Every time there is a new game coming out. I go into Social media and what I see is “this game is woke because two dudes are kissing and there is a black protagonists, delete and refund” There are so many people that seem to care about it that I start to wonder if I am the insane one?
like Do these people genuinely believe that artists will stop being political and talk about their beliefs just because you said you don’t like it? or that games will stop being “woke” because like, 3 games flopped for reasons OTHER THAN it was “woke”
Let’s ignore the story quality, graphical fidelity, optimization, gameplay quality, etc… Oh, no! The only reason why this succeeded is because that character has a fat ass! The reason for why that game has failed is because this character said they were non-binary!
like, Just how are people are not tired of this shit? This debate is about as deep as a puddle, has no consequence on real life, and the roots of this debate is based on ignorance and assumptions.
Hell, I got told that the Oblivion remaster was great and “not woke” because it sold more on Steam than AC Shadows Shadows and Dragon Age Veilguard
But also that Oblivion is “woke” for removing male and female and replacing it with Body Type 1/2
In the same reddit thread
The word in itself is pretty meaningless. They use it to refer to anything they consider left wing, but using “woke” instead of “left-wing” gives it an air of illegetimacy, like something newly made up. Like, they wouldn’t say that the BPP was woke, but might consider that a movie about them is. You could say the meanings are different because “woke” is more about culture, not about economy or revolt against physical conditions… But that’s the point, they try to reduce politics to only “culture wars”. Because making up narratives around that is easier to them than having a class analysis.
I’ll just leave this here
This shit was old and boring ten years ago
i am not american or on capitalist social media, but it’s my impression the group harping on about this stuff is essentially still a very loud, fringe minority. it’s not really gaining traction or affecting game sales or anything. i think you can safely just tune it out (or better, stop going on reddit).
Its the old new word. DEI will replace it. Before that was SJW, Soy and Femi-nazi or whatever.
I go into Social media
reddit thread
Reading
is self harm at this pointIt’s an easy laugh.
Keep in mind the people who are ranting about these “woke” games online on every single steam forum do so because they have nothing better to do. Instead of playing fun games, they’d rather jump at shadows and complain, instead of contributing to society, they’d rather be pathetic sad sacks with no friends because they are so repulsive. They spend all their time complaining, which creates the illusion that there are a lot of people complaining, when it is a small group that is just very vocal with too much time on their hands.
Yeah, I’m sick of it. I’ve even heard this shit irl. And when people tell me something is woke, all I have to say is: Great! I love it! Please make everything woke and DEI, I love to see gamers angry and miserable.
And don’t forget to bring up AC Shadows not flopping to really boil their blood.
i think a cultural rebound is coming.
this “anti-wokism” can’t have absolute power, basically being The State, and still be this edgy subversive shit at the same time.
At the same time, they do currently control the algos and armies of convincing chatbots so people might just increasingly check out of this nonsense but there will be the illusion of massive engagement
so definitely uncharted territory. we are truly in the era of Unreality
this “anti-wokism” can’t have absolute power, basically being The State, and still be this edgy subversive shit at the same time.
This reminds me of one of the things I find most annoying about CHUDs: they portray themselves as rebels smashing the system when they are, in fact, the system.
The reprieve from the south park slur-humor came with the bernie-campaign and trump winning mich made the easily tricked and libs into wannabe revolutionaries.
Dude I was tired ten years ago.
not me I love it it’s the best
I’ll be honest, I always get a good laugh out of it. I don’t think they are as impactful are some other things present in the same type of discourse, but I totally get you.
Since hiring veterans is DEI, I think that means any game with soldiers is woke. 😞
