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[AJUMP23]

Was that Patrick klepick?


all people inject their ideology into games it is natural. But some just know how to do it without being insufferable. We’re I a game creator I would subconsciously inject Judeo Christian ideology just because it is what I have studied and known. But I would be clever about it.

the games media is obsessed with their social ideology so they will push it anyway they can and punish what they don’t like. Giant bomb wouldnt cover kingdom come deliverance because of the manufactured race issues.

 

[Little Chicken]

Diversity should not be a dirty word, but it is trotted out regularly by the most undesirable characters.

Yes there should be more and I welcome it, apart from the popular "just add black people to an old IP", which is entirely redundant.

If you think that media and entertainment is at all equally representative of the people on the planet then you haven't strayed outside of your house enough.

 

[DryvBy]

Pretty sure they wouldn't need special diversity consultants if that were true. I quit listening to Giant Bomb when they were defending someone who was defending pedophilia because the trolls were after her. I instantly unsubbed and moved on.

Remember this? https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/31/technology/nintendo-alison-rapp/index.html

 

[Fredrik]

Isn’t this highly varied depending on where you’re located?

Like I’m not in the US and I’ve met one gay person in my whole life, never seen a trans irl.
So idk from my perspective the current LBTQ trends just seems like propaganda. Trying to make certain things seem normal ain’t going to fly everywhere.

Having skin color differences is more common. But walking through a city in Starfield makes me think that there was a holocaust in the future. I have a video where I walk through Neon and look at all citizens on the streets, and there is 1 white person.
So, maybe tweak the diversity sliders a bit?

 

[Jaybe]

Alyssa Mercante was tapped by Sweet Baby Inc to write a defense article for them after all the fallout when a Sweet Baby Inc employee tried to have Twitter users mass report a Steam user that made a list of Sweet Baby games to make him lose his Steam account.

There is a whole bunch of mental illness on display in her socials as this was blowing up. Tread lightly if you want to look for yourself. It doesn’t surprise me that someone that deranged is championed by the DEI crowd. And she’s just a journalist, not even a game developer, probably doesn’t game. It’s a grift she’s running. By the way, her anti-white tweet had that Isomnaic Wolverine director ‘like’ it.

Links and photos:
Main Sweet Baby Inc thread

Social - Steam curator warns players if Sweet Baby is involved in a game

Source (Niche Gamer) https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44858017-Sweet-Baby-Inc-detected/ A new Steam curator is making it their mission to warn gamers if Sweet Baby Inc. has been involved in a game’s development. For those who don’t know, Sweet Baby Inc. is a narrative consultation...

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A closed thread that had a lot of the journalist responses that were rebutted

Drama - Community - Gaming Journalists stepped in to defend Sweet Baby Inc. after curator page went viral

Multiple gaming journalists over the past 24 hours have begun to address the Sweet Baby Inc. page drama, which went and is still going viral on the past week after brazilian player @Krabutus created a curator page to track down games in which the consultant company Sweet Baby Inc worked on. The...

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Sweet Baby saying they asked for journalists’ help. Alyssa’s Kotaku article (I’m not giving them a click). And her anti-white meltdown.

 

[Scotty W]

Ok, we need to talk strategy. Since she demanded it, let’s discuss what you would do to Mercante in a fight.

Edit: obviously joking? What a stupid thing to advertise- “Hey haters, come assault me!”

 

[ShadowNate]

Her own point works against her pointless "activism" and rants.
It's lovely to see how disoriented (and toxic btw) such people in the industry are, and ideally they'd all be naturally pushed away, doing porn n-- oh wait this is the fossil of Giantbomb we're talking about.

 

[clintar]

Isn’t this highly varied depending on where you’re located?

Like I’m not in the US and I’ve met one gay person in my whole life, never seen a trans irl.
So idk from my perspective the current LBTQ trends just seems like propaganda. Trying to make certain things seem normal ain’t going to fly everywhere.

Having skin color differences is more common. But walking through a city in Starfield makes me think that there was a holocaust in the future. I have a video where I walk through Neon and look at all citizens on the streets, and there is 1 white person.
So, maybe tweak the diversity sliders a bit?

Please let us know where you live

 

[ShadowNate]

I mean you can literally put this new quote under one of her most popular insane tweets and it would be like she had a breakdown and started fighting with herself.

 

[hinch7]

Jesus christ how smug and vulgar can you be. Diversity isn't a bad thing in any given industy, its when its forcefully being shoved down everyones throats is the issue.

I don't get why companies don't reign in on politics. When it actually has an effect (usually negative these days) on their products and reception. That should be one of the priorities to fix with companies in the red. When your products don't align with what customers want and it doesn't sell, don't do it. Treating your customers like fucking idiots, constantly gaslighting and telling us what to think is not the way to go.

 

[ahtlas7]

“Be louder about people being mean to other people“
”Come fight me physically…bitches“
mass cheering from audience!

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

So if a multi billion dollar publisher has a dev whos team consists of only cannibals, the game they're producing should prominently feature characters that are cannibals themselves because.. somehow that will make it popular among the general audience which has a cannibal ratio of .00000001%? Sounds about right, that's how you serve your customers.

 

[hinch7]

This is also the woman that tried to dox this Youtuber by finding the guys details, and DM'ing his wife. Maniac.

 

[Revolutionary]

Ok, we need to talk strategy. Since she demanded it, let’s discuss what you would do to Mercante in a fight.

