Exposing the harm of DEI in Gaming & Society

[@electriclott]

It is amazing how far backwards we have gone in the last decade. I appreciate the way you speak about this. You're putting my feelings into words.

[@Squigglydipladocus]

Channel is underrated.

[@arostwocents]

The adverts are obscene though. Hes set it way too high. A super long one then another after too. At such an early stage you shouldn't have adverts that turn people away. Just have long ones at the end so people can choose to watch if they want

[@kagekun1198]

This entire video is cathartic. The frustration I have with all the latest games has been eloquently voiced here. It's the fact that these activists have hijacked the old beloved IPs like Dragon Age, Batman Arkham, Star Wars, Assassin's Creed, and even Scooby Doo to push their message. They know, in their blackened hearts of hearts, that if they were to try to make an original IP to push their propaganda, they'd be as dead as Dustborn and Concord.

[@TheDezembro]

Thanks for watching! I made other videos following up on some of these matters individually. And yeah they know they'd fail but more than that, they know they'd be left alone. It's not their goal to be included.. or to make their own games. It's their goal to cause impact instead.. and they're fine sacrificing the games themselves. It's insane that people still do business with them. It's... lol... it's like I'm in an alternate reality. I UNDERSTAND the agenda. I UNDERSTAND the financial support through the big corporations funding the social engineering.. But these fucking studios and publishers are still losing money. If they weren't, then Sony wouldn't have shut down Concord and the studio as well. So why do they keep doing it? I think they're trying to craft a new normal with its own new fanbase that will eat it up. I will never stfu about this stuff.

[@RedwindAndBeyond]

Those who follow these kinds so practices undermine diversity in reality and in the end are only doing this to get a high social score for cheap loans from massive investment companies. Nothing, but a box to be ticked which is just sick.

[@FrostyMts]

Can’t have diversity when all the colors mix.

[@arostwocents]

They do believe it though. I worked for a company that fell to DEI and it was scary how racist everyone became overnight. It tricks them by making them believe it's the opposite of what it is and you're evil if you don't agree

[@Muizemullard414]

Thank you! So many people just see the surface level of DEI but its so much worse for society at large. I hope this stuff gets uprooted completely so i dont have to deal with this stuff anymore..

[@TheDezembro]

It'll probably never truly be gone but here's hoping that it gets at least balanced so we can enjoy fictional media as what it is. Fictional. Be nice to have more sanity in general too though. But.. ugh. Look around, social media makes some people absolutely lose their minds and live in misinformation bubbles.

[@arostwocents]

It cannot be overstated how deep this goes in society. The small local charity I worked for started deciding everything on race, not need. A rich black person received help over a white guy in poverty who is going hungry 😞

[@arostwocents]

​@@TheDezembroIt cannot be overstated how deep this goes in society. The small local charity I worked for started deciding everything on race, not need. A rich black person received help over a white guy in poverty who is going hungry 😞

[@arostwocents]

​@@TheDezembroI got in trouble for answering a question about my weekend with a story about me and my girlfriend as "a straight relationship is offensive - it's misogynistic to have a woman as your girlfriend" with it not mattering the actual girl was happy, as she wasnt clever enough to understand how important being a woke racist is, apparently

[@arostwocents]

​@@TheDezembrothe charity literally asked a food bank to come back with a project that didn't benefit whites, as the food bank being open to all was racist, they claimed. The food bank refused saying they work on need, not racism and won't exclude people based on race. Big respect to them.

[@erdinc2590]

1 hour long video of my fav youtuber? I am spoiled. Thanks man

[@TheDezembro]

Ahhh, my pleasure! 😂🎉

[@K.R.98]

This video needs a trillion likes 👍

[@K.R.98]

DEI = Destruction, Erosion and Insanity 😂

[@Walamonga1313]

Discrimination, Exclusion and Incompetence

[@MajorSpam]

Oh boy time to get popcorn

[@elezer3947]

this is a great video for the people who completely dismisses the idea of games are getting woke. It shows them what exactly we are feeling and seeing

[@xLiloScaries]

Well done again. I don't know how anyone can seriously argue against your points since it is simply the truth but that is what these cultists do, they lie and ignore reality.

[@wernerpietersen4871]

Well said, love the common sense that SO many people lack. Truth hurts and does not care about your "feelings" Keep telling the truth, well done!!!!

[@patriot639]

Good video! I'd like to see more people talking about how these brats are bastardizing the language, can't write good stories, and are flat out tearing down society and our hobbies.

[@sapphiresoul327]

Wow this is a super amazing video. very intelligent person. Act man needs to watch this video!

[@TheDezembro]

Hey thanks! I don't think the Act Man would like me very much tho 🤔

[@VvodeAn]

This was your first video? Holy based. Nice.

