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Exposing the Grift: Go Woke Go Broke

Check our deviante's contribution to this thread he started

Having a pop at "William" was clearly his sole intent. You disingenuous twat.
alright, continue to be disingenuous, that’ll show ‘em. the drinker is the most recognizable youtube personality of his ilk, but it was made clear from post #1 that the thread wants to discuss anti-woke grifters in general. nice try, sweetheart.
 
"Shift muh goalpost" immediately after sharing a video from after the game released while resorting to predictable ad hominem. Pretty uncomfortable, eh?

I knew you'd try to wiggle out with this, but there's no room, here. I was careful to prep that. I knew you'd furiously Google the moment someone called you on your bullshit looking for any obscure scraps you could find. Honestly, I thought you'd be able to do a whole lot better than 44K, LMFAO.

"There was no trending anti-#woke pushback against BG3 before it released...You guys can't help but invent outcries that don't exist, or are limited to a tiny fringe."

You can head over to the VG forum and check out the main thread for BG3. Nobody was whining about the game being woke prior to launch. All it got was a hype with praise for its cinematics in the OP. I'd know. I was the one who made the thread.
BALDUR'S GATE III

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Concession accepted.
Bro says 44k views and 200k subs is too small but 10 people being excited about BG3 on Sherdog is proof there was no backlash. Lmao dude you’re deranged. It’s no wonder you have to gaslight yourself every post into thinking you’ve won argument. You’re having a meltdown every week in the arcade and getting your butt kicked in every argument and you bring out the same tired concession comment.
 
Bro says 44k views and 200k subs is too small but 10 people being excited about BG3 on Sherdog is proof there was no backlash. Lmao dude you’re deranged. It’s no wonder you have to gaslight yourself every post into thinking you’ve won argument. You’re having a meltdown every week in the arcade and getting your butt kicked in every argument and you bring out the same tired concession comment.
Do you need a tissue? Do you need to call on your fellow Sherdog women's support group of other Madmick abuse survivors? You all spend vastly more time attending to me than you do your arguments.

Discussion on Sherdog reflects what is trending. There's a reason nobody was talking about that including yourself. There was nothing "viral" about this. There was no large-scale pushback. I see that in your ignorance you have never developed a sensibility for proportion in YouTube views.

For example, in YouTube's "Trending" section for "Gaming", right now, which is perpetually populated with 50 videos, every single video listed has more views than that...in the last 24 hours alone. More than half have over 500K views despite being released in the last 24 hours. These will all eventually be in the millions before the end of the week, and most by the end of their first day.

Hey, check it out, here's a video with an old lady hiding her true feelings about her cat! It has a whopping 481K views in 4 months! She's going viral! It's taking over the internet!!!
 
Do you need a tissue? Do you need to call on your fellow Sherdog women's support group of other Madmick abuse survivors? You all spend vastly more time attending to me than you do your arguments.

Discussion on Sherdog reflects what is trending. There's a reason nobody was talking about that including yourself. There was nothing "viral" about this. There was no large-scale pushback. I see that in your ignorance you have never developed an sensibility for proportion in YouTube views.

For example, in YouTube's "Trending" section for "Gaming", right now, which is perpetually populated with 50 videos, every single video listed has more views than that...in the last 24 hours alone. More than half have over 500K views despite being released in the last 24 hours. These will all eventually be in the millions before the end of the week, and most by the end of their first day.

Hey, check it out, here's a video with an old lady hiding her true feelings about her cat! It has a whopping 481K views in 4 months! She's going viral! It's taking over the internet!!!

so incredibly fragile. Remember guys this emotional toddler is a mod lol.
 
Sure, the specifics of progressive politics have shifted over the last half a century.
The Vietnam war was pretty politically divisive still in 1974, though not usually along partisan lines, and while it was with the majority opinion (60% polled as thinking the Vietnam war was a mistake in 1973), The Forever War flew it's flag high.
As did Haldeman, ”I was drafted against my will, and went off to fight somebody else's war”.

The Forever War didn't meet negative reactions because it's well written, not because it was subtle about it's political message or avoided taking a stance on controversial contemporary issues.

Compare that to how common the dialogues about Concord failing due to being "woke" are, despite it's political message being essentially non-existent and it's "wokeness" being limited to politics of some of it's developers and the fat, ugly characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Never mind that it's a highly derivative hero shooter themed on a guardians of the galaxy style band of misfits, several years after both those things have their own fandoms largely rolling their eyes. Not to mention that hero shooters are a poor narrative vehicle, so those expensive weekly cutscenes are unrelated to the gameplay, hardly creating a world to inhabit. ...and asking $40USD to boot, when the well established and comparatively popular originals it was trying to imitate are free to play.

Likewise the Acolyte, where it's all about the "wokeness" of the diverse cast and lesbian space witches, not the fact that it's just poorly written, doesn't have any charismatic characters to carry it's poor writing and we're long past the point where anyone's wowed by CGI, regardless of the amount spent.

Mediocrity is about the best you could hope for from this sort of vacuous consumer garbage, so no surprise a lot of it falls well short.
The Concord people hired a a prog hive mind company with no track record of selling fiction. Haldeman would have told anyone who tried to do that with his book go to hell. People do freak out about well made stuff, it did not stop people in the past.

You think trusting that woman with how the SW fandom is right now was a right idea and no one could have done better?
 
