Bandai Namco Pledges Itself to Globalism & Diversity
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I have learned to despise the word diversity
The goal of motte and bailey words the lefties use like "diversity" "inclusion" "tolerance" etc isn't to convey meaning, but to separate the world into allies and enemies of the revolution.
They spout how "diversity" is good then add anyone who asks questions for a definition or otherwise doesn't blindly accept it as a target.
This is the same thing that happened in the 90s when "sexual harassment" training was added to every institution. Show up and agree men are awful or paint a target on your back.
I mean actual diversity is great. If I hire based on the best candidate most likely there will be some sort of diversity. Today it’s just forced diversity and they hate diversity of thought.
No, diversity is absolutely a bad thing.
When you buy into the belief that diversity is good, you automatically lose any argument against wokeism, because then you have to obey with Leftist’s standards.
I’ve come to realize that a cohesive and shared understanding is often better than “diverse opinions”, as that usually moves things forward more smoothly.
Only monocultures can accomplish great things.
Diversity spends all available time and resources arguing with itself.
What's the opposite of diversity?
Unity.
Great points.
It's important to understand that something being not-diverse doesn't necessarily make it an echo chamber.
Let's say you're working on something big and important, let's say a manned mission to Mars. You get the best people available, of course, and you get them into one room and you're brainstorming. Everyone competent will think along the same lines towards the same goal. You'll be using some kind of rocket propulsion, you'll need life support to keep the crew alive for years... all those smart and competent people will disagree on details - do we launch straight from Earth or do we do multiple launches into orbit, assemble a larger spacecraft, and fly that from LEO to Mars? How many crew do we need? etc., but the group still has absolutely zero use for truly diverse points of view like "Mars doesn't exist", "this garbage", an unironic flat earther, or a diversity consultant who keeps bitching about the spacecraft not being wheelchair-accessible.
Of course, there's an exception to everything, so once in a while, someone who goes completely against "common knowledge" is proven to be right. Like Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who came up with early germ theory and managed to drastically reduce childbirth mortality by making doctors wash their hands. Everyone thought he was crazy, the "scientific consensus"-following people first laughed at him and then they had him institutionalized for ranting about bacteria and shit because it sounded like nonsense to them, and he was right. But, when talking about exceptional people like this, we need to remember that 1) the guy actually demonstrated that his methods worked beyond any doubt (he really did reduce mortality from like 15% to a fraction of a percent), and 2) exceptions like this are exceedingly rare and 99.999% of all "diverse viewpoints" are horseshit.
Your example falls apart at a simple issue: where will you pick those "best people available" if they are all the same?
A good thing to start with would be reading comprehension, which means you're out.
ironic, because diversity of perspective (thought) was what they initially sold it on.
There's a very simple argument against this assertion.
If a diversity of identities necessarily generates a diversity of ideas, then it follows that some ideas must be inherent to some identities
Some ideas are worse than others
Some identities are worse than others
Doublethink
They should just change it to "blacks only" since that's what they always use it for
There was a digimon statue of Kaori and Angewomon that was cancelled mid-release a few years ago because western people complained. (womon isn't a 'womyn' thing, every digimon's name ends in mon).
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why is bandai namco "pledging" anything other than release dates
Indies, boys. Indies. The industry is dead.
Eh, I dunno. I hate globalist diversity worship probably even more than anyone else here, but this is just a company using the word "diverse" in a literal sense. They're saying that they're not just making games for Japan any more.
Whether that's a good thing or not (it's not) remains to be seen, but it's far from a "STEP ON MY THROAT DADDY I'VE BEEN A BAD SUPREMACIST" declaration of fealty like so many companies have made.
Who else is excited for black tranny Ms. Pacman!?!
Can't wait to see her feminine penis power!
I am sure glad I have most of their catalog without ever giving them my money.
Is Billy D writing for them now? It's nowhere as bad as they try to rephrase it in Billy's typical very purple prose.
Also strange obsession with IdolMaster, an apparent soulless loliblob game series that I never even heard about and as such also never heard anyone bitching about. With Banco they often rather wail about the problematix of the likes of SoulCalibur.
Scarlet Nexus and Tales of Arise do seem unimpressive from promo materials alone.
