Ah but that’s not what this tool is for is it? If this was being used to say “looks like we keep making ____ characters, maybe our creative teams need more diverse hires” I think it would be fine. A way of identifying your blind spots and then taking action against them is obviously good. But it isn’t hard to see how…

As always, there's an XKCD for that.

This tool is based on a 2019 paper developed in partnership between the Industry and MIT and the paper can be found here: http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2019_paper_378.pdf

The authors go on to note that “The way that the graph is presented, people will naturally gravitate towards the idea…

It reduces concepts and aspects of diversity down to points on a graph in a foolish attempt to avoid tokenism, stereotypes, and strict norms by employing tokenism, stereotypes, and strict norms to determine and assign these values.

Good ol’ Goodhart’s Law: when the measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

There’s basically two big problems with this:

As others have pointed out, 0 is normative on those scales, up to seven for deviation from the norm. so yes, being a ciswoman nets you a five on the gender identity scale and being a cisman nets you a 0. Betting that the robots are somewhere in the middle depending on how dialogue has gendered them. zenyatta lower…

Folks are gonna dunk on this one for a while, especially because it is both a racist tool and also proof for racists to say “look the woke rapists at blizzard really were using a hypocritical tool lmao go woke go broke,” but I hope it at least scratches the surface of how bad liberal representational politics are.

YES!!!!!

That’s an extremely ridiculously hot take. Jesus.

... wait a second.

Not sure I agree about FF XIV. That game DID fail. It was a failure. They rebuilt the entire thing and revamped it because of that failure and gave Yoshi-P more control than they usually do, after firing the original developer lead. And Yoshi-P turned it into a massive success.

I’m pretty sure no one wants to work on something that winds up a miserable failure, even if they got paid for their time.  

He went looking for a fight and found one.  That isn’t self defense, except in Wisconsin and Florida.

This comments section I’m sure is about to be lively with legal scholars specializing in self-defense law.

Game looks dogshit, btw, which is arguably way worse than being tasteless.

bootlicking is not very Cute Puppy

You forgot the always popular Too Modern Too Warfare.

The problem is everybody is so scared of their sequel numbers getting too high. An easy solution is to move away from numbers altogether:

Um, did you play any of the previous games? Because there’s definitely a lot of innovation between Cyber Sleuth and previous Digimon Story games, and the Digimon Story games are significantly different from the Digimon World games (which also had their own breed of innovation), and Digimon Survive is pitched as a…

nice strawman!