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

[ZMOT]

These people are acting like you need to show all the skin and just have everything be fetish material rather than actually creating something people want Kingdom come is a great example it's not even remotely degenerate it is insanely successful most people are turned off by fetish material

it's an inevitably and necessary overcorrection before things normalize. you think after a fucking decade of brown mystery meat getting sold as "beauty" people don't immediately jump when they see some pink pixels? unless everything will turn into "coomerbait" (it won't), this whole discussion is fucking moot, especially when it's the same two fucking games repeated over and over. either way they made the game they wanted to make, and if you think that was even possible a few years ago I'd have to ask where the fuck have you been?

comparing it to KCD is also retarded, none of the tiktok-addled zoomer brains jerking it to kpop idols is having an interest in a historical eastern-euro rpg. they only way to catch those is put a chick in it - and make her hot. same way woketards tried with lame and gay, but turns out you can't just "rewrite" human nature of liking hot chicks (and most chicks wanting to look hot too, you can blame "male" women and their soy-simps for not knowing basic female shit).
it also ignores that asians are a different culture, and fighting their own culture war on top of it. some of it imported from the west (korea), some of it absolute homegrown due to historical retardation (consider being the average chink male and your outlook for the future, especially when it comes to something as fucking simple as finding a mate).

in a healthy industry - or even society - no one would give a shit about "coomerbait", but the western is anything but so people look for alternatives. burger puritanism doesn't help it one bit.

 

[big pauper]

How come gringos are so shell-shocked over Christian right "oppression"?
things like horror movies, metal bands, d&d or "violent videogames" [...] not only continued existing, but thrived.
So on some level I feel like people are panicking over something that had hardly any effect at all (and probably not even born for).

the last time the censurious christian right had any real impact on the culture was questioning whether you should let your kids watch pokemon or read harry potter, and that itself was a very tiny aftershock of the period of time you're talking about that was probably completely forgettable unless you were living in a small town in 2002. however, there are a lot of people with a chip on their shoulder about being like 7 years old and getting antagonized for something completely milquetoast by christian moralists. those people had completely stopped that by the time The Book of Eli came out, though.

 

[Looney Troons]

This thread got stupid and gay real quick

 

[MysticMango]

"Hey guise, let's show these Woke Lunatics by sending all the good games to me! Instead of DEI-horrified games that I was suppose to be reviewing!"

 

[Hyperwh0re]

It's impressive how dogshit this thread has gotten now that all DEI/ESG/GayNiggerFromOuterSpace/ games are deader than dead and taking their devs and publishers with them. I guess the real tell of victory in these types of cases is when the discussion on the subject grows stale and pointless.

Eh? They aren't dead at all. The people producing them are all still there. BlackRock sends an annual letter to the CEO of each company it invests in - most of the S&P500 companies that dominate America's economy - to remind them of the fact they need to improve DEI in their company and their products, and many public (aka Equity Firm controlled) corporations in America have been exposed to be followers of cultural marxism from the very top - IBM's Indian CEO (Who got into America through a H1b visa, which Trump in 2016 moved to block, Biden unfroze and Nu-Trump cucked on) had leaked calls where he openly discriminated against White men and demotes people in pay for hiring them over his fellow Indians and token minorities, and an undrrcover exposé of Disney's Vice President of Business Affairs Michael Giordiano has him on tape admitting that White men are kept out of executive (CEO, COO) positions at the company unless they're Jewish. On top of that, pretty much every new Western game that has been announced is following the woke formula to some degree, save for No Rest for the Wicked, who's developer is getting dogpiled by other industry veterans on twitter.

The devils are still in power, no one's actually gotten rid of them, so theyre just trying to camouflage now and get the heat off them. What we're probably gonna see is the following gyppo shit:

1. DEI stops being used as vernacular in companies, so big newspapers can report they are rethinking their DEI policies and lemmings can sealclap over the sensationalist headlines, but it doesn't actually go away at all. Its just rebranded with a different name (e.g. Global Affirmativity, Broad Spectrum appeal) to avoid negative smell.

