I state the obvious in a world gone mad. • Remember entertainment without identity politics? • I keep trying despite failing... repeatedly.
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Sony is covering their tracks after the Helldivers 2 debacle!
@Sony
, are you trying to gaslight all the customers that are going to lose access to a game they paid for because PSN is not available in their countries?
The internet doesn't forget.
@ChiseHatoriLove
Do they really not understand?
They are so obsessed with diversity that they can't even see what is right in front of them.
A Japanese samurai, that was all that was needed.
@300mirrors
Remember that these writers never grew up, they are locked in a state of arrested development where they are still the little girls who were denied entry to a boy's fort.
This is all a big tantrum, wrecking everything they perceive as a "boy's fort" even when it isn't.
@ShitpostRock
*Write negative review*
"You played less than 2 hours? You didn't play it enough! Your review is worthless"
"You played more than 2 hours? You clearly liked it and are lying! your review is worthless"
@nichegamer
"Asian characters should be voiced by Asian VAs!"
*Gets only roles for Asian characters*
"NOT LIKE THAT!"
Either all VAs get to play any character, or they get segregated by race.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Let talent, merit and skill decide who gets hired.
@HazelAppleyard_
He's not going there for his son's sake.
He is going there to indulge in his fetishes.
Imagine exploiting your own child to feed your narcissism.
@TheQuartering
Translation: "We journos don't approve, so we are going to throw shade on this wildly successful film that left our preferred marvel movies in the dust."
@TwoLetterMo
Wait, didn't she equate being catcalled with Bruce's conga line of trauma, persecution by the entire army, and attempts at self termination?
Oh yeah, she really had it harder...
@ywomendeservles
"DNA test"
"Claiming that the children were not biologically his"
"Our children"
Do they not understand what DNA is and how it works?
Imagine being this treacherous and still expecting to be supported.
@Mangalawyer
Rotund obesity: check
Insufferable facial expression: check
"Desperate for attention" lipstick color: check
Girlboss pose: check
All that is missing is the hair, half-shaved, or "puffy mop" locks, or both. Maybe an absurd weave?
@BoundingComics
Warner Bros had one of the most prestigious and beloved IPs out there, and they soiled it in their pursuit of DEI pandering.
They won't improve until they rid themselves of every activist in their company that is using them as a piggy bank to fund their ideology campaign.
@YaVaulty
All the villagers are fed up with her and how many party members have met their end because she keeps being more trouble than she is worth.
Plot twist! She CAN walk, but she identifies as disabled.
@nichegamer
"(English) voice actors"
In other words, worthless opinions from people bringing activism into their jobs. I know exactly what to do with their accusations....
@patrickbromley
One can overlook a plot hole here and there, but asking viewers to turn off the rational and intelligent part of their brain to ignore sinkhole-sized plot pits just to defend the filmmaker's laziness is too much.
@SVVVAYED
THATS what that was about?
I just kept scrolling past and thought it was about new Turok ports.
What was their goal or intent? They don't actually believe images can cause harm or intimidation right?
@Grummz
As long as there are those who are proud of their history to take a stand, then maybe there is hope to start undoing the damage done by the D&I fanatics.
@ShitpostGate
3, oh I'd jump at the chance to be on 3.
Just talking with Trump loudly, and when she intervenes I can just say "excuse me, this is a private conversation" and just continue trolling her.
@_rawrell
Curious, I never see "right-wingers" rabidly appropriating popular media, forcibly contorting it to fit their narratives, worldviews, and illnesses.
All these localizers who vandalize author's works so they can promote their ideology certainly don't seem to be "right-wingers"
@JournosPostLs
If a hobo started brazenly doing that there would be uproar, yet since these are migrants we have to tolerate their cultural enriching ways.
@Grummz
Attention publishers: This is why your games fail, you hire people who treat your potential customers with scorn and prioritize their activism over your profits.
