Sweet Baby Panics As Their Secrets Get Exposed (Asmongold Reacts)

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[@thirdcoastfirebird]

JRR Tolkien had it right: "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."

[@remiya9526]

@@perlundgren7797 i have actually seen it on the internet, trust me. im a physician.

[@boethius8114]

@@perlundgren7797 "No, they eat and drink, Sam. The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures." -- The Return of The King

[@ItaloSouza-sk4lx]

@@perlundgren7797true, its a reference from the return of the king. “No, They eat And drink, Sam. The shadow that bread them can only mock , it cant make: not real new things of its own. I don’t Think it gave life to the orcs , it only ruined them And twisted them, and they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.” Silmarillion does gave this kinda vibe about orcs and anything that melkor “creates”.

[@perlundgren7797]

@@boethius8114 Exactly, so we have a bit of a Voltaire situation ("I disagree with what you say..."). It's not that it would be completely out of character, but a quote is still supposed to be a quote.

[@boethius8114]

@@perlundgren7797fair enough, it’s a paraphrase that accurately conveys the sentiment and intent

[@theboogiemanstan]

As a black man..whenever someone tries to "help" or offer advantages because Im from a marginalized group of people who they believe cant find success because of some evil nonsense just floating in the ether, all I feel is that they think im stupid and not capable of succeeding on my own merit. I find these sort of things to be incredibly offensive and in many cases. racist.

[@Rocko130185]

"The soft bigotry of low expectations"

[@braddl9442]

You know what is crazy, Africa has some freaking crazy awesome myths and lore and gods and spirits. But we never get anything about that in fiction and myth.

[@KaygeeFromNanotrasen]

​@@braddl9442my bros in Africa are very kek

[@adrian-dragosbalaban6401]

@@braddl9442 oh, of course. the focus seems to be more on replacing white people than helping the black community uplift themselves on their own merit.

[@headkicked]

I heard you don't know how to get ID's to vote.

[@nabilabdel-hafeez3916]

According to the Woman giving a speech, all white guys would have hated Blade. Boy me and all my friends wanted to take a sword and cut throw vampires while looking like Wesley Snipes.

[@kgp277]

Dude Blade was the shit! Watched all three religiously! 😁

[@nai3346]

It sort of gives off the impression that they know nothing of the people they're talking about, and just setting up strawmen so it's easier to demonize them.

[@Rellikan]

Inconvenient facts like that get memory-holed. People don't even learn from the farce that was Kony 2012, and yet BLM the org got tens of millions of donations 10 years later. Things automatically disappear from memory.

[@Eatbutternow]

Blade, men in black, rush hour, Friday, dr Doolittle, tomb raider, the raid, flight, clueless, black dynamite, the angry beavers, Godzilla minus one, I don’t anything like the main characters in any of those and that has never been an issue. They are all great in my opinion. Make a good show/movie/game and the skin color of the characters won’t matter. The consultants are the racist ones, not the customers.

[@WarZealot]

You hit the nail on the head. She's just projecting her own insanity.

[@seeks1986]

"How do we solve racism"? "Stop talking about it" - Morgan Freeman This always stuck with me

[@ttacx]

amen

[@xKapnKrunch]

Unfortunately that was the popular thing to say at the time... Because liberals hadn't completely lost their mind. I'm actually closer to the left then than actually conservative. Yet I get called far right because of my ideas. I still argue with my conservative father about shit lol. I vote Republican now because even though some of them have lost the way also they are now closer to my views than the insanity on the left today.

[@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia]

​​@@xKapnKrunch Same here... I used to vote to the left, until I saw just how corporate they were. Honestly I miss having faith in the left, I miss when the world was all black and white, much simpler times 😂

[@xKapnKrunch]

@@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia yeah there used to be a point when they needed each other but now it seems they are killing each other.

[@ccvcharger]

@@JuanAntonioGarciaHerediaat this point, the only way we can preserve sanity is by abandoning the left and the right. Both are hell bent on destroying our society and robbing us of our faith in each other so that we will have no choice but to be receptive of them and their extremist ideologies. The world was much better before the lunatics on both sides started running the asylum.

[@cannadodry7022]

The most frustrating thing imo, is the elitism behind this mentality : "You are too stupid to understand what we understand, you dont want what you think you want, we know better than you" gtfo

[@Astro_Vagabond]

We’re just a bunch of “picky babies throwing tantrums”

[@christianalanwilson434]

people never commit evil so readily or gleefully than when they do it from moral superiority.

[@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062]

GTFO is a good game btw

[@headkicked]

​@@christianalanwilson434 Big true

[@icehour6568]

By the way if you disagree or state your opinion towards their views and beliefs they're gonna take that as harassment and discrimination towards women.🙄

[@c-domination]

Picky babies? Yeah, if I'm paying 70 dollars for a game, I'll by picky about it.

[@YamiMilo]

Yeah exactly. The veggies analogy is also so friggin bad, parents will encourage kids to eat veggies because its good for their health. When is a game full of pandering bullshit better for our health than a different kind of game ?

[@sarzootashoota351]

Telling someone that they have to consume the product that you made or they're a picky baby is such a weird energy to carry through life.

[@mr.dynamite1]

guess we gotta wait for the 1-2 year discount for $20, bring back the $5 flash sales for all this junk

[@MrFreyze]

​@@YamiMilo Kids will eat Veggies if it tastes good, if you are an untalented idiot who burns down his house while cooking some rice of course they will hate Veggies when u cooking some. Same goes for Videogames, if its good idc if its bad fk off.

[@winterlantern5695]

FUN FACT: The deliberate swirl on their logo is on FBI's watch list for PDFILIA signalling.

[@PliskinHK]

It's unfortunate this woman went to a game developer conference and told developers not to listen to their fans. It's even more unfortunate that many took her advice.

[@Voldrim359]

They didn't want to hear her, they were forced to... I grew playing videogames, i share my moments with friends and others, and i am studying to be a game dev. Hearing her saying this things is just wrong. She, and many others, didn't play games, didn't study or work for game developent, they just go to the studio, tell people what they should do, and if they don't do it the way they wanted, they cancel you in social media. This what they are, this is what the industry, not only gaming. Movies, series, comics are also falling because of them. So yeah, this is a cultural war.

[@TruthAndReconciliation]

Realistically, that's what makes good games. Audiences are VERY bad at knowing what they want, at most they can tell you if they like or dislike the end product. BUT if you're going to say you know better than your consumer base, you have to actually be able to follow up with a good product lol

[@mrillis9259]

​@Voldrim359 the future is small indie companies. They will gain the most influence in the future.

[@impjbtw]

@@TruthAndReconciliationwhat? audiences always know what they want from a game. its the devs not listening consistenly and adding shit nobody wanted or asked for. right when fortnite finally brought no build mode, OG maps, permanent creative mode. have been asked for, for years and only recently were they all added. and then fortnite popularity shot back up. does that mean listening to the people that play ur game in their free time was the right choice all along nooo way. take valorant for example. whats the one thing that even COD has that valorant doesnt as a competitive fps game? a replay system. what's one thing that every fps game has that apex doesn't. a good anti cheat system. look at apex now they got fucking hacked at a major and now ppl are considering uninstalling the game due to security reasons. if devs listen their game will improve very simple process.

[@TruthAndReconciliation]

@@impjbtw Like I said, they can tell you parts of what they like or don’t like about an end product. They cannot design a game. In reality most good games come from designers having their own good vision and following through with the audience being a secondary focus. I imagine we never would’ve gotten games like the Souls series if the primary focus was appeasing audiences.

[@Diego-m4m4n]

19:39 I am from Mexico and when I was 10 years old I played Halo 3 with my group of friends and in each game some American told us to go eat tacos to which we responded that they were going to eat a hot dog, they told us to go back to Mexico and we responded that they should return to Europe. In the end the anger turned into fun and laughter because of how creative we all were with insults. On many occasions, at the end of a game we pressed the X button and went to Big Team Battle, to play Americans and Mexicans as a group. This is how I learned basic English What I mean is that we were all normal people having fun without taking anything personally and in those times people found value in those who did not lose their temper.

[@chrisredfield6274]

Referring to normal gamers as "picky babies" reinforces the fact that these people see themselves as parental figures. They're pompous and self righteous. They think they know better than you. They think you're a child.

[@milesprowr]

They have a theme going on for some reason. Along with the weird name, that Sweet Baby logo reminds me of the pizzagate symbols with that spiral. But they just chose to ignore all the wikileaks documents about it.

[@pepinlebref7585]

@@milesprowr I fear that you are on point

[@rainbowGZUS7]

Weird, I hope they don't kill, eat or fuck me, cause thats what they do to babies.

[@City-Hunter]

It's a Cult. Marxist/Feminist with Thelema principles of inversion agenda: wrong is right; Ugly is Beauty...

