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

All good observations, but critically missing something: The SBI grift is not anything new.
That I agree with. I just mean this version of the grift is just the current cycle - they're going to have the same problems next year and so on. The ESG angle is a grift, but there have been different angles before and will be different angles after. The corporations don't care about the specific grift, just the results.

The corporations (AAA Devs in this case) - are just too huge and they're going to have this problem as long as they're this huge. There just isn't a holistic way to identify key people in a setup where you've got thousands of people on staff and most talented people aren't going to bother when there's much better alternatives instead.
 
A tranny is the game director for the next DA game. Bioware 41%ed itself with this dumb decision.
Its not even that. They've been dead forever. Anthem? OR whatever it was?
Even before that. This is just the air escaping from the corpse.
Remember they were doing a KOTOR remaster or something and they fucked even that up.
 
I mean people have been saying that since what 2015 and it sure doesn't look to be all that true.
I've been saying that since before 2015, and even then I predicted early 2020s for the collapse of woke. So far, it's lasted a few years longer than expacted for the reasons @Jaimas laid out.

There are other factors too. COVID being one. Gravely underestimating the amount of "fail up" their connections would tolerate.

I think SBI "freaking out" over the groups is just performative. Time and time again we've seen that this is what they want. They want the messy and bad press - because it's all attention
What they really want is violence so they can become a martyr and justify a crackdown. This is why you people like that one actor fake a racist attack.

It's why each minor successful game gets copied endlessly (the absolute tidal wave of MOBAs, Arena Fighters, Card Games, 4-person PVE live service games, and Battle Royales) - because new ideas aren't coming from the studios anymore.
This has always been a thing. Look at all the mascot platformers in the wake of Sonic and Mario, or the tournament fighter craze after Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat.

The ESG angle is a grift, but there have been different angles before and will be different angles after. The corporations don't care about the specific grift, just the results.
Of course. But the question is how much influence they'll have, or even if it'll be a good thing. During the Xbox 360 it was "focus groups" that dictated the direction of games. And while it pisses people off when I say this, the right wing is already gearing up for their next round of censorious nonsense, painting games as "childish" "degenerate" and a "waste of time" that should be spent making GDP go up.

The reason for all of this is, in part, the failure of boomer economics where exponential quarterly growth is demanded, and that games (like all creative industries) are high risk in terms of returns of investment. They assume they can influence the roulette wheel. Only instead of a lucky charm, it's whatever "expert" claims to have the answer.
 
And while it pisses people off when I say this, the right wing is already gearing up for their next round of censorious nonsense, painting games as "childish" "degenerate" and a "waste of time" that should be spent making GDP go up.

As much a i'd hate to say this, but yeah. I've seen a lot of Kiwis saying "I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back", thing is if that happens, things will change but not for the better, no matter who's in power, they're after all entertainment because they hate you and want you to be miserable and demoralized, today a game might be labeled as "sexist and problematic" tomorrow will be "degenerate and demonic". It will be like the early to mid 2000s all over again.
 
As much a i'd hate to say this, but yeah. I've seen a lot of Kiwis saying "I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back", thing is if that happens, things will change but not for the better, no matter who's in power, they're after all entertainment because they hate you and want you to be miserable and demoralized, today a game might be labeled as "sexist and problematic" tomorrow will be "degenerate and demonic". It will be like the early to mid 2000s all over again.
The funny thing about pendulum seething is people think it's always somehow justice when it goes their way. Then it's the end of the world when it swings back again. And then oh here it goes again! In the other direction! Muh Kali Yuga!

Guess what?

That Foucault's Pendulum just swings back and forth and doesn't give a single flying fuck what you like or not.
 
Average looking non-Chad White Youtuber guys with Asian girlfriends that come immediately to mind include Karl Jobst, Linus Tech Tips, and the Max guy from the Fighting Game Community (FGC).
Their wives are all fucking ugly though. Specially Max & Linus' wives. Fat, short, and with a voice that sounds like sanding rust.

Problem is that market is white guys for the most part
Lolno. Niggers are the biggest consumers of everything in the 21st century; anime, games, TV...
There's a lot of negroids whining about how their bitches are all ugly while Bob & Chester can at least go play some retro games and get hot women to oogle at; what about them?
Where's all the hot black women with the Asian facial features and gorilla fat asses?

