Its just low enough on the scale to not be easily dismissed as overtly woke nonsense, but still have plenty right there under the surface.
Its a great barometer of people willing to compromise (for no gain but their own hedonism and laziness) to the Left and its machinations, as long as the frog is boiled slower.
people willing to compromise (for no gain but their own hedonism and laziness)
Especially considering the original is still out there to play. Nobody is lacking in entertainment options or should have a fear of missing out by not playing the remake.
Probably the thing that got me the most was the altered poster with the mixed race couple. It really made their whole agenda transparent. They could have made it a Black couple, an Asian couple, or a lesbian couple, or they could have made no changes at all. Heck why not a Black woman and White man? But like all the commercials we see on TV, it's a Black man and White woman. It's a deliberate effort to social engineer society into accepting this form of interracial relationship, and perhaps some troon artist who gets off on "owning the cons". I used to not care but once you notice it's hard not to see it.
(Ok the thing that really got to me was uggifying everyone and shrinking boob sizes, but the poster was a close second.)
should have a fear of missing out by not playing the remake.
The fun part is. There is considerable change made to the game itself. Enough to set it apart from the original and be worth playing at a 20-30$ level. They made major alterations to the combat and exploration, enough to make playing it quite different from the original.
But, because they made such agenda changes, literally no one has even noticed or talked about them. The side that was pro- about such things will only revel in them while dunking on the haters. The side that hates such will only focus on those things and dismiss it.
All the huge amounts of effort into the graphical upgrades and gameplay efforts, thrown away for a few little details done by the art guys.
uggifying everyone
Honestly, having seen footage of the game and talked with people about it, this seems to be less of a woke problem and more of the industry wide "MOCAP EVERYTHING!!" reaching its uncanny valley. Not that they didn't uglify things, but that there is something more than just unattractiveness that makes the characters offputting.
it's a Black man and White woman. It's a deliberate effort to social engineer society into accepting this form of interracial relationship
This particular coupling has been a social engineering thing for decades. Its one of the least popular real life couples, but one of the most popular in all forms of media. From sitcoms to porn, it always is that exact coupling to the point where the ideas of it have actually effect society (such as BBC being an unironic topic people base relationships on).
When the reality is that this duo only really happens in real life to any major extent due to drugs. Black dudes are always the ones with drugs, so the white girls flock to them when they want to become junkies. Its one of the reasons why even "not racist" parents don't want their daughters dating them, because they know what's going on.
this seems to be less of a woke problem and more of the industry wide "MOCAP EVERYTHING!!" reaching its uncanny valley
No, it's absolutely a woke problem.
The Japanese use the EXACT same LiDAR and photogrammetry tech. Yet, when you look at games like Yakuza or Judgment or Sekiro or Ghostwire, their characters don't look anything like the hideous abominations in Western games.
The artists purposely distort and uglify the characters. Mass Effect Andromeda was a perfect example of that, as the male character looked identical to his real life counterpart, but the female character was made to look hideous and derpy.
But that feeds back into another massive issue with all of this brainwashing propaganda: People keep making excuses for it and justifying it by hand-waving it away when it appears, no matter how big or small.
No excuse was made. You notice how you cut off my second sentence where I acknowledged it absolutely was uglified too, just so you can soapbox rant?
God forbid I point out that an issue isn't a simple X, but probably X and Y together making something horrible. Nah, everything needs to be a simple clickbait outrage apparently.
God forbid I point out that an issue isn't a simple X, but probably X and Y together making something horrible
You're completely missing the point by getting emotional. I explicitly used the Japanese example to point out that it's not a tech problem. We don't see this issue with South Korean, Chinese, or Japanese games. Why?
You're saying it's a woke problem and tech problem, but that doesn't fly because the examples I used don't have the issue that Western games do, only Western games are having that problem using the EXACT same technology. Why?
Do you see my point? It's not an "X and Y together making something horrible" when we know for a fact that other Asian companies use the exact same Y and none of their stuff comes out looking horrible. Why?
You're completely missing the point by getting emotional
Throwing accusations out randomly to make yourself seem smarter is your method huh? What a classic straight out of the Atheism+ era. Though I suppose when your reading level is "find a way to be mad" then amused sarcasm might seem emotional.
Why?
For the same reason that despite literally all the other tech being the same, you can tell when a game is made there versus the West in every other facet of a game as well. They use them differently, and find different things more appealing. Especially as Asian games are more likely to take things like Mocap, then pretty it up because its obviously offputting. Whereas the West takes that same base problem, and either ugly it or leave it in for "realism." It wasn't discounting the ugly factor, it was saying that even when they didn't do that they still looked wrong.
But, considering you jumped right over the point where I agreed with you about there being a uglification problem just so you can continue to soapbox rant, I doubt this will get through to you either.
For the same reason that despite literally all the other tech being the same, you can tell when a game is made there versus the West in every other facet of a game as well. They use them differently, and find different things more appealing. Especially as Asian games are more likely to take things like Mocap, then pretty it up because its obviously offputting.
That is literally what I just said: It's not a tech problem.
The technology is -- as you pointed out -- exactly the same. It doesn't know or care about what it's being used for, the results are always the same.
You just pointed out that despite Asian studios being smaller and working on tighter budgets, actually spend time to make their games/characters look good because they're trying to make good looking, fun games.
That goes back to my original point: this isn't a tech issue. It's a woke issue. Woke people aren't skilled enough to use decades old tech. That's why the games come out bad.
So this goes right back to the point I made before: it is not an X (woke) and Y (tech) issue. It is simply an X (woke) issue.
Because that's the problem with noticing this crap: most of it is small and tiny and relatively tiny. But it's not just one thing. It's not just one instance. It's always been a pattern. Yeah, the toilet sign isn't that big of a deal. But it's a clear trend that shows a pattern of behaviour by the people who made it.
It's never just been one thing. It has always been a continued pattern.
Absolutely. All of this bullshit started as these little nothings, before they grew to what they were. Its not suddenly okay when they calm down back to the little concessions, which only seem so little because of how far the Overton Window has moved.