This is the fruits of their "labour of love", creating echo chambers and begging for money.
@assassinscreed
You forgot a key aspect in entertainment.
Customers dictate the market, not you.
Your ideology catered to a fraction of the population.
Want to avoid this in the future? Drop your little ideology crusade, focus solely on entertainment and the majority of the audience.
@TPPNewsNetwork
They want profit?
Then they should FOCUS on profit, in what world did they think that SBI slop would generate profit while alienating the majority of potential customers?
As for community managers? They cultivate the worst echo chambers and make companies look even worse.
@CapitanCrowds
One is a stylistic choice playing on tropes and the absurd, the other one is a deliberate attempt to praise obesity and normalize disorders.
@Pirat_Nation
Well, exuse me if I dont want to play as some potato-shaped over-40 girlboss (or pretending to be female) with a jaw shaped like a snowplow who turns every interaction into social commentary.
@Mangalawyer
This is like when people tear down historical statues and replace them with awful eyesores.
Destroy what you cherished in the past and consume their narrative.
@Pirat_Nation
Aren't CoD players notorious for their failed boycotts? mostly because they can't practice restraint and immediately cave in and buy any new CoD title?
If that is how they boycott, then why should activision expect anything different from this?
Are they going to stop playing?
@Kotaku
People dislike a game that teaches them to bully, cancel, abuse, gaslight others?
I am shocked, shocked I say!
It's almost as if using DEI as a foundation for a game is a really, REALLY, bad idea.
@BoundingComics
Oh no! He is receiving too much emotional damage!
If you can't handle interactions, don't engage in social media.
There are plenty of echo chambers (such as Reddit) where you can slink away and receive nothing but affirmation by other outcasts.
@Grummz
They hated GG because it exposed the rot in the industry.
Corruption. Nothing but sellouts, hypocrites, and liars.
All who rail against GG are part of the disease.
@CEOoFMutsuki
"Imma raceswap a popular character"
*reality ensues*
"SHUT IT DOWN!!!"
They KNEW what was going to happen, they crave the negative attention to fuel their victim complex.
@omegavalwin
Here is the thing, the dev was focusing on the "now" but entertaining the idea of possibilities in the future.
But with these people acting like insufferable pests I wouldn't blame him if he'd outright rejected adding such mechanics to his game.
Way to sabotage themselves.
@kabrutusrambo
Their problem: They want to dictate what gamers should like.
Simple: Focus on gameplay, attractive characters, tone down the GaaS goals, ditch woke ideology, and appeal to the majority of gamers instead of trying to please everyone with bland slop.
That's it, its not hard.
@Grummz
Wrecking their faces like that should be a crime. This type of design should be kept as far away from entertainment as possible.
This is one of those "lets uglify characters to make unattractive people feel better about themselves" things isn't it? Which fits Concord to a T.
@Helldiversmedia
"What the players want" and "The development process"
That's the problem, the former is discarded in favor of the latter, the development process amounts to what the developers consider fun.
They'd rather lose players than admit that their dev's idea of fun is wrong.
@kabrutusrambo
They did arrive.
Seems like those numbers are the "overwhelming majority" that support DEI slop.
Meanwhile a game that loudly rejects DEI smashes numbers and profits.
@kabrutusrambo
You know whats coming, Kratos is going to be dragged behind the shed and put down like a dog so "modern characters" can just slide in as if they actually earned the fandom.
@Mangalawyer
A monkey is more valuable than all the DEI propaganda masquerading as games.
Let that sink in.
The DEI that all "modern audiences" claim everyone wants ends up being a financial embarrassment, proving that DEI does more harm than good for the industry.
@Trey_Explainer
Just like the trilobite kept growing, so did that alien. Physics kicked in and it collapsed under its own weight rendering it immobile.
Add about 100 years, and it became part of the landscape, but still alive. A mountain covering the ship Prometheus.
