A political commentator being right-wing, had a shit ton of takes against trans people and yet writes transgender books.
It's not fantasy, it's called being desingenuous.
Aka, a grifter.
And you're comparing it to a book written by an actual raging leftist high on cocaine.
You need to log off and touch grass if you can't see how retarded your statement is.
@PsychroVT Always has been.
The frustrating part is when you know it but have no evidence to show.
Then one day, they fucked up and they expose themselves.
@tylenish@ItsCousinVinnie@KiraMuttaro Lots of people missed said stream and it's been months now, the VOD doesn't exist anymore anyway.
So most of it is lost to the Internet now.
I'm just going to point out one key detail about the Vinnie screenshot a couple replies above : It's not at all about Kodiak or any other related dramas to him in any way shape or form.
I remember that to have been posted when there was the major AI Drama between what's now the Pod and Skynet discords communities (unsure about the names tbh.)
The whole drama then escalated to something even more wtf with the Shyver/Feeble drama and a shit ton of other weird things I have seen around at the time. Can't tell you much about it, I barely followed the whole thing but remembers Vinnie posted that specific post at the time.
Just making sure nothing is taken out of context here.
So here's the thing.
I don't give a flying fuck about "woke" or not woke. That's just an easy target. Woke isn't the issue here. Baldur's Gate 3 was "woke" and made all the money and sales.
The issue is that, regardless of whatever sort of bullshit grandstanding you want to make about it, gave development is a luxury industry that exists at the pleasure of the audience willing to pay for it. If you are going to work for a big corporation making games, the sole expectation of those games is that they make money.
If you want to be an artiste, or a propagandist, or whatever, that happens on your own dime in your own time, and that's fine. Great things have come from small developers who just wanted to make the game they wanted to play. But if you want to work it like it's a job, you make the product the customer wants to buy.
And there was no confusion in what the customer wanted. We told you, repeatedly, loudly and clearly. We told you with words. We told you with actions. We told you by not buying the products we told you we didn't want. Some go so far to say is that Trump was elected the first time around to prove the fucking point about what gamers wanted. But no one listened.
Baldur's Gate 3 was full of woke, but it sold like bread before a hurricane. Why? Because they gave gamers what they wanted. They delivered a top notch experience that didn't throw any shit in your face you didn't want to see. There was plenty there for the woke to enjoy, but more importantly, it was completely ignorable. The game stood on it's own merits, and didn't turn into a lecture, which is what everyone had been asking for the entire time, and so it sold all the copies, and apparently no one learned a goddamn thing from it.
I see loads of morons on here today, talking about how XYZ Bioware game was woke and if we had cared then we would have called it wo.... shut the fuck up, please. We didn't complain then because it wasn't the same thing then. You know it. I know it, and you're making yourself look like a retard by saying it.
Neither Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, BG 1&2, DA:O nor Mass Effect contained a scene suggesting you do pushups for misgendering someone or had a mandatory "coming out to their parents scene" where the party must support the most retarded member of what was previously portrayed as a proud warrior race telling their parents they are "non binary". Nothing like that happened before, that's the shit people are talking about. And for the record, it would be just as fucking retarded if a conservative company made a Qunari character come out to their family as Christian.
The gaming audience learns very far into the "chud" spectrum, learn to make what they want or keep going broke. What these studios once made will be mourned and cherished, you wont.
Riots in France are a tradition.
It happens all the time for good or bad reasons.
Everytime it happens, you hear the far-left say it's a ploy to get the far-right elected. Most often, said riots are paid for and organised by far-left actors while the far-right sends their own actors to add fuel to the fire because everybody knows most riots (like the students ones) are fully funded by the far-left.
Medias are saying it's to get LePen elected because for the first time in decades, the far-right starts to have a very real and legitimate chance to win the election, so there is a huge-ass desinformation campaign aiming to decredibilize the far-right. It happens every five years.
Meanwhile, the people who are protesting without violence are caught in a political conflict between the two extreme sides of the political spectrum.
This idiot should really stop talking about politics of other countries when he's not even able to understand the politics in his own country to begin with.
Hasan accuses a far right terr*rst in France of being influenced by people like Asmongold
"A rural town guy comes out with a rifle, sh--ts at the protestors bc he listened to people like Asmongold who said that this was an Islamic protest comprised of immigrants..all the right wing propaganda that he's probably been f'in watching, reading, seeing did not help"
Hot Take : Mass Effect coming to an end may not be as bad as it looks like.
Sure it's sad to see a beloved franchise end but at the same time, don't we all know what happen to a licence that lives too long ?
Or do I have to remind people that Dragon Age: Veilguard exists ?
Or just have a look at Warcraft now.
Every good thing sadly has an end, just let it be a decent end, not whatever the fuck happened to some licences we loved.