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No... It doesn't feel right supporting the game regardless.
I could do DQXI because it was one guy and he's gonna die soon enough anyway but this seems like a pattern.
Harry Potter holds a special place in my heart. Can everyone involved not be a complete shitbag? Is that too much to ask?
Oh look most of your posts are defending the other big trans-phobic game. What a shock.
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Go back to gaf like the guy running the cyberpunk topics you like so much.
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User banned (permanent): Trolling and dog whistling about concerns of bigotry, after recently returning from a ban for dismissive behaviour
Same here. The game looks good enough for me. I hope they don't induce it with bullshit politics. I have a good feeling about this game so far.
A lot of studios don't include social media in their background checks when hiring, at least for roles that sit outside marketing and communications. It's been an annoyance of mine for a long time now.
So the chances of someone coming in as a developer, designer or project manager etc. who has shit views is higher. I'm more surprised no one picked up on it after the fact, especially if the channel seemed so easily accessible.
Either HR and leadership didn't know or they simply didn't care.
Do you care about directly giving money to a woman that directly funds causes to hinder trans rights that has caused the death of trans children? I packed up all my harry potter shit in a box a month or two ago and I was literally my childhood and escape from having no friends in grade school.
User banned (permanent): Trolling and dismissing concerns of bigotry. Multiple prior infractions.
Nah I just want a decent video game.
Is it ok in 2021 to just want to play a video game and to not get caught up in all the politics and drama? I don't even know anymore. It's a fucking video game and I want to play it that's all.
Man all these ~100 post users coming out to say that the game surrounded by transphobia is "good enough" for them is astounding. Oh wait no its not it happens all the time.
Yep.
Even tho I played cyberpunk I agreed that the game had transphobic elements that were uncalled for. I never defended them for that in any of my posts.
Also, the other places I was referring to was reddit/discord, but go off I guess...🙄
Plenty of video games coming out that dont directly harm trans lives.
Maybe don't go into a thread that lays bare its intentions of discussing the politics of the game's creators to say you don't care then?
Seems kind of counter-productive.
No.
You're declaring that you're fine enabling transphobia and hurting us.
Don't let the door hit your asses on your way out.
Frankly I think this is absurd. They didn't hire a person BECAUSE he's a massive piece of shit, they just either missed it or didn't care.
I feel you, JK has destroyed the franchise for a lot of people unfortunately.
These types of people are making all of our games. The sooner they can be weeded out (or in rarer cases, corrected) the better.
I've never been a gamer. You should've been like me!Suddenly I don't feel okay with being a gamer
User Banned (1 Week): This over the top invective doesn't help the discussion. If you see a member posting something dismissive or ignorant please report it.
Those of you who are so indifferent to other people, so apathetic that the shallow pleasure of a video game or a new console outweighs the real suffering of living people, I hope one day you look in the mirror and realize what a piece of garbage you are. What a selfish goddamn joke of a human being you are. This isn't food. It's not clothing or shelter. It's just a luxury product in a sea of other luxury products. A toy. If you can't even generate the empathy to do without a toy, or barring that even the self-awareness to admit its failings instead of contributing to the cycle of pain surrounding it, you can rot. It's people like you that enable evil to flourish in even the most meaningless arenas of our diseased society.
I wonder how many alt-right assholes we will have to find out working for this game until people realize we shouldn't support it.
Yeah you just didn't talk about it and ignore it. Your one post about the transphobia is "but but but they did put one in the game" and lamenting reviewer missed them. Note that this character also directly references era almost like they were inserted to shut people up about the transphoia issues which is exactly how they are being used.
Unfortunately, some reviewers completely missed her. 😐
Meaningful Cyberpunk 2077 trans character missed by journalists
Journalists and reviewers have given CD Projekt Red flak for not having any meaningful trans characters in Cyberpunk 2077. They are mistaken.nerdreactor.com
EDIT: Missed that you did call them out on the other Clare post while looking for a picture of the text in that quest that mentions era so apologies.
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If you are happy supporting these people, what is your motivation for posting in here? Let's show the people affected we don't care?
Good luck with that.
Commemorate black history month by turning a blind eye to the modern day slaves building PS5s. Boycott Cyberpunk for its bugs rather than its casual transphobia. Shout ACAB whilst demanding the people working on a Switch emulator are thrown in jail. Condemn the sexualisation of women in games, unless it's an indie darling like Shantae because the developers are liked and "just a bit horny".
As progressive as Era is, the line has always been "yeah, but my games, though".
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You going through my old posts is very creepy btw.
It is kinda crazy. I'm looking to scale up a dev team myself and some of the takes out there on social media in the tech world are interesting, to say the least.
How do you even become this kind of person??
