100% spot-on. I have only encountered a couple of normies in the wild who actually called out Baldur's Gate 3 as being woke outside of the Synthetic Man/Endymion channels. Everyone else defends it wholeheartedly.
The Left found their in-road. And if they accept the wokeness in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, then it's just another in-road to maintain a rapid slide into a degenerate society. Unfortunately, without a complete collapse, there is no return to normalcy nor any coming back from this.
It actually didn't underperform in sales, sold quite a bit: https://80.lv/articles/days-gone-2-not-happening-as-sony-higher-ups-were-never-fans/
But everyone says that it didn't sell enough at the outset to make whatever hidden profit margin Sony had allegedly set for it. But we have no breakdown in actual revenue, and Sony was intent on making sure the game was never going to be a headliner since it starred a straight-white, badass male.
I liked the game mechanics and the world, but it was still way too "diverse" and Lefty-oriented for my tastes when it came to the story and the side-quests. Still too much woman-power and faggots about in such a hostile post-apocalyptic setting. It was like Mad Max-lite, and the bad guys were bad, but not too bad, so as not to offend anyone.
This is correct.
Their next move is to pivot and rebrand.
The question is, will normies eat up the slop and will those who are aware of the tactics fold or hold the line?
I was going to post the EXACT same thing you did.
The only reason I agree with your suggestions is because you can tell this kid is desperately looking for some kind of male closeness; a paternal figure to help guide him because he lacks it in real life.
It's sad, but this might be the only opportunity this kid has at someone willing to tell it to him straight and get him back on the right path in life.
OP should at least take an opportunity to have a heart-to-heart and just tell it like it is: that trooning out is bad; that continuing down this route will ruin his life permanently; that there is no coming back and a lot of mental health and physical health issues will ensue; and that there is a strong likelihood of suicide if he maintains this route.
But ultimately, the choice is either attempt to help him (if he is open to it) or ban him. It's about as simple as that.
The only thing OP should not do is enable him.
It would be great if culture is shifting so much a AA (I think) studio can get positive publicity by dunking on woke/ESG/DEI stuff. That's actually huge.
Yes and no. CI Games went through some difficult times and had some serious trouble with the development of the Lords of the Fallen follow-up: https://www.pcgamer.com/lords-of-the-fallen-2-studios-fall-out-over-quality-of-work-one-leaves-project/
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/around-30-people-laid-off-in-ci-games-final-round-of-job-cuts
I think what they're doing here is entirely strategic, realising that -- as you pointed out -- the winds of change are taking place, and ratcheting up ill-will amongst their core consumer base does them zero favours. Unlike the other big AAA studios, they can't just fall back on endless bi-annual releases of big-selling yet soulless slop.
It's a calculated move to garner some positive feedback and support for a company that's too big to ride on DEI as a no-name indie with the fallback option of being scooped up by a big publisher when their project fails, and too small to rely on an established franchise to coast on its revenue like Activision or Electronic Arts.
This is the thing that bothers me most.
Some faggot-accepting gamer was talking about how good the Baldur's Gate 3 character creator was -- I informed him that you could not make any hyper-masculine males in Baldur's Gate 3 like Conan the Barbarian. He replied that you could, and provided a link to a video of a created character, and the link he provided was of an effeminate looking guy with black hair and androgynous features. I corrected him by linking him to Age of Conan and Conan Exiles' character creators. He scurried off after that.
But it's sad that today's generation of gamers are bombarded with so much soy-infused propaganda, they think that androgyny is good.
Wait.... those over on The Donald support open homosexuality?!?!?
Why would any guy go out of their way for a minute inside a decidedly mid-at-best skank?
A generation who has grown up addicted to porn.
Yeah, and even then when you could do that dumb stuff, Saints Row 2 made it pretty clear the Boss was hyper-masculine as a written character, so as you mentioned it was done for the giggles and memes, which was fine at the time before faggotry became saturated everywhere. Unfortunately it's used unironically in today's games.
Love the design, and the character looks masculine and competent. Hate that it's on UE5, but it's faster than building their own proprietary engine right now. Maybe for their next game they can go proprietary and ditch the poorly optimised mess that UE5 has turned into. Hopefully the gameplay can compensate.
What other industry is like this? Who else looks at their customer base and says “fuck all these people, we’re gonna focus on a completely different group”?
