What is a "Woke" Game

[Runa216]

Discussing 'wokeness' in video games (or any media, for that matter) is pretty much a waste of time at this point.

We know what it ACTUALLY means, and we know what people using it as a criticism are actually trying to say.

Long story short...it's just insecure people with at least a hint of bigotry in them loudly whining about ANY sort of inclusion of anyone that's not the traditional majority. Woman in the game? especially if she's not supermodel attractive and fappable? Woke. Black people in the game? Woke. Queer people in the game? Woke. Literally anything that's not a grizzled white man? Woke.

And of course it's always white males who get to decide what is an appropriate amount of representation. Because it's always gotta be about straight white boys. THEY get to decide how attractive a woman needs to be or what is a 'culturally appropriate' amount of black people or minorities. Because the idea that the world doesn't explicitly cater to them and only them is terrifying. They fear the potential future where THEY are as ostracized as much as the minorities (of all categories) have been by them all this time.

People who use the term 'woke' to negatively describe modern media are just insecure children who don't know their place in the world and can't fathom not being the center of attention. They just don't like the idea that progress is happening and they're not 95% of the medium anymore (only like 60% now) and will do ANYTHING to twist the facts or use diversity and inclusion to be a bad thing. IT's never 'because it's fantasy and it's fun' or 'maybe queer people deserve some love', it's always 'forced inclusion' and it's ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS negatively impacting the game.

The fact that people are bitching because Ciri is mature now and no longer as fuckable to them....and the fact that people ALREADY hate Intergalactic, and the fact that it's so goddamn predictable that these 'anti-woke' chuds are gonna go after anything that doesn't explicitly cater to them before we even know anything about the game or movie or how they handle the diversity proves that it's never actually been about compromised quality (like they claim). IT's literally just 'gaming is a white boy's club and anything else is an insult to the medium'.

Which is why I Can never take these arguments seriously. IT's just bigotry with extra steps and false justifications. So much of it is literally just insecure brats throwing tantrums about the fact that other people deserve to be represented, too. And they HATE that right now we might be overcompensating for a history of lack of representation because it means THEY get to feel a fraction of what these minorities felt for decades or centuries.

They got a tiny little taste of being repressed by mainstream media and they hate it so they have to throw infinite tantrums. IT's sad. IT's pathetic. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so exhausting.