2. Consultancy groups like Sweet Baby will also fold, but just re-appear as other consultancy groups with different names, or as organs of larger more politically neutral appearing groups like Delloite or Black Cube so that they don't look like they have partisan agendas when scrutinised. Even their linkedin pitches to companies won't explicitly mention diversity so they will be harder to track. The name of the game here is clamouflage.

3. Games start employing more and more Stanley Kubrick esque bait and switch / motte and bailey narrative tactics to promote forced diversity to the audience, like how Arcane's only relationships being either interracial or gay despite it surface level appearing to not possess any propaganda in the beginning. This way they can market a game without DEI and then suckerpunch you with it after you're past the first hour mark.

4. The everpresent western AAA practice of artificial forced diversity (e.g. black people in medieval Europe) will not change at all, because it supports normalising mass immigration of the third world to Western countries through media

Whilst we think we've had some sort of victory against corporate, these guys are probably in board meetings right now discussing how they can get DEI in their games without causing a public uproar. Literally a frog boiled slowly situation.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Like if I could wave a wand and reset the socio/political and hobby worlds to be identical to late 80's to late 90's I would in a second.

So would I. A bit late now though. The party is already over.

I'm filthy latin scum, so I don't quite understand a few things. How come gringos are so shell-shocked over Christian right "oppression"?

I vaguely know about the satanic panic, and school shootings and how things like horror movies, metal bands, d&d or "violent videogames" often became publicly decried.

But all those things not only continued existing, but thrived. So on some level I feel like people are panicking over something that had hardly any effect at all (and probably not even born for).

Because people fought and ultimately won.

And while they thrive now, there were losses along the way. Be it losing blood in the Wrestlemania game, Thrill Kill being banned, the pedestrians in Carmageddon being replaced with zombies, Manhunt 2 being censored into pointlessness, and various games not getting a wide release. It's easy to look at something like Silent Hill having children replaced with different enemies as a weird localization quirk or a nothing burger, but it did happen.

To look at it in the current culture war. Today there are lots of games that aren't DEI slop, but people still complain about DEI slop. It's like pointing to Palworld and Space Marine 2 and saying that DEI never had any power and people were just overreacting on the internet for a decade. After all. SBI only worked on a handful of games out of thousands, and changing a white character to a black girl boss doesn't change the game that much, right?

For me it's kind of funny, but also disappointing. We were supposed to be past this. I'm not looking forward to seeing trad cuck nonsense make a return with the same tired arguments. And I hope we don't end up with the same shit just with troons and pride flags replaced with jesus and crusifix. At very least, it would be nice to enjoy a bit of time where the pendulum is between those two extremes.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

For me it's kind of funny, but also disappointing. We were supposed to be past this. I'm not looking forward to seeing trad cuck nonsense make a return with the same tired arguments. And I hope we don't end up with the same shit just with troons and pride flags replaced with jesus and crusifix. At very least, it would be nice to enjoy a bit of time where the pendulum is between those two extremes.

The ideal society you're talking about in the 90's the 90s was only possible due to the complete destruction of the far left by people like Ronald Reagan you cannot have a perpetual society where everyone's going to sing kumbaya it's not how the world works

 

[Lone Star]

For me it's kind of funny, but also disappointing. We were supposed to be past this. I'm not looking forward to seeing trad cuck nonsense make a return with the same tired arguments. And I hope we don't end up with the same shit just with troons and pride flags replaced with jesus and crusifix. At very least, it would be nice to enjoy a bit of time where the pendulum is between those two extremes.

Literally what the fuck are you talking about? This whole thread has been schizo malding over Christians all day, I swear I must have missed something. Do you really think suddenly Christians of all groups are going to have an upper hand in media?

 

[geckogoy]

Because people fought and ultimately won.

Actually you were just marketed into your new reality nobody fought anything

 

[marvlouslie]

For me it's kind of funny, but also disappointing. We were supposed to be past this. I'm not looking forward to seeing trad cuck nonsense make a return with the same tired arguments. And I hope we don't end up with the same shit just with troons and pride flags replaced with jesus and crusifix. At very least, it would be nice to enjoy a bit of time where the pendulum is between those two extremes.

