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The Sweet Baby Inc. website redesign removes the client list.

All for some homophobic temper tantrum in video games. How low the bar has sunk.

Anti-woke retards make me ashamed for enjoying this medium sometimes with so much double digit IQ dumbfucks shitting all over the walls with halfbaked arguments and demand someone else to clean their shit up. Having such a staunch opinion about a topic or company but have barely a clue how the industry or company works, should be an obvious red flag, but Dunning-Kruger is in full effect most of the time.
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Kotaro

Member
It don't matter if they hide their client list, or change their name, or other DEI consultancy are the ones involved in games. We can detect woke/DEI projects a mile away, if it looks woke, smells woke, sounds woke, we're boycotting it

You can tell woke/DEI games just by looking at their character designs.
 
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Astray

Member
All for some homophobic temper tantrum in video games. How low the bar has sunk.

Anti-woke retards make me ashame for enjoying this medium with so much double digit IQ dumbfucks shitting all over the walls with halfbaked arguments and demand someone else to clean their shit up.
It's honestly insane to me how many people want to feel anger instead of just ignoring what they don't like.

Sweet Baby Inc are not going any where, they have the contact now and don't need to be as public facing anymore. They have their claws into the industry and will continue on as normal.
Yep.

All the big outrage videos and tweets only served to embarrass people, no more no less.
 

HL3.exe

Banned
It's honestly insane to me how many people want to feel anger instead of just ignoring what they don't like.


Yep.

All the big outrage videos and tweets only served to embarrass people, no more no less.
It's because outrage is easy and it sells, instead of actually having a good faith deep dive how these companies work. Can companies and people fuck up, absolutely. But these companies are being painted as ontologically evil afterwards, which is unhinged. Crying about agendas while being big dummies for not realizing that they're pushing a agenda aswell. It's peak irony.
 

HL3.exe

Banned
The only harassment was a Sweet Baby Inc employee, “report the creator since he loves his account so much”. They were banned from Twitter for it.

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If your not seeing how cringe it is for a grown ass man to make a boycott list about a consultancy company for videos games that promote inclusivity, which lead to harassment, I'm not sure what to tell ya. Maybe your caretaker can explain it better than I can, apologies.
 

deriks

4-Time GIF/Meme God
One more reason to share these two links:


I hope they continue God's work
 
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Elios83

Member
Sweet Baby Inc are not going any where, they have the contact now and don't need to be as public facing anymore. They have their claws into the industry and will continue on as normal.

The wind is clearly changing though.
I'm not saying this as a positive or negative but as a simple fact.
A few years ago gaming publishers were fully using these companies to adapt their games for "modern audiences". They simply thought they would gain good reputation points and it would lead to good conversation around their products.

Now it's the opposite, there is clearly a target audience that is completely fed up and if you support this stuff it has become the easiest way to create controversies around your product online. Controversies that in certain cases can be highly damaging ( see Concord and the Ubisoft stuff).
Publishers can't ignore this.
 

Gonzito

Gold Member
If your not seeing how cringe it is for a grown ass man to make a boycott list about a consultancy company for videos games that promote inclusivity, which lead to harassment, I'm not sure what to tell ya. Maybe your caretaker can explain it better than I can, apologies.

Man its funny how you, the woke crowd, works. When people show you reasonable proof of how toxic this company is and how awful their behavior has been since the beginning, you gaslight the person by attacking his manhood as if that had anything to do with the topic

You are all the same, disgusting people and remember this, people are voting with their wallets, every game this company touches becomes a commercial failure, Sweet Baby Inc and all these scam companies have no business in this industry

The battle is over and now we are just watching the ship sinking
 
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Jaybe

Member
If your not seeing how cringe it is for a grown ass man to make a boycott list about a consultancy company for videos games that promote inclusivity, which lead to harassment, I'm not sure what to tell ya. Maybe your caretaker can explain it better than I can, apologies.

