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

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Now you got WIRED's Megan Farokhmanesh defending Sweet Baby Inc while IGNORING evidence. She also namedropped Elon Musk, LibsOfTikTok, 4chan, and us Kiwi Farms as evil "right wingers".

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Frosted Snowflakes said:
Now you got WIRED's Megan Farokhmanesh defending Sweet Baby Inc while IGNORING evidence. She also namedropped Elon Musk, LibsOfTikTok, 4chan, and us Kiwi Farms as evil "right wingers".

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You could've been left leaning yourself in 2010 and still remain at those values but somehow you're now a rightwing in 2020 standards.

Unbelievable that now to be left it's neccessary to lie about the truth that the SBI employee tried to get a brazilians steam account canceled.
 
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Not just Linux, plenty of my old Windows disks don't work on a modern version of Windows at all, I need to find them on warez sites (or if I'm lucky GOG or another digital storefront) if I ever want to play them again.
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Meanwhile I can still play games in an emulator that I first played literally over 40 years ago on an Apple ][.
 
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Out of curiosity, I listened to several game journo podcasts to see what they're saying about this Sweet Baby Inc. controversy. I've put together clips of the related segments along with notes for your review:


Aftermath Hours​

Episode 8: Much Ink Spilled Over Sweet Baby Inc (And Sanrio)​

March 8th, 2024​


Cast:
Notes:
  • Corresponds with article by Nathan Grayson.
  • SBI is a narrative company, not a DEI company because it's not about workplace staffing and policies.
  • The real problem with company DEI efforts is that they're in service to capitalism.
  • Blackrock/Vanguard's ESG initiatives have nothing to do with this, and the real problem with ESG is that oil companies can qualify for funding.
  • General musings about Right-wing conspiracy theorists and how the real problem is capitalism.
  • Tangent complaining about restrictive access to hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
  • Conclusion that the controversy is over and SBI is unscathed now that the industry has gotten wise to Gamergate.
  • No mention of the Steam curator group aside from a brief reference in the article.
  • No mention of incriminating quotes from SBI and supporting journalists.


Remap Radio (formerly VICE's Waypoint Radio)​

Episode 38: Honey, The Gamers Are Toxic Again​

March 8th, 2024​


Cast:
Notes:
  • Actually talks about the origin of the SBI controversy in which a SBI employee tried to "report" the "bad-faith" Steam curator group for harrassment.
  • "Why Right-wing social platforms always fail ... because what Right-wing users want is access to victims."
  • "There might be misunderstanding around the details, but fundamentally, this is about 'This group of people exists and we must punish them for working to assist parts of the industry in making it more accessible and diverse and welcoming.'"
  • "They're shadowboxing just to enact cruelty."
  • "The trap that people fell into with Gamergate and what people need to not fall into here is there's no talking to these people. There's no controversy. There's no debating. There's nothing to be said. The thing you should be doing is protecting people who are vulnerable, reaching out to friends and colleges who are perhaps being targeted in all of this."
  • Generally REALLY mad at "libertarian" Valve for not banning the Steam curator group.
  • "They're imagining a whiter version of gaming's past that never actually existed."
  • Fear over SBI being "Dylan Mulvaneyed", quietly dropped by companies.
  • "All they need is the flashpoint. You create a mob out of Sweat Baby, so what happens out of this is not actually accomplishing or changing anything in video games, but you've amassed a mob that can then have that point somewhere else. Like there's a direct line from Gamergate to Trump. Breitbart weaponized this."
  • "Everything has gotten worse on the Internet."
  • No mention of incriminating quotes from SBI and supporting journalists.


The Nextlander Podcast​

Episode 142: Private First Class Lance Bean​

March 14th, 2024​


Cast:
Notes:
  • "Somewhere along the way, a number of people who ... certainly found some common cause with [Gamergate] over the years have decided that [Sweet Baby Inc] is in some way responsible for video games becoming too woke."
  • "It's basically just another reactionary conspiracy theory about who is ruining video games this month."
  • "That's not what a consultant does." SBI is just an innocuous narrative consulting company with consent from their employers.
  • Quoting the Kotaku article.
  • No mention of the Steam curator group.
  • No mention of incriminating quotes from SBI and supporting journalists.
  • Alex sounds especially mad while Vinny is the unfamiliar listener agreeing uncritically with everything he's told.
  • Pretty much just "those deranged harassing Gamergaters are back" ad nauseam.
  • "Even if Sweet Baby were giving that advice ... I think that's an extremely positive thing to celebrate instead of condemn."
  • "Now they're not even trying, again, to couch this sort of stuff in any sort of 'ethics in games journalism' bullshit. It's just the open racism and mysoginy and all that shit. ... It can be now because nobody moderates anything on Twitter anymore, and seemingly Steam's approach to this is 'we don't get involved in these kinds of things.'"
  • "I hope this shit stops today, but it probably won't, but I don't know that this is going to be hopefully nearly as much of an explosion of bad shit as the last time this kind of thing happened."
  • "My feeling is that the free market ideologues fell out of favor quite a while ago at this point, and the people who are ascendant now are much more in favor of things like state power and other forms of authority to heavy-handedly correct things like this that they don't like. Letting the market decide is not a thing anymore."
  • "We live in interesting, dangerous, and weird times."
  • "It's, again, developers electing to do this and then bringing in somebody who they think can help them do it. It's happening naturally."
 
