The weekend brings new things, and with it comes a new episode of Splash Damage! From the Reddit post over at half-KIA:
Kotaku has a new black writer who believes Skater XL is too white. We discuss how Kotaku and its staff treat blackness like a personality trait, elevating race above all else, along with games media’s silence when it comes to abuse allegations against a woke female game developer, Diablo II: Resurrected’s hilariously ironic profanity filter, Daniel Craig’s views on a female James Bond, and a Marvel executive who thinks the term “X-Men” is outdated.
You can find this episode for download or streaming on your favorite app or here. Our last episode was our most downloaded episode yet by far!
Disclaimer: I'm not Scrivonaut, nor am I affiliated with the podcast. I'm just a fan that feels the show deserves a signal boost.
My hot takes:
If Skater XL is too white then the writer needs to get off his own damn ass and make some black mods for the percentage of skaters that are black. (I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out what that percentage might be).
Diablo II Resurrected is a hot mess, and I won't be touching it with a ten foot pole.
James Bond isn't a woman. Period. I can accept 007 being a title/code that could be passed from agent to agent, but Bond is supposed to be a misogynistic, womanizing, take-no-shit secret agent. If they want to pass the 007 code to someone else, do a proper passing of the torch, or introduce another 00-agent and make her the focus, but quit co-opting the existing properties to steal the thunder of the existing character.
Marvel comics is a hot mess, too, and it's pretty obvious that they don't give two shits about anything other than IdPol and pushing the narrative these days. If the X-Men as a title gets castrated, then so be it. As much as the House That Jack and Stan Built was a huge part of my early life, and as much as it kills me to see that legacy shat upon, I'd rather see the place burn down than continue in its current path.
#4. I feel the same way with disneywars, let it burn and lets all laugh at these woke cucks destroying their own payday.
I wouldn’t hire this writer. They clearly aren’t interested in the game.
D2REFUNDED has a language filter, wow lmao. this is still a M game? or did they change it to G rated so bobbys granddaughter can play it?
they also were kicking people out of single player games, and some people lost their characters over it. FUCK BLIZZARD hard