I must've missed the "ruined" bandwagon.
Oh just pick any random game of the last two-three years that is somewhat marketed to the mainstream.
You can almost copy paste the faces and styles and people types between them. Same with movies. No matter where it is, you get the samey handful of wildly different people that all tick the must-have gender and racial boxes. Its hard to unsee once you see it. And are any of them good actors or nice to hear? Hell no, and even the rare few that are, have been pushed into such a shitty script that they can't make anything out of it anymore.
Every big release is managed into tasteless BS and you can clearly identify the stuff that was altered from original creative vision into it. But maybe after seeing so much of it, some have lost touch with what is truly good content and what is the same thirteen in a dozen junk. (Not you, per say.)
A very simple one. Battlefield V.
Apparently they took the top 4 fashion cues and ran with it, because fuck history.
Note how every team has a dude that chops trees and readies the BBQ. For good measure they also copied Aloy because Horizon was also a great game right, and if anything represents the emancipated self-conscious female, hey.! This chick climbs robots. In case you miss the reference, they even gave her a robotic leg.
And the other two? They could be you! A streamer's head, frail physiques but stern looks, heck they even added the headsets.
Let's see how other games manage. I mean surely they wouldn't...
Naahhh
Luckily the team at Apex is great at creating new original characters, like this one.
They forgot the bandana.
I know where that "certain groups" came from. Twitter and Reddit regularly bleach my skin so that they can fit me into these "certain groups" - it's a part of dehumanizing tactics.
TPU members are passionate about their hobbies - we spend a lot of time and money building hardware to play our favorite games. Why can't you see it as individuals capable of thinking, from around the globe voicing concerns about their favorite hobby and entertainment getting taken over by activism and politics?
People not buying into the narrative being pushed doesn't automatically make them part of any "groups". Those who are surprised by the reactions, including you, the companies that push this agenda, and the echo chambers on the internet that force them to do so, need to confront the reality that they may be very out of touch with most of the consumers around the globe.
Exactly, this.
I call it the tyranny of stupidity. You're for or against me, bla bla. Tribalism, indeed. But saying something about it is not tribalism. Its a perspective that is grounded in simple gut feeling. The whole woke thing feels wrong, it feels the exact same as the eternal internet troll culture, from Pizzagate to Trumpism to the progressive missionaries on a mission to add every letter in the alphabet to LBGTXYZ, its all based on the power of the largely uneducated masses that jump from one idiocy into another so they never have to actually explain anything logically.
Screw them because plain and simple, their opinions are invalid and the rationale behind it is drenched in peer pressure and based on nothing, especially not any sort of historical context or awareness. Giving them audience is feeding stupid -and there is a whole social media world for them to generate that attention.
Thesis = sexism, racism, oppression
Antithesis = anti sexism, anti racism, anti oppression
Synthesis = ?
Synthesis is a lot of nothing
An empty shell. It could work, but its fake.
Art and creativity thrive on and with
friction. It needs to be exciting to work. Inspire something. Its almost inherent to art that someone somewhere is going to be offended, forgotten, etc.
In the same way it might not actually be good for us to try and find agreement in these things, or most things?
