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Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!
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They don't break it down into individual games, but DAV WAS the big (only?) major release of the quarter so it should have an outsized impact on total game-sales-revenue for the quarter.
You can shuffle numbers but you can not lie. It is really important that they are honest when it comes to results, impacts and outlook.
The report is often basis for people making investment decisions. If you downplay issues or are not truthful or try to mislead then any investor that loses money have cause to sue the company. SEC takes this very seriously.
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I didn't know Northernlion's daughter played Dragon Age.
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I'd say they won't shut them down, instead they will empty the studio out and keep the name for future skinwalking use.... but this is EA. They've killed more beloved studios for far, far less. Maybe they're just not financially at a place where they can play Darth Vader on underperforming studios anymore?
The Social Justice Welfare network is supposed to protect these people. We saw it in game journalism -- after they sucked all the energy out of one publication, they'd move to another one they had taken over, while an infinite amount of VC and Obama Propaganda money (yes, this was a real thing) kept the paychecks coming. They signaled to the rest of the swarm that they were ready for reassignment by social media posts just like these.
But the VC money is gone. The Corpos are realizing that the DEI money isn't worth it. And culturally people are just tired of the hectoring jackasses pretending to be pretty pretty princesses. The SJWelfare network may finally be collapsing.
Remember how the customer service people at Kickstarter or IGG unionized and one of their first demands was complete editorial control over every aspect of the company's decision making process? That is to say, if Karen running the Kickstarter Twitter account got pissed at someone and said his very successful kickstarter that was making the company 30% of $1.5 million and bringing hundreds of thousands of eyes to the site had to be canceled, Kickstarter would have to do it.
That's what would happen if you brought the ResetERA speds into a company to consult. They'd go in assuming they were giving you marching orders as one of the glorious nobility, not advice, and if you didn't obey they'd sabotage whatever they could until you had them physically removed from the system.
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“Male slop”
Yeah, ME4 if it comes out is going to fail and fail badly. I said earlier the pandering to the Tumblr crowd was the doom of BioWare and I think this shows exactly why.
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In a way, these tards that LegacyKillaHD* is singling out are the product of a society that hands out participation trophies and insists that everyone is equally smart, talented, capable, and entitled to success. That their various personality flaws and mental illnesses are special superpowers that define their existence.
Hence, they cannot comprehend that when you fuck up that badly, you get fired or you experience financial losses. No, what you made is SPECIAL and GOOD and you DESERVE ALL THE SUCCESS IN THE WORLD because you exist, and if you fail, well, it's never your fault because you are, after all, special and amazing and deserving of everything and anything.
*Hope he had learned his lesson from blindly jerking off CDPR's cock during the pre-Cyberpunk 2077 days. Don't see him fellating Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on his channel... he may be healing, LOL.
Hence, they cannot comprehend that when you fuck up that badly, you get fired or you experience financial losses. No, what you made is SPECIAL and GOOD and you DESERVE ALL THE SUCCESS IN THE WORLD because you exist, and if you fail, well, it's never your fault because you are, after all, special and amazing and deserving of everything and anything.
*Hope he had learned his lesson from blindly jerking off CDPR's cock during the pre-Cyberpunk 2077 days. Don't see him fellating Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on his channel... he may be healing, LOL.
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Oh, he ain't healing. He was one of the cocksuckers who openly supported Burn Loot Murder when that was going on
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That's what I mean about passions being in the wrong place. They just want to tell a story and don't care if the game that carries that story is fun or runs well or even if the player likes their story. You're just there to be lectured to.
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I’m gonna go against the grain here and say yes, conservatives tend to be more philistine and less interested in the arts than liberals.
To be in the arts-requires you have a degree of openness, curiosity and introspection conservatives as a given rule don’t have psychologically. Conservatives tend to prefer simplicity over complexity, certainty over ambiguity, directness over abstraction and moralistic sermons over more nuanced reflection.
This isn’t always true(after all JRR Tolkien, Ezra Pound and other right wing luminaries exist). But it is true in general.
Like take the issue of transgenderism-the very subject of sex and gender and whether or not they can be changed or self directed, is something fantasy and sci fi can and have been used as a vehicle for. Conservatives will reject this sort of question on its face. A willingness to inquire and a curiosity to imagine things outside of the current norm-is the opposite of how the conservative mind functions. Which tends to be interested in what is, “male and female are the way things are because God/nature and anything else is wrong”, whereas a liberal will ask “what if the human condition isn’t so staid and simple?”
