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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

Really shows how in just thirty years the US has regressed culturally 75 years

[-] Mickmacduffin@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Not really. Star Trek's always been way ahead when it comes to inclusion. Everything else in the 90s was the same homophobic, backwards crap. Except maybe Jim Henson's Dinosaurs

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

4chan and the larger gamergate movement took the racism that was still bubbling under the surface of america and sucked it up with a big novelty drink straw back into the forefront of polite society where now it's socially acceptable to say you hate black people, oh I'm sorry "woke", can't say outright you hate black people jusssssssst yet ;)

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

They don't hate minorities yet mysteriously they just happen to brand every game that has prominent not-white, not-straight characters as "woke DEI Sweet Baby Inc Cultural ~~Bolshevism~~ Marxism."

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they just happen to brand every game that has prominent not-white, not-straight characters as "woke DEI Sweet Baby Inc Cultural Bolshevism Marxism."

Unless they're hot Japanese, Korean or Chinese women awooga

Edit: they could probably also accept a "hot latina" if she was sufficiently non-political

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Edit: they could probably also accept a "hot latina" if she was sufficiently non-political

IDK, we have already seen preliminary discourse about new GTA and signs aren't looking good

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think we can call those results conclusive since the discourse is more about gamers pre-emptively shitting their pants about GTA possibly going woke

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

That's a good point, we'll have to wait for more results.

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

So much this niko-cri

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

I've been saying this for a while now, but if Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were released today, g*mers would have a shit fit. Oh wait that did actually happen lel 🤣

[-] Stolen_Stolen_Valor@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I’m still thinking about the guy who tried to coin the term “woke controls.” For SF6

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Morbidly curious as to how controls can be "woke"

[-] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

They added a streamlined "Modern" control mode alongside their original "Classic" mode with motion inputs. This was an effort to make the game more accessible to newcomers to the genre, people who were intimidated by fighting games, and people who for various reasons can't do the motion inputs necessary for special moves.

The Modern control scheme balances this ease of use by somewhat restricting the available special moves - you can do specials with one button and have access to the basic tools, but the real complex combo stuff you can only do on Classic.

It was generally a good compromise, as it was mostly the die hard crowd who were going to get into deep mechanics stuff anyway, and if someone who can't do motion inputs wants to get far with Modern they can still do so by learning good fundamentals (which like 90% of Gamers refuse to do) alongside the simple controls

This of course made a lot of gamers very angery, including like one or two people here. "It's woke for allowing casuals and disabled people to play in the same sandbox as me and cheat not only the game but themselves". It's the same argument as dark souls when you boil it down

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Fighting game communities always complain about how small and insular they are, and wish their games had larger audiences, but the instant a game tries to actually get a larger audience they all throw a massive fit.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

simplified controls to "help" new players, because street fighter is designed for arcade stick and imperfectly translates to 4-button pads.

i'm skeptical of these things as noob traps versus making better tutorials and figuring out how to teach button mashers to actually play neutral, but i do find it extremely funny that the broken exploit people were (understandably) worried about actually showed up on the regular controls, not the new ones.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

To say nothing of the backlash from Kira being a self-described terrorist

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

you couldn't make the maquis storyline or kira post-9-11

[-] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

There would be even more "Gul Dukat did nothing wrong" posts than before

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

wojak-nooo HOW DARE YOU MAKE A COMEDIC EPISODE STARRING FERENGI?

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