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

[Thalstarion]

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Always funny when people get upset about being blocked on a website that... allows you to block people. It's like being surprised someone can respond to your post. Crazy technology!

Upset? I do not believe they are losing any sleep over it so much as highlighting that these companies have nothing but contempt for anyone who doesn't want to be preached at.

It's one thing to block someone launching a barrage of insults at a company, it's another thing altogether to block people who calmly and politely express a desire to tone back extremist and divisive elements in what is meant to be a fun, enjoyable hobby.

The latter, I have found, is far more common than the former.

Even putting that aside, these employees are paid to communicate and interact with potential and existing customers. That isn't what they're doing, though. They're deliberately antagonising and avoiding potential and existing customers if they are not utterly deranged progressives.

 

[Butter]

It's funny because it's the COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER doing the blocking. Instead of communicating.

 

[frajaq]

We are being ratio'd on X, hold the line Avowed-heads!!!

 

[The Wall]

KILL KILL KILL ANOTHER WOKE BEAST! KILL KILL KILL ANOTHER INFINITRON DARLING! BURN OBSIDIAN HQ TO THE GROUND!

And loot Feargus' secret chest full of donuts. Make fatface watch while we tank his woke company and eat his donuts

 

[Fenix]

It's not just one guy though, the company will be riddled with retards. If he's willing to go public with statements like that, that will be picked up by the media and tank sales of the game you can only imagine what the guy does around the water cooler and in development meetings etc.

I don't want your politics, I don't want you worldview and I'm unwilling to buy or play anything your team create.

I can absolutely imagine like those people doing what they are doing FOR FREE - like, some money free project you shouldn't pay for.
But they do commercial thing!
I fucking can't fucking breath how funny cause of how irrational it is.
Like WTF are you even doing, nutjobs.

 

[cvv]

No pronouns bs in the EA version but then boom - it appears in the release one.

They patched it into the EA version about a year before release, the queers had a celebration over it https://gaymingmag.com/2022/12/baldurs-gate-3-adds-non-binary-option/

There really wasn't any backlash, nothing at all?

Is it because by that point BG3 was still a niche nerdy little gaym for nerds? Or nobody noticed except for people playing it in EA, all of them hardcore Larian fans by definition?

 

[Fearlessjay]

I was totally wrong about this game. If posting from a child porn site about how you made your game as hideous as possible to own Elon Musk doesn't make this a success, nothing will. Civ 7, Kingdom Come 2, Like a Dragon Hawaii and all the decent the games been released the same time better watch out.

 

[Fenix]

posting from a child porn site

Woot? Blue Sky?

 

[Fearlessjay]

Blue Sky has major issues. Supposedly they are trying to take it down in the EU for this reason.

 

[Thalstarion]

Yeah, I have my doubts that Blue Sky will last. Even if it does stick around it's so woefully volatile and prone to banning people for voicing even the most basic of reasonable opinions that even the hardcore progressives will get bored of having nobody to clash with but each other.

 

[Fearlessjay]

I would have thought MS Studios Obsidian would be safe but MS can't be happy with one of their studios calling Musk a shit. I also doubt they would have had any interest in owning them if they already had Bethesda. Now they also have Blizzard. Seems a really stupid thing to do.

 

[zaze]

They didn't have the pronouns in the gameplay footage from august

 

[unseeingeye]

Seeing what this guy actually looks like immediately reminded me of that episode of Seinfeld where George becomes a model and Jerry tells him "I guess that's what comes from avoiding manual labor your whole life". I said milky white!

 

[Larianshill]

Move this back into the main thread, this is the only thing worth discussing about this gayme

 

[Serus]

And all such games should be avoided, unless you want this garbage to get even worse.

Baldur's Gate 3 sold tens of millions. If it's entertaining, most people don't care.

I don't care that most don't care. I care.

 

[Turisas]

Can't wait to see all the butthurt and envious hatred from these commiefornia faggot devs once Kingdom Come II slamdunks on their shit game.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Its still a long ways to release, plenty of time for obsidian to mismanage the online discourse into the game being one of their worst releases ever.

 

[Camel]

Its still a long ways to release, plenty of time for obsidian to mismanage the online discourse into the game being one of their worst releases ever.

Veilguard needs second and third tags too.

 

[Cyberarmy]

 

[Serus]

Yeah, I have my doubts that Blue Sky will last. Even if it does stick around it's so woefully volatile and prone to banning people for voicing even the most basic of reasonable opinions that even the hardcore progressives will get bored of having nobody to clash with but each other.

I'm not sure if you are overstimating them. Or underestimating them. Something with estimating.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

KILL KILL KILL ANOTHER WOKE BEAST! KILL KILL KILL ANOTHER INFINITRON DARLING! BURN OBSIDIAN HQ TO THE GROUND!

Can we spare the guys behind Grounded tho.

 

[thesecret1]

They didn't have the pronouns in the gameplay footage from august

I guess some of them got mad over veilguard getting shat on and decided to stick it to the chuds

 

[Thalstarion]

I guess some of them got mad over veilguard getting shat on and decided to stick it to the chuds

The results of the American election will have further radicalised them as well, I imagine.

 

[Saldrone]

Some individuals sabotage their own projects wasting a lot of time and money for the sake of making certain kind of people mad about it

Make therapy and mental asylums great again.

 

[Oberon]

Matt Hansen CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthansenart/

Obsidian Entertainment
9 yrs 2 mos

• Art Director
  Aug 2018 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos
  • I work with, and manage a diverse team of artists of all disciplines to make the best games possible. I am responsible for facilitating communication between those artists, and between them and other departments, along with providing them guidance, feedback, and support in whatever ways are needed. I also help to provide - and maintain - vision to our marketing team, and outsourcers.
    
    Titles:
    Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire - Expansion content
    The Outer Worlds - Peril on Gorgon
    The Outer Worlds - Murder on Eridanos
    Avowed
• Concept Artist
  Oct 2015 - Present · 9 yrs 2 mos
  • I work with my team to create both production concepts for Environment, Character, and UI, as well as final asset creation for UI and marketing.
    
    Titles:
    Pillars of Eternity - The White March
    Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Wanted to see what he could have done for Obsidian while working on PoE1&2. While his Artstation account is empty, his own site is not.

If those illustration under are his then I have little to no complaints about his actual work on the game. But some times, there are good reasons why such people should be directed and not directors or not at the head of the marketing team.

His Tumblr has more but they are weirder.

Dude loves to draw niggers