Its one reason why I enjoy the PC modding battleground that's cropping up. Its a much more direct message to the devs and companies that "we like this game, but hate this particular thing" instead of the classic "they didn't buy this game, better self the entire IP its worthless" generalized. As long as you pirate it, then blow the mod up, its the best way you can send a message back without supporting.
At the end of the day everyone like you, Adamrises, are nothing but a bunch of loser virtue signalers trying to signal that you are more righteous than intelligent people who care about the Right. You don't care about the Right, you only care about burnishing your status in this shitty little fringe community.
Culture wars are won by fighting over the center and winning people to your cause. None of you perrenial losers care about that. You're living in your shitty little fringe cult commune, whining and complaining to each other about society while doing nothing to fix it, behaving like a cult where virtue signaling is more important than making a real difference.
Thank you for showing me that you people are every bit as stupid as the liberals. My years on reddit led me into the mistaken belief that liberals are uniquely stupid. Nope. You people are just as bad, it's just a different flavor.
Damn, somebody is really salty he got called dumb. Clearly you will show all of us with another impotent little comment about how super duper smart and relevant your opinion is.
If this is how easy you are to throw into a tantrum while screaming about how everyone else is worthless and retarded, I'm sure you are the best candidate for "winning people" and optics.
He's assmad because he was clocked for constantly conceding inch after inch after inch. That's why he's now resorted to a "no u" screed about how everyone here is actually the real enemy.
Retard talks about division and then goes and tries to be the most divisive cunt here by continually letting leftists walk all over him.
Its also funny, because even in these assmad screeches he does have some points. Which no one listens to or cares about be he is just running around screaming and attacking anyone who doesn't fellate him.
You know, the kind of thing that drives people away and wins no one to your side, despite that being his biggest sticking point about how we are bad.
Never heard of that channel, going through the backlog and enjoying it quite a lot though I gotta say especially the point of choice he brings up in the video with RPGs and the immersion you get out of it is what I miss in modern games the most...the politics of Skyrim still being talked about just hit the nail on the head for me because that's literally me every time I have to say why I like political games which don't go black or white but not games with modern politics in them.
The woke shit in the game was included with basically no thought. If you thought about it for one second, it almost seems like intentional parody.
This is a game where corporations place so little value on human life that they harvest lab-grown babies for organ-replacement, the ship is a barely functioning piece of shit, and perform illegal mining operations without a care. What does that say about having black people on the propaganda posters? That it is meaningless drivel to make it look like they have "moral principles?" What about the all gender bathrooms? It could just as easily be framed as the mining company trying to cut costs by having one bathroom for both men and women (Hell, it could be argued that EA tried to save money by reducing the amount of modelling needed, and used the "All Genders Bathroom" as a way to make themselves look good in the minds of the leftist occult)
I HAVE TO KNOW who was responsible for the decisions? Was it artists who made the art and nobody was willing to say anything? Was it management that said that there has to be more black people?
Also, the propaganda posters in the original were supposedly based on people who worked on the game. You mean to tell me that all of those black people in the posters in the remake are developers at EA Motive? I completely doubt it.
I mean, even if it wasn't woke, I'm not for it anyway. The original game still holds up very well, even on the graphics, there's no need for a remake. Out of all genres, horror games are actually the one which profits the most out of "low graphics", since it makes you imagine even more threats. Just compare how terrifying Silent Hill 1 with cubic polygons is compared to Calisto Protocol full of stuttering jump scares. Sure, let's consume the same games over and over again, I'm sure it's opening a great future.
However, while I generally like Synthetic Man's videos, I think he's really starting to get too full of anger. Other people in this thread just says he's basically an "Anti-SJW" and I kind of agree, whatever doesn't go 100% his ways must be retard wokeshit. The problem is, he's building his audience to be as angry as he his on everything, and he's going to get stuck in that in the future every time he tries to do some more positive stuff.
Meanwhile, he absolutely refuses to get good indie games a chance, cause "That's not the AAA experience that I want.". Well, if you can't give good stuff a chance, I honestly don't care how much you cry about the bad stuff. You didn't need to buy the game to see how woke it is, so why buy it and show it to the world and give it more PR? How about you show instead what a good non-woke horror game actually is?
The persence of "woke shit" isn't exclusionary until it becomes definining. Some stupid shit in a game can be passed over if the game is, overall, great. Besides the only woke shit I know of in the game is the inclusive bathroomm but that is made into a a total kek due to the tranny hanging from a noose inside. So, you can disable all trigger warnings, they are only an option so that isn't even an argument. I still will not buy this game because of my EA boycott, but the "woke shit" is sound like the right wing version of leftists bitching about jk and hogwarts.
Well, he's right about people ignoring the woke shit in it. Isaac also looks worse, as does Nicole.
That said, still a good game and I think a couple of changes made it great.
Synthetic man is a giant faggot who can't actually make a good point, and only screeches about "(x) is woke leftist bullshit". He's the right wing version of the sjws.
I like when a bunch of people who are supposedly against wokeness in gaming/media fawn over a game with a troon in it from a hardcore feminist ip to begin with
Every time they shift the goal posts, and you choose to entertain yourself with the new caricatures, you prove you are as programmable as the left. The only difference is whether they use a shellscript or C++.
I'm against the woke changes. I didn't buy the game. I haven't actually bought a new game in a long time (or seen most movies) because they're terrible, and they're full of virtue signaling. I've railed against a lot of things, feel free to view my posting history.
Just don't be a little soy faggot and cry about unisex bathrooms when we have bigger issues, like kids getting raped in the real world, or leftists trying to destroy education, or any number of other more pressing issues.
I can not be happy about these changes, because they're shit, but I can also know what to save my energy for actually being something to fight about.
Sort of a retarded comment on a sub that is ostensibly about the woke incursion into video games. Even putting aside your fallacy of relative privation, this is precisely the place to complain about the “small and petty” things in our entertainment. By objecting to such content, you’re showing us what truly doesn’t belong here: you.
If he made cohesive points, maybe, but a lot of what I've seen is not that.
He goes "it's woke", but doesn't back it up. He doesn't provide evidence, and often contradicts his own opinions about things in 5 minutes because he has the attention span of a gold fish.
