Naughty Dog’s new IP is a retro sci-fi space game starring a butch, shaved-headed black lesbian girl boss.
The Witcher 4 stars a female lead, an uglified middle-aged Ciri who is also a sassy girl boss.
The new co-op game from Hazelight, (developer of It Takes Two) stars a pair of insufferable millennial female writers.
Outside of what was shown last night, we have the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima with another new girl boss protagonist.
Grand Theft Auto 6? Another new female protagonist.
Is there a literal prohibition on white male leads in western game dev?
Virtually every western advertisement put sassy girl bosses - both real and virtual - front and center. You’d think the majority of competitive online players are female, the way the industry panders to the demo.
Meanwhile, Eastern game devs are cranking out the only media with masculine males and feminine females. The Last Berzerker and Crimson Desert feature white male leads even, a clear indicator that Asian devs are targeting what they correctly perceive to be a gap in the western market.
And the countless female characters in Eastern games? Just as present and powerful, but they aren’t insufferable cunts or masculine abominations. No, eastern female characters are unapologetically attractive and feminine.
The awards also focused on women nonstop. Women in the crowd. Women on stage with the award winners. Female presenters. Meanwhile, almost every winner was a white or Asian dude. Because they are still the ones who put in the hard work to make the fucking games.
Watching the live chats was great, though. The moment you saw purple, people were calling woke. And the best part is knowing that all of the defenders and shills are definitely seething leftists who are terrified of the current cultural realignment.
I think of things like this and I get a little disappointed. Not only in what's out there, but in the wall of apathy in people I'd like to educate on what's really going on.
Think about this. It took ten years for people to understand what gamergate was about, and some still get it wrong. And only because it started happening to them in a way they could no longer deny. Intentionally or otherwise.
Think how long we're gonna have to put up with this bullshit in gaming. They'll be here for another decade with how slow people are to realize what's going on, when you're literally warning them, and they just handwave it because they don't want to believe.
Waking up the normies is almost as tiresome as putting up with the thing you don't want to be around anymore.
To quote a 4chan post:
There's the additional part about it having to personally affect them. Because they can just say "I'm for thing" until next thing is more popular.
But if it actually affects them, then it has to be changed.
We just have to watch everything spiral into complete shit until they finally snap out of it and realize what they lost.
Fuckin' sad.