How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN

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• MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “We can say that, during his time at Telltale, Zak was one of the most talented, balanced and inclusive game directors we have ever worked with, and that is evident in the games he has delivered.”

  That statement doesn’t read as the defense they think it reads as.

  It reads as “all of our other game directors are somehow actually worse.”

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  • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I read the IGN article earlier today and telltales statement actually put me off them if I’m being honest.

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• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is it that gaming as both an industry and as a hobby so consistently manages to attract the worst people you can imagine ä?

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  • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s an escapist thing. People just trying to escape the reality of their lives.

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    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I definitely play games for the escapism (have you fucking seen this shit that’s going on?) but I manage not to be a conservative bigotted sociopath just fine. I don’t think that’s the cause

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It doesn’t, but go ahead and delude yourself.

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    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to look at your past comments you’d prove my point for me. You might do it right in this thread for that matter

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• Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ugh, that pull quote.

  Even in our press guides, we were not to say anything about Alex’s sexuality, period, at all.

  Considering the response to the first game and its prequel, I don’t know who the hell SQEX Europe thought their audience was.

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not like someone can sneak stuff into a game without trace. I have a hard time buying that a big studio is not using perforce or something simillar to make the games. It takes 1 minute to check revisions and give when those things were added and who added them.

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  • Saganaki@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It most definitely takes a lot longer than one minute to check asset files for changes. That’s like saying you can just pop open 200 revisions of a 300MiB PSD file in notepad and see what change it happened in quickly. I don’t imagine somebody will write in their changelist description “submitting Nazi flag, lol” either.

    Definitely a long arduous process to determine it.

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    • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean 1 minute as in “start the level tools, select the content, note the name, find it in the revision tracking software, have a talk with the person that submitted it”

      It does not take a lot of time.

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• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh so this was a company who made the sequels?

  The original was great, glad to hear it wasn’t the same creators.

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  • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re a bit mixed up. Don’t nod the original creators made life is strange 2. Deck nine made a prequel to the original and a new entry with a returning character in it called true colours. True colours isn’t a direct sequel and neither is 2.

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• FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any one see any pictures arise from this yet? I played the game on launch then again half a year ago and don’t recall seeing any of these.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Presumably they removed it all before launch. What I don’t get is how they didn’t figure out who did this (unless it’s mentioned later on in the article, I have up after it got rambly), don’t they use version control?

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    • lorkano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it was someone with certain rights he could theoretically remove trace of this from the history

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• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what ? drama ? have you read the article ?

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, actual gamers do care about this. I suppose casuals and other Nazis don’t, so your notion is flipped.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow I’m not even to the Nazi shit yet but I’m already hating Square London liaison and Deck Nine leadership. What a toxic situation

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• YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh for fucks sake. I really enjoyed Deck Nine’s LiS work. This is extremely disappointing.

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