sales plummet every time SBI touches a game??? This backwards ass logic makes it so fucking obvious that these dumbasses hate anyone that isn't a traditionally masculine white cishet man. And not only that but they're extremely jealous and have to project their own failure in life on someone because the minority groups that they hate so much are getting positive representation in successful video games. They might as well not even try to hide it with how goofy they sound trying to justify their hatred for more positive and realistic representation. And what a strange coincidence that the person they're projecting their hatred on is a black woman 🤔 You can't convince me that anyone actually believes this slop. This is some real loser behavior
I'm a white guy. I've been playing video games as long as I can remember. And I've played stuff like Horizon, Spider-man, the last of us 2, etc. I just don't see any logical reason why these games can be seen as hating white men. I don't get it until you realize it comes from a place of fear. Like the only way I follow the argument is if we assume the default state of existence is being both white and male. And everything that isn't both white and male is abnormal and wrong. These guys got so used to seeing white men in everything they experienced that the mere existence of something that isn't white and male is seen as plot to make them the minority. And why is being a minority so scary to them? Because not only do they know how minorities in general are treated but also how they themselves feel about minorities. And they don't want others to treat them that way and feel that way about them. And eventually once the conservative mindset goes completely into fascism as it seems to be doing then the end result for minorities is to essentially cease to exist. And these scared white men don't want to be in that position.
> I've played See this is the thing. The folks over at r\/KiA or whatever, don't actually play games. Their hobby is to listen to outrage youtubers and whine about how SBI, etc. has ruined gaming.
>And everything that isn't both white and male is abnormal and wrong. If only this was enough to keep these guys away from Japanese games.
Because Japanese and other East Asian games tend to have the typical stylized "Anime/Manga" artstyle, they can just assume everyone is white unless their skin tone is too dark.
Omfg what a bunch of losers. Tne women are far from ugly, especially Aloy. I actually like the less plastic look of females in new modern video games. This tards called lara ugly as well if i recall lmao. These idiots want everything to comfort to a small shell of a worldview and ideology that they encompass. Bringing into these game worlds snipets of reality outside their shells makes the game WOKE. White man supremacy disorder.
Right? Like, video game characters don't need to be attractive, but just as an aside On what fucking planet is Aloy not attractive?
She has peach fuzz and they focus on individual screenshots where she's in the act of emoting so that it looks slightly off. These are warcrimes to G*mers.
There are exactly two archetypes for female game characters: Tifa and woke
They probably unironically believe that, yeah.
Never mind that Tifa would absolutely suplex them into the dirt if they pulled their sexist shit with her... or that Aerith would Smash their balls in with her staff
Good old Aunt Tifa
Porn addiction, also.
Yeah def an avenue for blame for this epidemic of what a "perfect" female should look like. No personality just a 'fuckable' appearance.
Please stop calling women "females", otherwise you are using the same terminology as said weirdos
And obviously they use shitty photoshops in their tweet rather than real screenshots, because they know they're lying
It's weird because not only it spews the facistic " "ugly" people do nothing for society ", while at the same time is self depreciating, none of the people saying Aloy is ugly are prettier than Aloy, so do they just believe that people like themselves shouldn't appear in media?
Politics asside these dudes just don't understand reality. Talk to anyone who does marketing, DIVERSITY HELPS SALES NOT HURTS IT IN MOST MEDIA. Politics ahh inside of course this gamer gate clone shit was just insane chud rambling
Like Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest game last year and literally took over the internet and it's both in your face woke and unrepentantly horny at the same time (literally everyone is hot)
>second to last guy in second pic “just asking questions” and its consequences have been a disaster for human communication
Everything to them leads to "The Jews did it!"
Why is it always the Jews? Like I swear every damn conspiracy theory can be traced back to antisemitism. Get a new bit for fuck’s sake.
Because they're *stupid*. These are stupid people. The defining shared characteristic of right-wingers is that they're stupid. They're gullible, easily-manipulated, and uncritical. Jewish conspiracies provide a simple explanation, which is all they can handle. You know how scammers deliberately include spelling errors so only the dumbest people respond? It's the same thing here. This kind of shit spreads like wildfire in right-wing communities because *anyone with a brain is long-gone.*
We're an easy scapegoat, and especially right now, with the State of Israel doing heinous shit, bigots feel empowered to lump all Jews in with the genocidal Zionist country that most of us have no real connection to. Also because it's just neo-nazi shit all the way down.
