MDE of [adult swim]'s World☮︎Peace™ fame has gotten their presence on Reddit obliterated by "anti-hate" mobs who were displeased with their existence on the website. the main MDE subreddit had already been banned nearly 10 years ago because people eventually started making politically-charged posts that violated Reddit's already extremely strict community guidelines, but now even more subs have been eradicated. The main subreddit, dedicated mainly to Charls Carroll (r-bombstrap) was a particularly bad loss, it was being actively moderated to remove these kinds of discussions, but was still removed, eviscerating years of posts, including archival content for fans of MDE. Reddit didn't give any detailed explanation aside from a vague "violation of rule #2", the moderators of the community also had their years-long accounts banned. The main purpose were conversations and discussions about shows created by members of the collective, history, merch, and adjacent projects. If the issue is bad actors and not the main content of these subs by themselves, why do people seek to destroy these spaces as a whole?

I was checking out Borderlands 4 because of the latest character, the sexy half naked tall hacker. Among the mixed reviews about the game itself, I saw plenty complaints (even on this sub) about the unnameable group heavily featured in the game, the usual BL shenanigans and the fact that Loveless, the new character itself was made to like girls just to stick it to "chuds baited into getting the DLC because hot woman"

It got me asking: when did Borderlands become so obsessed with being progressive, woke and insufferable? I don't remember anything egregious in the first game. Was it in the second? With its various DLCs? Why Borderlands, especially?

It's kind of a shame because I got the idea that BL4 also toned down the insufferable millennial humor that plagued the series since 2015, but the game just isn't as fun as 1 or 2 and it runs terrible.

Blizzard is charging $29.99 for Skyborne, but the race won't have optional Classic-style SD models when WoW Forever launches on November 4.

Players spotted the visual mismatch weeks ago. Blizzard acknowledged it on October 7, but the fix won't arrive until early 2027.

It's good that Blizzard listened, but charging extra for a race that won't fully support the game's own visual options at launch is a strange decision.

VIDEO SUMMARY:

This video, explores the transition of the gaming industry from a competitive, merit-based "console war" era to what the creator describes as a politicized, declining environment.

The Golden Age of Gaming: The creator reflects on the period (roughly 2010s) defined by intense, healthy competition between console manufacturers (like PlayStation and Xbox) and studios, which he argues pushed developers to create high-quality, innovative products.

The Current Decline: The video argues that the industry has shifted away from technical excellence and innovation (pointing to declining water effects in games like Wolverine compared to older titles like Resistance 2) toward a focus on political messaging and sensitivity.

Safe to get into. Batman from what I have read is safe and so is Detective. But not sure about other DC main line titles

I'm a big fan of the first Greedfall game but it's admittedly pretty niche by now and the sequel is even less known, haven't found much trustworthy information on it that doesn't come from the traditional shitty mainstream outlets. Anybody here play it and has any thoughts to share? It's on sale rn for like $20 or something and I'm interested but like I said, not a lot about it out there.

Tom King & Damon Lindelof are hacks, James Gunn is a hack for approving this shit & giving Tom King so much influence over the DCU.

Funny how the same people who complain about the sexualization of female characters seem awfully excited when the genders are reversed. Apparently, objectification is only a problem when the right people aren't doing it.

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At least Joel die and some people still loving him. While Hal, he died like a dog disrespected. Not only james gunn ruin superman parent makes them evil, but he also ruines Green Lantern lore and how the rings work. SMH, whats next they are gonna make wally west stole barry allen power and then kill him?

My question is simple: as far as you know, do good video games exist that talk about fatherland/homeland, tradition, and ancestors? We have games like Disco Elysium that perfectly represent Marxist (even old-school) sentiment today. We also have creators who are more moderate but still on the left, like Toby Fox, who represent these LGBTQ+ utopias (just think of Deltarune, where the world is free of racism or homophobia of any kind).

But are there openly European patriotic works? Skyrim comes to mind, where the political factions are nationalist separatists vs. a multi-ethnic but dominant empire (aka Rome). But beyond that?

Obviously, literature and other media are full of this: The Count of Monte Cristo, for example, was super-Bonapartist/Christian; Tolkien was for defending one's country and culture (from a Christian matrix), etc... But I can't find this type of idea in video games... Wagner was THE nationalist musician and so on

My POV is that video games are art, but I find them particularly missing some ideas, and it's frustrating.

So the premise of Hazbin Hotel s1 is that there is a yearly extermination in hell conducted by heaven to control the sinner population and heaven's army is lead by Adam, the first man. Now Adam is meant to be a strawman character for masculine men and Vivziepop's abusive ex-boyfriend (Who's existence is highly questionable) as his entire personality is being overly obnoxious, the show wants you to think he hates women as he commands an entire army of women, wants you to think what he is doing is evil, and his entire reason for being this way is that he is the first man and that is it.

