I went down the modern gaming rabbit hole

[j450n2]

And I found Sweet Baby Inc.

Who is Sweet Baby Inc? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfnbjSz7QMs

and why is their website so creepy?
https://sweetbabyinc.com/


I have been gaming for nearly 30 years.
As of today I will no longer be purchasing games from these companies. I've had enough.
I would encourage you to do your own research before making any game purchases from now on.

The only way we can ensure quality games without an agenda is to stop throwing money at companies that work with Sweet Baby Inc and are after a high ESG score.

This is my boycott list.

Blacklist (will not purchase under any circumstance)

Any project that is involved with Sweet Baby Inc I will no longer be purchasing. That includes Grand Theft Auto 6.

Here's the list of companies I am boycotting

Bethesda

Remedy

Insomniac

Ubisoft

Electronic Arts

Microsoft

Bungie

Activision Blizzard

Naughty Dog

Konami

Rocksteady

Santa Monica Studio


Game companies I will tentatively support (likely won't purchase the games unless they are at a steep discount):

Capcom (I strongly disagree with charging $6 for costumes in Street Fighter 6, but they're doing great with Resident Evil in my opinion)

Valve (If Sweet Baby Inc is involved in any of their future projects they will not see any $ from me)

CD Projekt Red

Square Enix

Playstation exclusives

Rockstar (But again, if Sweet Baby is involved it's a no from me)



Companies I will continue to support (at the moment)

From Software

Nintendo

[carlosovskii]

good

[davidb11]

Why do people care about ESG exactly?
I still don't quite understand what it actually is.

Even after learning what it is.

Is it a new boogyman term now?
Like Woke?

Also, the list of game companies boycotted make no sense.
Even from a perspective of "Woke."

Like no one has heard of Sweet Baby INC before this thread, so you basically made it popular.
LOL.

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

Like no one has heard of Sweet Baby INC before this thread, so you basically made it popular.
LOL.

Exactly what happened with youtubers making portest video about 'crap' games. They became the advertisers of the very thing they were protesting against and made a thing to 'make a game so bad a youtuber would make a review of it'

[BJWyler]

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

Why do people care about ESG exactly?
I still don't quite understand what it actually is.

Even after learning what it is.

Is it a new boogyman term now?
Like Woke?

Also, the list of game companies boycotted make no sense.
Even from a perspective of "Woke."

Like no one has heard of Sweet Baby INC before this thread, so you basically made it popular.
LOL.

Yup. I am going to be sure to support all these blacklisted companies with my money even more now. And I say that as a lifelong Conservative.

[Crazy Tiger]

I stand by my list

Publicado originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

This is my list, OP:

[RiO]

Publicado originalmente por Tito Shivan:

I heard crochet is a very non-woke hobby.
Or gardening.

Hah! Made me laugh.

The funny thing here is that crochet and needlepoint work in general were probably some of the first actual woke hobbies, predating the original coining of the term 'wokeness' to refer to societal awareness of racial inequality in post WW2 USA by a century.

Back in the Europe of the 1800s when women still lacked voting rights; long before the suffrage movement, and long before other forms of emancipation that would see them slowly come to equal standing with men in areas such as job opportunities and level of wage, needlepoint work was basically the only way women were able to and were allowed to by society to earn some money on the side. Small kernels of women from well-off families would pool and do needlework over tea, and sell that on to fund small community charities wrt e.g. food for the poor; prevention of child labor; etc. Some would in fact directly crochet or embroider politically tinted material which was hung from walls; windows; flag poles; or taken out to be used as banners in protest marches.

Publicado originalmente por Tito Shivan:

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

Like no one has heard of Sweet Baby INC before this thread, so you basically made it popular.
LOL.

Exactly what happened with youtubers making portest video about 'crap' games. They became the advertisers of the very thing they were protesting against and made a thing to 'make a game so bad a youtuber would make a review of it'

See also: The Streisand Effect

[DocShady]

Remember when you could just purchased, install, and play a game without the fear of becoming or running into some random anti-woke social justice warrior?

Good times.

[Kage Goomba]

Publicado originalmente por BJWyler:

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

Why do people care about ESG exactly?
I still don't quite understand what it actually is.

Even after learning what it is.

Is it a new boogyman term now?
Like Woke?

Also, the list of game companies boycotted make no sense.
Even from a perspective of "Woke."

Like no one has heard of Sweet Baby INC before this thread, so you basically made it popular.
LOL.

Yup. I am going to be sure to support all these blacklisted companies with my money even more now. And I say that as a lifelong Conservative.

I like this idea.....you have my....fangs? (I'm a goomba - we don't use axes)

[Kage Goomba]

Publicado originalmente por DocShady:

Remember when you could just purchased, install, and play a game without the fear of becoming or running into some random anti-woke social justice warrior?

Good times.

I remember when I played a game and it was just a game - until some idiot started making it about racism/politics/woke crap - now I just ignore the idiots.

Its just a game - don't like it - don't buy it - grand standing is foolsih.

[El Mythical 23 k.s.c.]

I"m glad people are starting to boycott companies. Spend it how you want when you want.

[veracsthane]

Publicado originalmente por C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

If you've been gaming for 30 years, you've already bought games from a lot of those developers and you don't even realize it.

I've been gaming longer than you have which is why I know those companies have been around forever.

Activision has been around for 44 years and Konami has been around more years than I've been alive at 54 years.

alot of those developers werent trash then.

ive said repeatedly my experince with blizzard here and how it went and why i quit bnet outright.

there was a direct link with senior management retiring quitting and the increase of woke bs where ultimately i was robbed of thankfully only 100 dollars and told to go pound sand as blizzard disabled appeals for false bans when they forced the chat ban bot bs down our throats and ultimately banned their top streamer for hots falsely and ultimately had to mannually unban them. to this day they havent even tried to adjust the system to block false flagging and most of the normal people who saw the same thing are just done. there is nothing the company can release that i will purchase. i grew up with blizzard games and its too late for blizzard to try and do better. you dont wait 3-4 months to appeal a false ban get told to pound sand and forgive.

companies that do this crap are a dime or dozen now and they all make unfinshed buggy crap filled with asset flips. they also tend to love to ban people who say something about it because they dont want people being rightly pissed with them over it.

[veracsthane]

id also like to note this is only one of the woke groups that did this. there is the fair play alliance foudned by the no ♥♥♥♥ communist party of china after they bought riot games and a few others almost all attached to esg.

[76561199566220743]

Publicado originalmente por veracsthane:

id also like to note this is only one of the woke groups that did this. there is the fair play alliance foudned by the no ♥♥♥♥ communist party of china after they bought riot games and a few others almost all attached to esg.

Define "woke".

[Rin]

Publicado originalmente por Kage Goomba:

Publicado originalmente por DocShady:

Remember when you could just purchased, install, and play a game without the fear of becoming or running into some random anti-woke social justice warrior?

Good times.

I remember when I played a game and it was just a game - until some idiot started making it about racism/politics/woke crap - now I just ignore the idiots.

Its just a game - don't like it - don't buy it - grand standing is foolsih.

Games have always been political. How do you think the otaku boom came to be in Japan where it festered into every Japanese video game/media ever since? Even gombas are just transformed toads you are bashing to death. At least get your lore right. Pong and space invaders had sides. Even frogger is you vs humans.

Everything is and has always been political. You just choose to ignore it or didn't know any better.

Ignorance is bliss.

[sumolagann]

It's going to get worse.

They said sometimes they are straight up the narrative team