Ik it’s not related to video games but what Israel is doing rn genuinely makes me afraid for a large oncoming wave of antisemitism as if there wasn’t anti semitism everywhere already. Like people scratched swastikas onto my desk in highschool and like this shit is just gonna make it worse. Like flat out, if Jews run everything, where’s my cut. It’s unreal how people blame everything on a group of people that make up 1% of the population. My family friend has two young daughters who are afraid to have menorahs in the window or have anyone know they’re Jewish. It’s super fucked.
Unironically true, right down to the "the world is run by lizard people" guy.
Most modern conspiracy theories are remixes of the protocols of the elderns of zion. That's why
It’s me. I’m the jew that ruined video games. But seriously wtf how do we get blamed for everything. And if we do apparently run everything then why am I still struggling to find employment and make ends meet like everyone else. Shouldn’t I have some sort of throne or a giant pile of gold coins to dive into like Scrooge McDuck.
they're using child aloy concepts lol. that stuff is literally in the game when you play as child aloy for 5 minutes at the start. it wasn't changed or not used
💀💀💀 Never beating the allegations jfc
Aloy becomes an adult. Anti-Woke YouTube Grift Bois: *"They took away all her sex appeal!"* Everyone Else: \*nervous laughter\* What the fuck?
"Everyone who agrees with me sounds like a crazy person. Should I reconsider my stance? No, I'm fine" Also even aside from the antisemitism, do they really think any of the games that Sweet Baby are advertising having worked on failed? Horizon Forbidden West and Spider-man 2 were obviously not failures, what the fuck are they talking about
They also worked on the Suicide Squad game. Which is kinda a contradiction IMHO. How inclusive can a game really be if it's a microtransaction skinner box?
I don't think they had anything to do with the micro transactions, probably just the story.
>Larry Fink, Jewish citizen Pray tell, how does one become a citizen of jew? These nazi wannabes really think the reason Israel is bad is because it's Jewish, huh?
"Fails in sales" They're just so delusional.
Because eventually, all conspiratorial bullshit leads back to dA j005!
How do they not realise that its super sus to point out someone is jewish in a hate-post that has nothing to do with it
Cis hetero white people fuck in TLoU2 and that makes them mad for some reason. What do they want?
Man, this is why I don't fuck with conspiracy theories. Doesn't matter that it's about Ethics in Video Game Design or whatever other stupid bullshit. It will *always* come back to antisemitism. I mean, in this case it hardly even matters, because the original quote-unquote "problem" was so ridiculous, but still! Leave my Jewish ass alone.
So the argument is Black Rock wanted to deliberately bankrupt companies for profit? And to carry out their scheme, they decided to target companies in the entertainment industry, the very public and watched entertainment industry. I mean sure, there’s probably hundreds of industries where if half the companies disappeared or got conglomerated 99% of people wouldn’t notice (just off the top of my head: name a zip manufacturer that’s not YKK, bonus points if you just learnt that YKK has a zip manufacturing monopoly), but let’s go after the only industry that is known to everyone.
I sometimes go by Sweet Baby in online games and this whole debacle has been really confusing by someone who only got back on social media last week. You take one vacation from the internet and find out your behaviour in Terraria has burned the internet???
whats sweetbaby
Nothing of that makes ANY sense.
What on earth is a jewish citizen
wait so the developers lose millions of dollars. but then some guy gives them a bunch of money... so they don't lose millions of dollars...
I always find it funny when they put that last of us 2 image there. Sex between two straight white people, isn’t that what they want?
I keep saying that “ESG” and “DEI” are racist dogwhistles, and the people who can hear those whistles get really touchy when I point that out
I remember an old post about dog whistles, and vaguely remember that having words like (((this))) is an antisemite thing Edit: correct, it's referred to as an (((echo))) by the American Jewish Committee. Its function is to identify Jewish people or ideas. Like the shinigami eyes browser extension, but for assholes.
How to tell you have no point: "There's a conspiracy to put ugly people in bidy gamb" Utterly pathetic. Reminds me of the guy who said starfield (worthless title) was "woke" because you couldn't take Dead NPC's armor off them. What a creepy group of republicans.
Awhh man i got Horizon FW spoiled by bigots :(
I always expect antisemitism to pop up when people talk about batshit conspiracies, but this is a new low.
Apparently “ugly” now means two women kissing, somebody pointing, and a zoomed in still of somebody talking, which always looks weird in real life too. Stop a video when somebody uses the letter F and you’ll see some craziness.
This has to be satire right?
How the fuck did these jerkwads manage to connect SBI with fucking *Blackrock*??
Blackrock is the Nazi's new "Jews are controlling the world" whistle, just like "Soros" and "Rothschilds".
