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Mason Williams
Sebastian Gonzalez
Leave faggotry out of my OP
Aiden Taylor
one is degeneracy while the other isn't
Zachary Phillips
The rainbow flag probably implies they're talking about gender politics.
The games on the left touch upon real world affairs that actually matter.
James Stewart
obtain coitus
Lincoln Hall
You're right. War and senseless murder is pretty degenerate. Imagine dying in some sandy shithole for Israel
Eli Sanders
Dominoes Pizza > Local pizza establishments >>>>>>> Pizza Hut >>>>>>>>> Papa Johns = Little Caesar’s
Zachary Torres
Leave pandering towards the mentally ill out of my board.
Adrian Bailey
Fictional Politics that are interesting scenarios vs. Gays are ok real politics shoved in to the media forcefully.
Give me a cool LGBTQUERY++ Story and then we'll talk.
Jeremiah Ward
There was a pizza truck near the appartment we lived at, and they made the best fucking pizza i've ever tasted. Unfortunately, they only stayed for a couple of months.
Isaac Hughes
It's not about if ther's a nigger or a woman, it's about not politically charging your shit.
Dominic Flores
One is something actually interesting, war, money, power, exchanging of hands, turncoats, etc, things of that nature. Murder, the evil in man, deviousness, and so on. And more.
The other is just "I have a penis that makes me a woman" or "I'm a a fag I deserve preferencial treatment" etc. That is the kind of terrible garbage that is shoehorned in these games, for nothing more than brownie points or a shaking of the head saying "wow so brave, I understand I empathize". Absolutely surface level trash.
Ethan Phillips
The only thing on the left that is political is Spec Ops.
Joshua Clark
Politics that fit the setting are alright. Identity politics aren't.
We've been through this hundreds of times now. Fuck this stale bait.
Jonathan James
A black street kid with a boombox is pretty racist if anything. So you're right it might not be forced, but that's what makes it problematic.
Xavier Young
Homemade pizza>Costco Pizza>What you mentioned
Christian Rivera
>Black kids are not allowed to have boomboxes
stupid.
Carter Thomas
>460812194
>shitty franchise above local places
ok retard
Hunter White
I'm not going to be two faced about it. I want women, niggers, trannies, and faggots out of my video games unironically
Bentley Johnson
He's the oldest of the cast.
And it's JSFR from 2001. The dressing code is different of course. But here is a good example of a colored guy in a game.
There are others but somehow, it's mostly Japanese who do it better with no message behind it despite being anti immigration and all.
Who are the real "racists" in this World ?
Daniel Sanchez
>War game
>Plot point about war
Okay
>Fantasy game
>Plot about gender and sexuality
???
Samuel Young
Reminds me of the black guy that was supposed to organize the food for an event and then got in trouble when fried chicken, watermelon and koolaid was served because that was his favorite food and drink.
Cooper Barnes
John Harris
i love when someone fucks up their post while calling someone else a retard. it happens so often too.
Connor Morris
>Who are the real "racists" in this World ?
duuude
Leo Robinson
but witcher as far as I know pandered to fags and the entire western urban crowd quite a lot with blood and wine expansion so at least its balanced if anything
John Jenkins
*Leave your politics out of video games, because they are always hamfisted and shit, faggot.
Ftfy
Evan Barnes
>but witcher as far as I know pandered to fags and the entire western urban crowd quite a lot with blood and wine expansion
no
Lucas Smith
White people had boomboxes too though, zoomer
Sebastian Thompson
>460812910
It's done to avoid giving (You)s you fucking retarded newfag.
Hudson Russell
pretty sure dominoes is 100% grease and whatever they could find on the homeless guy out back.
Jack Brown
I worked on a food truck for 6 months, got free food all the time from all the trucks at every event, food trucks make some of the most beastly food. Pic related is a quesadilla burger, ate 3 of them they were so good. I miss working that job, but I gained 25lbs working there, plus my boss was kinda a tard.
Zachary Rodriguez
Here (you) go retard.
Gabriel Brooks
>it's only good if it conforms to my worldviews!
Sounds like something a regular SJW would say
Bentley Cruz
>Wtf why does this JSR character look like a JSR character?
>Wtf why don’t you like my YAS QUEEN character made solely for a political adgenda?
Joshua Collins
I present to you, the only gay relationship that should be allowed.
It is both based, and redpilled.
Tyler Hill
There's a gay character in the Witcher 3
Easton Butler
How is sex politics?
Gender politics??? Fucking Americans
Ayden Hughes
>All those games have unique politics for their world and make sense
>Shitty politics is when you randomly throw in gays, trannies, refugee shit for no other reason than being progressive
Isaiah Green
The example in Modern Warfare 2 posted was a bad guy and also if you for some reason thought Halo was a post 9/11 allegory you need to put down the ciritical theory book.
