I see people referencing ESG more and more these days and there seems to be a blatant and undeniable link now between shit, poorly disguised unreal asset flips which even the big studios are doing and them running off a check list of cringey woke talking points or characters that almost always look the same.
If we think about it all titles now seem to follow this type of pattern:
. Blatant Unreal world environment assets that they don't even try to hide or edit properly anymore
. Speed tree ( Possibly the most favourite overused tool of a big studio I love to frequently reference for doubters )
. Usually the most basic third person character controller you've ever seen
. Black woman with afro or dreadlocks heavily featured, usually with a white female in tow and several male background characters
. Possibly characters lifted straight out of metahumans? Difficult to tell, can't confirm properly as of yet but they all look suspiciously similar in terms of fidelity and the setup - see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXuVqfasT90
This isn't what I'm interested in despite the lengthy post, all of these moves by big studios have one thing in common. That's to reduce production time, reliance on a large art team which would have been necessary back in the day and general running costs of maintaining a big studio.
No, what's activating the old weaponised autism on this issue we're facing as gamers is what is truly driving this? Are we looking at a situation where we're going to have something akin to big studios turning into zombie companies that maintain a skeleton crew of do nothing diversity hire employees while you have one or two real designers doing all the work in the background? It seems that if the ESG subsidies are as massive as people seem to think it could well be worthwhile for CEOs to operate their companies as minimally as possible and simply pocket this government money as long as they like and because it's allegedly Blackrock. Much like how hotels are being paid ridiculous amounts of money to house migrants rather than operate themselves as a legitimate business with infinite government money the business owners aren't going to give a shit about what happens as long as they get to keep pocketing their half a million in the bank every year and leave the community to rot.
This means that they can and will keep producing infinite amounts of shit at very little cost and even if gamers all get mad and jump ship it's not going to matter and they will still keep churning this out every year as long as they maintain their diversity quotas and keep getting money.
Yes everybody, I am going down a major conspiracy rabbit hole with this and my brain has been ticking away. I want to know if there are any kind of financial numbers or reports buried deep in the way that potentially supports all of this cringe mediocrity.
If Disney is any model and I think it is the goal seems to be total destruction of anything the enemy enjoys now and forever and we're the enemy. If they lose money on it it's fine by them (the system will just print more) the objective is achieved either way.
Popular franchises and hobbies superficial as they may have been brought people from different backgrounds together and it didn't matter if they were white or black or asian or straight or gay or whatever because they were all trekkies or star wars fans or collected mtg cards or played fighting games or whatever. They could see that despite the powers that be fucking each and everyone one of them in the "real" life they still had their corner of escapism and the friends they met in their hobbies.
The goal behind the goal seems to be twofold. On one hand is removing any last avenue of escape, you either join the sheeple or you become a depressed black pilled husk at best. On the other hand is ensuring that the only groups allowed to form are based on identity groups which by definition cannot coalesce into something that could oppose the system. After all championing rights that are good for everyone so also outside the group is a betrayal of the ingroup. This is compounded by the system propping up the weak, the unpalatable identity groups (blacks, the various sexual freak groups) and undermining the dominant capable one (whites and mostly male, sometimes asians) which makes sense because if you want your enemies to fight each other you better make sure one side can't just obliterate the other.
So what does it matter (to them) if some once beloved gaming or movie studio dies as long as it took down with it the entire fandom, bonus points if some fools were brainwashed by the message too?
I prefer the third option, create an army of chad indie devs that don't rely on ESG payments to make their money as well as use open source software so they can't be cancelled and will tell any woke tards to fuck off.
I've always side that a homo might be living willfully in sin in opposition to almighty God, but that's between Him and them as long as they're good with blowing up commies.