TLDR: Right wingers are never going to enter the arts in large numbers because conservatives’ innate psychology is ill disposed to what makes an artist.
You get either Sunday school didactic sermons or something like the daily wire’s cartoons or eighties “Christian movies”-basically badly written preachy drivel written and produced by people who are primarily interested in trying to win the culture war or stem their own losses. Unappealing to anyone outside of a carefully maintained bubble.
Edit: Downvoting won’t change the truth. I am a right winger, I grew up amongst conservatives. These people aren’t artists, they are incurious, more concerned with concrete day to day problems and have extremely limited imaginations.
Artists tend to be high on the openness scale, highly neurotic, and may vary on how agreeable they are.
Conservatives on the other hand are disinclined towards curiosity and openness to experience, and not particularly neurotic, though they are highly conscientious.
Point being-right wingers are never going to “infiltrate” the arts. It’s just not who they are.
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You’d have to replace the entire apparatus top to bottom with nerdy White guys that make these games out of genuine passion/nerd spergery.
AND more importantly-you have to be willing to ignore criticism.
What if Anita Sarkesian says you’re objectifying women? What if you’re being called a fascist because you shoot mutants and aliens in your space shooter? What if some tranny says a plot line is trans phobic because IDK something that could be read as transition is treated as evil/sinister/demonic.
Most game developers and everyone else in these studios are generally good liberals. When someone on tumblr says “that portrayal of X character plays into racist tropes”
Game developers respond with “thank you for your criticism oh wise POC we will do better next time”.
Like take dragon age-there’s a minor character in the DA2 mark of the assassin DLC(basically a trans coded drag queen character)-that is sort of treated as an awkward gawking joke-and a troon complained about it.
BioWare apologized profusely and sincerely.
You can’t keep doing this-you are going to offend a minority or women somewhere and sometime. They’re going to say you’re racist, sexist, whatever else.
You have to be willing to take the hit and say “we are appealing to straight males(White being assumed) which make up the majority of our customers don’t buy the game”.
No game developer is willing to do this.
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JRR tolkien and CS Lewis are the two most influental fantasy writers of all time, arguably the fathers of fantasy fiction and both of them were deeply religious hardcore christian right wingers.
CS Lewis literally wrote narnia as a means to proselytize children and JJR tolkien was so conservative when catholic church abolished latin mass he spent the rest of his life protesting it.
Lovecraft literally has an entire genre (and an extremely popular one at that) named after him spanning an entire century and his entire political philosophy was literally "Niggers bad".
Robert Heinlein is one of the fathers of science fiction and his magnum opus that nealry half of modern science fiction derives from is literally "libs bad actually and here's why".
Frank Herbert, the other father of science fiction that the other half of modern science fiction derives from was a republican reactionary conservative.
The fathers of both fantasy and science fiction that have writen the most influential century spanning works of art are all deeply religious, conservatives or reactionaries.
Dunno how to put this but you're just objectively categorically wrong here.
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I literally just said there were exceptions. Tolkien, Lewis, Lovecraft and Heinlein are exceptions that prove the rule.
Psychological types are never 100% 1-1 matches with any given ideology. But the overlap tends to be overwhelming.
It’s not that hard to understand.
Most conservatives are not deeply interested in philology like Tolkien, (words, structure, grammar) or literature and poetry(Lewis) or spend their time contemplating the terrifying implications of cosmology(Lovecraft).
They are so notable because they stand out.
Psychological types are never 100% 1-1 matches with any given ideology. But the overlap tends to be overwhelming.
It’s not that hard to understand.
Most conservatives are not deeply interested in philology like Tolkien, (words, structure, grammar) or literature and poetry(Lewis) or spend their time contemplating the terrifying implications of cosmology(Lovecraft).
They are so notable because they stand out.
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There are some studies (here's one example) attempting to impose brain structure with political alignment, but there are some caveats:
- Many of these studies are done by infected educational institutions that attempt to inject narratives and force their results to conform to these narratives. If you see women involved in the study, especially women from psychology and other non-STEM fields, get your gallons of salt ready to take with your reading.
- Political alignments of left and right can be different across different countries in the world, and these studies can be flawed in that they inject 21st-century American-centric interpretations of these alignments into everything. Hell, what makes right and left change over time as well, as the core values of the 1990s and the 2000s can be very different even within a single alignment.
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You can try to de politicize these studies and remove any implicit value judgements(conservatives le smaller amygdala).