Your people's idea of socialism is so fucking awful in execution it makes Stalin look vindicated by comparison.
Josiah Reed
>Halo is about 9/11
>Even though it was just released 2 months after the entire event
Nolan Morales
>religion is a lie is what you got out of Asscream
What a retard.
Aiden Bennett
Games should be about anything they want to be Tbh
Have gay characters or not although I'd like the game with gay characters more
Isaiah Edwards
american soldiers die for that AND homo shit, lmao
americans be like: "SIR YES SIR I WILL DIE FOR ISRAEL AND BUTTSEX!"
Julian Jackson
Gays and blacks aren't politics they're shoehorned tokenist pandering.
Games about gays and blacks? Fine. San Andreas was good. The first walking dead game was good.
Games where token gays and blacks are shoehorned in to the detriment of the quality of the story and gameplay? Bad. Garbage. Trash.
t. Gay
Kayden Sanchez
the only degeneracy I see here is you
Brayden Flores
Gender politics are fake politics for low iq vermin created by the elite to cause diversion from the real problems ((((they)))) don't want you to know.
Lincoln White
> t. Gay
Why did you feel like it was necessary to point out you were gay when it does absolutely nothing for your argument ?
Appeal to authority ? As gay I know more ?
Ffs.
Brayden Moore
>The first walking dead game
>game about blacks
retard
Wyatt Wright
Actual politics is interesting to explore, social justice fag ((((politics)))) is just propaganda meant to make people accept homos.
Parker Morales
>Games where token gays and blacks are shoehorned in to the detriment of the quality of the story and gameplay
In what games does this happen?
Leo Edwards
>Resetera and SJWs, instead of actually improving their games, just doubles down on destroying the medium by claiming games like MGS are on par with Battlefield 5
The politics in your games isn’t even the problem. Its the fact that 90% of the dev team aren’t actual programmers and only joined to put “diversity”, homos, and making women ugly, and none of them know what makes games good.
Hudson Young
Gays are smarter than straights
Chase Taylor
>gays know more about being gay
Yes
Joshua Turner
Left: philosophy and psychology
Right: politics and forcing agendas
Yup, certainly no difference here
Matthew Gomez
gay characters in mgs are better written than in the west. if mgs was a western game, ocelot would be constantly saying how gay he is, how proud he is of being gay, how he's been oppressed because of his gayhood, how he wants to strike back against the system because he's gay, also that he's gay and that he likes being gay and he's gay & proud and also how he's very gay and has always been gay, how he wanted to come out of the closet but the patriots wouldn't let him, and how he wants to create outer gay heaven where everyone who is gay can be gay
west is overzealous and turns these kinds of characters into self-parodies that you can't take seriously, because western devs don't know what they're doing and just want headpats from random whos on twitter. it has nothing to do with politics, everything to do with tastefulness and tact
Jacob Sullivan
Dominoes is complete garbage
Adam Hill
>talking about how black people don't make games bad unless they're pointlessly shoehorned in
>mention game where the main character is a black man and how it's not bad
You're the retard here nigger
Liam Moore
4 games on the left: political ideas are presented in a way to allow the player to have free agency to consider the ramifications of what is presented, even if the game has a slant for-or-against.
Rainbot flag on the right: "IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME THEN YOU'RE AN EVIL CHILD RAPIST MURDERER BIGOT HOMOPHOBE AND YOU DESERVE TO DIE IRL!!!!!11!"
Dominic Thomas
>would be constantly saying how gay he is, how proud he is of being gay, how he's been oppressed because of his gayhood, how he wants to strike back against the system because he's gay, also that he's gay and that he likes being gay and he's gay & proud and also how he's very gay and has always been gay, how he wanted to come out of the closet but the patriots wouldn't let him, and how he wants to create outer gay heaven where everyone who is gay can be gay
Is there a game where something like this happens because I would play the hell out of that game
Jayden Evans
>"IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME THEN YOU'RE AN EVIL CHILD RAPIST MURDERER BIGOT HOMOPHOBE AND YOU DESERVE TO DIE IRL!!!!!11!"
this but unironically
Jackson Smith
>thread about gays = bad
>"yeah shoehorned gays = bad" -Gay
>wow how is being gay relevant
Are you dumb?
Asher Kelly
>IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME THEN YOU'RE AN EVIL CHILD RAPIST MURDERER BIGOT HOMOPHOBE AND YOU DESERVE TO DIE IRL!!!!!11!
Unironically agree
Robert Anderson
Which in turn made anyone hate them much more than ever
Logan Powell
Never played the Witcher and I don't intend to, Spec Ops was way too preachy and forced (on top of being a mediocre shooter), and I didn't think Bioshock was that far up its own asshole the same way leftist progressivism currently is. In fact, it seemed to me that Bioshock shat on several different political ideologies, and didn't overtly *promote* one over the other (otherwise it would become propagandistic, which is also important to understand).
