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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.

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[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago

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

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 manhattan

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?)

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they keep trying to reboot gamergate, they did it with the sweet baby inc bullshit

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh so literally just a consultation group but cuss it deals with us-foreign-policy gamers got all pissy

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Basically =) they're making the gaems woked!!!

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Fascist 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.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

"Nothing will fundamentally change" t. Gamergater Biden biden-alert

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

Layoffs barely scratch the surface of what's wrong with the games industry, but otherwise good take.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

These people are desperate to make liking videogames embarrassing again.

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

desperate to make liking videogames embarrassing again.

I could do it better than these losers bridget-smug (be unbearably autistic about specific games)

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

the actual thing wrong with the new assassins creed is that it costs $130 for the full game

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

it costs $130

false, it costs $0 pirate-jammin

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

that's like hextuple-a videogame niko-wonderous

[–] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

probably includes some "thoughtful" in game adverts

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Ironically The Gamer™️ is surprisingly good on these issues

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.