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[ResurrectedContrarian]

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.

It's pretty fantastic, actually; using the proper route of letting consumers vote with full knowledge of what's behind their purchases. I can very easily just avoid every game on the list and know that I'm not contributing to this nonsense.

 

[Moriarty1889]

All Sweet baby inc employees can suck my dick in line

Fuck them and fuck all these purple nosering nazis that are poisoning the industry

Most epic comment yet! Love it and spot on!

 

[Pejo]

I wouldn't celebrate this as a big win or anything, now companies are just using them in secret and taking the money and infesting the product anyways.

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[Syphon Filter]

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.

shut up you woke leftist.

 

[Sharius]

I wouldn't celebrate this as a big win or anything, now companies are just using them in secret and taking the money and infesting the product anyways.

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Their stench can be smell from miles away, doesn't matter company hide it or not

 

[kikii]

I wouldn't celebrate this as a big win or anything, now companies are just using them in secret and taking the money and infesting the product anyways.

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also on that same video @8:15 >>>

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Having such a staunch opinion about a topic or company but have barely a clue how the industry or company works

Representatives of the company have semi-openly, if not openly, admitted to:
- basically blackmailing other companies into accepting their "services"
- hating the main audience of the products they "help" make
- wanting to completely overturn what the industry is about because of personal reasons

You know what you usually call people who do all of this? Mobsters would be the kindest word.
They're not the good guys. Stop pretending they are.

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

I wouldn't celebrate this as a big win or anything, now companies are just using them in secret and taking the money and infesting the product anyways.

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I still do not understand why companies feel obliged to consult with them.

I also find the company name and logo to be very alarming. Sweet Baby Inc?!

 

[Cakeboxer]

I wouldn't celebrate this as a big win or anything, now companies are just using them in secret and taking the money and infesting the product anyways.

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Comments deactivated, what a surprise.

 

[GymWolf]

That logo,

We are the new porn
Our kind is newborn

Edit: beated

 

[Gonzito]

Comments deactivated, what a surprise.

Bunch of cowards losers

 

[GymWolf]

When the company that exists to make your product less of a PR liability actually becomes a PR liability.

Also, the breathtaking hubris of telling other professional writers who actually create things for a living that you can make 'make their stories better' is quite something.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I still do not understand why companies feel obliged to consult with them.

It’s a hive mind - nobody wants to rock the boat, execs love vague initiatives such as DEI, they are vague just enough not to attract scrutiny, and look great on an exec’s CV.

 

[GymWolf]

You thought they were going to go without a fight?

Is this the best they can offer?

Because their fighting spirit looks more like this at the moment

 

[GymWolf]

How did this company even become a thing?

Publishers get money from blackcock to include this shit in their games.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Bunch of cowards losers

They love to live in their bubble/echo chamber. I mean we live here in a bubble too, but i and bet others too also talk to casuals and non gamers about those things in games and movies.

I have a friend who absolutely loved Ghost of Tsushima. Send him a picture and the Wikipedia entry of the part 2 actress. His reaction: "Go fuck yourself, not gonna buy that shit". And he is a casual, married with kids, no right-winger, not homphob or whatever. Just a normal dude that likes to play games. He is pissed about Disney too.

It's much more people who hate that stuff, but unfortunately most accept it silently.

 

[Silver Wattle]

They love to live in their bubble/echo chamber. I mean we live here in a bubble too, but i and bet others too also talk to casuals and non gamers about those things in games and movies.

I have a friend who absolutely loved Ghost of Tsushima. Send him a picture and the Wikipedia entry of the part 2 actress. His reaction: "Go fuck yourself, not gonna buy that shit". And he is a casual, married with kids, no right-winger, not homphob or whatever. Just a normal dude that likes to play games. He is pissed about Disney too.

It's much more people who hate that stuff, but unfortunately most accept it silently.

 

[Bernardougf]

They love to live in their bubble/echo chamber. I mean we live here in a bubble too, but i and bet others too also talk to casuals and non gamers about those things in games and movies.

I have a friend who absolutely loved Ghost of Tsushima. Send him a picture and the Wikipedia entry of the part 2 actress. His reaction: "Go fuck yourself, not gonna buy that shit". And he is a casual, married with kids, no right-winger, not homphob or whatever. Just a normal dude that likes to play games. He is pissed about Disney too.

It's much more people who hate that stuff, but unfortunately most accept it silently.

