I've been trying to define it myself. 😕 I really don't know at this point. We need a new way to describe what they are going on about I consider it to be when activists put activism before the product but often lack of talent or finese can end up do ling the same, DA Veilgaurd wasn't particularly more woke than DA Inquisition but it lacked talent and nuance in the delivery of it's message. The writing was shit, everything was forced and really on the nose but again, no more "woke" the DA: I. I really think there are better ways to do it, if you're trans in the world of Thedas are you really going to under go surgery which is barbaric in a world where magic exists that allows for the same process in a much less dangerous way but that's aside the point.
It seems to be on some level what people don't agree with visually, like if Stellar Blade left everything the same but made Eve a lesbian, they wouldn't complain. They'd say this is woke done right but if they were to make Eve ugly and do the same, then there is a problem for them.
I'm so very sick of it at this point, if everything is woke then nothing is. I'll make my own mind up on wheter the delivery of the social commentary and messaging deserves to be in the game and wheter a character fits their setting.
When it hits things I love very dearly I can see who the fakers are and who is sincere when they label something as woke. Ciri is now woke, these people did not play TW3 or Blood and wine. Fake fans who don't care. After the TGA and the uproar of everything, I can clearly see these people are just up for railing against everything popular and they don't have any critical thought at all, all they can do is point and go "wooooke DEI, non-buynery". Fuck 'em.
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