What's that thing they tend to throw back at the gaming public when we complain about overly-intrusive political or LGBTOMGWTFBBQ references in a game? "Maybe this game just isn't made for you"?
Yeah, that's how I feel about them bitching about "spoopy spydars" in a game. I have a fear of heights. Like, vertigo-inducing, stomach drops through my feet, legs turn to Jell-O anxiety when I get too close to a ledge with no railing - and yet for some reason I have zero problem jumping from rooftops in Assassin's Creed, but I digress. Regardless, I don't play games that trigger that fear when I recognize it - like Mirror's Edge. Same thought process goes here - if someone is an arachnophobe, then maybe they shouldn't play the fucking game. Simple as that.
"For want of a nail", and the like, eh? There was a time in the world when I thought that the meme of the Buffalo Bills failing to win a game leading to the celebrity of the Kardashians was the strangest thing I'd heard of, but recent world events definitely take the cake on that front.
Another "Never Forget" is that if Jack Ryan hadn't tried to get his wife Jeri (y'know, the actress that played Seven of Nine) to do kinky sex shit in public sex clubs it wouldn't have been part of their divorce's custody records, which wouldn't have led to said divorce records getting unsealed when he was running against Obama for Senate, which wouldn't have led to him dropping out of the race. We basically ended up with President Obama because the Republican candidate got kink-shamed out of the running by his ex-wife.
It's weird coincidences like that that make the truth of the world stranger than fiction.
I had no idea who the heck that was, so I Googled him and found the Know Your Meme entry. Jeebus, that was a shitshow of a read. The guy I know isn't half that ate up, but after seeing this garbage that was posted to a FB group "she" created, I'm starting to wonder.
It totally was, and if you looked back through his Facebook history you could see the indoctrination and downward spiral. He went from posting normal hobby and personal stuff to dropping stuff that was pro-feminist, anti-patriarchy, and apologizing for his "male privilege". From there it was pro-LGBT stuff, then pro-Trans stuff, and then at the end of one year he posted something about being true to yourself and he dropped that account to start posting under his new name on a new account. Following up on that, "she" has descended even further into new-age lunacy, to the point where "she" believes that "she" is some sort of channel for a goddess machine spirit and that "her" My Little Pony dolls are the avatars of that spirit, that literally communicate with "her". The dude needs some serious mental health counseling and likely some drugs to go with an inpatient stay in the nuthouse so he can be deprogrammed.
Go play Cyberpunk and equip yourself with a retractable cyber-dick, I guess. You know they're going to lose their shit even more than they already have over that game once it finally drops.
But then the grand question is "Will they let us make Anti-Antifa tee-shirts?"
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" - GIlmore
Considering that Chinese censorship could definitely considered damage, and it's China that's blocking non-CCP-Approved content, I'd hardly say that it's the US that's splitting the Internet.
I saw a similar situation occur with a dude I'd known for 20+ years, from my college days forward. Guy was as normal as any geek-hobby friend I ever had. He got married, had two kids with a wife he loved, and as a joint hobby they both joined the Society for Creative Anachronism (they were both into fantasy and medieval stuff). Unfortunately, the SCA around this area has largely turned into an SJW cesspool, and I saw him spiral into being a self-loathing, man-hating, flagellant apologist. Flash forward another couple years and he suddenly decides he's trans, despite having never shown any evidence he had dysphoria. Fortunately for his kids they were 18+ at this point, so the impact on them was less than it could have been, but (s)he eventually ended up divorcing the wife and moving out, and then started e-begging for help with the rent and expenses. Dude needed a therapist, not a Ko-Fi for hormone treatments. I figure within a few more years he'll be detransitioning as the local vultures move on to new targets.
I didn't frequent the Dresden Files sub because there were a lot of SJW-types that hung out over there (along with the incessant bullshit posts about Mantles, Titles, and similar garbage) so I must've missed that. I find it hilarious that they'd get all bent over there when they saw the KIA-posters show up in the poll results, as I'm sure the alt I used to post to KIA would have shown up in those listings.
On top of that, it's baffling to me that anyone would scream for NPCs or PCs that are classified as "trans" in a fantasy world that's high-magic, because it's a short jump to assume that there would be magic in said world that could flip someone's gender from M-to-F or F-to-M. Hell, D&D had magical items that would do that years ago. Granted, those were usually treated as "cursed" items because they would make the PC's life hell until they could either get new armor and weapons or get the curse removed, but who's to say that a character with dysmorphia wouldn't just hunt down one of those so they could flip permanently? A savvy DM could even make that the nature of a quest for the players if they were so inclined.
As far as PC go, if you're a dude waning to play as a wispy female elf, go for it. Woman that wants to play as a beefy male dwarf berserker? You do you. You can pick your gender from the jump, so be what you want to be. That's the whole point of something fantastic in nature - you make it all up as you go.
IKR? There's a reason why there's the joke of "MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls" - Back when I used to play as a female mage in WoW it was just to soak free shit out of thirsty dudes who would pony up loot just because OMG A GURL. I guess it wasn't because of that or the fact that I'd rather stare at a female avatar's ass for umpteen hours while playing. Nope, apparently I was thinking about lopping off my junk and prancing around in makeup.
Because "MUH INCLUSIVITY" and "DAT'S RAYCISS" as they're offended on behalf of others is the name of their game. They invade hobby spaces that haven't really had any problems in the past, look for potential issues that match their talking points (no matter how tenuous the link), and demand that the hobby change to match their views.
They play the old mafia game of "That's a nice store front you got there, it'd be a shame if something would happen to it" with both businesses and peoples' lives. Since the businesses don't want the bad optics of claims that they're racist/sexist/whatever-ist, they bend the knee and promise to match demographics in their fantasy worlds that are equal to (or better than) those in the real world. So, instead of fantasy escapism into worlds where there are inherently evil races for our good PCs to battle, we end up with claims that Orcs are an allegory for black people and screams for there to be female Space Marines. Shit like this is exactly why we should have gone harder on gatekeeping our hobbies, but our geek nature of wanting other people to enjoy the things we did was our own downfall.
So what does that mean, over-all? Screw WotC and any other gaming company that has been the knee. There are tons of other non-woke rule sets you can play with, and the only way these woke companies will understand is if you hit them in their bottom line.