Nintendo goes full woke: will promote and focus on diversity
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Big F.
This one hurts.
Look up "ESG".
ESG was the final black pill for me. It's the ultimate expression of the infiltrators gaining permanent societal power that cannot be challenged without generations of counter-infiltration.
The only practical way out; the only way out at all within our lifetimes, is complete collapse.
Otherwise, these companies will tie financial success to wokeshit and circle-jerk their desires into reality, because they're playing with boomer retirement money and nobody's going to pull their funding.
Give us a quick rundown?
American government sponsored slush-fund disguised as a business rating metric. The outgoing Obama administration put this in place as an 'alternative' viability metric for the investment in a company for 401k (retirement pools that are invested en masse largely without the input of their owners) fund managers to consider. Previous metric was demonstrated solvency and profitability. This new one is basically "or be dedicated to mushy ideals."
These ideals are 'diversity,' 'eco-friendliness,' and every other kind of leftist wank you can guess at. Qualification under this guideline means that 401k funds are free to be invested in you despite any performance you show or quality you exhibit that would make the investment good for the stakeholder (the guy whose money is being invested). As you can imagine, qualification for this is considerably easier than opening up your ledgers and showing how your business works, you just have to plaster platitudes over all your PR materials and hire a 48.22765% black and indigenous board, or a female CEO, your pick.
This inverts the relationship of what 401k investment is about, adding value to retirees so that by the time they retire they have money that has atleast beat inflation, but hopefully has added good value too. Instead this new qualification places the onus of investment on "saving the world" by shuffling the funds into the hands of self-proclaimed do-gooders (by extremely Democrat party standards and values).
I've heard argument that this isn't long-term viable as 401k managers will be steered away from unprofitable investments by their stakeholders, but that is naïve. Because the architects of this system hate 401k investments and want them to burn, this just happens to be a double-win for them. They're stealing money from the people they hate (those tax-evading rich bastards who work a job that lets them set their earned money aside for the future) and giving that same money to themselves via their DNC donor-fodder fly-by-night wind-farm boondoggles.
Triple win if you factor in the net-effect it's had on all big companies who want an easy check-off for access to these kinds of giant collective investment pools. I kind of doubt that was counted on being such a major effect, because it's THAT that has alerted the Average Joe to what is going on. Everyone going woke simultaneously when there is no good business sense for it. Turns out there IS good business sense getting a 'woke' investment firm to shovel you money for simply being woke yourself.
401k's aren't allowed to short the market either. so in market crashes it's just hedge funds shorting the market while the 401k's eat shit and feed their profits.
401k fees are also insanely high and well hidden. sure, take the company match it's free money. Change jobs and roll that over into private accounts ASAP.
Stock investment portfolios use environmental, social, and governance (esg) as a rating for “wokeness” in the workplace. Basically the more “woke” a company is the higher it is evaluated and traded in. It’s basically a woke matrix that places you higher or lower depending on how much you toe the line.
It's credit score for corporations. The more they participate in promoting the woke ideology, the better in the eyes of investors. I also learned about the basic gist of it a few days ago.
ESG (environmental, social, governance) is basically a wokeness score used as an investing metric, by people who believe the opposite of us: "Refuse to go woke, go broke."
Adopt 'green' policies? Corporate investors will boost your stock price as a reward.
Promote your DIE initiative? Cash money.
Ban right-wingers from your platform, cease doing business with low-ESG-score companies, generally act like another extension of the collective leftist hivemind?
They'll boost your stock price with that sweet, free gubmint cash that keeps getting printed, to make it look like a good idea.
Institutional investing based on ESG scores completely offsets any potential fror individual investors to provide market feedback. With enough market penetration (large firms using it as a metric), they can arbitrarily set stock prices so there's not even a cost to the institution for using an objectively shit metric that ignores profitability.
So basically we're fucked because they removed the financial incentive to actually cater to a customer base that doesn't like this woke shit.
Termites in the bloody foundation of society, the lot of them.
ESG is the ultimate enemy. All the woke shit we hate forced down our throats by a tiny cabal of ultrarich elites.
