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Quantic Dream co-CEO de Fondaumière tweets "All lives matter" and promotes their game (deleted it, added BLM, but still promotes game)
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Because it fucking promotes their garbage ass game that doesn't do anything good at all regarding BLM. It's an empty, and I personally think, offensive shell of a game.
Using oppression to promote their product, which is itself a cringey overwrought unsubtle hackneyed racism allegory?
It's simply unethical to ride on crisis to sell your product. They could've stopped the tweet before adding the last part and it would be perfectly fine.
Oh dear. Not a good look. 'All lives matter' for a start is incredibly tone deaf...As for promoting their game, I mean yes, Detroit is kind of about those things, and I enjoyed it, but it was too on the nose with the parallels, lacking any nuance to the specific issues that might arise if AI could be considered sentient.
It's fine all the way till the point the last sentence starts.
Didn't Cage say the game really wasn't trying to say anything?
kotaku.com
Despite Political Overtones, David Cage Says Detroit Is Mostly About Androids
Near the end of the Detroit: Become Human demo I saw during E3, renegade android Markus and his partner North incite a riot among recently freed androids. If you choose to set things on fire, North triumphantly declares, “Now the humans will have no choice but to listen to us.” Main character...
kotaku.com
Even if Detroit is a fucking masterclass of a story about race & oppression ( it ain't ) - this isn't the time or platform to be promoting your own product.
Using BLM to promote Civil War & Holocaust Allegories: The Game, eh? Fucking pathetic. Especially pathetic considering David Cage was so proud of telling people Detroit:BH was apolitical. Saying all lives matter in the original tweet was beyond stupid too as people constantly talk about how & why saying shit like that is fucking bullshit.
Do you get paid to defend racists or do you just do it for free?
Fuck Quantic Dream and David Cage, trying to sell their bullshit on the back of this
They want this shit both ways
They want this shit both ways
User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing racist language
Eh, I have no issue with the wording of the first tweet. Language wise at least.
It's the connection to his game which is just problematic when it comes to stuff like this which gets me.
It's the connection to his game which is just problematic when it comes to stuff like this which gets me.
Yes. Fucking embarassing. But just goes to show that it fits right in with a company that doesn't take harassment seriously when you so blatantly front facing as a snake oil salesman.
User Banned (3 Months): Concern Trolling and Dismissing Racism; Prior Severe Ban for Misogyny
I dunno. It could go either way. I don't see anything clearly/obviously heinous here. At the very least he is ignorant of the movement and the message, and I will give him the benefit on the doubt and say he had good intentions, based in the two tweets alone (I have no idea of his history or the company's). A lot of non colored people, especially older people, do have good intentions and aren't racist, but don't understand "all lives matter" undermines tbe "black lives matter" out of ignorance. If he doesn't mean what he says and it isn't a poor choice of words with good intentions, we'll know sooner than later.
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Imagine making a game about racism (because it is, despite what cage says) and doing so little research into racism that you use racist rhetoric during a race war to promote said video game.
If you wrote this for a plot in a TV show, it would be thrown out for being to implausible. It's like a fucking always sunny sketch.
Ok I don't know much about this game. I see, he should know better than.
Yeah, I had the same reaction.
The only part about this I find gross, is the... selling your game part.
EDIT: And seeing that they previously denied there were actual race issues addressed in the game! Wow! You can't have it both ways - claim your game isn't political when you're trying not to upset the Gamers (TM), then claim that it is in a moment you think it might help you look tuned in to the current moment. Unreal.