Interesting. I'll have to watch more of his videos to decide. I do get exhausted of people doing nothing but complaining. A lot of this woke stuff is obvious though.
This isn't new, and the "woke" changes were very minor, relatively speaking.
At the end of the day, if this is too much wokeness (some race swapping) you might as well go live on a farm and not have an internet connection because you're not going to be able to consumer any western media at all.
We can complain about it and refuse to buy (pirate instead) but on the woke scale this is very low. We need to move the ball back towards non-woke and you have to do that one step at a time. You have to target the worst examples and work backwards from there instead of demanding purity and getting ignored.
At the end of the day, if this is too much wokeness (some race swapping) you might as well go live on a farm and not have an internet connection because you're not going to be able to consumer any western media at all.
These are the words of a conquered people. "Sure they're replacing us at every opportunity, but what are you going to do? Not consume product?"
Yes. I have neither time nor money to give to people who want to see my race exterminated. That anyone still does is deeply concerning.
The fact that there are only two responses right now and they both sound like concern trolls is a bit telling. I'm not saying they 100% are shills, but it's strange to see anyone on this board trying to defend supporting this kind of bullshit.
I have neither time nor money to give to people who want to see my race exterminated.
Okay and 95% of people who read that would just label you a stormfag and consider you lunatic fringe. You're not changing any minds and you're not winning any wars. People like you aren't making things any better, and in fact the liberals expertly exploit people like you to manipulate the majority into undermining the Right. Your very existence is a liability because you aren't intelligent enough to know not type type shit like what I just quoted above.
You're not changing any minds and you're not winning any wars. People like you aren't making things any better, and in fact the liberals expertly exploit people like you to manipulate the majority into undermining the Right
And I'm sure ranting blowhards like yourself cannot be described by any of these accusations. You are the superior big brain immune to all of it, while us lesser beings are but pawns.
Yeah, I am smarter and I'm not going to apologize for it. Dealing with idiots on message boards is tiresome. I feel like a special needs teacher in here sometimes. I couldn't give less of a fuck that you get your panties in a bunch about it and downvote, lol.
I've done more to fight for the Right than any of you, and not just online.
You’re dead wrong. The left has shown everyone how you win the culture war, and that’s by adopting and adhering to extreme positions. You gain ground not by moderation but by tearing the Overton Window as far as you can in your preferred direction.
In the case of woke media, you disparage and boycott anything that shows even a hint of wokeness. In cases of beloved classics being vandalized by modern woke creators, you should be even more pissed.
Or be intelligent like the Left is (they're so much better than the Right at this) and instead of insisting on total purity right now, play the long game and pick your battles, attacking the most vulnerable enemy targets, crushing them, and then systematically shifting to less obvious targets until you're eradicated your enemy.
Because you purists are delusional and amount to old men shouting into the wind on your porches. Nobody is listening. Nobody cares, and the libs have already turned you into a weapon to help their side, by using you as outrage bait to play off of.
You think you're pure, but what you actually are, is stupid, ineffectual, and perpetually losing.
Everything these freaks infest, they destroy. We will not begin to win until they suffer the consequences of that destruction, and massive, unescapable failure is the only way they'll end up going down with the ship.
A woke remake selling 50% of its projected copies is a good place to start.
I guess I have to agree that long term subversion is an effective way to destroy things, but if that's what "intelligence" is, I'd rather not react to fabian socialists by making another group that's just as bad.
Unlike leftists, we have to abide by principles, so abandoning those principles because the enemy is not held back by them..that is basically the only way to fail. Part of being a principled actor is being willing to protect those principles even if you are going to lose some battle. (I'm suggesting that "intelligent" warfare is a violation of various principles)
I think it'd be fine to just have open discussion of the ideas at play because I'm confident that the bad ideas are unable to withstand competition. Sure, most people aren't prepared to rationally interact with ideas, but enough are to make a difference. And yeah, there is no free speech platform that exists anymore. But some of the low-level commentary can help others think about new perspectives. So I really have to firmly oppose the idea that people should keep their mouths shut if they can't articulate things well or if they can't bend over backwards far enough. That's just a different demand for purity, and much less reasonable for public discourse.
You don't need to sacrifice your principles to say
"This new dead space is only a little woke so I won't be that upset about it, I'll focus my energy on the bigger offenders I can make a stronger case about"
The sad reality is that some mild race swapping enjoys overwhelming approval, to the point where almost all right wing pundits won't even criticize it because they're so afraid to pick that fight.
It's a fight that needs to be fought, but right now it's a loss. We need to lay the groundwork and win other battles 1st.
Hmm, I think I see what you're saying. It's definitely less of a sacrifice to say that than going full subversion.
Personally, I'd be pleased if people said more than "woke shit, not buying", just to encourage better public discourse. But that's my own priority of wanting my presumed allies to have a firm grasp of their own ideas, along with the flexibility to argue effectively in public (because eventually they're gonna need to defend their ideas).
The left got dominant by attacking, never letting go, refusing to compromise even a little bit, and appealing to emotions. They didn't get to where they are by granting anyone any victories, no matter how small.
You should not pay for any entertainment that they like in any way. Any representation, diversity, propaganda, anything, you avoid it and you make sure everyone you know avoids it too. Teach people to torrent or use free streaming sites.
You have to use their words against them, and you can never accept any of their victories.
Left complaining about the right removing books from schools? Then write a book celebrating the history of social darwinism and make them go on the record to ban it from schools.
Left want more diversity in cinema? You make sure their content fails.
Left wants more censorship? Deliberately use the words they don't want you to use.
Left wants you to listen to this or that group? Actively go out of your way to ignore those people.
You do all of this to undermine them, because if they win then you and your decedents will live in a totalitarian woke dystopia under their merciless dictatorial command where they will tear everything down until all that remains is a constant cry of suffering, because in their hearts they are vengeful sadists.
This isn't new, and the "woke" changes were very minor, relatively speaking.
At the end of the day, if this is too much wokeness (some race swapping) you might as well go live on a farm and not have an internet connection because you're not going to be able to consumer any western media at all.