Look man, I haven’t insulted you, so no need to insult me. I originally asked at the “homophobic temper tantrum” was that you originally referenced and went on about and you haven’t produced it yet. Then you accused the list originator of harassment and I correctly inform you the original harasser was Sweet Baby Inc with proof. The list is the same that was on SBI’s site. There was no call for harassment by the guy. This would have blown over as there were 6,000 or so people following until Kindred pulled a Streisand effect and amplified it. Now it’s over 400,000 and SBI is known so much, you have SquareEnix’s CEO commenting on the company in investor calls and having their logo removed from SBI’s site.
 

HL3.exe

Banned
What would be an alternative and adult way to get rid of this nonsense?
To not buy and ignore their games. Who cares. You shouldn't either.

Woke cringe will die out in a matter of time, it's a reaction and overcorrection from the last 20 years. They won't be gone, just moderated as time moves on and society progresses. Inclusive ideas aren't bad, and it's not co-opted by evil people with scheming intent. It's just the way some cringe people approach it, it's sometimes tone deaf, but also a sign of the times. The idea of bringing more people in to enjoy video games is a positive thing.

I dislike forced woke stuff as you can tell the cynicalness behind it, mandated by old fart, but keep in mind that most inclusion stuff is still really earnest and great (RDR2, GOW reboot). But the anti-woke crowd seems way more out of their depth and react extremely cringe. Just be measured and modest about it and just ignore it and play other games. Pretty easy.

just don't be that guy making lists like these.
 
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Dazraell

Member
Man its funny how you, the woke crowd, works. When people show you reasonable proof of how toxic this company is and how awful their behavior has been since the beginning, you gaslight the person by attacking his manhood as if that had anything to do with the topic

You are all the same, disgusting people and remember this, people are voting with their wallets, every game this company touches becomes a commercial failure, Sweet Baby Inc and all these scam companies have no business in this industry

The battle is over and now we are just watching the ship sinking
Yeah... Poster gives him receipts of Sweet Baby's employee call for targeted harassment campaign and remains cordial. He handwaves it, conveniently ignores it, spins the narrative and in response insults them on a personal level. Bruh, this is just pathetic
 

DrDryRub

Banned
It's so weird how obsessed some of you are with SBI. Just play your games. You do realize they are hired by the devs/publishers. Consultants are in every industry. The world is changing, change with it or get left behind. In all honestly the way some people are acting over dei/SBI/trans is no different to how generations before treated gay people, black people and women. These people existing isn't gonna take away from your alpha maleness lol
 

CGNoire

Member
Why are they hiring these people? Why?

What can they do that me and you and any person alive can't?

Even if you want your game to be woke for some reason, how hard is to just... Do it yourself? You know, without paying them?

Make your main protagonist a black woman. Make her a lesbian. Make her fat and ugly. Make her stronger than any white guy in the game. Make the white guys incompetent, silly villains. Add pronounces somewhere.

Thank you, that would be 10.000 euros.

This is such a weird thing to me.
Blackrock investment probably requires proof of consultation.
 
Blackrock investment probably requires proof of consultation.

This...the subversion starts at the source, i.e. how companies are funded. If their largest investors are muscling them into making DEI hiring commitments, that will filter down into who they hire for development teams. Which is why so many teams now are filled with a bunch of people who hate games and make games for their fat, ugly selves rather than for the larger market.
 

Bernardougf

Member
Why are they hiring these people? Why?

What can they do that me and you and any person alive can't?

Even if you want your game to be woke for some reason, how hard is to just... Do it yourself? You know, without paying them?

Make your main protagonist a black woman. Make her a lesbian. Make her fat and ugly. Make her stronger than any white guy in the game. Make the white guys incompetent, silly villains. Add pronounces somewhere.

Thank you, that would be 10.000 euros.

