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[LectureMaster]

Some dude going on his safe space social media acting like a ripe cunt?

Nope.

That very AFK guy is getting close to there. But thank God so far his dumb shits are still related to games rather than pure politics.

 

[near]

It's more and more obvious to me this is more of a whole studio culture/environment thing rather than individual being loud mouth. Most if not all employees there probably have same mentality.

I don't disagree, although I also think there are staff members part of these sorts of studio environments that don't necessarily share the same mentality, but are just forced to conform as part of workplace etiquette.

 

[LordOcidax]

Glad to see that the biggest enemy of the WOKE movement is the richest man on earth Socialism is a joke.

 

[Kacho]

I don't disagree, although I also think there are staff members part of these sorts of studio environments that don't necessarily share the same mentality, but are just forced to conform as part of workplace etiquette.

Yes. Laura Fryer has done multiple videos on YouTube covering this.

 

[LectureMaster]

Microsoft sat there right now like "Can we get ONE game without some BULLSHIT!"

Indy and Doom will probably be fine, but meanwhile:

 

[Diseased Yak]

I don't care for Musk nor any of that Twitter/X bullshit myself but I'm baffled by this person's behavior. You must know that you work for a company, that you're part of a bigger team and that objectively this cannot play out well for you considering this guy's influence and power. Whether you like it or not, it's a fact.

This dude has to be high or hitting the bottle or something. The weird spelling errors, absurd levels of aggression and delusions of grandeur. Again, you must know that you using "sweet summer child" against one of the richest men on earth is...funny. Even if your company is cool with arguing an ideological point online, I doubt they appreciate their employee using language like "sad sack of shit".

This is for sure true, I'd imagine Obsidian is like other game companies wherein you're given training for this specific thing. When I was hired at Blizzard many moons ago, one of the first new hire things was to have us go to a "social media" training course, which essentially said "You work here now, don't tweet about dumb shit and embarrass us."

 

[Dynasty8]

Yes. Laura Fryer has done multiple videos on YouTube covering this.

Link?

I saw her dragon age video, never knew who she was but that was very informative.

 

[Ozriel]

Im almost sure the pronouns will be accompanied by bad preechy storytelling, cringe dialog, bad character design, ugly masculinized probably lesbian females characters, girl bosses, stupid beta males... I could go on and on ... pronouns are just the first red flag for the whole woke shittard package now days.

If only there was a GAF thread with text and video previews that helped answer a lot of these concerns.

Red flags aren't exclusively for the 'woke'. Ironically, Grummz last attempt to make a game ended in complete failure. Pretty much why he made the career switch to internet troll

 

[Topher]

Yo what if MS boss bans Musk from Diablo

You going to take Diablo to a ban fight with a guy who owns X?

 

[Kacho]

Link?

I saw her dragon age video, never knew who she was but that was very informative.

Laura Fryer is an industry veteran. She worked on many of the games we loved.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yeah adding Musk to it was definitely an accelerant. He's become the incel Jesus.

It always comes down to this. Keep projecting, intellectually stunted clowns.

 

[Kacho]

It always comes down to this. Keep projecting, intellectually stunted clowns.

Notice how he never provides anything of substance in these threads? It's just bitching and moaning.

 

[tmlDan]

I don't disagree, although I also think there are staff members part of these sorts of studio environments that don't necessarily share the same mentality, but are just forced to conform as part of workplace etiquette.

that's me at every corporate job over the last 5-6 years, i either stay silent or go along because im focused on my own career growth and maintaining my job, it's sad that i can't disagree or contend without potential negative repercussions

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's the latest Twitter alternative that left leaning people are fleeing to after the presidential election.

Weren't they leaving the country? Ah, close enough to their lowest effort drooling they do day in and day on on social media.

 

[LectureMaster]

Weren't they leaving the country? Ah, close enough to their lowest effort drooling they do day in and day on on social media.

Nah, the pretentious celebrities probably can . But most woketards that's acting tough online live in their mom's basement.

 

[Windom Earle]

These lunatics make it too easy for vultures like ENDYMIONtv and Asmongold to farm them

 

[LectureMaster]

I don't disagree, although I also think there are staff members part of these sorts of studio environments that don't necessarily share the same mentality, but are just forced to conform as part of workplace etiquette.

that's me at every corporate job over the last 5-6 years, i either stay silent or go along because im focused on my own career growth and maintaining my job, it's sad that i can't disagree or contend without potential negative repercussions

Yeah, it's actually a quite common thing on the West Coast. Some of my friends are MAGA, some are not but despise DEI, all work in big techs. They just voice nothing but take their big fat checks, and then invest in family and properties. The MAGA guy went to donate to Trump, LMAO.

