Can you imagine anything worse, in the realm of gaming, then playing as a pair of literal millennial girl writers? I expend a decent amount of effort actively avoiding the shit products of millennial girl boss authors. These are the exact people who have fucked fantasy and sci-fi to hell over the last 10+ years. Now they want me to skip right over their painfully terrible self-inserts to play as the actual retards themselves?
The game looks very technically competent. I'm sure the gameplay is fine. But I don't need to tolerate horrible characters, dialogue, and story in my video games. I'm not "missing out" by skipping this shit, same as I'm not missing out when I bypass games created by people who hate me. There are already more good games in existence than any one person could ever fully play. But even if this were the only game in the world, I'd rather quit the hobby than suffer through these characters and this writing.
I still think Buffy is patient zero. It has all the hallmarks we now come to expect from woke media. Nonstop retarded quips. Overpowered girl bosses. LGBT nonsense. If Buffy were released today, you know it would have a bunch of anti-white messaging. In fact, I bet the real bad guys would be conservative white dudes. All the literal monsters would be excused or redeemed.
Buffy gets a pass from a lot of people - like Mauler - because it’s structurally okay and reasonably competent, but I’m not swallowing a bunch of feminist media just because they got some of the basic mechanics right.
Shit, we watched Degrassi Next Gen in our 20s, for the smoking chics, and the absolutely absurd stories. It wasn't any good but you could laugh at it and take in the scenery.
There was an episode of Buffy with her training Dawn. And through the whole episode she keeps asking Dawn, who has the power. And Dawn, and the audience, with her thinks it's an empowering statement. In the end Dawn tries killing a vampire alone and is almost killed when Buffy shows up. And after Buffy kills it she answers the question, the vampires have the power. They are strong, powerful, dangerous creatures.
I remember it because it's such an anti-girlboss sentiment.
The show had its moments and I had fun watching it as a teenager.
But it's definetly Girlboss : The Womening. Rolled my eyes at the ''Lol I'm gay now.'' moment.
The lead character was allowed to have major flaws and get the shit beat out of her several times.
If it was made post 2010, there would be ''transwomen'' slayers to validate the delusions that they are ''real women''.
It was definitely the origin of girlbossing yep.
Buffy had some quite overt anti-White messaging, although admittedly it's more anti-Male than anti-White overall. However, you can definitely see it there if you're looking (heck, the premise itself is that White suburbia is the gateway to Hell).