If this isn't significant enough to be an issue, then why was it significant enough for them to do it in the first place? I'm also perfectly okay with importing non-pozzed shit from places like Japan or finding old, non-woke horseshit from decades ago. You honestly just sound like either a concern troll, an NPC or both.
We can complain about it and refuse to buy (pirate instead) but on the woke scale this is very low. We need to move the ball back towards non-woke and you have to do that one step at a time. You have to target the worst examples and work backwards from there instead of demanding purity and getting ignored.
You start with easy stuff like luxury goods, which entertainment always is. Anyone still supporting woke movies, games, etc., when the ones making it want them dead is a massive tool. Allowing little shit to slide is also how it got to this point in the first place.
If this isn't significant enough to be an issue, then why was it significant enough for them to do it in the first place?
That logic does not follow in this situation. Also, I didn't say to ignore it, I said to intelligently pick your battles and not to rage over petty woke crimes while taking away focus from far worse ones.
I'm also perfectly okay with importing non-pozzed shit from places like Japan
Sadly major Japanese corpos like Sony & Square Enix are among the worst offenders now.
You honestly just sound like either a concern troll, an NPC or both.
Cool bro, and you sound like an idiot who is hurting, not helping, the Right.
You're losing. Yet you won't change tactics and try to be smarter.
You start with easy stuff like luxury goods, which entertainment always is.
Cool bro, and you sound like an idiot who is hurting, not helping, the Right.
You're losing. Yet you won't change tactics and try to be smarter.
You're obviously just a concern troll at this point. Not buying luxury goods from those that hate you is trivial, especially when there are dozens of better alternatives.
If its so easy why are you losing so badly?
Notices it says "you" instead of "we". Good job outing yourself as a leftoid NPC just here to act like a concern troll. You also suck at reading comprehension, since I said it was easy to not buy luxury goods. Not that it's easy to undo decades of leftist subversion.
This all the way. he isn't part of this community so his concern trolling lays on deaf ears. The more he tries to call is right wing the more he reveals his true intentions
But everyone her is down voting you to oblivion pretty obvious your chucked mindset isn't changing minds but embolding those that oppose you and the left. Makes me wonder if you'd be okay with a bull filling your wife cause it's the new sensation sweeping the nation. Breed more strong white men and women gentlemen be safe
The dumbfucks in here down voting me don't matter. They represent the lunatic fringe and perpetual losers who don't know the 1st thing about political power.
The minds that need to be changed are in the center, and I guarantee you I am a lot better at that than the lot of your retards put together.
Makes me wonder if you'd be okay with a bull filling your wife
You must be a cuck if your response to a discussion about wokeness in video games immediately triggers you into cuck fantasizing. Keep your sexual fetishes to yourself, degen.
Kek your just a leftist troll. No one takes you seriously and the "center" you refer to will soon chemically castrate there children so sounds pretty lefty to me. Enjoy your degenerate world as I and many here foster safe havens away from freaks like you
Why not? To change the race of a character in a game requires new art assets, both animation assets and concept/storyboard assets, maybe even new voice acting. It probably cost a couple thousand dollars on their end at the minimum. And the decision to make that choice took place in a meeting, which cost labor time (money) to occur.
It is clearly worth a new car to them, why is it not worth a new car to us as consumers? Is there some disparity in value that I do not know about? They spent thousands of dollars on us, are we not supposed to "appreciate" that they've done so?
I find it unfathomable that you take such issue with people saying, "I don't like the stuff in this (completely, utterly, non-essential-to-life) thing, therefore I'm not going to engage with it and spend my time and money in other ways."
Must be something in that big brain of yours that us little ol' engineers don't possess.
you're not going to be able to consumer (sic) any western media at all.
These terms are acceptable. I've basically been living that way for the better part of a decade now and I don't feel that I've missed out on anything.
And there are actually people that wonder why the Overton Window shifts ever-more to the left, when you have people who will continually excuse the inches that are pushed and pushed and pushed, and then wonder why you're a mile from where you started.
We need to move the ball back towards non-woke and you have to do that one step at a time.
You don't do that by conceding inches. That's how miles are taken away from you.
My dude, my strategy WAS your strategy. For YEARS I preached that it wasn't that bad, that it was just little things, and I have changed after it failed for all that time.
Most people here have been where you are right now.
You want to know why miles have been taken from the Right? It's because our team is saddled with people like you.
My dude, my strategy WAS your strategy. For YEARS I preached that it wasn't that bad, that it was just little things, and I have changed after it failed for all that time. Most people here have been where you are right now.
Bullshit, you're not more evolved or advanced than I am, you're just more of a demoralized loser who is burned out and lacks the intelligence to pick battles and be tactical, so you're just REEEing blindly over petty small shit while ignoring the much larger shit.
You know what you're like? China. China actually had power when they picked their battles to ban movies. But then they started to ban ALL the movies and guess what happened? They made themselves irrelevant.
You are not on my team, you partisan hack cunt.
You're right, you're a fucking loser. I don't want you on my team. You call me partisan like an insult? Retard, partisans are the ones fighting this culture war, not losers like you.
Keep going red on red you fucking retard. You're a loser and you'll never make a difference. You're irrelevant and your only role to ever play will be to be showcased by the Left as an example of how crazy the Right is.
I have yet to hear a single right wing idea from you. But sure mix racing and empowered women's is totally right wing brah. Gtfo out of here and back to chucked reddit. I'm sure they would love another cuck mindset like you there
This game's existence is honestly great.
Its just low enough on the scale to not be easily dismissed as overtly woke nonsense, but still have plenty right there under the surface.
Its a great barometer of people willing to compromise (for no gain but their own hedonism and laziness) to the Left and its machinations, as long as the frog is boiled slower.
There seem to be a number of those revealing themselves in this thread.
I’d accuse dekachin of being a professional forum slider if I thought anyone believed this place was worth the money.
Hey now, I’m sure there’s tens of dollars to be made pandering to this sub!
Especially considering the original is still out there to play. Nobody is lacking in entertainment options or should have a fear of missing out by not playing the remake.