What the fuck is this shit? Sony is helping HIV Postive nigger faggot immigrants.
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Sweetbaby and Ubisoft are probably celebrating this shit
I hope they finance gay niggers and tranny beaners for Japanese citizenship and employment at Sony Japan.
Two bombs was clearly not enough.
 
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Their wives are all fucking ugly though. Specially Max & Linus' wives. Fat, short, and with a voice that sounds like sanding rust.

I agree, but pussy's pussy.

And what does it say about white women who get mad that average white men who are apparently happy to hook up with fat short Asian wives?

As much a i'd hate to say this, but yeah. I've seen a lot of Kiwis saying "I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back", thing is if that happens, things will change but not for the better, no matter who's in power, they're after all entertainment because they hate you and want you to be miserable and demoralized, today a game might be labeled as "sexist and problematic" tomorrow will be "degenerate and demonic". It will be like the early to mid 2000s all over again.

If the pendulum swings back to the right and the leaders of the future will be people like Connor from Carl Benjamin's Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, then I don't think it will be much better for games and other entertainment.
 
Let me get this right: they are celebrating importing people with a still deadly incurable disease which is already mutating to drug-resistant strains.

This is magic realism, if you wrote a novel about a megacorp doing this shit they would call you a schizo.
They're still going to be run by out-of-touch boomers
Are there any boomers left that haven't retired? I would say they are mostly genX now, who are even more out of touch, they are the generation movies like the last supper made fun of.
As long as companies are run by hilariously out of touch people, they will hire firms that are, if anything, even more out-of-touch.
What's ironic is that's its never been easier to be in touch with consumers, using consultants its a massive waste of money. You got capcom getting 250k gamers telling them what they want, and guess what? it isn't cinematic walking simulators with black trannies, not even more street fighter. They want resident evil, megaman and good gameplay.

I think some if not most of the people in these companies outright hate gamers unironically, but if you're c-suite the money is too good to quit.
I just want a AAA publisher to collapse, bros *sigh*
I been laughing at the state of things for a while but its not funny anymore, you can only make so many jokes about michael bay and transformers until you realize he kept getting money to make those shitty movies all the way to 6, with probably more to come. Same goes with wokeshit, it was funny a few years ago, but now the entire entertainment industry has its head up its ass with no end in sight, the acolyte being just the latest case of "I can't believe someone greenlighted this turd" but every year they lower the bar a little more, and they push the insanity even further.
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Look at all the mascot platformers in the wake of Sonic and Mario, or the tournament fighter craze after Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat.
People forget all the franchises that fell on the wayside, just with sonic you had a bunch of animal mascot games like bubsy, aero, that kamikaze squirrel thing nobody played, zool, croc, spiro, even crash was essentially a sonic clone during development.

Same with fighting games: brutal, art of fighting, eternal champions, primal rage, clay fighters, and a bunch others I can't remember right now.
And while it pisses people off when I say this, the right wing is already gearing up for their next round of censorious nonsense, painting games as "childish" "degenerate" and a "waste of time" that should be spent making GDP go up.
I remember that happening during GG1.0, that gavin guy outright mocking gamers, joe rogan saying we were a bunch of losers despite him dropping a ton of money to get broadband installed in the 90's to play quake 1 online all day, and many others with similar attitudes. Is like everybody forgot the right wing spent most of the 90's and 00's hating on games, I remember fox news having a shitfit over lesbians in mass efect.
 
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I remember that happening during GG1.0, that gavin guy outright mocking gamers, joe rogan saying we were a bunch of losers despite him dropping a ton of money to get broadband installed in the 90's to play quake 1 online all day, and many others with similar attitudes. Is like everybody forgot the right wing spent most of the 90's and 00's hating on games, I remember fox news having a shitfit over lesbians in mass efect.
That was then, this is now, The politician who did not grow up with videogames are an ever dwindling breed. The NES was in the '80s, the PS in the 90's, everyone had a PS2 in the '00s and by the new '10, games were the biggest entertainment industry in the world. Plus, the modern "right wing" is everyone who is right of Stalin. Anyone from the moderate right to the moderate left is under that ever encompassing umbrella.
 
