rojimboo: But in case you come back, I do at least hope your IRL issues work out :)
I'm not dumb. I can recognise a thinly veiled insult, you know...
rojimboo: I don't know why you ran away B1tF1ghter, screaming in CAPS whilst dodging and deflecting simple points and questions directed at you.
So you think, you BELIEVE, that you can rag on me to no end, attacking my persona, twisting my words, pulling some exotic unusual definitions of words, that don't align with academia dictionaries, but they surely fit your narrative; you bend reality, ignore common sense, ignore widely known facts, ignore my entire points, ignore my urls, ignore my arguments; you refrain from providing your own argumentation, and instead resort to personal attacks on ME, and "this guy hasn't responded yet, therefore everything he must have said must be incorrect" logic, and THEN you still expect me to 'happy go lucky' jump into this thread and happily respond to you when I have OTHER THINGS TO DO because I HAVE A LIFE?
Amazing.
You just can't make this shit up.
In NO WAY you are entitled to my responses. Furthermore, you cannot tell me how to organise MY time.
For literally any reason whatsoever I can refuse to talk to anyone on this forum for any reason. This is the internet, and an obscure forum at that.
I am not a terminally online brain rotten child. I am an adult, with adult responsibilities, and "adult kind of amount" of free time.
It is entirely up to me when ( IF ) I respond to anyone here.
And I am certainly not going to continue feeding random trolls.
The weekend is over, and I need to focus on other things, than ( cheaply ) entertaining myself with dense takes of ignorant people.
It would seem like you aren't interested in concise discussion and actual argumentation, and instead you would prefer to attack me personally.
Because of your actions, I am going to HIGHLY limit responding to you, if at all, going forward, and WHEN and IF I do that is entirely to my discretion.
rojimboo: To many, what you just described is "wokeness". And in your own words, you are against what you described. By definition thus, aren't you therefore "anti-woke"? And crusading against this "wokeness"? It seems clearly to be the case.
I disagree with your assessment.
And I REPEAT ( what is it, THIRD time now? Forth? ), that I couldn't give a single s**t what skin color, ethnicity, nationality, etc, my playable-character is in a game I play. Same for NPCs. I DON'T CARE.
I do however care, to play games with believable stories, WELL WRITTEN stories, which make SENSE in the game's own lore. And for characters to MAKE SENSE within the story / lore.
If someone is shoved into the game, "JUST TO BE THERE" to serve as a pseudo-placeholder "EXAMPLE" of "representing" something or someone, and their presence doesn't make SENSE from LORE perspective, and they stick out like a sore - I have a problem with that.
It's NOT about any skin colors or anything else.
You can have a game full of nobody but exact same group of people, and then there's some character ( from said group ) who is LAZILY WRITTEN - I WILL have a problem with that.
Because my problem isn't with skin colors, nationalities, etc - it's with whether it makes SENSE or NOT in the LORE.
If it doesn't, I'm ABSOLUTELY going to point it out.
I don't know about you, but I don't enjoy lazily written books, or lazily written movies. Accordingly, I don't want to play lazily written games.
It's simply a waste of my time.
And if MOST of a game is made like this, I'm just not going to play such game.
rojimboo: But you mentioned the "historical record of their own articles' accuracy and integrity". Can you point to me where I could see that happening?
Here:
https://kotaku.com/
rojimboo: "NOPE, I DIDN'T EVEN READ IT"
These are YOUR words. Not mine. I have never said that.
rojimboo: And it took you ~147 000 words to reach that reasoned response to my questions. I am truly impressed!
( ... )
Like how some people still use the word "kek" in 2024, or that it's appropriate to miss the entire point of a post, to only comment "bruh"
( ... )
CAPS
Attacking the FORM of speaking, is a domain of people who have lost argumentation points.
And attacking amount of text, is just pathetic - you aren't making ME look bad, just yourself.
rojimboo: for example a black female protagonist (the horror!
This sounds like you are projecting tbh. I personally have zero problem with "a black female protagonist", and for ME this ISN'T a "horror".
rojimboo: But as I found out, you based your claims on nothing. You pulled everything out of your ass, trusting alternative news sources blindly whilst boycotting everyone else as biased woke bullshit, due to them not aligning with your worldview. And that's sad. How can you ever develop your critical thinking skills if you never practice them, and are instead fed a lopsided view of things? Isn't that the road to succumbing to misinformation and propaganda?
This sounds even more like a projection...
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I have provided a direct url to a post the very same "journalist" who wrote the related Kotaku article, has written publicly online with intent for the world to see.
You seem to have completely glanced over this fact, PERHAPS you haven't even checked the url.
The subject of the post in question isn't about "personal OPINION".
Racism, defines activities, and it applies to ANY race against ANY other race.
If you believe otherwise, you don't have a "different opinion", you are just IGNORANT.
And if you are doing this KNOWINGLY then you are BIASED.
The "journalist" in question did this knowingly, even more so considering that when she got called out, she doubled down on it.
Therefore she IS BIASED.
If I know a given journalist is BIASED, I am not going to have much faith, if any, in the accuracy of the works they put out.
I'm just going to seek a different source at that point.
I categorically dismiss Kotaku as a valid source of information when better sources are available.
You may decide to cover your eyes and plug your ears, but the fact is, they have been declining in quality, accuracy, and journalistic integrity in their activities, for past many years.
They have dropped way below the bar of still giving them the benefit of the doubt.
If there's an expectation of bias, sloppiness, and inaccuracy, it's not worth THE TIME to manually fact-check their articles by comparing with other sources.
It's just better to go to other, more "reliable on average" sources of information.
You are focusing on the wrong things. It doesn't matter all that much whether they HAVE or HAVEN'T pushed some of their agenda into projects.
If they negatively affect a project, that would be detrimental to the project, sure.
What is more important however, is that this company, who SUPPOSEDLY wants to be for equality, representation, "FAIRNESS" and whatnot - the words of their employees, their actions, in public, don't quite align with what the company separately spews in it's PR.
Their employees have been highly unprofessional. It's been public. And it HAS been archived too.
They have also called for false reporting, and "cancel culture"-like activities.
It's precisely because of what their employees did in public, that this company is getting backlash for, rightfully so, and IMO they should not be trusted to partake in ANY project - because they are CLEARLY UNPROFESSIONAL, arguably BIASED, and there's debatably conflict of interest here.
It could be easily argued, that because of the actions of their employees contrasting their internal PR, the company in question cannot be reasonably trusted to be making an UNbiased, NEUTRAL job.
Their ACTIONS differ from their PR.
Anyone with more than 2 braincells, would see a problem here.