MGS goes as far as to break up moments of seriousness with literal toilet humor, and over-the-top action scenes. It's an extremely idiosyncratic series that's hard to put a definitive label on, and more importantly, it is memorable not because of "nukes r bad yo", but for its presentation, music, and GAMEPLAY, as well as themes it touches upon that go way deeper than just fucking politics. It's a secondary element at best, but SJW evangelicals fail to realize that because they're so obsessed with spreading a message.
Jackson Mitchell
personally I just don't want present day american politics to affect what's in my videogames, that's all.
Luis Cruz
and he's purely comic relief and not taken seriously at all. there's nothing political about him
Henry Martinez
>tfw no big dragon boy to cook for
feels bad
Andrew Peterson
Truth.
In most video games I take actions I wouldn't in real life, because it's just that to me: a game.
In video games, I am the villain, but I am sick and tired of being painted one in real life.
Tyler Johnson
Because being part of a group doesn't make your opinion any more valid.
Anyone can discuss whether or not a nigger or a faggot in a game is shoehorned or not and explain why. The impact on the flow of the story, comparing with a prequel etc...
So yeah, that's basically a logical fallacy what you guys are doing.
But whatever
Logan Brown
user...
Aaron Wood
It's fine when it isn't propaganda, propaganda simply pushes one side of the argument and strawmans the other side or ignores it completely. In games like Metal Gear you see conflicting ideologies express themselves, even if one is ultimately favoured by the author both are argued strongly. That's what makes it well written and not propagandist trash.
At least, well written for the standards of a video game.
Lucas Bell
Do you want me to pull up the image of that one same token "black lady with an afro" character design that got thrown into a bunch of stuff because diversity = tokenism? Or to bring up Andromeda?
What, are you telling me lazy tokenism for the sake of diversity doesn't exist? Are you fucking stupid?
Adam Morgan
? There's an entire quest where people talk about "the monster living by the woods" and Geralt goes to investigate but it's just a normal hunter living on his own shunned as a monster because he's gay. He's portrayed as tragic and sympathetic. Doesn't get much more political than that
Easton Rivera
No one cares if they marry each other.
The problem isn't whether or not faggots marry each other or not.
You know what's a problem for example ? Gay Pride. The worst representation of gay rights and community ever. Yet most don't even fucking realize it.
Look at the degeneracy that happens during those. No wonder faggots hate each other.
The problem is shoving shit down people's throat.
You're gay ? K.
Because you're gay I should give you special treatment or listen to your drivel ? Fuck off.
Aaron Rodriguez
Analysis vs Indoctrination.
>Jack, listen to me. We're all born with an expiration date. No one lasts forever. Life is nothing but a grace period - for turning our genetic material into the next generation. The data of life is transferred from parent to child. That's how it works. But we have no heirs, no legacy. Cloned from our father, with the ability to reproduce conveniently engineered out. What is our legacy if we cannot pass the torch? Proof of our existence - a mark of some sort. When the torch is passed on from parent to child... it extends beyond DNA; information is imparted as well. All I want is to be remembered. By other people, by history. The Patriots are trying to protect their power, their own interests, by controlling the digital flow of information. I want my memory, my existence to remain. Unlike an intron of history, I will be remembered as an exon. That will be my legacy, my mark on history. But the Patriots would deny us even that, I will triumph over the Patriots, and liberate us all. And we will become the Sons of Liberty!"
Vs.
Slay queen I have a vagina and I'm a proud lesbo!
Noah Bailey
How come your graph ends just before gay marriage was made legal?
Mason Hall
This. What the fuck does 'gender politics' mean? Politics solely focused on gender? Gendered politics?
Jason Powell
>lazy tokenism for the sake of diversity doesn't exist
Your standards for tokenism aren't the same as mine, so yes. Andromeda had a lot of problems that made it a bad game, and I don't see how gay romance options made it bad over the other problems
Eli Myers
GRUMFULTUMPF STEAL MY SCOOPLES FROM NEST IMBEACH IMBEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Logan Baker
Hudson Williams
I haven't done that quest, I thought you were talking about the tranny outside novigrad
Hunter Smith
ONE SAFE PLACE FOR EVERY RACE
Nathaniel Flores
no, leave fags and trannies out of my hobbies lol
Sebastian Gomez
>being part of a group that gets lazy tokenism as a form of representation in games isn't relevant when you're talking about how sick you are of lazy tokenism as a form of representation in games
>knowing more about something doesn't make your opinion any more informed
>literally being more closely involved with the subject of discussion doesn't mean you're any more or less equipped to discuss the thing
ok retard
Chase Miller
Here's another one then. I just Googled gay acceptance trends
Gay pride is a festival organized by and for LGBT people. It's akin to Mardi Gras and happens once a year. It's pretty fun and your pearl clutching just tells me you've never actually been to one
Charles Watson
>present day american politics
Right, that's the other thing too. Why assume that anything related to politics is of the same importance or quality? Not only there's deep confusion in most subjects the left touches on, it also comes off as predictable and out-of-place.
