You know, you don't actually HAVE to hit "Publish", you can just keep this particularly inane bullshit to yourself.

“Black Dwarves in LotR is just absurd”

Jedi Survivor doesn’t have a black female protagonist. You play as Cal Kestis who is a redheaded white dude. Redfall and Shadow Gambit have multiple playable characters and only one of them is a black woman. Saga is one of two protagonists in AW2, the other being a white guy.

“Also why did virtually every game dev in 2023 decide to make their main character a Black woman?”

I once got into it with someone years ago in these comments about diversity in sci-fi stories, specifically about an imaginary story about a group of friends that got shipwrecked on an alien planet. They said that if all of the characters were white guys, there didn’t need to be any other explanations on their…

critics insist that SBI is intentionally putting DEI elements into their story and SBI pretty much admits to it

“SBI pretty much admits to it, but says that it isn’t forced because including DEI characters is an integrated part of a great storytelling experience.”’

Why are you asking “why is this person gay” in a videogame? It doesn’t need to have anything to do with the fucking plot; there are gay people in real life, sometimes that’s just a person.

“At the end of the day it seems like both sides are talking about the same thing. SBI’s right wing critics insist that SBI is intentionally putting DEI elements into their story and SBI pretty much admits to it”

Did we read the same article because they didn’t admit to that at all? They said that the DEI elements…

No, what SBI said is that companies come to them for an extra polish, as well as consultation for their already existing characters to see if they read properly (this even includes a finnish company like Remedy checking that their white male american character consistently comes across as intended)

Saga being a Black woman is perfectly integrated into the story and even adds to the story during an early investigation scene.

So, to sum up, you’re full of shit.

I don't really get it. All she (or her agent) would have to do was look at any of the Sony spiderman movies without spiderman to see that they aren't some kind of fancy art thing. And even the Venom movies which were the best received weren't very good.

To be fair, the people who voted for Trump also claim to hate Hollywood and also want different movies. It’s just that they movies they want to see are either about Jesus, or about a muscular white guy who beats up foreigners.

None of this sounds like parody. How, exactly, is the Joker or anything DC at all being made fun of here? I somewhat doubt that “being trans is inherently mockable” is the intended message, don’t you?

I like a lot of weird cinema but I uh... think this looks kinda bad? Like I get it they’re on a small indie budget but like, it looks like everything (aside from the animated bits) was shot on one greenscreen in the same room.  I mean good for them for getting the movie out there somehow while dodging the army of…

Well, thank God we have you around, to inform us “dudes” how we “missed the point entirely.” I guess, if I had a quibble, you could have explained what you think Johnson is actually saying, since everybody but you has it so wrong, but I wouldn’t want to intrude on your genius.

Which AAA devs could solve by making smaller, tighter games and charging less money for them.

It’s no longer about giving us quality games. It’s about turning console games into app games with in game purchases. Look, I’m not a competitive gamer. I don’t play Fortnite, Apex and COD players to prove I’m the best player. At that point it becomes a sport. I hate sports! I like to go on single player action/adventu…

He’s not wrong, but I feel as though the issue isn’t that the loudest assholes forget that these are people, it’s that they’re assholes and they just don’t care.