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[Nickolaidas]

Kudos to the fox for keep digging on all those DEI assholes. I love her.

Next time someone calls you a conspiracy theorist, tell them to go fuck themselves.

Male musculinity and female femininity are under attack. Pop culture is infected. Vote with your wallets in order to hasten the inevitable return to the status quo.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

Good luck.

 

[LectureMaster]

Why do I feel an irresistible impulse to slap her?

 

[Skelterz]

These people are just so miserable aren't they I miss the days when they had no voice and we all lived in peace to be honest.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[Kacho]

The SB person sounds exactly how I would expect them to sound

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Tarantino has earned the right to laugh at your diverse ass nose ring, you look like a pig

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

You look at this they/them's face and you just know that in decades prior, someone would have punched the stupid out of him, not given him a job.

I really, really hope we're returning to that. It feels like it, but it's been years of this.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Sweet Baby Inc has to be some kind of Blackrock instituted virus / conspiracy, because I don't see how any executive at a game studio could take this shit seriously

 

[Ridicululzz]

Sweet Baby Inc (I still can't believe they chose this as their company name) has such bad press around them. Baffles me why any company would want to associate themselves with these clowns.

 

[Clintizzle]

That dev in the video is so ugly, she is the reason Sonic the hedgehog runs.

 

[onQ123]

To be fair lately some of you have been just as bad as them with all this stupid back & forth . How did you all become obsessed with this stuff?

 

[Chechack]

But some members here say Woke doesnt exist and is made up thing.
How tho

 

[digital_ghost]

Tonight on Fox News: Man who threatened to burn down game development offices arrested for arson.

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[Cakeboxer]

These people are just so miserable aren't they I miss the days when they had no voice and we all lived in peace to be honest.

That's the downside of the internet. Without they would be serving burgers.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

That dev in the video is so ugly, she is the reason Sonic the hedgehog runs.

How dare u deadname them

 

[Skelterz]

That's the downside of the internet. Without they would be serving burgers.

Yeah but even so I remember a time post internet when the crazies hadn't figured it out it was lovely everything was as it should be .

 

[abstract alien]

That's the most gay shit I've heard all year, and that includes Diddy.

 

[Kacho]

To be fair lately some of you have been just as bad as them with all this stupid back & forth . How did you all become obsessed with this stuff?

The answer to your question is the long road that got us to this point.

If you don't call out this retardation for what it is nothing will get better.

 

[Clintizzle]

Booty O's the best cereal you ever had. Buy today and get a free Nicki Minaj booty. Slap away as you live out your fantasies.

 

[Senua]

To be fair lately some of you have been just as bad as them with all this stupid back & forth . How did you all become obsessed with this stuff?

Because it's ruining our hobby

 

[kevboard]

To be fair lately some of you have been just as bad as them with all this stupid back & forth . How did you all become obsessed with this stuff?

if someone attacks what you like, you fight back. pretty simple.

these people are disgusting pieces of shit that need to be removed from the gaming industry.

 

[VanCityGamer]

Why does she have such dumb expressions on her face: is she doing that on purpose?

 

[spartan30gr]

Erase this company for global gaming please
For the love of god

 

[DeepEnigma]

Groomed and radicalized mental illness, like useful idiots.

They learn nothing from history. The first expendable.

 

[N0S]

 

[hemo memo]

"Tarantino hasn't earned the right to laugh"

 

[dDoc]

Its insane that these people get employed.

 

[Jesb]

I'd pay money to see them burn to the ground.

 

[Nickolaidas]

I'd pay money to see them burn to the ground.

Ironically, the best way to see that is to not give a single dime.

Or at least, buy games which promote traditional values in order to help boost sales and make publishers realize woke is bad for business.

 

[DaciaJC]

The beginning of the full video shows some material that this SBI employee earnestly retweeted.

Forget video games, these people are mentally unwell bordering on suicidal, holy fuck.

 

[Kacho]

I don't see how any executive at a game studio could take this shit seriously

It really does defy logic. I could see a studio like BioWare gleefully lapping up all the bullshit they spew. But how does EA get on board with it? Especially with hundreds of millions on the line. Makes no sense, mang!

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

To be fair lately some of you have been just as bad as them with all this stupid back & forth . How did you all become obsessed with this stuff?

Do you suggest we submit and take it up the ass, then?

As much as they want to think that I do, I don't.

 

[Dynasty8]

Copying this from a previous post since it's relevant...

A few years ago, most of us didn't care much.

But there's this very obvious trend happening in games, movies and tv where they're trying to cash in on this overly political "uprising" after all the shit that went down in 2020. We all know it's fake and the corporations don't give a shit... Regardless, in doing so, they started hiring various people to fulfill certain roles of leadership. This is where my personal problem comes in. It's not about race or gender, it's the people behind it trying to make it all about them and not the players, not the fans. This hurts the overall products significantly. It creates a "toxic positivity" environment where you can't question anything otherwise you're a bigot and will probably lose your job. Does this seem healthy to anyone?

Many games and projects I am/was interested in started shifting drastically into personal ideologies, beliefs and other stuff to conform to these "various" people's values, not the players, not the fans. I noticed this trend a few years ago.