Concession accepted.
Nah conceding nothing. You already lost. You said there was no backlash and I posted 3 accounts with over 200k subs crying about the bear scene and wokeness. You must constantly move goalposts because you have the most fragile ego on Sherdog. Take the L and move on dork
 
Nah conceding nothing. You already lost. You said there was no backlash and I posted 3 accounts with over 200k subs crying about the bear scene and wokeness. You must constantly move goalposts because you have the most fragile ego on Sherdog. Take the L and move on dork
Maybe if you spend 10 more posts insulting me rather than substantiating your claim it will save you some face. Try that.
 
Maybe if you spend 10 more posts insulting me rather than substantiating your claim it will save you some face. Try that.
Fuck off dude. You said “do you want a tissue?” Don’t act like you’re here in good faith. You are the one moving goalposts and acting shitty. You said there was no backlash and I said before rease people threw a fit about the bear scene and perceived degeneracy and came with receipts. Instead of just admitting that you were wrong you double down on gaslighting. It’s annoying and you do it over and over again. You’re considered a joke in the arcade forum for your meltdowns. I got people PMing me saying “don’t bother that guy has always been a douche.” You wouldn’t have this reputation if you actually argued in good faith instead of always seeking a win for your fragile ego.
 
Fuck off dude. You said “do you want a tissue?” Don’t act like you’re here in good faith. You are the one moving goalposts and acting shitty. You said there was no backlash and I said before rease people threw a fit about the bear scene and perceived degeneracy and came with receipts. Instead of just admitting that you were wrong you double down on gaslighting. It’s annoying and you do it over and over again. You’re considered a joke in the arcade forum for your meltdowns. I got people PMing me saying “don’t bother that guy has always been a douche.” You wouldn’t have this reputation if you actually argued in good faith instead of always seeking a win for your fragile ego.
You asserted there was a "viral" anti-woke bear scene powering a widespread pushback against the game prior to its release. I chided you for inventing this pushback because it didn't exist. It didn't. I just supplied you with a definition of "viral". Even by 2011 a video was expected to garner 3-5 million views in the matter of a week to be considered "viral". Yet the only video you could find prior to the game's launch has garnered a pitiful 44K views in 14 months.

I also pointed out you guys try to take something you only look for later, in the tiny fringes of the internet, after the fact, to validate your deluded allegations. That's why you have no Kotaku or PC Gamer or IGN or even Forbes article detailing the pushback before its release. Instead, you point to this obscure YouTuber, Melonie Mac, and assert that because she has 202K subscribers she is driving narratives. This person, btw, appears to do nothing but upload videos complaining about identity issues in gaming, and her videos generate very little views. That's the epitome of a niche, fringe YouTuber. She's not the mainstream. And her videos aren't trending.

Instead of addressing this you just go on a multi-post flaming tantrum crying about me. Then you accuse me of being fragile. It's all very strange.
 
The Concord people hired a a prog hive mind company with no track record of selling fiction. Haldeman would have told anyone who tried to do that with his book go to hell. People do freak out about well made stuff, it did not stop people in the past.

You think trusting that woman with how the SW fandom is right now was a right idea and no one could have done better?

I wrote Star Wars off after Return of the Jedi. The commercialisation of the franchise was never something I expected to produce quality.
I'm surprised it's still running at this point, not that the quality has continued to fall.
For comparison with novels, it's like the Forgotten Realms series for D&D, the Battletech novels for Battletech/Mechwarrior or the Warhammer 40K novels.
They have their fans, but they aren't exactly aspiring to be masterpieces of their genre. It's a commercial enterprise.
I don't know anything about Leslye Headland, but her history of past work looks about the grade I'd expect.

The Concord devs Firewalk were spun off from ProbablyMonsters, themselves having history at Bungie. The lead writer was James B Jones, who mostly did MMOs. Star Wars: The Old Republic, Firefall and Blade and Soul. Which progressive hive mind company did they hire?
 
I wrote Star Wars off after Return of the Jedi. The commercialisation of the franchise was never something I expected to produce quality.
I'm surprised it's still running at this point, not that the quality has continued to fall.
For comparison with novels, it's like the Forgotten Realms series for D&D, the Battletech novels for Battletech/Mechwarrior or the Warhammer 40K novels.
They have their fans, but they aren't exactly aspiring to be masterpieces of their genre. It's a commercial enterprise.

The Concord devs Firewalk were spun off from ProbablyMonsters, themselves having history at Bungie. The lead writer was James B Jones, who mostly did MMOs. Star Wars: The Old Republic, Firefall and Blade and Soul. Which progressive hive mind company did they hire?
Sweet baby Inc.
 
. You’re considered a joke in the arcade forum for your meltdowns. I got people PMing me saying “don’t bother that guy has always been a douche.”
Your sowing circle dislikes a user. Somebody better call the newspapers!!!!!
 
Where's that info come from?
There's a Steam community user group devoted to tracking every game associated with Sweet Baby Inc. They'll use press releases, leaks, promotional material, or anything else they can find for confirmation that SBI has been hired as a "consultant" company by the publisher/developer for a specific game.
 
There's a Steam community user group devoted to tracking every game associated with Sweet Baby Inc. They'll use press releases, leaks, promotional material, or anything else they can find for confirmation that SBI has been hired as a "consultant" company by the publisher/developer for a specific game.

They don't seem to indicate that Firewalk Studios hired Sweet Baby Inc for consultancy or anything else on Concord. They have DEI consultants as a category in their reviews, and it says "Internal".
 
They don't seem to indicate that Firewalk Studios hired Sweet Baby Inc for consultancy or anything else on Concord. They have DEI consultants as a category in their reviews, and it says "Internal".
I didn't know about that specific game, I was just affording you the link because that's generally the group that people use.
 
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