Tyler Price
>serious politics relevant to setting and era
vs
>modern day politics shoved in for no other reason than publisher agenda
Brandon Garcia
It's so aggravating to watch tards say "keep politics out of games" when in reality what they mean to say is "keep dumb ass identity politics out of games".
And so idiot Identitarians come running out from under their rocks and post dumb shit like OP, thinking they got a win. Have both sides of politics ever been this fucking stupid?
Julian Sanchez
imagine actually buying western video games in the first place
William Torres
real politics is major part of a story and explains character motivations and else. Faggotry adds no value at all, only irritates.
Brody James
Wow fake gamer girl didn't even play the game
We're already here :)
Thomas King
>MY hobby
but it's also a hobby for fags and trannies?
Nicholas Diaz
Spider-Man PS4 was pretty good
Connor Rogers
40%
Daniel Cox
Keep politics out of vidya: stop fucking using videogames to gather votes for the DNC.
None of the games to the left in that pic have that agenda.
>Mardi Gras
Appropriate, given it's a literal clown show too.
>2% out of hundreds of millions are fagamers
>gotta put that 2% front and center
Your xogic is what's killing star wars, and wait until it kills the MCU with the next wave just like it killed the comics.
Ayden Price
>SJW still believe Metal gear series is somekind american game pro war conflict, but protag is a white men!
Luis Thomas
>things I don't like aren't "real world affairs"
stay in school pleb
Jacob Davis
>chooses some of the worst examples possible
Spec Ops is trash and while I love it you really shouldn't be taking any of the politics stuff in it seriously
Better examples would be Killer 7 and Deus Ex
Parker Thompson
My standards for tokenism are pretty simple.
What does this character being gay or black add to the story or experience? If your answer is "diversity" or "representation", your character flat out doesn't matter. What you're really saying is "we put in a token nigger so more people would buy our thing". And you should fuck off.
Evan Ortiz
Er, love MGS
Caleb Rogers
>gotta put that 2% front and center
where, where are they? because all i see is garbage side characters and awkward NPCs in all entertainment
what a lil crybaby bitch you are
Ethan Sanchez
gender politics =/= politics
Austin Morales
>A black street kid with a boombox is pretty racist if anything
Retard.
Blake Davis
At least when Earthbound did it, it was subtle and just implied. Can we get more stuff like that?
Lincoln Rodriguez
well what does a character being white or straight add to the story?
Adrian Baker
Show me identity politics now, faggot.
William Barnes
I don't think people need to justify their fictional characters not being white or not being straight. Put them in because they want to. Put them in for no reason. I do not care about tokenism because it just perpetuates the idea that we are "the other"
Justin Perez
bit gay but ok
Samuel Nguyen
this is fact and cannot be debated.
Grayson Collins
One is entertainment, the other is real world garbage and has no place in games.
Jacob Rivera
The character should fit into their setting, they should be an average person unless additional traits are required for the plot.
Adding unnecessary bloat to the story is simply bad writing. It leaves people wondering why there was a rifle on the wall in the first place if nobody was going to shoot it.
Jonathan Powell
Huge difference between politics being shoved into games that don't ask for it, and games like MGRR which have a clear political plot. The latter can do it because it's expected. If I go into the next Zelda game and find a bunch of trans activists telling me that the only way to defeat Ganon is for Zelda to have an abortion and donate half of Hyrule's funds to Israel, it's pretty different.
Jack Allen
Most character's aren't even confirmed to be straight. This proves sexuality literally doesn't matter
Alexander Ward
Whatever they're supposed to represent. Are you implying there's no complaints about characters that exist solely to 'be' and have no substance?
Matthew Foster
Marketing, west male teenage are the biggest buyers AAA games.
Japanese made a lot games using white people because target market.
Elijah Lee
>stop fucking using videogames to gather votes for the DNC.
are you so far gone as to think that having a gay person in a game is democratic propoganda?
>until it kills the MCU with the next wave just like it killed the comics.
riri wasnt great, but miles morales turned out to be a great character. Comics died because no one reads comics, having brown skinned characters was the least of their concern
Nathan Martin
You're right. Witcher is overrated. Only degenarate play that shitty game
Nathaniel Gutierrez
I too remember DRUMPF and wall jokes in the Witcher.
