Barbie and Baldur’s Gate 3 have undeniably progressive elements and are unstoppable money-making machines.

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    That needed to be explained? We needed an entire article to talk about how right-wing bullshit is… actually bullshit?

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    What’s hilarious/infuriating about this stuff is that when it’s done poorly, it falls over by itself.

    Then it gets called out with cries of “go woke, go broke”, when in reality it’s closer to “make shit, get hit”.

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    As much as “go woke, go broke” has become common wisdom among right-wingers, shows of progressivism are only damaging in cases where the product’s base skews conservative and where there are plentiful other options.

    Yeah, I mean of course. the whole article can boil down to this one line. Conservatives weren’t going to watch Barbie or play BG3 to start with. They will however watch nascar and drink beer. However, Nascar can go woke all it wants because there is no alternative.

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      Yeah, having progressive elements in a game or movie meant mainly for conservatives is like a pickup truck that only comes in pink or this flag:

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          Ok, bad example since, unlike the traitor flag, pick up trucks are used by lots of non-bigoted people 😁

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            It does sort of make me dream of a federation of ancom communities, but I like to do that anyhow…

            Not sure if it still holds now that most people will stumble upon the history of the confederate flag and how it has been flown since in the US, but as an 80s Eurokiddy, back in the day when we were even more clueless than we are now - it just had some vague “rebel” association. Then people started reading stuff, clued the rest of us in about what it actually represents (inadvertently prodding us out of clueless enthusiasm & into some circumspection), but it took time for that message to get heard enough for the flag to vanish from circles who’d never had flown it had they known.

            Anyhow, loathe this version for drawing false equivalences, yet find it grossly fascinating for how it obliquely manifests so many truths about our society under Capitalism.

            We’re long accustomed to the commodification of causes & the trivialisation of same, but one can look on this and see, endless tidy light grey boxes lit with rows of long lights posed as unflickering mimics of fluorescent tubes, chewing time to unfold tidy folded wraps of glossy paper, encapsulating shine-worn gloss of ticket home (&back) on hard-lit long trains ticking & tilting bright-lit to aching, fretful sweat sotted beds, unfurling blankets… but, for now must choose. By committee.

            Or, they laid off 70% of their workers, one of the remainder prompted a chatbot to provide an icon which would “appeal to all Americans” & here we are discussing it, giving them free publicity & putting the pandering fucks at the head of our mind.

            Bollocks, have rambled & clean forgotten what I was trying to say. Apologies.

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    Is Baldurs Gate 3 considered Woke? Why?

    Is it the bear fucking? It’s the bear fucking, isn’t it?

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      Maybe the fact that several characters are canonically not straight including

      minor spoiler

      The daughter of a benevolent god

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        I am quite aware of that. My current Char is in a homosexual relationship.

        My comment was supposed to be a humorous jab at the fact that BG3s romances go way further than same-sex relations.

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        The question was intended to be slightly humorous.

        Someone got a stick up their ass about all the companion characters exposing their desire for the protagonist. Yeah, I saw it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong the freedom of choice. Although I do agree the implementation of the romance options is a bit heavy handed.