[@CorporateG0th]

That wasn't clear from the fact that they're hiring minorities mostly to stand in the background, look black and keep their mouth shut?

[@HanzzzCZECH]

"Politically correct is different than actually correct" was a great take by Asmon.

[@mach2223]

Basedmongold

[@daniel4647]

It's "politically correct" because politics is a soft (not real) science, hence there is no such thing as an actually correct opinion in politics. It's all just opinion, imaginary, it's like religion but with the state/system/group identity serving as the deity. Many things can only be politically correct (or incorrect) because without the religion or politics it wouldn't even exist in the first place. That's why it's a term, because it's actually different from for example empirically correct or morally correct and so on.

[@dreamingflurry2729]

I prefer "Technically correct - the best kind of correct!" over politically correct :)

[@berkeliumk]

Politically correct = follow the crowd like a sheep

[@Solsbeary]

@@berkeliumkno it doesn't, that isn't what it means at all.

[@martin5lipa]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance had haters that wanted diversity in 15th century central Europe. Daniel Vavra lead designer i think basically told them to f off.

[@PepinoOable]

They did a dlc about a woman, it was bad. My comment was a response to op message that was edited, stop being dumb people.

[@abny14]

​@@PepinoOablethey did?

[@W-G]

What are you on about? That dlc was fine, it wasnt the most epic but it was great to see her backstory.

[@majora919]

And you know what's crazy despite being a well received game it didn't get much publicity

[@artnull13]

@@PepinoOablefound the guy who wanted the buggery only DLC 😂

[@BrBcouchfire]

A Baby Ghost is literally a Dead Baby... Why would name your company that?

[@williambarnes5023]

Because she hates her brother and is mocking him for being bullied to death. He's the ghost she's calling a whiny baby.

[@BrBcouchfire]

@@williambarnes5023 Jfc is that true

[@williambarnes5023]

@@BrBcouchfire All explained in the video you just watched.

[@silentfox8460]

A Hearless Harpy tbh ​@williambarnes5023

[@BarrenCore]

I thought it was when you felt like you had a baby but you look in the toilet and there's nothing there...

[@qdawg8087]

"These values can only exist in environments where they aren't tested" FUCKING GOLD.

[@CorporateG0th]

Fundamentally it's a culture of legacy brats from the oligarch class figuring out ways to cosplay the oppressed.

[@nikola4955]

​@@CorporateG0thand with it to make more money 😂

[@Eisfalken]

@@CorporateG0thThe proof of this statement is the "crustpunk" movement we saw in New Orleans in the past few years. It was one of the most insane, stupid things I had ever seen, but it makes your statement of white folks trying to "cosplay" oppressed folks hit home very hard. Once I saw that, I saw it literally everywhere. The reason it's not a more organized effort is because, laughably, there are small communities doing it that end up working against each other due to competing for resources, attention, etc. It's a snake that always bites its own tail, thankfully.

[@winterlantern5695]

NEWS ALERT: Sweet Baby Inc founder just recently attacked the creator of Dragon Ball, Toriyama's death.

[@matthewmosier8439]

@@Eisfalken They areRacists, for the most part. I hate to spill the beans, but the people who follow the rule of projecting their crimes onto others (dems) and who spend all day saying that repubs areRacist... are still projecting. They thinkBlack people are money hungry and will sell anything for free money. That is their opinion of them. UnfourtunatelyBlack people make that easy to believe. My African ex has recently re-told me "it is just like that here" about something similar. Which is why all the talk that progs do about how they identify and are partners with theBlack community is likely just them grifting with people they secretly believe are also grifters

[@glawenclattuc3127]

This is like a steak house trying to get vegan customers by replacing all the meat with “vegan steaks” and then wondering why their existing customers stop coming there to eat…

[@Unit285]

very good analogy

[@glawenclattuc3127]

@@Unit285 I like food analogies, because everyone eats food so everyone should be able to relate to it in some way. It reminded me of something the dr who writer said about trying to fine tune the wokeness to make it more palatable. I thought “how much dog shit can we put in this cake and still get you to eat it?” Because you could probably mix a little bit in, and you wouldn’t notice. And if they increased it over time you might slowly get used to the taste. But eventually you would notice that there is shit in your cake. And then they act upset because “you’ve been eating it for months and didn’t care” when the reason you didn’t know is because they hid it from you. Sweet Baby are just upset because some guy is shouting “they put shit in the cake” and they can’t sell a bad product if people know that it’s bad.

[@Ghoninn]

Oh, even better food analogy. And hit the nail on the head. I commend you sir

[@SrThanatos010]

Plus the new vegan customers won't spend any money there (they're broke). And now they're realizing that tweets won't pay the bills.

[@HumblePupp]

Very well said mate

[@openfly4u]

Starcraft doesn`t have a single korean person in it. Still one of the biggest games in S. Korea.

[@Rellikan]

They will chalk that up to SKs culture of white obession.

[@KenseiShiro]

Bless their poor souls

[@nielsdejong]

Yup! Also, Starcraft 2 has pretty much all white characters for their units. Yet nobody cares about that (and it also makes sense as it is pretty much rural America in space). The only diversity that was added was to the Starcraft Broodwars remake that had better graphics yet the Siege Tank dude and Science Vessel Guy suddenly had a darker skincolor. However, if you select the Carbotanimations Cartoon version you can see that both of them are white XD So even if they got "some" of the Starcraft content with their ESG nonsense, it is fortunately very minimal. I still play starcraft 2 btw, the Co-op games are still a ton of fun! :)

[@gingerbred2533]

Also Lineage 2.

[@padarousou]

It's almost like people enjoy games because they're good 🤔

[@hansfrans761]

"If you are given preference because you are a male, or female - that's bad." - Thank you.

[@mjonhouston]

being male or female has become a choice in many troubled, confused minds.

[@juke414]

God I hate the name "Sweet Baby" so much, that's their biggest crime imo

[@SmittyWJManJensen]

It sounds creepy as fuck

[@thehatter9400]

The reason they named it that way is worse. Before thet made the company they said devs that were on board and who took their pointers "were like sweet babies" which honestly is the creepiest reason ever.

[@MrBeefTot187]

No allowing women into anything is the crime

[@shaoronmd]

​@@thehatter9400 I was gonna jokingly say "they treat their customers and us gamers like babies"... but damn...

[@tm5123]

@@SmittyWJManJensen Its also a "urban" pet name for the bottom in non heterosexual relationships...

[@jonson856]

She, a black woman: White men only like characters that look exactly like them (white). She, a black woman: So lets make every character black. Me, an Asian man: So, you only like characters that look exactly like you, black, right?

[@homelander2243]

Well that’s what happens when you start hiring based on diversity and not qualification. Ask the mayor of Dolton Illinois

[@fork-man]

*Begins to clap furiously* right on the money and to back this up so far all of their works where they change a race of a character or have specific character stand in the spot light more then others they are all black

[@thomasprogli3372]

This contradiction gets me. She did not like games because she did not feel represented. Now she is disenfranchising white men and now according to her logic they should not like the game because they are not represented. She would have a great business idea if scores of female blacks would enter the gaming market. We all know this will not happen.

[@ryansmith2772]

@@thomasprogli3372 They are trying to draw them to gaming I guess?? However they dont have any new IP's and they arent marketing it outside of the US to include LGBTQ++ so its not a Worldwide Statement. It's not like other countrys care about what race the people are in the game just like the "white christian national .. blah blaah" aka social media buzz words. They just aren't making very good games, Have deceptive money making practices and force politics into a game and trying to judge the quality of the game by how many progressive idea's it contains instead of quality story, game mechanics, usabiltiy, longevity, quality of life, new game design. Non-North American game developers aren't as easily influenced by these companies that influence and try to coerce you into believeing the games are "good" when many agree of the same base game design qualifications have not been met. Everyone sees the games don't run well. Aren't done when they are released. See we wasted money on something that was promised but missed all of their goals. Have diceptive marketing money making practices.

[@philipbutler6608]

I thought It was weird when White Guys Made Female Dwarf characters in wow. I agree with your dad Also the Irish used to take British slaves and sell them to North Africans. But for the most part you don’t even know who you are playing against in PVP.

[@jasons9663]

A normal person wants to be like Batman. A narcissist wants Batman to be like them.

[@DimePwnz]

omg that is like my new favourite quote xD

[@detectiverick9934]

Thats a really good way of putting it

[@7opher619]

This comment is SEVERELY underrepresented.

[@Elazar1143]

I'm stealing this

[@Nova-Rei]

Excellently put.

[@prozombie6768]

That analogy of “slowly squeezing the life out of a product and moving on to the next victim” is brilliant.

