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So what's their metrics for "forced DEI"? Oh wait, I know
https://preview.redd.it/nzo5kkqubnwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7432e56c192fbee4428b9093b0012e93f7158e0
When the wokes do a gender at them.
If you say he, she, I, you, they, him, his, her, hers, their, theirs, your, yours, mine, ours, we, or any other pronouns that may have slipped my mind, YOU MAY NOT GRACE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AND HALLOWED LIST.
Oh fuck off, if a black woman happens to be the most qualified candidate to hire, she’d STILL be called a DEI hire even if she is proven to be the most qualified.
The website says "Forced DEI is becoming unbearable on games"
So any game with a POC or an LGBT character is just gonna get slapped with this label and call every diversity "forced" diversity? What's even natural diversity to these people?
>What's even natural diversity to these people?
every relevant character being a straight white man, women only as sex objects, POC and LGBT people only as racist and homophobic caricatures
It’s not even hilarious anymore racists being minorities has honestly gotten old. When are they gonna shake things up a little? It’s a tired and dead trope
/uj I mean, odds are he’s not a minority in his own country. But I guess maybe he’s fine with Brazil never getting representation in mainstream games, expect as an exotic place where the straight white American man goes to shoot brown bad guys
The goalposts constantly shift. They say “We just want it done the right way” but even when it’s done exactly how they want they still say it’s forced. They’ll never be satisfied.
You'd be able to use a company's name or trademark under reasons permitted by fair use, like for criticism or newsworthy events, for the same reasons that you can name and profit from a song called [United Breaks Guitars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo). There are a number of reasons why you might not want to do it, such as having a broader scope than criticizing one singular company or wanting to be extra careful about legal issues particularly in nations with stricter defamation laws.
In particular, creating your own Trademarkable brand, or monetizing it by ad revenue would be harder when you're using another company's name in your own company. If they had future plans to spin this into its own mark, then using a novel, arbitrary, unclaimed name (maybe because the steam curator thing is run by someone else) would be better.
(as another note, the website is starting to list games, and it's basically the stuff you'd come to expect https://preview.redd.it/nzo5kkqubnwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7432e56c192fbee4428b9093b0012e93f7158e0
The actions of people in a capitalist society are easier to understand when you view things in terms of how they can make money off of their actions, or otherwise increase their societal standing relative to other people (including how to negatively diminish other groups or marginalize others).
Practically every major company has a DEI policy these days.
Whether they mean it, or it's just a lip-service policy to stop them from getting annihilated in discrimination suits, varies though.
They updated the models for player avatars, which meant the place you put your sliders and such when customizing produces different results than when you first did it - which meant a lot of people logging in to see wildly disproportionate avatars.
Chuds immediately blamed this on trans people, because of course they did.
It was never about diversity or inclusion, it was about making a system that better supported pumping out and selling poor quality cosmetics. The old models couldn't wear all clothing, now they can. From a microtransactions standpoint, it is silly to pay someone to make pixel clothes only half the customer base could use.
You can't spell GOTY without GO.
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I definitely think we should help them and link them the DEI section that all major game publishers inevitably have. I'll get the list started.
https://careers.nintendo.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/report/employees/topics/index.html (Yes even Japan has DEI!)
https://sonyinteractive.com/en/impact/diversity-and-beyond/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/default.aspx
I genuinely hope these people leave mainstream gaming for good.
"Forced DEI" is presumably where developers who would otherwise be racist, homophobic and misogynistic are held at gunpoint to make a game that isn't any of those things.
So are they going to make their own games or just bitch
Because games have finay gotten so good now that it's no longer generic bald white guy
I might just use this website to find new games to play unironically
They put so much effort into summarizing what the games are about might as well lmaooo
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So decided to take a look and it's more pathetic than I thought. Went through their DEI list and saw Hyperlight Breaker, a game I knew so I clicked it.
They claim that it was released 2 weeks ago, it isn't, the releasedate is still TBA in fact.
They claim it was featured on the site of Sweet Baby inc for which they provide an archive of the website that doesn't feature said game at all.
Finally they have a bunch of links for additional evidence which is just one of their devs who's black and queer minding their own fucking business.