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Richie de Wit, a business consultant with credits in indie games such as Among Us and Vampire Survivors, threatened to blacklist anyone who protests against DEI. His Twitter account is currently protected.
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Since this controversy is so conveniently timed with GDC, I wonder if we'll get some good seething clips out of it, like Tim Schafer's infamous sockpuppet routine.
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Adding an Archived Version of his twitter feed from Linkedin, since I don't want to be that internet idiot that comes to a police office with just a printed computer screenshot.

Whilst we of course can see the confused schizophrenic mix of retardation and racism, the site looks otherwise too tame for much evidence.
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Don't worry guys, this one doesn't discriminate against whities... as long as you identify as something underrepresented.
And I for one still have not seen any toilets for Apache Helicopters yet.

Although, looking a little deeper into this. Where do I even sent this? If this falls under the jurisdiction of Amsterdam, I would not be surprised this guy is grand funded here too. There's been a lot of corruption around here in the past few years as well. And the Amsterdam Mayor in particular, Femke Halsema, has just this week been involved in a scandal where she Allowed pro-Palestinians protestors to protest at the opening of our holocaust memorial museum. And you can only imagine the consequences and fallout that happened there this week.

It was great to see the provocateurs on twitter getting caught trying to say the police were acting extremely rough on the peaceful protestors. Only to have fact-check point out those were the protestors during the pandemic -videos they posted. Whilst the Police were, indeed, just chilling out on the side with the protestors.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
All the money, more and faster and more and faster…
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Valve being a private company and all the others being public is the exact reason why Valve remains this unbratable titan. This "more and faster" thing is all down to the fallout of Dodge vs Ford Motor Co. and shareholder primacy, where if your company is public, your absolute priority is to satisfy the shareholder's demands, even if what they demand is detrimental to the business because they have zero idea what your company does, they just want to see instant profits and see them grow.

Valve wasn't lucky as much as Gabe was business smart with enough capital from working in Microsoft to kickstart his new business. He knew the market, he knew all the people needed to make a banger hit, and that's how Half-Life happened. Then he smartly reinvested all that money to grow the company and to establish itself as the titan it is today. Valve was always under his and his employee's control, and they never had the obligation to focus on the short term profit. That's why Valve is the evil monopolist and companies like Epic Games fail to beat it.

Obviously Valve isn't without a fault, but compared to the rest of the industry, they are nowhere as evil as all the public corporations, and that's why people trust Valve so much. Anyone going out of their way to paint Valve as the same villain as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo or any other big corporation is an idiot that doesn't understand that Valve is the best thing we have because of Gabe's insistence on keeping his business closed to the stock market. It's not perfect, sure, but every other alternative is worse. Even CD Projekt is publicly traded and buys into the ESG system, and they're the ones that own GOG.

Follow the money and all the questions will become clear. Failure of all the companies in the industry is down to shareholder primacy.
 
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Alter Ego said:
  • "My feeling is that the free market ideologues fell out of favor quite a while ago at this point, and the people who are ascendant now are much more in favor of things like state power and other forms of authority to heavy-handedly correct things like this that they don't like. Letting the market decide is not a thing anymore."
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OK, class, today's word of the day is, "projection!" Can you say "projection"?
 
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Slav Power said:
Even CD Projekt is publicly traded and buys into the ESG system, and they're the ones that own GOG.

Follow the money and all the questions will become clear. Failure of all the companies in the industry is down to shareholder primacy.
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Have they really though? Like don't get me wrong, they're on the list. But seeing as these kids are running around screaming, caught editing IMDB pages to add SBi to the list in attempts to smear bigger developers like Fromsoft/Elden Ring, and seem bigger than they really are.

The influence is still big of course, but that's mostly due the multitude of these lil consultancy groups. Which seeing the Canadian grand money story, sounds similar to something that our government pushed for. To subsidize supposed creators to create Dutch representative media. A very vague term, as you can imagine. Which was rightfully questioned by other less corrupt representatives. (At the time... there's weird rumblings at the cabinet formation for those who were a fan of Wilders.)

Though, I can not remember too many ethnic sales from GOG, or too much influence in a good long while at least. Poland seemed pretty based last I remember?
I heard mostly good about the Witcher I believe? I can't say much about Cyberpunk, as I haven't played too many triple A games in a while. But Keanu looked like a golden god on that stage performance!
 
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WULULULULU said:
Reminder that the Source engine of old Valve games still uses code from fucking Quake. Game engines using other game engine to make ultra spaghetti is not new, but it should fucking stop though.
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This needs to be brought up every single time someone complains about Creation Engine being shit because it's "spaghetti code".

Source 2, the engine Valve uses for Counter Strike 2 and Half-Life; Alyx, is one of the many offsprings of the original Quake engine.
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Chances are you're using Windows right now. Be it Windows 10, 11, or 7 if you're a stubborn fuck. You're using an operating system that's a result of over three decades of constant iterations. The first version of Windows NT, Windows NT 3.1, came out in 1993, and it itself was a fork of IBM's OS/2 that first released in 1987, so technically Windows' codebase is 36 years old.

