You're right. A lot of this is just reactionary and tribal virtue signaling. These people don't even play these games and likely don't even talk with people outside their own personal circle about these things. The Social Justice Warrior just continues to evolve into a much more hideous Lovecraftian horror with each iteration and pushback means nothing to them. They double down each time. I know it is often seen as an edgy joke, but we really did win against the wrong enemy in WWII.
SJWs keep winning because they speak to genuine issues in the human heart and mind. Conservatives inability to understand basic human nature, despite their prattling about capitalism, is their biggest weakness. And frankly you demonstrate it here: Germany shit the bed by starting World War 2. Ran out of resources immediately, killed all their best soldiers in retarded forays, the fucking North African campaign was a pointless dud, and then they started purging their population of breedable men and women ensuring that they did not have human capital to carry their society into the future (and I'm not talking about the Jews.) Simply believing stuff like this means you are deeply disconnected not just from history but from the current year human experience. Part of the big problem right wingers have is that they babble their heads off about pointless history that no one gives a shit about while families can't afford food.
Insisting that "we sided with the wrong enemy in World War 2" is romanticizing the most retarded, useless, and pathetic fascist society ever founded. They wanted a thousand year reich and lasted less than a decade. They lost the only war they ever fought. No amount of tears shed over video games will ever redeem the vapid stupidity of inbred Germans trying to win a second war after they got their shit kicked in the first time. Idk, is it the uniforms that gets everyone hot under the collar and tricking them into thinking Germany could have won?
If you wanted to look at a fascist society that was moderately successful than you should be citing Franco's Spain. Francoist Spain had a lot of problems but they also kept a lid on their country and Franco eventually died of natural causes instead of being deposed. But there was no romantic war there to jerk off to and Franco largely kept to himself and even took in refugees from World War 2 and seeing someone be at least somewhat successful in running a country like that is scary and frightening because it doesn't play into the internet fantasies of le chuds or whatever.
"I don't want to do what's successful, I want to do what makes my jimmies tingles and I don't care if it makes me lose" is a mindset that lefties snapped out of pretty damn quick, hence their overwhelming victories. Right wingers do not want to leave the soft fluffy fantasy worlds that they spin.
I have only seen this game played via streams online. From what I have determined, all the woke shit in it isn't thrown into your face. You need to necessarily search for it. That's the key--the industry, as I remember it, was always trying to improve your own experience rather than throw blatant propaganda in your face. Just like your example of the Hogwarts game, I wonder how many readers even know that Rowling is even a classic feminist. When I was a child, the only reference I had was that little black-and-white photo of her and the short story about how the idea of Harry Potter came to her when she was on a train one day. I didn't know about all the feminism stuff until years and years later when the world decided that everything needed to be political.
A lot of fans definitely know now but yes, it wasn't obvious at all. I have no idea what Larian's politics are either, we can make some educated guesses of course but there's no real confirmation AFAIK. JK herself is a bit of a mixed bag, everyone is so focused on the tranny shit now that they forget that she libeled Pewdiepie/Felix as a Nazi and that she herself created and nourished her SJW fanbase. She couldn't believe that they turned on her but they simply followed her example. I like Harry Potter just fine and I enjoyed Legacy but I don't have much regard for her personally. She's an attention seeker and has a lot in common with Jordan Peterson and the pundits off places like The Daily Wire. She's constantly on twitter, obsessed with twitter, curating her standing on twitter, and posting inflammatory comments on twitter for likes and replies.
I'm glad she's doing what she's doing but she will never not be an attention seeker until she deletes her twitter account. It is truly the worst website in the world lol.
As one often will hear about older generations, one of the biggest rules of social interaction was to never talk about politics or religion. We played, we had fights, we made up, we played some more. Internet culture didn't start becoming a "thing" until I was a teenager and, even then, it was relegated to things like aol or battlenet. Ultimately, people were never meant to communicate this way and it has had a detrimental effect on human interaction.
Yes. It enables delusions and narcissism. It's a very sad state of affairs and I've started limiting my time spent on the internet myself in response. It's not a cure all and I don't feel all together "different" since I'm a computer toucher for my job. But not being on social media is nice.
My point was that nobody is allowed to be a moderate anymore. Nobody is allowed to not have an opinion on things. Like, I really don't care what Rowling believes in. And nobody should. People in general don't like a spotlight on every nuance of whatever systems of belief they hold or adhere to. So, why would anyone think it's right to impose the same scrutiny on anyone else?
Getting to judge others, with friends, is the best fun anyone could have. That IMO is the real secret.
This is difficult to determine. The only thing the game has going for it is adherence to the Dragon Age IP. Beyond that, the reactions to the trailer in addition to all the news coverage surrounding it shows that the pulse of your "modern audience" has skipped a beat somewhere. One thing I have seen is people who are saying "I gotta see how it will end!" as if wading through a bin of poopy diapers will somehow payoff once you reach the bottom. Nothing about how the end a series whose writing staff has changed hands numerous times will blow your mind. At best, they'll just add another cliffhanger because nobody knows how to resolve anything anymore in stories.
It is shaping up to be Andromeda Part 2. I will still buy it and play it, I want to see what Bioware does with itself without David Gaider driving the franchise. It started out as his baby and he was the most clear thinking of the writers room when he referred to the Qunari as "Muslim Borg" while describing them. I suspect that Patrick Weekes bullied him out of the company along with the Anthem fiasco.
EA's stocks call or whatever its called said that Dragon Age 4 pre orders had met their expectations.