@El_Locon_Gamer No se olviden del pobre Timdog, de mega fanboy de Xbox se pasó a mega fanboy de Playstation. Ahora que Playstation será la Sega 3.0 seguro se pasará a mega fanboy de Nintendo 🤣🤣🤣
Yes, Mozilla Receives USAID Money.
The Firefox maker spends millions from tax payers on "social and political" training, "centering marginalized groups", and "engaging race, gender, sexuality perspectives".
@qiandaiyiyu Fantastic! Never let anyone control what you share with your community. Please continue to share with us whatever art your inspiration creates.
What is this “modern audience” I keep seeing things made for?
I’ve tried to look for this audience but I can’t find them anywhere. They didn’t show up for the marvel stuff. They havnt shown up for other remakes….or games with the “modern audience” in mind…..
Can anyone define it for me? Where do they hide? How are they contacted or polled in order to decide what content is made?
Are they hidden council in the shadows? Why don’t they like the things made for them yet keep getting things made for them?
Are they lost? Do we need a milk carton search party??
Insults don’t bring people together.
We are at a challenging time in the economy and in a post Covid world that has changed the way entertainment is consumed.
The average household may not be able to realistically afford a trip to the theater if their wallets are tight.
If I wanted to see Garfield tomorrow with my husband at a decent theater, which is an hour away, that costs 28.99.
Now add in kids.
That could be half of a week’s of grocery money.
Large TVs are cheaper than ever, home entertainment systems are pretty impressive for the relatively low investment.
Streaming has also brought more movies than ever right to the consumer instead of having to order a rental.
Insulting the general audience because you don’t like where we are at isn’t helping. It also ignores the box office successes of things like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and more.
Provide solutions or suggestions. Ask questions. But acting juvenile and name calling isn’t going to get you what you want.
I already know I might get myself into trouble once again by posting this, but I just replied to @MauriceWeber42, a German journalist who is affiliated with the German outlet 'Gamestar'.
I do think it's especially important these days that we always remind ourselves to try to keep an open mind and try to understand even those who think differently than we do.
Here's my response to him complaining about people who are apparently fed up by 'Woke Culture':
"I think it all makes sense, Maurice.
This is basically a backlash against cancel culture and similar phenomena because everyone has had enough of that nonsense.
I’d suggest you take a more nuanced view, especially since you position yourself as a journalist. Yet, you often display a narrow-minded attitude and don’t seem to question what’s actually going on. And that is something we should expect from a journalist!
Just because you personally haven’t been affected by cancel culture doesn't mean there hasn’t been a lot of foolishness happening, and it's still ongoing. And it’s only a matter of time before it impacts you, too.
Consider this famous statement:
'First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.'
Instead of allowing artists to just be artists, Hollywood and most of the game developers on the West Coast have decided that it's appropriate to use films and video games as platforms to push their own political agenda. If you argue otherwise, I would expect a journalist like you to back it up with thorough research.
Moreover, it's become the norm to point fingers at others, particularly at those who may think differently from us. Rather than allowing others to be different and listening to them regardless, we attack them outright. It’s frankly eerily reminiscent of old Nazi tactics.
Anyone who doesn’t conform is ridiculed, and it’s suggested they be shamed, fired, and have their careers destroyed.
This has been the approach over the past few years, and I know plenty of people whose careers have been devastated by trivialities and misinformation, and they continue to suffer today. You seem unaffected, and thus you refuse to consider a more open perspective.
Your apparent lack of empathy in this matter is not only unhelpful but also shows a considerable amount of ignorance.
Allow me to also play critic for a moment: At Gamestar, you do the same thing. Instead of cleaning your own house, you wield the ‘We report and earn from our articles, but beware, those guys are the real villains!’ narrative, just to ensure the spotlight never falls on you, aligning yourselves just so.
That’s precisely why we’ve cut you off; we find such morally dubious practices unacceptable and refuse to support them.
You lack the initiative to conduct your own journalistic investigations, as it seems too much work when the next clickbait article is due the next day. The sad thing is that young journalists like yourself never knew anything else.
The more outrage you generate, the more clicks you get, and that’s how you make your living—at the expense of others, which apparently doesn’t matter as long as you're seen as the good guys.
I hope in the future you will approach the world with more skepticism and openness, and truly consider both sides instead of aligning yourself with one to amplify their propaganda."
It is deeply, deeply important after everything that happened over the past couple of years that we always question hidden agendas, always try to be loving and show understanding even to those we vehemently disagree with. Proper discourse is more important than ever.
And journalists need to understand their responsibilities in all this and start acting like journalists again.
Save the date for Xbox Showcase - June 9 at 10 a.m. PT followed by [REDACTED] Direct. Our teams and partners are working hard on our first Showcase featuring games from our studios across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios 🎮✨💚💙 Hope you can join us!
@LaskerDev @pansexualDBZfan Great job, congrats!! Being feminine as a woman now seems to be a crime. The brainless with no valid arguments just drop the "porn addict" accusation. Being feminine is ok. If you don't like it it's your problem.
Square-Enix announces "aggressive" multiplatform shift
"Shift to a multiplatform strategy
For HD titles...aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs. Especially, in regards to major franchises and AAA titles including catalog"
This is how everyone requiring changes to things should be treated.
Let creators create. Don’t like it? Don’t engage with it and go make your own thing.
No game should be censored at the behest of a person, place, or government.
No book should be changed for “modern audiences”.
No content should force character change for the sake of getting funded by investors who don’t care about the product.
Ratings exist. Free markets should decide what is successful or not.
Entertainment isn’t survival. It’s entertainment. Let people be entertained by fiction.
Stand by the whole of your creation, not someone’s watered down bastardization.
If you don’t like something and think you can do better? Go create that something better. If it truly is better, the people will come, they will support you, but most of all? You’ll experience the joy of creation.