Bentley Davis
the concept of racism doesn't exists in japan
Easton Flores
>they should be an average person unless additional traits are required for the plot.
so litterally the default is straight white guy and there has to be a good reason to deviate from that baseline. Do you see why some people might have an issue with this?
Blake Adams
LOL
Chase Evans
Talking about the societal ramifications on mass censorship in the subtext of your game is different from claiming that your WW2 game is realistic and then adding female soldiers with metal arms to them you faggot.
Nicholas Barnes
Angel Ward
>Do you see why some people might have an issue with this?
Morons.
I'm not saying you can never use nuanced characters but it's bad writing unless it's relevant to the plot. Take GTA San Andreas for example, that game works because CJ's race is of pivotal importance to multiple plot threads running throughout the game and many character interactions. He's not just black because someone felt the story needed a little spice.
If you want to write about minority characters put some effort into it, make it a story worth telling.
Logan Turner
>game made in majority white country
>most of ncps are white
>somehow this is bad
Why are you so obsessed with tokenism
Hunter Long
>child that is autistic and clingy
>no actually he's GAY guys!
Levi Green
Politics in video games isn't an issue. What's an issue is preaching politics in video games, when your narrative is basically boiled down to "this is the correct viewpoint, and you're a shitlord if you disagree."
Brayden Bell
if it took something that extreme to rile people up it would bhe fine, but you can replace
>a bunch of trans activists telling me that the only way to defeat Ganon is for Zelda to have an abortion and donate half of Hyrule's funds to Israel, it's pretty different.
with
>theres a non-anime girl on the cover of a war game
which makes the whole thing a lot less reasonable
Charles Bailey
Then why do half of the JRPGs released in the 2000s have a hamfisted "racism is bad" message?
Ian Perry
>PROBLEMATIC
Anyone using that word literally has no arguments. It doesn't mean anything. There are better words to describe what it tries to convey, like racist or misogynistic. but when those don't apply and people still want to complain about it, they'll call it problematic. Most retarded word of 2018.
Julian Mitchell
Not an argument.
Isaac Carter
would the lord of the rings books/movies be markedly worse if nothing at all changed except all the humans were black?
Ian Cox
for example?
Ayden Richardson
personal politics of a creator expressed through a creative medium vs corporate cynical carbon copy ideology, not even close commie, shit thread sage
Jacob Price
I’m legitimately curious what people who think that there’s politics in everything and that anyone who bitches about forced identity politics to pander to the social climate think of what J.K Rowling has been doing in the past year or so.
Jackson Thomas
i am saying that when people bitch about forced diversity and then their explanation is that all characters should start as white men and only change if needed, I start to get a much better picture of the world in your head
Hudson Walker
Itoh did say that he put a gay guy in the game, and he heavily implied it was Tony. Plus that bit with the letter at the end. Kid's totally homo
Benjamin Edwards
Joseph Collins
A game or any piece of media being political is fine, its just the execution of how the politics is implemented.
If a game critizises how corrupt the american political system can be it would probably be fine, but if you make the same game but ontop of the corruption criticism throw in ORANGE MAN BAD its suddenly turns to shit.
If a game has a gay character I couldn't care less but you better have a valid point for bringing it up, just like how all the characters don't go about telling you their straight, neither should the gays come up to me and explain they fucked 12 guys last night.
Brayden Cook
>Dominoes Pizza > Local pizza establishments
Guess how I know you live in a shit hole.
Jayden Young
holy shit look at this triggered faggot getting mad because someone used the bad word
Tyler Rogers
It would be very confusing, given the setting.
If it was a story set in a world where that made sense, then it would be fine.
To use a video game as an example, Morrowind is full of dark elves. The setting is build entirely to support this. Nobody complains about most NPCs being dark elves in Morrowind.
James Watson
The problem has never been politics being in games itself but rather how it's implemented. In Metal Gear, Bioshock and such games, the politics are a part of the game, intertwined to build up the world and story without necessarily spelling it all out for you or making it all black and white.
Nowadays, a lot of "Politics" in games are shallow and overt, in your face without contributing to the game and story. It's just an addon, shoved into the game to score political points with a dying group of entitled faggots.
Robert Hill
Nothing. If you add a character who is white or straight simply for those reasons alone, nothing is added. Quit being a faggot though, you KNOW nobody is going around adding tokenist whitey to games set in Africa, in places where he doesn't contribute anything, just for diversity's sake.
If a character is black because their existence as a black person is integral to the story you want to tell, that's fine. If a character is black because it would only make sense for them to be black and it helps the setting feel more believable, because it'd be weird to walk through Chicago and see only whites, that's fine.
If a character is black because somebody on the dev team wanted "diversity" and any REAL justification is an afterthought, that's pure tokenism.
