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I bought Wildermyth cause someone on my friend’s list has been playing it and it seemed like a cool tactical RPG.

First thing I saw when I opened the character edit screen was that half of the chargen was the character’s gender, “gender presentation”, and “sexuality”. Immediate return.
 
If these “Black Lives Matter” types really cared about more “diversity“ in gaming, why not show love to Jerry Lawson?

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He was a well known, self-taught electronic engineer and video game designer who was a part of a team who helped design the first cartridge-based home video game console system. To my knowledge, I never heard of a story where he only made his life known by forcing people to care about his skin color, or only being into video games because he wanted to see more black people in it without the talent and skill to make them.

If anything, these quotes still mean a lot to me just 11 years after his death:
They need to understand that they’re in a land by themselves. Don’t look for your buddies to be helpful, because they won’t be. You’ve gotta step away from the crowd and go do your own thing. You find a ground, cover it, it’s brand new, you’re on your own — you’re an explorer. That’s about what it’s going to be like. Explore new vistas, new avenues, new ways — not relying on everyone else’s way to tell you which way to go, and how to go, and what you should be doing.
The point of anything by yourself is that you have to be brave to go by yourself, don’t you? You’re not going to get reinforcement from peers, right? Except for the new peers you find as a result of going through this.

I mean, normally, the guys on the corner that go play basketball are not gonna be your buddies in that. And that’s how they mark things too. It’s unfortunate that they all think they’re gonna be members of the NBA. I try to tell them, “be.”

You can check out the source of these quotes here. These days, I’m not even sure if these “woke” game developers or ”woke” black game creators even know who this man is.
 
If these “Black Lives Matter” types really cared about more “diversity“ in gaming, why not show love to Jerry Lawson?

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He was a well known, self-taught electronic engineer and video game designer who was a part of a team who helped design the first cartridge-based home video game console system. To my knowledge, I never heard of a story where he only made his life known by forcing people to care about his skin color, or only being into video games because he wanted to see more black people in it without the talent and skill to make them.

If anything, these quotes still mean a lot to me just 11 years after his death:



You can check out the source of these quotes here. These days, I’m not even sure if these “woke” game developers or ”woke” black game creators even know who this man is.
I agree with this man that posted this a month ago:
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Lawson is known and they keep writing articles about him like it was something no one except woke game journos knew..
 
When it comes to "woke stuff" being forced into things, do any of you feel like they do it to "punish" the old content/creators/fans? I was playing the old Batman Arkham games recently and it stood out to me that ALL the main women are hot (basically all white too). You compare that to how they look in Gotham Knights and SS: KtJL and it's night and day.

Then I looked at both DC and Marvel comics and compared how they drew women then to now. So many of them went from sexy white girls to either being ugly/fat or looking like a man or to being turned into a nigger.

Back to video games, you see this with other big games like Halo. Compare Cortana in Halo 4 to how she looks in the new game. It's crazy to play a video game before 2016 or read a comic from before 2012 and compare how women look then to now.

It's one thing to make new shitty "diverse" characters, but how they just ruin existing ones is crazy. At least making them ugly should help the coomers.
 
When it comes to "woke stuff" being forced into things, do any of you feel like they do it to "punish" the old content/creators/fans? I was playing the old Batman Arkham games recently and it stood out to me that ALL the main women are hot (basically all white too). You compare that to how they look in Gotham Knights and SS: KtJL and it's night and day.

Then I looked at both DC and Marvel comics and compared how they drew women then to now. So many of them went from sexy white girls to either being ugly/fat or looking like a man or to being turned into a nigger.

Back to video games, you see this with other big games like Halo. Compare Cortana in Halo 4 to how she looks in the new game. It's crazy to play a video game before 2016 or read a comic from before 2012 and compare how women look then to now.

It's one thing to make new shitty "diverse" characters, but how they just ruin existing ones is crazy. At least making them ugly should help the coomers.
Honestly, since you mentioned DC and Marvel in the same breath as Halo, I think Heath Ledger might say it better than I ever could:

 
When it comes to "woke stuff" being forced into things, do any of you feel like they do it to "punish" the old content/creators/fans? I was playing the old Batman Arkham games recently and it stood out to me that ALL the main women are hot (basically all white too). You compare that to how they look in Gotham Knights and SS: KtJL and it's night and day.

Then I looked at both DC and Marvel comics and compared how they drew women then to now. So many of them went from sexy white girls to either being ugly/fat or looking like a man or to being turned into a nigger.

Back to video games, you see this with other big games like Halo. Compare Cortana in Halo 4 to how she looks in the new game. It's crazy to play a video game before 2016 or read a comic from before 2012 and compare how women look then to now.

It's one thing to make new shitty "diverse" characters, but how they just ruin existing ones is crazy. At least making them ugly should help the coomers.
Someone wrote a really powerful screed about these kinds of people. It's floating around the internet somewhere, I think I saved it down but I can't find where I put it. Anyways! They hate that which they cannot match. Fundamentalists of all sorts seek to destroy something they cannot do because it hurts their sense of self superiority. Mix that with a generation raised on "You can be anything you want to be" and you get assholes in fields where they want to be, but destroy because the work before them is so much better than they can put out.
 
Someone wrote a really powerful screed about these kinds of people. It's floating around the internet somewhere, I think I saved it down but I can't find where I put it. Anyways! They hate that which they cannot match. Fundamentalists of all sorts seek to destroy something they cannot do because it hurts their sense of self superiority. Mix that with a generation raised on "You can be anything you want to be" and you get assholes in fields where they want to be, but destroy because the work before them is so much better than they can put out.
I know it's all political bullshit, but it's crazy how game studios and other kinds of companies have no issue making sexy babes turn on a dime for their next game or whatever the product is. It's like they skipped "boiling the frog slow". You can do this with just about any game dev or comic or whatever. Look what they last put out or were doing even just 3 years ago and look at what they make now. It's crazy how fast it is. Hence why I wonder if some have to be "punished" by making their next thing ugly as fuck.
 