As a Christian myself, I don't want to see gaming devolve into propaganda pushing on either side. I'm sick of the moral fagging over hot characters, while at the same time people turn blindly towards extreme violence and gore. While I don't think that should be censored either, it's the hypocritical double standard that gets up my craw. Extreme violence, gore and dismemberment of limbs is okay, but the moment a sexy anime girl in a leotard shakes her ass with an in game emote (which you have complete control of whether or not you perform such an action, btw) is where people begin to draw the line?

No one wants to make cool shit just for the sake of making cool shit anymore. It's all about one side or the other, and this is one of the main reasons why I've ignored a LOT of modern gaming and have just been playing older games. I only have three or four games released from 2023/2024, and most of the rest of my 190 game Steam library are from the Xbox One / PS4 "generation" or earlier.

It's very clear that the Far Left have overplayed their hand. We're witnessing a generation of degradation industry wide collapse in real time.

At the same time, I don't think the Far Right have any interest in the medium outside of the usual grifters. Melonie Mac being exposed as a hypocrite shouldn't surprise anyone if they've spent more than half a year on the internet. There will always be grifters. They need to be gatekept and disavowed completely. You only get one chance (maybe two if people are feeling generous enough) to show you're not a complete fucking retard, because it's been far too long. Most of us who've been involved with gaming since the NES / Master System days have seen all kinds of attacks happening towards the medium.

You're not that clever Melonie. Go back in your hole.

 

[Level99Manchild]

Christianity hasn't been a serious cultural power at any point in your life. Christians weren't even the ones behind parental advisory stickers. That was an LGBT activist, but even so a tiny little sticker on an album is a quaint issue in the era of Wet Ass Pussy and Lil Nas X. That's the issue with you guys who try to compare Christians in the 80s and 90s to the left's ideology machine of today. Not only were the Christians mostly harmless and powerless, but they were right.
Those "sanctimonious, ideological puritans" tried to warn us about people fucking their dogs and turning kids into gay strippers and you guys treated them like circus clowns. Now here we are in 2024 having debates over whether 13 year old girls should be able to get sex change operations and you're still doing your best Jon Stewart impression. Jack Thompson was largely treated like a joke, meanwhile you have multi-billion dollar industries completely at the behest of small groups of leftist true believers who get to tell these massive franchises what stories they're allowed to tell and what racial messages they should send.
You guys, and by you guys I mean progressive leftists because that's what you are at heart, got your way for decades and carried out the stupidest and sickest social experiments on the population which retarded Western culture and art to the point it will take a lifetime to recover, if it ever does, and you're still not getting it. Since the 2013 "Social Justice Warrior" era you people started to become too embarrassed to publicly identify as "progressive" anymore so you've been performing the sensible centrist role all these years,

The "sjws," "progressives," and leftists only lied about being centrists when people were catching onto their bullshit online (e.g. every male feminist and trans ally). Only the normies saw their centrist bullshit because they didn't careuntil they went mask off with Communism, activism, Palestine, and Pride. Christians still get dunked on by the left and even other religions like radical Islam. I don't even know if it's possible to recover from the damage caused by the left and the coprorations and elitists supporting them.

 

[FedPostalService]

It'll suffice to say that sexy women in games are now a threat to her, so must be censored.

I’ve seen this happen so many times but to give MM her due she’s doing it in an original way. Usually when a woman has used her tits to get to where she is, and then finds her’s are getting a little saggy now and there are younger, perkier tits around, she becomes a third-wave feminists and thinks using that using sex to get ahead is heckin’ wrong and the male gaze should be destroyed and transwomen are beautiful just to protect her position. I’ve never seen one LARP as a Christcuck.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

The devils are still in power, no one's actually gotten rid of them, so theyre just trying to camouflage now and get the heat off them. What we're probably gonna see is the following gyppo shit:

They have burned an inordinate amount of money and in today's economy nobody can afford to piss of their audience. The ESG funds have tanked a ridiculous amount so there is less of that money to go around and every company that took it made no money regardless of industry. And we've seen with our own eyes what stuff like getting boomers to complain about their 401k has done.
Sure the woke crowd aren't dead. But take out all of the BlackRock money and they still wouldn't be dead because that's just one half of the story. While big money pushes the game industry from the top. General faggotry and gate keeping in the indie scene pushes from the bottom.
If you are remotely white, straight or right wing in the indie scene you have to stare down struggle session after struggle session in a Sisyphean effort to get your game anywhere. It doesn't matter if Larry Fink get's the United CEO package. The cancer upon the indie scene will remain there trying to kill gaming in the crib.