[@TheDezembro]

Thanks! Technically I made 2 more back in 2022, one about the GTA trilogy being wank, and one about the Skyrim Anniversary edition being a good deal. But yea nothing along the lines of what I'm doing now. Also had to quit making them at the time and only got the ball rolling again now. 😅

[@VvodeAn]

@TheDezembro interesting! Well we all know now that the trilogy sucked king kong sized dong and bugthesda is shit. I am using your video to initiate my normie friends into waking the fuck up cause its perfect for initates. Anyway, shout out from brazil and keep it fucking going!

[@CoolKiller28]

You know, youtube has recently recomended me a video called "When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything" which when I watched it when it first was released I kinda blew it off thinking that it was just highlighting some hypocritcal things people part of the "woke" crowd said, but as time has passed and with everything thats happened I kinda realised how accurate that video was, despite it being 4 years after its first release I feel like its become even more accurate

[@Halfrican-Jones]

Thanks for the update, Dee. I’m hard at work on that Dragon Age Eulogy vid. First “video essay” I’ll ever produce in these next few months. I never thought I’d be disgusted with a BioWare character since Jacob from Mass effect 2, let alone two new characters I now despise.

[@TheDezembro]

Nice! I'll keep an eye out for it :D I wish I had more time to dedicate to Veilguard so my videos on some writing issues and then the "review" itself wouldn't take so long, but life is getting a bit hectic this November. Hopefully by the time I'm done with them it won't be too late for Veilguard content.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

@ Don’t blame you at all, you are somewhat of a Endymion/LegcayKilla inspired channel, so I understand if your thing is trending topics. Wish you luck on the next game you praise/rip into!

[@TheDezembro]

@Halfrican-Jones Not exactly trending topics, but as someone interested to grow the channel, trending topics are insanely beneficial. One look at the views on my videos and its the Veilguard stuff that attracted most attention - aside from the Act Man video of course. I still wanna do what I do tho. Sometimes if im lucky it'll coincide with trending topics, other times not so much and the reach will be much smaller. 😩 but at least it's up there for posterity. Still not entirely sure through what other routes the content will go. I didn't expect to be making Veilguard videos for example. But to be honest I didn't expect it'd be this goofy either.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

@@TheDezembro touche’ knowing how you’ve been going, you’re on the right path! Glad to see it pay off so far

[@dostwood5103]

I was pretty ignorant to what DEI was because I had never heard of it until I took a Business Ethics course earlier in the year. We had an entire unit on DEI and Corporate Responsibility. Naturally, I thought it sounded reasonable for businesses on paper. But the more I look into it and what it actually does… it’s very concerning how it was mentioned in basically all of my business courses at least a few times. I guess that’s the cost of being a business major. I actually really loved my business ethics class and the professor was awesome, but unfortunately pushing the DEI stuff in curriculums is misinforming new students like me. Why is it ‘Equity’ and not ‘Equality’?

[@TheDezembro]

Yeah on paper it all sounds lovely but then in practice it goes to shit. Especially in the wrong hands.

[@decorumlopez9147]

Just re-release any and all videos. I'll watch.

[@Deezbiskuts]

This stuff instantly makes me lose interest in any project I see it in🤮

[@RealityCheck6969]

:) Hmm I listened the video from beginning to end in one sitting. I wonder why. :)))

[@ciriknockoff5738]

First of: great video, I largely agree with your points. I'm glad I watched another video of your's before this one and knew you present your opinions in a calm, rational and nuanced way, because otherwise I probably would never have clicked on this video. It is unfortunate but the loudest people I see complaining about "DEI" and "wokeism" or whatever are not nearly as nuanced as you are. To many of them *any* representation of other races or identities is bad, no matter how well written or subtle it is, to them any female character that doesn't look like a super model with double Ds is ugly and a sign of the end times. I know these people do not represent the majority of gamers, same as militant activists that vehemently defend DEI practices, but they poison any rational discussions around these topics.

[@neppuneppu7892]

DEI policies are such hard things to fight against or even criticize because they tackle touchy subjects. I'm a firm believer that developers should be able to create almost any type of game they want according to their vision. This is why I love indie gaming.

[@MarxMaster69]

45:12 that Destiny caught me off guard ngl 😂

[@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2]

Larry Fink of Blackrock, and all the board, should be jailed for life.

[@niatscreations4913]

In addition to the promoting of dei they also increase the price of housing

[@Kat1kafka]

In medieval fantasy, I don't mind diversity of POC,so long as it makes sense,I hate the fact that so many medieval fantasy games or shows have people just mixed up. Also, male black elves don't look good. The physical features just don't fit. Black female elves,yes,because I've seen a lot of beautiful black women cosplaying as elves,but not men.