Nintendo has only survived in this marketplace by the strength of their IPs and a laser-like focus on fun. What does Nintendo offer the consumer once those IPs and that focus are tarnished by leftist political and cultural activism? Comically inferior hardware? Horribly static and elevated prices?
Their entire marketing strategy for almost two decades now has been nostalgia. They make games for IPs that dads remember playing back in the 90s, and that they play now with their kids. None of their newer properties have ever taken off. They make their money off of Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. If they move their focus away from that, or worse, fuck with those characters, then there goes their entire customer base.
To be fair, Splatoon and Animal Crossing have been big movers for Nintendo as newer IP.
But you're right about their appeal to nostalgic fun. Most people who recollect most of the fun games they played from the late 1990s, other than Final Fantasy VII, it's usually something from the N64: Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 or Ocarina of Time.
Once that formula goes kaput, so does the majority of Nintendo's buying base.
The Woketards have had a laser-focus on gaying up the Legend of Zelda for some time now, and that will probably be the infiltrators main objective after they remove gender from Pokemon games and start adding pronoun crap to other Nintendo titles. From there, it's all a race to the bottom.
Soytendo has joined micro$hit and blmstation
Dear god they're going to turn the frogs gay at this rate. So, so very much soy.
So where do you think tofu came from?
I guess I was naive to think a gaming company would focus on making good games
ESG will kill all public companies over time, it’s the socialism of the stock market.
That sucks for my 401k and investments
I used to think woke was a passing fad but I’m starting to see I was wrong. I think we need to stop saying get woke go broke because wv n when audiences reject wine garbage it keeps coming like cockroaches
for the ""investors"" huh?
I hate this timeline so much.
The cancer of ESG has now ruined every large gaming company.
All public companies are wokefied thanks to the horror of ESG
Well I play solely old games these days.
I just expected better from Nintendo.
Oh well.
In terms of other hobbies, I don't think the woke will be able to ruin my enjoyment of reading great books that have existed for decades, listening to music, watching classic anime and weight training.
Kotaku was bitching how nintendo japan, only 5% of its management were female.
And look how well they were doing. Why change a winning formula?
Clearly some woke infiltrators already had their foot in the door at the company for this to happen. The old guard is old and probably tired of fighting them, and was swayed by the financial incentives other people commented. It's classic boomer management mentality. "We need to get the Kotaku readers back on board. What's a few women going to hurt? People already buying our games now won't stop. This can only help." They don't realize there's no winning with the left.
Now the new hires will install more infiltrators, and Nintendo will keep cucking to Kotaku as they write articles such as "LGBT-positive games will help Nintendo grow" and "Why Japanese developers need more Diversity."
RIP
It's literally a "steal your jobs" program. Management is where men go when they're older and they're working t f-you out of that.
Ask them what their plans are to make the HR departmemt 50% male.
(crickets) (angry looks about how you're trying to steal their jobs).
I bet quality will definitely go down.. it cant be a coincidence that games have been shit in last 10 years. Any company that used to make good games have gone to shit with more diverse or more women on its payroll.
Its been bad with covid.. battlefield, back4blood, cyberpunk.. all sucked.
I wish I had seen this before buying my girlfriend one of the newer Pokémon games. How would I go about contacting someone higher up in the company? It may not accomplish anything, but I'd like to send them an email detailing how things like this only hurt them in the long run.
They take a loss every time they make stupid decisions to abide the woke agenda, though. It's a completely ignorant business decision unless an outside party is bankrolling it.
ESG is the only thing keeping Activision above $2/share at this point. (they're $57)
Justice cannot occur while ESG exists.
https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
Stop feeding the beast!
Just in case mods think this is sus, this repo holds zero licensed nintendo code, it's why it continues to not be taken down on github.
It does, that's how it gets around their restrictions.
RIP
OMG, I hope this fucking destroys them fuck nintendont,
Hopefully the animals in Animal Crossing making anti-white comments wakes up some of the soyboys.
yuzu or ryujinx. know what i mean
RIP, NINTENDO.
Nintendo grooming ESG?
BlackRock really does control the world.
Nintendo's TV ads have been dangerously diverse for years. I feel the need to lock the car doors when one comes on, before remembering I'm not in the car.