Toons
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Folks like to criticize corporations for being fake about their values, but then they also get mad when they are genuine about them. Odd.
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NG: "Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 butchers Spanish language to be “inclusive”"
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Folks like to criticize corporations for being fake about their values, but then they also get mad when they are genuine about them. Odd.
Fbh
Member
Well Peter seems pretty chill about his friend seemingly having a stroke.
It's probably the latter.
The issues with the "culture" being fostered in these companies is that even if there are latinos in the team who do think this shit is stupid they probably won't speak up. Because do you really want to be the person speaking up against "inclusive language" in a woke company like Insomniac?
Here in Chile the vast majority of people just seem to laugh at stuff like this, or use it ironically.
But unsurprisingly there is a mostly far left group of people who actually do like the idea and do unironically use these "gender neutral" words and pronouns
It's probably the latter.
The issues with the "culture" being fostered in these companies is that even if there are latinos in the team who do think this shit is stupid they probably won't speak up. Because do you really want to be the person speaking up against "inclusive language" in a woke company like Insomniac?
Here in Chile the vast majority of people just seem to laugh at stuff like this, or use it ironically.
But unsurprisingly there is a mostly far left group of people who actually do like the idea and do unironically use these "gender neutral" words and pronouns
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
There's a particular kind of person who would choose to dehumanise people purely because they think they can get away with it.
Have a think and decide if that's the kind of person you would like to be.
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Guilty_AI
Member
Noob writers sometimes use it when they want to hide the sex of a character, but it makes it pretty obvious what they're trying to do.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
It’s because propaganda is boring. Like those religious comic books your parents tried to get you to read.
Used to be that, by the time kids reached their teens, they got pretty good at detecting even the faintest hint of propagandistic overt moralizing and would avoid this shit like the plague.
I’d like to think the younger generation will wise up and rebel against it pretty soon but who knows.
Guilty_AI
Member
Drop the high horse shit. You immediately tried to put on some agressive moral facade against a non-native english speaker, that tell us all we need to know about your intentions.
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BouncyFrag
Member
The writers are making the entire studio look like clowns. Writers can be easily replaced tho.
Goalus
Member
Please tell me you’re using expert level sarcasm here.
I'll say this:
I was literally shaking
trying to contain myself
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
How bad is it?
X-Wing
Member
Do you literally shake while playing it?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
gaming_again
Member
Holy fuck those flags lined up lmao. Wtf is going on?
Aenima
Member
DeadOblivion78
Banned
KotakuInAction are full of cunts. Who actually takes these people’s opinions seriously? These people couldn’t look a woman in the eye for more than a few seconds.
X-Wing
Member
So, asking for a boycott because the game challenges their view of the world?
Oh, how the tables have turned.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
There's no high horse, it's pretty black and white to me, it's absolutely not a good thing to do to call people "it" - line up on the side that would defend that if you like.
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Turns out they were the biggest snowflakes after all.So, asking for a boycott because the game challenges their view of the world?
Oh, how the tables have turned.
Wishmaster92
Member
This is getting to be fucking ridiculous.
ByWatterson
Member
This nonsense has peaked and is in decline everywhere.
So in this instance, I find it an annoying echo of a movement that thought it was winning even just a year ago.
So in this instance, I find it an annoying echo of a movement that thought it was winning even just a year ago.
ByWatterson
Member
Nope. Just because someone doesn't feel comfortable being referred to as he or she, you don't get to refer to them as "it." It blows my mind that you think that's an appropriate thing to say.
This highlights my issue with this whole argument, and from both sides.
On the one hand, I want to be polite. On the other, I find endless pronoun selection to be both culturally and linguistically destructive.
Where I've landed is assuming that the silliness of the movement (sports inclusion, co-ed prison demands, etc.) has helped establish a ceiling past which the politics won't go - and so being polite won't exacerbate the issues I have.
But I really, really don't ever want anyone to ask me my pronouns. You can go ahead and assume.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
So just let people be called what they'd like to be called?
ByWatterson
Member
Yeah, "be called."
But that does not necessarily create a right for people to demand I use language with which I disagree.
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Guilty_AI
Member
Not everyone is intrisically familiar with the nuances of the english language because not everyone is an american mate. I supposed "Mr Reasonable" would be able to reason at least that much.
Putonahappyface
Member
Fess
Member
A loud entitled group of people on the internet that nobody want as their enemy because it might give them bad PR.
I watched the Minecraft mob voting show. Every man there had a he/him label after their name even though the names are gendered in this country and they had beard and there is no serious gender politics pushed here. Absurd. A Jens is a man and a Agnes is a woman, 100%, no he/him detail is needed, a real trans person would’ve changed their name, and shaved their beard.
shaddam
Member
BTW the gun club joke was kinda cringe. He is right about that
brian0057
Banned
The whole pronouns thing is stupid.
First, when using third person pronouns, the subject in question isn't part of the conversation.
Second, when the subject is part of the conversation, he or she is addressed with the second person "you".
And third, isn't the point in transitioning to arrive at your destination? Why are we using a plural pronoun instead? Is it because they (plural, not singular) know they'll never truly be able to arrive at said destination?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
“Boycott” is taking it a little too far but I get the sentiment.So, asking for a boycott because the game challenges their view of the world?
Oh, how the tables have turned.
Personally I’m fine playing something that makes me uncomfortable or challenges my viewpoints. But when it’s obvious they went out of their way to fill it with overt moralizing and preaching then that crosses the line, regardless whether they’re promoting a viewpoint I agree with or not. No thanks.