[@ModernDefinition1]

"everything doesn't have to be made for you" *inserts black frost giant*

[@thecrypticstench]

Of herself no less, as well as the main character in Forspoken and the spray paint chick in sm2

[@Windbend3r]

The hypocrisy is incredible. The lack of self-awareness is just next level.

[@Windbend3r]

You gotta think though who funds these people. Someone’s pulling strings, giving extremist power to push their insane ideology onto the rest of the world. This is deeper then wealthy activist founding a company.

[@RoyalStarlord]

She must never meet with Chris-chan

[@Hal-fv2eg]

it has to be more than that, I refuse to believe they are this dumb. This seems like something more nefarious going on@@Windbend3r

[@thecollierreport]

She is constantly referring to her employers, the players, as "picky babies," and wonders why those same players hate her and her pathetic content.

[@broccoli7817]

It's a huge insult thrown around carelessly. They are the same people like the Karen's complaining to your boss over the smallest and insignificant reasons, giving themselves such an importance like they're the president of the country or something. Even though the boss is aware of those reasons.

[@deathtakes]

"white people don't play games with characters who don't look like them". As she says out loud that as a kid she always wrote about her self and the problem in the gaming industry is that she lives in a predominately white country who's stories feature mostly white characters that don't look like her, despite the fact she's about as light skinned as me and I'm a white guy that works out in the sun.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

She's never met white Dead Island players lmfao. Sam B 2 OP

[@TheImapotato]

Ignores Lee from the surprise hit Walking Dead series and GTA San Andreas. and yes it is her narcissism and I would say she is over 75% Caucasian, but those are the people that are often race baiters like Joy Reid from some news outlet

[@themidnightaristocrat]

>5 year old me playing Predator 2 on the Master System pretending to Danny Glover.

[@jthen8454]

In her defense, I doubt her writing evolved much since childhood.

[@whytho1690]

Harmful Opinions actually theorized that she wrote all that because she's heavy into white guys and feels guilty about it. I think he's onto something there.😆

[@Pizzagulper]

I love it how that lady acts like she is the mature one, while calling everyone that she disagrees with, "Picky babies".

[@eehlohluell]

Name-calling:the adult way of showing disagreement and changing minds in your favor...not

[@TheBlueWiz]

The fact that she thinks about people as babies who have so little cognitive choice that they must be spoon fed is so condescending. Ego on display, these types of people have created some of the darkest times in history.

[@PoeticShaman]

...darkest times in history? Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. We can agree something is 'bad', but no need to extrapolate that into something it isn't.

[@ivanmeza7089]

​@HairlessMonkee well, it's kinda wild how we are just sitting at the door of something that can be described as "dark times". All these people need is more authority and that will just naturally happen. Their policies are damn near already in place, once they have the power they'll just keep pushing.

[@alexdoey6931]

@@PoeticShamandon’t you think hitler and stalin had these “i know better” mentality? The only difference is they had the authority to do all the harm they did. Do you want to risk and give these people the authority and see how they will act? Extremism is never good, no matter what side of the political spectrum.

[@araamahasla555]

@@alexdoey6931 "Could" and "is" are very different. Anyone at any time is capable of atrocity and many crave for it during all times and eras. Comparing these people and these times to deaths of dosens of milions is insane and dishonest. It only discredits your point.

[@nikovz4719]

@@alexdoey6931my dudes upset over games while locally their taxes are being fuckedd by local developers Yess these are the DAAARK TIMEEES LMAO 😂💀💀😂😂😂😂

[@robkinney1974]

To suggest racism is fine because it "helps those without resources" is to deny the fact that every race has people without resources!

[@nybbleme]

Harvard and other ivy League schools discriminate harshly against Asians because otherwise Asians would make up like 43% of the admissions. Meanwhile minorities are given a leg up supposedly to help them, even though many of them are not actually college ready and it does help them to put them into a program they are not educationally ready for yet.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Based

[@AstralLaVista]

Well these people seem to think if you're white you get given a bar of gold when you turn 18 or some shit

[@MyParentsAreSiblings]

surely there arent poor white people either

[@asdfbeau]

@@MyParentsAreSiblings and, of course there were never any white slaves

[@justkev6277]

They're literarily infantilizing people

[@coltonlarrick]

@@DreamingVoid You have blue hair don't you?

[@blind_surgeon]

​@@DreamingVoiddo you have a panic attack every time you read your last name?

[@UncleDave69]

​@@DreamingVoid they proved your point by only attacking you with ad hominems Why do I need to infantalize anyone when Shorts, Tiktok and podcasts do it for me?

[@bloody4558]

@@DreamingVoid"No U"is a tactic used by actual children, grow up.

[@bloody4558]

@@UncleDave69No they don't, can we please not perpetuate fallacies? Ad hominen is only a fallacy when insults are being used as an attempt to change someone's argument. The person above is making fun of the desingenuous person you are defending, it's a whole different thing entirely.

[@daniel94858]

"Terrify your marketing team" I think SBI CEO Kim Bel Air should face investigation for blackmailing companies and bullying workplace harrasment

[@MrMG76]

As a BLACK person when I played the game and I saw Zendaya appear in the game I was like WTF!! Newsflash: *Black people DON'T WANT REPRESENTATION ALL THE TIME* . I'm pretty fine with James Bond being white, with ZERO DIVERSITY in Lord of the rings and no black people in World of Warcraft. The idea that there is a need to cram black people into all sort of stories that we NEVER ASKED FOR in the first place and RECEIVING BACKHANDED remarks for has been irking me FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@modelcitizen1977]

There's like entire conferences devoted to the lack of inclusion and representation in games and film. People are asking, and have been. For decades.

[@bweekz]

Uther was always black in my mind

[@AnumaOnline]

It's not because they want to support you, it's part of the demoralization aspect of communist propaganda

[@papiagua]

So close to Luther, I get it​@@bweekz

[@Kosuke001]

James bond is a title lmao

[@nero526]

Thank you Asmon for pointing out companies that I want absolutely nothing to do with. Honestly saves me the hassle of investigating their bullshit.

[@soulure]

Agreed, thanks from all of us AsmonSettlers lol

[@FrawgfithAmblose]

Fair but this is a really big news headline right now, lots of big content creators are talking about it

[@SteveRozzano]

Lol watch some WEF conferences. You will realize how fucked up companies and government are

[@TheRealRealMClovin]

To be honest I'am still gonna play God of war I mean still kinda shocked they were in Ragnarok. As it only had 1 black girl but didn't really care since I have read nordic mythology and history and it never does mention the skin of the giants It only mention too that Angrboda was redhead, so they kind fucked that one up though. I also kinda just let it be because I guess a different race from another realm/world would not follow the same premise of skin color like earth does. Then also we had a blue dwarf so hey.

[@nai3346]

Weird how these companies are all Canadian...starting to seem like Canada is the biggest threat to gaming today.

[@SudokuKingSudokuKing]

'you are a member of underrepresented group..." Imagine getting your own spot on the bus... and a sticker to wear while sitting on said spot...

[@ReaveIdono]

Imagine being told we're to sit on said bus at one point in time...

[@buckbardyt]

Hates labels, pushes their labels for points. The irony is thick. No one needs to know anyone's identity, it shouldn't even matter. We all just wanted to be treated with respect, ya? Do what you want, as long as you aren't hurting anyone who cares. I am a private person, and I am in several "marginalized" groups, and this shit sucks I don't need people grilling me to know what my preferences are, even if they do align with their agenda. All that should matter is if I'm chill or not.

[@Tooamazin]

​@@ReaveIdono That's what they said, but also that you'd have to wear a sticker plus a hat with a propeller on top.

[@yallRweirdAF]

@@ReaveIdonolike nobody currently living.

[@timothykirby4406]

Agreed

[@TheZeyc]

There is as far as I know only one historical story about a "black" viking, thought that is from the very end of the viking era, as in right at the end as vikings were outlawed before the "black" viking twins became off age. For those more interested look up "Hjor and Ljufvina" (names of the parents) But the story goes that hjor a viking king married the Mongolian princess liufvina, who their culture considered to have black skin. She later got pregnant and gave birth to twins as her husband was out at sea and afraid he wouldn't accept the kids she traded them with the child of a slave. The husband would eventually realize its not his child and demand his real children be brought to him where he then wholeheartedly accepted them as his own. And that's basically the most important part of the story. As previously mentioned vikings where outlawed before they became off age, causing their father to lose his land and the twins then later became captains of their own ships and traded goods scanenavia and england. I'm not saying this because I wanna defend black people being in scandenavia set media, but because I just like sharing historical stories like that and want more people to know of them :D

[@Kostte-zp6he]

for me, its not even about accuracy of the myth. like loki is greek in the story, so why stop there, and people gotta realize about the concept of the nine realm. there are the earth that potray the scandinavia and 8 different magical realm too. its just i find it a bit crazy when people complain about one or two dark tone skinned character exist in these 9 supposedly magical realms.

