Avowed character creation has pronouns - Elon Musk disapproves, Obsidian art director disapproves of his disapproval

[Reinhardt]

I'll start taking you serious when *you* actually have something to say.

I'm fairly familiar with the tactics of your ilk, so there's no need to pretend. Let's not beat around the bush - you're not going to do anything but move the goalposts and not so subtly seethe that performative pandering is being rightly ridiculed.

Pattern recognition alone shows many red flags with the game. It's utter slop. You're free to be excited and to play it. Though the tide is turning and a bunch of aging, nutty progressives will further lose relevance and scorch the reputation they built up by being involved in better games in days gone by.

Please do not waste your time interacting with Morgoth. He just is like that.

i call your post "election interference"

So the election is going on after all? I can't find the thread for it...

too early. brucie, morgoth, khor, cael, chimpi - they all have best month to campaign ahead. as bulumbf presidency and big middle east war getting closer pearls of their wisdom will get even more refined.

 

[Yuber]

I hate how people cherry pick, in Baldurs Gate 3 it is fine because "the game is great"...

 

[Junmarko]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

What the fuck is that around his neck? This Hansen guy shouldn't be left around children.

 

[Thalstarion]

Many artists are actively radicalised these days anyway. Those who manage to get through art school unscathed end up losing themselves to the peer pressure of social media where supposed 'fans' will guilt trip them into hating anything that isn't degenerate and disgusting to look at.

It's an extension of the same rot that has seeped into other aspects of society where aesthetics are concerned. Anyone sane wants to be surrounded by people and architecture that is attractive and easy on the eyes. Dysgenic freaks, however, want to be surrounded by ugliness at every turn and indeed, they will sabotage even pleasant places to drag everything down with them.

An excellent example is the desire for progressives to pour concrete over the countryside as to them it isn't a beautiful site to behold but rather another locale to replace with soulless apartment buildings and cheap takeaways.

You can apply this thinking to video games as well. BG3 is very woke in the sense that the aesthetics and demographics lean towards the performative and disgusting. It's only mitigated by the fact that it has some conventionally attractive men and women in it where many other recent games are very much a case of 'spot the white man/woman'.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

 

[Morgoth]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

"Wahwahwahwaha whine wince"

 

[kapisi]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

It's right there in the description

There's a 40 year old man with the animation set of an excited boy who says that GAMERS are under attack

 

[Dark Souls II]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

What the fuck is that around his neck? This Hansen guy shouldn't be left around children.

 

[cvv]

Can someone post a tl;dr?

Another "trust me bro" Tuber with alleged moles inside the industry. Might be true, might be bullshit. It's probably bullshit. Disregard.

 

[Thalstarion]

"Wahwahwahwaha whine wince"

The request wasn't for you to quote yourself, mate.

 

[Mark Richard]

You can apply this thinking to video games as well. BG3 is very woke in the sense that the aesthetics and demographics lean towards the performative and disgusting. It's only mitigated by the fact that it has some conventionally attractive men and women in it where many other recent games are very much a case of 'spot the white man/woman'.

My understanding of woke is it's the mindset behind an entertainment product, not the progressive elements that inhabit it. How can you know someone's mind? Because the desperate need to be seen as a good person and receive a certificate announcing it so is not subtle. It's obvious when we're being lectured, when our choices are limited to prevent us from expressing the wrong opinion, when the player's enjoyment comes secondary (or not at all) to enforcing a worldview for goodboy points. The interactable nature of videogames exposes this more than any other media.

So while the industry has been unintentionally training consumers to see ugly characters as red flags, let us remember this stuff is merely a guideline. It's been weird to see 90s/00s games being accused simply because they have some progressive elements.

 

[boobio]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Someone please post this video in the Obsidian thread. Some butthurt mod gave me "You have insufficient privileges to reply here.".

 

[Litmanen]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Someone please post this video in the Obsidian thread. Some butthurt mod gave me "You have insufficient privileges to reply here.".