 

[LectureMaster]

It always comes down to this. Keep projecting, intellectually stunted clowns.

Notice how he never provides anything of substance in these threads? It's just bitching and moaning.

Honestly when you guys were roasting him I think it was amusing, but just harmless poking fun. But now guy has gone mad and showed the ugly face.

You don't need to be a fan of Musk to be weary of the excessive wokeness, all you need is common sense.

 

[Outlier]

If only Obsidian kept their damn legs closed, this could've been avoided.
Now everyone's catching a whiff of their crotch swamp stench.

 

[LectureMaster]

Has my man Musk's response been posted?

 

[Kacho]

Has my man Musk's response been posted?

Yep. A couple times. Elon is shit posting like a madman bringing lots of attention to this saga. I love our current timeline.

 

[LordCBH]

Microsoft should really tell their boy to quiet down. The last thing they need is negative attention on one of the few rare MS published titles that looks good.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Oh the horror, I may have used that emoji on a post of yours at a point in time that warranted it.

Show me where I've gone through all of your posts in sequence and spammed emojis on them without even having had time to read the content of those posts. I'll wait.

You claim other people are "easily triggered" yet the behaviour you exhibit is exactly that of a triggered maladjusted individual.

The sad cunt was spamming me with triggered emojis for quite some time as well.

 

[Topher]

Honestly when you guys were roasting him I think it was amusing, but just harmless poking fun. But now guy has gone mad and showed the ugly face.

You don't need to be a fan of Musk to be weary of the excessive wokeness, all you need is common sense.

If anything, Musk's take is just a new addition to a conversation about the needless insertion of controversial political subjects that have been going on for a while now. This is going to get even more attention as developers continue to push woke views in games and thumb their nose at anyone who disagrees with it on social media. It is incredibly inept management that allows them to use their corporation as a platform to advance this nonsense.

 

[jason10mm]

What would be funny is if they replaced him with a black guy who hates all the woke stuff and just draws big boobed women all the time.

Get DeafTourette in there, he likes his women thicc and apparently knows all sorts of models and stuff for "inspiration"!

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Called this game months ago. I knew it'd be a pile of wank.

Obsidian is utterly lost.

 

[DenchDeckard]

On a forum which Musk is not a part of. Stunning and brave!

I bet he moans when he wipes too.

I retract my initial statement. I thought he was responding directly on X but I later found out theres some purple place parading as blue that I'd never heard of.

 

[Bieren]

The biggest issue here, is anyone (and I mean literally anyone dead or alive) paying attention to anything that Elon "sad little shit" Musk says or does. I know I am old enough to make my own decisions based on my own thoughts and feelings.

 

[Elginer]

I'll never understand how these people can come out and doom their own products. They really are the dumbest sons of bitches on the planet. You and a massive team of people work so hard on a product to have some asshole start shit on the internet with and bring drama to your game, thats needless. Thing is that this isnt new and weve seen where this ends up but for some inane reason they keep stepping on their own dick, they can't help themselves. If I owned a company I would tell all my employees to shut the fuck up until we release a product and if you wanna start shit on the internet think long and hard about if you like being employed.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The biggest issue here, is anyone (and I mean literally anyone dead or alive) paying attention to anything that Elon "sad little shit" Musk says or does. I know I am old enough to make my own decisions based on my own thoughts and feelings.

And not the indoctrinated gender BS where people aren't thinking for themselves? That's not the biggest issue?

Ok.

 

[fallingdove]

I didn't exactly need another reason to skip this game but here it is. I'll let the Avowed drift wood float on by with art, animation, and combat that would have been considered average in 2011.

Politics aside, I can't stand the lack of professionalism with these dumbasses. Your product is a non-essential, an expensive leisure activity. The fact you would destroy the hard work of the team and risk sales performance by wantonly using said product for your own personal look-at-me platform is insane.

Any other industry and his ass would have already been shit canned, and yet media seem to be woefully tolerant of this behavior in spite of the potential impact it could have on revenue.

 

[LectureMaster]

And not the indoctrinated gender BS where people aren't thinking for themselves? That's not the biggest issue?

Ok.

LMAO, my man DeepEnigma is the police catching any delusional takes in this thread.

 

[Kacho]

I'll never understand how these people can come out and doom their own products. They really are the dumbest sons of bitches on the planet. You and a massive team of people work so hard on a product to have some asshole start shit on the internet with and bring drama to your game, thats needless. Thing is that this isnt new and weve seen where this ends up but for some inane reason they keep stepping on their own dick, they can't help themselves. If I owned a company I would tell all my employees to shut the fuck up until we release a product and if you wanna start shit on the internet think long and hard about if you like being employed.