[@LSG101097]

It doesn't sound like they were black, most likely just darker then Scandinavians, more likely no darker then arabs.

[@arroe8386]

Game studios be like "Mongolian you said? Yeah African American sounds good to me" 😂

[@YaBoyMirage]

Sweet Baby Inc really thought they were Invincible to criticism😂

[@88Vrus88]

ofc not only white people can get criticized

[@SmittyWJManJensen]

At the beginning, they weren't even criticized. A Steam group made by some Brazilian nerd just pointed out "They had involvement with these games and did this and that, here's proof from their own website." And then SBI was like "WE ARE BEING HARASSED BY THIS GUY, HARASS HIM BACK!"

[@YaBoyMirage]

@SmittyWJgger Oh yeah they even tried to ban the Steam guy too. The gaming community is for real in shambles. Sweet Baby Inc. is only one of many problems and from here on out its going to get worse before it gets better🫤

[@adrian-dragosbalaban6401]

@@YaBoyMirage 2024 looks like a good year for eating if you're a gamer

[@tomhan]

race card got nerfed

[@BraddahSpliff]

So dude's own sister is working against everything he stood for, using his own company after he died? These people are fucking EVIL.

[@Voldrim359]

Funny you said that... They don't see themselves as evil since their perception of evil is so twisted... But if they are forcing people to do stuff they don't like too, if they are making people miserable, if they never questioned their actions are doing good or bad, then yes, they are fucking evil

[@tabkg5802]

She also just threw him to the wolves when false allegations were presented and said NOTHING

[@NB-yu4lj]

@@Voldrim359they don’t see evil …only utility

[@tekboi1984]

They live in Canada? I thought Canada was better than the states? I guess the commies infiltrated and destroyed their system even more than ours.

[@Alorso_]

That's the most twisted part of this whole thing, honestly feel bad for that dude

[@SirPreyas]

Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt and destroy. - JRR Tolkien

[@perlundgren7797]

Ironically enough, you're kind of corrupting Tolkien's actual words by spreading a made up quote... 🙂 I think the closes we get is "The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own."

[@jonathanbuyno9461]

@@perlundgren7797words are words-the fundamental truth move mountains. There is nothing new under the son my boy.

[@stanleyclark923]

@@perlundgren7797 Paraphrases need citing too, not only direct quotes. There's nothing wrong with what he said. You could argue that to ruin isn't the same as to destroy but the sentiment is not changed.

[@perlundgren7797]

@@stanleyclark923 Fair enough in this case, since it's not presented as an actual quote.

[@KaiserNightcoreMusic]

Tolkien explained Satan in just few words.

[@Vaporwave_Z]

The dev team has some guts to reject SBI's $7M extortion. The more support we give to them, the more we can show gaming companies out there that no one gives a F about SBI!

[@LovelyFinal]

This resonates to something Dakota Jonhson said recently explaining why Madam Web was negatively received by the audience. She said "decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee. Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms".

[@lenajohnson6179]

Paint by numbers anyone!?!?!?!

[@WokioWolfy]

Pretty much. These things nowadays aren't made as an art piece, all they care about is ro increase this ESG score to keep Blackrock and Vanguard's 10% investments on them.

[@spacejunk2186]

But according to all avalibe evidence, Madam Web was the true vision of the director.

[@DualRockers]

George Lucas told us years ago that this ⬆, is the exact problem with Hollywood. Hollywood doesn't care about artistic vision. It is all about numbers.

[@Gone_rogue]

Gamers don't want to be preached about racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia being bad. We know it's bad. Most of us grew up with parents who teach us these things. I just want to play a game where I can be in control and blow stuff up.

[@idleeidolon]

For democracy.

[@yougotrice9655]

@@idleeidolonhahahahhaa

[@peonoreeves3852]

@@idleeidolonlmao

[@randomblackhole9933]

*​managed* democracy@@idleeidolon

[@mrvoldis6688]

​@@idleeidolon never forget malevelon creek

[@DaddySolutions]

When I'm paying money that I WORKED to receive, for a PRODUCT, I reserve the RIGHT to be picky.

[@CatacombD]

Nah, see... They deserve your money, because they're just so virtuous. They're such paragons of morality that not giving them your money is a sin.

[@hai-lev4528]

Then don't fuckin bye it if you don't like it... where is the logic ?

[@adventurekobold]

This should be the start and end of the isue honestly, make your own games, if people buy them then theyre wanted, if people dont wanna spend their money on it, guess your game isnt wanted.

[@Radbiker33357]

@@hai-lev4528only comment I can make in regards to that is you can only read so many reviews or hear word of mouth only so much before you, as the consumer, can buy a product and THEN choose if you like it or not. But buying things you don’t like from the same company is definitely Stockholm syndrome.

[@chrisxenzo1373]

Especially for a non-essential good/service like entertainment/media

[@cookiedoughman45]

“Sweet baby” and “baby ghost” lowkey sound like pedo ring dogwhistles

[@danhillenburg4487]

It seems like a pretty big stretch to go from "some vikings probably saw black people" to "therefore it makes sense for a mythical creature from viking folklore to look exactly like a person from Sub-Saharan Africa even when the rest of her race doesn't look like that at all". That's clearly a ham-fisted way to try to force in diversity. Imagine if you had a game set in a fantasy medieval China setting and you had a spirit in it that looked like a white guy. Then when people brought up how weird that creative decision was you replied "what's the problem? You do realize that some medieval chinese people sometimes came into contact with Europe." It's completely goofy.

[@pvfreis_]

Dude, it's literally folklore, why would gods and creatures have to be restricted to looking like the people who made them up? They don't actually exist my man, get over it. They could have purple skin and red glowing eyes and it could still make sense.

[@danielantony1882]

@@pvfreis_Because folklore isn't undefined. Changing folklore is colonialism.

[@bassplur12]

100% agree well said!!

[@Abumustard6364]

@@pvfreis_ I'll be more inclined to believe they're acting in good faith when they take non-European mythologies and insert whites into them. I remember years back when these kind of people were complaining that there weren't any black representation in Kingdom Come deliverance so I don't believe that they care whether it's fictional or historical.

[@danhillenburg4487]

​​​@@pvfreis_Don't be so obtuse. Aesthetics. Taken to the extreme, why not make each god in the Norse pantheon a different race? One could have polynesian tribal tattoos. Just because it's made-up doesn't mean it doesn't have to have some kind of consistency to match the aesthetic of the culture the game is trying to emulate. In fact, I think something is lost not trying to keep that consistency. Wakanda is a made up country. If there were just random white or asian people walking around Im sure most people would agree that it would definitely ruin the immersion a bit. Would you really say "Wakanda is just made up, why does it matter?" I'm skeptical that you don't get the point I'm trying to make. If everything has to be diverse, it ends up just making everything feel same-y and boring.

[@skulker2]

Creating a problem and selling a solution for the problem you created is called a racket.

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

A racket could be any illegal business

[@nybbleme]

I call it the Democrat party and DEI.

[@ReaveIdono]

​@@nybbleme Wait? Are you implying marginalized people made up racism to use it as a way to secure an advantage?

[@deathtakes]

@@ReaveIdono Race grifters over state the prevalence of racism from one particular group to secure money and an advantage, yes.

[@timothyblazer1749]

Government, yes. Look up "war is a racket".

[@AnyMEmdq]

Wasn't legobutts friends with Zoe, Anita, and the lot from Gamer Gate, the ones who made Alec commit not-alive, the same Alec whose sister is the "settler" founder of Baby Ghosts? So friends with Zoe 10 years ago, now working for SBI, under the umbrella of Baby Ghosts, created by Alec's sister, while Zoe, legobutts's friend, was directly responsible for Alec's demise

[@Mallus_SunRival]

Damn this some lore right here

[@AnyMEmdq]

@@Mallus_SunRival This is just the tip of the iceberg. If I were to summarize everything from 10 years ago that is on play now, I'd need the whole comments section just for that, a couple of months to write it all, and 5-10 years of therapy afterwards

[@alucard3689]

@@AnyMEmdq 😨

[@respectdat1]

"These values can only exist in an environment where they're not tested. They're so protected, they don't even realize how protected they are." Hoooooooooly

[@City-Hunter]

In Academia, i saw the before: we applied the scientific method, and the after: they infiltrated every department with CONFIRMATION BIAS + Destroy Meritocracy as it opposes their Tabula Rasa, erase & redo an Oppressor vs Oppressed Philosophy (written in the Communist Manifesto of Marx for conquest).

[@DanMProductionsBois]

This is 100% it. The only reason they can even have the opinions they have is because of brave, strong men and woman that sacrifice for others. Not whiney, sneaky, selfish losers.