 

[marvlouslie]

I’ve seen this happen so many times but to give MM her due she’s doing it in an original way. Usually when a woman has used her tits to get to where she is, and then finds her’s are getting a little saggy now and there are younger, perkier tits around, she becomes a third-wave feminists and thinks using that using sex to get ahead is heckin’ wrong and the male gaze should be destroyed and transwomen are beautiful just to protect her position. I’ve never seen one LARP as a Christcuck.

This isn't as clever as you seem to think it is. It's just more moral grandstanding just from the opposite site. We've seen this song and dance before, and we know how to fight it. That's pretty much why most Conservatives tend to leave gaming alone, because they know the ridiculous amount of pushback the moment they try something. Melonie Mac isn't that big of a deal, and her and her audience should be ignored. She thinks she's doing something good, when she's really just harming the overall movement against the REAL enemy.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

As a Christian myself, I don't want to see gaming devolve into propaganda pushing on either side. I'm sick of the moral fagging over hot characters, while at the same time people turn blindly towards extreme violence and gore. While I don't think that should be censored either, it's the hypocritical double standard that gets up my craw. Extreme violence, gore and dismemberment of limbs is okay, but the moment a sexy anime girl in a leotard shakes her ass with an in game emote (which you have complete control of whether or not you perform such an action, btw) is where people begin to draw the line?

Agreed, to add onto this I feel a lot of this was kickstarted in the way of Occupy Wall Street Protests with the clear agenda of giving people shit to argue about while wealthy Jewish CEOs do whatever the fuck they want behind the scenes, radicalize feminist bullshit so men have something else to complain about instead of wealth inequality.

 

[Corette]

"Hey guise, let's show these Woke Lunatics by sending all the good games to me! Instead of DEI-horrified games that I was suppose to be reviewing!"

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Ahhh...
... Brazilians and what's natural for them.

 

[marvlouslie]

Agreed, to add onto this I feel a lot of this was kickstarted in the way of Occupy Wall Street Protests with the clear agenda of giving people shit to argue about while wealthy Jewish CEOs do whatever the fuck they want behind the scenes, radicalize feminist bullshit so men have something else to complain about instead of wealth inequality.

We're basically trading one moral busy body for another, and they're just two sides of the same shit-bird coin.

 

[Meriasek]

Disregard UE5 boob physics, return to PS1-era lofi pixels.

 

[Javier]

They have burned an inordinate amount of money and in today's economy nobody can afford to piss of their audience. The ESG funds have tanked a ridiculous amount so there is less of that money to go around and every company that took it made no money regardless of industry.

The iron is hot after DEI slop failed catastrophically, it's a prime time to strike. Remind people what their money ended up funding. Organize wide spread actions that serve as a warning for what will happen if customers continue to accept everything just because of past memories and brand recognition. Use whatever underhanded tactics to achieve that goal, since it's not like the other side is playing fair. Take whatever action necessary and ally with everyone who supports the cause that isn't going to hurt your image in the process.

Most importantly, however - do not let up. Keep the pressure coming, keep the ball on our side. Win the crowd, the audience, average people over, they didn't deserve the lunacy of this past decade.

 

[Shazam]

Sorry I'm late. I was in the lolicon defenders thread because Savvy took it upon herself to defend depictions of child sexual exploitation in games and other media at the same time.

Like... I'm not taking crazy pills right? They 100% blew this nontroversy up as the "death of gamergate 2.0" for clicks. Right? I mean the guy didn't even say you couldn't or shouldn't have attractive women in games. He just said that gamergate should have higher standards for what makes a game good than "how hard can I beat my meat to this game". You know like the gameplay... or story... And he's completely right. I see so many of them do this. So many of these games they shill as great because it's got ass are exceedingly mediocre.

But I guess some people see someone critiquing their goon material and go red in the face without even understanding what he's saying. It's just so tiring man.