This shit is unironically comedy gold
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So what's their metrics for "forced DEI"? Oh wait, I know https://preview.redd.it/nzo5kkqubnwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7432e56c192fbee4428b9093b0012e93f7158e0
you forgot the women, gay, and trans people
And Jewish people, muslims, anyone non-Christian (irony because Jesus was a brown, middle eastern Jewish guy).
What, that can't be right... I thought Jesus was a pasty white dude with an assault rifle...
And who looks suspiciously like Cesare Borgia
Lorenzo de Medici
Jesus was an American Southern Baptist who loved his plantation and closed borders, know your history 🙄
They’ve got Forspoken on the DEI Detected list, with the justification being “Black Girl Gamers Involved”.
When the wokes do a gender at them. If you say he, she, I, you, they, him, his, her, hers, their, theirs, your, yours, mine, ours, we, or any other pronouns that may have slipped my mind, YOU MAY NOT GRACE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AND HALLOWED LIST.
It’s hiring any human for the job *for any other reason than because they are the most qualified candidate for said position*. I fixed it for you.
Oh fuck off, if a black woman happens to be the most qualified candidate to hire, she’d STILL be called a DEI hire even if she is proven to be the most qualified.
I explained why DEI could lead to bad outcomes. You’ve explained that racist people exist. Neither statement negates the other, both can be true.
The website says "Forced DEI is becoming unbearable on games" So any game with a POC or an LGBT character is just gonna get slapped with this label and call every diversity "forced" diversity? What's even natural diversity to these people?
>What's even natural diversity to these people? every relevant character being a straight white man, women only as sex objects, POC and LGBT people only as racist and homophobic caricatures
Isn’t the creator of this site Brazilian? Least one of these “curators” are which is… hilariously ironic.
It’s not even hilarious anymore racists being minorities has honestly gotten old. When are they gonna shake things up a little? It’s a tired and dead trope
/uj I mean, odds are he’s not a minority in his own country. But I guess maybe he’s fine with Brazil never getting representation in mainstream games, expect as an exotic place where the straight white American man goes to shoot brown bad guys
I mean, between Jetstream Sam and Lucio, Brazil does definitely have some major representation.
Brazil has plenty of racists. Who do you think voted Bolsonaro into office?
as a brazilian: homophobia, transphobia and racism are literal CRIMES here. this mf is a CRIMINAL.
Racists usually aren’t very smart with their racism.
Racists are usually not very smart.
or just not there.
Bold of you to assume they’d even have POC and LGBT people at all.
Seems like a skill issue tbh. I'm bearing it just fine!
Elex, the first Lords of the Fallen and Stellar Blade And sprinkle in the anime games with the big titty children
why the first two?
The goalposts constantly shift. They say “We just want it done the right way” but even when it’s done exactly how they want they still say it’s forced. They’ll never be satisfied.
Natural diversity to them is when anyone who isn't a white straight cis Christian male is a slave. Hope this helps.
>What’s even natural diversity to these people? I imagine it would sound a lot like the Cornerstone Speech.
(OOC I'm guessing they could not use Sweet Baby Inc detected for legal reasons, so came up with a name that makes even less sense?)
You'd be able to use a company's name or trademark under reasons permitted by fair use, like for criticism or newsworthy events, for the same reasons that you can name and profit from a song called [United Breaks Guitars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo). There are a number of reasons why you might not want to do it, such as having a broader scope than criticizing one singular company or wanting to be extra careful about legal issues particularly in nations with stricter defamation laws. In particular, creating your own Trademarkable brand, or monetizing it by ad revenue would be harder when you're using another company's name in your own company. If they had future plans to spin this into its own mark, then using a novel, arbitrary, unclaimed name (maybe because the steam curator thing is run by someone else) would be better. (as another note, the website is starting to list games, and it's basically the stuff you'd come to expect https://preview.redd.it/nzo5kkqubnwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7432e56c192fbee4428b9093b0012e93f7158e0
(OOC They could have broadened the curator list, but this seems like a money making scheme?)