The craziest thing is the guy straight up said "wait until you see the default option" like a threat. It confirms peoples concerns about forced ideology in these games. How can any reasonable person give these studios the benefit of the doubt going forward?

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Microsoft sat there right now like "Can we get ONE game without some BULLSHIT!"

This guy has to leave or get pushed out the door. You can say the views you share are your own, but this specimen is actively saying he has used his power at the company to alter a product. That's surely gotta shake the tree.

Microsoft doesnt care.

If there is a way to fuck it up, they will.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I am not sure if it was a smart thing to do Game will bomb anyway, hope they fire the dude.


I believe neither of those games were promoting woke stuff. Or even in discourse online.

 

[Tygeezy]

The biggest issue here, is anyone (and I mean literally anyone dead or alive) paying attention to anything that Elon "sad little shit" Musk says or does. I know I am old enough to make my own decisions based on my own thoughts and feelings.

All the guy does is win and is probably the most influential person on the planet. So yeah, people will continue to pay attention to what he says.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Indy and Doom will probably be fine, but meanwhile:

DooM's final boss speech:

 

[proandrad]

What would be funny is if they replaced him with a black guy who hates all the woke stuff and just draws big boobed women all the time.

They would never hire any black person. Just a nepo baby that comes from the same elitist circles as the rest of them, who just happens to be black. Their whole DEI hiring process is fraud base.

 

[Burger King]

My pronouns are "I," "you," "he," "she," "it," "we," "they," "them," "us," "him," "her," "his," "hers," "its," "theirs," "our," "your."

 

[DeepEnigma]

LMAO, my man DeepEnigma is the police catching any delusional takes in this thread.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The biggest issue here, is anyone (and I mean literally anyone dead or alive) paying attention to anything that Elon "sad little shit" Musk says or does. I know I am old enough to make my own decisions based on my own thoughts and feelings.

Some real sore bottoms in this thread.

 

[Sentenza]

my post was very clearly worded. You've dismissed positive previews as smoke and mirrors from gaming journalists, dodging the fact that the preview was extended to a wide assortment of streamers

I must have missed the part where I personally gave more credit to "streamers".

 

[Topher]

The biggest issue here, is anyone (and I mean literally anyone dead or alive) paying attention to anything that Elon "sad little shit" Musk says or does. I know I am old enough to make my own decisions based on my own thoughts and feelings.

I'm glad you clarified that dead people should also not be paying attention to anything Musk says.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I'm glad you clarified that dead people should also not be paying attention to anything Musk says.

They're too busy voting.

 

[Fortress of Regrets]

Eh, another game for the garbage bin.

Why did this brain rot have to infest my favorite genre so badly? :/

This game was never going to light the world on fire in the first place, and now these morons just lit their game on fire and pushed it off a cliff.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

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When people say "OMG I can't believe you are so triggered over a couple of pronouns", no, it goes way deeper than that.

Some game studios are bubbles where shit like that ^ is not just acceptable but is cheered on and encouraged from the top down. It's indicative of a whole host of batshit crazy ultra progressive beliefs. And those are imprinted all over the game's story, characters, writing, visual design, etc.

Pronouns are just the first whiff of woke stink. Yeah maybe it's a false alarm, but I doubt it.

 

[GHG]

Your reaction feels familiar, very cat-like.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

You'll have to explain what part of agreeing with very valid arguments made by a guy who has close to double your IQ and who will accomplish more in one year than you will in your whole life, makes us incels?

There does seem to be a lot of EDS in this thread for some reason. I don't know why so many people hate the guy.

 

[LectureMaster]

When people say "OMG I can't believe you are so triggered over a couple of pronouns", no, it goes way deeper than that.

Some game studios are bubbles where shit like that ^ is not just acceptable but is cheered on and encouraged from the top down. It's indicative of a whole host of batshit crazy ultra progressive beliefs. And those are imprinted all over the game's story, characters, writing, visual design, etc.

Pronouns are just the first whiff of woke stink. Yeah maybe it's a false alarm, but I doubt it.

"it's just a pronoun" -->"it's a top scar option"-->"It's just offering a being trans option"-->"Just don't offend marginalized groups"-->"All fucking white males are evil"-->"come to fight me, physically"

 

[Salty Pickle]

when dragons start spreading their skirt and flashing their penis at kindergartners during dragon queen story time we'll freak out about them too

I have never seen that happen in a fantasy game, I have seen unicorns and a gnome stab a dragon to death with a sword though.