Is Source 2 an unoptimized mess that has countless of glitches, outdated graphics and is being held together by hopes and dreams? No, it's a very sophisticated engine that uses a lot of classic optimization tricks while still looking incredibly well without the need for ray tracing.

Is Windows 10/11 a barely functioning mess that keeps blue screening and crumbling at random? No, Windows at it's core is in it's best place in it's history despite it still being a 1990's OS at heart. Every feature update is a full OS update that rarely causes major issues, the system no longer shits itself at random where you have constant BSOD's and you have to reformat it, and you don't have to worry about it shitting itself when you change the motherboard.

Creation Engine being shit is all on Bethesda. It has nothing to do with it's legacy codebases. You're using technology on a daily basis that has a decades old codebase and it doesn't fail, because it was properly maintained and expanded. Bethesda's codebase is shit because Bethesda is shit.
 
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Creation Engine being shit is all on Bethesda. It has nothing to do with it's legacy codebases. You're using technology on a daily basis that has a decades old codebase and it doesn't fail, because it was properly maintained and expanded. Bethesda's codebase is shit because Bethesda is shit.
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I agree with you but Windows 10 and 11 are fucking dogshit and barely functional. Older versions of Windows do the exact same tasks much faster with lower system resource requirements.
 
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Why the fuck is the nursing home grifter talking about video games? Fuck Matt Walsh. This dude unironically cried about violent video games after 1994.
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He also deems Anime as "demonic", and unironically despises people who consume such media. People like Matt Walsh are the main reason why the Right will always lose culture wars. The Conservative Right is literally filled with these people, and honestly, I'm kind of sick of it.
 
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Have they really though? Like don't get me wrong, they're on the list. But seeing as these kids are running around screaming, caught editing IMDB pages to add SBi to the list in attempts to smear bigger developers like Fromsoft/Elden Ring, and seem bigger than they really are.

The influence is still big of course, but that's mostly due the multitude of these lil consultancy groups. Which seeing the Canadian grand money story, sounds similar to something that our government pushed for. To subsidize supposed creators to create Dutch representative media. A very vague term, as you can imagine. Which was rightfully questioned by other less corrupt representatives. (At the time... there's weird rumblings at the cabinet formation for those who were a fan of Wilders.)

Though, I can not remember too many ethnic sales from GOG, or too much influence in a good long while at least. Poland seemed pretty based last I remember?
I can't say much about Cyberpunk, as I haven't played too many triple A games in a while. But Keanu looked like a golden god on that stage performance!
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This is from CDPR's Investor Relations channel.
You've bought into the "based Poland" meme and you've been fooled. CD Projekt, the umbrella company, is publicly traded, therefore it is a part of the exact same machine as EA, Microsoft and all the other common culprits.

I could write an entire diatribe about how Poland isn't based and how CDPR's rise in popularity happened alongside Poland's successes on the e-sports scene, how we always cling onto those worldwide recognition events hard like we did with Adam Małysz and Mariusz Pudzianowski, how The Witcher 3 was lighting in bottle and how everything went down from there as far as CDPR is concerned, but it's late, I'd be repeating myself again and I already typed out enough.

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I agree with you but Windows 10 and 11 are fucking dogshit and barely functional. Older versions of Windows do the exact same tasks much faster with lower system resource requirements.
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Firefox and all the Chromium derivatives are also fucking dogshit and barely functional because older versions did the exact same tasks much faster with lower system resource requirements. All the software increases in resource usage the more complex it gets. When strictly speaking about the core OS, Win10/11 are the best from all the Windows versions.

The reason people hate 10/11 is because they're bloated by default with shit that's meant to appease to the normies to make their lives easier, often failing and only being annoying in the process. Tech savvy users either move to Linux or know how to trim that shit out and have a cromulent barebones install that doesn't get in your way, like me. A fresh debloated Win10/11 install on an SSD is buttery smooth, loads up super fast and only after you start installing and using the software of your choice it starts to slow down, but that's modern computing for you.
 
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Slav Power said:
Chances are you're using Windows right now. Be it Windows 10, 11, or 7 if you're a stubborn fuck. You're using an operating system that's a result of over three decades of constant iterations. The first version of Windows NT, Windows NT 3.1, came out in 1993, and it itself was a fork of IBM's OS/2 that first released in 1987, so technically Windows' codebase is 36 years old.
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Heh, recently I was thinking the future could do with more forth-weaving creators, instead of all this regurgitated triple A crap. Have more companies that improve their engine and keep working on similar concepts to perfect them, like Valve (Source Engine since 2004), Kitfox (Dwarf Fotress since 2002), Fromsoft (the "Souls" concept since 1994), Larian Studios (Divinity series/engine since 2002/2014), Lo-Fi Games (OGRE engine for Kenshi since 2013 -)

Some might end up in spaghetti code, sure. But instead of all these boring jack of all trades engines, we could see some truly wild specialized systems and games coming forth from that.
 
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