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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: How pathetic and cringey are some video games these days? Very
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 07:12:10 -0400
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On 10/31/24 12:12 AM, DFS wrote:
> On 10/30/2024 9:14 PM, Joel wrote:
>> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMcNpMww_I
>>
>>
>> Uh, you're watching phobe drivel on YouTube, man?  And you're what,
>> 60?
> 
> 61.

Ah, so retirement next year then, right?



> The only drivel is in the characters and stories of the sick woke games 
> that are losing many $millions and tons of jobs.
> 
> The stupid game companies think people will put up with the DEI, 
> wokeness, and transgender mental illness in their expensive games.


Of course, it doesn't really matter what they do when you're not their 
primary customer audience with the IRL dollars being spent. Instead, its 
going to be mostly the college+ children of old Gen X'ers who're the 
ones they're interested in selling to.


> Sony just shut down Firewalk Studios, which they purchased in 2023, 
> after the grotesque game Concord failed to attract more than a few 
> thousand purchasers.  This is a HUGE business failure, 100% attributable 
> to wokeness (multiple black female characters, including a 300lb one in 
> butch clothes, but no White male characters).
> 
> Fuck them.

Perhaps they should have stayed better attuned to how the Market's 
sensibilities have aligned more with the Japanese Anime industry, which 
institutionally has a neoliberal (but not libertarian) angle.


-hh