This is such a weird thing to me.
Apparently being purposely retarded is hard and demand big salaries.
 

pudel

Member
To not buy and ignore their games. Who cares. You shouldn't either.
But I care about my hobby and what is going on in it. Of course I try to avoid these games....but its the worst solution of all and just leads to everybody loosing and that is not in my interest. So its fine for me when people calling this shit out 24/7 (while not buying as well). At least it doesnt hurt and maybe even increase the chances that this "agenda stuff" is vanishing sooner.
 

Saber

Member
Don't surprise me. Its a tatic to trying to hide the fact they are damaging games from the public.

What surprises me is people defending them after all the level of harassment, hate perpetuation(which lead to be even banned from twitter), disgusting tatics of making workers be afraid and admiting they are there to destroy games and gamers.

If this is not enought to rethink about this company, I dunno what will. Maybe a nazi flag, but from the post of fellas screaming accusations I doubt it.
 
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Duchess

Member
The company yanking their client list, etc. has happened around the same time as the Internet Archive hack.

Probably just a coincidence, but it would be interesting if it turns out they realised they needed to try and hide some shit.

To be honest, it's probably because they've been pressured by those who work with them to no longer disclose it, due to the backlash.
 
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Bernardougf

Member
All for some homophobic temper tantrum in video games. How low the bar has sunk.

Anti-woke retards make me ashamed for enjoying this medium sometimes with so much double digit IQ dumbfucks shitting all over the walls with halfbaked arguments and demand someone else to clean their shit up. Having such a staunch opinion about a topic or company but have barely a clue how the industry or company works, should be an obvious red flag, but Dunning-Kruger is in full effect most of the time.
Nice strawmaning as usual for the clowns defending this shit
 
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It's so weird how obsessed some of you are with SBI. Just play your games. You do realize they are hired by the devs/publishers. Consultants are in every industry. The world is changing, change with it or get left behind. In all honestly the way some people are acting over dei/SBI/trans is no different to how generations before treated gay people, black people and women. These people existing isn't gonna take away from your alpha maleness lol

You are most likely speaking to a very small percentage of people that may cry out their masculinity is being attacked, or the rage-baiters on YT etc, but what you are failing to address is that there is a very large percentage of people that are tired of their games and entertainment being altered for a very small percentage of people that seemingly can't produce a successful game/show/movie etc based on their ideologies alone. Don't be fooled by the whole guise of inclusivity or any other bit of the word salad that is used, there are plenty of receipts that show these people simply want to ruin existing material to lash out.

Lastly, we can apply your whole boring "live and let live" "who cares" "just let it happen" logic the same way to those who seem so intent on hammering in sex/race/etc into everything these days - but apparently that's not in line with sheep mentality. People are going to push back when something they enjoy is being messed with just for the sake of messing , it's not hard to grasp.
 

Bernardougf

Member
It's so weird how obsessed some of you are with SBI. Just play your games. You do realize they are hired by the devs/publishers. Consultants are in every industry. The world is changing, change with it or get left behind. In all honestly the way some people are acting over dei/SBI/trans is no different to how generations before treated gay people, black people and women. These people existing isn't gonna take away from your alpha maleness lol


Your right to change is exactly equal to mine in not to change a fucking thing...Im perfectly fine so move on with your life as will I... and theres no need to anybody to be left behind.. as long as each mind their own business and not shovel anything down the other throats. Leave and let leave is a two way street.
 
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Tajaz2426

Psychology PhD from Wikipedia University
It's because outrage is easy and it sells, instead of actually having a good faith deep dive how these companies work. Can companies and people fuck up, absolutely. But these companies are being painted as ontologically evil afterwards, which is unhinged. Crying about agendas while being big dummies for not realizing that they're pushing an agenda aswell. It's peak irony.
Outrage sells, but when people are constantly called racists and bigots for not buying their games, some will push back. They constantly hear how the whitey is so horrible and we owe people from 400 years agonizing people, at some point it was going to happen.

So, what you are saying is they should be able to have the opinion that straight people are committing literal genocide against trans and gays, call people whatever they wish and people should just shut up and not say a word?