HP is such an important and uplifting story to so many people... I'm sure most people involved are good and decent, but this guy just SUCKS
User banned (permanent): Trolling and dog whistling about concerns of bigotry over a series of posts. Account in junior phase.
After LOTR the Potter series is by far my favourite fantasy series. Cant wait for this! I really hope its open world.
Shame about the people working on this tho.
Shame about the people working on this tho.
Yep had edited my post when I saw that. And yes, when I see poster with a small amount of posts doing something that seems like defending transphobia or derailing a topic I will look at post history to see if I should be reporting them as some of them are not subtle about why they are on this site.
Ok, so you just wanted to pop into this thread, ignore the very real pain and actual harm that the actions of this individual and the creator of Harry Potter have created to let everyone bravely know that you just want to play this game? What exactly was the point of your post because you've chosen to not engage with any of the critical posts and only with the one that fits your very narrow world view that your entertainment is worth causing harm to other human beings. Like...I can accept that you might just not have empathy for the pain of people but why go out of your way to advertise it?
It's always been OK to play a video game and "not get caught up in the politics and drama" when there is no attached drama. In fact literally thousands of games come out and already exist which will let you do just that.
In this case, the creative direction of this video game is being led in part by someone with extremist, hateful views on very serious topics and the media franchise the game is based on was created by someone who has repeatedly signal boosted and promoted hateful views.
That is explicitly who you're supporting and the types of views your allowing to be promoted by financially supporting this game.
If that hurts your feelings, that's not the fault of the people who point out the hateful, bigoted views and complaining about the fact that you don't get to play one game that directly financially supports bigotry is a really shitty thing to do. Doubly so when the people whom the bigotry is directed at made a thread THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO ENTER to talk about it and raise awareness and yet you chose to enter said thread and talk about your own infinitely lesser inconvenience of not being able to enjoy a game without even a slightly guilty conscience. Maybe try being angry at the right people.
If your purchased and played Cyberpunk, you financially supported the bigotry involved in its making and content. Ditto for this game. Whether you defended them with your words is meaningless when you helped financially support that bigotry with your purchase. At that point, your words are meaningless, though even then you chose to laser focus on one particular quest line that some reviewers missed in what reads very much like you grasping at straws to dismiss valid criticism.
Look, if any of you wants to get this game, you're going to get it.
Is there any point to coming into a thread where the people who are and will continue to be most impacted by the hateful views of those who created it and loudly announcing it? I didn't buy Cyberpunk so I didn't repeatedly post in the OT for it denouncing those who were.
All 3 of you (and others in this thread) have chosen to come into this thread and basically say "I want to financially support and reward bigots" and then, when people rightfully call you on your shitty behavior, you don't even stop to think about what people might be saying, but instead try to further justify your purchases.
If there is any thing you can take away from this whole debacle of your interactions with this thread it's that at least now all of know the price you place on your empathy and that price is -$60+tax. You're actually willing to pay someone money for spreading vitriol and bigotry and you then have the sheer stupidity to try to explain to people who point out the wrongness of your position that you're somehow the actual victims here.
Threads like this one are really not the place to announce your love and support for the franchise. Read the room..
In the "It's OK to be a gamer" video he argues developers can't have racially toxic environments because... a lot of game design is borrowed from Japan, and they're like, a different race, so that's a defeator for the existence of developer racism? It's like the I have black friends argument taken to the dumbest extreme possible.
If you have to use "directly" twice that means indirect.
Probably the same as with Cyberpunk 2077. Had to follow the discussion on other forums, as you couldnt really follow it on here.
You know what I mean. Rowling directly makes money off the use of the Harry Potter ip and she uses her platform and money to harm trans people.
This is obviously concerning and so are some of the other stories about Avalanche we've heard.
I do wonder to what extent these individuals' personal views seep into the game design. With WB overlooking this, I do hope that any plainly in sight bullshit gets shot down very quickly.
I do wonder to what extent these individuals' personal views seep into the game design. With WB overlooking this, I do hope that any plainly in sight bullshit gets shot down very quickly.
Sounds like its more then just one guy.
This should have a thread mark.
Why the fuck are people falling over themselves to say how much they're excited to play this game in a thread dedicated to the shit views of a clear right wing bigot?
How fucking transparent or uncaring do you have to be to trample on the views of people affected by this bigotry especially to tell them that their hurt doesn't matter so long as they get their precious games?
Jesus Christ.
How fucking transparent or uncaring do you have to be to trample on the views of people affected by this bigotry especially to tell them that their hurt doesn't matter so long as they get their precious games?
Jesus Christ.
Look at the post counts and when their accounts were created and it usually becomes obvious what they are doing.