[@Ravix0fFourHorn]

Elves should be white as milk. Also Elves up until modern audience chasers got their hands on them had their own distinct facial structure/features. Wish we went back to that, its not racist or anything it just is. Elves aint real anyway why should they be black or asian or caucasian like??

[@TheDezembro]

@@Kat1kafka the annoyance to me is how they don't even bother to make them look like elves. Rings of Power and Dragon Age Veilguard show how even the whitest person can still look like a shit elf because of them just wanting to make everything look "human". In Rings of Power they just don't bother the way Lord of the Rings did. They just look like random blokes cosplaying. And Veilguard is the same but in game form. Just regular ass ethnically diverse people - all of them looking like they're from downtown Los Angeles tho lol - with elf ears. They don't bother getting sharper and more "elvish" face features, they don't bother with the outfits either, and they certainly don't bother with the hair. I like Elder Scrolls elven diversity for example. Different races, with different skintones, and features. All elven though and all with their own lore. Dragon Age Veilguard just does it in the laziest and lamest way possible and with the wrong intent in mind. People shouldn't look to ELVES to feel seen and represented. It's so stupid. They're elves 😅

[@erdinc2590]

Elder Scrolls does it best. Elves look nothing like humans

[@GambitronPrime]

I wonder if Doom slayer will have a "full range of human emotions" considering microsoft owns ID now.

[@TheDezembro]

It'd be pretty funny to see him called to HR. It's actually so funny how in the 2016 game (or perhaps Eternal) there was a funny line making fun of this sort of thing by telling people to refrain from calling Demons Demons and instead use "mortally challenged" or something like that. I don't know if that'd fly anymore because it's obviously making a joke out of exaggerated "social justice/political correctness"

[@Kat1kafka]

I actually don't mind a doom music from Taylor Swif...

[@IHaveAName1824]

"we have to fight the system" my guy you are the system -some internet guy

[@RandomWandrer]

The aesthetics thing is stupid. As a woman, i dont care if most gamers prefer to look at a beautiful curvy fictional character. I'm not a huge fan of real people being photoshopped to meet some impossible proportions, but in fiction, who cares? I also dont want to play as myself in games. I actually prefer games where the protaginist is male and handsome. If there is going to be a backside on my screen for 70 hours, then I want to like that backside. Shrug. Final point. Having an overweight action hero is stupid. To fight like that you must be fit. I guess having enormous jugs would also be awkward in combat. 😂

[@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer]

I understand the argument about more realistic body standards and I agree to some extent, but then why is the response to then make a lot of major characters if not the MC ugly it's unrealistic to just have one end of the beauty spectrum. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" No shut up some of these scans and faces straight up look like men sometimes, that's not realistic.

[@GambitronPrime]

Why have ANY argument for "realistic" body standards? let the artist make what they want, if it's for you buy it, if not move on to something else, anytime we have someone gatekeeping art and determining what is acceptable or not creativity is stifled and then we get boring "one size fits all" crap.

[@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer]

@ yeah that’s the point. Any attempt to restrict artists will end up being unnatural because your forcing a beauty standard on them

[@DustinBarlow8P]

I only require 2 things in order to enjoy a game. Character races be accurate to history (unless stated in Lore of why that race is present) and also semi realistic women fighters, I enjoy more agile based females who fight by stay away from the male brawler. However once I see a woman on a Medeival Europe battlefield, using a 2 handed Great Sword with ease..... Yea I am instantly pulled out of it.

[@GambitronPrime]

All games should have a super robust character creator to end this body type nonsense. ALL OF THEM.

[@TheDezembro]

But the body type nonsense is in the character creators :/ look at Veilguard. Even Japanese games are doing it.

[@mr.selyumor5402]

You have people who insist to this day that DEI is just a way to hire more diverse clientele and won’t think about any of the poorly planned ideas it incorporates. So we’re in the same place we were in with affirmative action. And that’s not counting all the effects it has on entertainment.

[@rialvita7141]

Diversity back then was like spicing up food to add a nice touch. Now it's like puting too many and call it a good recipe.

[@red-merlin]

Please tell me what the music is in the beginning of this video! It's so familiar and i love collecting these video game music's. Listen to the witcher 3 soundtrack often to get in a good headspace. Sorry, very excited to dig into your hour long video, but I'm almost as passionate about music as i am about video games and the future there of.

