Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!

[Mola Ram]

You misunderstood me, I wasn’t saying “conservatism” inhibits creativity. I was saying conservatives’ tend to be less creative for inherent psychological reasons.

I understood you perfectly and your position is retarded.

 

[Ishtar]

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Explain

Exception that proves the rule.

Tolkien you know btw was an academic, and someone deeply interested in language. Find me a conservative today that doodles little art pieces while in the trenches/in uniform, or who looks at modern America and thinks “what this needs is it’s own mythology”.

Modern conservatives literally degrade and dismiss Tolkien’s academic pursuits(literature, history, linguistics) all the time “that’s college liberal clap trap, go into business or a trade school”.

That isn’t even getting into Christian conservatives that have attacked LOTR because “magic” or some shit.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

I think that's rather oversimplifying both of their politics. While they were both conservative, Tolkien had open contempt for racism and anti-Semitism at a time that wasn't normal. He was a Tory but disliked Winston Churchill. He was also utterly opposed to nuclear weapons.

Along with a lot of paleoconservative (even for the time) opinions, he also held a number of positions that would have been considered liberal.

You don't need to be a goose stepping nazi to be right wing and "anti racism" in the 40s was considerably different from anti racism in the 21st century. I doubt tolkien would have supported flooding britain with the moorish hordes. He just didn't like apartheid. He would be completely and utterly appauled if he could see what liberalism represents today and what it did to his country.

 

[Ishtar]

Tolkien was a “little englander”. Basically a paleocon in a British context.

His opposition to British imperialism was that it was injurious to English identity as much as it might have been cruel or avaricious to the non Whites.

It’s odd I’ve gotten so much pushback for this. I am a right winger, as any of my posts will indicate. I grew up amongst conservatives.

They are good people, but they tend to stick to the familiar, they tend to be disdainful of curiosity and abstract pursuits and they tend to have relatively simplistic mental frames for understanding people and the world in general.

Call them good salt of the earth folk if you want, they just aren’t creative by nature . It’s not me being hostile or contrarian, they just…don’t care about those things.

Obviously not 100% of them but in general the conservative mind leans towards the concrete, the practical, black and white, and the road more traveled.

I’ve learned this not just though reading and observation, but more importantly I lived this. I grew up with your stereotypical “close minded conservative philistine” they make up a substantial portion of my family. I love them, but that is what they are.

 

[Mettaur]

Overall this is a good video but I should preface that I don't have any attachment to Dragon Age and I'm viewing this as a tourist pretty much so I don't have any real input to balance his takes with to really be sure.
Throughout the video, though, there'll be these off the cuff moments where he will poison the well about arguments or complaints made against Veil guard kind of as a strawman and it almost gets to the point where he almost does the "Stunning and Brave" Schtick and a few minutes ago he was saying something about bigots and gay representation so watcher beware theres going to be random pozzed moments that fly at you fast.

Video's really good, but you can tell he pulls his punches especially when it comes to Veilguard. Agree on the weird moments, at one point he just goes "these evil guys in veilguard=maga!!". He also views Veilguard as "comfort media," but Bioware's shambling corpse is more depressing to me than anything positive.
Ignoring Veilguard which has already been video essayed to death, it was really interesting to learn not only how little your choices matter from game to game, but also about major elements like the Architect being dropped entirely since there's no good way to handle them without locking in one player choice over another. Apparently most of the best shit was in post release DLC as well.

Noah Caldwell Jervais is a turbo leftist who views himself as smarter as others because he's an intellectual. He's extremely smug and talks down to people constantly. You can especially see it with his Postal 2 video where he spends half of it recounting a PTSD story about someone stealing his car and setting it on fire and alleging that Postal 2 is a game designed for that person.

As a result he is going to be far more kind to Dragon Age the Veilguard because while he clearly thinks it's a piece of shit he can't tear into it because these people are part of the same club. He needs to signal his allegiance to the tranny flag.

