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Here are some Other WOKE games:

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  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    These guys are dumber than a box of rocks

    FFVII: Forced crossdressing! “Subtle pro-climate action messaging… you start the game working for an eco-terrorism group” data-laughing

    Witcher 2 is not woke despite the game being pretty heavyhanded about racism being bad. Also you can betray your cop friend and join forces with a minority freedom fighter after the first act

    Deus Ex is apparently not woke despite the same spreadsheet shitting on Cyberpunk 2077 for having anti-capitalist messaging and being pro-transhumanism and body modification

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    Reading the language used throughout the document it’s funny to see how these guys have morphed from edgy 4chan gamers into pearl-clutching Pat Robertsons

    hOmoSexUaL

    This really reads like some conservative Christian parents’ guide to kids’ media

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      I thought I didn’t buy Civ 5 or 6 because I was tired of the franchise but it turns out it’s actually because I uphold AES, good to know.

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      I’ve started growing weary of the franchise and still play 5 if I play at all. It’s very eurocentric, believes in Great Man, and believes in End of History nonsense. It has warped multiple generations’ understanding of history as something deterministic. Like Native Americans didn’t have cars because they never researched animal husbandry so that’s why they got wiped out by the technologically superior Spanish.

      There’s no implementation of food cultivation outside of European style farming. There’s no alternate tech trees for not having certain resources. Hint: if there aren’t any sources of iron near you, you’re not discovering steel. If there are no horses, you’re not discovering horseback riding. The list goes on and on.

      This doesn’t even get into how it applies government and law. It’s still “Pick good guy form of government to make people happy and authoritarian evil gobermint to build military units faster.”

    • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah in Civ VI they include communism, fascism and “democracy” in the game overtly as government types (Civ V had vague social policy trees of order, autocracy and freedom). Liberalism is a policy card that every government can use that gives happiness. Capitalism is a separate policy that everyone gets that includes some economic policy cards. Pretty damn lib shit, where to start with the problems here? It’s so incoherent and capitalist-realist brained. Capitalism and Liberalism are inevitable and permanent. If you are communism you aren’t a democracy apparently, and democracy is actually when you let corporations do whatever they want in a bourgeois dictatorship.

      They also made the prominent feature of communism internal trade routes, which really is just indicative of siege communism conditions of the USSR and the war mode of those revolutions. In Civ it wouldn’t necessarily be that way if most of the world was communist and at peace for instance, the prominent boosts for communism should be happiness boosts, production boost and science boost is there and good & getting rid of gold as a resource and converting it into bonuses for other things like production and growth.

      I don’t expect a mainstream game to use overt marxist analysis, but this is very sloppy design. Why not call the 3 government types instead “Liberal Democracy”, “Communist Republic” & “Fascist Autocracy”. Something like that at least to keep it consistent. Then have you unlock Liberal Democracy first, and then have some decisions and events and conditions that allow you to go one way or the other (by suppressing the revolution or by letting it wash over your nation). Fascist countries should demand constant war and burn out really quick, and have to regress back into a social-democratic “Liberal Democracy”. Communist Republics could likewise regress through a color revolution event back into Liberal Democracies.

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      They are of course, >!troonism!< & DEI is 5th generation asymmetric warfare against our supply lines. However, wars are won by logistics. Fighting any little skirmish along front lines in tertiary theaters is a strategical blunder that is bound to distract & avert and ultimately tire out before hot engagement has even begun. And precisely that is factored into the plans of the adversary already. It is critical to understand that we are at a huge strategical disadvantage at the current state of the war. We have neither the troops nor the supplies to enact an assault along the entire front line.

      Instead, in order to achieve operational dominance we must establish a schwerpunkt along critical infrastructure of the enemy from which we can effectively pivot into offensive operations. The fulcrum is not the internet and certainly not computer games, as much as I understand that many like to believe they are, but [TOP SECRET]. A thrust along this axis penetrating enemy lines would immediately disrupt the adversary’s command and control over our supply lines and cause a cascading effect of disarray.

      By maintaining operational momentum we would be able to facilitate rapid exploitation of the breach achieving breakthrough, ultimately enveloping enemy forces and securing our most important strategic objectives for the moment.

      I mean… what do you even say after reading something like this. It’s fucking embarrassing.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Conservatives have always been against climate change. It goes:

      “There is no global warming.”

      “Okay global warming is real but it’s not that bad.”

      “It is that bad but it’s not man-made so there’s nothing we can do.” (Mainstream conservatives are starting to take this position)

      “It is man-made and it’s caused by non-Americans and non-whites, so we should eradicate those people.”

      The neo-nazi, terminally online gamergaters are still on the “it’s not real” part.

      • jaywalker [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah, I understand that. I just didn’t realize “woke” included literally everything conservatives oppose? Idk climate change just doesn’t really fit what I had loosely defined it as on their behalf. I realize their ideology is incoherent anyway and there’s not much point.

        Also I already see quite a few “most pollution is from China/India/Africa” arguments online

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    If they were honest with these ridiculous criterias it would apply to all the most of the other games they favor. They’ll end up stuck with Custer’s revenge at this point

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      They have a conspiracy myth going on that basically equates transhumanism with being transgender.

      Which sounds absolutely based, but as usual, that’s lost on them.