Sweet Baby Inc. and the Steam Curator Group Conspiracy - The company that is responsible for the diarrheic video game writing.

[WelperHelper99]

The trend towards "live service" and GaaS in general is probably the biggest blight on gaming currently. Every game has to have a battle pass, or a subscription, or "seasons." I know people tend to point at woke bullshit but that's relatively inconsequential and even ignorable compared to gross over monetization that seeps into a games every aspect.
Games like Baldur's Gate 3 gets a lot of shit for being pander-y, but it's an otherwise honestly made game that was developed by passionate people with no bullshit tacked on purely to drain your wallet, and is still being frequently updated for free. Larian released a whole "definitive edition" update for DS 2, and I wouldn't be surprised if they twist WotC arm into letting them release one for BG3.

I would say the over monetization is woke in spirit. It's adding bullshit hoops that wernt there 20 years ago. All to make the experience worse. So yeah, when you get a BG3, even if it's pandery, its so refreshing to have that other financial infection gone.

 

[Xebi]

Even more people just put on a podcast and swing through New York in Spider-Man and literally don't even see the woke messaging. The murals or other woke imagery you would see doesn't count because that's just literally what you'd find anywhere in New York City IRL.

Now I don't really care for what pixels people whack off to online much myself. But defending Loli, and now this woke shit.
Don't care, moving on back to Gamergate 2.

Just pirate that shit if you have to, use some mods to clean up the bullshit. Or stay the fuck away from this cesspool that funds this crazy ideology into the west.

The trend towards "live service" and GaaS in general is probably the biggest blight on gaming currently. Every game has to have a battle pass, or a subscription, or "seasons." I know people tend to point at woke bullshit but that's relatively inconsequential and even ignorable compared to gross over monetization that seeps into a games every aspect.
Games like Baldur's Gate 3 gets a lot of shit for being pander-y, but it's an otherwise honestly made game that was developed by passionate people with no bullshit tacked on purely to drain your wallet, and is still being frequently updated for free. Larian released a whole "definitive edition" update for DS 2, and I wouldn't be surprised if they twist WotC arm into letting them release one for BG3.

Not entirely true. There's been several changes nearing the finalizing of Baldur's Gate 3 that had people stumped. Turning Minthara's appearance, the character creator having issues remembering what a woman looks like, adding the usual skin deficiency that these nutcases fetishize so much, turning male/female into body type 1 and 2.

I'm a big fan of Larian Studios, I really am. I was there for the kickstarter of the 1st, and the 2nd Divinity Original Sin. But for Baldur's Gate 3 I decided to 'download a demo' to see what was going on. There's plenty more angry lesbians sprinkled in and such. So for now, as much as I love Larian, I'll stick with my pirated 'demo.'

I don't really care if anyone thinks I'm overreacting or whether anyone agrees or not. I'm just tired of this stuff in my games. Maybe once there's mods to fix the ugly ma'ams from the game and there's a proficient discount. But I'm in no hurry to give people who bend for this ideology my money.

 

[Noxe]

I'm a bit torn on Spider-Man 2, because the bolded part is spot-on. It's emulating modern New York, that's just how it is. Not to mention that Spider-Man is arguably the most notable street-level (or street-serving) hero, so naturally he'd interact with all types of people.

On the other hand, some of it isn't written as well as it could be. The mission with the prom date set up has a guy with the most stereotypical gay lisp you've ever heard.

They literally have you land on a giant fucking pride flag in one mission. (The roller coaster shit) having every NPC going "I gotta tell my *same sex partner* about this one!"

And I don't care if the propaganda is there in real life. Doesn't stop it from being propaganda. Idc if a building coincidentally in front of your home has a giant fag flag. I don't care if a building has black lives matter on it irl. It's still cringe propaganda and I don't want it in my fuckin game. Not to mention the BLM suit for miles in miles morales.

 

[RedDelicious]

Despite the negative votes, this is partially correct, and at least worth addressing, because this is PRECISELY what the ESG wants, like in my rat poison analogy earlier
ESGs Ideal game is :

>customer sees gameplay, thinks its the coolest shit ever gameplay wise
>enthusiastically buys because gameplay, ideally BEFORE reviews tell him its woke horse shit
>sees white men treated like garbage, gay shit being promoted way too much, feminist horse shit, and general nihilistic shit like all the justice league genocided for trivial reasons
>notices and determines he got scammed after the refund period, so you might as well play more and consume more ESG poison, because "at least gameplay is good", and you know you aren't getting your money back, so sunk cost fallacy
>ideally gets brainwashed into being a fag or troon from sheer humiliation ritual, or just having your ego crushed

Its not about saying the gameplay is WORTH it, its that its very deliberately crafted poison to get us to consume it anyway. The companies WANT to humiliate you.
If anything, its proof these games are significantly worse than just bad games, they are POISON games.

