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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:30:03 -0800
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On 11/27/2024 1:59 AM, JAB wrote:
> On 26/11/2024 15:25, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 11/26/2024 12:27 AM, JAB wrote:
>>> On 25/11/2024 19:22, Zaghadka wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:09:49 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, 
>>>> JAB
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've
>>>>> never played the game but I saw a talking head on YouTube saying it's
>>>>> woke (whatever that actually means) crowd.
>>>>
>>>> "Woke" means, "You're tickling my well orchestrated cognitive 
>>>> dissonance
>>>> coping mechanisms. Stop that!"
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just find it weird that people can be so rabidly anti something 
>>> when they can't really explain what it is beyond things I don't like. 
>>> See also labelling something socialist, or even Marxist, when they 
>>> don't even know what they are.
>>>
>>> We even had our last government try and get in on the act when judges 
>>> were ruling that a country doesn't just become classed as safe 
>>> because the government say it is no more than they can pass a law 
>>> that says the moon is made of cheese. That's not how laws work but 
>>> that only cost £750mil so not a problem really.
>>>
>> "My <insert deity of choice> says 'That's Wrong!'"
>>
> 
>  From the woke detector Steam Group. Honestly I'm just not sure whether 
> it's an elaborate prank or not.
> 
At least in the USA its not a prank.  Here all the "Anti-Woke" "Culture 
War" shit is based on religious beliefs with a dash of wishing for a 
society based on the imagined version of 1950s America, complete with 
massive racism.

> “Woke” content = any images, messages, characters, storytelling, 
> dialogue, music, or game mechanics that include themes associated with 
> the left-side of the political aisle in contemporary western politics.
> 
> These themes include things like:
> pro-LGBTQ+ messaging
> pro-DEI messaging
> pro-climate action messaging
> pro-communism/socialism messaging
> pro-abortion messaging
> pro-pedophilia messaging
> pro-immigration messaging
> pro-transhumanism messaging
> anti-western society messaging
> anti-human messaging
> anti-colonialism messaging
> anti-capitalism messaging
> anti-heterosexual messaging
> anti-patriarchy messaging
> anti-white messaging
> anti-family messaging
> anti-free speech messaging
> anti-gun messaging
> etc.


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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.