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‘Concord’ Lead Character Designer Believes “Whites Must Acknowledge Their Privileged Position, And Then Actively Work For Equality”

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MrMephistoX

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My issues are not with this guy and his opinions. He is free to have them and the Internet mob will have their way.

My issue is how creatively bankrupt this game is and especially his character designs. But, I guess he could only deliver on what the room full of suits demanded from him.
That’s my stance consistently I really don’t mind if a developer strives for inclusive game design and DEI I only care about the gameplay, character design, and art direction: all of which look insanely middling at best and bland at worst.
 
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DeepEnigma

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Pretty much.

Anyone who is political trying to purposely divide people by race, gender, sexual preference, hiring quotas etc... are to a T is exact definition of discriminatory or bigoted. But I got to say I am pretty surprised the employee is that bold publicly admitting to making blanket statements about white people on social media. Goes to show how proud they are doing it for all to see.
It's almost as if a certain demographic isn't blanketed "privileged" when it comes to verbal criticism. In reality, it all comes down to the current ideology power structure and money.
 
I don't dislike this game's design, actually like it, despite just copying Guardians heavily, but having human pronouns in a game where aliens, mostly humanoid aliens though, seemingly play a role and a non human actual non binary could be used, is a definite misfire. Or is there? A robot as he/him. WTF. If it is intelligent, fine, give it rights to vote and what not, but it is still an it and produced and assembled somewhere and outside of earths/english biological nomenclature.

Why even do fixed characters? And have genders assigned to them? A good character editor where you chose your looks and assign the abilities you want would be today the best solution, leaving sex and gender out all together. You look how you want to look and are perceived however you are perceived. Just make the cutscenes with a dozen or so predefined heroes, showcasing the abilities and leave their sexuality out of the picture unless you want to add some most probable awkward sex scene in one of the videos. Interspecies sex would be certainly important in a by design repetitive shooter.

Anyone has to seek just and fair situations for anyone. Why singling out whites on some rabbithole guilt quest? Germans have loaded upon themselves guilt towards jews, but does that make any unjust hostility from anyone else better? "Whites have to" or any other group, is fundamentally flawed and basically reverses what it actually should be.
 
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Myths

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For fk sake, leave this shit out of video games. We don't give a crap about your views.

As Blackman, it's hard to see these garbages with their garbage takes.
Or just don’t buy or play the game. In the state we live in, revenue will determine if it's lucrative cause for business.
 
Can these people just fucking disappear from the gaming industry? This is getting tiresome. I hope this game fucking bombs hard
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stn

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I don't play hero shooters, but if I did, I wouldn't buy this game. It doesn't appear to do anything different than more established games in the genre, and the designs are some of the worst I've ever seen. Given how few people have actually purchased it, it doesn't look like it will last too long.
 

mckmas8808

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I heard this bullshit over and over from a few college professors. The same crap as if all white people didn't have to work hard to succeed. Fuck Concord and their woke devs

That's NOT what white privilege is about. But we are 350 years away from 51% of the population even remotely understanding what that term means. So now.......who cares.
 

Gaiff

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Well whites are behind Asians and Indians when it comes to average household income and my Irish side were the first slaves in the US.
So until Indians and Asians denounce their privilege and I receive my reparations, they can save it.
Think you might wanna check your history books again for that one.
 

StreetsofBeige

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Well whites are behind Asians and Indians when it comes to average household income and my Irish side were the first slaves in the US.
So until Indians and Asians denounce their privilege and I receive my reparations, they can save it.
Too much logic there. Good luck.

Any minorities who do well is due to hard work and job well done. But any Whities who have done well are due to either pure luck like winning a lottery or inheritance, since every well to do White family has ancestral connections to The Rockefellers. Or more likely claimed: angry oppressive overlording.
 
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Gaiff

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about the 7min mark


Don't wanna derail the thread but I've found nothing online about his claim of Irish slaves being sold to the Amazon in 1612. In fact, he more or less admits it is conjecture because he states "possibly to the Portuguese" and "it's unknown" "there has been some dispute". The Irish in Tauregue (the Amazon claimed in the video) were a pair of brothers who went there as settlers, not as indentured servants, let alone slaves.

Around 1612 the Irish brothers Philip and James Purcell established a colony in Tauregue, at the mouth of the Amazon river, where English, Dutch, and French settlements were also established.

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The slaves he's referring to were clearly not slaves and there is an awful lack of detail in his statements. There would perhaps be some merit if there weren't records and names utterly contradicting the claims made in this video.

Also, I suppose he meant the first slaves brought to the United States because African slaves were bought to the new world as early as 1526, only about 30 years after Columbus landed there.

Regardless, I'll leave it at that because it's not relevant to the thread and unimportant to the point you were making.
 
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I heard this bullshit over and over from a few college professors. The same crap as if all white people didn't have to work hard to succeed. Fuck Concord and their woke devs
That's not what white privilege actually means.

It simply means benefits someone has by being a white person in a white majority society. I.e., store clerks/police don't follow me around when shopping alone, I can socialize with other people who look like me in public without other people thinking we're a gang, real estate agents aren't going to direct me lower income areas because of my skin, I can easily find books/film/tv that include positive role models who look like me, I'm never asked to speak on behalf of all white people.

Granted, a lot of the above is improving with time, but I think if you were to ever ask one of your black friends if they've ever experienced one of the above, they probably have and probably more than once, whereas you as a white person probably haven't, or at least not regularly.
 
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Redneckerz

Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
Non of the people i know that relate to the diversity talk about this game, so its not like the game is even reaching the audience it wants to reach.

This should at the very least be F2P and not a paid thing.

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It's almost as If the developers are actively trying to crater this game and everything related to it saying the most asinine shit on social media platforms.

I for one give them an A+ for effort. They're doing a fantastic job it.
 

StreetsofBeige

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What surely pisses off all the progressives and FW employees (ie the FW lead designer ranting on Twitter) is that when they did their beta play recap, the most used players were Teo (whitish/Hispanic guy), the flying Asian woman, and hipster Shrek.

So even for a game aimed at gamers who want character diversity in a hero shooter, the top 3 characters werent even dark skinned. The 4th most played character was the black guy who looks like Deion Sanders and then rounding up the top 5 was the alien spacesuit character with the rocket launcher nobody even knows what she looks like.
 
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