Tokenism is a cancer. It only breeds racial tension. Bad or pointless or annoying representation is worse than none at all. I don't want a character to be gay and talk about sucking cocks all day for no reason other than "so we have a gay in the game", you shouldn't want a character to be black for no reason other than "so we have a nigger in the game"
Charles Reed
So he correctly predicted the average cringy prison gay teenager of today you see on Discord and Yea Forums?
Carter Nelson
>neither should the gays come up to me and explain they fucked 12 guys last night.
where does this happen, where, tell me where
Dominic Edwards
This.
Imagine a game in an Africa, in a relatively big city. You play as a white dude. The entire cast are white dudes and/or gals. It's technically possible, there's plenty of white expats in Africa (my sister is one). However, if you're just never going to adress why it's an all white cast in Africa, everyone will agree it's stupid. Even if you adress it, but poorly (yeah they're all expats that coincidentally all work together), it's still stupid. If you eloborately explain why they are all white, through whatever means (like CJ being from the black ghetto), then it's probably accepted.
That's how it works. You can't just slap in an above average deviation of the average "just because". That's stupid and lazy writing.
Tyler Hughes
Then what about fantasy games? Should only white straight people be allowed in fantasy games?
Joshua Butler
FFX and Tales of Symphonia being the two biggest examples off the top of my head
Jeremiah White
Finish your highschool education and you might understand why people can get upset by the meaning of words.
Carter Barnes
Even SJWs want Rowling to fuck off already
Alexander Evans
That's a hyperbole
youtube.com
Jace Sanchez
Depends on if you want a happy fantasy or a dark fantasy.
Ian Ward
>neither should the gays come up to me and explain they fucked 12 guys last night.
This never happens, baby. The worst that ever happens is some optional piece of dialogue that is completely skippable and it is something subtle like a man saying "my husband" and Yea Forums flips the fuck out "HOLY SHIT SJWS SHOVING SHIT DOWN MY THROAT!"
Bentley Phillips
finish your tertiary education and you might pick up on why being offended doesn't give you power. probably not though given how leftist the schools are now
Nathaniel Stewart
It's not just that CJ is from a black community so he's fine as the protagonist, it's also that his race is an important plot point and the story explores how it affects his relationships with people of other races thoughout the game. Not just blacks and whites, but hispanics, Russians and Asians.
He isn't just black for the fun of it, it's so that the story can explore it.
I can't believe I'm using fucking GTA as an example of good writing.
Anthony Jones
It would be very confusing, given the setting.
but if thats the worst that would happen then can you possibly say all characters need to start as white men and only change if given a good reason? If the narrative and characters stay in tact then who gives a shit how many brown people someone wants to put in their story?
Jackson Gray
It's not about defaults and deviation from them. It's about the fact that if the primary reason for your character to be in the story is "so we have an X in there" whether they're a white, black, gay or what have you, that's categorically tokenism.
I don't understand what is so hard to understand about this.
Cooper Howard
>mental health disability
>no mental health disability
>implying transexualism is not a mental health disability
Gabriel Lewis
>one completely irrelevant NPC you talk to for 30 seconds
this is what people are upset about?
Lucas Miller
Deep, convoluted, plots that are seen all throughout human history, involving political intrigue and philosophical discussion, as well as a constantly shifting sand of moral ground VS “LOVE IS LOVE LET ME FUCK WHO I WANT ITS REAL LOVE #LOVETRUMPSHATE”
Are you retarded OP? Are you actually dense? Are you seriously such a degenerate faggot that you can’t tell the difference between deep topics that have nuance and surface-level virtue signaling?
Leo Diaz
>YOU CAN'T JUST... DEPICT A BLACK PERSON LISTENING TO HIP HOP LIKE THAT... IT'S... IT'S RACIST
>now hurry up and help me add the final touches on this straight white villain
Mason Foster
How the hell is that relevant.
Adrian Morris
Remember men, we won WWII to establish a global faggot empire. But at least we won't be speaking German.
Aaron Sanchez
The dark fantasy is the one that has niggers in it.
Ryan Morris
>Bioshock
Wait, there was pandering in Bioshock 1? What was it? Someone was gay or something?
Ayden Wood
Depends on the lore. If there's no description of how people are significantly more homosexual than we're used to, yes I wouldn't be suprised to see a majority of gay characters. Same for black. If the story assumes a lot of things are the same as in our world, then it would be weird to suddenly see only black people in a tempered climate.
This isn't rocket science user. You're trying really hard to prove some point, waiting until someone says something you can rip out of context and screenshot it and then hurry back to your hugbox to show them you were right about 'them'.
Benjamin Jenkins
If that's the case then why aren't all the humans in Lord of the Rings inflatable pink balloons?
If balloons being the primary characters is just confusing that's not much of a problem is it? People will get over it and just accept that Middle Earth is populated by balloons.
