Hey, anybody remember when MGS 2 came out, and the mass of NA gamers were raging about having to play as Raiden, because he was a ... well in modern parlance, a beta cuck soyboy?

Kinda flew over all their heads that Raiden was basically a more realistic reflection of the NA target demo for MGS games, and oh he also goes through legitimate character development, gains maturity and confidence, oh well now, more lately, he's basically a badass fucking cyberninja.

... Passing the torch off to Ciri fucking entirely makes sense within the world and lore of the Witcher series... and I thought we liked having an attractive gal booty to ogle at in third person?

Or is that now gay?

I think it's risk aversion to some extent ?

Oh we will see it ! I'm confident it's going to be shit, but who knows

"Woke" has had a consistent meaning since its introduction into the English language almost a hundred years ago. It means "Aware of systemic racism."

When blues legend Lead Belly ended a show in 1938 by saying, "Stay woke," he meant: "Stay aware of systemic racism."

When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says "'Woke' is ruining gaming," he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

And when an American politician calls himself "anti-woke", he's saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he'd prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

If I ever replay it I'm going to try and remember the existence of this mod because it was painful

Oh boy the only issue I have is that I'm going to be unstoppable, Ciri is literally a broken main character nearing her full potential.

Bitch can fucking dimension travel, trained in sword and fight by other witchers and IIRC Yennefer trained her in some sort of sorcery arts as well so it'd be like having an OP mix of Geralt+Yennefer

Eh, I didn't like Skyrim as much as Morrowind, so I think there's some room for ES6 to improve on ES5.

I didn't like Witcher 3. I played the main storyline to Skellige and after a while of adventuring there, I just could not bring myself to continue the game.

I've read all the books, perhaps that has something to do with it.

His point is that making it a joke is kinda homophobic. Like being gay is a joke.

It's making fun of idiots that think like that, not gay people.

"Im happy to work with whatever the creative team comes up with." is that a safe statement, or could that backfire, professionally?

No, apparently it's even worse; woke!

~:DDDD~

If a game is deemed "woke" by right-wing shitheads, that's like a seal of approval for me. Now, the game might still suck, but it's not because of being inclusive and diverse.

It's not about claiming the moral high ground, it's just that you can't have a word that can be used to mean its opposite, even if "sarcastically". The word woke is just the past tense of wake, nothing else. It can be used to represent someone "waking up" from the hide-your-head-in-the-sand routine, or becomes able to see things from a new perspective. For the right, it doesn't really mean anything, but they are pretty much using it as the new "sheeple". Which doesn't make any sense.

But the important thing is this: if someone is ridiculing people for wanting to be informed, involved in society, or generally just themselves, the only thing they're actually insulting is their own intelligence and heart. If we let them have their use of woke as a generic mean insult, we lose sight of that.

More than swastikas, I think this case is closer to saying "you can use literally to mean figuratively because it's common use" to which I also say no, fuck that.

But yes, swastikas forever symbolise Nazism. That doesn't negate their original, positive meaning previously found in history, religion and culture. This is not an "achtually it's ok to draw swastikas because they are actually good". I'm just saying that context, and intent, matters. If you tattoo one on yourself as a westerner, you're a Nazi - and it's ok that everyone treats you like one. But should those original uses be stopped because it's now "forever bad"?

Just open YouTube in incognito mode and search a game title probably works. YouTube's algorithm loves serving up manosphere style content like that like my dog loves eating my other dog's poop. It's disturbing on both fronts

I mean, she couldn't even counterattack in W3.

When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says "'Woke' is ruining gaming," he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

I don't think it even goes that far tbh. Especially for less political, more gamer-type "conservatives", it just means "the other side", forcing so many girls (1) into their game. Maybe it's just to deflect having to admit to being a misogynist.

And when an American politician calls himself "anti-woke", he's saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he'd prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

Yes, exactly. No sane person would call themselves "anti-woke". Unless they're successful in subverting its meaning to be "those we'll put in concentration camps". Oh wait, that still wouldn't make you sane.

Very true. I have its history tracking disabled, but it still suggests those videos or creators even when I'm watching something that has no relation to outrage, like a movie trailer or a GDC talk like one on Unreal Engine.

Lol yes, thank you. I'm of the opinion that using /s defeats the whole point of sarcasm.. But at the same time I suspect the world is going crazy via misinterpreted sarcasm on the Internet.. It's a tough decision, maybe I should be using /s but then it's not sarcasm anymore..

I thought the same thing about Cyberpunk, they couldn't make lightning strike twice. But in the end, once the issues were fixed, it's also one of my favorite modern games.