Dustborn - The pink-hair developed, tax-funded, laughing stock

[Damned Registrations]

The funding thing is so frustrating, because it's the perfect example of why democracy is fucked. You can take something that is a great idea in theory (allocating funding for the arts, especially earmarked for small business so it doesn't go to some megacorp) that sounds like a good thing to vote for. Years later you find out it got tagged to be spent on someone's pet project (pozzed shit) as a compromise and on top of that, the specific person that was in charge of approving the grant whom you had no influence over and no idea who put them in charge or how to even begin tracing that, was wildly incompetent and picked someone that would obviously waste all the money even if you were okay with their agenda. Now go back to vote again and what did you learn? Not to vote for someone that was elected 8 years ago who is never running again anyways and broke a promise for reasons beyond their control?

 

[Sweeper]

You can take something that is a great idea in theory (allocating funding for the arts, especially earmarked for small business so it doesn't go to some megacorp) that sounds like a good thing to vote for.

The Soviets did it better.

 

[ind33d]

The funding thing is so frustrating, because it's the perfect example of why democracy is fucked. You can take something that is a great idea in theory (allocating funding for the arts, especially earmarked for small business so it doesn't go to some megacorp) that sounds like a good thing to vote for. Years later you find out it got tagged to be spent on someone's pet project (pozzed shit) as a compromise and on top of that, the specific person that was in charge of approving the grant whom you had no influence over and no idea who put them in charge or how to even begin tracing that, was wildly incompetent and picked someone that would obviously waste all the money even if you were okay with their agenda. Now go back to vote again and what did you learn? Not to vote for someone that was elected 8 years ago who is never running again anyways and broke a promise for reasons beyond their control?

by definition if Africa has the greatest population then democracy just means Africanization

 

[babayaga]

I for one love that this thing exists and in fact I want more. Keep it coming, it's fantastic.
They are making their own smear campaign. It's pure comedy.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

I for one love that this thing exists and in fact I want more. Keep it coming, it's fantastic.
They are making their own smear campaign. It's pure comedy.

Exactly! You should let them create their own stuff instead of just having them criticising the things we like.

Now we have some good examples to point to when they want to implement woke stuff into potentially good games.

 

[Daemongar]

Saint's Row, Dustborn, Concord, and others. These games were all started years ago - I sorta believe that when the train left the station for those games, they believed that when their games were released in future years, society would align with the games protagonists and message. Yet, the games flopped and seem alien even to the most centrist gamer. What happened? Did society change, or was it the nature of the project teams and journos that played off each other to just take extreme ideas further and further?

Just seems wildly weird that these games are released and the only people shocked at the poor outcome are the journos and publishers.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Never underestimate the effect of living in a bubble. These people have put a lot of effort into excluding those who disagree with their viewpoint from their work and personal environments. Their lived experience is that most people they interact with are like them. Availability bias does the rest.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Just seems wildly weird that these games are released and the only people shocked at the poor outcome are the journos and publishers.

Not that surprising. Game journals can't even play games to save their lives and publishers are playing the stock price game instead of worrying about the core competencies of actually making good games.

 

[Fedora Master]

Never underestimate the effect of living in a bubble. These people have put a lot of effort into excluding those who disagree with their viewpoint from their work and personal environments. Their lived experience is that most people they interact with are like them. Availability bias does the rest.

These are the same people that will gleefully shove a hundred thousand Somali streetshitters down YOUR throat as long as THEY can go to a nice ethnic restaurant every now and again.

 

[xasanom]

Fuck Ragnar.

Don't you remember what he did to the Longest Journey/Dreamfall?
Fucking butchered it with convoluted and boring mess that is Dreamfall Chapters:

Ragnar got lost in trying to be "deep" and "artsy," and made pretentious indie disaster that drags the entire series through the mud.

Gameplay is a fucking non existent, dull, zero-challenge walking simulator.

April Ryan is barely acknowledged, her death is trivialized.
Zoe is reduced to a whiny passive bystander.
Kian Alvani suddenly becomes a fag.
And of course the fucking Saga is marysueing the shit of the fucking plot, suddenly becoming the most important character in the series.

Fuck Ragnar.

 

[lightbane]

It's also kinda horryfing and hilarious how the main character of DBorn does all of the woke clichés, going as far as to gaslight and kidnap children. I suppose molesting them would have been too obvious, but I was surprised they went that far to represent lefty tactics.

 

[Zarniwoop]

The funding thing is so frustrating, because it's the perfect example of why democracy is fucked. You can take something that is a great idea in theory (allocating funding for the arts, especially earmarked for small business so it doesn't go to some megacorp) that sounds like a good thing to vote for. Years later you find out it got tagged to be spent on someone's pet project (pozzed shit) as a compromise and on top of that, the specific person that was in charge of approving the grant whom you had no influence over and no idea who put them in charge or how to even begin tracing that, was wildly incompetent and picked someone that would obviously waste all the money even if you were okay with their agenda. Now go back to vote again and what did you learn? Not to vote for someone that was elected 8 years ago who is never running again anyways and broke a promise for reasons beyond their control?

by definition if Africa has the greatest population then democracy just means Africanization

Fortunately, Africa doesn't have even close to the greatest population.

Unfortunately, the continent that does is full of BILLIONS of totalitarianism enjoyers.

 

[MakenBro]

The obese sheboon with vitiligo... someone seriously designed that and expected the game to sell.

 

[negator2vc]

From the Longest Journey to this crap!
After this I hope we will never see the 'The Longest Journey Home'

 

[Storyfag]

It's also kinda horryfing and hilarious how the main character of DBorn does all of the woke clichés, going as far as to gaslight and kidnap children. I suppose molesting them would have been too obvious, but I was surprised they went that far to represent lefty tactics.