But hey, if that’s the kind of writing you like in your video games, if you enjoy consuming propaganda (provided it’s in support of positions you believe in), knock yourself out I guess.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Inclusion matters but this game shovels it in and does it in a very disingenuous way.
Proof? They used the wrong flag for Miles. Cuban I believe. A mistake like that wouldn’t happen under a passionate true attempt. Under the helm of woke agenda shit though of course it gets missed.
I was speaking high of Insomniac prior to release, and still think they are amazing but this shit needs to be done in a quality over quantity way. Every other person Peter or Miles interacts with is trying to tick off a box. Black cat is a lesbian, Hailey is mute/deaf, people you rescue are gay, and so on and so forth.
This stuff doesn’t bother me for the fact but when it is done poorly and in droves it becomes jarring.
Proof? They used the wrong flag for Miles. Cuban I believe. A mistake like that wouldn’t happen under a passionate true attempt. Under the helm of woke agenda shit though of course it gets missed.
I was speaking high of Insomniac prior to release, and still think they are amazing but this shit needs to be done in a quality over quantity way. Every other person Peter or Miles interacts with is trying to tick off a box. Black cat is a lesbian, Hailey is mute/deaf, people you rescue are gay, and so on and so forth.
This stuff doesn’t bother me for the fact but when it is done poorly and in droves it becomes jarring.
X-Wing
Member
I'm having a blast with the game.
And having an extra blast watching internet edge lords behaving exactly like the snowflakes they so fiercely hate.
Guilty_AI
Member
DryvBy
Member
This game is a little woke. Honestly some of its just so shoehorned in I wish it would have had a boycott so future Spidey games don't have this junk in it in the future.
Unless Spider-man is deaf, in a wheelchair, gender pan or whatever other make believe term, and mixed race, I don't want to hear about inclusion.
Unless Spider-man is deaf, in a wheelchair, gender pan or whatever other make believe term, and mixed race, I don't want to hear about inclusion.
StueyDuck
Member
Since I am not Spanish descent nor do I speak it, I can't truly say if this is bad or not, I will say though, the rate at which English is being slaughtered on a daily basis to the point where someone like Cardi-B can barely string a complete sentence together, I am not surprised other languages are being destroyed too by modernism.
As south park says though, welcome to the panderverse
it's only going to get worse in gaming.
As south park says though, welcome to the panderverse
it's only going to get worse in gaming.
David Ricardo
Member
It sounds weird. Nobody speaks like that here. If I hear somebody speaking like that is cause he is a politician or an activist. And even they use it sparingly
David Ricardo
Member
I think what happened here is the script was written in english, and there you write entomologist the same, whether it´s a male, a female or something else. So they didn´t know that when translated to spanish it would sound very political in a country where the nonbinary movement is almost inexistent.Since I am not Spanish descent nor do I speak it, I can't truly say if this is bad or not, I will say though, the rate at which English is being slaughtered on a daily basis to the point where someone like Cardi-B can barely string a complete sentence together, I am not surprised other languages are being destroyed too by modernism.
As south park says though, welcome to the panderverse
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DeceptiveAlarm
Gold Member
I thought Bipoc meant bisexual people of color. I just googled it. Is it half black have american indian?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Nah it’s just a catch-all term that means “everyone except white people”
Faust
Perpetually Tired
Black, Indigenous, People of Color. It is a catch all for these groups. So BIPOC art would be art only from these groups.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
blm was already in miles morales.
wokeness was also heavy in rift apart.
Studio is gone
Sleepwalker
Member
"Le doctore young" "une importante entomologo"
Wow thats retarded.
Wow thats retarded.
simpatico
Member
Why not both?
Flutta
Banned
That’s usually what weak people usually say. By weak i mean weak to resist the urge to play latest games or get the latest product.
Boycott is usually one of the most effective ways to show companies your dissatisfaction.
Like what happened to BUDLIGHT, Disneys stock crash etc etc. There’s alot of example were boycott is really effective.
Do your part even if it’s 0.0001% and stop being a little bitch about it. That is if you even care.
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RobRSG
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Yeah right don’t give them any ideas.
Next Spider-Man game: it’s the future, Peter Parker is now a rich old heterosexual white man who has abandoned his ideals and embodies everything he once stood against, and he’s a pedophile.
You play as a young, female, differently-abled BIPOC who takes up the role of Spider-Person. She teams up with a group of diverse pan-gendered Mary Sues as they set out on a mission to demolish Spider-Man’s legacy and pay off their student loans.
Yeah so just the small matter of organising the other million or so people it would take!
Sounds straightforward enough.
Blood Borne
Member
When you really think of it, modern liberals are neo-colonialists. It’s an “innocent” form of white supremacy. They believe their ideals and values are superior to everyone else’s and they have to force/coerce others to do the same.
Revolutionary
Member
This is off-topic but did you guys know that there is an Argentinian Batman? His name is El Gaucho, and he's badass.
Madflavor
Member
I see Woke Colonialism strikes again.
I feel confident that decades from now history will look back on this time period and people will talk about how deeply and insanely racist the Woke Progressive Left was, and it'll seen as an embarrassing period for the Left. Forcing ideologies into other cultures, shaming races from sharing and indulging in each other's cultures (cultural appropriation) and Anti-Semitism will be some examples cited.
I feel confident that decades from now history will look back on this time period and people will talk about how deeply and insanely racist the Woke Progressive Left was, and it'll seen as an embarrassing period for the Left. Forcing ideologies into other cultures, shaming races from sharing and indulging in each other's cultures (cultural appropriation) and Anti-Semitism will be some examples cited.
