JJROKCZ,

It contains women and POC not being completely subservient to the nearest white man at all times and so they consider it “woke”

MxM111,
MxM111 avatar

There is bear sex in it. Must be woke.

VivaceMoss,

“The future liberals want”

PunnyName,

Freedom of choice that literally affects no one?

Sign me up!

VivaceMoss,

What if my religion says you shouldn’t go around fuckin’ bears tho?

Then would you give up your bear-fuckin’?

Buddahriffic,

MY religion says I must support bear fuckers at all costs. So I guess it’s a religious war.

I don’t have time for something like that though. If I send you an Amazon gift of several bags of salt, could you kindly spread that over your fields for me? And then send a reaction video, maybe gift me some candles for my curtains and I’ll do the same.

JackbyDev,

My religion says “if he’s a bear, it’s gay, unless he’s a literal bear” but wildshaping was not known to the sages so we must mediate on this.

4am,
@4am@lemmy.world avatar

So that’s what the classroom litter boxes were for; the bears. I KNEW it! /s

Roundcat,
Roundcat avatar

There should be a firefox extension that replaces the word "woke" with something crazy like "alien" or nonsensical like "gluten free"

Since the term means anything you want it to, might as well replace the word itself to anything you want. It's kind like the extension that replaces the word "millennials" with "snake people."

SadSadSatellite,

I feel like it would confuse me on occasion, but I love the idea of replacing it with gluten free

Kichae,

Since the term means anything you want it to

I mean, I think it's been fairly consistently used to mean "breaks my patriarchal white supremacy fantasy".

UnaSolaEstrellaLibre,

Must be mentally tiring to be a right winger. Especially a gamer ™ one.

LeafOnTheWind,

Especially a gaymer one

PunnyName,

As someone who used to have a lot of similar opinions, it really isn’t. If anything, it was energizing to make people squirm and try to prove you wrong, only to have another issue chambered and ready to go.

They thrive on this shit. And after moving left, I’m fucking exhausted.

thesprongler,

When your entire ideology is contrarian.

Minusfourty,

It is.

Tigbitties,
Tigbitties avatar

There are other choices.

Minusfourty,

Thanks, but I don’t want to be wrong.

Leshoyadut,
Leshoyadut avatar

And that’s exactly the point, too. Keep you mentally tired and angry so you don’t have the energy to question why too deeply.

Minusfourty,

You ever looked at Twitter, or Lemmy for that matter? The left is every bit as bitter and angry if not more so. Currently both sides (or at least significant portions of them) think the other is in power and responsible for all their problems, and it’s the media’s job to keep us thinking that way.

kerneltux,

…all the while, reasonable people in the middle are just tired of getting bludgeoned by both sides’ messaging & want to get on with their lives.

Minusfourty,

I miss the days before identity politics when it was still possible to keep political pandering and normal life stuff separate, and just enjoy my grill. But now if you use meat on the grill, you’re pandering to the right. If you use soy or lab grown vegan meat substitutes you’re pandering to the left. And thanks to the inflation both cost too much.

Katana314,

Ah, yes. Both sides. Both sides hate net neutrality. Both sides clamouring to make healthcare worse. Both sides fighting against the right for women to control their own bodies. Both sides hinting that their supporters violently attack the opposition at rallies.

Except maybe not quite so much sometimes.

Minusfourty,

I’m with you on net neutrality. I have no problem with women doing what they want with their own bodies, it’s the child’s body I’m worried about. I’m not a huge fan of the healthcare system either, I just think giving “free” healthcare to illegal aliens and putting the government in charge of it will make things worse and not better. Honestly not sure what you’re on about with the violent attacks thing, but I’ve seen plenty of calls for violence from prominent leftists, and the “summer of love” 3 years ago destroyed quite a bit.

But either way, I’m not a “muh both sides” centrist. To the contrary, I think the media is trying to distract both of us sides from the real enemy: moderates.

Aesthesiaphilia,

There's a smaller number of rage-filled dumbasses on the left than on the right.

And the rage-filled dumbasses on the left tend to be teenagers who will grow out of it. On the right it's middle-aged people with brain rot from too much Fox News.

JackbyDev,

Is this game wok?

I love char grilled food and spent a lot of time with it.

crypticthree,
PeterPoopshit,

Remember it’s “go woke or go broke but if you go woke you go broke anyway because society”

baronofclubs,

Actually, the reply is from a woke person who is trying to start shit by saying woke people are false-flagging wokeness free games, so that you’ll accidentally play and get indoctrinated by a woke game.

AtomicPurple,
AtomicPurple avatar

It might be because I'm high right now, but I hurt my brain trying to follow that.

baronofclubs,

It hurt my brain trying to write it, and I haven’t smoked weed in 15 years.

