I enjoy diversity. Love seeing different stories told by different people and hearing different perspectives. It does help open the mind and be open to different live experiences.
Like watching soke international films, or seeing how another culture produces films, telenovelas/soap operas. Say this chinese soap operas and they were sort of nice despite me not liking the government censorship.
Saw some indian movies and sometimes they can be cheesy but still entertaining.
Anime showed me alot of japanese culture I normally wouldnt know about.
American tv shows mostly one type of people but I am glad to see more types of people get represented. And I like seeing shows with different types of directors, from different places in the world.
Maybe youâve heard this term before, maybe you havenât. But this is what âHorseshoe Theoryâ talks about. If you go too far towards one extreme or the other, the results look precisely the same.
This is exactly why finding a middle ground and having a conversation between the two is so important. And right now, we donât have any conversation. Itâs all Kabuki Theater. Itâs all purely performative no matter which side of the aisle youâre talking about. We go from one âBig Thingâ˘â to âThe Next Big Thingâ˘â and youâre not allowed to say âNow wait a minuteâ. Because thatâs âToxicâ, etc.
(blink) Um. You mean in the 80s when people were dying of AIDS and it was being called a âhomosexual disease sent from God to Punish them?â
You mean in the 80âs when the percentage of minorities in prison were ridiculously high and no one said a word about it? Racism was alive and well, it was just ignored.
The biggest difference between now and the 80s is the internet and social media. NOTHING was in your face then. You didnât hear about all the George Floyds and the Breonna Taylors.
I happen to have been around during the 80âs and I can tell you, as someone who went to church every Sunday, the only people who made that statement were an over-reported-on and openly-mocked religious fringe.
Youâre talking about Reaganâs âTough on Crimeâ program. Would it interest you to know that the current President wrote the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act which turned âTough on Crimeâ into Federal Law, and his VEEP was the AG of California helping to execute it? âRacismâ is always a convenient accusation to make, but only when itâs made against people with âRâ after their name.
Thatâs because the Fairness Doctrine that the FCC operated under for previous decades wasnât removed until it came before Congress and was Vetoed by Reagan in 1985 to the delight of the News Media. And a comparatively short 6 years later we have the very first of these massively reported-on attacks. That would be Rodney King in 1991.
Oh, youâre talking about the dragon? I donât know why thatâs there, i just made a suggestion to have both 2 men and 2 women kissing in a cutscene.
I donât think the forced diversity and inclusion approach will ever be enough because itâs a moving target. The more content creators try to pander to it, the more likely they are to miss step and offend someone in addition to creating awkward and shallow scenarios that obviously only exist to pander to the SJW crowd. Then they have to double and triple down on it, making the storylineâs even more stilted just to make these weirdball scenarios make sense.
I donât think Blizzardâs use of a black female crusader is going to hinder or empower black women to play Diablo Immortal, but it makes a lot of white guilt riddled SJWs happy, so they do it. I donât think making 90% of the leadership quest NPCs in BFA and Shadowlands strong independent women actually makes women feel better about the real world, and it sure as hell doesnât seem to impact their willingness to spend money on video games (if my wife is an adequate sample), but Blizzard does it because it makes loud mouthed SJWs happy.
This trend is going to continue. The almighty sociopolitical checklist will reign supreme for the major multi-billion dollar corporations well into the foreseeable future. If you want games with good storylines that make sense, youâre going to want to look towards independent titles that get little attention from keyboard warriors.
Well obviously. Your States are going down because there is too many people and political decisions are weak and all money goes to 3%. Look at history. All powers collapse.
You know whatâs the werid thing is? People seem to think that people are just excluded from playing video games based on what they are (race, gender, sexuality and so on) when nobody was ever excluded from playing video games based upon that.
Anybody can play any video game. The only exclusion it comes from skill and what the person may prefer their type of video game to play.
That is 100% true. The argument is that it is a ârepresentationâ issue. Again, going back to the keyboard warriors. They think that the lack of ârepresentationâ is a deterrence to participation, but the reality of the matter is that some people genuinely just arenât interested in spending money on every product that exists.
I have a lot of games with female protagonists, but Iâm not a woman, so Iâm obviously not deterred from purchasing and enjoying these games. My wife, on the other hand, not only has zero interest in games like Control or Tomb Raider, but she actually looks at me funny for playing games with attractive female protagonists. So, Iâd say that the effort to make her feel ârepresentedâ has had zero impact on the situation outside of making Tomb Raider a guilty pleasure for me.
Iâm a straight married white dude, so my opinion on it doesnât matter so much. Thereâs a vast sea of character representation for me to choose from, and that representation is nice. I like seeing the hero get the girl in action flicks, etcâŚ
I donât know how represented other groups feel but I can wager itâs not a fraction of what I have to work with.
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