Maybe the dev is secretly based and is trying to showcase how crazy the lefties can get?

 

[Storyfag]

The funding thing is so frustrating, because it's the perfect example of why democracy is fucked. You can take something that is a great idea in theory (allocating funding for the arts, especially earmarked for small business so it doesn't go to some megacorp) that sounds like a good thing to vote for. Years later you find out it got tagged to be spent on someone's pet project (pozzed shit) as a compromise and on top of that, the specific person that was in charge of approving the grant whom you had no influence over and no idea who put them in charge or how to even begin tracing that, was wildly incompetent and picked someone that would obviously waste all the money even if you were okay with their agenda. Now go back to vote again and what did you learn? Not to vote for someone that was elected 8 years ago who is never running again anyways and broke a promise for reasons beyond their control?

by definition if Africa has the greatest population then democracy just means Africanization

Fortunately, Africa doesn't have even close to the greatest population.

Unfortunately, the continent that does is full of BILLIONS of totalitarianism enjoyers.

Technically, it also houses 1.4 billion democracy enjoyers. But they are pajeets.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Scandinavians tend to be shitty people I am not surprised that this is their product.

 

[Zarniwoop]

The funding thing is so frustrating, because it's the perfect example of why democracy is fucked. You can take something that is a great idea in theory (allocating funding for the arts, especially earmarked for small business so it doesn't go to some megacorp) that sounds like a good thing to vote for. Years later you find out it got tagged to be spent on someone's pet project (pozzed shit) as a compromise and on top of that, the specific person that was in charge of approving the grant whom you had no influence over and no idea who put them in charge or how to even begin tracing that, was wildly incompetent and picked someone that would obviously waste all the money even if you were okay with their agenda. Now go back to vote again and what did you learn? Not to vote for someone that was elected 8 years ago who is never running again anyways and broke a promise for reasons beyond their control?

by definition if Africa has the greatest population then democracy just means Africanization

Fortunately, Africa doesn't have even close to the greatest population.

Unfortunately, the continent that does is full of BILLIONS of totalitarianism enjoyers.

Technically, it also houses 1.4 billion democracy enjoyers. But they are pajeets.

Pajeets don't give 2 fucks about democracy or any western values for that matter. Those who are lucky enough to escape the (designated shitting) streets and flee to the west, turn western companies into dystopian censorship nightmares. Google, Twitter, Microsoft, etc.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

 

[babayaga]

But why are leftists not playing this game? I like the meme that there is actually no "modern audience" but go on reddit or any gaming forum and there is hundreds of thousands of these individuals. Why aren't they playing the game that is made for them? Do they not want to consume their own shit that they put out? Is this why they parasitize on any media that is not made by them?

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

But why are leftists not playing this game? I like the meme that there is actually no "modern audience" but go on reddit or any gaming forum and there is hundreds of thousands of these individuals. Why aren't they playing the game that is made for them? Do they not want to consume their own shit that they put out? Is this why they parasitize on any media that is not made by them?

"And tell me, is this 'modern audience' in the room with us right now?"

 

[tommy heavenly6]

But why are leftists not playing this game? I like the meme that there is actually no "modern audience" but go on reddit or any gaming forum and there is hundreds of thousands of these individuals. Why aren't they playing the game that is made for them? Do they not want to consume their own shit that they put out? Is this why they parasitize on any media that is not made by them?

Have you heard of the term 'secondaries'? redditors and leftists are secondaries. Playing video games requires effort, and that's ableist, so they choose to engage with video games by consuming second hand info but never actually playing said video games. This is how you get a group of people who thought Bayonetta was lesbian, even though playing the games makes it clear that it was never the case.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

But why are leftists not playing this game? I like the meme that there is actually no "modern audience" but go on reddit or any gaming forum and there is hundreds of thousands of these individuals. Why aren't they playing the game that is made for them? Do they not want to consume their own shit that they put out? Is this why they parasitize on any media that is not made by them?

"And tell me, is this 'modern audience' in the room with us right now?"

He does have a point. There ought to be enough nutcases willing to take one for the cause and play this game.

 

[babayaga]

But why are leftists not playing this game? I like the meme that there is actually no "modern audience" but go on reddit or any gaming forum and there is hundreds of thousands of these individuals. Why aren't they playing the game that is made for them? Do they not want to consume their own shit that they put out? Is this why they parasitize on any media that is not made by them?

Have you heard of the term 'secondaries'? redditors and leftists are secondaries. Playing video games requires effort, and that's ableist, so they choose to engage with video games by consuming second hand info but never actually playing said video games. This is how you get a group of people who thought Bayonetta was lesbian, even though playing the games makes it clear that it was never the case.

Oh yes, there is def a lot of them, however there is still a lot more lefties out there that could play a game that is tailored for them and they don't. They will play Star Wars games, Bethesda games and shit like that but they won't ever play politics game that is catering to them for some reason. Why? Do they hate the smell of their own shit?

 

[Zarniwoop]

But why are leftists not playing this game? I like the meme that there is actually no "modern audience" but go on reddit or any gaming forum and there is hundreds of thousands of these individuals. Why aren't they playing the game that is made for them? Do they not want to consume their own shit that they put out? Is this why they parasitize on any media that is not made by them?

Because those clowns don't actually play games. They never liked the hobby and never will. A few mental defectives get together online, Twit about things they saw once that are "problematic", and developers/publishers mistakenly assume (for some reasons that will take long to explain) that there's a huge audience demanding this bullshit, when in reality it's like 3 manic depressive trannies. Publisher shits out woke crap, dangerhairs obviously don't buy it because they have no money, and now the actual audience doesn't either because it's shit. Publishers assume it must not be woke enough, we must add more CURRENT_THING. Rinse, repeat.