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The difference being Alyx and Eli are actually fleshed out characters with strengths and flaws, and mesh well with the rest of the dystopian Half-Life world that has plenty of different people of various qualities, including high and low quality white people.
contrast this with today's DEI inserts, where the chosen races are always the voice of reason and the best people, and the rest are dithering idiots no matter what position they hold.
Yeah. LithoLaunch kind of missed the mark on this one. The problem isn't that minorities exist in a story. The problem is that minorities get shoehorned where they make no sense, and are made to be blatant Mary Sues that can do no wrong, further highlighting their out of placeness.
unless, you know, somebody is actually paying attention...
most of these characters are absolutely awful people, it's just that nobody ever seems to notice or call them out in universe about it.
That's just standard Mary Sue writing. Perceived as flawless by the writer while any reader with a brain can see how unpleasant they are.
this is true.
Even Kiwifarm was talking about how game industry was liberal-slanted in general before 2010. And I personally didn't like the aesthetics of half-life and almost always preferred playing Japanese games.
It's woke now, and it was woke then. No, I don't give a shit that the game was good. Call a spade a spade.
Difference is it was JUST a coat of paint, an asthetic that was still backed up by gameplay, writing and environmental design.
Nowadays, it's THE focus and everything else has been put as secondary. Maybe we can argue slippery slope but honestly, I'm actually starting to doubt, outside the open degenerates, how much of it WAS slippery slope and how much of it was they were paid to cuck once their talented founders and devs moved on with their lives.
well the bias was there, but as you said, the focus was on a quality product with an engaging story.
hell, even robocop was anti-corporate satire/propaganda, but the story was there. it wasn't just a flimsy fan-fiction to preach at the masses
The comic reeks of layered humour but sadly the Left can't hear of someone like Martin Delany or Walter Tull without first hating their whiteness because of their names before revering their blackness once they are educated about their actions in life.
The very idea that Red Shirts were the cannon fodder for shows like Star Trek, which had the first onscreen interracial kiss without celebration within the show, goes over their head until some minstrel makes a song and dance about it to appease their superiority complex.
DEI does nothing for anyone apart from line scammers pockets by making people feel guilty for something they haven't done.
If Nick Fury was cast as a black man today there would be no end of it from either end had Sam Jackson not already made the part of his own without fanfare.
Things aren't right, and will never be, but they are always getting better every day for those who can actually compare and not buy into the latest craze which sustains charlatans.