I'm fine with skepticism, but IMO there is reason to be wary about Bamco. This may have legs.
I've played both, they're not woke.
They're not anti-woke either but when you're using psychic powers and magic it's not weird seeing women fight. Not like BFV or CoD
Scarlet Nexus is more bland than anything, I felt the staff were neutering themselves in terms of creativity.
Arise is pretty darn preachy (especially about colonialism). I felt a more left-wing Western audience was the target for Arise, which among other things is why I skipped it.
That's a pretty over simplification of Arise's story but whatever.
Slavery is, indeed, bad and the bad guys are actually bad.
That is not a "leftist" position.
Maybe not, but virtue signaling and being preachy about it is, especially in today's world. and with woke commentators praising the story as "evolved with the times" .And also they had obvious internal censorship of the alternate costumes and designs , with it being more tame than the previous entries , points to it being having woke influence. ,
Only a true fool would think an alien invasion and the cartoonish enslavement presented in the game is anything other than fantasy.
Maybe stop caring what lefties think about shit.
IdolMaster has had at least 4 anime series, movies, arcade games, mobile games, music cds, and regular concerts. It's a big property for them. Miura used to play idol games when he took his breaks from Berserk, but not sure if he played IdolMaster or Love Live, the other big Idol property.
Might just hear less of it because it is not as exposed to the western market as their other properties.
Did he really? I thought that was just a meme
He bought a 360 and IdolMaster, then went on hiatus. He was open about liking it,and while going on a break TO play IdolMaster was likely a meme, hiatus was the only time he could play (or do anything other than work on Berserk) since he worked 15-16 hours a day.
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And then releases another HG Super Fumina Maid.
Japan gonna Japan.
Probably because its them putting out mealy mouth corporate speak for investors, not actually doing anything. Remember that recently the usual suspects tried to complain about "Tales of Arise" and tried to get is censored, and Namco just said "lol, no" and released it unmodified. Same with Code Vein. Same with Tekken. Same with Scarlet Nexus. They have shown, definitively, that like many Japanese companies, their "diversity" ends when is starts effecting quality and bottom line.
…Sorry, but the mouth corporate speak was in regards to Tales of Arise, Tekken, and Scarlet Nexus.
Scarlet Nexus has VERY conservative character designs, but if you look at its artbook, you’ll actually find they were supposed to be (only a little, but still) less covered up. They changed the characters for Western (American) standards.
No bikini costumes for the newest woman character in Tekken, that’s a huge red flag given some interviews with Harada in contrast to their absence.
Arise is a huge can of worms, lots of info about how it was made for Westerners. I consider it a WRPG, and didn’t buy it because of how soulless it looked compared to the past entries. Taking inspiration from Life is Strange, the typical “slavery bad” plot you see to pander to Westerners, a dumbed-down combat system, and the cherry on top: censorship. The collaboration costumes are all censored compared to their original counterparts, and I’ve never seen the other alternate costumes you can unlock be this tame before in the series. Arise was a huge (but sad) pass for me.
saw a woke commentator going on about how Arise "evolved with the times" for having that woke storyline and for a "broader audience" and then added "though it still has its fair share of anime tropes" as if he thought anime tropes was bad and "not with the times"
I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree then. While I cant speak to Tekken (I am not a fighting game fan), I had a blast with Nexus and Arise and didnt see anything particularly "woke" about either of them. Also, even if the designs in Nexus were more conservative, the female characters still managed to be more attractive and feminine looking than ANYTHING made to woke, feminist standards.
Of course, because that's how subversion works. You censor one little thing because "at least it's not as bad as other bad thing", and it snowballs from there. You sound like the people talking about MK 10 having more conservative designs wasn't too bad, which eventually led to MK11's situation.
I know where this path leads, because we've been on it before with Western games. I just wish we weren't following it again :(
Nor do I, and I still dont think there is enough evidence yet that this actually means anything. But if it does? Then like the cultural nomads we have been forced to become, we just have to pick up and move to the next home we can find (even if that means retreading old ground) until we either make our own home that we can defend, or we find somewhere that will actually hold the line and fight.
I hope they go black black black with big red lips, and then go isn't that what black people look like?
I hope they burn in poverty. The Japanese people will have to burn them at home in sales to really hurt them though.