This discourse that "anti-wokeness" is a matter of a few bubbled incels in forums is very amusing seeing what happened at large to hollywood in later years... its literally the "defenders" putting their hands in the sand and ignoring the social change outside gaming ... gaming just took longer because this shit lauching now has been greenlighted 4-6 years ago ... anyone launching woke stuff in about 4 - 6 years from now.. good luck... not matter the pedigree.

Ill say that if that abomination that was TLOU2 launched this year.. the already divisive reception would have been even more interesting.

 

[Moriarty1889]

I wouldn't celebrate this as a big win or anything, now companies are just using them in secret and taking the money and infesting the product anyways.

(timestamped)

What an egotistical self centered bitch. Always the victim even though she is on video admitting how she openly harassed and threatened devs to cave to their woke shite agenda. The devs had no backbone and should have told her to fuck off with her colored haired nutjob group of crazies. Instead they felt guilty and scared at the same time so they caved. God forbid they be branded as Racists or Homophobic……Screw her and her toxic brand. All they do is continue to push a bullshit narrative and infect gaming even more. The fact that devs continue to support them only shows how stupid and guilty they must feel. It is unreal how weak minded people are today and want to be part of the herd that virtue signals and just goes along with every line of crap they are fed. Lots of these people in the industry it seems and doesn’t look like it going to change anytime soon. If anything, it will continue to spread like a plague and get worse with all these woke assholes. Gaming at some point will break and maybe then something will change. Maybe.

 

[Moriarty1889]

I still do not understand why companies feel obliged to consult with them.

I also find the company name and logo to be very alarming. Sweet Baby Inc?!

Because they are afraid of being branded racists or homophobes. Also she is a woman of color and today that allows her to do whatever she wants with weak minded people who dare not say no to her. So many people today will just go along even against their own morals or values and accept shit like this because they are weak and cowards. That is why we are where we are. To many spineless cowards not standing up to her and the shit she peddles.

 

[Bernardougf]

What an egotistical self centered bitch. Always the victim even though she is on video admitting how she openly harassed and threatened devs to cave to their woke shite agenda. The devs had no backbone and should have told her to fuck off with her colored haired nutjob group of crazies. Instead they felt guilty and scared at the same time so they caved. God forbid they be branded as Racists or Homophobic……Screw her and her toxic brand. All they do is continue to push a bullshit narrative and infect gaming even more. The fact that devs continue to support them only shows how stupid and guilty they must feel. It is unreal how weak minded people are today and want to be part of the herd that virtue signals and just goes along with every line of crap they are fed. Lots of these people in the industry it seems and doesn’t look like it going to change anytime soon. If anything, it will continue to spread like a plague and get worse with all these woke assholes. Gaming at some point will break and maybe then something will change. Maybe.

Gaming is breaking.. I think a full blowout is basically impossible ... but seeing several high budget AAA fested with DEI/woke elements from major studios just completely flopping at this rate.. is something unprecedented (I think) , WB- suicide squad , Ubsoft- outlaws , Sony- Concord, just to name a few... shit ubisoft just posponed in 6 months their almost done new Assassins Creed most probably because it was not achieving pre-sales targets together with the bad reputation already between gamers.... yes each of them had multiple reasons for failing .. but the common ground is heavily DEI influence and not listening to feedback.

The DEI era gaming bubble is heavily leaking.. theres just no way back imho.

 

[ClanOfNone]

They will still be listed in game credits.

California, I think, is giving tax credits if you hire DEI consultants for a film or game, so they’ll be in business a while. Hell, maybe I should start a competitor….

I haven't heard about Hit Detection in a long time but a lot of people will be familiar with Jeff Green from 1UP/CGW/GFW fame and who consulted (or still does) for the firm and how I'm assuming a lot of us were introduced to the firm the first place. The idea was to take experienced media professionals and give them access to builds of a game throughout the development process and evaluate how that game would be received critically which would then let studios course correct or polish a game in the hopes of making a better game that would be received better critically and hopefully commercially. My knowledge of the company comes long before the current culture war so I'm not sure what their involvement in projects is these days.

The Black Dragon! His Dark Souls playthrough is legend. Man, I miss the GFW Brodeo so much. Best podcast ever.

