Avowed character creation has pronouns - Elon Musk disapproves, Obsidian art director disapproves of his disapproval

[Reinhardt]

I'll start taking you serious when *you* actually have something to say.

I'm fairly familiar with the tactics of your ilk, so there's no need to pretend. Let's not beat around the bush - you're not going to do anything but move the goalposts and not so subtly seethe that performative pandering is being rightly ridiculed.

Pattern recognition alone shows many red flags with the game. It's utter slop. You're free to be excited and to play it. Though the tide is turning and a bunch of aging, nutty progressives will further lose relevance and scorch the reputation they built up by being involved in better games in days gone by.

Please do not waste your time interacting with Morgoth. He just is like that.

i call your post "election interference"

So the election is going on after all? I can't find the thread for it...

too early. brucie, morgoth, khor, cael, chimpi - they all have best month to campaign ahead. as bulumbf presidency and big middle east war getting closer pearls of their wisdom will get even more refined.

 

[Yuber]

I hate how people cherry pick, in Baldurs Gate 3 it is fine because "the game is great"...

 

[Junmarko]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

What the fuck is that around his neck? This Hansen guy shouldn't be left around children.

 

[Thalstarion]

Many artists are actively radicalised these days anyway. Those who manage to get through art school unscathed end up losing themselves to the peer pressure of social media where supposed 'fans' will guilt trip them into hating anything that isn't degenerate and disgusting to look at.

It's an extension of the same rot that has seeped into other aspects of society where aesthetics are concerned. Anyone sane wants to be surrounded by people and architecture that is attractive and easy on the eyes. Dysgenic freaks, however, want to be surrounded by ugliness at every turn and indeed, they will sabotage even pleasant places to drag everything down with them.

An excellent example is the desire for progressives to pour concrete over the countryside as to them it isn't a beautiful site to behold but rather another locale to replace with soulless apartment buildings and cheap takeaways.

You can apply this thinking to video games as well. BG3 is very woke in the sense that the aesthetics and demographics lean towards the performative and disgusting. It's only mitigated by the fact that it has some conventionally attractive men and women in it where many other recent games are very much a case of 'spot the white man/woman'.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

 

[Morgoth]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

"Wahwahwahwaha whine wince"

 

[kapisi]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

It's right there in the description

There's a 40 year old man with the animation set of an excited boy who says that GAMERS are under attack

 

[Dark Souls II]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

What the fuck is that around his neck? This Hansen guy shouldn't be left around children.

 

[cvv]

Can someone post a tl;dr?

Another "trust me bro" Tuber with alleged moles inside the industry. Might be true, might be bullshit. It's probably bullshit. Disregard.

 

[Thalstarion]

"Wahwahwahwaha whine wince"

The request wasn't for you to quote yourself, mate.

 

[Mark Richard]

You can apply this thinking to video games as well. BG3 is very woke in the sense that the aesthetics and demographics lean towards the performative and disgusting. It's only mitigated by the fact that it has some conventionally attractive men and women in it where many other recent games are very much a case of 'spot the white man/woman'.

My understanding of woke is it's the mindset behind an entertainment product, not the progressive elements that inhabit it. How can you know someone's mind? Because the desperate need to be seen as a good person and receive a certificate announcing it so is not subtle. It's obvious when we're being lectured, when our choices are limited to prevent us from expressing the wrong opinion, when the player's enjoyment comes secondary (or not at all) to enforcing a worldview for goodboy points. The interactable nature of videogames exposes this more than any other media.

So while the industry has been unintentionally training consumers to see ugly characters as red flags, let us remember this stuff is merely a guideline. It's been weird to see 90s/00s games being accused simply because they have some progressive elements.