 

[30+GameOvers]

You don't need to be a goose stepping nazi to be right wing and "anti racism" in the 40s was considerably different from anti racism in the 21st century. I doubt tolkien would have supported flooding britain with the moorish hordes. He just didn't like apartheid. He would be completely and utterly appauled if he could see what liberalism represents today and what it did to his country.

You don't need to even take it that far, I think all you would need to do is show him the new Netflix LOTR show filled with niggers and watch how his attitude towards "anti-racism" is reversed within minutes.

Noah Caldwell Jervais is a turbo leftist who views himself as smarter as others because he's an intellectual. He's extremely smug and talks down to people constantly. You can especially see it with his Postal 2 video where he spends half of it recounting a PTSD story about someone stealing his car and setting it on fire and alleging that Postal 2 is a game designed for that person.

As a result he is going to be far more kind to Dragon Age the Veilguard because while he clearly thinks it's a piece of shit he can't tear into it because these people are part of the same club. He needs to signal his allegiance to the tranny flag.

I don't know why anyone takes that hysterical retard seriously. His only good three videos are all Fallout related travel trips, which basically amount to him showing how locales from the games differ IRL, and even then in his East Coast video he goes off on random tangents about muh hecking poor niggerinos and muh bigoted confederate maga nazis!

 

[Oilspill Battery]

You misunderstood me, I wasn’t saying “conservatism” inhibits creativity. I was saying conservatives’ tend to be less creative for inherent psychological reasons.

You do understand how those two things are the same right? And yeah my response stands, no they aren't. If conservatives tend to be less creative then conservatives wouldn't have essentially created modern fiction.

The reason conservatives aren't doing much with media is simply because of liberal nepotism.

 

[ZMOT]

As an aside, does anyone even like video game romances? I've never played a game where they've been well implemented, and they only serve to attract weird coomers. This is coming from someone who wanted to be wifed up by Boone and Joshua Graham in Fallout New Vegas badly. I'm glad NV didn't have any romances though, as there's something sterile and awkward about them. (Honestly, I would retract this post if Loghain was a romance option in Origins lmao).

it requires even better writing to pull it off in a satisfying way than "giving the right answer on the fuck meter".
if the lack of ability only lets you shit something out that's barely above fap-fiction for the fujos and shippers, just scrap that shit completely.

it's also one of those cases of "less is more", a poorly animated sex scene is just cringe and I don't need any dick size meters in the char creator because some soy-dev saw the need to compensate and put his fetish in the game. there are plenty of other "games" I can squeeze my dick to with much more options, better buildup and "payoff" than that. fuck there are dozens of skyrim mods that do that for free, not to mention the inevitable r34.

Tolkien you know btw was an academic, and someone deeply interested in language. Find me a conservative today that doodles little art pieces while in the trenches/in uniform, or who looks at modern America and thinks “what this needs is it’s own mythology”.

show me a liberal that does that today and we're even.

look, I don't even disagree in principle, but it feels you're way to fixated on labels and stereotypes. the biggest difference will be what they write about, not that they necessary write less. and even if that's the case it can be explained that those types focus on other stuff like steady job and family first, instead of taking english lit in college "to become an author" and then inject their shit into established projects and games because that's all they're able to or never managed to get a breakthrough.

 

[Ishtar]

But that’s the point though-conservatives tend to dismiss or ignore “studying English lit” all together. It’s not particularly relevant to their immediate lives-it doesn’t help them make more money, or improve their family life. It’s something that at best they see as a body of knowledge/hobby that doesn’t speak to them, at worst as something alien and hostile, or an effete waste of time and money.

The stereotypical “liberal artsy girl” who goes into debt studying philosophy and 11th century poetry exists for a reason. Same with the “republican car dealer/insurance broker that never encountered a piece of art he didn’t understand or found ultimately useless”.

