Guaranteed the word “woke” will be thrown around left and right

  • TriflingToad
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t understand the hate for women in video games, If the next Doom game comes out with a female protagonist I’d be going “HELL YEAH RIP ITS HEAD OFF!!!” the same way I do in Doom Eternal

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      1 hour ago

      Generally speaking im absolutely for a better representation of women and minorities. However, theres on criterium for it: it must fit with the lore. If the lore makes sense with a woman, go for it. If you just replace the main character with a woman, but don’t adjust the lore in a way that its clear that its an entire new storyline or so, than I’m against swapping out the main character. Inclusion shouldn’t lower the quality of a game.

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        46 minutes ago

        So maybe it’s not actually the DEI itself that makes the game bad but actually the shitty game design and writing that makes the game bad and lore suck.

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        56 minutes ago

        Agreed.

        Ciri is a huge part of the Witcher games.

        They prepped us for her becoming a Witcher or something adjacent to it in TW3.

        There’s no conspiracy to turn you gay or trans here. It’s just a continuation of the series.

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      3 hours ago

      Don’t understand it as a rational thing, understand the hate as a cancer with its growth being juiced and accelerated by the ruling class because incels are the easiest demographic to scam into violently acting against their own interests.

      A cancerous process is by definition irrational from the perspective of the body it acts upon, the reason the cancer exists and grows is not because of a motive, desire or need but rather because the cancerous process consumes all the space and oxygen in a room at a faster rate than anything else can compete with while remaining invisible to the body as a threat.

      Toxicity towards women displaces other topics and viewpoints specifically because the men pushing those topics want to monopolize the discussion and framing and often centrist types don’t challenge that at all because of some self-perceived high ground to tolerating intolerance (not something you tend to believe in if you have experienced serious hate).

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      4 hours ago

      From shitty YouTuber influencers.

      A guy from work constantly tells me how I should feel about a game based on a YouTuber he watches. He doesn’t play it, he just parrot that shit. Often it’s the most sexist, disgusting take.

      And most of these influencers are outright basement dwellers with pride.

      So like, they’re getting shitty takes from shitty human beings who are proud of being shitty?