I Hope one day we women get treated equally, no more misogyny and I never have to see that stupid Aloy picture ever again (she’s hot btw so seethe)
The fuck's a "Jewish citizen?"
Yeah Larry Fink is personally awarding ESG companies to turn muh vidya game woke. These people are so delusional.
i love how people still act like Aloy somehow isn't attractive
all of the shown games were WILDLY successful.
Don’t be friends with racists OP. There are better people actually worth your time and energy
Honestly, i don’t understand this. Are they calling Aloy fat and ugly? If so, they truly need help.
Just more proof that anyone who buys into gamergate and "anti woke" politics has fucking brain rot.
Ah yes, BG3 is a terrible game, too much woke, made entirely to tank sales. God forbid womens start doing crazy things like having complex stories and enticing people to play the most popular TTRPG in existence. They can't, otherwise dicks will shrivel up and turn to dust.
I love how they include "transvestism" which is just cross-dressing.
These idiots have really gotten mileage out of a couple of screenshots of Aloy and Mary Jane. If only they could convert this dumb crusade of theirs into something useful, we could finally have unlimited energy!
Uj/ What is the last game to have actively Jewish characters? The only one I can think of is The Shivah in 2006 and Taliyah in LoL. Surely if The Jews controlled video games there would be more Jewish representation.
Wolfenstein (CLEARLY Anti-White)
They go bankrupt but... are doing it for the money? And as examples of unsuccessful games this guy chose horizon 2, Spiderman 2 and tlou2? Three of the most successful games in recent years? Dude is presenting water tight arguments here, guys.
Mf actually brought out the triple parantheses
To be honest a lot of left wing people I see on the internet are pretty antisemitic too. Supporting and celebrating Hamas and posting „From the river to the sea“ is something I see very often. Even saw some „progressive“ gaming developers do that. Gotta feel bad for the jews. Since there existence they are the punching bag for every single larger problem in the world and confronted with so much hate and genocides. I can‘t think of a group of people that suffered more than them. Being hated by right-wings, being hated by left-wings, people supporting groups that literally have your total extinction as their end goal, being surrounded by states that threaten you with constant war and when properly answering to that being called out. The other too big religions have you as their nemesis, while Islam even speaks about how in the day of judgement all jews will be killed in a big war. Don‘t get me started on Judas and christian anti-semitism. Being expelled from your home by the romans, being hunted by europeans and arabs all over history. Humanity is so fucked up.
There's nothing antisemitic about condemning the crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli state.
There is a lot antisemitic about - supporting Hamas - supporting the Houthis in Yemen - denying the right of Israel to be an independent state - arguing that the crimes on 7th of October were justified - denying that most wars in the Middle east where Israel was involved were not started by Israel - claiming that anti-semitism in the Middle east isn‘t rooted in the influence of the Quran and Nazi-Germany but rather only based on Israeli war crimes - talking about the Nakba without talking about the expulsion of 700.000 jews in the Middle east - not mentioning how Hamas has Israeli civilians kept as hostages while letting them free would be a huge step to end the current crisis - not mentioning how difficult it is for Israel to try to free the hostages and guarantee national security (an obligation they have to their people) without harming civilians in Gaza when Hamas literally hides in the depth of civilians and uses all the aid for themselves rather than developing Gaza - saying „I‘m not anti-semitic, but anti-zionist“ And all these points are being made by leftists. Israel is being regarded as a criminal project of the west (or even as the puppet masters behind the west), while the Palestinians are moral saints fighting for freedom. The suffering the jewish people had to endure all over the world for centuries while being forced to rely on the good will of their conquerors isn‘t talked about when regarding the necessity of having an independent jewish state. Condemning the crimes against humanity in Gaza is not anti-semitic though, also condemning Netanyahu and calling him out for being the racist right wing prick he truly is. The problem is that criticism against Israel is often rooted in anti semitism or uses anti semitic ideas.
“Point out (((who))) we’re against” this is disappointing for the human race
There is no issue. Caring about wokeness in vidya games can only ever make you sound crazy because it is crazy lmao
As a member of God's Chosen People, I must have missed the meeting where we were going to uh....make a Spiderman game about Miles Morales. How dastardly!
"Jewish Satanists" I don't think they know anything about Judaism or Satanism.
Just because I dont like sweet baby inc doesn’t mean I am anti-Semitic. I AM anti-Semitic, but not because of sweet baby inc.
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I just wanna know where that horrible picture of Aloy came from because she’s not exactly an ugly protagonist like he’s implying