[@BAsedlalagod]

alo, darksouls1 character creation theme, entire OST is to be recommended. cheers

[@red-merlin]

@@BAsedlalagod thanks so much brother. When i hear a song, especially one that i faintly recognize, it will throw me off and distract me to much ya know lol. Really appreciate it

[@red-merlin]

@@BAsedlalagod also that explains why i was picturing sitting in a menu hearing this song loop for what seemed like forever. I was thinking "well the song is nice so maybe i just took a break from gameplay and listened to it loop". I do spend a long time in character creator no matter the game lol. I also distinctly remembered thinking how deceitful the music was compared to the gameplay. Like how serene the music is vs the gameplay being gritty and intense. Lol i was literally combing thru FF ost but knowing it didn't fit my memory quite right

[@TheDezembro]

@@red-merlin Yes 😂😂 such a brutal difference jumping from this track to the brutal environment of the asylum. Dark Souls 1 does have some rly lovely areas tho ngl. Firelink shrine is another place with nice music and a pretty cozy setting. Of course, if the first place you go to from there is the catacombs or New Londo instead of the Undead Burg, you're in for yet another brutal contrast 🤣

[@red-merlin]

@@TheDezembro lol exactly, i even remember hanging out hearing this music and having some kind of hesitation to jump into the gameplay. Like "why Can't i just hangout here all day?" Again i kept trying to place the feel of the game and devil may cry was popping up in my head which didn't fit, the setting kinda fit and musical style was close but i was thinking "Yeah but the gameplay wasn't that tough. why would i be apprehensive?" Yeah I'm a sucker for great music that adds a deeper dynamic in a game. Brings the world a deeper feel. That's what i love about the witcher 3 ost. The feel is so oppressive with glimmers of hope. Every time i hear any track from that game i get a smile on my face no matter how much time goes by. Especially the hearts of stone expansion. My favorite expansion is blood and wine, and the music actually does have a vampiric feel to it, but hearts of stone has some of the best music in the entire game But yeah, the souls games definitely goes hard in the ways they DO express their storytelling, lack of direct storytelling so they do it thru the environment. and one of those ways is music

[@ScouterVee]

1 hour?!? This will help me with finishing the video I'm working on!

[@TheDezembro]

@@ScouterVee Can't wait to watch it! ✨

[@VogonJ]

Remember "truth" does not exist for some people, or "my" feeling is THE truth. add that with identity critic becomes hate and danger.

[@kyleburke7285]

Nice video broo well said

[@TheDezembro]

Thanks for watching, I appreciate it! 🙏

[@docmacabre]

Division, exclusion, intolerance. That part about Kathleen Kennedy wanting Star Wars to appeal to more women. What these people don't understand is that they also alienate the female audience they already have. Do we see IPs with a majorly female audience get this treatment? No! I mean, I already didn't like the tone The Phantom Menace set. I hated the retcons, the more childlish tone (Jar Jar Binks being the most egregious example), but at least the prequels resulted in reviving the fandom, which then led to amazing novels, such as the Darth Bane trilogy. What has The Acolyte accomplished, aside from making the idea of "lesbian space witches" lame as well as utterly disrespecting existing lore? It's like being forced to share your toys with the kid who keeps breaking them and then acts like he didn't do it. And before someone cries misogyny, I am a woman. I'm a life-long Star Wars fan. No one is gate-keeping male-dominated IPs. But you cannot just barge into someone's house and demand they redecorate everything because you don't like the color of their wallpaper!

[@MeltonCrest]

I said it before and i'll say it again if you want to know if a game is woke or not just look at the games female characters if they aren't overtly "objectified" the game is woke period.

[@LimC.A]

if u shift the words from DEI to DIE...🤔wonder why its so bad lol

[@K.R.98]

DEI… Destruction Erosion Insanity

[@Beforeigo-x9v]

i hate {who do you hate?}

[@mateuszwilczynski4439]

First

[@justaquietpeacefuldance]

Siema Mati, grasz w Veilguarda? 😂

[@mateuszwilczynski4439]

@justaquietpeacefuldance Siema. Nie a ty?

[@justaquietpeacefuldance]

@mateuszwilczynski4439 wyjebka, ale za to cisne po Taash gdzie i jak mi się podoba 😂

[@blumiu2426]

Yeah, we all were duped thinking actual diversity was going to be a thing. It used to be valid that the industry was just making the same protagonist (I think brunette, gruff white dude). Once you noticed it you wondered if it was more than just white guys in charge, likely more default/laziness. They went right over finding a balance and just did the same thing from the other side, but targeted white men in the industry to boot. It fixed nothing, it only made things worse because they got rid of everyone qualified and avoided diverse hires that didn't agree with them. If it was slim picking before, it certainly was then. White-washing, black-washing. All BS. I'm not even sure there will be a balance since I think humans are petty enough that we swing hard the other way. I never cared about who I played as, I cared about new kinds of stories and characters that were heroic.