Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Gee these men-children are going to be awfully sad when there’s no one left to make their games for them anymore and they have nothing left to do but face the shitty reality they’ve created.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Um… The gaming industry did much, MUCH better before it was filled with activists.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sounds like a “I liked Star Trek before it was woke” take.
Adalast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh god, I “love” those people. Same as the guy who was pissed about how woke Rage Against the Machine had become. Like bruh… Seriously?!?
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Capitalists. The word you’re looking for is capitalists.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s only one maybe two good video games not made by capitalists (Tetris and Disco Elysium).
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You REALLY need to look up what happened with disco Elysium then come back and use it as an example.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wrong. Gaming industry was doing fantastic before.
el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Capitalism broke gaming twice already. Once in the 80s.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Such a moronic take based on absolutely nothing.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Great counter argument, lmaooo
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s the only response required when you don’t even have any evidence, empirical or otherwise, to back up your stupid claim.
Jaderick@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
By what metric? Business is booming.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah all those layoffs, mass studio closures, and over 15k game jobs lost(just in 24) sure do mean business is going great!
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Yea yea, it’s all sweetbaby and DEI fault and not corporations being greedy hellholes that only worry about quarterly profits since forever. /s
caseofthematts@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All of those are due to the drastic increase in jobs during covid. This is happening in many, many tech related careers. It is not because of inclusivity. Get your head out of your ass.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
and exactly when was this? lol
when did all the activists take over. Pong?
Colecovision?
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are you delusional? Or just naive? Open your eyes.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
so you can’t tell me when.
because you know, it’s always been that way.
what a fucking sad life that must be to lead, to know, yet deny it with every fiber of your being because you can’t accept.
umean2me@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
There are plenty of record breaking games that have released while the industry has been “filled with activists.” Many of them are even about politics, like Helldivers 2.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes, there are good studios, when did I say there weren’t?
Stellar blade did amazingly. Good game, and no woke bs activists = profits
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Stellar Blade had a stripper as a player character, and that itself created a meta dialogue about how every other video game doesn’t
Whateley@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yeah, having a poc or queer character in your shitty video games is the biggest example activism since the Civil Rights Movement.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s more about the messaging. The mere presence of a POC or trans character isn’t bothersome to most people. But when that character comes with dialogue lines that make the political messaging obvious, then they’re no longer a character that happens to be non-White or trans; they’re a political prop inserted into a game to send a political message, and that can be quite irksome when all you’re trying to do is play a fantasy RPG and escape from the world for a bit, even if you actually agree with the message.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
but some people LOSE THEIR ABSOLUTE SHIT over it lol.
fuck em, let them die angry.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
A bad written character is a bad written character, their dialogue could be about candies and is still a bad written character. This argument is bullshit, bad case of confirmatory bias.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Exactly. Don’t lecture us about being trans or etc.
We honestly don’t care. (Yes, a small percentage of people are actually bigots and hate gays/trans for being who they are). The rest of us just don’t want it shoved down our throats.
It’s like making a game and having the main character proclaiming: “look how straight I am! Wow I sure do love women! I’m so straight and anyone who isn’t should do pushups”.