I think it’s fairly obvious liberals tend to be more open to new experiences/ideas. This is obviously maladaptive at a broader civilizational level-but it is why the arts tend to lean left.
You bring up weed/booze-someone with a higher curiosity towards and willingness to experience new or strange phenomena-is likely going to have the same mindset on other issues. “I want more immigration to t try their food, get to experience their culture”, to use an infamous example.
Let’s use a constructed example.
A story about a married woman in say the 1950s/1890s(whatever doesn’t matter) having an affair, falling in love, ending up caught and then dying.
Let’s say it’s not primarily smut but more about how our heroine navigates the dangers of being caught, the feelings of shame, the sense of betrayal, the anguish of living a lie, etc…
At the best-this sort of story can say something about how society constricts or is unfair or the nuances of the human condition(she still loves her children deeply but has fallen out of love in marriage, feels ashamed yet elated, blababla)
This just isn’t something conservatives can really “do”. They tend to have set moral boundaries and norms and less tolerance for both the act and exploration of deviance.
Or to use a RL example-the Scarlett letter.
The story is about an adulterer. About how society has cast her out, how she loves a man that can’t dare be with her openly, how she feels no love for her husband, the sense of anguish and repressed desire, and loneliness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was in fact a liberal.
Conservatives would either write a didactic sermon “she was punished” or “she repented and everything went happily ever after”.
Because conservatives tend to prefer moral certainty and clarity over ambiguity and introspection. Hawthorne isn’t celebrating adultery, he’s reflecting on (what he sees) as a cruel hypocritical society that represses the longings of the human heart and the pain and tragedy that results.
Conservatives as a general rule don’t think this way, and tend to recoil from anything which undermines their moral structures or suggests that the given order of the world ought be subject to criticism.
Liberals are more willing to step outside moral/social boundaries, even in thought. Conservatives as a given rule stick to the boundaries.
I think it’s fairly obvious liberals tend to be more open to new experiences/ideas. This is obviously maladaptive at a broader civilizational level-but it is why the arts tend to lean left.
You bring up weed/booze-someone with a higher curiosity towards and willingness to experience new or strange phenomena-is likely going to have the same mindset on other issues. “I want more immigration to t try their food, get to experience their culture”, to use an infamous example.
Let’s use a constructed example.
A story about a married woman in say the 1950s/1890s(whatever doesn’t matter) having an affair, falling in love, ending up caught and then dying.
Let’s say it’s not primarily smut but more about how our heroine navigates the dangers of being caught, the feelings of shame, the sense of betrayal, the anguish of living a lie, etc…
At the best-this sort of story can say something about how society constricts or is unfair or the nuances of the human condition(she still loves her children deeply but has fallen out of love in marriage, feels ashamed yet elated, blababla)
This just isn’t something conservatives can really “do”. They tend to have set moral boundaries and norms and less tolerance for both the act and exploration of deviance.
Or to use a RL example-the Scarlett letter.
The story is about an adulterer. About how society has cast her out, how she loves a man that can’t dare be with her openly, how she feels no love for her husband, the sense of anguish and repressed desire, and loneliness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was in fact a liberal.
Conservatives would either write a didactic sermon “she was punished” or “she repented and everything went happily ever after”.
Because conservatives tend to prefer moral certainty and clarity over ambiguity and introspection. Hawthorne isn’t celebrating adultery, he’s reflecting on (what he sees) as a cruel hypocritical society that represses the longings of the human heart and the pain and tragedy that results.
Conservatives as a general rule don’t think this way, and tend to recoil from anything which undermines their moral structures or suggests that the given order of the world ought be subject to criticism.
Liberals are more willing to step outside moral/social boundaries, even in thought. Conservatives as a given rule stick to the boundaries.
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The real takeaway from the "conservatives just don't DO creative things" thing isn't "I guess that's just how things are, Conservatives aren't funny/artistic/musical/creative, that part of the human soul is just not expressed with evil nazi fascist types, you have to be a loving, caring, liberal to be creative." It's "Holy shit, the left must work VERY VERY HARD to suppress conservative creators."
Which is 100% true and one of the early realizations of that was part of my redpilling.
Half the country is conservative. Do you think half of Bioware was conservative? Half of EA? Once you realize that, the immediate followup thought is... Why not?
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Neverwinter nights was a plague destroying the city into a cult trying to take over the city.
So it broke the formula.
Was a great game too.