• Robert Brookes was hired by Bungie as the senior narrative director in March 2020. 8 months later, two characters who've always been considered "brothers in arms" throughout the entire lore turned out to be gay for one another. The story has became so much more cringe after that and many Destiny fans even agree it was forced.
• Corrine Busche changed positions to creative director for the new Dragon Age game around the same time, their presence is felt throughout the initial impressions. Game just doesn't look like a Dragon Age game anymore. Some of us have been waiting 10 years.
• Lisa Brown ("the professor") transitioned from Bungie to Firewalk studios around the same time and became the Principal Game Designer for their new game, she pushed extreme politics & wanted unvaxxed staff fired. It was also reported that development had toxic positivity, where no one is able to question anything.
• We all have seen what's been happening with Ubisoft recently, but they are one of the biggest companies who've made this shift more obvious than anyone else. Their hiring mentorship practices reeks of DEI, and I hate using that word. Look how much it has not only affected their game quality, but their stock in the last few years.
• There's also Rocksteady who instead of using their creative talent to make the game better, they had to rely on a "enforcing" DEI consultant firm to alter the script/dialogue. Well... Look at the difference. That affects the game significantly.

MOST people don't want to see BLM, Pride flags and "fuck capitalism" gen z teen writing... People can disagree with me, call me a bigot...I don't care, but the recent sales data corroborates this too. People want escapism, not your view of social justice.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

It really does defy logic. I could see a studio like BioWare gleefully lapping up all the bullshit they spew. But how does EA get on board with it? Especially with hundreds of millions on the line. Makes no sense, mang!

It's usually as simple as there just not being any oversight over the creative side of the company. I don't think ESG investing plays nearly the role in these decisions at AAAs as some people think. Execs are being presented with a report from the developers that appears to be business as usual from a dollars and cents standpoint, and that's it. Now when Bioware absolutely shits the bed with Dragon Age, then yes - EA's going to notice that.

 

[Robb]

Right back at you!

 

[scoobidoo112]

That was pretty obvious all along. Their actions speak louder than words.

 

[FunkMiller]

These idiotic voices will become less and less listened to, the more money gets wasted on shit like Concord.

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

To be fair lately some of you have been just as bad as them with all this stupid back & forth . How did you all become obsessed with this stuff?

Wake up man. If you don't speak up they control the narrative and the course taken. You must be smarter than this.

 

[Trilobit]

It's funny when woke people say that there isn't a culture war going on and people are just overly dramatic or that 'woke' doesn't even exist. But with their actions they are clearly waging a war.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

These people are completely insane! At first I thought people like these were just trolling/messing around but turns out they were serious lmao.

 

[Chechack]

Sweet Baby Inc has to be some kind of Blackrock instituted virus / conspiracy, because I don't see how any executive at a game studio could take this shit seriously

Im highly sure some of you missed that the founder of SB did a presentation where they literally say if people dont follow their rules or take their "suggestion" then they "might" be under attack publicly in social media and risk hurting their image.

So it aint a surprise to see game studios need to take them seriously in order to avoid backlash

 

[Gaiff]

Funniest part to me is how so many people are trying to redefine comedy. There's a group of people trying to claim you cannot laugh at marginalized groups because it's "punching down". Dave Chappelle's favorite subject for jokes has always been black people and people never complained. Now that he's making fun of a group of certain people (you know who), he's a bully and not funny.

GTFO with this. Dave has been making fun of whites, blacks, gays, poor, rich, and everyone else under the sun. No one gave a shit back then whether they were marginalized or not.

 

[PeteBull]

Tarantino has earned the right to laugh at your diverse ass nose ring, you look like a pig

Actually, its a cow, hence all those memes

 

[Denton]

Division, Exclusion, Inequality.

 

[March Climber]

If you don't call out this retardation for what it is nothing will get better.

Because it's ruining our hobby

Since this is apparently going to be a permanent thing going forward, I'd like to provide some advice: Try and get a grasp of your community, specifically the bad actors who are either…

A) Throwing the word woke or other buzzwords at anything they don't like and thus causing mass confusion
B) Trying to find reasons to kill a game's sales that have nothing to with either 3 letter acronym
C) Grifting by using the negativity caused by things like this to try and kill random games' sales that they don't like.

You guys have to set some actual parameters for things because everything right now is very messy and some of it comes across almost witch hunt-esque. The ones who are posting actual evidence (instead of theories) have the right idea.

Lastly, if you guys really want the more casual gaming audience to understand your plight, you need to be more organized and your members need to be more rational and less edgy/jaded.

And for crying out loud, stop doubling down on older media. This culture war stuff is newer, so the minute someone else brings up something from the 90s or early 2000s that you would deem as 'woke' today, just concede the point to them and find another, reasonable way to explain your position. The minute you lie and say 'Well no I didn't like the movie Alien it's a bad movie' or something just as ridiculous you're going to receive an instant side eye/eyebrow raise.

The more the waters are muddied by any of the above, the worse your movement becomes, you will go nowhere, and the more you repeat the same mistakes of the side that you hate, just in a different-but-same way.

 

[The Pleasure]

That dev in the video is so ugly, she is the reason Sonic the hedgehog runs.

Sweet baby?

 

[Kacho]

It's funny when woke people say that there isn't a culture war going on and people are just overly dramatic or that 'woke' doesn't even exist. But with their actions they are clearly waging a war.

It's pure gaslighting. The people who say that and ask the dumb rhetorical question "what does woke even mean?!" are in on it. They're just being disingenuous about their position.

Edit: speak of the devil… March Climber is here

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

That dev in the video is so ugly, she is the reason Sonic the hedgehog runs.