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From: DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
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Subject: Re: How pathetic and cringey are some video games these days? Very
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 14:33:38 -0500
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On 11/1/2024 7:12 AM, -hh wrote:
> 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?

Likely.  But I'm not averse to contract programming jobs.


>> 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.

Who would buy a game where one of the female characters had her tits 
lopped off, and now has "top surgery scars"?



>> 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.

Any strategy is better than the pursuit of wokeness, transgenderism and 
diversity.

They will learn this lesson quickly.  The latest fiasco is Dragon Age: 
The Veilguard, which will lose its developer Bioware big money and 
reputation.  I'm not exaggerating when I say it might put them out of 
business (though their successful Mass Effects series will help insulate 
them from financial ruin).