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What is the "wokeness" people refer to, I've tried to understand the other side for so long now that it just confused me even more, it means so many different things for so many different people and most of those things seem to be inane.
People arguing that it's wokeness that in GTA 6's trailer the female protag is in center and front or that BG3 was woke because larian made all the companion's available to romance and not only the opposing sex.
I've also seen people argue that they're ok with diversity as long it's organic, but I'm really not sure what makes it organic or not since it's never specified or given criteria of evaluation.
The most egregious group I've seen arguing, it's not even about the games or the stories, it's about some mysterious elite controlling every major player in the gaming industry trying to bring about the fall of the western world, whatever this even means, this last group I just think their brain has rotted to the core by their insecurities and they've abandoned the real world a long time ago.
Generally it's when the "wokeness" takes a turn where the narrative is talking down to the audience. I think the most common and/or best analogy is say you go to the grocery store, and every time you go to checkout, the cashier says something along the lines of "You shouldn't steal. Stealing is bad." Even though you aren't stealing and never have.
It's the assumption that the player is a bad person and needs to be taught how to be a good person, to the point that there's this constant brow beating at every opportunity to "re-educate" them. That's the kind of "wokeness" that generally gets backlash. That and taking existing IPs, retconning lore to inject their ideology in every possible crevice.
The people that argue "OMG FEMALE LEAD" is wokeness aren't doing themselves any favors, or the argument about the negative type of "agenda based design" that they're against. In my opinion these people are idiots. There are legitimate concerns, and then there are trolls who really don't get it and point the finger at the mere existence of a female, someone not white, or LGBT characters being present as "woke".
The truth is these things have existed for a long time in gaming, and they've been handled with varying degrees of success. It's the more recent pervasive and aggressive style though that started this whole backlash, especially since in the minds of a lot of gamers, it has taken potentially good stories and then stuck them in a blender with a political agenda, resulting in some of the most mediocre, boring, or frankly, insulting stories that have come out in years.
So people get upset about that, and for good reason. Not to mention this approach to the subject doesn't improve anything for anyone, and rather just creates hostility in communities where people of all different walks used to feel welcome.
What is this “brain rot” people refer to? I've tried to understand the other side for so long now that it just confused me even more. It means so many different things for many different people and most of those things seem to be inane.
People are arguing that there’s brain rot in the GTA 6 trailer, just because the female protagonist is center stage? BG3 was brain rot because Larian made all the companion's available to romance and not only the opposing sex?
I've also seen people argue that they're ok with diversity as long it's organic, but I'm really not sure what makes it organic or not. Organic has never been specified or given criteria of evaluation.
The most egregious free thinkers I've seen arguing, it's not even about the video games or their stories, it's about some mysterious elite cabal controlling every major player in the gaming industry. Apparently this cabal is trying to bring about the fall of the western world, whatever that means. As for these free thinkers, I just think they’re woke to the core by their insecurities and they abandoned the real world a long time ago.
For every crappy thing that exist in the world people should thank US for that.
IF they didnt try to still riches from countries from Asia and Africa you wouldnt have Terrorists today.
I am not saying you wouldnt have people who just love bloodshed but the number of these would be literally so negligible that it wouldnt be any different then today in any country.
what you speak of is literally figments of your imagination. no game does this. and of course you couldn't give a real example of a REAL GAME to prove your point, instead opting for a fake reality where a cashier tells you not to steal every time you try to buy something. you need therapy guy. it's also hilarious your steam name is tyrant, cause you're definitely a trumpy.
maybe if most of you people who whine about "WoKeIsM" weren't actual garbage people you wouldn't feel so attacked when a game tries it's hand at some form of social commentary. even still there is no game that says "you're bad, and you should feel bad", it just hasn't happened. guilty conscious maybe? ya know that thing where you continuously do things you know are wrong and it starts weighing on your psyche leading you further down into a pit of despair where you constantly start boycotting things because you feel called out, i mean, it's woke.
Consistency from game to game and the story and world it takes place in has been an issues since the ps3 games though. Still a shame as there was easy ways to not have such a discrepancy and have Clank still empathise. Remember how Ratchet suddenly became the last Lombax despite in previous games we had seen other Lombax. Similar issue here.
game definitely ascribes to certain agenda for sure
obviously we kow of the dev worker that threw a hissy fit on rivet's design
really apparent why the game was made to slowly push out Ratchet and clank for Rivet
Just look at the US's politi-goons. They are the perfect examples of wokeness. LOL.
Another thing that people don't take in consideration, is that every issue that is big enough to bring your attention, is a result of small issue accumulated over time. Issues that people might even indirectly supported, when depreciate others complains about it.
A good example recently would be: Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider, can't raid tombs anymore because it's 'culturally insensitive' according to losers on twitter. Also they tried to force diversity and inclusiveness into the series by adding a generic black woman to it, which just ended up being tokenism, and now it has a token black character in there instead of any sort of actual diversity or inclusion.
On paper, they seem like nice ideals to behold, but when you try to force them on people? Here are some examples of those:
Forced Diversity becomes Tokenism
- Generic character exists purely because of their race, and not their character or for any specific story-telling purpose, and thus becomes the token character.
Forced Equity becomes Inequality
- Imagine if you did 90% of the work in your workplace. Forced Equity would force you to be paid equally to the other people doing that last 10% of the work
Forced Inclusion becomes Racism/Segregation
- We can't hire you for this job because you are black/white.
I don't think I need to tell anyone here 'why' those things are bad, but socialistic losers on Twitter will try to keep forcing these principles on people, and thus corrupting said principles, and so there will always be an equal opposing force of anti-woke people to fight them back on their bs.
However, there are absolutely low IQ people on both sides of this, unfortunately. For example, people on the anti-woke side that just point at anything with a woman in it and say it's woke because of it, without taking context or the overall story into account are just both plain wrong and just outright sexist. Needless to say, these people who do that are absolutely in the wrong too.
Extremism of any kind is always bad, and as the famous saying goes: "for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction"