Wokeness is near to an end

[Neuvillette]

Over the years, the rise of the ‘woke’ culture has transformed into something that often goes beyond promoting equality and inclusivity. What started as an effort to address genuine social issues has now become an overzealous and sometimes authoritarian movement, focused more on policing language and ideas than on fostering real change. Instead of encouraging open dialogue and constructive debate, it often shuts down differing opinions, labeling them as offensive or problematic. The obsession with superficial identity politics and virtue signaling distracts from meaningful solutions to real-world issues. At its worst, ‘wokeness’ has created an environment where people are more concerned with appearing morally righteous than with actually improving society.

This game in Steam is an awesome flop. I hope in 2025 make game great again.

[ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13]

Publicado originalmente por JacEEEBABY:

I'm also glad woke is on the out, someone should tell the defenders though. Yikes kinda gatekeepy :cozyspaceengineersa:

It sure is! Know what's funny though? Don't tell anyone, but... this game isn't woke! Which means that people who keep talking about it look really foolish, especially when they pretend to have played it but actually haven't! I know, super funny, right?

[Mick Savage]

Publicado originalmente por JacEEEBABY:

I'm also glad woke is on the out, someone should tell the defenders though. Yikes kinda gatekeepy :cozyspaceengineersa:

All funding for DEI programs came to a screeching halt recently, so all that easy investor money studios were getting to include woke garbage is gone baby!

Now studios will have to get their money the old fashion way... work for it! :D

[ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13]

Publicado originalmente por Mick Savage:

Publicado originalmente por JacEEEBABY:

I'm also glad woke is on the out, someone should tell the defenders though. Yikes kinda gatekeepy :cozyspaceengineersa:

All funding for DEI programs came to a screeching halt recently, so all that easy investor money studios were getting to include woke garbage is gone baby!

Now studios will have to get their money the old fashion way... work for it! :D

Exactly right! Isn't it funny, though, how absolutely none of that applies to this game whatsoever? :D

[Tanoomba]

Publicado originalmente por Mick Savage:

All funding for DEI programs came to a screeching halt recently, so all that easy investor money studios were getting to include woke garbage is gone baby!

And yet, studios are going to continue trying to appeal to wider audiences through diversity and inclusion in their games, and they're going to keep hiring narrative consultants to make sure they're doing it right.

That's, of course, completely besides the point that this particular game isn't "woke" and never was.

[Cypher]

If that wasn't a taunt, I don't know what was.....

[ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13]

Publicado originalmente por Cypher:

If that wasn't a taunt, I don't know what was.....

There's more than enough taunting to go around on this cesspool of a forum, from all sides. The fact remains, however, that there's a handful of people who bought into the whole "this game is woke" thing whole hog, made a lot of noise about it without playing so much as a second of the game themselves, felt extremely foolish when that was shown to be completely false, and now spend an inordinate amount of time making redundant posts about wokeism in general in a desperate attempt to cover up the fact that they ended up with a metric sh!t-ton of egg on their faces. The worst part is that they have no intention of even trying to act like adults and have good-faith, honest conversations, preferring instead to act like petulant children. It's really sad.

[lizzo(overturned bans x 69)]

its too bad woke didn't end sooner before the game was released. wouldn't be surprised if we saw numbers like 50k, sadly we aren't even seeing 2k in game due to woke.... total failure.

[Cypher]

Publicado originalmente por ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13:

There's more than enough taunting to go around on this cesspool of a forum, from all sides. The fact remains, however, that there's a handful of people who bought into the whole "this game is woke" thing whole hog, made a lot of noise about it without playing so much as a second of the game themselves, felt extremely foolish when that was shown to be completely false, and now spend an inordinate amount of time making redundant posts about wokeism in general in a desperate attempt to cover up the fact that they ended up with a metric sh!t-ton of egg on their faces. The worst part is that they have no intention of even trying to act like adults and have good-faith, honest conversations, preferring instead to act like petulant children. It's really sad.

Welcome to the internet, my friend.

[joridiculous]

Publicado originalmente por oh oh oh its lizzo:

its too bad woke didn't end sooner before the game was released. wouldn't be surprised if we saw numbers like 50k, sadly we aren't even seeing 2k in game due to woke.... total failure.

can you point on this doll and tell us where the woke in this game hurt you?

[slider86]

Publicado originalmente por Tanoomba:

And yet, studios are going to continue trying to appeal to wider audiences through diversity and inclusion in their games, and they're going to keep hiring narrative consultants to make sure they're doing it right.

In what parallel universe?

[ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13]

Publicado originalmente por Cypher:

Publicado originalmente por ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13:

There's more than enough taunting to go around on this cesspool of a forum, from all sides. The fact remains, however, that there's a handful of people who bought into the whole "this game is woke" thing whole hog, made a lot of noise about it without playing so much as a second of the game themselves, felt extremely foolish when that was shown to be completely false, and now spend an inordinate amount of time making redundant posts about wokeism in general in a desperate attempt to cover up the fact that they ended up with a metric sh!t-ton of egg on their faces. The worst part is that they have no intention of even trying to act like adults and have good-faith, honest conversations, preferring instead to act like petulant children. It's really sad.

Welcome to the internet, my friend.

I know. It just sucks that some people get off on acting like idiots. I've always been a champion of open and honest dialogue because I believe the powers that be want to keep us divided, and force feed us a constant narrative (left AND right) that perpetuates that goal, and sadly, it works - all you have to do is look at these boards. People thrive on conflict, and that's exactly what the politicians, governments and the people behind them want. You're right though; it is what it is and it's not going to change.

[Gin51]

Theres no woke in this game just dum... people trying to put their crap politic posts in every place...

[Cypher]

Publicado originalmente por ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13:

I know. It just sucks that some people get off on acting like idiots. I've always been a champion of open and honest dialogue because I believe the powers that be want to keep us divided, and force feed us a constant narrative (left AND right) that perpetuates that goal, and sadly, it works - all you have to do is look at these boards. People thrive on conflict, and that's exactly what the politicians, governments and the people behind them want. You're right though; it is what it is and it's not going to change.

I feel like the best place for someone to start having honest conversations, is to recognise their own biases, and to recognise them AS biases. We've all got them. More people started doing that, then maybe we can get to a point where we can see more civilised conversations.

[ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13]

Publicado originalmente por Cypher:

Publicado originalmente por ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13:

I know. It just sucks that some people get off on acting like idiots. I've always been a champion of open and honest dialogue because I believe the powers that be want to keep us divided, and force feed us a constant narrative (left AND right) that perpetuates that goal, and sadly, it works - all you have to do is look at these boards. People thrive on conflict, and that's exactly what the politicians, governments and the people behind them want. You're right though; it is what it is and it's not going to change.

I feel like the best place for someone to start having honest conversations, is to recognise their own biases, and to recognise them AS biases. We've all got them. More people started doing that, then maybe we can get to a point where we can see more civilised conversations.

That's an excellent point. Most people come into these things with a very "us vs them" mentality, which ultimately is very counterproductive - and not only that, they assume that their side is 100% in the right.

The truth is that both sides of any given argument (well, most arguments, anyway) have valid points, and as I've said many times on here, if people would only approach these things with a modicum of self-awareness then they'd realize that there's far more common ground than they thought.

Politics suck. There's not a single politician out there, on either side of the aisle, that has our best interests at heart. And yet people insist on willingly subjecting themselves to sycophantic partisanship at the expense of their own individuality. It's made worse by people going out of their way to troll and wreak havoc as we've seen here. I know they think they're just having a laugh, but at the end of the day they're perpetuating a cycle of division which plays directly into the hands of the shadowy people whose primary goal is to keep us divided for their own profit.

/tinfoilhat

[JacEEEBABY]

The more we see wokeness coming to and end the more gatekeepy this thread gets. Glad we are able to get back to normal living though.