Probably the thing that got me the most was the altered poster with the mixed race couple. It really made their whole agenda transparent. They could have made it a Black couple, an Asian couple, or a lesbian couple, or they could have made no changes at all. Heck why not a Black woman and White man? But like all the commercials we see on TV, it's a Black man and White woman. It's a deliberate effort to social engineer society into accepting this form of interracial relationship, and perhaps some troon artist who gets off on "owning the cons". I used to not care but once you notice it's hard not to see it.
(Ok the thing that really got to me was uggifying everyone and shrinking boob sizes, but the poster was a close second.)
The fun part is. There is considerable change made to the game itself. Enough to set it apart from the original and be worth playing at a 20-30$ level. They made major alterations to the combat and exploration, enough to make playing it quite different from the original.
But, because they made such agenda changes, literally no one has even noticed or talked about them. The side that was pro- about such things will only revel in them while dunking on the haters. The side that hates such will only focus on those things and dismiss it.
All the huge amounts of effort into the graphical upgrades and gameplay efforts, thrown away for a few little details done by the art guys.
Honestly, having seen footage of the game and talked with people about it, this seems to be less of a woke problem and more of the industry wide "MOCAP EVERYTHING!!" reaching its uncanny valley. Not that they didn't uglify things, but that there is something more than just unattractiveness that makes the characters offputting.
This particular coupling has been a social engineering thing for decades. Its one of the least popular real life couples, but one of the most popular in all forms of media. From sitcoms to porn, it always is that exact coupling to the point where the ideas of it have actually effect society (such as BBC being an unironic topic people base relationships on).
When the reality is that this duo only really happens in real life to any major extent due to drugs. Black dudes are always the ones with drugs, so the white girls flock to them when they want to become junkies. Its one of the reasons why even "not racist" parents don't want their daughters dating them, because they know what's going on.
No, it's absolutely a woke problem.
The Japanese use the EXACT same LiDAR and photogrammetry tech. Yet, when you look at games like Yakuza or Judgment or Sekiro or Ghostwire, their characters don't look anything like the hideous abominations in Western games.
The artists purposely distort and uglify the characters. Mass Effect Andromeda was a perfect example of that, as the male character looked identical to his real life counterpart, but the female character was made to look hideous and derpy.
But that feeds back into another massive issue with all of this brainwashing propaganda: People keep making excuses for it and justifying it by hand-waving it away when it appears, no matter how big or small.
No excuse was made. You notice how you cut off my second sentence where I acknowledged it absolutely was uglified too, just so you can soapbox rant?
God forbid I point out that an issue isn't a simple X, but probably X and Y together making something horrible. Nah, everything needs to be a simple clickbait outrage apparently.
You're completely missing the point by getting emotional. I explicitly used the Japanese example to point out that it's not a tech problem. We don't see this issue with South Korean, Chinese, or Japanese games. Why?
You're saying it's a woke problem and tech problem, but that doesn't fly because the examples I used don't have the issue that Western games do, only Western games are having that problem using the EXACT same technology. Why?
Do you see my point? It's not an "X and Y together making something horrible" when we know for a fact that other Asian companies use the exact same Y and none of their stuff comes out looking horrible. Why?
Throwing accusations out randomly to make yourself seem smarter is your method huh? What a classic straight out of the Atheism+ era. Though I suppose when your reading level is "find a way to be mad" then amused sarcasm might seem emotional.
For the same reason that despite literally all the other tech being the same, you can tell when a game is made there versus the West in every other facet of a game as well. They use them differently, and find different things more appealing. Especially as Asian games are more likely to take things like Mocap, then pretty it up because its obviously offputting. Whereas the West takes that same base problem, and either ugly it or leave it in for "realism." It wasn't discounting the ugly factor, it was saying that even when they didn't do that they still looked wrong.
But, considering you jumped right over the point where I agreed with you about there being a uglification problem just so you can continue to soapbox rant, I doubt this will get through to you either.
That is literally what I just said: It's not a tech problem.
The technology is -- as you pointed out -- exactly the same. It doesn't know or care about what it's being used for, the results are always the same.
You just pointed out that despite Asian studios being smaller and working on tighter budgets, actually spend time to make their games/characters look good because they're trying to make good looking, fun games.
That goes back to my original point: this isn't a tech issue. It's a woke issue. Woke people aren't skilled enough to use decades old tech. That's why the games come out bad.
So this goes right back to the point I made before: it is not an X (woke) and Y (tech) issue. It is simply an X (woke) issue.
This is honestly one of my favourite webcomic about this trend.
Because that's the problem with noticing this crap: most of it is small and tiny and relatively tiny. But it's not just one thing. It's not just one instance. It's always been a pattern. Yeah, the toilet sign isn't that big of a deal. But it's a clear trend that shows a pattern of behaviour by the people who made it.
It's never just been one thing. It has always been a continued pattern.
Absolutely. All of this bullshit started as these little nothings, before they grew to what they were. Its not suddenly okay when they calm down back to the little concessions, which only seem so little because of how far the Overton Window has moved.
Its one reason why I enjoy the PC modding battleground that's cropping up. Its a much more direct message to the devs and companies that "we like this game, but hate this particular thing" instead of the classic "they didn't buy this game, better self the entire IP its worthless" generalized. As long as you pirate it, then blow the mod up, its the best way you can send a message back without supporting.
The repetition of the propaganda induces the change in behavior and thought. All minor instances of it are a threat.
You guys are losers.
At the end of the day everyone like you, Adamrises, are nothing but a bunch of loser virtue signalers trying to signal that you are more righteous than intelligent people who care about the Right. You don't care about the Right, you only care about burnishing your status in this shitty little fringe community.
Culture wars are won by fighting over the center and winning people to your cause. None of you perrenial losers care about that. You're living in your shitty little fringe cult commune, whining and complaining to each other about society while doing nothing to fix it, behaving like a cult where virtue signaling is more important than making a real difference.
Thank you for showing me that you people are every bit as stupid as the liberals. My years on reddit led me into the mistaken belief that liberals are uniquely stupid. Nope. You people are just as bad, it's just a different flavor.
Damn, somebody is really salty he got called dumb. Clearly you will show all of us with another impotent little comment about how super duper smart and relevant your opinion is.
If this is how easy you are to throw into a tantrum while screaming about how everyone else is worthless and retarded, I'm sure you are the best candidate for "winning people" and optics.
He's assmad because he was clocked for constantly conceding inch after inch after inch. That's why he's now resorted to a "no u" screed about how everyone here is actually the real enemy.
Retard talks about division and then goes and tries to be the most divisive cunt here by continually letting leftists walk all over him.
Its also funny, because even in these assmad screeches he does have some points. Which no one listens to or cares about be he is just running around screaming and attacking anyone who doesn't fellate him.
You know, the kind of thing that drives people away and wins no one to your side, despite that being his biggest sticking point about how we are bad.
When are you finally going to kill yourself? Retarded piece of shit.
Never heard of that channel, going through the backlog and enjoying it quite a lot though I gotta say especially the point of choice he brings up in the video with RPGs and the immersion you get out of it is what I miss in modern games the most...the politics of Skyrim still being talked about just hit the nail on the head for me because that's literally me every time I have to say why I like political games which don't go black or white but not games with modern politics in them.
The woke shit in the game was included with basically no thought. If you thought about it for one second, it almost seems like intentional parody. This is a game where corporations place so little value on human life that they harvest lab-grown babies for organ-replacement, the ship is a barely functioning piece of shit, and perform illegal mining operations without a care. What does that say about having black people on the propaganda posters? That it is meaningless drivel to make it look like they have "moral principles?" What about the all gender bathrooms? It could just as easily be framed as the mining company trying to cut costs by having one bathroom for both men and women (Hell, it could be argued that EA tried to save money by reducing the amount of modelling needed, and used the "All Genders Bathroom" as a way to make themselves look good in the minds of the leftist occult) I HAVE TO KNOW who was responsible for the decisions? Was it artists who made the art and nobody was willing to say anything? Was it management that said that there has to be more black people?
Also, the propaganda posters in the original were supposedly based on people who worked on the game. You mean to tell me that all of those black people in the posters in the remake are developers at EA Motive? I completely doubt it.
The retarded "capitalism" graffiti from the original aged horribly and would be better off censored away in a remake.
Guess what did not happen?
For the love of god, archive: https://archive.is/oCSj5
I heard they fucked up the lighting so I’ve not cared to even look.
He's right but I bet he once again made a video in the most retarded way possible. I won't be watching this time though
I mean, even if it wasn't woke, I'm not for it anyway. The original game still holds up very well, even on the graphics, there's no need for a remake. Out of all genres, horror games are actually the one which profits the most out of "low graphics", since it makes you imagine even more threats. Just compare how terrifying Silent Hill 1 with cubic polygons is compared to Calisto Protocol full of stuttering jump scares. Sure, let's consume the same games over and over again, I'm sure it's opening a great future.
However, while I generally like Synthetic Man's videos, I think he's really starting to get too full of anger. Other people in this thread just says he's basically an "Anti-SJW" and I kind of agree, whatever doesn't go 100% his ways must be retard wokeshit. The problem is, he's building his audience to be as angry as he his on everything, and he's going to get stuck in that in the future every time he tries to do some more positive stuff.
Meanwhile, he absolutely refuses to get good indie games a chance, cause "That's not the AAA experience that I want.". Well, if you can't give good stuff a chance, I honestly don't care how much you cry about the bad stuff. You didn't need to buy the game to see how woke it is, so why buy it and show it to the world and give it more PR? How about you show instead what a good non-woke horror game actually is?
The persence of "woke shit" isn't exclusionary until it becomes definining. Some stupid shit in a game can be passed over if the game is, overall, great. Besides the only woke shit I know of in the game is the inclusive bathroomm but that is made into a a total kek due to the tranny hanging from a noose inside. So, you can disable all trigger warnings, they are only an option so that isn't even an argument. I still will not buy this game because of my EA boycott, but the "woke shit" is sound like the right wing version of leftists bitching about jk and hogwarts.
Well, he's right about people ignoring the woke shit in it. Isaac also looks worse, as does Nicole.
That said, still a good game and I think a couple of changes made it great.
Synthetic man is a giant faggot who can't actually make a good point, and only screeches about "(x) is woke leftist bullshit". He's the right wing version of the sjws.
And thus proving his point
We’ve seen it in this forum too with all the soy boy potterheads rushing out to defend hogwarts legacy
Few people have principles when its their beloved thing, or when the chance to "own the libz lol" presents itself so easily.
I like when the femboys out themselves by crying over what other people enjoy in their spare time.
I like when a bunch of people who are supposedly against wokeness in gaming/media fawn over a game with a troon in it from a hardcore feminist ip to begin with
Epstein-from-the-grave, is that you?
No, I'm just not going to be a giant pansy ass bitch over bathroom signs. Or do you get a mad on every time you see a unisex bathroom irl?
It's almost like multiple things can be true, if you're not a massive retard.
Failure to oppose this shit is why things have become as bad as they have. You are the problem.
Every time they shift the goal posts, and you choose to entertain yourself with the new caricatures, you prove you are as programmable as the left. The only difference is whether they use a shellscript or C++.
Yeah, because that's what I said.
I'm glad we have retards like you here.
I'm against the woke changes. I didn't buy the game. I haven't actually bought a new game in a long time (or seen most movies) because they're terrible, and they're full of virtue signaling. I've railed against a lot of things, feel free to view my posting history.
Just don't be a little soy faggot and cry about unisex bathrooms when we have bigger issues, like kids getting raped in the real world, or leftists trying to destroy education, or any number of other more pressing issues.
I can not be happy about these changes, because they're shit, but I can also know what to save my energy for actually being something to fight about.
Sort of a retarded comment on a sub that is ostensibly about the woke incursion into video games. Even putting aside your fallacy of relative privation, this is precisely the place to complain about the “small and petty” things in our entertainment. By objecting to such content, you’re showing us what truly doesn’t belong here: you.
Thanks for showing you also can't read.
I clearly said it was woke bs. Multiple times, even.
Go fuck your boyfriend or something.