[@squirrelsyrup1921]

These values were allowed to be tested in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where we saw the culture these people would create.

[@DanMProductionsBois]

​@squirrelsyrup1921 haha that's right. I forgot about that funny little time.

[@GoblinBoys]

The dude saying "All good" after getting decimated by irrefutable logic was absolutely priceless.

[@TyrantTommy]

It's the whole reason they stay in their echo chamber. The mantras of leftists just don't actually make sense when challenged with logic.

[@ReaveIdono]

What the guy was saying is that there were laws created that prevented people from getting opportunities. Which also has knock on effects that prevent people from getting those opportunities that aren't written into laws. Such as not getting access to the knowledge to become a game developer. Now we are in a world where people CAN gain the access. However a lot of people who hold the jobs are still the people that had the access long before.

[@lolly166541]

Did you hear yourself talk "prevented", "were"... What does 2024 have to do with fucking 1940? Should be quite easily to answer that for something like you.@@ReaveIdono

[@6lake.]

@@lolly166541 As with most of them, they operate 100-200 years in the past in order to validate their points. Present day doesn't matter.

[@onesolopolo4194]

Asmons take was an L with that guy though. Asmon hates idealism. He also hates the idea of someone receiving something based on criteria that’s isnt merit itself. The reality is that many white people in countries with a white ruling class and people who come from wealth are given opportunities and positions based on who they are or who they know, not by merit. You’ve heard the term “it’s not what you know it’s who you know”? You know people get jobs from their fathers, they get given businesses and positions from friends or family. Politicians push or block certain policies that help certain businesses and then when they leave government they get executive positions at those very same business. Yeah, the world in its current state does not run on merit, so to block people at the bottom from receiving opportunities because they don’t have any merit in a world that doesn’t operate on merit is the definition of idealism. If we had a magic lamp and our magic wish was: everyone in positions of power who earned that position through networking or inheritance rather than personal ability lose their positions - it would be the largest transfer of wealth and power in human history. Bill Gates was gifted Microsoft by his mother when he finished university. He hadn’t even been alive long enough to prove his merit, he got given the world’s largest tech company for being the son of IBMs board manager - a few queer weirdos getting 25k to start a video game really shouldn’t be hurting anyones feelings.

[@16uy9aming4]

That lady is right the main reason i love LOTR is because i identify as a hobbit

[@casualcausalityy]

As a giant spider Return of The King is easily my favorite. Their spider looks like me!

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

I sexually identify as an AH 64 Apache. These people don't represent me, we need more games with attack helicopters. GTA SA did better.

[@smitty215able]

How dare the consumer tell the producer what they want. They're just being picky babies

[@hntrjoe]

Where's the white/blonde hair, blue-eyed King of Wakanda?

[@Xgil2Play]

That's just real life

[@LobsterDeity]

Ryan gosling in MLK, the man who stood against a nation

[@grumpynomad3551]

Jim Carey is going to do a Malcom X biography next year.

[@jmo8391]

I want to play an NBA game where the teams are mostly white and the characters dunk all the time.

[@Shane-un8pe]

Angrboda was a problem in God of War. There was no reason she needed to be black. It was shoehorn representation that played into into the magical minority trope. The white protagonist meets a magical minority who is more mature and knowledgable than the main character. Edit: And her whole chapter absolutely sucked which is the most offensive thing about her character.

[@voninja8684]

More people liked then hated her character tho. Her mission was just boring to a lot of people

[@BusesAreFatCars]

@@voninja8684Her voice actress was great. Her story was terrible, and added almost nothing of value to the game. Her whole section could have been cut and the game would not have been any worse off for it.

[@JohnnyFish971]

Atreus sequences were bad to be honest, outside Asgard ones than alteast made sense Plus theres another black character in the Frey camp but nobody really cared for him​@@voninja8684

[@SubzeroYoutube]

@@voninja8684 Literally false.

[@JohnnyFish971]

She would be like Two face if we got the myth version(but white) Also Kratos its a black guy and so has Artemis in Gow 1(and Ascension concept art) God of War never bother following real myth per say They have a few things right here and there but mixed or changed a few Like Thur being both a Valky(future) and Thor daughter While existing 2 Thurs, a few Nordic gods are missing And they changed Baldur and Thor sons personalities

[@iliilliliiliilliliiliillil9137]

That genius commenter said "It's to expand the opportunity of people who haven't had the resources" - yeah, welcome to 95% of the world

[@ThomasEdits]

me omw to every poor person they don't deem "marginalized" to tell them they should just stop being poor

[@personreanimation]

Funny how white is a minority on a global scale, but the globalist don't want to acknowledge that.

[@ookamigenji-pv2st]

Can't you comprehend that some people have had different levels of access to ressources? Or do you think 95% of the world is at the same level?

[@RectalPower]

@@ookamigenji-pv2st Freak

[@brunosouza3326]

Either you have the resources to make a game or you don't, it doesnt matter how much lower then 0 you are. @@ookamigenji-pv2st

[@lowkeytheoneandonly]

Thor was built like a brick shithouse in his younger years, but he lived a life of indulgence and yes, he got the way he looks in GoW. So that is mythologically accurate.

[@stonedtowel]

Fuck censorship

[@LightCrib2]

watch your profanity

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@LightCrib2 fuck your profanity filter

[@seagrey75]

CTIL is coming

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

I mean asmon does ban a lot of people because he doesn't like what they are saying.

[@PrinceAlhorian]

@@LightCrib2 CENSOR! CENSOR! CENSOR!

[@wouterbaas3138]

The fact that his sister is taking advantage of his legacy in such a disgusting way is unbelievable

[@tonypringles2285]

what? whos sister?

[@GeneralSpecific]

Alec Holowka. Five years ago, Zoe Quinn accused him of physical and emotional abuse, and he was fired the next day. The dev team that fired him said they had been shown proof, but none of that proof was ever shown to the public. He killed himself three days later. And now his sister is in bed with this Quinn animal and others like her, pushing their twisted worldview onto video games. It's actually jarring to see how much influence these three or four women have had over games. They came out of nowhere, victimized themselves during Gamergate, and then capitalized on it to give themselves enormous influence and power in the industry.

[@DingusJoe64]

@@GeneralSpecificDid she even shed a tear over her brother Hamburger Timing himself? The fact that she's in cahoots with the the person who framed and pushed him to do it tells me no.

[@slavaukraini1991]

This is the only way her life has some purpose, to her at least.

[@UserHey]

​@@DingusJoe64"I've always wanted a sister anyway" - Alec's sister, probably

[@abruptend8993]

"Picky babies having tantrums" is a projection of how their people think, and they have sniffed so much of their own farts that they can't even realize how ironic it is.

[@tekboi1984]

😂😂

[@kokocaptainqc]

yep since 2020 when i hear them accusing someone of whatever i take notes since theyre actually telling their plans

[@firun2635]

Huh, so they call themselves Sweet Baby because they think they can turn nasty, picky babies into sweet babies. Incredible.

[@PakiBlinders]

imagine being harrassed so bad you take your own life and your sister takes your legacy and gives it to the people who were responsible for your death and tarnish it

[@Adeon55]

Gargantuan oof. It says all you need to know about the character of his sister, though. I'm sure she played no small part in his decision.

[@kitalalaris]

His sister was involved, she was sitting right there egging Zoey on and compounding it. She never missed a chance to tell him how bad he was and I think she and Zoey both should be in prison for it because they were accomplices, they were equally responsible for the same crime.

[@thetrashcanman7537]

@@Adeon55well said

[@JannetFenix]

It gets worse from my memory. Alec has been struggling with social disorder and it took heavy toll on his mental, causing spiralling depression and struggle to function. He related to Zoe because he was convinced she was also struggling with issues. Saw her as someone close. Have you played Night in the Woods? The game is one of most amazing looks into life of someone afflicted with mental issue and lost about what to do with it; knowing sonething is not right but not knowing how to call for help. Even putting the anxiety attacks into words seems borderline impossible. It was Alec's salvation to be able to put fraction of his burden into creation. He was doing much better ever since, like a therapy - and many, many people who played NITW were inspired to seek help, realizing there really might be something wrong with them what causes them to struggle. Zoe's allegation was not even direct accusation. She fleetingly mentioned Alec supposedly trying to hug and or kiss her in situation from years prior (with NO MENTION of it EVER until then), IN A DISCUSSION ABOUT A DIFFERENT GAME DEVELOPER (music designer to be exact). SHE THREW AN ACCUSATION FOR FRIGGING BROWNIE POINTS IN A TWITTER DISCUSSION. Alec was found by his sister dead the next morning studio cancelled his next project with no proof other than her words. His sister asked players to not go after zoe as "she was friend of alec" and "he would not want it". Back then i'd agree with her. I didnt know she was harassing him, too. Now i see she basically pissed on his corpse.