 

[Moriarty1889]

Gaming is breaking.. I think a full blowout is basically impossible ... but seeing several high budget AAA fested with DEI/woke elements from major studios just completely flopping at this rate.. is something unprecedented (I think) , WB- suicide squad , Ubsoft- outlaws , Sony- Concord, just to name a few... shit ubisoft just posponed in 6 months their almost done new Assassins Creed most probably because it was not achieving pre-sales targets together with the bad reputation already between gamers.... yes each of them had multiple reasons for failing .. but the common ground is heavily DEI influence and not listening to feedback.

The DEI era gaming bubble is heavily leaking.. theres just no way back imho.

It is ludicrous with these games tanking and yet the devs still continuing to support this shite agenda. It seems they are willing to go bankrupt and lose everything all for the sake of DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION………because losing everything you have is at least better than being called racist or homophobic or a bloody misogynist…..right? Clown World indeed.

 

[dDoc]

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.

SBI employees have been very outspoken on social media on their views.

One of them even went on record stating he s I it to see the game industry burn down.

The amount of shit their consulting has led to in various games is not going down well with gamers.

Why are you surprised that people don't want them around their entertainment mediums?

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

It is ludicrous with these games tanking and yet the devs still continuing to support this shite agenda. It seems they are willing to go bankrupt and lose everything all for the sake of DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION………because losing everything you have is at least better than being called racist or homophobic or a bloody misogynist…..right? Clown World indeed.

The DEI developers were hired years ago, but because of how long it takes to make games, only now are the games released.
Now these devs are shit at making games, but only now does that fact became public. The decisions were made 6 years ago or so and it is too late to pivot.

So what we are watching is a mass car-crash as each woke game was launched and died. They are still being released because it is too late to pull the breaks. Although one could argue that you are better off eating the losses and not release the games at all.

 

[Cakeboxer]

shut up you woke leftist.

That guy has thrown so many insults, no idea how he hasn't been banned yet.

 

[Hypnotoad]

Edit: nevermind

 

[Fake]

Why waste time with people that deny/defend DEI? While we have a vast material proving they never do.

Why lose energy in this type of conversation when they never prove their claims?

How many videos of Sweet Baby Inc we still need to show yet complete deny?

 

[AJUMP23]

I don’t think this is good. Now it just allows them to hide what they influence. They will still get work but they will be more subtle about it. No change in development change in behavior and communication.

 

[Sharius]

Why waste time with people that deny/defend DEI? While we have a vast material proving they never do.

Why lose energy in this type of conversation when they never prove their claims?

How many videos of Sweet Baby Inc we still need to show yet complete deny?

spread awareness as much as we can, i presume, we cannot complete get rid of wokies as long as they still infest HR in big company and still hire people not base on talent but base on their imagination checklist, but we also not really lose to them as long as china doesn't complete approve these thing, don't ever say china doesn't matter, steam is goddamn huge in china and they alone make up for 80% of 20 million copy of wukong sale just in one month, also south east asian has alot of steam user too and their population like 700-800 million in total, company will think twice if they want to go 100% wokeness and risk of lost these market

 

[Mister Wolf]

I don’t think this is good. Now it just allows them to hide what they influence. They will still get work but they will be more subtle about it. No change in development change in behavior and communication.

We can spot the games with their feminist, racial, and sexuality ideologies from a mile away.

 

[SSfox]

The terrorists and plague of gaming industry

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

When the company that exists to make your product less of a PR liability actually becomes a PR liability.

Also, the breathtaking hubris of telling other professional writers who actually create things for a living that you can make 'make their stories better' is quite something.

It's incredibly ironic when you see the co-founder of SBI instructing an audience of clapping seals to threaten devs/publishers with what would happen if they DIDN'T hire these consultancy leeches for these projects.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

My post was clearly mocking "Twitter looneys", silly pants.

 

[KINGMOKU]

What I have found interesting, is that over the years, the "silent majority", has become less silent, and the obviously mentally ill, have started to become the "silent minority."

You can only push so hard, before the pendulum swings back, and recent events have signaled that indeed, the pendulum is gathering speed.

Those who think change is a one way street, are in for quite a shock.

 

[EDMIX]

What would be an alternative and adult way to get rid of this nonsense?

I mean, I'd argue the adult way would be realizing you fucking can't...

Someone made something you disagree with, to them they are just living their lives creating.

When you spend your life just obsessing over ways to um "get rid of this nonsense" instead of just ignoring it and enjoy content you like, I'd argue that is more a waste.


