https://www.thegamer.com/hi-im-an-idiot-whos-mad-about-everything-in-video-games-except-the-layoffs-assassins-creed-shadows-stellar-blade-xbox/
With thousands of people in the video game industry losing their jobs - including developers who made successful games - I think my energy is best spent elsewhere. Namely, making an endless series of 90-minute-long videos in which I call every new popular piece of media “woke” unless it features Gina Carano looking straight into the camera and saying slurs. And see? That’s a woman, so you can’t even call me sexist because I can name at least one.
It genuinely funny how bad these dipshits lost this front in the culture war
Literally every genuinely awesome game to come out of big devs in the last few years is what they would call woke and they can't even point to any indy dev making chud games that are actually fun because their side is creatively bankrupt
Elden Ring - woke because you can change your gender and all the subtle ways the lore plays around with gender as a concept
BG3 - woke because you can be gay
Helldivers 2 ‐ woke once they figured out that it was satire
Need I go on? Even just judging them as gamers by gamer standards they are disgusting pathetic worms
Someone else on here mentioned it but this whole ass creed debacle feels like such low hanging fruit from 2016 gamergate era and yet here we are, the same racist shit, 2024, nothing has change
It seems at least that the current generation of gamers don't really care or are outright exhausted by this shit given it's mainly a bunch of racist chuds trying to keep their culture war going even though gaming is a mainstream revenue flow now and so doesn't have (as much) of the creepy shit one could find in the 90s and early 2000s era (anybody else remember the frat dude bro Mountain Dew booth babe adverts?)
Yeah they keep trying to reboot gamergate, they did it with the sweet baby inc bullshit
I don't even know wtf that was about and I'm honestly pretty happy being ignorant, was it just another fash/racist game dev?
So much worse: Sweet Baby Inc is a company that basically advises on and edits your game's script or whatever for sensitivity, more or less paid inclusivity advice. Gamers got mad.
Oh so literally just a consultation group but cuss it deals with
gamers got all pissyFascist gamers immediately escalated to Sweet Baby being the most important company in DEI, and their business model being extorting companies for fake consulting under threat of using shills to cancel them.
It was genuinely impressive how fast they got there. Usually it takes a few weeks to froth up, and something has to stick around a long while before it can be the illuminati of whatever conspiracy corner. This took like a day or two, as far as I could tell.
Layoffs barely scratch the surface of what's wrong with the games industry, but otherwise good take.
These people are desperate to make liking videogames embarrassing again. They won't succeed because it's just too mainstream to shove the genie back in the bottle. But they're dumb as fuck bigots so good lordy are they gonna try.
These people are desperate to make liking videogames embarrassing again.
Critical support
desperate to make liking videogames embarrassing again.
I could do it better than these losers
(be unbearably autistic about specific games)
Turns out when you have a diaper filling meltdown anytime somebody does something not rigidly conforming to every other video game historically you make creativity prohibitively unprofitable and the people making ciokie cutter cash grabs just lean more and more into capitalism.
And now you have the 18th copy of a game costing $120 but the thing people are getting upset about is a historically accurate minority being included.
the actual thing wrong with the new assassins creed is that it costs $130 for the full game
What are they even going to advertise? Have a mission take place in a Kikkoman factory?
I don't understand why video game fans are uniquely supposed to care about layoffs and working conditions in the industry this way. No one tries redirecting the conversation this way about movies and the way VFX artists are treated every time there's an issue. Gaming is also the only cultural product where its seen as gauche to criticize the artists. Like you're a dick if you blame the devs for ahitty decisions regarding the production of a game. Like if you say a Zack Snyder film is ridiculous and he's milking his audience by discussing his directors cut before the movie is even released that's fine, but if you say that a studio makes shitty games with bad monetization practises and a fucked up story then oh you can't blame the poor hardworking devs, you have to respect how much work they do.
The Yasuke shit is stupid, yes. But its dumb because it's a dumb complaint made by racist babies, not because of some outside factor. If the video game industry was a perfect industry with 0 issues, the complaint would still be dumb and made by racist babies.