Honestly, I don't think most of it is even done malicious. I would imagine it's more often because the writing and gameplay development teams, especially in larger studios, are very different environments. I personally enjoy (most of) the gameplay of Borderlands, but the writing is such an actual, unabated stream of dogshit that your overall experience is significantly improved playing in a language you don't understand or removing the dialogue audio files entirely.
I also don't think there's some grand conspiracy to humiliate straight white dudes either. It's just the unfortunate reality that most "career video game writers" are going to be some terminally online 'sensitive type' that is willing to work the long hours for low pay required in a lot of major projects (and surprise surprise, these folk were the primary victim of the recent layoffs in a lot of the gaming industry. Whoda thunkit?). The incestuous nature of the hiring process also means that these people will keep getting credits for being cheap, predictable, and easy (to work with) while recommending their fellow Hollywood-writer rejects.
It's like if you ever wonder why Debra Wilson keeps getting roles in seemingly every modern triple-A, it's less because "we NEED a strong black woman to emasculate our white gamer audience" and more because she's a decently competent screen actor with a long list of mo-cap experience. She's like the Yuri Lowenthal of that shit.

 

[Bunkerhousing]

I wonder when Matt Jarbo will make a report on the situation, he started the first Gamergate.

https://www.youtube.com/@mjarbo/videos

 

[SenutiSolidus]

I wonder when Matt Jarbo will make a report on the situation, he started the first Gamergate.

https://www.youtube.com/@mjarbo/videos

Does matt even do any of this stuff after his humiliation with the flagging shit?

 

[starborn427614]

@RedDelicious
Debra also said she gets the roles because other black actresses don't want to deal with vidya. Can't really blame her for taking the paycheck at that point.

If I remember right, Miles goes to a rich tech school, and yes they do happen to have people that stereotypically gay
t. went to one back then and knew gay people.

Huh. The more you know.

 

[I'mThePatMan!]

That seems to be a bit of a harsh overreaction. I think a far better solution would be to stop buying AAA slop on release day

I never buy them on release, but this kind of issue with modern narratives is not something that """"journalists""" and mainstream publications usually complain about. So unless you really look for such info (in places like KF), most people just find their games are now propaganda after they already bought it.

The most egregious case I remember was The Last of Us 2, but since then I think they learned to be subtle just enough to avoid greater scrutiny/backlash, yet still push the agenda to fool all but the more informed consumer.

Of course, I don't want to outright quit playing games, they can be amazing pieces of art.

But I'm not into multiplayer, and the only type of games I like are single player, narrative driven ones... and those are exactly the ones they are targeting.

Back to Elden Ring I guess. I'm glad at least the Japanese mostly still resist this stupid trend.

 

[WelperHelper99]

They literally have you land on a giant fucking pride flag in one mission. (The roller coaster shit) having every NPC going "I gotta tell my *same sex partner* about this one!"

And I don't care if the propaganda is there in real life. Doesn't stop it from being propaganda. Idc if a building coincidentally in front of your home has a giant fag flag. I don't care if a building has black lives matter on it irl. It's still cringe propaganda and I don't want it in my fuckin game. Not to mention the BLM suit for miles in miles morales.

Personally, with me, it depends on how blatant it is. Are we at Mass Effect Andromeda where the whole game is garbage, or is there just a fag side character in it? One is unplayable, the other is a small part of the game I can ignore.

 

[Bunkerhousing]

Does matt even do any of this stuff after his humiliation with the flagging shit?

He probably lives his life in ignomy.

 

[Noxe]

Personally, with me, it depends on how blatant it is. Are we at Mass Effect Andromeda where the whole game is garbage, or is there just a fag side character in it? One is unplayable, the other is a small part of the game I can ignore.

I would rather play Mass Effect Andromeda over any modern esg sweet baby inc influenced game.

 

[Xebi]

Good lord, people debating that white people aren't adjusted under these sensitivity asshats.
Even just thinking back to "Iron Sky 2" breaks my my heart. It's like some teen woke students got out of college, got their hands on the movie. Cut it up into pieces, and added a whole differen't 'movie' into it with some black Mary Sue, and 2 dumbass guys to make her look better.

And it seems much the same with other media, where they got a fine game. Then let some kids cut it up and add some displaced black people into it that feel completely disjointed from the rest of the media, and call it diverse. In Final Fantasy XIV 6.55 patch it felt so bad, it's like these voice actors called it in last minute over the phone completely independent of each other. And of course... the English department had to hire an American... for some reason. To do a cringy fake accent that falls apart constantly, make the new character voiced by some woke troon and change her character. Didn't see that happening in the Japanese, French or even German voice overs.