Sebastian Davis
>First three are all interesting
>last one was just woman being gay
Chase Clark
>If a character is black because somebody on the dev team wanted "diversity" and any REAL justification is an afterthought, that's pure tokenism.
real question, provided changing a characters skin color purely for the sake of adding diversity doesnt contradict the story in any way, whats the problem? Like literally whats the problem with diversity for the sake of Diversity? Artistic vision is already a joke with how games are made and without that I genuinely dont know what else could be an issue
Isaiah Walker
San Francisco
Some gay male count over +1000 sexual partners
David Nguyen
Good job that your only knowledge is quotes from YT personas. Also loving the "no u". Fuck off newfag.
Alexander Howard
based post
Charles Collins
Yea Forums fucking adores Arcade Gannon because he doesnt even imply he's gay unless you spend an hour talking to him.
Yea Forums didnt give a shit about Kung Jin being declared gay from a throwaway line in MKX
honestly if Gone Home hadn't gotten such positive journalism on the grounds of it being the gayest thing since sliced dick, i dont think anyone wouldve bothered to look into how gay it was.
Colton Butler
>If that's the case then why aren't all the humans in Lord of the Rings inflatable pink balloons?
because balloons arent people and we go from maybe a side eye glance in the first 5 min to wild confusion because what the fuck is this. Its an absurd comparison that misses the point
Connor Evans
One talks about poltical topics that matter while the other doesn't.
Seriously keep your 78th thought up mental illness out of my game and we are fine.
Nathan Robinson
Fuck sake, that number is derived from the "if i shook hands with you and you shook hands with the president then i shook hands with the president" approach. Gays were wild but not that many of them were that wild.
Xavier Bennett
the whole game is about the failures of libretarian philosophy. It is about as openly political as a game can be
Ayden Smith
Literally only a problem with American games. Here in Europe we don't stoop down too tht level
Isaiah Young
If your game is set in a medieval Europe analog, YES. If your game is set in a golden age of Islam analog, NO.
Deadfire had a lot of writing problems but one of the things that actually made sense and wasn't token or shoehorned was how all the humans who live near the ocean are black. Because that's how the setting works. This was already established previously.
What is so hard to understand?
That said, if you set out from the get-go to write a setting that lets you shoehorn in token black people, that is also tokenism.
Aiden Morales
>before the aids crisis
You're telling me that you wouldn't fuck everyone all day if there were no repercussions and they were just as horny as you?
>b-b-but it's degenerate!
Sounds like seething jelly to me.
Justin Stewart
It's called a hyperbole to illustrate your absurdity.
What if the people in Wakanda were all white? What would it matter?
That's basically what you're saying. The cast of LotR is white, because it's written by a white guy who is heavily inspired by medieval Europe. If it was made by a black guy and heavily inspired on the Ottoman empire, sure I wouldn't blink twice if it was an all black cast.
Easton Thomas
Social commentary =/= diversity quotas and propaganda
Levi Rivera
Isaac Fisher
I never say was wrong.
Christopher Green
>ask for example
>gets it
>wow that's nothing i don't care
Xavier Lopez
This isn't me but I fully agree with what he said.
I don't know what else to tell you other than this.
Anything you add to a story which isn't needed is bad.
A story should contain as little information as necessary and everything mentioned should have some importance.
Juan Ward
>it's about not politically charging your shit.
> nigger
sure snowflake, it's not about your politics being ignored
Nicholas Stewart
Pretty much this.
Nathan Nguyen
Damn, i NEED to play Bioshock 1 again. In the intro both politics and religion were criticized equally and i guess this blinded me or something because i only focused in the game plot, lore and characters and didn't absorbed anything political from it. Well, i did played the game only once so i guess i really need to play it again.
Nathan Howard
Bioshock, Witcher and Spec Ops are all shit though.
Ian Perez
also ignores the initial point and focuses on the hyperbole
Asher Gutierrez
Yet Yea Forums fucking ranted for months about the gay guy from mass effect 3 because of one optional piece of dialogue, where he literally just says "my husband." Even among all of that game's awful problems, "the gay" would routinely rank in people's top 5 issues with the game, and they would completely ignore any other backstory of personality that character had and dumb him entirely down to "HEY I'M GAY, DID I HAPPEN TO MENTION I FUCK MEN, DID YOU KNOW I'M GAY"
Leo Williams
I miss Eagle boys so much.
Luke Lopez
I thought you go to the hunter because he knows where the Griffin is, you guys run into some corpses, in which he mentions he knew one of them before he got kicked out of the village. You can ask him why, which leads him to say he's a freak, so you get yet another dialogue option pushing him on the topic, leading Geralt to go "Ah fuck man lycanthropy isn't that hard a curse to break, I got you" and the guy stops Geralt and THEN mention he got kicked out for getting caught being a fag, causing the Lord's son to kill himself. From there you're given the option to give a half assed apology or awkwardly ignore he said anything and tell them to continue on with the quest. Still is sympathetic toward him being gay, but still partially played for humor and it's not nearly as half assed political statement as say the six or seven times you got Geralt advocating for female equality.