[@shadowpathfinder7723]

Common female L Nothing to see there

[@ecargfosreya]

The ideology of antiracism teaches that the only way to make up for discrimination in the past is to create discrimination in the present- in other words, racism.

[@DanaOtken]

You can usually count on this to self-destruct in the long run simply because eventually the people behind it will discover they don't calculate "justified amounts and periods of racism" identically... but I've seen it last long enough for everybody to unite so far as making demands. My own objection is usually along the lines of "so how afterwords do we stop the next generation from deciding all of that 'didn't count' and they need another round?"

[@AaronBeSpeedy]

It's not about Restitution. It's all about Retribution

[@FemNate]

"Now that nobody cares, *we* care.... WHY DO _YOU_ CARE??" When someone is confused why it's such a big deal that a company is putting Kool Aid in our wine..

[@DJack34]

She is replacing the word “consumer” with picky baby to try and create a detachment in people’s minds that she is only talking about certain people. Even tho we all play the same games.

[@brydro1505]

even the word "consumer" is an awful thing to call people who enjoy things, i have no idea how it even got standardize in the public lexicon and accepted as normal

[@roostre5254]

@@brydro1505 What word should be used for people who consume their products? I guess we can call them users since they use the product, right? Is that better? Although now you might link it to drug users so you probably dont like that either.

[@CatacombD]

It's an obvious demonizing tactic. You start using a term with negative connotations in order to belittle and demonize your opposition. You are an "undesirable." You are "pro-death." You are "mindless cattle." It's done so often over the years that there's probably an unending list to choose from.

[@brydro1505]

@@roostre5254 how hard is it to just call people customers or users? how can you not see the dogshit connotation that "consumer" has and how denigrating it is?

[@roostre5254]

@@brydro1505 I think that is just you. Never heard anyone else have a problem with that word in my 37 years of life. Its just a fucking word, people like you are the reason we should still be able to call people retarded.

[@AstralLaVista]

"If you think you're a settler then fucking leave" 😅

[@brendanr1525]

THEN leave. "Than" indicates distance or amount/is used when you're talking about comparisons, "then" is used when you're talking about something relating to time. ie. "Greater than 4," and "After Joe opened the bottle, he then made himself a martini." PS I'm also very partial to that quote 🍸cheers

[@AstralLaVista]

@brendanr1525 thanks it was an auto correct, nice pedantic flex I guess though

[@brendanr1525]

@@AstralLaVistait's not a flex, when I see horrible basic grammar, I just think some people might not want to stay ignorant and try to help them a bit. I don't understand the appeal of sounding unintelligent/illiterate, but some people get really triggered when you attempt to help them not look dumb.🤷‍♂ And don't even try to help rappers🙄, they're incapable of learning proper English... Just an observation.

[@AstralLaVista]

@brendanr1525 Surely the urge to correct 1 letter out of place from an autocorrect is pedantic? And if the mistake was made out of ignorance I would appreciate the help, but I did intend to type then, it was just an autocorrect from mispelling it as "thwn" and it replaced the W with A instead of an E

[@brendanr1525]

​@@AstralLaVista"Surely the urge to correct 1 letter out of place from an autocorrect is pedantic? " It has nothing to do with correcting spelling, it has to do with using a completely different word, which completely changes the word and makes the writer look dumb for not understanding basic English that any 3rd grader knows. Anyone who thinks that's trivial is an imbecile. ", it was just an autocorrect from mispelling it as "thwn" and it replaced the W with A instead of an E" No one just reading the comment could know that.

[@Bwdh23]

Kotaku is blacklisted by Nintendo, I hope we can all blacklist everything Sweetbaby Inc touches as well.

[@deathmauler181]

Are they really blacklisted?

[@Bwdh23]

@@deathmauler181 Yes Nintendo refuses to give them review keys from there 1st party games because of the Zelda nonsense they caused.

[@deathmauler181]

@@Bwdh23 holy hell thats wild im a have to look into the bs kayaks pulled to be blacklisted by Nintendo

[@Voldrim359]

@@Bwdh23 They played Zelda on emulator before release? Those dumbasses...

[@krs4395]

The one thing missing from that woman's entire speech was the word "Customer"

[@xxitz_pr0gxx631]

Nice catch!

[@DeceitfulNinja]

When Asmon's dad cooks, I can see the nervousness constantly dance on his face just waiting for the moment pops gets him banned.

[@Haagaustin]

I didn't expect GamerGate to get a reboot...

[@dmitriyrasskazov8858]

Everything is a remake nowadays. Thats how being old must feel like.

[@JjackVideo]

Well, gamers lost the last one. Let's see if they lose this one as well.

[@p4l4d1n7]

Its like the story in the games they screw over, No skill copy pasta.

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

It's not a reboot, it never ended.

[@chandlerlowell5]

Lmao this isn’t gamergate it’s consumers criticizing the people who make shitty products because people want better products

[@billmelater6470]

"It's about expanding the opportunity to people who have not had the resources" This is a BS copium answer. I they're applying for the job, they have the opportunity. The rest should be about the quality of their work.

[@camwhit8892]

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wrong with such a phrase on a scholarly level. It is racist. This may be a personal bias and I will gladly explain why I feel this way. However my problem is when there are consulting firms for companies who are being forced to shift there creative vision to fit some quota. Creating the most bland static characters I’ve ever seen.

[@DerpBane]

EXACTLY. And how do you measure who hasnt had the resources? You cant! What about poor people without two parents? They have less resources...

[@imo098765]

@@DerpBane Yes and no, everyone is privileged vs another person in a worse position But that doesnt mean we shouldnt get more people of different culture (On merit) into the space Take Black Myth Wukong thats a chinese game but is being supported by Nvidia to get it out. Isnt that investing into culture that lacks representation in gaming?

[@DerpBane]

@@imo098765 If that was the goal or approach taken, I wouldn't complain or disagree. But their goal is specifically to help minorities because the assumption is that being a minority therefore means you haven't had fair resources. It's a good argument that having more minorities in the industry might result in more culturally diverse products but that diversity of culture is about more than skin colour and isn't what they're aiming for. And a "it might" is not a good enough reason for implementing structural racism. If you wanted to further cultural diversity in creative products, offer grants & support for studios creating games that add to diversity, dont just look to give more opportunities to people based on skin colour because you make assumptions about their life based on their race. Instead of saying "we want a black person and a trans person in this studio because they will make more culturally diverse games", say "there's a lack of African-themed games in the marketplace, we will support a studio creating a Wakanda forever game"

[@bobmcbobbington9220]

This is true. Education is where they should be spending these resources, not on people who are already educated, and like you said, have opportunity.

[@SuperElchuy1]

The White Settler reminds me of a clip I saw weeks ago about a group of Aboriginal Australians knocking on the door of a home that had a Plaque saying they were on stolen Land. And the home owner refused to give the house back. These people love to pretend they care

[@MrWhite2222]

Same thing with Ben & Jerry's ice cream LOL!

[@ryanvacation7319]

Exactly. If they are pushed to proof the sincerity they always fail.

[@BlindSp0tz]

Would love to know if they apply the same logic to immigrants in european countries.

[@raiden7476]

@@BlindSp0tz Of course they don't apply the same logic.

[@ReiujiUtsuhoOkuu]

It’s disingenuous to say just because someone doesn’t want to sacrifice their personal life that they can’t be concerned with the issues of the systems they live in.

[@jopemeofficial]

As a black man and someone who aspires to make games and consequently plays them too, I never saw the issue of a Nordic story (fictitious or not), being told from a white character's perspective. It's usually people who look nothing like me that come up with these crazy ideas. We have our own stories, just like Caucasians, Asians, etc have their own too! Seriously, they divide more than they unite with that BS! I'm not waiting to see a Black Thor or an Indian Viking. It would look cringe AF, and doesn't represent us at all!

[@tiagozortea]

Sweet baby Inc is such an insidious genius business idea. I bet you they go to gaming executives which only care about money and be like "you don't want your game to get cancelled right? we can help". These executives don't realize or care about the damage this does to the game immersion, they only care about reducing risks and don't want to be seen as racists.

[@GetSwifty]

What if they don’t believe in what they’re saying, and it’s just a scam through and through.

[@tiagozortea]

@@GetSwifty Oh that is for sure. Privileged people perpetrating their privilege by disguising themselves as martyrs.

[@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou.]

Which funnily enough, they come off as even more racist by simply being associated with SBI.

[@majora919]

The funniest part is the people they despise are playing them like a fiddle for money

[@vulkeg]

That's literally what they do. The founder literally said that in a public speech she made.

[@Strel-kov]

It is almost like people with power and money have a vested interest in pitting the population against itself by making/reinforcing divisions where their shouldn't be

[@zerojee1]

This is the elephant in the room in all of these debates.

