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Message: [QUOTE="Clippy, post: 23783, member: 8560"] I can answer that from a psychological perspective. For the last decade+ we've seen multiple products, be it games, movies or comic books advertised as having a black or female protag. Trailers and ad campaigns specifically focused on how non-white or non-male or non-straight those products were going to be. The problem is that all of them without fail sucked ass. Shitty characters, shitty story, shitty plot, shitty everything. So people hated it. And here's the crux of the issue - when confronted with proper criticism how did the creators of those flops react? Did they apologize? Did they recognize the shortcomings of what they put out? NO, they called everyone bigots, filthy racists and sexists. People are like Pavlov's dog in many ways and this is one of them. They connected the dots and now whenever they see another black/female/gay centric product they [I]know[/I] it's going to be a dumpsterfire. And let's face it, nine times out of ten they're right when it comes to modern media and I'm probably being generous with that estimate. I'm not gonna lie this is incredibly sad, because you can absolutely tell a great story or make a great game with all kinds of characters and an unusual ethnicity for example can enhance your immersion but the so called liberals just had to go and ruin it. Yes, it wasn't the conservatives for once, they just hated violence and sex and nobody cared that much about their opinion anyway. It's the liberals who screwed it up for all of us. Just to drive the point home let's look at some games from before having the 'correct' politics mattered. My perennial fave, Diablo - three characters too choose from, a white guy, a chick and a black guy. Do you think I cared about any of that? Nope, I just wanted to slay demons. Tomb Raider - I'd love to see the retards complaining about sexist gamers explain the runaway success that this series was. GTA San Andreas - the best selling PS2 game of all time. Damn, those racists must've had at least a 5 minute sieg heiling session before putting the disc into the drive, surely it couldn't have been that popular because the game was just damn good. Admittedly, sexuality wasn't really a topic broached in video games simply because it wasn't important outside VNs. I mean, how much would it matter to the plot, lore or your enjoyment of the game to know who Liu Kang is into? That's what I thought. And that's the same way we used to look at ethnicity or sex of the characters we played as before the leftists ruined it. You can no longer make a game with a black woman as a protag without being accused of being 'woke'. Ain't it fucking grand? A truly heartfelt FUCK YOU goes to every person responsible for all-female remakes of venerable series or new entries where the protag was race-swapped. The saddest thing here is that those people knew they couldn't write/create to save their lives and decided to parasitize on good IPs just to get any butts on the cinema seats. Eh, it is what it is I suppose. *Deep breath* I didn't expect this post to get as long as it did. Just for funsies I pasted it into MS Word and it clocked in at just over the 500 word minimum required for a writer's guild application. If I ever produce another diatribe like this I'll consider applying and writing something silly LOL. [/QUOTE]

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