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The Dustborn intro is laughably horrible.

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
I enjoy that the dude is racist because he... acknowledges that another character is black? But I thought being colorblind was the new racist thing? Didn't Ibram X. Kendi just spend the last decade making a bajillion dollars berating people into making a huge deal about skin color?
Good luck getting a straight answer, since calling out a racial trait can be treated racist (isolating someone), while treating people similarly (melting pot theory) can be treated as racist too as that ignores their characteristics. Pending the jackass, you can get burned either way, so it's a no win situation. Better to ignore the topic and dont give ammo to weirdos.
 
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ShadowNate

Member
I enjoy that the dude is racist because he... acknowledges that another character is black? But I thought being colorblind was the new racist thing? Didn't Ibram X. Kendi just spend the last decade making a bajillion dollars berating people into making a huge deal about skin color?
No, I don't think that's it.

The lousy "gimmick" in that scene at least is to call them "racists" to exploit the fact that they will react to that (the game points out that they are "being weird about race"), and they'll presumably then do what she wants, to prove to her they are not racists.

I can't see why nobody would vibe with this gameplay. Nope.
 

Cyberpunkd

Member
No, I don't think that's it.

The lousy "gimmick" in that scene at least is to call them "racists" to exploit the fact that they will react to that (the game points out that they are "being weird about race"), and they'll presumably then do what she wants, to prove to her they are not racists.

I can't see why nobody would vibe with this gameplay. Nope.
So gaslighting as a game mechanic?

Bold Strategy Cotton GIF by MOODMAN
 

Cyberpunkd

Member
Looking at twenty year old photographs of yourself with awful haircuts and clothing choices is already embarrassing. How much worse will it be for trendy people who went all in on tattoos because it was the hip thing to do? Tattoos will go out of style and then you end up looking like this.

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Tattoos are not a problem, saggy tits, no muscles and hobo beard are.
 

winjer

Gold Member
Homeboy said nothing racist at all...

That is because these types of people get offended by everything.
Reality doesn't matter, only their their political views. And according to their ideology, everything is racist, not because it is in reality, but because their ideology demands it to be.
Remember what Anita Sarkeesian once said:

"When you start learning about systems, everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic, and you have to point it all out to everyone all the time."
 
Wow. This game might actually circle back to being good like Deadly Premonition. I’m fucking howling at this clip.
Some people like to describe DP as "The Room" of videogames, but from the few clips I've seen of Dustborn, I think it just might be another contender. Tornquist seems as sincere with this game as Tommy Wiseau was with his 'movie'.
 

Sgt.Asher

Member
Unfortunately I don't think this will go into "so bad it's good"
I was watching a stream and most of it is just plain boring. Took the guy playing it over an hour to get to combat.
Then there was a scene that described smores wrong.
 

Dr.Morris79

Gold Member
Right, what is actually going on here?

Why has everything being made in the west become so bum numbingly retarded?

It doesn't sell

It's retarded

Most of it is completely infantile

It releases and the company shuts down

I.P's are being completely trashed for no reason

It keeps happening

What IS going on here??

None of it makes sense!

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Maybe I am in a sim and my brains crashing?
 

Toots

Gold Member

Words Have Power GIF by GIPHY News

(says the dude who shits his pants at work in front of everyone, but that doesn't matter, words matter, not literal shit running down your leg while you're speaking them)

Im guessing the final boss is deaf and thus impervious to any of the protagonist attacks.
Only way to beat him is doing a good job planting seditious communist ideas during the course of your little road trip, allowing for a socialist regime to emerge and give free healthcare for all, curing the antagonist of his deafness, thus proving once and for all government subsidized hearing aids is the only meaningful defense against MAGA fascism.
 
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DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
I enjoy that the dude is racist because he... acknowledges that another character is black? But I thought being colorblind was the new racist thing? Didn't Ibram X. Kendi just spend the last decade making a bajillion dollars berating people into making a huge deal about skin color?
Good: see race as the most important defining characteristic of a person. Obsess over it constantly. Design your cast of characters around diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality. Always portray “marginalized people” in the most sympathetic, heroic, stereotype-defying way possible. Make all the bad guys white.

Racist: making any mention of race when attempting to describe someone’s appearance.
 

Rambotito

Member
I enjoy that the dude is racist because he... acknowledges that another character is black? But I thought being colorblind was the new racist thing? Didn't Ibram X. Kendi just spend the last decade making a bajillion dollars berating people into making a huge deal about skin color?
Welcome to DoubleThink. Acknowledging two contradictory things to be true at the same time.
 

recursive

Member
I think 20 to 30 more big AAA woke flops and pubs will be burned out enough to stop supporting this shit, by 2030 so bit after next gen starts we should be free for the most part from that nastiness =D
Not sure it will ever end. Way too much free ESG money to soak up and waste.
 

PeteBull

Member
Not sure it will ever end. Way too much free ESG money to soak up and waste.
As long as its just few devoted zealots and not mainstream like now, it will be easier to tolerate/avoid, now we still facing it basically almost everywhere in the west, gotta brace ourselfs next few solid years.
 
Just when I think I've witnessed the cringiest thing ever, something else always manages to surprise me. This is a new top spot for me. Good grief.
 
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