whats the point of explaining it to you when you're just gonna complain that others don't think the same way you do? you ain't asking this in good faith, just to stir up vitriol

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whats the point of explaining it to you when you're just gonna complain that others don't think the same way you do? you ain't asking this in good faith, just to stir up vitriol

So what you're saying is that you don't even have a valid explanation.
Good to know.

Political rage bait, nothing more. People want ♥♥♥♥ to be angry about, they're told to be angry about these things and instead of finding games they enjoy, they'd rather spend time shouting at everyone about how a game they supposedly liked has "gone woke".

Most people, regardless of their views, really don't give a ♥♥♥♥ whether something is "woke" or not, because we just want good games to play.

Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

Oprindeligt skrevet af itzDerrio:

whats the point of explaining it to you when you're just gonna complain that others don't think the same way you do? you ain't asking this in good faith, just to stir up vitriol

So what you're saying is that you don't even have a valid explanation.
Good to know.

im saying you just want to start ****.

Oprindeligt skrevet af datCookie:

Political rage bait, nothing more. People want ♥♥♥♥ to be angry about, they're told to be angry about these things and instead of finding games they enjoy, they'd rather spend time shouting at everyone about how a game they supposedly liked has "gone woke".

Most people, regardless of their views, really don't give a ♥♥♥♥ whether something is "woke" or not, because we just want good games to play.

That's where I stand on the matter.

To be frank, I'm just as baffled by people who refuset play games because they AREN'T "woke" enough - seriously if you really cared about feminism, you wouldn't give two ♥♥♥♥♥ if a game was woke or not and only judge it based on its actual merits.

Used to be the only question people asked is, "is the game good," but now 50% of the time the first question you see is, "is the game woke?"

Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

That's where I stand on the matter.

To be frank, I'm just as baffled by people who won't play games because they AREN'T "woke" - seriously if you really cared about feminism, you wouldn't give two ♥♥♥♥♥ if a game was woke or not and only judge it based on its actual merits.

And the thing about those people is that they're very few and far between. In my experience, the vast majority of the "xyz representation" threads are made by bots or trolls and are widely treated as such.

You also don't see said people brigading forums and harassing the developers of a game because it isn't "woke".

There's a big difference between both [minority] groups.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

That's where I stand on the matter.

To be frank, I'm just as baffled by people who won't play games because they AREN'T "woke" - seriously if you really cared about feminism, you wouldn't give two ♥♥♥♥♥ if a game was woke or not and only judge it based on its actual merits.

And the thing about those people is that they're very few and far between. In my experience, the vast majority of the "xyz representation" threads are made by bots or trolls and are widely treated as such.

You also don't see said people brigading forums and harassing the developers of a game because it isn't "woke".

There's a big difference between both [minority] groups.

lol I actually did see people do that on the Starfield Forums two years ago, but yeah, it was a little hard to tell if they were being serious or not xD

People were pointing out that human society in Starfield was actually hyper right-wing; that the UC was fascist, the FC was ultra-libertarian and that it was ridiculous how literally everyone carried a gun at all times

During COVID people had a little too much time on their hands. While cooped up at home, some of them figured out how to create a whole lot of fake outrage over a whole lot of nothing and make money out of it. The result: a whole lot of grifers on social media getting donations and ad revenue from gullible sods who are kept perpetually outraged and unhappy over nothing.

Oprindeligt skrevet af The nameless Gamer:

During COVID people had a little too much time on their hands. While cooped up at home, some of them figured out how to create a whole lot of fake outrage over a whole lot of nothing and make money out of it. The result: a whole lot of grifers on social media getting donations and ad revenue from gullible sods who are kept perpetually outraged and unhappy over nothing.

Ok, that actually makes sense.
The closest I get to social media are these forums and DIscord, so I guess I kinda missed out on all that lol

Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

Oprindeligt skrevet af The nameless Gamer:

During COVID people had a little too much time on their hands. While cooped up at home, some of them figured out how to create a whole lot of fake outrage over a whole lot of nothing and make money out of it. The result: a whole lot of grifers on social media getting donations and ad revenue from gullible sods who are kept perpetually outraged and unhappy over nothing.

Ok, that actually makes sense.
The closest I get to social media are these forums and DIscord, so I guess I kinda missed out on all that lol

Youtube and Twitter/X seem to be their biggest outlets. It was quite a piece of work to purge all of them from my recommendations on the former and fortunately I never used the latter and never will.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

Ok, that actually makes sense.
The closest I get to social media are these forums and DIscord, so I guess I kinda missed out on all that lol

Youtube and Twitter/X seem to be their biggest outlets. It was quite a piece of work to purge all of them from my recommendations on the former and fortunately I never used the latter and never will.

Yeah, I never watch political channels on YouTube. Literally didn't know who Asmongold even was until a few months ago, when someone was like, "omg Asmongold is playing Umamusume!"

I only ever watch funny youtube shorts, fan parodies, or pure gaming channels that focus on gaming and having fun.

Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

lol I actually did see people do that on the Starfield Forums two years ago, but yeah, it was a little hard to tell if they were being serious or not xD

People were pointing out that human society in Starfield was actually hyper right-wing; that the UC was fascist, the FC was ultra-libertarian and that it was ridiculous how literally everyone carried a gun at all times

Yeah and even if they were legitimate complaints (not trolls), it just doesn't happen, except for once in a blue moon.

The "woke" complaints are a daily occurrence and the brigading happens semi-frequently.

Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

Fr, if these same people who complain about games like Final Fantasy XVI being "woke slop" went back in time and played a classic Bioware game like Dragon Age or Mass Effect, they would have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seizure.

Ah look another one who doesn't know what woke games are and trying to act as if he knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkPHdlJc20
This totally belongs in a Fantasy Bioware game right? Totally a 10/10 moment of immersion for sure.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af chefcook90:

Fr, if these same people who complain about games like Final Fantasy XVI being "woke slop" went back in time and played a classic Bioware game like Dragon Age or Mass Effect, they would have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seizure.

Ah look another one who doesn't know what woke games are and trying to act as if he knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkPHdlJc20
This totally belongs in a Fantasy Bioware game right? Totally a 10/10 moment of immersion for sure.

The fact that you used Veilguard as an example as if the original 2009 game didn't exist and didn't have characters like Zevran and Isabela only proves my point.

Although I've got a sneaking suspicion that you've never played that game on account of being a toddler at the time.

Basically it's the convergence of two mindsets. One that games should not contain anything that one doesn't like, and two that all games must be designed to cater solely to oneself. And thus, anything people don't want in a game is now "woke". Regardless of what the nuance of that word might have been once, it is now used to describe everything that people object to. It's not the only word to be watered down to levels of utter meaningless, but it's the one that seems to get the most attention here because people have found how easy it is to get a reaction from it.