I'll keep this short to not repeat myself too much, but I think the motives for IP destruction vary from person to person. Some want to tear down the old, but some want to insert politics, some want to do cronyism, some chase money and think going woke will achieve that, and some are just incompetent.


When it comes to deliberate destruction, I think it's most obvious with books. They hate the views of the author, think the story isn't politically correct, they bought into the narrative that the fanbase are bigots, or any number of similar accusations.

At the same time, said books outsell their own work by a huge amount. They scream that they can't make it in the industry because "old white men", but fail to write anything of comparable quality.

Once they're put in charge, they retcon old canon, degrade the old characters and replace them with author insert mary sues to "fix" the story, but no one likes them so they crash and burn.


But outside of books, I think those are an exception. There was YouTube video I saw ages ago (if anyone knows it, please link it) that argued The Last Jedi was deliberately sabotaged, since Rian Johnson had his own sci-fi space opera IP in the works at the time and wanted to stop Star Wars from being viable competition. Others, like Mass Effect, were a result of incompetence and cronyism.
 
When it comes to deliberate destruction, I think it's most obvious with books. They hate the views of the author, think the story isn't politically correct, they bought into the narrative that the fanbase are bigots, or any number of similar accusations.
I think that in combination with people identifying with characters/themes leads to Mary Sues. They more or less write in a rudder that they control for the iceberg that is the story because they don't like what the story is naturally progressing towards, it needs some course corrections. Sometimes retroactively. They never do it to make the game or piece of fiction better, they do it to correct what they see as mistakes and steer it in another direction. It is often something that they like but had no hand in creating. I think of them as termites, they really like the house you've built and now that you have invited/employed them...
 
But outside of books, I think those are an exception. There was YouTube video I saw ages ago (if anyone knows it, please link it) that argued The Last Jedi was deliberately sabotaged, since Rian Johnson had his own sci-fi space opera IP in the works at the time and wanted to stop Star Wars from being viable competition. Others, like Mass Effect, were a result of incompetence and cronyism.
it's somewhere in the middle, he did it on purpose because ballhead thinks he's some clever expectation subverter, but the scifi-opera itself was his own star wars trilogy lucasfilm was dangling in front of him (unless there was more shit involved I missed), so there was no reason turning star wars into (more) shit. there's also the theory that jarjar being jarjar there was simply no plan at all (some say yes, some say no), so ballhead just made it up and tried to "elevate" it above "star wars nerdy kiddie shit" after ANH 2.0 TFA - with debatable results.

you might confuse it with games of thrones where dumb&dumber shat out such an abysmal season it killed the franchise for good and allegedly also their deal with disney (for the same star wars trilogy).

I know it's all political bullshit, but it's crazy how game studios and other kinds of companies have no issue making sexy babes turn on a dime for their next game or whatever the product is. It's like they skipped "boiling the frog slow". You can do this with just about any game dev or comic or whatever. Look what they last put out or were doing even just 3 years ago and look at what they make now. It's crazy how fast it is. Hence why I wonder if some have to be "punished" by making their next thing ugly as fuck.
one of the reasons is that otherwise they'd be out of a job, unless they go indie or find a different field of work. for the average wagecuck artist/gamedev that's a horrying prospect, so they keep their head down and do as they're told, even if they personally disagree.

everything's bogged down by bureaucracy, and the dumbest form of it. remember in the 90's where everything had to include at least 1 black dude? now you have to include a strong women that needs no man, a lesbian for representation, a smart black female for self-identification, an asian as token (usually female too), with a white guy villain that's never allowed to be actually evil or effective to the point you have to wonder why he's the villain in the first place and what makes him so dangerous. try writing a coherent and entertaining story under that mandate, and now imagine you're some fanfiction-tier hack who couldn't even write enjoyable fapfiction even if your life depended on it. and since that mandate exists in real-life too it means you have to hire those exact same types even if you want to or not.

as @Judge Dredd said their backgrounds vary, and those types always existed, but what they have in common is that in the past they'd never be in the position to affect things (for long) because they would be early on filtered by being too shit to get hired or even if not being able to deliver what they were hired for. once you go from "making products that need to be entertaining else they don't sell and the company folds" to whatever the fuck they think they're doing, this is what you get.
 
everything's bogged down by bureaucracy, and the dumbest form of it. remember in the 90's where everything had to include at least 1 black dude? now you have to include a strong women that needs no man, a lesbian for representation, a smart black female for self-identification, an asian as token (usually female too), with a white guy villain that's never allowed to be actually evil or effective to the point you have to wonder why he's the villain in the first place and what makes him so dangerous. try writing a coherent and entertaining story under that mandate, and now imagine you're some fanfiction-tier hack who couldn't even write enjoyable fapfiction even if your life depended on it. and since that mandate exists in real-life too it means you have to hire those exact same types even if you want to or not.
Dude, that was the 90's

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Finally some good news.
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No sorry for dumb fucks who keep supporting this shit and fuck Square, those lazy money grabbing hos

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Dude, that was the 90's
There is a fundamental difference between 90's and now. Now, this is mandatory while back then it was mainly limited to children's stuff and could be safely ignored. Back then, you could write these characters anyway you wanted while now they must be generic safe characters of immense blandness. Back then, you could write with the expectation that the audience isn't stupid, now you must write to an audience that thinks depiction IS endorsement.
 
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