I am not denying that liberal nepotism exists or that the entire publishing/writing industry is consciously hostile to conservatives and that is a major turn off, but these stereotypes exist for a reason, that being they reflect a real psychological difference.

If you removed liberal nepotism and gatekeeping tomorrow, hordes of right wing youth would not in fact descend upon English departments seeking to become professional writers.

 

[FireAddictedPsychopath]

They wouldn’t even have to shove any extra LGBT stuff in, half the rappers are already gay!

I really didnt think of that but that is a very good point. But watch they will try to force fuck faggotry into the game regardless somehow or add tranny rappers like that one who was in Concord but nobody can remember his name.

 

[AnOminous]

But that’s the point though-conservatives tend to dismiss or ignore “studying English lit” all together.

Find a conservalard these days who has even read Edmund Burke (one of Tolkien's primary admired political intellectuals).

 

[The Crescent King]

But that’s the point though-conservatives tend to dismiss or ignore “studying English lit” all together. It’s not particularly relevant to their immediate lives-it doesn’t help them make more money, or improve their family life. It’s something that at best they see as a body of knowledge/hobby that doesn’t speak to them, at worst as something alien and hostile, or an effete waste of time and money.

The stereotypical “liberal artsy girl” who goes into debt studying philosophy and 11th century poetry exists for a reason. Same with the “republican car dealer/insurance broker that never encountered a piece of art he didn’t understand or found ultimately useless”.

Must be blackpilling that so called conservatives don't want to conserve the human treasures of their own civilisation they claim to care about.

 

[Ishtar]

Find a conservalard these days who has even read Edmund Burke (one of Tolkien's primary admired political intellectuals).

Finding a conservative that reads at all-like not even pop culture slop much less higher lit, and that is a tree in the desert.

Conservatives take pride, pride in their hostility towards curiosity and learning.

Must be blackpilling that so called conservatives don't want to conserve the human treasures of their own civilisation they claim to care about.

Conservatives as a given rule want to conserve what is immediately important to them. Their families, bank accounts and property.

That’s entirely normal and natural ofc. But the stereotype of the pug headed anti intellectual conservative reflects something very real and widespread.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

Looks like the same shills for this game are now getting ready to shill for the next Mass Effect game. That man thing Eddie or Unifadewalker as well as that cancel Karen Kala Alexander are already making porcine squeals about how they lo-ooo-ooo-ve Mass Effect and can't wait for the next game (hint hint, please give early access and swag bags).

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=972sWLLcqoU&ab_channel=Revsaysdesu

 

[Alexander Thaut]

Find a conservalard these days who has even read Edmund Burke (one of Tolkien's primary admired political intellectuals).

Eh, I've met a few right-leaning people but they're not super common. I've managed to steer a few people into reading more, but it isn't a lot.

Must be blackpilling that so called conservatives don't want to conserve the human treasures of their own civilisation they claim to care about.

The retarded ones are annoying as fuck. I ran into one that was screaming at me online about how it's my duty in the culture war to support indie conservative authors. Pure brainrot.

However, admittedly, I don't see a lot of the more intelligent conservatives publicly banding together in praise of a modern right-winged author. Lefties are good at networking ,infesting, and supporting the party.

Besides, I've noticed a trend in right-leaning people that I share my love of books with. They often tell me that they wish they could get into it, but don't know where to start or what to do. I have to figure out how to help them and it's something I like chatting about. But the thing is, a lot of them admit that they never got into reading as a hobby for one reason or another. Bad school experiences, attempts gone wrong, culture wars anti-intellectualism, etc.

So, I just ask questions and try to get it started with short stuff. What surprises me is that it's not that hard. You just have to be some sort of polite influence on them.