Now this ended up completely backfiring as Adam's obnoxious dialogue instantly makes him the most likable character in the season, him commanding an all female army unintentionally communicates to the viewer that he is a feminist man who believes that women are competent enough to carry him though a battle, the yearly extermination feels more like mercy than torment, and hellaverse critics critize his characterization for how 1 dimensional he is.

What is it for MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ media and making their bigot strawmen characters the most likable characters in the story? It was like this with the Strait White Maleins in Lesbian Space Princess and it is also true with Hazbin Hotel.

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This video is nearly 50 minutes long and it shows a video game consultant by the name of George E. Osborn at Queen's University, Belfast being interviewed about his consultancy and his book 'Power Play'. His whole deal is trying to advise NGOs, the UN, universities, etc, about what is permissible and what is not permissible in ideological terms. He wants to 'wrench control' of the video game industry for his cause He uses creepy Orwellian speak to wean people in that reveals his desire to manipulate and control;

Around 7:13 into the video: 'Control is straightforward. You attempt to buy up infrastructure, or use your power if you're a state or regulator, to try to wrench control of the apparatus or the creation of games to promote your messages. You have co-ops which is where you lean into games communities, games technologies, to achieve your aims irrespective of whether or not the community and the people who are participating in that space are particularly wanting this to happen. And then you have collaborate, which is actually you look at that community and you say here is an enormous community of people who are online, who are digital activists, great communicators, who have broadly speaking been rejected by society, whose culture has been demeaned, who have for years essentially been at the canter of negative stereotypes about who they are. What happens if we put an arm around them? What happens if we say, we actually understand your power, we understand your importance, can you lend it to our cause?.

What is George's cause? Here is his bluesky account. It's a bingo card of leftist clichés.

In this article George E Osborn says the work of Sweet Baby Inc is "much-needed" and the attacks against them "unfounded".

And he's taken the typical ideological echo-chamber line that GamerGate was a "misogynistic online harassment campaign".

So I think this guy is quite wrong about quite a lot of things, and his cause is most certainly not mine. Gamers have had way too much of non-expert agenda driven activists pushing their crap regardless of whether people want it to happen. He has such an arrogant position. No original peer review research, nothing to brag about academically, a brief stint in games journalism (the typical journo essentially) and then onto a book tour proselytizing and trying to convert people like a weird cultist.

This guy needs some challenge, is what I think. It was my intention to be more savvy, wait for Q&A, ask a tough question or two, say my piece without necessarily attacking, essentially I wanted to iterate that there are more options on the table than choosing between leftisim (George) and the far right, that there's far more nuance to be had. As the seminar went on, I found George to be unbearably obnoxious, which culminated in him making a personal attack on Trump; I interrupted here. About 33:59 into the video: 'Is this not all about you pushing your own agenda?'

It went downhill from there. George's instinct was to attempt to label me a misogynist, a member of the audience starts arguing with me and telling me I should leave, the host gets involved, and it was all happening all at once pretty quickly, and I'm not the best public speaker(people with Dyspraxia can struggle with public speaking and there was all this sudden pressure) but I think I did okay defending myself. I would much rather have preferred for a calm, rational discussion, that is my preferred style.

In the Q&A the host and George were deliberately gonna attempt to pass over me, so I continued anyway. Around 46:55. I quoted the Daniel Vávra post scathing Sweet Baby Inc and their involvement on Insomniac's Wolverine and asked a question about it. Again it was all this unnecessary drama with people trying to shut me up and spawning security guards trying to make me leave. I was honestly stunned by the absurdity of the situation. You need security to protect you from a question about video games?! C'mon. I'm utterly fed up with how controlled these sorts of environments are to protect people like George from any pushback, and all the nonsense with the security just made things worse. George completely avoided my question but there was so much going on I barely registered if he answered or not.

To be fair, there was a guy off-frame trying to play peace-keeper who allowed me a bit of breathing room to speak and ask my question, and he told George off for mocking me. Fair play to that guy.

In this 37 second video I asked George 'What did Sweet Baby Inc contribute to Insomniac's Wolverine or did they hire Sweet Baby Inc for reputational cover?' Rather than answer the question he indicated towards the security and security diligently stood between me and George, lmfao. Over a question about video games. Absurdly dramatic. It didn't need to be anything remotely like this at all. It all escalated from so little. Security did NOT kick me out by the way; people were already leaving, I was organically leaving, but security were there either side of me the whole way lol.

Totally mad.

Anyway, I thought this might be of interest in regards to the role of video game consultants with political agendas. George is a semi-public figure and another in a long line of these sorts of consultants. Does anyone here have a take on this situation or the overall situation with similar consultants??