No, this is people’s hobbies and can say whatever the fuck they want and you can cry in your mom’s breasts if you want, I don’t care and neither does anyone else.

I don’t go around saying things to people because I just don’t care enough about them, but to the people that do say things and stand up to this idiocy, I salute you.

This company is all over videos saying how to scare developers into doing what they want by including race and sexuality to fear monger devs into putting idiocy into games.

Edit: please expound on how people are pushing this agenda? Not wanting to constantly be told your horrible is not an agenda, it is just being pure tired of it.
 
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blue velvet

Member
All for some homophobic temper tantrum in video games. How low the bar has sunk.

Anti-woke retards make me ashamed for enjoying this medium sometimes with so much double digit IQ dumbfucks shitting all over the walls with halfbaked arguments and demand someone else to clean their shit up. Having such a staunch opinion about a topic or company but have barely a clue how the industry or company works, should be an obvious red flag, but Dunning-Kruger is in full effect most of the time.
Damn, bruh. Are you the CEO of yapping?
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Why are they hiring these people? Why?

What can they do that me and you and any person alive can't?

Even if you want your game to be woke for some reason, how hard is to just... Do it yourself? You know, without paying them?
While Im not in the upper echelon of my corporate ladder, I have seen my corporation license dozens of these third party companies in recent years. They range from mental health to self improvement and bizarre software apps no one uses because we are all too busy at work. I asked my director about this because id rather just get a bigger raise instead of having the company waste millions on so many of these ridiculous third party licenses, and was told that the company gets incentives for getting these self help and pro-mental health initiatives. The CEO gets paid more if he/she partners with these various companies and the board then gets paid some more if they pressure the CEO to hire them. The board is likely getting kickbacks from someone at the top who wants these companies to succeed.

My guess is that they are all investing in these companies and it's a scheme to pay themselves. They can either give their money to their employees or funnel that money back to themselves via other companies. It's just easier to have a front thats pro-diversity, mental health or inclusion. Or at least thats what they thought but now with the pushback, i wouldnt be surprised if these companies have their funding pulled.
 

thefool

Member
All for some homophobic temper tantrum in video games. How low the bar has sunk.

Anti-woke retards make me ashamed for enjoying this medium sometimes with so much double digit IQ dumbfucks shitting all over the walls with halfbaked arguments and demand someone else to clean their shit up. Having such a staunch opinion about a topic or company but have barely a clue how the industry or company works, should be an obvious red flag, but Dunning-Kruger is in full effect most of the time.

Nah.
This shit ain't flying no more.
 
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jason10mm

Gold Member
While Im not in the upper echelon of my corporate ladder, I have seen my corporation license dozens of these third party companies in recent years. They range from mental health to self improvement and bizarre software apps no one uses because we are all too busy at work. I asked my director about this because id rather just get a bigger raise instead of having the company waste millions on so many of these ridiculous third party licenses, and was told that the company gets incentives for getting these self help and pro-mental health initiatives. The CEO gets paid more if he/she partners with these various companies and the board then gets paid some more if they pressure the CEO to hire them. The board is likely getting kickbacks from someone at the top who wants these companies to succeed.

My guess is that they are all investing in these companies and it's a scheme to pay themselves. They can either give their money to their employees or funnel that money back to themselves via other companies. It's just easier to have a front thats pro-diversity, mental health or inclusion. Or at least thats what they thought but now with the pushback, i wouldnt be surprised if these companies have their funding pulled.
I see it at my work as well. HOURS wasted on "feel good" sermons when what would ACTUALLY reduce workplace discontentment and improve work quality is TRAINING FOLKS how to do their jobs better. So do we engage in realistic and practical exercises to improve our produce? Nooooooooooo, better to sit in a class for an hour while someone tells us to be nice to each other, especially that unskilled loon that everyone has to carry because they have no clue what they are doing.
 
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