Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 week 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 1 week ago
Um… The gaming industry did much, MUCH better before it was filled with activists.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sounds like a “I liked Star Trek before it was woke” take.
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
Capitalists. The word you’re looking for is capitalists.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There’s only one maybe two good video games not made by capitalists (Tetris and Disco Elysium).
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You REALLY need to look up what happened with disco Elysium then come back and use it as an example.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Wrong. Gaming industry was doing fantastic before.
el_bhm@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Capitalism broke gaming twice already. Once in the 80s.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Such a moronic take based on absolutely nothing.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Great counter argument, lmaooo
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 days 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 1 week ago
By what metric? Business is booming.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 days ago
and exactly when was this? lol
when did all the activists take over. Pong?
Colecovision?
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Are you delusional? Or just naive? Open your eyes.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 days ago
but some people LOSE THEIR ABSOLUTE SHIT over it lol.
fuck em, let them die angry.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 6 days 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 6 days 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”.