The guys who claim the woke agenda is why corporations are ruining games… how do they explain the overwhelming high quality and popularity of queer indie games? These games are not made by corporations, they’re made by small teams (some times just one or two people) of passionate and dedicated people who love games. They typically have long development cycles and sell for low prices despite being high quality and beloved classics that are defining gaming this generation.

Celeste: Trans main character

Undertale and Deltarune: Unabashedly queer. Non-binary lead. Butch Lesbians that aren’t male gazey, etc etc.

Webfishing: Do I even need to say anything? This game was made by one person When this game was accused of being too queer, they doubled down and became even more queer.

Lisa: It’s about misogyny and toxic masculinity.

Shovel Knight: Has a gender swap option and strong non sexualised female characters.

There are many more that have positive non-white cis-male characters.

All without the “scary Chinese” or “Sweet Baby” or “DEI mandates”.

These are what actual fans of video games are making. It seems that the deciding factor of the difference in quality of AAA games seems to be capitalism, not inclusiveness.

Are the anti-woke crowd so out of touch that they can’t see this? Or maybe they’re so infested in gifting reactionaries that they turn a blind eye.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    Sartre, anti Semite and the jew

    It’s the same or similar mechanism. They don’t care about truth. They want certain outcomes or they feel certain things, so they say words (or make videos or whatever) to support that.

    They feel a thing. Stuff to support it is true, and stuff that doesn’t is wrong, a lie, or just ignored.

    So how is it explained? It’s not. That’s not the goal.