It's best to encourage it. I've slowly tried to get people to just do it instead of brainrot. It's had some effect. But you gotta keep at it. Otherwise the retards win.

look, I don't even disagree in principle, but it feels you're way to fixated on labels and stereotypes. the biggest difference will be what they write about, not that they necessary write less. and even if that's the case it can be explained that those types focus on other stuff like steady job and family first, instead of taking english lit in college "to become an author" and then inject their shit into established projects and games because that's all they're able to or never managed to get a breakthrough.

Yeah, there's plenty of stories of people who picked a job first before they got to writing. My issue isn't with the idea of liberals in general. It's the radical retarded ones that pulled the Overton Window to a crazy extent.

With the internet and self-publishing, there's a lot of outlets to get your stuff out. But, you're competing with every writer who's ever existed and currently exists. For instance, let's say I want something like Sword & Planet fiction. I'm probably feasibly going to go through all the old stuff I can get for free/cheap first. What is it about author X, a newbie, that's special enough for me to spend my time and money on their work?

Conservatives often admit to spending their energy elsewhere. I get it. But then you have shit where there's conservatives who go and judge something because it got labeled as woke, when it really isn't. One of the premier and sad examples of this seem to be how I've met a bunch of conservatives who go way out of their way to tell me that Michael Moorcock shouldn't be read because he's a woke commie. But these discussions are usually benign. It's usually the lefties that screech about Orson Scott Card's mormonism being BAD because it means anyone who buys his work supports a homophobic organization and etc. Or they tell me that Heinlein's pro-fascist. Or etc. Had one tell me that Poul Anderson should be scrubbed from recommended reading of old SF due to being a Reaganite (and Larry Niven, etc)


Point is, people have always been kinda quick to jump for their side. I just think the internet age has bred an even dumber and more reactive cow.

 

[Ishtar]

Looks like the same shills for this game are now getting ready to shill for the next Mass Effect game. That man thing Eddie or Unifadewalker as well as that cancel Karen Kala Alexander are already making porcine squeals about how they lo-ooo-ooo-ve Mass Effect and can't wait for the next game (hint hint, please give early access and swag bags).

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=972sWLLcqoU&ab_channel=Revsaysdesu

Mass Effect coming out at all is a wide open question at this point. It’s been what now? Three flops in a row? Anthem? Andromeda and Veilguard?

The studio is down to less than 100 people and I would imagine EA is trying to contain the the loss of credibility to their investors.

I give a 60% chance the studio closes in the next six months, 50% chance ME is announced as cancelled within one year.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Looks like the same shills for this game are now getting ready to shill for the next Mass Effect game. That man thing Eddie or Unifadewalker as well as that cancel Karen Kala Alexander are already making porcine squeals about how they lo-ooo-ooo-ve Mass Effect and can't wait for the next game (hint hint, please give early access and swag bags).

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=972sWLLcqoU&ab_channel=Revsaysdesu

Unifadewalker is a pooner, so please use the proper pronoun "it."

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Remember how Bioware laid out how they were totally going to salvage Anthem by reworking it into even more of a shameless Destiny clone, and then shortly after EA came in, said "Actually, nah" and shut the whole thing down?

Unless EA really is delusional enough to still think Bioware can unfuck themselves (or there's some shady behind the scenes blackmail going on) I'm 100% expecting the same thing to happen here.

 

[Male Idiot]

Unifadewalker is a pooner, so please use the proper pronoun "it."

The correct pronoun is dood/doodself.

There are 3 reasons and arguing over which is the 1 true reason is a bit autistic.

1 : Conservatives, especially american ones, are less creative and focus more on religion. You can find a Retvrn to Tradition band in Europe singing about Crusades or Vikings dime a dozen, with 100 youtube followers.

2 : Big companies, academia, publishing etc will do their utmost to discourage, deplatform and defund any right wing creative.

3 : Youth don't read nor do they write anything that isn't fuji fanfics. So young creative rightists won't be in art school, they'll be making le based soyaks.

 

[Overdrive MASK_de_SMITH]

Bioware now has less than 100 employees after the mass layoffs.