I was just thinking about the sorry state of modern gaming, and that video of the Diablo 4 level designer chicks (trying to) play the game they helped design popped into my head.
This also ties in to a comment I made somewhere recently about being tired of anything "white" or "male" or "straight" or just generally normal being derided, and the destruction of those things being celebrated.
"Dude bros" is generally just code for passionate young white men. Now, sure, there are some negative aspects to young men of any race (usually overshadowed by the never talked about positives), but it was weaponized as a smear by fucking race communists to try to invade and take over...well, everything.
Things were better when "dude bros" ran (or at least contributed) to things. Back in the day, these creative innovators were genius nerd gamers who were hyper-passionate about their work, and it showed. They were rockstars, who actually played and cared about the field they were contributing to, and pushing forward.
Today, we have a bunch of diversity hires (anyone non-white and/or non-male, and/or non/straight) who often clearly have never seriously played a video game in their lives, much less the game they're spending their time designing. They're not passionate about the field, they're not passionate about the project. They're either just there for a paycheck or, worse, they're there to take shots at the imaginary "dude bros" in their minds that haunt their every waking hour. They're out for revenge, and to rub it in the faces of the dude bros that came before, and the dreaded largely straight white male demographic their games are still appealing to. I'm not even sure they have the self-awareness to realize their own work will never even hold a candle to that of the dude bros.
TL;DR: Put nerdy White/Asian male gamers back in charge of game design, and kick out the harpies and queers. Simple as. Same goes for society, probably.
Ninja Edit: The dude bros could make really impressive shit run on a calculator. Modern game design makes supercomputers sweat doing basic fucking shit. Save me from this nonsense.
One More Edit: Excellence used to be rewarded. Now it often gets hitpieces written against it by jealous journos working for the megacorps who churn out the shit games. If you don't pay the tithes, you don't get attention.
The inevitable conclusion of leftism is to be anti white. Because the ultimate inequality is genetics.
I can't exactly disagree. I think it's a bit of an oversimplification, but there are certainly intrinsic differences. Whites (and certain Asian subgroups) do very well, no matter what situation you drop them in. Others don't. Some of that is circumstance (I do believe a lot of the groups could be doing at the very least better than they currently are), but some of it seems to not be mere circumstance.
That said, it's not my prime point here. This is a cry for passionate and competent gamers to be in charge of designing games again, not just cheering on white supremacy.
But, yeah, it's a real shame what the antiwhite brigade have done to both our games and our society at large. There is clearly an attack going on, that has been going on for at least a century.
Those are synonyms. Decent videogames come out of homogeneous societies with genuine cultures.
Wanting good videogames is white supremacy. Wanting running water is white supremacy. And it's Japanese supremacy, and several other kinds too.
Again, I don't even disagree. But it's not my point here. Not everything has to be about a racial crusade. I want people who are passionate and competent about the field. That's generally going to be Whites and Asians, yes. But technically anyone is capable, outside of the vengeful anti-whites, who are retarded losers.
I'm sure you've seen some of my other comments. I'm fairly "based and redpilled." But I don't want to have to make everything about how great white people are, or whatever.
Right now, I just want competent video games. That was my feeling going in to this thread.
Sometimes you just need some escapism from the retarded state of the world.
Neomarxists have reframed cultural arguments to be strictly about race and sexuality to the point that even people who want to fix society won't shut up about those arguments either. Neutral escapism is probably dead until this goes away.
The original Blizzard guys were nerds, not dudes. Dudebro is just a generic communist slur for "young attractive white man".
Dudebro is communist slur for any (usually white) male in a male-dominated anything. Gamers and nerds were all dudebros, because commies hate men.
OG gamedevs qualify, as evidences by commies calling them such repeatedly.
The truly stupid thing about modern society these days is yes even gamer nerds qualify as 'dudebros' these days because they do work out even if it's only an average amount and are mostly functional adults despite the stereotypes. Not talking about socialising or anything but being able to cook and look after themselves properly. That automatically puts them above a significant chunk of the obese and mentally ill majority population.
Sure, but a good few studios up to ~2005 where the nerd-culture equivalent of fratty. Nerdy guys became rich and icons amongst their fandom; Strippers and blackjack inevitably followed.
The studios where fun to work in though, no-one walked on eggshells and great games where made as a result.
I never thought of the term dudebro as any of these things, but more of the college fraternity trust fund types who spent all their time partying on their dad's money while treating everyone else who were inevitably beneath them like shit. As far as gaming goes, they would never be seen playing anything beyond Madden or Call of Duty.
Outside of what they are called though, whatever group you describe are definitely the ones that made the golden age of games.
So you've been taken in by thr subversion.
The left takes power words, slurs, and indefensible groups and uses them for what they want to target whether the usage makes sense or not.
So nerdy programmers are dudebros and always were, to trigger connotations of insular, sex pest, frat boys when they describe the culture of game companies.
Because words are incantation rather Tyan description.
As I said in my other comment, it's basically just become a generic term for a young white dude, usually who dares to hang out with any other young white dudes. Any white male dominated space is inhabited by 'dudebros' by definition, because communists hate white males.
Doesn't matter how nerdy or uncool they may be, if a bunch of white dudes get together to create something, they're smeared as dudebros. And also oppressive racists...how could those dudebros keep the stunning and brave transwomen of color out of the field that they totally want to work in organically?!
"Dudebro" is just any white male who doesn't toe the party line...and plenty who do, if the space they inhabit is still too white.
Then that's SJWs messing up the meaning of dudebros.
Maybe it is now, I'm not really a young white dude so I don't have a point of reference for that, and I find most people here spend much more time observing leftist spaces than I do, so I guess they could use that term for it now. I was thinking historically. I grew up the nerdy programmer, game modder, computer builder type. I can't imagine any of my friends wanting to claim a term to describe ourselves as a "dudebro." In 1995, we'd have wholly rejected something that sounded so retarded and gay, or projected it onto a another group that was actually retarded and gay.
Dudebros had nothing to do with games brah.
Too busy doin biznaz brah.
Modern 'games developers' are a bunch of pussy bitches who can barely cobble together an average third person controller ( They seem to avoid FPS' now because they're primarily catering to consoles ) and the reason that their games always run like shit despite being extremely simple mechanically is because they vomit 4k textures all over their models and their models themselves are in the hundreds of thousands with barely any optimisation done on them.
At first I was wondering how professional it was appropriate to be when talking about these types of people but honestly given what they're doing to everyone around them and the borderline illegal practices they're doing in the business fuck them. They absolutely deserve to get trolled out of existence and if there's one thing that can unite the games community it's this.
Yes, you're right, things were better with the 'straight white males' and asians in charge, yes you're right, these people have never played a video game in their lives and it shows. The more we uncover about their shady dealings the more it's looking like the initial buyouts of various competition back in the day were part of the long con to make sure that there was nobody around to prevent them from running IPs into the ground so they can collect their ESG and DEI money.
Edit: I'm convinced if you gave these people any sort of real AI coding behaviour to look through or an RTS setup they would probably not be able to do it.
Probably also the influx of artfags as graphics have become more and more important. Used to be that programmers comprised the majority of dev teams, but now they're just a small part. Also you have a lot of people who wanted to join Hollywood but ended up having to go into game dev instead.
Dude...like...bro!