A lot of things are insufficient in you.

 

[boobio]

Tim Cain was the Obsidian Whistleblower!

 

[kapisi]

 

[The Nameless One]

Did Obsidian send out the Reddit brigade to tell the evil nazis to shut up and consoom products? I'm sure it'll work.

Nah they're scripted NPCs. And they're programmed to do it for free.

 

[Roguey]

Sawyer at one time did one of his posts/interviews/presentations/whatever in which he said that he always treats his various projects as purely a job. Ngl, that was kinda depressing when he put it like that, but it is true when it comes to working in the industry as a dev. Do your best work, but never get emotionally invested for a product that isn't yours by right.

He also developed this attitude over time after his own painful experiences with getting too invested in Van Buren, The Black Hound, and Gauntlet Seven Sorrows and having all those projects ripped from him.

Can someone post a tl;dr?

Instead of watching a video you can just read the article https://www.smashjt.com/post/ex-obsidian-whistleblower-matt-hansen-is-pure-evil

 

[Reinhardt]

EXCLUSIVE , FRESH FROM THE PRESSES, WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS MATT HANSEN IS PURE EVIIIL!!!

Can someone post a tl;dr?

This Hansen guy shouldn't be left around children.

 

[Sweeper]

It's been weird to see 90s/00s games being accused simply because they have some progressive elements.

Well that is when the gangrene started, and now 90% of the fucking leg is pitch black.
Politics is a swinging pendulum, and when it swings back it swings with the same force. Book burnings are so 20th century, we need video game burnings.

 

[Butter]

The slippery slope is a real thing. You don't get to "Protect trans children" and other such evils without the first steps of "They're just like you and me. They just want to get married. They were born this way." A lot of Codexers get uncomfortable at the thought that their beloved games had progressive undertones (or overtones, as in some of Fallout 2's worst moments). You shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you can't pretend that you're impervious to enemy propaganda. Propaganda has been around for a long time because it works. The more subtle, the better. The issue that modern "woke" propagandists ran into is that they're about as subtle as a brick wall.

 

[Tyrr]

Yeah. It's boiling the frog.
The moment you noticed the boiling water, is also the moment when you try to remember when the water was starting to get hotter.
You may not have cared before, but now you want to know when they started to cook you.

 

[mondblut]

Yes I support gay marriage, abortion rights, trans rights, why do you ask?"

Great job lumping the desire to sleep around yet not end up emburdened with an unwanted little shit (which is something every healthy man and woman desires most of the time) together with tranny "rights". Sure way to win hearts for the cause, LMAO.

You call women which partake in casual sex with abortion being used as contraceptive as a "healthy women".

I call them degenerate whores.

Them being "degenerate whores" is the only reason to put up with women.

If you don't like degenerate whores, who are you gonna fuck? Ah, stupid question, I know.

 

[mondblut]

The most common rebuttal to that line of argument is that "being homosexual or trans doesn't equate to being Goth or any other subculture because... they're born that way"

That's what goths say, too.

 

[Lucas]

Sawyer at one time did one of his posts/interviews/presentations/whatever in which he said that he always treats his various projects as purely a job. Ngl, that was kinda depressing when he put it like that, but it is true when it comes to working in the industry as a dev. Do your best work, but never get emotionally invested for a product that isn't yours by right.

He also developed this attitude over time after his own painful experiences with getting too invested in Van Buren, The Black Hound, and Gauntlet Seven Sorrows and having all those projects ripped from him.

Can someone post a tl;dr?

Instead of watching a video you can just read the article https://www.smashjt.com/post/ex-obsidian-whistleblower-matt-hansen-is-pure-evil

I know TORN (remember that? Rip) was mainly a Maldonado pet project, but wasn't Sawyer also involved in it?

 

[S.torch]

And in the world of Goths, Emos, and Hipsters, nobody in the world would defend them for wanting mainstream exposure.

Every piece of media would be greatly improved by goth mommies and goth aesthetics though.