Never heard of him. Sounds like I've got a new Youtuber to follow.
If he made cohesive points, maybe, but a lot of what I've seen is not that.
He goes "it's woke", but doesn't back it up. He doesn't provide evidence, and often contradicts his own opinions about things in 5 minutes because he has the attention span of a gold fish.
Interesting. I'll have to watch more of his videos to decide. I do get exhausted of people doing nothing but complaining. A lot of this woke stuff is obvious though.
Yep. That's why I don't need some screechy soyboy faggot to tell me it is. I already know. I have working eyeballs.
He backs it up, and this isn't nuclear physics, the evidence isn't complicated.
This isn't new, and the "woke" changes were very minor, relatively speaking.
At the end of the day, if this is too much wokeness (some race swapping) you might as well go live on a farm and not have an internet connection because you're not going to be able to consumer any western media at all.
We can complain about it and refuse to buy (pirate instead) but on the woke scale this is very low. We need to move the ball back towards non-woke and you have to do that one step at a time. You have to target the worst examples and work backwards from there instead of demanding purity and getting ignored.
These are the words of a conquered people. "Sure they're replacing us at every opportunity, but what are you going to do? Not consume product?"
Yes. I have neither time nor money to give to people who want to see my race exterminated. That anyone still does is deeply concerning.
The fact that there are only two responses right now and they both sound like concern trolls is a bit telling. I'm not saying they 100% are shills, but it's strange to see anyone on this board trying to defend supporting this kind of bullshit.
I'm probably more to the right than half the people here. You can see my comment history.
The fact that a bunch of mouth breathers like you think I'm a concern troll says more about you than me at this point.
People who are more right wing don't consume woke bullshit
So what do you call soy man buying dead space?
ghostfox1_
So you can't defend soy man buying it, and have to bash me instead. Curious.
Almost like you retards are the same as the SJWs.
Also, I didn't buy it. I haven't bought a new game in a long time.
No, I gave you practical and realistic advice.
Okay and 95% of people who read that would just label you a stormfag and consider you lunatic fringe. You're not changing any minds and you're not winning any wars. People like you aren't making things any better, and in fact the liberals expertly exploit people like you to manipulate the majority into undermining the Right. Your very existence is a liability because you aren't intelligent enough to know not type type shit like what I just quoted above.
And I'm sure ranting blowhards like yourself cannot be described by any of these accusations. You are the superior big brain immune to all of it, while us lesser beings are but pawns.
Yeah, I am smarter and I'm not going to apologize for it. Dealing with idiots on message boards is tiresome. I feel like a special needs teacher in here sometimes. I couldn't give less of a fuck that you get your panties in a bunch about it and downvote, lol.
I've done more to fight for the Right than any of you, and not just online.
And yet here you sit, willingly doing something you consider tiresome, retarded, and above you. Truly the mark of a brilliant man.
"you see I'm a good little cuck and I NEVER speak out against mainstream opinions because I have no principles"
Ok faggot, whatever you say.
You’re dead wrong. The left has shown everyone how you win the culture war, and that’s by adopting and adhering to extreme positions. You gain ground not by moderation but by tearing the Overton Window as far as you can in your preferred direction.
In the case of woke media, you disparage and boycott anything that shows even a hint of wokeness. In cases of beloved classics being vandalized by modern woke creators, you should be even more pissed.
Yeah, don't ask questions or get angry about anything. Just consume product, then get excited for next product.
Or be intelligent like the Left is (they're so much better than the Right at this) and instead of insisting on total purity right now, play the long game and pick your battles, attacking the most vulnerable enemy targets, crushing them, and then systematically shifting to less obvious targets until you're eradicated your enemy.
Because you purists are delusional and amount to old men shouting into the wind on your porches. Nobody is listening. Nobody cares, and the libs have already turned you into a weapon to help their side, by using you as outrage bait to play off of.
You think you're pure, but what you actually are, is stupid, ineffectual, and perpetually losing.
I was going to get the remake, then I saw a woke shit review. So now I won’t. If enough people think like me, that’s all that’s needed.
Everything these freaks infest, they destroy. We will not begin to win until they suffer the consequences of that destruction, and massive, unescapable failure is the only way they'll end up going down with the ship.
A woke remake selling 50% of its projected copies is a good place to start.
Lmao you're such a faggot shill, so many words to say "well I'm a cuck and I bought the game"
I guess I have to agree that long term subversion is an effective way to destroy things, but if that's what "intelligence" is, I'd rather not react to fabian socialists by making another group that's just as bad.
Unlike leftists, we have to abide by principles, so abandoning those principles because the enemy is not held back by them..that is basically the only way to fail. Part of being a principled actor is being willing to protect those principles even if you are going to lose some battle. (I'm suggesting that "intelligent" warfare is a violation of various principles)
I think it'd be fine to just have open discussion of the ideas at play because I'm confident that the bad ideas are unable to withstand competition. Sure, most people aren't prepared to rationally interact with ideas, but enough are to make a difference. And yeah, there is no free speech platform that exists anymore. But some of the low-level commentary can help others think about new perspectives. So I really have to firmly oppose the idea that people should keep their mouths shut if they can't articulate things well or if they can't bend over backwards far enough. That's just a different demand for purity, and much less reasonable for public discourse.
You don't need to sacrifice your principles to say
"This new dead space is only a little woke so I won't be that upset about it, I'll focus my energy on the bigger offenders I can make a stronger case about"
The sad reality is that some mild race swapping enjoys overwhelming approval, to the point where almost all right wing pundits won't even criticize it because they're so afraid to pick that fight.
It's a fight that needs to be fought, but right now it's a loss. We need to lay the groundwork and win other battles 1st.
Hmm, I think I see what you're saying. It's definitely less of a sacrifice to say that than going full subversion.
Personally, I'd be pleased if people said more than "woke shit, not buying", just to encourage better public discourse. But that's my own priority of wanting my presumed allies to have a firm grasp of their own ideas, along with the flexibility to argue effectively in public (because eventually they're gonna need to defend their ideas).
The Right wins when it convinces others to follow suit.
