What is a "Woke" Game

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KLAMarine said:

The first photos Google shows in the ad had poor lighting. As a solution, Google sells some feature called real tone on their Pixel phone rather than tell their target audience that cameras need good lighting to take good pictures.

I view this like an insurance salesman selling volcano insurance in an area with no volcano close by. A dishonest salesman will show the horrors of volcano eruptions to their target audience and hide the fact that there is no volcano in the area.

I'm calling Google dishonest in the ad and to top this dishonesty off, they add a fake veneer of social consciousness to their marketing. I find this appeal-to-emotion marketing obnoxious. And while I dislike using the word 'woke', if I had to use it, this ad would qualify as 'woke' in my book.

...Is it truly woke though? They aren't telling you to treat others differently, they aren't even telling you to accept minorities or socially progressive issues...

They are literally just selling a feature for their phones and they needed someone with a dark complexion to showcase that feature... How would you demonstrate that feature? Use a black cat at night? Or a white person? Probably not the same effect.

JRPGfan said:

Plus I think, even if LGTBQA+ make up a small part of society,alot of people that get into graphic design and creative fields, are gay or lesbian, compaired to normal people. These people find jobs, in the games industry (someone has to make the graphics ect).  And they believe in this stuff, because alot of them are from that part of the community (or have friends from the field that are, so allies as they call themselves).

I think this is a bit of a false generalization.

I am LGBTQI... I am a motorcycling riding, firefighter. - You can't get more toxic masculinity than that, I can put many straight, white, males to shame.
My partner is an Ambulance officer.

Most of the other LGBTQI people in my life are also first responders... Whether it's working at minesites, local services or interstate.

Art? You either have that aptitude or you don't. - I don't have an artistic bone in my body... And I couldn't think of anything more boring than graphics design or being "creative".

Consequently when I have used local businesses to make custom graphics kits for my motorcycles such as my Gold KLX Supermoto, they definitely were straight males... And they appreciated the design I was pushing for.

I don't doubt there is LGBTQI people in art/graphics design, but we aren't all stereotypical princesses who can't get their hands dirty, there is not a single industry LGBTQI people aren't a part of... Because we are people first, being gay/lesbian is just a minor aspect of who we are.

And that's the issue I find a lot of conservatives and progressives have, they only focus on the "gay" part of a gay man, they don't see anything else... Provided that LGBQI individual even discloses their label in the first place, many don't because there is to much baggage and bullshit that comes with it.