Watch out for the AOE, you'll take Splash Damage! This week we get a look at the gaming press's hot takes on Horizon: Forbidden West. Reposting from Reddit:
Journalists are digging up the old criticism that Horizon Forbidden West is problematic because it features the aesthetics of Native American culture. We discuss how cultural appreciation is not appropriation along with references to racism in The Cuphead Show!, Kotaku being upset that attractive women exist in Lost Ark, censorship of Lost Ark for Western audiences, a female gaming pro being fired over a joke about men, and more.
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Standard disclaimer: I'm not Scrivonaut, I'm just reposting this for a signal boost for the show
Go look at the idiots that were saying the new pokemon game was "colonist" or whatever made up garbage that is.
As "bullshit wokeist talking points" go, that's another one that gets right up my nose. Sure, Europeans were "colonialist" - as were every other group of people who expanded beyond the boundaries of their tribal lands, killed the people in the area they moved into, and took over the land. It's the way of every culture under the sun up to the point of modern society. Absolutely zero groups out there, upon migrating into other lands, took a look at the people that were already there and said "oh, no, this place already has another group living here, we must turn around and go back". Not unless they realized they were outnumbered, outgunned, or outmatched. The only difference between older cultures and expansion-era Europe is that the Europeans had already figured out how to wipe out the other bastard better, faster, and with more efficiency than any other group on the planet. It's not their fault that the other cultures were sitting around with their thumbs up their asses and hadn't progressed outside of a nomadic/subsistence lifestyle or developed beyond spear-chucking and obsidian knives.