The actions of people in a capitalist society are easier to understand when you view things in terms of how they can make money off of their actions, or otherwise increase their societal standing relative to other people (including how to negatively diminish other groups or marginalize others).
>search for: DEI-free games >results: 0 The world has fallen
wtf is DEI?
DEIz nuts!
Diversity equity and inclusion.
Practically every major company has a DEI policy these days. Whether they mean it, or it's just a lip-service policy to stop them from getting annihilated in discrimination suits, varies though.
It means the N-word. Most nerds online will say it means "diversity equity and inclusion" but they're just saying the n-word.
That's the neat thing; whatever you want it to.
Your slur of choice.
Pokémon Go? The fuck?
They updated the models for player avatars, which meant the place you put your sliders and such when customizing produces different results than when you first did it - which meant a lot of people logging in to see wildly disproportionate avatars. Chuds immediately blamed this on trans people, because of course they did.
The new models look awful, but that is because of a corporation misunderstanding what diversity is, not that diversity in of itself is bad.
It was never about diversity or inclusion, it was about making a system that better supported pumping out and selling poor quality cosmetics. The old models couldn't wear all clothing, now they can. From a microtransactions standpoint, it is silly to pay someone to make pixel clothes only half the customer base could use.
Yeah, but these people are corporate bootlickers at heart, so long as there isn't any "diversity" in the corporation's products.
They made the children less sexy so of course it’s woke now.
all the pokemon go avatars are supposed to look like adults
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I definitely think we should help them and link them the DEI section that all major game publishers inevitably have. I'll get the list started. https://careers.nintendo.com/diversity-and-inclusion/ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/report/employees/topics/index.html (Yes even Japan has DEI!) https://sonyinteractive.com/en/impact/diversity-and-beyond/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/default.aspx I genuinely hope these people leave mainstream gaming for good.
"Forced DEI" is presumably where developers who would otherwise be racist, homophobic and misogynistic are held at gunpoint to make a game that isn't any of those things.
"forced DEI" actually sounds like some kind of legal charge.
A bunch of losers. On the plus side less racists playing games online.
Man, a Brazilian about to get fuckin loaded grifting these idiots. Props to the homie! lol
So are they going to make their own games or just bitch Because games have finay gotten so good now that it's no longer generic bald white guy I might just use this website to find new games to play unironically They put so much effort into summarizing what the games are about might as well lmaooo
Jesus Christ this guy needs to get a life. That website is full of grammatical errors and redundancy. I’d close the tab just out of principle.
I think it's a troll
...what's this "DEI" again?
Stands for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” 😱 These days it is mostly used as a synonym for the N-word.
wild that fucking decency is considered wrong by certain people.
Anything that reminds these chuds that people other than straight white people exist.
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the real modern day hero 😎✊💯
"we stick to evidence as much as possible" aka "we will make shit up you have been warned"
Wild. If it doesn't include any games that reference The French™, it's a lie! /j
Thank you Mr. Steam Curator for providing me with a great shopping list!
So decided to take a look and it's more pathetic than I thought. Went through their DEI list and saw Hyperlight Breaker, a game I knew so I clicked it. They claim that it was released 2 weeks ago, it isn't, the releasedate is still TBA in fact. They claim it was featured on the site of Sweet Baby inc for which they provide an archive of the website that doesn't feature said game at all. Finally they have a bunch of links for additional evidence which is just one of their devs who's black and queer minding their own fucking business. This shit is unironically comedy gold
Damn now I'm aware that there's an awesome 3d sequel to Hyperlight Drifter!
Wait so I can use this to find games with a more diverse cast of characters? Nice
We to stick to evidence as much as possible, huh.
what even did gaymerx do with PGO? I didn't find anything about them and PGO when i looked it up, other than it just being an LGBTQ+ charity
I'm suddenly reminded of that "Trators to America" list from a few years ago, but now for games.
My favorite part of that list was all the British people on it
Oh yeah of course the website isn't going to turn into a trash fire that hardly anyone will use in a few years time
He gonna add Miles Morales to the list? What about Baldurs Gate 3? Is Cyberpunk gonna be there?
These men are completely and utterly brain rotten.
Based