SoliFortissimi
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"Woke" Franchises
- Thread starter Seth Vatamaris
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DarthOne
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Everything has to start somewhere.
I hate this argument, Rome wasn't built in a day, and no single man can just go outside and snap his fingers to fix the world.
If you don't think shit needs fixing, that's fine. But those who believe there is work to be done, are likely going to say it.
Live and let live does not work with people pushing woke shit, since they'll see this as weakness and keep pushing.
DarthOne
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Exactly!
Vyor
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That's my issue, the hyper-woke shit with rainbows and gay people all over the place doesn't bother me too much because I was never going to watch/play those anyways. Hell let the SJW types keep em.
But it seeps into otherwise non-Woke shit, with juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust enough subtlety to fool normies while being comically visible to anyone with half a brain.
Good example? Starfield. Yeah sure it as some gay characters, as if good RPG's like New Vegas didn't have them. So that's fine so far.
But holy shit why is like over 60% of the capital city comprised of obese Australian Aboriginals? What the hell kind of genealogy fuckup happened in that universe, was there a major accident at the sperm bank or something? And why is their healthcare so terrible!?
And they're all so fucking ugly, like disturbingly so, it comes across as weirdly racist that Bethesda believes every single brown person is some sort of dysgenic monstrosity when most of them in real life look like, well, usual people!
So congrats Starfield, you just had to eat up that ESG money to fill a fictional universe with a hyper specific people for no good reason. If you need to fill the game with minorities at least fill it with thicc latina women or something.
Which capital.
Oh christ I can't even remember the name of the faction because they're so boring.
The guys who aren't the cowboy guys.
I think it's New Atlantis.
Vyor
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So the explicit villains.
I don't ascribe to any good guys who don't know how to pave a road. The cowboy guys are embarrassing.
Vyor
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They lost a war and got their shit kicked in, no shit they don't have much money.
Look mate, if you can afford laser guns and interstellar spaceships you can afford a fucking bag of gravel.
If they can manufacture laser guns and interstellar spaceships, they can pave a fucking path.
No no no, you don't understand! They lost a war, so they have to look like medieval peasants!If they can manufacture laser guns and interstellar spaceships, they can pave a fucking path.
Vyor
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... they don't.
Sounds like the same level of argument applicable to everything from Fallout to Firefly to be honest.
Pretty common SciFi Trope.
Pretty common SciFi Trope.
DarthOne
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Not really. In most sci-fi that sort of thing is either reserved for civilizations that have ether just started rebuilding from a cataclysmic war or outlying regions/planets that haven't been fully settled or are just too poor to do that.
If it was an outlying small town, it'd be fine. But it's the capital city of a galaxy-spanning nation.
That's like a big American city having it's roads full of potholes and broken shit everywhere.
...Awww fuck wait. Okay it kinda makes sense.
That's like a big American city having it's roads full of potholes and broken shit everywhere.
...Awww fuck wait. Okay it kinda makes sense.