Comic books? Hollyweird? BBC?
That show was really cool, and could have been something worthwhile. I remember it was around the same time as Starship Troopers but was short lived. I watched a retrospective about that show and it was impressive for what it was, but yeah the diversity back then was still annoying.
I need to find old episodes of Lightning Force to see if it's still as good as I used to think it was or if it aged horribly like some other shows.
I thought of Will Sasso when I saw him.
I thought it was a gay Asian man at first; it has a flat chest.
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Death Stranding
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Mad Max
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Micropose UFO Defence games
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Forza Motorsport 7
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Streets of Rage 4
Brie Larson is the epitome of that description.
That's exactly what they did with Marvel Rivals, though.
I wonder if they can even pull that off. Ubisoft is so rotten to the core they'd have to fire 90% of the people there. Probably not going to be doable due to worker protection laws in the West and government intervention in take overs.
They'll let the current ownership do that due to losses. They'll buy the husk of Ubisoft for its IPs and what brand worth it has left and to get a stronger foothold in Western entertainment markets. From there, they'll use in-house studios to build out the games with some French executives left to oversee general content direction, but it will likely go exactly as Smiggieballs outlined in his post.
That's kind of my problem with it. The game feels half-hearted from a technical perspective.
The idea and implementation of how you drop down and do missions is cool, but it all feels isolated from everything, and the randomly spawning enemies that only spawn within your vicinity really breaks immersion big time.
It always feels like it's more of an arena battle map rather than an actual battlefield. And after a while when you understand how the mechanics work (such as killing the enemies before they can call in reinforcements) it just makes it feel boring.
If reinforcements randomly arrived at outposts and if outposts had set numbers of troops, then it could have been cool, but due to the engine limitations and the way enemy spawns work it greatly diminishes the way the game feels as a whole.
Mate, I absolutely adore Jay Leno's Garage -- he has such amazing cars on there. I don't always agree with his assessment on some cars and the culture surrounding them, but it's such a great historical channel. Hopefully those are being archived on physical media. It's also an extra treat whenever Allen is on the show to talk about his cars or related car culture.
I actually think I prefer Allen's opinions more than Jay's because Allen compares cars as they drive back then and now, rather than through rose tinted glasses. Despite my love for many classic muscle cars from the 60s and 70s, Allen rightly points out that their lack of power steering makes them extremely difficult to drive and finicky on the road, and he's right about that. But I digress.
Anyway, I saw the thumbnail for an ad for Allen's new show, and if he's actually working in a garage, then I'll look forward to that Leno cameo.
That movie becomes more relevant with each passing year.
It's funny, every time I watched it over the last 30 years, I kept raising the IMDB score.
It's now a 10/10.
Yeah, this is the Netflix operandi in motion: The second-season effect.
It almost always rings true that If it didn't have overt wokeism before, it does now.
Not sure why you're being downvoted but the arguments over DCS can be just as bad. It's just not as big as Warthunder or World of Tanks, so the noise doesn't generate as much attention.
Still, I think DCS keeps most of it out of the public view, and Eagle Dynamics does a good enough job of trying to keep things as realistic as possible without including classified mechanics. Most of the retired pilots who have some nitpicks and gripes with the craft usually are keen enough to recognise that the aeronautics are close enough and don't need to breach laws to accomplish the intended task.
Most gamers did not even knew the tranny character was a tranny until their quest reveal it.
It was literally in the character creator. They purposely removed "male" and "female" text indicators due to the tranny freaks, and then added a bunch of genitalia options to appease the porn addicts. None of that added anything to the game, had nothing to do with any of the stories, and was literally there just to push the normalisation of fetishes on the broader public, and majority of people ate it up and defend it.
Then again CP 2077 was made with the original devs of CD projekt before the wokies made them left
Cyberpunk 2077 was woke. Trannies galore. Majority of the wenches in that game were busted looking. Nothing in that game's story actually decried globalisation. Nothing in the game actually highlighted that diversity at the expense of native ethnic majorities is actually a bad thing. But this goes back to my point -- or rather, Razorfist's point that he made a long while ago: people have become accustomed to incrementalism, and so now people -- like now -- are defending those incremental woke steps because it's become so pervasive and normal in today's media.
...and most importantly (and simply), God appointed man to lead and woman to follow.