Daniel Vavra's tweet from Today 01-19

[Kain]

Make of it what you will, at least be informed.

https://x.com/DanielVavra/status/1881081082612944935

By
Daniel Vávra

1/10 There are NO unskippable cutscenes in our games. Anybody who claims otherwise never played them.

2/10 We are NOT (nor ever were) banned in any country – at least not that we know of.

3/10 As much as I don’t like "forced diversity", nobody was forcing us to do anything, and we are not forcing anyone to do certain things.

4/10 Gay characters were already in KCD1.

5/10 KCD is an RPG, you are responsible for your decisions. If you want Henry to try a same-sex adventure, feel free. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. All affairs are (and were in KCD1) purely optional. The characters are perfectly aware, that it was a forbidden sin.

6/10 The game takes place in one of the richest cities in Europe which was besieged by a massive foreign army. That´s the reason why the life in such a city is more diverse than the life in villages which were featured in the first game.

7/10 Musa came to Bohemia with an invading army as a member of the royal court of King Sigismund, whom he met thanks to his engagement at the court of Sultan Bayezid. He's an educated noble and renaissance man from the Kingdom of Mali.

8/10 At the same time, Musa is a very unusual figure for the local Bohemian folk, and many of the situations around him in the game stem from this. So his presence makes sense and creates lots of interesting situations in the game. The way he talks and behaves has a reason.

9/10 Everything displayed corresponds to the morals and social norms of 1403 Bohemia and is only there to make an interesting story, and not at all to appeal to a “modern audience".

10/10 We don't want KCD to be used as clickbait by people who didn't even play it yet. Some of them sadly turned into exactly the same narrative they pretend to be fighting against. The amount of hateful behavior is really sad and it will damage any cause associated with it.

[Dio]

BingusDingus původně napsal:

EtherLakes původně napsal:

no, not 1 dude, an entire city. He says the city in the game is a ''diverse city'' HIS WORDS.
I play games to get away from the diverse city sh*t I live in, the last thing I want is to play a game with that

The only black dude is Musa, confirmed by those playing the game at this moment.

Why are you saying "only" as if that makes it okay because there is just 1 xD
There were ZERO blacks in medieval central Europe. Period.

[fwarlinger]

Wokekanda In Czech lands.

[Kain]

Dio původně napsal:

BingusDingus původně napsal:

The only black dude is Musa, confirmed by those playing the game at this moment.

Why are you saying "only" as if that makes it okay because there is just 1 xD
There were ZERO blacks in medieval central Europe. Period.

lmao, banned.

[Gu1ag4y0u]

Siegfried of the Flaming Rose původně napsal:

So, in short, he admits the presence of optional same-sex romance and he confirms the presence of the black character. Sounds pretty woke to me, especially by someone who larped as being "based and not politically correct" on SM What a hypocrite.
This discussion should be pinned. Good job man

Who worked for Sultan Bayezid, the Ottoman Sultan.

You anti-woke people are the same as woke, spitting out prejudice without knowing a thing or two. Hell, Abram Gannibal, the great great grandfather of Pushkin, the Russian writer, was a black general from Cameroon who served in Ottoman Empire.

[Pharis Gough]

C původně napsal:

EtherLakes původně napsal:

and what about other ethnicities?

There are no other ethnicities in the game, aside from Musa, a voodoo priestess from Haiti working for the inquisitor, and the Aztec shaman Capucztelmak.

"a voodoo priestess from Haiti girl bossing for the very christian inquisition" and then it gets worse.

[Arbalecht]

(((vavra)))

[SHAIVK3IVI]

Everybody just chill , enjoy the music while you think about all the Gae Segs you can have with your African KING


https://youtu.be/LDZX4ooRsWs

[Kain]

Gu1ag4y0u původně napsal:

Siegfried of the Flaming Rose původně napsal:

So, in short, he admits the presence of optional same-sex romance and he confirms the presence of the black character. Sounds pretty woke to me, especially by someone who larped as being "based and not politically correct" on SM What a hypocrite.
This discussion should be pinned. Good job man

Who worked for Sultan Bayezid, the Ottoman Sultan.

You anti-woke people are the same as woke, spitting out prejudice without knowing a thing or two. Hell, Abram Gannibal, the great great grandfather of Pushkin, the Russian writer, was a black general from Cameroon who served in Ottoman Empire.

Pretty much. Daniel Vavra multiple times stood his ground when people demanded more representation in the game. It seems he found a way to make it work historically, which I'm completely fine with.

[Sedyana]

Thanks for confirming my need to cancel and give this game a miss.

[Gearotic]

''Woke'' is just a safe term for rightwing extremists to promote racism and homophobia and unfortunately recent developments have validated such behaviour.

You should be ashamed.

This is a game. Enjoy it. Or not.

[Ryu Hayabusa]

Gearotic původně napsal:

''Woke'' is just a safe term for rightwing extremists to promote racism and homophobia and unfortunately recent developments have validated such behaviour.

You should be ashamed.

This is a game. Enjoy it. Or not.

So asking questions about a video game is extremism now ? Wow the bar is so low these days I cannot tell.

[indoctrine]

For people saying, that this gay sex for Henry is only option.
Well, they can add crossdressing, they can add child abuse, they can add option to identify as transsexual, they can add nonbinary pronouns.. You see how it's going?
And lecturing about women from black muslim sounds almost as stupid as making pumps for misgender.

[Kain]

indoctrine původně napsal:

For people saying, that this gay sex for Henry is only option.
Well, they can add crossdressing, they can add child abuse, they can add option to identify as transsexual, they can add nonbinary pronouns.. You see how it's going?
And lecturing about women from black muslim sounds almost as stupid as making pumps for misgender.

Yeah, they could have added all those options, they didn't because it would have been stupid. See how it's going?

[C]

SHAIVK3IVI původně napsal:

Everybody just chill , enjoy the music while you think about all the Gae Segs you can have with your African KING


https://youtu.be/LDZX4ooRsWs

Dr Musa and Henry walk into a tavern. This song starts playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdWqpiy0zRI

Dr. Musa is the name, I'm ahead of my game
Still puffin' my leaves, still ♥♥♥♥ with the beats
Still not lovin' bailiffs (Huh-uh)

[indoctrine]

Kain původně napsal:

indoctrine původně napsal:

For people saying, that this gay sex for Henry is only option.
Well, they can add crossdressing, they can add child abuse, they can add option to identify as transsexual, they can add nonbinary pronouns.. You see how it's going?
And lecturing about women from black muslim sounds almost as stupid as making pumps for misgender.

Yeah, they could have added all those options, they didn't because it would have been stupid. See how it's going?

"No black in Bohemia!"
"Well, there is one, and he is lecturing why black musilm civ is better"

"There are gay bad guys"
"You can have gay sex if you want"

I see big "progress".