[@emptyentity]

And the funniest part - they won once again and achieved their goal. GG!

[@stanleyclark923]

@@emptyentity Companies are starting to fire their DEI staff as normies reject this nonsense. I'd hardly say they won.

[@Fr00stee]

this is literally russia's modus operandi, its how they control their enemies (america)

[@africanlipplateandbonenose3223]

I bet if you did an early life check on jennie faber, the thing is a jew

[@Platinumsniper]

Anytime the word equity is used over the word equality..... MASSIVE RED FLAGS.

[@SomeDudeOnYoutube16]

equality these days has to come at a detriment to a group they don't like. that's equality in 2024, bizarroworld

[@pranayravi9449]

I think you mean it the other way around pal. Equality across the board is communism. Equity is just rebalancing the scales to help those who are struggling.

[@Jakdaddy777]

@@pranayravi9449You are the one that has it backwards.

[@jesscornelius2481]

@@pranayravi9449No, you’re mistaken. Equity is equal outcomes = communism, equality is structural fairness

[@ClowdyHowdy]

​@@pranayravi9449the only people who believe in creating equity of outcome are those full of envy and jealousy. Literally people who want what they didn't earn. Equity means taking things away from people who earned it and giving it to people who didn't earn it. That's your "rebalancing the scales" for you.

[@beskararmor7966]

A wise old man long ago once said to his son,"Women ruin everything".

[@EndymionTv]

Thanks for the react 🤘🏼

[@lliamthrumble]

Was a great great video mate

[@EndymionTv]

@@lliamthrumble thank you!

[@filfortugno]

Hey guys, as a Canadian we do not claim these creatures.

[@Capt.Steele]

Agreed, I feel like Canada is suffering greatly from American partisan political brain rot. We used to be so chill and happy 😭

[@JackMarsk]

Canadian here as well, agree completely. I feel like ever since social media EXPLODED in the last 10-15 years, American political brainrot has only pervaded Canada more and more over the years. It's basically gotten to the point where the modern culture of Canada really does make us seem like we're just America's hat with how similar things are.

[@slykeren8371]

I'm canadian, and canadians weak and pathetic

[@filterexel8018]

As an American, I would also like to disavow these creatures. They seem to be a nationless group that has roots in every western country at this point, parasitizing them. Their politics is distinctly not American; they are set on violating the rights of people on the basis of their race, something that has been illegal in the US since the 1960's. This is the reason why they have to try this nonsense outside of the US. Canada was unfortunately an easy target for them. If they couldn't target the US, then they could target its friendly northern neighbor.

[@xxitz_pr0gxx631]

Don't worry, we don't hold it against you. LOL!!! I wouldn't hold it against anyone, from any country. These people are abysmal and abhorrent, and that is being as nice as I can be.

[@SebasTian58323]

Well, you know what? That picky baby she keeps talking about has been keeping the gaming industry going for decades, and now that the picky baby is being punished for liking it's favorite food as she puts it, turns out it doesn't give its money to the companies that are doing it when they're aware of it.

[@chexmixkitty]

Right? Why would I buy food that I hate or don't like?

[@failegion7828]

@DreamingVoid *stares at Saints Row reboot* Till they produce something that has too much poop.

[@snipermagoo]

@@DreamingVoid It's a bold claim to state there's no rat-poop in this when the chef is advertising his ratpoop sauce on his website.

[@aw0422]

@@DreamingVoidlmao you just said that as along as food only has SOME shit in it you would be fine eating it 😂 Sweet baby defenders are some of the lowest of the low

[@NymphetamineCC]

Canadian here (also a nurse). So things do vary from province to province - but most likely both users are telling the truth. Essentially Canadians do still have a relatively sound system with respect to urgent (physical) needs. If you break your leg or develop acute appendicitis, it will generally be addressed quickly enough that consequences are minimal. Things tend to get sketchier with respect to primary care and sort of intermediate needs - many Canadians cannot find a family doctor ( this is pretty easy to google). Personally been on and off “the list” multiple time since moving to Nova Scotia as doctors (understandably) don’t want to stay in this province as it one of the lower paying for GPs. Different provinces have shortages to different degrees, but as far as I know all of the provinces are recruiting. The other thing that is suffering is intermediate needs - so things that are not immediately life threading, but are super important for quality of life - for example hip replacements, knee replacements, weight loss surgery, as well as most mental health treatment. The wait list for these things is exceedingly long, spanning years in some areas. I would say the current unofficial motto is “but did you die?”.

[@dannorcph]

Just to clarify. Norse Mythology, is from Scandinavia. Not just Norway. It even goes down into Germany.

[@gdd2959]

Norse mythology is from the proto-germanic religions which are thousands of years old. I like your comment

[@robr135]

He also said Morocco for black people lol. North African's have always been predominantly the Berber people. They hear the word Africa, and instantly think every person looks like their sub-Saharan counterparts.

[@NeoZentrix]

Just to clarify the nazis popularized the idea that norse mythology was synonymous with Germanic mythology, dont you forget that

[@Igoreshkin]

And Ukraine

[@dartagnanjames8069]

@@mrvoldis6688 Prussia didn't exist during the time of the Vikings or when Norse mythology was a thing. The German region was mostly just referred to as Germania by non Germans or some other term for "Where the Germans live" was used. 🙄

[@monody]

Thing that annoys me is "assuming players seek new stories" actually makes sense, when applied properly to STORIES. Slapping a reskin over the same narrative isn't a new story.

[@jameson3500]

"Underrepresented" yet they're on every commercial, every tv show, every game, everything, everywhere!

[@Rellikan]

This is like on 1984, George Orwell's book where vocabulary ends up being completely twisted and oxymoronic because tyranny doesn't care about accurate adherance to reality. It cares about how people think more.

[@JackMarsk]

​@@Rellikandoubleplusgood comparison!

[@ukguy]

They are in fact over represented in everything...

[@spud69g]

Still dont understand how the ceo isnt being charged with coercion. Happens to be a legit crime...

[@axelbruv]

Spot on about a meritocracy being right. There is a great interview where Morgan Freeman was asked about black history month. Freeman replied that he doesn't want it. He says that black history is American history. Obsession with skin colour is not a step forwards, it's a step backwards.

[@TheRetrostorian]

"How do you stop racism? Stop talking about it" Morgan Freeman knows that these people use racism as a commodity to make money.

[@Fr4nkyD4nky]

"A game for everyone is a game for no one." -Arrowhead Game Studios

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

So TRUE, there's a reason why niches exist. Not everybody enjoys a specific genre of games, we all have personal preferences of games.

[@DMaster8686]

Exactly. The more you try to please everyone the more you end up with a slop that will please no one. Excellency comes from identifying your target audience and serving them exactly what they are looking for (ex. Palword or Helldivers 2)

[@jean-claudelemieux8877]

While it is true, there is still way to have a game to appeal to the most people. Not everyone, the most people.

[@DMaster8686]

@@jean-claudelemieux8877 These games are mostly boring slop, like Starfield. The only big exception in the last 5 years is BG3 and that's because it's a roleplay game.

[@giahyhoangtrong3515]

@@jean-claudelemieux8877that requires you know what most people like....ppl cant universally choose a dipping sauce for fries

[@ancientgamer3645]

I am elderly disabled veteran. Send me all your money so I can break into game development. Do it now as I feel entitled.

[@lucyboy8276]

Do you identify as something? Are you from a minority racial group?

[@ancientgamer3645]

@@lucyboy8276 I was being sarcastic. A joke. I am an elderly disabled veteran but ask for NO special favors.

[@bergerblancsuisse.]

I refuse to buy any game that Sweet Baby has had their grubby little hands in.

[@kempolar9768]

Surprisingly they've actually been involved...well "involved" in some genuinely good games, proving that not every time they get contracted do they actually do much at all. It is a damn good idea to double check though.

[@kempolar9768]

Ah damn, I just checked the list and it seems they're heavily involved in hyper light breaker. I was really looking forward to that.

[@mercerwing1458]

@@kempolar9768 What are these genuinely good games you speak of?

[@kempolar9768]

@@mercerwing1458 sable, spiderman 2, Alan wake 2 and god of war Ragnarok. There were several others in the list that I just don't know about so those could be good or terrible.

[@davidn3054]

Yeah my heart dropped a bit thinking man I hope people can still give some games a chance because for one I trust heart machine for their quality,plus the level of involvement that sweet baby and other companies alike will differ from game to game

[@blittle47]

Their obsession with babies exists for a reason. It is very telling.

[@MrWhite2222]

SBI's logo literally has a pdf file symbol in the middle. "Symbolism will be their downfall."

[@JAR2388]

Pdf squad for sure...

