“Just to play devil’s advocate, I’d suggest you’re conflating what the star child believes with what the series believes.”
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Ahead of its time?
That’s what always has stuck in my craw, as it were.
bUt iT woNt laSt
No.
Somebody should make a documentary or book on Bioware, I want to know who made that decision and then squint my eyes real hard while I imagine lightly slapping them across the face with an empty glove of disdain...
The problem with the endings is that Mass Effect was pitched as having meaningful choices with persistent, long-term consequences. The endings should have been the culmination of the choices you made across the three games.
“Organics and synthetics can’t live together in harmony”
Nope, it sucked. Even the extended ending was still bad.
It did ambiguity badly. It also shoehorned in a revelation and debate “AI and biologicals can’t co-exist” that you could literally disprove if you’d done the previous missions correctly. And it tossed aside any real consideration of the thoughts or decisions…
Who’s going to tell the conservatives that Asian devs making Asian characters is pro-diversity?
Gamer-gate was a test-run for fascist strategies online, and this time next year it’s very possible that this country will be under a fascist dictatorship. That’s why we’re still “in this era.”
I wasn’t aware that anime hairstyles and hot, tropey east asian women were some kind of tradition? As opposed to uhhhh..
My initial response is:
Let’s face it: the main reason these mouthbreathers are bent out of shape about Saga Anderson being Black is because of the use of Norse mythology in Alan Wake and in her character’s story arc particularly. It’s barely veiled white supremacist nonsense.
I just can’t believe we’re still in this ‘gamer-gate’ era of bullshit because of these sad pathetic boys with their chauvanistic, racist ideals that ANGERY because they aren’t 100% being catered to. And their usage of the term ‘woke’ is just as pathetic.
Like...it’s ironic that they’ve co-opted a black term in the…
Ah, this explains the rash of Sweet Baby threads that have popped up the last couple weeks on Steam.
Hold on wait... Are you saying when more “diverse” people are involved in the creative process... they end up with more diverse results? B-but wait... Video games are products with target audiences, right? Are you trying to tell me that other people than me, have money and therefore are also part of that target?
The burning of the Erdtree is repeatedly referred to as a “cardinal sin” in the base game, and that’s what the shield is very clearly representing. This is a nothingburger.