pokoko said:
I mean, Stellar Blade literally just happened, though it was the Left that ironically tried to cancel the game. Unless Koreans don't qualify as PoC. It's hard to keep up. I actually just watched a video where a Chinese woman talked about someone telling her that she needed to recognize her "white privilege." Seems that Asian people are a new target because they are successful so I dunno. Regardless, I think it's obvious that most people don't care about the race of the protagonist. There is no doubt in my mind that a really good Blade or Black Panther game would be a hit. What people care about more is game developers weaponizing games to further their political agenda. Developers themselves have created an environment where many previous fans actively distrust them, mostly because they seem to like preaching on social media. Now, on a personal level, I find it pretty darn amusing. Both the Left and the Right attack games because of the race and gender of the main character but both get upset when the other side does it. Both do their best to cancel the games that offend them. Seriously, how funny is that? As an aside, I almost never use ambiguous terms like "woke" but the intense hang-wringing of the Left over their own word has me thinking about using it more. I mean, people throwing around "chud" and "nazi" all over the place are upset about "woke"? I mean, for real? |
I must be getting old. I completely forgot Stellar Blade existed because I was never interested in what to me looks like Sony's answer to Bayonetta myself. At a million copies sold as of June (which is quite a while ago now), maybe that game does have the potential to wind up as more than just a cult hit and become enjoyed by more than just male fetishists and the "sex-positivity" crowd. Probably not though because I really doubt that's the kind of representation that most women of color are just pining for more of, seriously. We'll see.
You're right about one thing though: there is something sad and kind of annoying about the seeming universality of cancel culture.
On your final note, I've been branded both "woke" and a "Nazi" and much more lots of times by those respective crowds. Not sure how that works. 
If I propose that athletic teams should be defined in a sex-based way, I get instantly compared to Mike Pence and accused of "genocide" by some. If I propose that the survival of actual women is more important than that of fertilized eggs, I get accused of murder, treason, and "genocide" by others. In fact, everything is genocide. All my opinions are genocide. I've killed everybody on Earth, it turns out. You're all dead. I'm a "groomer" because I'm gay and therefore a child molester, get it?; a "TERF" because I occasionally disagree with the gender identity movement; a "feminazi" because I don't hate my sex or gender; a "race traitor" because I call the murder of George Floyd was murder; a "white supremacist" because I don't feel personally responsible for slavery and Jim Crow or the murder or George Floyd; "Islamophobic" because I'm a liberal Zionist, "anti-Semitic" because I'm a liberal Zionist, "anti-Christ" because I'm not a Christian, and so on and so on and so on. ...What I'm trying to say is that yes, people should just generally scale it back a little and figure out that not everybody is actually out to get them and be slower to judge and quicker to listen.
But I also deploy all of those terms ("woke", "chud", "fascist/Nazi") against those I consider appropriate targets because there are appropriate targets. There are genuinely, dangerous naive idiots and tyrants and cultists and bigots in this world who cannot be reasoned with and they deserve these labels. I just define those far less generously than most people do, it seems. I'm getting boring in my old age, no?
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