https://sweetbabyinc.com/projects/

I was surprised to see the WotC label as Sweet Baby Inc.'s client.  I guess that explains why D&D content has been sucking sphincter for sales.  I'm hypothesizing that this company supplied the censors that read WotC content three times and come up with more new "racisms" to censor creator content and to make WotC's content pablum.  The dumbest thing you can do to content is to make it boring.  And with sensitivity readers they only get paid by making content boring and they have to find new things to censor to justify their  pay.  It's a purity spiral of bad sales.

Sweet Baby Inc isn't the core of the problem.  The blame for anything usually lies on the one top executive who makes the in-house decisions. 

Just don't make your product a veiled lecture on how to think in the real world. 

Quote from: weirdguy564 on March 05, 2024, 08:13:59 AM
Sweet Baby Inc isn't the core of the problem.  The blame for anything usually lies on the one top executive who makes the in-house decisions. 

Just don't make your product a veiled lecture on how to think in the real world.

There is active campaigns against Sweet Baby Inc and the censorship and weird ideas they bring.  By highlighting WotC's use of them, it can be brought up to the board of Hasbro about decisions being made by D&D executives and call them into question.  The 5.5E release and banning of books to prevent earlier edition of play from being possible on VTT's is a problem.

I think the connection to Sweet Baby Inc proper is through the Dark Alliance video game, but that's probably just the tip of the iceberg--WotC has had a lot of diversity consultants over the years.

(On a somewhat related note, I just found out this morning that Baldur's Gate III introduced a devil named Raphael into the mythology of the Forgotten Realms. Using the name of one of the three canonically named archangels for a devil is rather tone-deaf and mildly offensive, IMO.)

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on March 05, 2024, 08:59:18 AM
I think the connection to Sweet Baby Inc proper is through the Dark Alliance video game, but that's probably just the tip of the iceberg--WotC has had a lot of diversity consultants over the years.

(On a somewhat related note, I just found out this morning that Baldur's Gate III introduced a devil named Raphael into the mythology of the Forgotten Realms. Using the name of one of the three canonically named archangels for a devil is rather tone-deaf and mildly offensive, IMO.)

You may not be aware of the DEI/cultural offense code of conduct but insensitivity towards Christians, whites, and anything related to western culture is actively encouraged by the wokesters.

Quote from: Exploderwizard on March 05, 2024, 11:17:01 AM
You may not be aware of the DEI/cultural offense code of conduct but insensitivity towards Christians, whites, and anything related to western culture is actively encouraged by the wokesters.

  Oh, I'm well aware of it. I'm just not used to it being quite so blatant, and I like to point it out to maybe shake some of their "We're good and sensitive people, really!" dupes out of their slumber.

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Quote from: Exploderwizard on March 05, 2024, 11:17:01 AM
You may not be aware of the DEI/cultural offense code of conduct but insensitivity towards Christians, whites, and anything related to western culture is actively encouraged by the wokesters.

  Oh, I'm well aware of it. I'm just not used to it being quite so blatant, and I like to point it out to maybe shake some of their "We're good and sensitive people, really!" dupes out of their slumber.

Christians are punching up, so its ok.  Leftards would look you square in the eye as they put you in yolks marching you to the firing line and tell you its ok because you are white.  Leftards = Communists and their purges.  Whenever you hear a jackass talk about "white privilege" they are using the same excuses to send the "privilege" classes of Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba to their deaths in work camps.

There's a video circulating where the co-founder of Sweet Baby Inc lays out their strategy. She tells the woke employees of video game companies to go to the marketing department and "terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen" if they don't hire a diversity consultant.

Even though the fault really lies with the top Hasbro and WotC executives, this strategy of going after the diversity grifters is a smart one. Find out who these companies are, look at their employee's Twitter, and report on all the racist things these people say. Because they ALWAYS say racists crap on Twitter.

Then bring this to the attention of the companies that hire them. That's the only way this will stop is by making corporations more afraid of using these diversity consultants than they are afraid of not using them.

Quote from: hedgehobbit on March 05, 2024, 11:52:25 AM
There's a video circulating where the co-founder of Sweet Baby Inc lays out their strategy. She tells the woke employees of video game companies to go to the marketing department and warn them that "terrible things will happen" if they don't hire a diversity consultant.

Even though the fault really lies with the top Hasbro and WotC executives, this strategy of going after the diversity grifters is a smart one. Find out who these companies are, look at their employee's Twitter, and report on all the racist things these people say. Because they ALWAYS say racists crap on Twitter.

Then bring this to the attention of the companies that hire them. That's the only way this will stop is by making corporations more afraid of using these diversity consultants than they are afraid of not using them.

How many more game studios do we need to shut down by not buying their products?  It's looking like we need EA to go bankrupt to get the message through.  Target got the message and backpaddled.  Anheuser got the message too late, is refusing to put out titty ads again and is watching its bud light brand become the gay beer with a 5% market compared to having 100% of the market before.  I mean who wants to be caught drinking the gender fluid now?  I think the best way to resolve this is to create block lists, follow them and run companies into the ground financially.  Leftards don't work and don't have spend, normies do have spend.  If WotC changed its behavior it could be harvesting all the Gen Xer's but instead its pissed us all off by stating they want whites gone.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on March 05, 2024, 12:19:22 PMHow many more game studios do we need to shut down by not buying their products?

One of the other Sweet Baby employees was trying to defend what they did. And "they" asked, since all AAA companies use these services "What are you going to do? Stop buying games?" As if that was an impossible outcome.

This is what I've been saying for a long time now. Their plan was never to give consumers a choice, but make every game exactly the same so that gamers (or customers of any product) have no choice but to buy a woke product.

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How many more game studios do we need to shut down by not buying their products?

All of them. Why not? We don't *need* them. We don't need any of them. What we don't already have, we can make on our own.

Quote from: Homeworlds on March 05, 2024, 03:55:45 PM

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How many more game studios do we need to shut down by not buying their products?

All of them. Why not? We don't *need* them. We don't need any of them. What we don't already have, we can make on our own.

That is the correct response.

Quote from: hedgehobbit on March 05, 2024, 12:27:52 PM
This is what I've been saying for a long time now. Their plan was never to give consumers a choice, but make every game exactly the same so that gamers (or customers of any product) have no choice but to buy a woke product.

That strategy won't work.  There is more great non-woke media already out than I have time to consume in my lifetime, rpgs, video games, movies, music, books, whatever.  If all of the new stuff is crap, then I'll just go with the old stuff I haven't done yet.

Amazing. So how much money did WotC give these stalinists?

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on March 05, 2024, 08:07:09 AM
https://sweetbabyinc.com/projects/

I was surprised to see the WotC label as Sweet Baby Inc.'s client.  I guess that explains why D&D content has been sucking sphincter for sales.  I'm hypothesizing that this company supplied the censors that read WotC content three times and come up with more new "racisms" to censor creator content and to make WotC's content pablum.  The dumbest thing you can do to content is to make it boring.  And with sensitivity readers they only get paid by making content boring and they have to find new things to censor to justify their  pay.  It's a purity spiral of bad sales.

No. WotC has been woke since possibly the late 90s early 00s. Its just it did not come to the fore till the current wave of the woke cycle kicked in, again, round 2010. And there was hints of the growing surge in WotC around the start of 5e's release. Well before Sweet Baby was ever a factor.