The Left wins BECAUSE it invests extraordinary efforts to convince, manipulate, and control others through every means necessary.
People in this sub whining about it doesn't move the ball.
Yours is a losing strategy.
The left got dominant by attacking, never letting go, refusing to compromise even a little bit, and appealing to emotions. They didn't get to where they are by granting anyone any victories, no matter how small.
You should not pay for any entertainment that they like in any way. Any representation, diversity, propaganda, anything, you avoid it and you make sure everyone you know avoids it too. Teach people to torrent or use free streaming sites.
You have to use their words against them, and you can never accept any of their victories.
Left complaining about the right removing books from schools? Then write a book celebrating the history of social darwinism and make them go on the record to ban it from schools.
Left want more diversity in cinema? You make sure their content fails.
Left wants more censorship? Deliberately use the words they don't want you to use.
Left wants you to listen to this or that group? Actively go out of your way to ignore those people.
You do all of this to undermine them, because if they win then you and your decedents will live in a totalitarian woke dystopia under their merciless dictatorial command where they will tear everything down until all that remains is a constant cry of suffering, because in their hearts they are vengeful sadists.
If this isn't significant enough to be an issue, then why was it significant enough for them to do it in the first place? I'm also perfectly okay with importing non-pozzed shit from places like Japan or finding old, non-woke horseshit from decades ago. You honestly just sound like either a concern troll, an NPC or both.
You start with easy stuff like luxury goods, which entertainment always is. Anyone still supporting woke movies, games, etc., when the ones making it want them dead is a massive tool. Allowing little shit to slide is also how it got to this point in the first place.
Worse. He's a Californian.
That logic does not follow in this situation. Also, I didn't say to ignore it, I said to intelligently pick your battles and not to rage over petty woke crimes while taking away focus from far worse ones.
Sadly major Japanese corpos like Sony & Square Enix are among the worst offenders now.
Cool bro, and you sound like an idiot who is hurting, not helping, the Right.
You're losing. Yet you won't change tactics and try to be smarter.
If its so easy why are you losing so badly?
You're obviously just a concern troll at this point. Not buying luxury goods from those that hate you is trivial, especially when there are dozens of better alternatives.
Notices it says "you" instead of "we". Good job outing yourself as a leftoid NPC just here to act like a concern troll. You also suck at reading comprehension, since I said it was easy to not buy luxury goods. Not that it's easy to undo decades of leftist subversion.
This all the way. he isn't part of this community so his concern trolling lays on deaf ears. The more he tries to call is right wing the more he reveals his true intentions
But everyone her is down voting you to oblivion pretty obvious your chucked mindset isn't changing minds but embolding those that oppose you and the left. Makes me wonder if you'd be okay with a bull filling your wife cause it's the new sensation sweeping the nation. Breed more strong white men and women gentlemen be safe
The dumbfucks in here down voting me don't matter. They represent the lunatic fringe and perpetual losers who don't know the 1st thing about political power.
The minds that need to be changed are in the center, and I guarantee you I am a lot better at that than the lot of your retards put together.
You must be a cuck if your response to a discussion about wokeness in video games immediately triggers you into cuck fantasizing. Keep your sexual fetishes to yourself, degen.
Kek your just a leftist troll. No one takes you seriously and the "center" you refer to will soon chemically castrate there children so sounds pretty lefty to me. Enjoy your degenerate world as I and many here foster safe havens away from freaks like you
Why not? To change the race of a character in a game requires new art assets, both animation assets and concept/storyboard assets, maybe even new voice acting. It probably cost a couple thousand dollars on their end at the minimum. And the decision to make that choice took place in a meeting, which cost labor time (money) to occur.
It is clearly worth a new car to them, why is it not worth a new car to us as consumers? Is there some disparity in value that I do not know about? They spent thousands of dollars on us, are we not supposed to "appreciate" that they've done so?
I find it unfathomable that you take such issue with people saying, "I don't like the stuff in this (completely, utterly, non-essential-to-life) thing, therefore I'm not going to engage with it and spend my time and money in other ways."
Must be something in that big brain of yours that us little ol' engineers don't possess.
These terms are acceptable. I've basically been living that way for the better part of a decade now and I don't feel that I've missed out on anything.
And there are actually people that wonder why the Overton Window shifts ever-more to the left, when you have people who will continually excuse the inches that are pushed and pushed and pushed, and then wonder why you're a mile from where you started.
You don't do that by conceding inches. That's how miles are taken away from you.
This is the honest, hard truth right here.
Every single bit of this nonsense matters. It's as you said -- we got here because way too many people conceded the "small stuff".
Your strategy has failed so you don't get to lecture anyone.
All you motherfuckers on this board are outcasts exiled to the lunatic fringe, powerless, screaming to one another into the void.
You're stupid and stubborn and you'll always lose and never help the cause.
But you'll do a good "holier than thou" act to stroke each other off on a board nobody reads but you.
You want to know why miles have been taken from the Right? It's because our team is saddled with people like you.
My dude, my strategy WAS your strategy. For YEARS I preached that it wasn't that bad, that it was just little things, and I have changed after it failed for all that time.
Most people here have been where you are right now.
You are not on my team, neo-con cunt.
Bullshit, you're not more evolved or advanced than I am, you're just more of a demoralized loser who is burned out and lacks the intelligence to pick battles and be tactical, so you're just REEEing blindly over petty small shit while ignoring the much larger shit.
You know what you're like? China. China actually had power when they picked their battles to ban movies. But then they started to ban ALL the movies and guess what happened? They made themselves irrelevant.
You're right, you're a fucking loser. I don't want you on my team. You call me partisan like an insult? Retard, partisans are the ones fighting this culture war, not losers like you.
Keep going red on red you fucking retard. You're a loser and you'll never make a difference. You're irrelevant and your only role to ever play will be to be showcased by the Left as an example of how crazy the Right is.
blocked.
Go back to Twitter where you belong.
Blocking means he is a scared child
I have yet to hear a single right wing idea from you. But sure mix racing and empowered women's is totally right wing brah. Gtfo out of here and back to chucked reddit. I'm sure they would love another cuck mindset like you there