Marvel Rivals changing skin tone to be darker

[REBirthTheEdge]

I'm very saddened that one of my favorite games of the year 2024, Metaphor, was deemed woke by the fake anti-woke mob, probably paid by China money.

I'm now motivated to actively seek out and point out Chinese games's wokeness.
Here, Marvel Rivals just patches to make a character skin darker in a cutscene:
https://x.com/Loudwindow/status/1882353609691820332

I'd like to see China defenders defending this.

[tyl0413]

Good, fuck china trash, I've no idea how people can shill for mobile gatcha liveservice garbage unironically. They deserve this. Metaphor looks like a fun game I just don't have a 100 hours to play it through rn.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Good, fuck china trash, I've no idea how people can shill for mobile gatcha liveservice garbage unironically. They deserve this. Metaphor looks like a fun game I just don't have a 100 hours to play it through rn.

Thanks man.
At least Metaphor sold well, got a sexy manga adaptation.

I think it will get an upgraded edition this year or the next.

A lot of "anti-woke" are stealthy China shills, they are not pretending anymore.

[tyl0413]

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Good, fuck china trash, I've no idea how people can shill for mobile gatcha liveservice garbage unironically. They deserve this. Metaphor looks like a fun game I just don't have a 100 hours to play it through rn.

Thanks man.
At least Metaphor sold well, got a sexy manga adaptation.

I think it will get an upgraded edition this year or the next.

A lot of "anti-woke" are stealthy China shills, they are not pretending anymore.

Very recently there definitely is a portion of them who are just subversive little shits, be that shilling for china or seeking to censor female characters because they're religious boomers, etc. and they can fuck off all the same as the woke. They used to cry pretty often in this group too about "porn games", I hate how the "anti-woke is just as bad as woke" idiots actually were proven right in the end.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

Thanks man.
At least Metaphor sold well, got a sexy manga adaptation.

I think it will get an upgraded edition this year or the next.

A lot of "anti-woke" are stealthy China shills, they are not pretending anymore.

Very recently there definitely is a portion of them who are just subversive little shits, be that shilling for china or seeking to censor female characters because they're religious boomers, etc. and they can fuck off all the same as the woke. They used to cry pretty often in this group too about "porn games", I hate how the "anti-woke is just as bad as woke" idiots actually were proven right in the end.

The anti-woke movement got too big, every big tent movement is like this.
It's gonna straight itself out sooner or later.

[Evangela]

Is that character supposed to be that dark in the comics or something?

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Evangela:

Is that character supposed to be that dark in the comics or something?

That character is a black woman.
She's already dark, for some reasons, they decide to make her blacker because it's "not dark enough".

[Sunsetter]

In this day and age, any change along these lines is a potential red flag.
That said, the girl is supposed to be black, so I dont have a problem with this in isolation.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Samael:

In this day and age, any change along these lines is a potential red flag.
That said, the girl is supposed to be black, so I dont have a problem with this in isolation.

Making a black girl blacker for no reason definitely is strange. All of this color police isn't Asian.
AND I'm kinda sick of the hypocrisy, because if this is a Japanese game, the usual suspects (anti-woke Xitter) will be running this on the front page.

[d3adf1sh]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

I hate how the "anti-woke is just as bad as woke" idiots actually were proven right in the end.

i beg to differ. woke is way worse. some of the people you may be thinking of are undercover woke, not necessarily working for china, that come in to conservative chat and start shit. i can usually smell them from a mile a way like the swine they are. they even come in here from time to time, but they don't last long. they're just wannabe activist doing wannabe activist things.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by d3adf1sh:

Originally posted by tyl0413:

I hate how the "anti-woke is just as bad as woke" idiots actually were proven right in the end.

i beg to differ. woke is way worse. some of the people you may be thinking of are undercover woke, not necessarily working for china, that come in to conservative chat and start shit. i can usually smell them from a mile a way like the swine they are. they even come in here from time to time, but they don't last long. they're just wannabe activist doing wannabe activist things.

This I agree, lot of suspicious people joining the anti-woke movement, especially the idiots who coin the term "woke right".

[tyl0413]

Originally posted by d3adf1sh:

Originally posted by tyl0413:

I hate how the "anti-woke is just as bad as woke" idiots actually were proven right in the end.

i beg to differ. woke is way worse. some of the people you may be thinking of are undercover woke, not necessarily working for china, that come in to conservative chat and start shit. i can usually smell them from a mile a way like the swine they are. they even come in here from time to time, but they don't last long. they're just wannabe activist doing wannabe activist things.

It can be either. China has heavily invested in pushing DEI in the west, some of them may very well be chinese shills, at the end of the day I don't care whats their reason, woke/undercover woke/chinese/religious/plain dumb/whatever else, if they seek to censor games they are all the same to me.

