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Anita Sarkeesian Doesn't Like CyberPunk 2077

Started by Shawn Driscoll, June 17, 2019, 04:01:53 PM

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Shawn Driscoll

"Hey @CDPROJEKTRED, I'm always available for consulting cause it sure sounds like you might need it before the whole of the internet drags you for what sounds like some potentially sexist representations... which we all know you've struggled with in the past"

https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1140137414381322240

SavageSchemer

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1092465"Hey @CDPROJEKTRED, I'm always available for consulting cause it sure sounds like you might need it before the whole of the internet drags you for what sounds like some potentially sexist representations... which we all know you've struggled with in the past"

https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1140137414381322240

I read her twitter feed as "I'm broke and because I'm Woke nobody will hire me! Please throw some money my way!"
The more clichéd my group plays their characters, the better. I don't want Deep Drama™ and Real Acting™ in the precious few hours away from my family and job. I want cheap thrills, constant action, involved-but-not-super-complex plots, and cheesy but lovable characters.
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Armchair Gamer

"Nice-looking game you've got there ... would be a shame if something happened to it."

GeekyBugle

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1092467"Nice-looking game you've got there ... would be a shame if something happened to it."

The #SocJusCult con explained
1.- Create #Fauxtrage against company X for being #IstPhobes
2.- Contact company X offering "sensitivity readers", "consultation" to avoid offending the #PhantomAudience
3.- Profit
4.- Rinse and repeat
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

kythri


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Ratman_tf

Quote from: kythri;1092471Best response from that Twatter thread:


Good take, but Her whole career is about not shutting up about video games.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
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Blood Axe

" Feminist Media Critic " that should tell you all you need to know right there.
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 But when life loses its meaning
 and is taken for naught...
 then the pact is to AVENGE !

jeff37923

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1092467"Nice-looking game you've got there ... would be a shame if something happened to it."

Oh, that's exactly what she is doing. Extortion.
"Meh."

Darrin Kelley

Who do these idiots think they are? To try and tell a creator what to do with the art they create.

Cyberpunk is Mike Pondsmith's vision. And CDPR are adapting that vision to the video game medium. Nothing more, nothing less.

How dare these SJW idiots try to push their desired version of reality upon someone else's creation? They weren't invited to contribute at all. They weren't given Mike Pondsmith's permission at all.
 

Snowman0147

Quote from: Darrin Kelley;1092480Who do these idiots think they are? To try and tell a creator what to do with the art they create.

Cyberpunk is Mike Pondsmith's vision. And CDPR are adapting that vision to the video game medium. Nothing more, nothing less.

How dare these SJW idiots try to push their desired version of reality upon someone else's creation? They weren't invited to contribute at all. They weren't given Mike Pondsmith's permission at all.

Mike Pondsmith is busy telling the SJWs to back the fuck off from the game.  The man is a godsend as far as I am concern.

Mordred Pendragon

Anita Sarkeesian is a scumbag and she is trying to commit extortion.

Your average Mafioso has more morality and tact than she does.

Also, I doubt the guys behind Cyberpunk 2077 will bow to her given that Mike Pondsmith is on their side and they know that the SJW's already have it out for them since The Witcher 3.

Plus any goodwill Anita has with the MSM and the gaming press is quickly fading fast.

She didn't get her endgame goal at those UN hearings and now the video game industry is ignoring her since she was a consultant to both Mass Effect Andromeda AND Anthem, two of the largest video game failures in recent years so she's no longer seen as infallible like she once was.

Heck, if she was a consultant in Fallout 76, she'd be completely sunk once and for all.

Heck, I think her attempts at weaseling into tabletop gaming and getting a guest spot at GenCon is her trying to find new marks in the wake of Mass Effect Andromeda bombing hard since she knew the video game outrage well is starting to dry up for her.

She's trying to capitalize on the SJW outrage brigade against Cyberpunk 2077 as some sort of Hail Mary pass at getting back into the video game gravy train and bleeding a few more companies dry with the leftist media's explicit approval.
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JeremyR

This is basically what Jesse Jackson did (and I guess still does) for decades.   Threatens companies into hiring him as a consultant or he'll push for a boycott

GeekyBugle

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1092482Anita Sarkeesian is a scumbag and she is trying to commit extortion.

Your average Mafioso has more morality and tact than she does.

Also, I doubt the guys behind Cyberpunk 2077 will bow to her given that Mike Pondsmith is on their side and they know that the SJW's already have it out for them since The Witcher 3.

Plus any goodwill Anita has with the MSM and the gaming press is quickly fading fast.

She didn't get her endgame goal at those UN hearings and now the video game industry is ignoring her since she was a consultant to both Mass Effect Andromeda AND Anthem, two of the largest video game failures in recent years so she's no longer seen as infallible like she once was.

Heck, if she was a consultant in Fallout 76, she'd be completely sunk once and for all.

Heck, I think her attempts at weaseling into tabletop gaming and getting a guest spot at GenCon is her trying to find new marks in the wake of Mass Effect Andromeda bombing hard since she knew the video game outrage well is starting to dry up for her.

She's trying to capitalize on the SJW outrage brigade against Cyberpunk 2077 as some sort of Hail Mary pass at getting back into the video game gravy train and bleeding a few more companies dry with the leftist media's explicit approval.

Attempts? I might be operating on wrong or outdated info but she and the other landwhale Zoe were hired by WotC for what we don't know. And then Known SocJus zealot Fail Somemore was seen getting a "tour" of their offices.

For the sake of my fellow gamers that love D&D I hope to be wrong but I think WotC is already circling the drain and their influence will be seen more and more in the next year or two.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

rgalex

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1092485Attempts? I might be operating on wrong or outdated info but she and the other landwhale Zoe were hired by WotC for what we don't know. And then Known SocJus zealot Fail Somemore was seen getting a "tour" of their offices.

For the sake of my fellow gamers that love D&D I hope to be wrong but I think WotC is already circling the drain and their influence will be seen more and more in the next year or two.

Yeah, WotC is going to go down fast if this is any indication.
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/06/dungeons-and-dragons-designer-convinced-staff-to-use-sjw-tumblr-blog-as-resource/86571/

The general gist of the article is that D&D game designer Kate Welch convinced all of the other game designers at Wizards of the Coast to read through an SJW Tumblr blog as a useful resource for writing "ethnically diverse" characters.

Quote from: Darrin Kelley;1092480Who do these idiots think they are? To try and tell a creator what to do with the art they create.

Cyberpunk is Mike Pondsmith's vision. And CDPR are adapting that vision to the video game medium. Nothing more, nothing less.

How dare these SJW idiots try to push their desired version of reality upon someone else's creation? They weren't invited to contribute at all. They weren't given Mike Pondsmith's permission at all.

Part of that blog said (emphasis mine):

Quote"Asking for resources is good, but it's very important to let go of the concept of sole authorship with the stories you want to write; if you're too focused on your own exploration of a culture, your own compiling of probably cherry-picked legends, your own interpretations based on our lore (likely filtered through a culturally-Christian lens), etc...

"If you focus too much on you, you've created a situation where our religious concepts are being shared around without our nations attached to them, which is the definition of cultural appropriation. You're put your own ego in front of letting us have authorship."

Now, it's specifically talking about writing other cultures but I can easily see it being applied on a wider scale.