Get Woke, Go Broke Thread

[Guest]

Gaming should have stopped after the PS2.

[Moe Bitches]

But muh Wii SD Card modding!

[Guest]

Resident Evil 4 VR Censorship Has Eliminated All “Sexist Dialogue”
https://happywarrior.substack.com/p/re4vr

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

>removing a scene because it featured the male protag asking the female protag for her phone number (aka the corniest joke line from any action flick)

Thank God this darkest moment in the history of Biohazado has finally been removed.

[Guest]

>removing a scene because it featured the male protag asking the female protag for her phone number (aka the corniest joke line from any action flick)

Thank God this darkest moment in the history of Biohazado has finally been removed.

I Know Right!! Civilization giving way to flesh eating zombies because of A careless Mega-corporation trying to play god is one thing but...Ask...Her...PHONE NUMBER!?? RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE!!!

[Guest]

Rockstar's turn!
https://archive.is/oyG7I

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An open letter to Rockstar Games

Dear Rockstar Games,

We are Out Making Games, a group of hundreds of LGBTQ+ games professionals working in the UK games industry. You probably know some of us as individuals – in fact, you probably employ some of us.

Your games are awesome. We really love them. Millions of people play them and as a result they have a huge cultural impact. What you put in your games can have real-world consequences and influences the way players see the world and treat people.

We are writing to you regarding the Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced & Expanded edition scheduled for release in 2022. We were prompted by this Kotaku article which recaps specific examples from the original release that are transphobic and connects them to the real-world consequences of transphobia.

Given this is an ‘enhanced & expanded’ edition, change is a selling point. This is a great opportunity to remove transphobic elements from the game and have a positive impact on the new generation of players who will pick up a copy.

2020 was one of the most violent years for trans people since recording began. In 2020, over 350 trans and gender diverse people were murdered. Many were killed inside their own homes. These records were compiled by Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide.

As Carolyn Petit writes in Kotaku, unlike for other random NPCs in GTAV, the game appears to purposefully play into extremely harmful stereotypes of trans and gender diverse people to encourage players to be repulsed by them and even to relish hurting and killing them.

We reject any argument of ‘equal opportunity violence’ against all types of characters in GTAV. That argument is missing the point. Given the cultural impact GTAV has around the world, Rockstar has a social responsibility to your players (many of whom may be LGBTQ+), to your staff and to the world at large to not promote violence against trans and gender diverse people.

The 2022 release of Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced & Expanded could be a unique opportunity for Rockstar to correct the problem. We would like to hear back about your plans to address the issue of portrayals of trans and gender diverse characters in GTAV. If you are not sure where to start, please let us know and we can begin a discussion about the changes you can make to in-game portrayals to help save trans lives.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Out Making Games

Translation: Comply With our Passive Aggersive Threats Terms or will Cancel You So Fucking Hard!

[rabidtictac]

>transphobic

So a literal percent of a percent of a percent of trans people who were offended. Art should be censored for that? We can argue over games as art or not, whatever. But for censorship purposes, they, like movies and paintings, should be considered "art." At least in the sense of not being subject to the whims of Kyle's Mom types.

We reject any argument of ‘equal opportunity violence’ against all types of characters in GTAV. That argument is missing the point. Given the cultural impact GTAV has around the world, Rockstar has a social responsibility to your players (many of whom may be LGBTQ+), to your staff and to the world at large to not promote violence against trans and gender diverse people.

Literally calling for special treatment and giving the justification as them being special snowflakes who suffer so much more than other groups GTA also mocks. Fuck right off.

Yeah, I'm sure all the downtrodden black people who live in ghettoes are treated sooo much better than trans tumblrites. So it's ok for GTA to mock them in an entire game (San Andreas) and in many other games, but not ok when it's about you, eh?

[wulfenlord]

>We read a Kotaku article
>We reject any arguments

Ye.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's even better.
>Your games are awesome
>We really love them
>We heavily imply that we've played the original game
>We still needed a kotaku article to remind us of the rampant transphobia

This almost reminds me of that time some GOTIS (fuck if I remember which one exactly. They all blur together thanks to their MySpace angles) recounted her horrible experience of rewatching Ace Ventura, where she came to the shocking realiziation that the series is a bit problematic for Current Year tastes

[wulfenlord]

Which brings us to the age-old conundrum, "If a Kotaku "journalist" doesn't write rage-masturbate about it, does the transphobia even exist?" See 'Tree falling in the woods'.

Ah, yes, the pRoBlEmAtIc transphobia in Ace Ventura, which even the unbiased scientists at Wikipedia gobbled up :3