This debate of course got removed on reddit by anyone to even mention ANYTHING negative on it. And has had several LARGE topics on the final fantasy forums. At this point I can only assume nepotism for turning this inexperienced troony voice actor from a 'community manager' into a 'main character voice' for the new expansion.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I would rather play Mass Effect Andromeda over any modern esg sweet baby inc influenced game.

I'd rather play neither. I'm talking about games that you can tell they don't care, but they'll throw a fag in to keep the woketards from canceling them. That's just survival.

 

[Noxe]

I'd rather play neither. I'm talking about games that you can tell they don't care, but they'll throw a fag in to keep the woketards from canceling them. That's just survival.

There's definitely a difference between "just putting a gay person in to survive" and doing what God of war and spiderman did for example. I don't care if games have gay peop in it. What I care about is obvious shilling and propaganda.

 

[Asian tech support]

and those are exactly the ones they are targeting.

Their "product" is absolutely geared towards single player titles. Really anything that provides a "narrative" experience but more often than not, those are single player games, which as of late have been spending way too long in the oven, and have budgets eclipsing those of the most popular multiplayer titles.
Oh yeah, it's all coming together now.

 

[RedDelicious]

Not entirely true. There's been several changes nearing the finalizing of Baldur's Gate 3 that had people stumped. Turning Minthara's appearance, the character creator having issues remembering what a woman looks like, adding the usual skin deficiency that these nutcases fetishize so much, turning male/female into body type 1 and 2.

I'm a big fan of Larian Studios, I really am. I was there for the kickstarter of the 1st, and the 2nd Divinity Original Sin. But for Baldur's Gate 3 I decided to 'download a demo' to see what was going on. There's plenty more angry lesbians sprinkled in and such. So for now, as much as I love Larian, I'll stick with my pirated 'demo.'

I don't really care if anyone thinks I'm overreacting or whether anyone agrees or not. I'm just tired of this stuff in my games. Maybe once there's mods to fix the ugly ma'ams from the game and there's a proficient discount. But I'm in no hurry to give people who bend for this ideology my money.

I'm not gonna go on length defending most of this shit (mostly because I can't, it's gay. Why does every game have a vitiligo slider now? When I hit "randomize," I don't actually want to look like a marble cake cross section.) but AFAIK Minthara's appearance change is because all companions were just using default character creator hairstyles and features in Early Access rather than uniquely crafted assets so that they actually stand out as major characters. Besides, Drow get a pass for 'strong womyn' vibes given they're literally a matriarchal society. It'd be suspiciously specific erasure NOT to do it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

There's definitely a difference between "just putting a gay person in to survive" and doing what God of war and spiderman did for example. I don't care if games have gay peop in it. What I care about is obvious shilling and propaganda.

Agreed. I just thought it was important to make the distinction. Woke will actually impact your experience. If it's literally a gay character that says it once, never bring it up again, I don't care at that point.

 

[Back me up!]

Hey that reminds me! I wonder what Anita Sarkesian is up to these days?

Oh... Oh no...

She threw a sad wedding "themed" party for herself on her 41st birthday. SpinsterCon 2023

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What I love about these photo's is you can reply to any of the current, youngish women of GamerGate 2.0 with "This will be your future" and listen to their ovaries scream in terror as they quickly deny anything is wrong.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Agreed. I just thought it was important to make the distinction. Woke will actually impact your experience. If it's literally a gay character that says it once, never bring it up again, I don't care at that point.

I feel like its creeped over the years a little though. Like what was it when baulders gate (?) had that one NPC who said they were born a boy, but are now a woman?
Its been growing worse over time, of course, which is another rather PERNICIOUS aspect of all this. (Look it up if you don't know the word, its a DAMN good word)
I think they hope over thousands of games, people will just be desensitized entirely to trannies and faggots and not know better.
EDIT : FUCKING GREAT, now they edited my favorite word in most dictionaries!!! Just months ago it was univerally defined as "subtly harmful in a hard to detect way" and now everywhere defines it as "extremely dangerous". Fucking definition faggots fucking everything up!
heres a link which still defines it correctly, for now. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pernicious

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

In Final Fantasy XIV 6.55 patch it felt so bad, it's like these voice actors called it in last minute over the phone completely independent of each other. And of course... the English department had to make the new character voiced by some woke troon and change her character. Didn't see that happening in the Japanese, French or even German voice overs.

Honestly. Didn't seem that bad with Wuk Lamat imo. But that said, I know how this localisation shit sometimes goes and not being bilingual makes it hard to verify the integrity of localisations. Seemed just like a pretty typical thing to me. If anything I'm surprised we didn't have a patch-long lecture about "white saviourism" to prepare us for Dawntrail.

Even more surprising when you realise that FF14's community is one of the more "woke social-justice" ones. I remember half a year ago they disinvited the singer of "Answers" from a convention cause she's a traditional conservative and liked a few tweets (didn't tweet anything out, or even RT tbh, just liked).