Exposing the Grift: Go Woke Go Broke

[Hellowhosthat]

You think gaming journalists are respected?

They are the least respected among all including sports journalists.

If the user scores on Metacritic are okay then.

 

[DoctorTaco]

People who call things and people woke are a bunch of creepy weirdo's with an unhealthy obsession with the skin colour, genitals and sexual preference of others. This typically presents as a need to force their political opinion into every conversation and piece of media, even at the cost of making themselves completely insufferable and turning off all the unfortunate, normal people that they are inflicting their bullshit on.

Preach

 

[Captain Tenneal]

But he wasn't a samurai.

This argument will go on for another 10 years despite the Japanese historian calling Ubisoft on their bs

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Preach

Normies take a back seat, pop culture talk is for the passionate.

 

[Hog-train]

The largest benefactor of 'woke' writing for ~100 years of content were white males. Every geeky guy got a hot wife or GF. Every normal guy could beat up an army or aliens. All just woke pandering, and OK to do. Know what your audience wants and feed them that.

The only issue comes in is when the group that was pandered to for over 100 years cries about a new group be pandered to because suddenly they can see it, when they could not, when it was directed at them. So suddenly a 'woman beating up guys, in an action movie is too much and too woke and unbelievable... so give me back Cruise and Damon beating up armies of big buff dudes because that is so believable'.

I agree to a large extent. There are a whole bunch of middle aged white men watching these grifting Youtube channels and getting all angry and butthurt every day. When they were the beneficiaries of this "woke writing" pandering to them for decades.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan LMAO.

 

[Hog-train]

HOWEVER, there is a lot of dogshit writing and wokeness these days too. WAY overcorrection.

Yasuke can be played as gay in the new Assassin's Creed.

A GAY BLACK Samurai in Feudal Japan? LMAO - that is going full retard.

Assassin's Creed Shadows confirms same-sex romance options

Assassin's Creed Shadows will let players have same-sex relationships, but that's not all

www.gamingbible.com

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

I agree to a large extent. There are a whole bunch of middle aged white men watching these grifting Youtube channels and getting all angry and butthurt every day. When they were the beneficiaries of this "woke writing" pandering to them for decades.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan LMAO.

It was demographics.

Do you think at that same time would Bollywood cast a mongol to play a mongol character?

 

[Satur9]

But he wasn't a samurai.

I like how it was some dorky white fella that pushed that narrative forward. Never change, whitey.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

HOWEVER, there is a lot of dogshit writing and wokeness these days too. WAY overcorrection.

Yasuke can be played as gay in the new Assassin's Creed.

A GAY BLACK Samurai in Feudal Japan? LMAO - that is going full retard.

Assassin's Creed Shadows confirms same-sex romance options

Assassin's Creed Shadows will let players have same-sex relationships, but that's not all

www.gamingbible.com

I think as long as it's a choice to be gay who gives a shit. The game isn't forcing it on you. When I was playing Odyssey I was fucking anything that loved male or female.

 

[Hog-train]

It was demographics.

Do you think at that same time would Bollywood cast a mongol to play a mongol character?

They just wouldn't make a Genghis Khan movie. Because it's lame to do that.

I like how it was some dorky white fella that pushed that narrative forward. Never change, whitey.

Most of the woke shit is from white people. Zero chance any of this shit would come from Asian cinema or games.

Even most of the trans shit is from libtard white people.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

They just wouldn't make a Genghis Khan movie. Because it's lame to do that.

Bodrovs Genghis Khan movie is not bad.

 

[Hog-train]

Bodrovs Genghis Khan movie is not bad.

Genghis is played by a Japanese actor in that movie.

I think as long as it's a choice to be gay who gives a shit. The game isn't forcing it on you. When I was playing Odyssey I was fucking anything that loved male or female.

People have a problem when you start injecting woke politics into places where it makes no fucking sense. A gay black Samurai in feudal Japan makes zero sense.

On top of that, they added a hip hop soundtrack to many of his action sequences. Yasuke was not African-American. He's African African. That's low key racist TBH.

It's like a whole bunch of clueless white hipsters tried to make a woke game with inclusion, but ended up being a condescending racist.

 

[Satur9]

They just wouldn't make a Genghis Khan movie. Because it's lame to do that.



Most of the woke shit is from white people. Zero chance any of this shit would come from Asian cinema or games.

Even most of the trans shit is from libtard white people.

As a whitey, I definitely know where the crazy originates from. I see it all around. It is hilarious imho. The self-hate is real.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Genghis is played by a Japanese actor in that movie.

He looked the part, Mongolia is like 3 million people.

Alexander was never played by a Greek or Macedonian.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Genghis is played by a Japanese actor in that movie.



People have a problem when you start injecting woke politics into places where it makes no fucking sense. A gay black Samurai in feudal Japan makes zero sense.

On top of that, they added a hip hop soundtrack to many of his action sequences. Yasuke was not African-American. He's African African. That's low key racist TBH.

It's like a whole bunch of clueless white hipsters tried to make a woke game with inclusion, but ended up being a condescending racist.

Yeah but the story doesn't have to make him gay, you have the choice to make him gay. I can't get being outraged at something the game doesn't make you do. If someone isn't bothered about a historically accurate representation and wants to be a gay samurai then unless that means you also have to be a gay samurai who cares?

It's kind of how AC has worked for a few games now. You can be a female character if you want, you can be a male character if you want.

 

[Croo67]

People will eventually get fed up of movies turning into political lectures, much like many stand-up comedians have disappeared after turning their 'shows' into endless, obsessive drivel about Donald Trump.

 

[Krimzon]

i didn't know wonderman or black panther were even considered woke. I think post-George Floyd, the diversity messaging in media became alot louder and that's when consumers started really distinguishing between 'woke' and non-political

 

[Hit-N-Run]

Woke…. Non-woke…. Don’t care.

It doesn’t bother me there are black elves or dwarves. Doesn’t bother me there are strong female characters…. It does bother me if the show sucks due to bad writing and character development. For LoR for example, it’s just a shittily written show. I can say I haven’t really enjoyed a single episode. That have all sucked. I don’t like a single character. Sauron isn’t even cool!!!

When you have such a framework of lore and incredible characters to build on how can you fuck things up so bad?

 

[Seano]

People just want to be entertained.

Personally, I don't sit and count races and minorities when I watch a show/movie. What I dislike is the current trend of crappily written stories with a "woke" angle shoehorned in so people won't dare to criticize it and often, it seems like this is being done specifically to create buzz.

 

[BjPenn2017]

The games industry is failing at the moment in large part to woke bullshit. If Assassins creed fails Ubisoft is done, Concord lost Sony 400m, sweet baby inc a company based on being woke being exposed for working with games companies and subsequently causing games to fail because of said wokeness.

I don’t know about movies but I’ve seen Snow White was also a woke failure