NotAGuyInAHat,

Right? There’s a gay bear mage! That’s as “woke” as it can get judging by whatever they define “woke” as today

AgentOrangesicle,
@AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world avatar

Gale or Wyll? I guess I wouldn’t describe either of them as a bear.

Or maybe you made your own gay bear mage. Or maybe you’re rolling a druid and literally making a gay bear.

Sounds pretty woke to me.

JokeDeity,

This is mentally ill dribble.

PostingInPublic,

“I’m deathly afraid of the gay, is there any gay in the game? Because I don’t know what will happen if I’m confronted with the gay!!!”

“Calm down, nothing in there is going to remind you of these urges of yours, play away.”

My translation.

Here_in_Malaysia, (edited )

So the guy in the pic is just a homophobic bigot? Or homophobic but also sexist, on account of the female characters looking as worn as the male characters? I’m too old to understand what woke means, but the guy’s post is also confusing to read.

MaximumOverflow,

Nobody knows what woke actually means in cases like these because it basically signifies “anything I don’t like or agree with”.

It usually means you aren’t racist, you don’t hate gay people or any other member of the lgbt community, and treat women fairly. So like… a decent human being.

DonnieDarkmode,

Peering into my crystal ball, I can see that after release there will be at least one post on here showing these guys and their ilk complaining that you have the option to make a trans/nonbinary character. People gave Solasta negative reviews for letting you pick your pronouns

Kovu,
@Kovu@lemmy.world avatar

appreciate you posting this because it brings out all the g*mers and makes it easy for me to snipe them 🙏

UntouchedWagons,
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

Based mod.

ThrowawayPermanente,

Anybody who gets sniped in the comment section is a noob who needs to get good and stop being such a little bitch

baronofclubs,

Skill issue

DrPop,

Isn’t fantasy regularly used to parallel real world issues. Elves are constantly treated as a minority group for instance.

Tigbitties,
Tigbitties avatar

Fantasy and sci-fi both. There are exceptions. Starship Troopers (the novel) is very right wing and Narnia is christian-y, for example.

Buddahriffic,

Oh is the novel not satire like the movie is?

Jmdatcs,

The novel is more satirical. Over the years I’ve heard complaints that the people who made the movie, either intentionally or unintentionally, toned down the satirical aspect of the humor too much and dummies might consider it an endorsement of that kind of society.

Edit: after taking another look at his comment I think tigbitties is just saying the world of Starship Troopers is right-wing, not the message.

Buddahriffic,

Yeah, satire can be difficult to calibrate. The difference between fanatical and satirical support can be hard to spot. Or just over the top characters for the sake of entertainment without any intended message. And you might be right that it was about the world rather than the intent.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Well it’s usually high elves that are the rich elite, while wood elves and basically everything other than humans are the minorities, and humans are the “middle class”.

Aceticon,

The entire side-taking on this shit is one giant circle jerk (and not even in a good way) and distraction from the increasing and very much equal-opportunity fucking (again, not even in a good way) of everybody who didn’t pop-out of the vagina of somebody who is rich.

What exactly is the problem with making and enjoying games without trying to reduce all its dimensions to a single-dimensional Identitarian Politics interpretation?

I feel like somebody on the sidelines watching two groups of fans of two different soccer teams beating each other senseless because they disagree on a decision by the referee, all sense of proportion or the true importance of, well, everything else, lost.

Duke_Nukem_1990,

Ah the privilege of not taking a side.

Aceticon,

The entirety of human experience and human condition does not fit into 2 “sides”, not even close, so it’s quite the acephalic approach to look at everything through the prism of a very specific one-dimensional line with only 2 sides.

Absolutelly, have Principles, follow those Principles and then judge things according to those Principles when they do apply.

Reducing everything of importance to “sides”, on the other hand, is not being principled, it’s being mindlessly tribalist.

yata,

It is funny that you assume you are the only one with “Principles”, and then strawmanning the shit out of the opinions of everyone else.

Aceticon,

You just stated something about what’s going on in my mind, which I did not state (i.e. I did not state that “I’m the only one with principles”, not even close, and actually implied they do but go for tribalistic side-taking instead), and then you argued against that very own imaginary position you claimed I had, using an “argument” involving strawmen.

I hope you can spot the irony if you think about it enough.

Rom,

Why can’t games just have no politics in them, like my favorite apolitical bideo game franchise Fallout?

yata,

There’s no “both sides” about this. The entire woke bs is a fabrication of right wingers.

Aceticon,

True.

MrJameGumb,
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

At this point if someone starts talking about how “woke” a game, tv show, movie, or book is I assume they either have no real opinion of their own, or are pushing their own agenda

Just play the fucking game. If you like it great, if you don’t then just move on, or at least write a real review about why it’s actually a bad game

heavy,

As an aside, it’s refreshing to see in the comments people calling “woke” out. To me, it’s yet another way to say the N-Word without saying it. I think that’s what some people mean by dogwhistling.

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