At least their time is being spent doing what they love ,your time seems to be spent crying over folks having free will.

Thats like me saying how do I get rid of this nonsense of people writing books i disagree with, ooooorrrrrr I can fucking read shit I like. Why would I be spending all my time trying to fight a person having a fucking opinion about creating something? So regardless of anyone's opinions on either side, I don't see the value of crying over others having free will.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

It's literally Act Man.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

I mean, I'd argue the adult way would be realizing you fucking can't...

Someone made something you disagree with, to them they are just living their lives creating.

This is disingenuous. Consultancy firms like SBI aren't "making" games. They're third-party groups that are brought in specifically to alter how the game is made. They aren't necessary to the process at all.

 

[Innoculis]

Extensively empowered women of Sweet Baby Inc have launched a new website. The page that used to list work in progress future games is gone. Just sayng.

Sweet Baby Inc – We Know Stories.

sweetbabyinc.com

https://archive.md/oIgBW

Are you fucking kidding me? Deleted my post to show restraint? Jesus Christ. Please delete or ban my profile. This site is fucking cancer.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Publishers get money from blackcock to include this shit in their games.

The question then would be, what does Blackrock gets by getting games more inclusive.

 

[Hestar69]

Representatives of the company have semi-openly, if not openly, admitted to:
- basically blackmailing other companies into accepting their "services"
- hating the main audience of the products they "help" make
- wanting to completely overturn what the industry is about because of personal reasons

You know what you usually call people who do all of this? Mobsters would be the kindest word.
They're not the good guys. Stop pretending they are.

Cook that loser! Anyone Defending sweet baby inc should be on that purple weird site where they all have pronouns and mental issues.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Extensively empowered women of Sweet Baby Inc have launched a new website. The page that used to list work in progress future games is gone. Just sayng.

Sweet Baby Inc – We Know Stories.

sweetbabyinc.com

https://archive.md/oIgBW

Yup. They totally changed their website streamlining it as much as possible. It used to be this. Those tabs at the top were functioning. What a bunch of babies. All talk.

Just do a Google search, you can still see the tabs listed, but click it and goes to a blank page, so they emptied the content from the tabs or outright deleted them in case people still tried accessing them. At some point Google might remove them.

 

[Cakeboxer]

I hope that someday one big dev will make a test. A game where you can turn on DEI content and then tells the people after a year how many players did that AND finished the game. That would be a reality check those consulting companies and their clients probably wouldn't like. Sometimes i wonder if they are just opportunists or if they take it seriously.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

The question then would be, what does Blackrock gets by getting games more inclusive.

Political influence and ultimately, money.

It's a "circular economy" as some politicians love to call it, when megacorps blur the lines with the establishment.

 

[Moriarty1889]

Are you fucking kidding me? Deleted my post to show restraint? Jesus Christ. Please delete or ban my profile. This site is fucking cancer.

Yes it appears SBI has defenders on this site as well. Otherwise why so sensitive and delete your post? Absolutely insane.

 

[PJX]

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

That's the woke mafia for you. This woman called me a mysoginist pig because I wouldn't bring her on as project I was working on. This is despite about 50% of the people I bring on are females. I didn't bring her on because she had a really shit attitude and I know she would disrupt the team's chemistry. So when I asked her to define misogynist, she got up and called me a loose booty faggot. I just smiled at her and laughed.

 

[GymWolf]

The question then would be, what does Blackrock gets by getting games more inclusive.

I don't know.

 

[Cakeboxer]

The question then would be, what does Blackrock gets by getting games more inclusive.

Maybe the bosses are friends of Druckman or their wifes are pink haired.

 

[The Mad Draklor]

Why waste time with people that deny/defend DEI? While we have a vast material proving they never do.

Why lose energy in this type of conversation when they never prove their claims?

How many videos of Sweet Baby Inc we still need to show yet complete deny?

It's exactly why you should never take them seriously as in responding to them point-by-point. They're just keeping you occupied while you'd be better off spending that time clowning on them. Just look at HL3.exe and the other usual suspects. Is it really worth refuting his unhingedness? Not really.

 

[llien]

As long as the ESG initiative exists, publicly traded companies will continue to take cheap money and conform to activist demands attached to it. And as long as that's the case, there will be hundreds of SBI across the globe leeching off of it. They just change names and hide themselves.

When ESG is cemented by legislators (it is where I live) it stops being "activist demands", but becomes something much more problematic.