Marvel's Wolverine - now available on PS5
Current Analysis: DEI Detected 🔴
• Sweet Baby Inc. confirmed in shipped credits with 9 named staff including CEO Kim Belair as Story Consultant
• Callisto race-changed from White (comics) to Black
• X-Men renamed to Team X in-game
• Jean Grey, Mystique, and Lady Deathstrike all received masculinized (ugly) designs per documented community and industry reaction
• Reviews confirm mutant persecution narrative functions as explicit political allegory for LGBTQ people, immigrants, and ethnic minorities
• Kotaku's review of the shipped game states the mutant persecution narrative echoes "the type of shit the Trump administration proudly flaunts as it continues its attacks on immigrants and transgender people"
• Leaked Sony-Marvel contract (allegedly) requires 6 million units sold in year one or Marvel can terminate the X-Men license deal with penalties
• Mary Kenney, credited writer, stated developers must "pull every lever" to increase LGBTQ+ representation
Marvel's Wolverine has been surrounded by controversy since 2021 when Sweet Baby Inc. first publicly announced their involvement. The project saw its original creative director Brian Horton and game director Cameron Christian both depart mid-development over what sources described as "creative decisions around the game," with associate narrative director Mary Kenney also departing while remaining a credited writer on the shipped product.
God of War creator David Jaffe publicly called the female character designs "ugly and disgusting," directing his criticism at Marvel Games VP Bill Rosemann, while Grummz documented that every female character in the launch trailer was hit with what he called "the AAA ugly stick."
"Professional" reviews confirm the mutant persecution narrative is framed as a political allegory for ethnic minorities, LGBTQ people, and immigrants, with the Kotaku review drawing a direct parallel to the Trump administration's policies targeting transgender people and immigrants.
The game launched to a Metacritic score of 78 (at time of analysis), Insomniac's lowest console score in a decade, with IGN, GameSpot, GamesRadar+, Eurogamer, and The Guardian all scoring it 6/10.
A Sony-Marvel contract clause surfaced from the 2023 Insomniac ransomware hack requires the game to sell 6 million units in its first year or Marvel can terminate the ten-year exclusive X-Men deal.
This is unfortunately something I saw frequently years ago, which is why I left patreon too.
5 days after this tweet makes my heart hurt even more for them.
There is usually no action a person can take to reverse this, but I hope patreon gets its head out of its butt for synn.
Can’t even tell the subscribers, you get 0 access to anything.
This isn’t fair. It’s just fiction, but you can’t even draw flat women.
Flat chests are not allowed to exist, in reality. Or fiction. That’s what patreon is saying, you have to have the breast size of consent. What does that mean for me, who is 33?
This is such a stupid world.
It punishes you if you don’t look a certain way and regression is embarrassing like this. 20 year olds aren’t allowed to look like 20 year olds because the left and the right keep calling them children. Drawings can’t exist because “you drew wrong”
You got Melinda of collective shout crying over big boomba. You got patreon crying over flat chest.
What is the breast size of consent?
Let's list all the countries trying to force ID, Age Restriction, or Monitoring Systems in the last 2 weeks
>USA
>Canada
>UK
>EU
>Ireland
>Australia
Basically most of the Western World is doing this.
The petition calling for the repeal of the UK's Online Safety Act continues to grow, reaching nearly 500,000 signatures. While it is worrying those of us connected via the internet, it is also outraging the people of the UK.
The rollout of the UK’s age verification law has led to a censorship and privacy nightmare.
It forces companies to collect massive amounts of sensitive user data and censor free speech.
That's not safety—it's silencing dissenters and compromising cybersecurity.
The UK wants to ban all depictions of fictional violence, even against fictional creatures, if you have a website that allows users to post.
Spongebob, pokemon, loonytoons, etc, every single video game with combat, all of it subjected to being banned despite rating boards existing (now redundant i guess?)
This all comes after the big push against @elonmusk and @x and they are really trying to speed run being the most hated thing right now.
All of history classes would need to be banned too technically, so much for educational content.
in the next post, i show the effort of groups to label Ani (grok's ai companion) as child exploitation.
⛔Lo de la ley para controlar a la población en Reino Unido es demencial!
Ahora si no eres mayor de 18 no puedes jugar o usar GeForce NOW porque claro, algunos juegos son +18
¿Qué es lo próximo, Steam?
lo peor es que los demás países están mirando para copiarlo! solo digo eso
It never takes long for people to find the scent of the wef. Yoti did indeed join in and are proud of it.
They partnered with the ESRB in hopes of getting approved to do the biometrics on CHILDREN but the FTC promptly shut them down.
I'm telling you guys, there is MAD money and a MAD DASH for this "software". Yoti is just one of the groups being the loudest and quickest. Now they work with Spotify.
Very stinky.
🔴El ESCÁNDALO que QUIEREN QUE OLVIDES:
20.000 niñas abusadas en UK por redes de paquistaníes:
🔸 Las autoridades lo sabían y no hicieron NADA
🔸 Quien lo denunció... pasó por prisión
👉🏼La horrible historia de cómo decir la verdad te cuesta la libertad. Haz RT, que NADIE olvide 🧵
🧵🧵🧵🧵It would appear @MelTankardReist has been a very busy woman indeed. In Oct 2019, she submitted a proposal to the Australian House of Rep Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal affairs about Age Verification.
Now, this woman sits as a "shareholder" in a trial for the very things that will lead to "age verification software".
This woman isn't a psychologist, not a sociologist, not even a biologist- she has the laughable degree of "journalism", something my program(biology) and every other STEM one makes fun of.
She has no basic understanding of data and cites herself, as if her writing x amount of books matters, because the books do not get backed up by real global trends, which is also why she is eager to censor and silence. Shall I quickly release 8 books? Perhaps I can get a 9th out before her and she will be forced to listen to me?
Thank you @Jamster1023 for putting this on my radar.
YouTube's new AI age estimation feature in the US, designed to protect kids by analyzing user activity, may require ID verification, raising privacy concerns over data breaches and indefinite storage. Critics question its effectiveness and safety.
Aquí están los números para llamar al servicio al cliente de MasterCard y Visa para exigir que no se censure los videojuegos por culpa de las cristianas australianas de Collective Shout.
Gracias al usuario @Devilveemon por traducir esta información.
https://t.co/vasX8mRaVb
Valve confirms Mastercard uses 3rd parties for their dirty work to try to protect their brand, while at the same time forcing its censorship on Steam.
The term cited is quite clear, any content, legal or not, that Mastercard deems a problem to the brand, can be an issue.
Mastercard is lying about allowing all legal content.