"Virtual women showing any skin is degenerate and sinful therefor need to be removed" and
"Virtual women make transexuals insecure so they need to be removed" sound the exact same to me, if you use either argument you're almost certainly an infiltrator or at best a useful idiot working together towards the same goal, not sure what good intention anyone against censorship could have for trying to steer the conversation away from this point "but X is worse, but Y is irrelevant anyways" its all the same shit stop playing into their games, thats how they won, you give them an inch they take a mile every single time.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Originally posted by d3adf1sh:

i beg to differ. woke is way worse. some of the people you may be thinking of are undercover woke, not necessarily working for china, that come in to conservative chat and start shit. i can usually smell them from a mile a way like the swine they are. they even come in here from time to time, but they don't last long. they're just wannabe activist doing wannabe activist things.

It can be either. China has heavily invested in pushing DEI in the west, some of them may very well be chinese shills, at the end of the day I don't care whats their reason, woke/undercover woke/chinese/religious/plain dumb/whatever else, if they seek to censor games they are all the same to me.

"Virtual women showing any skin is degenerate and sinful therefor need to be removed" and
"Virtual women make transexuals insecure so they need to be removed" sound the exact same to me, if you use either argument you're almost certainly an infiltrator or at best a useful idiot working together towards the same goal, not sure what good intention anyone against censorship could have for trying to steer the conversation away from this point "but X is worse, but Y is irrelevant anyways" its all the same shit stop playing into their games, thats how they won, you give them an inch they take a mile every single time.

There are certain parts who just want drama.
Because if there are dramas, there are clicks and there are attention.

Though, I will always maintain my principles to be anti-gacha/live service games.

[@R+5]

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

A lot of "anti-woke" are stealthy China shills, they are not pretending anymore.

i think there are also genuine anti-woke people from china, even if they look at woke-ism from a different perspective and are very limited by their government to how they may engage it.

also, while im interested in playing metaphor, i get why some anti-woke people have labelled it as "woke": for some, if the product has a minimum amount of homosexuality (even if not pushed aggressively as in "typical woke stuff"), or leftist views pushed, or minor censorship in the aspect of females and so on, they will label it as "woke".

and, from that harsher perspective, i think metaphor could be considered "woke" or "partially affected by woke beliefs". ive played a few classic persona and shin megami tensei games, and they have some things that could be mislabelled as "woke" too. i still think they are not woke, and are actually good games.

another example could be the last baldurs gate game: most of the game was properly done, woke free, but after the company slowly began to be hijacked by woke activists, to prevent damage, the leaders chose to "expand" their game with woke-ish content, but implement it as optional and not force it, which allow the main product to work well enough and avoid the same negative fate of many others that were forced to include stuff for "gender ideology".

fun fact: visit aliexpress and search "trump" and you will find many funny pro-trump paraphernalia, and very little anti-trump stuff there. if they are selling that there, is because not only they consume it, but people from other countries too.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by @R+5:

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

A lot of "anti-woke" are stealthy China shills, they are not pretending anymore.

i think there are also genuine anti-woke people from china, even if they look at woke-ism from a different perspective and are very limited by their government to how they may engage it.

also, while im interested in playing metaphor, i get why some anti-woke people have labelled it as "woke": for some, if the product has a minimum amount of homosexuality (even if not pushed aggressively as in "typical woke stuff"), or leftist views pushed, or minor censorship in the aspect of females and so on, they will label it as "woke".

and, from that harsher perspective, i think metaphor could be considered "woke" or "partially affected by woke beliefs". ive played a few classic persona and shin megami tensei games, and they have some things that could be mislabelled as "woke" too. i still think they are not woke, and are actually good games.

another example could be the last baldurs gate game: most of the game was properly done, woke free, but after the company slowly began to be hijacked by woke activists, to prevent damage, the leaders chose to "expand" their game with woke-ish content, but implement it as optional and not force it, which allow the main product to work well enough and avoid the same negative fate of many others that were forced to include stuff for "gender ideology".

fun fact: visit aliexpress and search "trump" and you will find many funny pro-trump paraphernalia, and very little anti-trump stuff there. if they are selling that there, is because not only they consume it, but people from other countries too.

At least the actual Chinese who are redpilled on woke shit are honest that they are Chinese. I interact with these guys all the times, they are honest.

These stealthy China shills sometimes talk mad shit about China (muh communists), then they decide to shill for their gacha games and live services anyway, it's just pure contradiction.

And naw, BG3 was woke AND gay as shit, I have no idea why Chinese like that so much when Rogue Traders exist, it could be they are forced to due to the Tencent investment (big corpos hire literal shills to like the games they invest in).

EDIT: About the woke definition matter, there are now literal Christian bible-thumbing LARPers who fap to gay Pokemon fan art in the "anti-woke" crowd, the movement got too big and there are a lot of accusations and false accusations (particular for Japanese games by S. Korean and Chinese competitors). Basically for me, anything that sticks out like a sore thumb is a sure sign of wokeness, like the recent KCD2's "addition".

[🎂⁧⁧Sneakydude555]

IDK about metaphor, im starting to think people take that game out of context due to the English Dub. I played the demo, i didnt like the atmosphere of the game, and it wasnt engaging to me with the story.

For the Marvel rivals situation, as a black guy this has to be most brain dead "change" i've ever seen.... Many of my family memebers are black despite of them not looking "black"