Jason Schreier has been an ambulance chasing DEI snake oil salesman since the early 2010s. He's gaming's Jim Cramer. I dunno why anyone pretends he's a serious figure with serious opinions and not just a vibes-based shitflinger waiting for the next ActiBlizz-tier wahmen disrespecting controversy so he can write another book for the NYT to astroturf.
For those not in the know, Jason Schreier intentionally hid the Blizzard sex scandals for years because he was good friends with the guys there, they constantly fed him leaks, and was writing a tell all book about the situation. In exchange, he played gatekeeper to ensure big damaging leaks never got posted. It was only when people bypassed him to get the information out that the story broke.
He intentionally hid the accusations of NeoGAF's owner (which, given ResetERA was created in the chaos, I believe was confirmed to be a bullshit power grab by the mods to steal his website that failed) because he didn't want GamerGate to get credit for breaking the story.
I also remember some story -- it might have been the Blizzard one for all I know -- that broke without his permission or what have you, and he tut-tutted the people involved for leaking a story without going through him like proper leakers should.
He's not just an ambulance chasing DEI snake oil salesman. He's not only a bagman for the woke crowd. He's not only a gatekeeper that protects the corpos from stories he doesn't want out there... He's a massive, massive, MASSIVE piece of shit, who would happily leave women in danger as long as the wrong kind of people would get credit for saving them and until he might profit off of it.
Gooner games should be propped up just because they piss off the left, but at the same time they're not healthy either. A real predicament...
Though I've seen Stellar Blade labeled as such when it's not really, the default costume is fine and she doesn't seem explicitly sexualized in the story.
The source of it is particularly annoying. It wasn't Stellar Blade I don't think, but someone posted a clip of one of those Korean games, with the camera wedged at the girl's ass, a skimpy costume selected, and the idle animation causing her to jiggle. Typical harmless high school gooner shit, yeah? But then one of the righty influencers, Melonie Mac I think, replied saying that it was a bit creepy or stupid, and boy fucking howdy, it was on, because thou shalt not criticize thy based Koreaboo jiggle games.
In reality I'm reminded of the desperate attempt to get a "leader of GamerGate" to be created -- and how they wanted Ethan Ralph to be it. And how they wanted
@FROG to be the " Leader of ComicsGate." Since this is all ostensibly part of "GamerGate 2", it's an old op -- get a wedge issue and break the community in two over it. Works great if you can assign a leader with real or perceived baggage, but any wedge issue works. So now we have "GoonerGate" distracting people and wasting everyone's energy.
Stellar Blade is actually run of the mill oh-so-Korean as far as "sexiness" goes. There are many Korean and Japanese games in various genres that allows one to dress the female characters up in all kinds of provocative and revealing costumes, and a number are far more up there and out there than this game.
It's just that the Resetera, X, and Bluesky tards and the "game journalists" have enforced such a Puritanical uglification of female characters that people take one look at that game like a thirsty person in a desert and lap it all up. It's an otherwise relatively tame game as far as "sexualization" goes, all things considered.
Then again, everything looks NC-17 when you compare it to the man-faces and man-hands of the US games these days.
One important thing to remember about Stellar Blade is that their developers literally found two female devs in their team were members of that Feminist Terrorist Cult, Magalia or whatever. There was some bruhaha about them finding them and firing them for it, with implication they were attempting to sabotage / subvert the game's development. That, I believe, is part of the reason why the game got so much seething hate from the lefty tards in the west -- the people in the devteam who were supposed to "fix" the game's female characters were open and unceremoniously fired when they tried the same shit the lefty types do in the left, and
you aren't allowed to fire activists! That sets a bad precedent!
Playing through BG3 now (late to it I know). It’s good. Is there faggotry or weird “nu-soy” designs like Karlach? Sure, but at no point am I forced to seriously engage in it. Think the only part where it was noticeable so far (just about finished act 2 beating Kethric) was when one of those male deep gnomes go “my husband” in late Act 1. Rest of it, don’t really need to engage in it.
BG3 originally had a bug (x to doubt) that was causing romance options to trigger WAY easier than it should have. They patched it in late 2023 to tone it down, but if you played it before then, then it was entirely possible (and common) for your character to have random gay shit thrown at them out of the blue, because as someone earlier in the thread said, all the male characters are Tumblrina Fujoshi bait and everyone, eeeeveryone, in the game is bi.
They banned the guy who disabled LGBT romance options in a mod off Nexus, of course.