Lucas Walker
But it is nothing? It's absolutely, zero, nothing. I've played this specific game for 100+ hours and that tiny, tiny insignificant NPC was completely irrelevant and in no way important in any way whatsoever.
Was it bad? Sure, but if this is the only example you have, it's a fucking dumb one. Can you imagine being bothered by roughly 30 seconds of dialogue? It boggles my freaking mind.
Owen Gomez
Ironically MGS handles homosexuality better than any faggot moral grandstanding "WE HAVE LESBIANS!" videogame ever has.
Chase Scott
yeah hes fucking fag
Bentley Sanders
Not only that it also showed the strengths and (emotional) origins of libertarian philosophy.(it is still a fantasy world interpretation of course)
Luis Mitchell
>Yea Forums being one person with a unified opinion
Want to know how I know you're a newfag? Yea Forums NEVER agrees on anything, because Yea Forums is not one hivemind or an echochamber. I know it's hard to digest, since you're probably coming from an actual echochamber like Reddit, but Yea Forums is not.
You're just confused because people here actually are allowed to disagree with you and aren't downvoted. Anyone who thinks Yea Forums agrees on things is literally new.
David Wilson
>Anything you add to a story which isn't needed is bad.
ok, in general we agree on this, but to clarify, in your eyes is making a character's skin color something other than white adding something that doesnt need to be there? No other changes, just visual
Nathan Wright
MGS doesn't have homosexuality? Is that the joke?
Joseph Gomez
Imagine having completely broken game with deadline closing in and you write and voice act unrelated backstory for trans character just to virtue signal.
Bentley Lee
If they are in a setting where most people are naturally pale skinned, then changing their skin dark is an unneeded addition to the story. Correct.
If the author has a reason to do it then it's absolutely fine. If the author is doing it for no reason it's bad writing.
Aiden Campbell
Faggot shouldn't have been there to begin with.
Michael Walker
I will never forgive gays for hijacking the color spectrum as a symbol for their mental illness.
t. painter
Gabriel Hughes
>Not only that it also showed the strengths and (emotional) origins of libertarian philosophy
it showed how attractive the idea was and made it easy to see why people were enamored with the idea of total self-determinism and pure freedom. Then it shows how those things were/are an illusion that hid a society just as exploitative as any other
I find a surprising amount of libertarians somehow think this game supports their philosophy when its the exact opposite, it dunks on libertarianism from its first to its last moment
Lucas Gomez
Right, yet outside of this and a few cringy lines about pronouns, it was easily the worst Bioware game in terms of gay romances, you know, the faggotry that actually plays any important part in the story and gameplay/roleplaying, and both of the gay characters were completely irrelevant characters that play no importance to the story.
For how much people like to imply MEA is some SJW shitshow, it was still the absolute worst in terms of recent Bioware games´when it came to actually DELIVERING content.
Joshua Cooper
>going so far down the social justice rabbithole that you are now shit talking jet set radio
stop playing video games, just off yourself
Gavin Hill
Learn to fucking read. That user, and me, already explained that it depends on the setting. There's a lot of fantasy based on medieval Europe, which was PREDOMINANTLY white. There's also tons of movies on feudal Japan, which is shockingly predominantly asian. The Last Samurai is a perfect example, because the white guy is out of place, but it's a key point in the plot (and based on reality).
Luke Reed
Pedophilia shouldn't be normalized.
Aaron Bell
>painter
look at this fag lmao
Noah Edwards
triggered
Luis Moore
Wait. Is this actually true?
Caleb Rivera
There's a difference between politics being a theme and pushing a political agenda.
Justin Bennett
Enjoying your dull and boring wageslave job?
The only broke painter is a painter that's a fucking retard.
Jace Mitchell
Yeah, he's a whole ass celebrity I think. Or that might be some other kid.
Parker Perry
Sadly, yes.
Julian Reed
wtf I love SJWs now
Being on the boipucci
Henry Flores
Nicholas Diaz
>Leave modern politics out of my hobbies
Fixed.
Jaxon Ward
Unfortunately. Not all gays "encourage kids to go to pride parades and remember to dilate" but at the same time that kid probably isn't being mentally scarred. Probably will cringe the fuck out when he's in high school, but he probably won't grow up to torture small animals either.
Jeremiah Morris
Even if it was legal, I wouldn't with that particular kid. He looks like he's already sold his mouth for an 8 ball at least a few times. Why an 8 year old has a sunken face and bags under his eyes, I can only explain with hard drugs, lack of sleep, and inner demons he's 20 years too soon to face