@Lorgarwasright
In any game that allows you to play a regular human among other sentient species I _AM_ the fantasy racism.
Burning an entire galaxy in Stellaris so humanity reigns supreme... I still get misty eyed...
@not__vee
Simply put, some cultures are content to let artifacts rot and are indifferent to history.
Only when the civilized world assigns value to something does it become a "priceless national artifact" with "deep spiritual and ethnic connections"
@ArturSmiarowski
"Impartial"? what a joke.
They just want you to dive in with everything stacked against you so they can dogpile and tear at you until you bend the knee and comply.
Their last message tells you everything you need to know about them.
@FrankByDaylight
Modern sensibilities... gotcha.
The silver lining in all of this is that Capcom will learn where all these "modern sensibilities" get them (as most Japanese companies are becoming aware) and remove all consultants and employees that continue pushing them.
Skipping this game.
@GiveMeBanHammer
They create a cancel culture that urges everyone to act like hall monitors looking for wrongthink in order to attain clout and virtue signal points, then pretend they AREN'T trying to turn every little thing into an outrage and policing other languages?
@TheCriticalDri2
The technical issues that magically disappear when male actors are rendered in 3d?
Sure, sure, there is no conspiracy to defile femininity in order to force the populace into realigning their perception of attractiveness.
@Grummz
Always was.
They will dress up everything as "forms of protest" to make it innocent and righteous. Then they sucker their opponents into being the bigger person and not stooping to their level.
I'm tired of being the bigger person...
@kabrutusrambo
The archived reddit thread:
-Why are people against my game???
Also Dev:
-if this is enough to turn you off of the game, that's your choice.
Don't use the "Don't like it? Don't buy it!" if you can't handle reality.
Some interesting images.
@bernaeon
@SmashJT
The one on the left looks female, the one on the right looks male.
Simple as.
You can keep being as obtuse as you like, but its not fooling anyone.
Are you going to double down? Or are you going to play the "You people are just incel gooners!" card?
@helldivers2
Maybe General Brasch should begin an inquiry why equipment quality keeps dropping to the point of being no more effective than you basic equipment.
@Grummz
Too much effort invested into a single character. It's clearly a creator's pet, like Jar-jar, just being put in every moment of the experience.
You can't force people to like a character.
Now, everything associated with the character will be reviled and ridiculed. Forever.
@helldivers2
Helldivers: "We need bug fixes! They known issues just keep piling up, balancing still has issues, and none of my friends want to play anymore!"
Arrowhead: "Best we can do is the mines you rejected numerous times"
@IGN
"Victims"? Always with that grift eh?
There is a common denominator in the recent string of modern audience failures, and "long development time" is not it.
It was a mediocre game with no appeal that repulsed customers, and your constant propaganda won't change that.
@pcgamer
Thats the way they want to play this? Ok.
No point in buying games with "bad faith" character design, 'No honesty and no possibility of real entertainment'.
Wallet is closed.
@Grummz
Don't stop!
Remember how they fractured the gaming community!
Remember how they want to overcharge you!
Remember how they want you to get used to now owning games!
Remember how they are one of the main sources of pandering!
@RedotEngine
I like the diminished focus on the nonsense that took over Godot.
It's a difficult thing, as that same nonsense thrives when it is unopposed, and relies on people being silent and shutting down criticism.
I don't envy the fine line you'll have to walk.
@Helldiversmedia
Nerfing good weapons to make terrible weapons more "viable"
This has the stench of those people who complain about metas and the game being too easy for them.
"They aren't playing the way we want them to play!" 😢
@Grummz
People do blind themselves according to their worldview, everyone can fall victim to that.
That's where facts and experience come in handy.
I have my own worldview, but I won't fool myself into thinking I am always with the majority, or that it can stand up against facts.
@elonmusk
Expect more articles like this, once they are confident people have been numbed to the idea by the barrage of journalistic propaganda they will strike.
Then, well...