A mainstream media outlet actually lights this bag of shit on fire and steps on it in public for all to see and smell instead of quietly huffing the shit fumes and saying it smells like roses.
Kudos and props to Forbes for still having enough balls to go against the narrative.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...political-messaging-does-more-harm-than-good/
Money quote---
The best way to convince someone of your own point-of-view is generally not to bash them over the head with a cudgel, though that seems to be the preferred approach in modern political discourse and, alas, in entertainment. The culture, being what it is, has lost all sense of subtlety. In far too many films, TV shows and video games, we see a heavy-handed, top-down approach to the issues of the day. It’s a real shame that the developers at BioWare decided to go this route in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
They literally say they’d like it more subtle don’t they
That's conclusion from almost everyone including Critical Drinker and Asmongold and every centrist, libshit, liberal and WOKE adjacent in this thread and everywhere else.
"
BIG WOKE Daddy, why are you so mean and rough? Fuck us, please fucks us, but fuck us geeently, like good girls we are teehee"
Which returns us to the fact that HOW FUCKING MUCH is writing, entertainment and average thinking product of zeitgeist in which we live, spirit of time and era. And how much they want to create WOKE zeitgeist from top-down and that is precisely reason why the fuck we bring up culture war up so fucking often. DA:Origins could have been made at Bioware ONLY in 2009. Anything remotely similar to its tone is for BIOWARE or any mainstream western AAA slopfactory impossible to produce in 2024. Such a simple and self evident concept
This reminds me of the chat you were having with a returning old-time Dexer a few days ago.
I know the feeling that that guy, Critical Drinker, etc., etc., have. What it is, is that they find it difficult to conceive that things could be quite so bad as the existence of the woke hegemony (and other signs) implies they are, plus also, not being
au fait with the JQ, they can't figure out a source for that profound evil. Then on the other hand, they're mostly milquetoast liberals in the sense that they wish we could all just get along - they're still clinging to the hope that that's possible.
Unfortunately it just takes time, continued critical thinking, investigation, etc., etc., until you get it. In theory we
could all just get along (basically on a principle similar to the idea at the founding of the US, of States as distinctly-kept experiments), but there's a long row to hoe to get there, and there's a peculiar obstacle in the way.
But really, there's nothing wetter or more useless than the "I don't mind if people say/do x, it's just the writing/gameplay/etc." stance. It's not totally wrong in a sense, but you're not really seeing the picture clearly if you don't understand that the lack of quality you lament is because of the people saying/doing x - or deeper, that they're being financed and encouraged to say/do x by the powers that be, as a form of attempted social engineering. And really that should be the target of your ire, if you want quality.
We live in a system where all the parts and levels are interconnected, so you have to find the central nerve cluster of it (so to speak) to change it.