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As much a i'd hate to say this, but yeah. I've seen a lot of Kiwis saying "I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back", thing is if that happens, things will change but not for the better, no matter who's in power, they're after all entertainment because they hate you and want you to be miserable and demoralized, today a game might be labeled as "sexist and problematic" tomorrow will be "degenerate and demonic". It will be like the early to mid 2000s all over again.
Maybe pick up a history book we're actually weed anything from the 2000s it was a bipartisan agenda against video games TTRPG and violent movies the vice president's wife literally was one of the biggest drivers
 
And while it pisses people off when I say this, the right wing is already gearing up for their next round of censorious nonsense, painting games as "childish" "degenerate" and a "waste of time" that should be spent making GDP go up.
How many times must I teach this lesson?

The wife of Al Gore? A Democrat? Tied-in heavily with the Satanic Panic.


You know who was front and center on [the GTA AO ESRB thing]? Hillary Clinton. GTA 4's Statue of Happiness is based on her because of that. The model's filename is stat_hilberty01.


The current [CEO to the MPAA] is Obama's former Ambassador to France and Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles Rivkin. Party: Democrat.

Do I need to continue?

Oh, and for bonus points, Jack Thompson is a registered Democrat as of 2020.
 
today a game might be labeled as "sexist and problematic" tomorrow will be "degenerate and demonic". It will be like the early to mid 2000s all over again.
And I'm all for it. I don't agree with those people at all, and it's going to bad in it's own way, the days where mainstream gaming was hot chicks with big boobs and bigger guns blowing peoples heads off to scare the fuddy duddies while shitty bible and "edutainment" games exist in the margins is preferable to the current status quo.

How many times must I teach this lesson?
As many times as you like, but it won't become any more true. In the UK, it was right wing papers like The Daily Mail, and Tory politicians and pundits that hated gaming.

Even if they are (or were) left wing, their arguments still revolved around games not being too violent, too sexual, and not having enough Jesus. At best, you can make the case for horseshoe theory.

And if we ignore even that (we shouldn't), unless you want to make the argument that The Lotus Eaters, Gavin McInnes, and Matt Walsh are secret left wingers, then the point is moot. They're the ones being held up as having the correct take.
 
And if we ignore even that (we shouldn't),
We absolutely should because UK politics are generally irrelevant to everything video games, frankly.

As for the rest of it, very few care what Gavin McInnes, Matt Walsh, or the Lotus Eaters have to say. They are lightyears away from any sort of cultural power, and if anything right-wing gains power it is highly doubtful they will be calling the shots.
 
That was then, this is now, The politician who did not grow up with videogames are an ever dwindling breed. The NES was in the '80s, the PS in the 90's, everyone had a PS2 in the '00s and by the new '10, games were the biggest entertainment industry in the world. Plus, the modern "right wing" is everyone who is right of Stalin. Anyone from the moderate right to the moderate left is under that ever encompassing umbrella.
Funny that you assume they'll keep playing games, I already mentioned how rogan was a massive quake addict and now its lecturing others about not playing any games at all. Its the same with all the rest, the right sees gamers the same way they see nerds and incels, as a bunch of losers.
And I'm all for it. I don't agree with those people at all, and it's going to bad in it's own way, the days where mainstream gaming was hot chicks with big boobs and bigger guns blowing peoples heads off to scare the fuddy duddies while shitty bible and "edutainment" games exist in the margins is preferable to the current status quo.
Same, and I used to roll my eyes at stuff like Shahdee for being too over the top.

I take that over what we have now any day....
As for the rest of it, very few care what Gavin McInnes, Matt Walsh, or the Lotus Eaters have to say. They are lightyears away from any sort of cultural power, and if anything right-wing gains power it is highly doubtful they will be calling the shots.
The rest of the right thinks the same way more or less, most still blame videogames for shootings despite all the evidence to the contrary. If they didn't you would've the right bankrolling a game that's nothing but DOA-tier girls in string bikinis dual-wielding M4s, but they don't like booba or violence either because they are the og puritans, unlike the new woke puritans who just showed up.
 
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