be CEO of game company
literally be the boss of everyone and have final say on development choices
decide to make bad investments on faux diversity, overwork employees, rush games, prioritize gambling
gamers don’t care about my decisions and get mad at my underlings
Feels good man
Props to this guy, but why do these people get so much attention?
They just spew constant drivel and complain about women and minorities, I know why they're relevant but still, WHY? HOW?
time is just selective about targets. back in the 2000s, being gay publicly was being blasted on.Nowadays being gay is less of a problem publicly, however the hate is now towards being trans. their hate is very seasonal.
I would have been hatecrimed all the time for being trans if i already would have come out in the 2000s, i honestly don't think i would have survived being trans in public 20 years ago. Not to mention that i would probably have been gatekept permanently from transitioning for being lesbian, or that it was impossible in my country back then to get a name change without either bottom surgery or forced sterilization (using cryoconservated sperm to sire a child also meant that your name change was retroactively voided and you were declared a man again back in those days. Oh, and we had forced divorces for married trans people, too). In the US, trans panic defenses were still a thing in these days. You could get away with murdering us when you stated that finding out about our transness after sex freaked you out. But yeah i guess time is being selective for targets and my opression just started happening 5 years ago and nobody bothered us before then. jfc.
Yeah Gwen Araujo’s case was early 2000’s and plenty of people agreed that she had “raped” the man who killed her at the time.
You could get away with murdering us when you stated that finding out about our transness after sex freaked you out.
The Crying Game and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I was gatekept for being autistic for four years and that was not long ago, same fuck ass joke of a Hitler country
In the US, trans panic defenses were still a thing in these days.
The difference is that Blade declared open season on all suckheads which made it good. You can't do that anymore. because of woke
they all have youtube channels that inexplicably have like millions of subscribers
Is it really that inexplicable? Trump got millions of votes. 30% of the vote in France went to a right-wing party. There are a ton of people who think too much diversity is a problem in media. (Thankfully, no one outside of their circles takes them seriously, but still.)
Like, real talk, this whole culture war chud shit infects at least 30% of Anglos. (I'm lowballing here... don't want to know the real number.)
i grew up in a state where that is basically the norm and people are quite okay with it... i don't go back to visit but every once in a great long while one of my old friends will send me a bigoted text out of the blue
I am deep down sure it is a psyop. Conservative media is just given more prominence. It could be through the algorithm directly, or through them getting better add rates. Probably a bit of everything. Conservatism is good for business. So everyone has a vested intrest in pushing it.
You don't have to go as far as it being a conspiracy. The bourgeois push far-right talking points because fascism is materially beneficial to them. This trickles down from your Fox News and your CNNs to The Based Anti-Woke Crusader and other such social media.
Exactly- There is no deep conspiracy. Fascism makes them money - so they are selling it to the people.
The propaganda used in the gaming space is very similar to the propaganda used to agitate people against migrants. The right has recognised that gaming has had a specific type of audience for some time and is going through a sort of audience-change process as it grows. What they identified was that they could agitate among the audience that has already been in gaming for some time by posing those coming into the medium in the same way that migrants are posed, a force for bad that is changing their medium in a negative way that affects them.
EDIT: Expanding on this, the
is essentially the agitated white man angry about the foreigners invading his country and taking his jerbs, except it's mildly changing things in videogames. Couple this with the fact the industry is getting worse due to the monetisation and corporatisation and the explanation for why everything is getting worse ends up being "the immigrants" instead of "the CEOs".I probably sound partially mad for making this comparison but w/e it makes sense in my head. Most tactics the right uses are modifications of existing tactics.
You aren't crazy. A lot of the Alt-Right intelligentsia cut their teeth on Gamergate, and would translate that experience to 2016 and beyond.
Tangential note, but one thing I hate about techbros online is how whenever someone talks about how they’re struggling to get a job, immediately everyone blames “diversity hires” as if they’re only hiring black people and women, yet if you look at the numbers the tech industry is like 60% white and 90% male
Yeah, I work in tech and it's bullshit. Not diversity hires; the outrage. 9/10 times the "diversity hires" are just as competent and efficient as any white guy and often they are very good. There's a lot of "I will prove myself" attitude there. White guys are mad they can't coast by anymore. The jig is up.
The CEO of sweet baby AOC is now a billionaire thanks to EA caving to her demands that white men in Gears Of War 14 wear cat ears.
He did it wrong. Comment #2 is just a lie. No gaming company did that.
There's no need for epic Jon Stewart take down exposes, these people are getting away with it by endlessly lying.
just to make sure I'm not misinterpreting this, the last tweet is sarcastic and BG3 did great right?
Yes, baldur's gate is unabashedly and loudly queer and it sold millions of copies
it's one of the most boring games i've tried to play in quite some time, but maybe i should give it another shot
I'm confused as to how you can find a game that is so completely packed to the gills with content to be boring
I would disagree with the sentiment, but many claim to find 5e boring.
I disagree too. 3rd ed was boring when at some point half of expansion books was filled with shitass long tables (i really don't fucking need to know exact math over everything in that game) and nonsense, and 4th ed got boring default setting and was generally just meh. 5th edition is imo best of all, but i can see how it can be boring for the minmaxer crunch types which are significant part of the playerbase, but fuck them with electricity, i abhor those types even more than gamechuds.
Of course i also hate 5ed because unlike 3ed which had cheapest books of all contemporary rpg games in Poland 5th ed cost arm, leg and kidney.
5th ed sucks, but it's not because of the lack of minmaxing - it's because it doesn't have an identity beyond being quick to start playing. It's not actually particularly simple or easy to pick up, having only a very mild edge on 3.x due to replacing some of the +1's and 2's with advantage and making move actions movement only, and for DMs there's much less support to run the game than 3.x or 4e, so any perceived lack of complexity is overridden by having to design the game yourself. It talks about rulings over rules, but the rules it provides are incredibly specific, not wide ranging ideas that can be applied to a variety of situations. It wants to provide a wide range of customisation, but only really provides subclasses to do that by - even feats are dependent on the GM allowing them to be taken instead of ASIs. Magic is everywhere, but also inaccessible - there are no real rules for buying magic items (or anything else), and the game heavily restricts how many can be used. The classes aren't particularly well balanced against each other so it's very exploitable by minmaxers, but combat is such a big nothing anyway that it only matters in a white room. It has 20 levels but most people only consider levels 3-10 playable.
In my experience 5e players much prefer either Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard or Pathfinder 2e once they start playing, but most of them refuse to try either out of brand loyalty or misconceptions about difficulty.
Not the person you replied to, but I also found the game boring, but I realized that CRPGs are just not for me. I played Divinity OS2 just last year couple months before Bg3, I kinda liked it, but I felt the same way about the game. Combats takes too, I just didn’t care about any of the characters and the overall story didn’t have much of an “oomph”. I disliked Bg3 more because imo dnd rules like long rest and dice roll for everything was just not fun.
I do love Disco Elysium though, so I guess there are some exceptions to crpg
Apex Legends is like DEI central and it's been at the top for years
Whenever I see “DEI” I think it’s some new crypto coin I haven’t heard of yet
Jerec was the villain in literally my very first video game when I was 4, so this person is presumably older than me and thinks this way.