[@glenmcl]

​@@MrWhite2222 exactly this

[@RoboJo-pq8pj]

Don't forget that the plus is to represent maps in the alphabet

[@KaiserNightcoreMusic]

the right name would be P3d0Squad. Inc

[@nhand42]

When she says "picky babies" they are positioning themselves as the adult. The relationship they want is not one of equality - adult-to-adult - but instead one of dominance - adult-to-child.

[@tekboi1984]

Makes sense, seeing how this type of people are usually obsessed with power..

[@wesmo_]

Morocco was initially inhabited by Berbers, followed by the arrival of white populations, then Carthaginians, and subsequently the Moors. However, it's essential to recognize that the populations identified as black are predominantly from sub-Saharan regions, separated by the Sahara Desert, which divides North from Central and South Africa. Therefore, the notion that North Africa was historically predominantly black is inaccurate.

[@JonDoe..]

These kind of people have already ruined Hollywood, the gaming industry was the next obvious industry.

[@JohnnyFish971]

Explains why Marvel movies gone to shit, not to say early ones were very good either But they peaked it Avengers and a few other solos only to go down DC always bad or average at best(live actions) Has for normal movies i would say there wasnt been anything especial recently I watched the Oppemeider one and isbt for everyone Also barbie for the sake of it 😅😅😂

[@ryanvacation7319]

As an older gamer I prefer the far right wing religious zealots back in the 80-90s who simply want to ban and censor video games and shows. These far-left-wing ideologues infiltrate industries like gaming companies and Hollywood studios to change games and shows to bend to their ideology. Far more incedious and peverted.

[@somethingboss]

The biggest annoyance with playing GOW Ragnorok and Spiderman 2 (after putting the pieces together) the worst parts about those games were definitely forced in there. The paintspraying mission on SM2, the Atreus parts with that girl. Boring as sh*t gameplay.

[@SolidSnake240]

Man I actually fell asleep during that Angroboda section in GOW Ragnarok lol.

[@smw1193]

The Atreus section bored me to hell. I wanted to quit playing but I had to get back to Kratos and finish the story.

[@jaahman0098]

@@dirtycash36you mean the optional quest. That wasn’t mandatory

[@gurnoorsekhon6402]

I had to think about how Sweet Baby could have influenced Ragnarok. Then I realized that the bullshit Ironwood section is LONGER THAN THE ENTIRE ENDING. I also think Freya wasn't supposed to be on the side of the good guy or at least so easily but I think they couldn't have women as an Antagonist. The same reason why Sif flips side so quickly. And I have a feeling the daughter of Thor getting his Hammer instead of Kratos might also be a part of this.

[@SamDavies94]

I haven't gotten to the spray in SM2 but presume it's with the deaf girl? I would also bet money on them having something to do with the MJ missions which feel wholly out of place and boring. They literally feel forced into the game...

[@TheTatekei]

DO NOT FORGET! Wizards of the Coast Brought in Sweet Baby INC AND THEIR PRODUCTS HAVE UNDENIABLY SUFFERED! ITS NO LONGER ABOUT GAME BALANCE! ITS ABOUT INCLUSIVITY! AND RACISM! We need to take our hobbies back from these psychos.

[@ValkyrissaGaming]

Black Aragorn was one of the most bizarre things I've seen in a long time

[@TheTatekei]

@@mikenkc85 Also, fuck commander. when commander took over, magic itself as a structured game died. Its completely Unrecognizable. Everything is Commander and its disgusting.

[@TheTatekei]

@@ValkyrissaGaming Sure, i expected Vigo Mortensen when i heard they were doing LoTR set. But when i saw he was black i really did not care. i know the type of snowflakes WoTC employs and how they dont really care about the game itself. its all about inclusivity. Excuse me, back in the 90s WE DIDNT CARE ABOUT THE RACE GENDER OR SEXUAL ALIGNMENT OF THE PEOPLE THAT PLAYED! Magic used to be a game ANYONE could play as long as you shared the passion for the game as the person across from you, thats why we went to FNM, besides of course the love of the game and the deckbuilding aspect. The game has dramatically declined and it was at the time when people were crying INCLUSIVITY FOR ALL! Uhh.... hello, magic was always inclusive? if you played with some racist asshole im sorry you had that experience but wtf? It just never was a problem until it was made a problem. Now i also dont deny that HASBRO has been running the company into the ground with Secret Lair and all the releases being unrealistic for their fanbase. But when you fuck the game up so badly and refuse to publically say "Hey guys, we fucked up, and it's solely our fault" BEFORE THE SET GOES OUT OF PRINT, is damn near impossible. ARE THE BOXES GONE? "Hey guys, we fucked up." HALF ASSED HALF HEARTED BULLSHIT. BALANCE YOUR GOD DAMN GAME!

[@rishg134]

@@mikenkc85D&D has fallen off because of bad card design?

[@teoooo09]

How has the game suffered exactly? Lord of the rings set was a huge success and recent sets have been great for limited and constructed formats. Black Aragorn didn’t change anything lmao

[@Chacopapi]

Incidently Latino, i have a story like what your dad was talking about. I was staff manager at a recycling plant here, we were expanding and I was hiring a new crop of recruits and noticed two Stephenses during my role call lol one was black and one was white so I put on my serious mean supervisor face on and I turn to them and said "What? Are you two twins?" From then on they were inseparable and my hardest working team players. 💪🏼 💪🏿

Sweet baby, baby ghost, picky babies, I don't know their lexicon sickens me.

[@FlyfishermanMike]

It's how they view those they claim to help. Especially the "under represented" ones.

[@UncleDave69]

Owned by Blackrock too, most USA politcians have stock in or family members who work for Blackrock.

[@JohnNguyen-xt8px]

The targets and victims of crime cases from immoralized people are often baby and child => a hint for you.

[@bacreeton]

One thing that should be pointed out is that Zoe Quinn, the woman at the center of the original Gamergate in 2014, had a weird connection to an organization called DiGRA, which was working with the Pentagon and US defense department to study social engineering (demoralization/propaganda/agitprop) through video games and movies. People have pointed out recently that Sweet Baby Inc. also has ties to Zoe Quinn.

[@LordDarshdan]

Yup I remember when she got Alec killed….. put out fake rumors and ruined a dudes life….she got away with it too

[@MrWhite2222]

🧐

[@radiantveggies9348]

Crazy

[@Cc-bh3ye]

proof please?

[@LordDarshdan]

@@Cc-bh3ye The posts she made calling Alec a sexual abuser??? followed by her deleting everything and disappearing to avoid being held responsible... Lost his dream job, called a sexual abuser and then killed himself.... She's still free and clear

[@Saucy_Zer0]

The irony in that game conference presentation is crazy. She described everything SweetBaby does, give us picky things we don’t want and throw a tantrum after we show we don’t want it.

[@CycloidalHeadache]

“Whiny baby” and “as long as the characters look like them” are both statements that perfectly describe this speech and its goals

[@zajaka4164]

The "we only want this type of person working here" is the modern day version of segregation and there are laws in the USA to prevent this.

[@calimantis]

Oh, but it's not segregation when THEY do it

[@PleasantDevil]

can we just all appreciate that Asmon's dad is sitting there either watching or listening to the stream support his son!!

[@christophermichaelmccrary6676]

It's hard for them to understand the suspension of disbelief for normal people when their whole world is make believe.

[@deathmauler181]

Lmao dead

[@Ryn0_333]

Baby - Men who cry about losing control. Ghost - White men Sweet Baby - taunting, like " aww is sweet baby going to cry" Weird Ghosts - "White men are weird for not being progressive" Thats my take on their terminology. It just fits with how the view white men.

[@olafontart]

This company’s focus on “babies” for their names is weird.

[@shittyhaircut]

makes you wonder huh

[@hafirenggayuda]

Deliberate. They want to be seen as pure and innocent

[@bojkashapirax6283]

​@@hafirenggayuda I think it's less they view themselves as innocent and more they're looking to influence the, "Sweet babies" of the public.

[@jase276]

@@hafirenggayuda They've already stated that when devs or studios do things they like they call them "sweet babies". Still creepy.

[@hafirenggayuda]

@@jase276 ah, condescending "I'm wiser than you" attitude, how typical.

[@Pleplerhep]

Im from scandinavia, and them pissing on my heritage and the history of my people is deeply offensive and disgusting,

[@cestaron634]

But we Arnt allowed to be offended because we may be white. (Im a white Dutchman)

[@arroe8386]

The weird thing is that there are mythologies, fairytales, folklore, etc. all over the world, but for some reason they think the solution to representation would be throwing everything in European ones. It's literally disrespectful if not racist to everyone.

[@mastahamster]

You can't alienate your core audience, treating them like whining babies, and then blame them that they (unlike babies) don't buy your bs.

[@deathmauler181]

Yuuuuuuuuuup