Not saying I would do it, but she needs a good smack across the face like this kid did:

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

This retard called Alyssa has already got way more attention than needed. Move on. Every time a retard like her gets attention they get what they want. Exposure is like oxygen to them.

 

[yazenov]

Not saying I would do it, but she needs a good smack across the face like this kid did:

Exactly. Fuck around and found out.

 

[hemo memo]

She makes a good and obvious point. Diversity exists in real life; if you don't like it, get over it. No one should bend over for intolerant assholes.

Funny how the definition of diversity is only gay, trans and black.

 

[GymWolf]

Not even a gram of testosterone in that fucking room.

 

[kiphalfton]

My blood is actually steaming a little bit cuz of that dumb clip. I hate how people like that have a platform at all. As much of a hollow piece of shit the current "giant bomb" is, WHY would any outlet want to be associated with people like her after the bull shit she has pulled? Like stalking others, and openly harassing people, and yet has the nerve to say "I want people to be louder about people being mean"...yeah, look in the fucking mirror. It's like she talking about herself during her whole schtick, but doesn't even realize it.

Why is gaming in the west dominated by such insufferable people? Apparently Brad is going to be on tomorrow also, why the fuck would brad want to be associated with any of them by going on this...have some fucking self respect ffs, these people are parading around in your skin.

Textbook narcissistic behavior.

They lack any sort of introspection, never take accountability for anything they do, are extremely vindictive, etc.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Who the fuck are these people?

Remember when Giantbomb was an S-tier outlet? An actual reputable source of information? Filled with respected people with an insane amount of knowledge about the industry? How they went to the E3 shows and did a livestream every evening while half-drunk and had prominent guests on and grilled them about the state of the videogame industry? Remember how amazing their chemistry was? Good vibes all around.

Jeff Gerstmann rolling in his grave.

Yes I remember this. It’s been a long time.

Current GiantBomb feels like a stage play. The forced “we have to be funny now, because it’s been a while since anyone laughed” instead of the natural chemistry of the staff in the old days.

And yes that group were all white men, but hey you know, that can also happen in real life. A group of friends being the same gender and having the same skin color. It really does happen now and then.

 

[Power Pro]

Textbook narcissistic behavior.

They lack any sort of introspection, never take accountability for anything they do, are extremely vindictive, etc.

I feel like's gotta be something more though. I'm autistic a bit myself, and I know I have some narcissistic tendencies, but nothing as bad as people like her.

 

[drganon]

I miss the old giant bomb.

 

[cormack12]

Paging Gina Carrano
Paging Gina Carrano

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Giant bomb's transformation from a very relevant to not at all relevant gaming media site is a lot like the transformation gaming studios go through when they get big enough that people notice they're in need of an old old wooden ship.

When it was fat balding nerds who were primarily interested in gaming and yes, admittedly mostly white, giant bomb was pretty good.

 

[Majormaxxx]

You literally create games

Products we pay money for to get entertained

Shut up and entertain ffs lol

 

[Power Pro]

You literally create games

Products we pay money for to get entertained

Shut up and entertain ffs lol

This idiot doesn't even do that. She's just an idiot who somehow got a job that allows her to reach a lot of people, and she uses it to spread hate speech in the name of "diversity".

 

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[Fredrik]

Please let us know where you live

The land of pretty blonde girls! Tbh it’s actually a fairly diversity focused country but certain things are very focused to the big cities. I assume it’s similar in other countries, country folks haven’t progressed as much as big city people. It is what it is, can’t say what’s right or wrong, I just know that from my perspective gaming seem kinda exaggerated in many cases.

Best solution - Just leave the real world out of games alltogether!
And don’t try to shoehorn a story that Clank is actually Ratchet’s boyfriend or whatever the next thing will be. Just let games be games.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Not saying I would do it, but she needs a good smack across the face like this kid did:

That's actually the right reaction. We need more of that apparently, since this kind of asocial behaviour is spreading like the plague in countries that use the tiktoks and instagrams.

 

[kiphalfton]

I feel like's gotta be something more though. I'm autistic a bit myself, and I know I have some narcissistic tendencies, but nothing as bad as people like her.

Something more? Being a full-blown narcissist is pretty damn bad.

Avoid at all costs, as they're a nightmare to deal with.

 

[kiphalfton]

Not saying I would do it, but she needs a good smack across the face like this kid did:

 

[FunkMiller]

Genuinely never listened to or watched Giant Bomb, so have no idea if this is representative of them or not. Probably not going to start now, though.

 

[Harlock]

All fake personas. If you deviate one inch from what is the LA group thinking you are out, like they did with Colin Moriarty. Ryan Davis would do the same. Only he not lived enough to have to become another one.

 

[Truthtellers]

 

[SJRB]

I just hope someone takes her up on her invitation for physical violence, that would be hilarious.

 

[darrylgorn]

It's a phase.

In ten years, this won't even be a thing because the tokenism will be pointless.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

According to Giant Bomb, games have diversity (LGBT etc) because the developers are diverse:

80% of developers are white CIS males. How many of these you have as characters in Concord?

 

[Woopah]

The world is pretty diverse so they're not wrong.

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

The world is pretty diverse so they're not wrong.

The world is also full of idiots who don't understand context.

 

[Hudo]

 

[kruis]

The world is pretty diverse so they're not wrong.

The world is much bigger (and far, far more conservative) than the progressive bubbles these nutcases live in.

 

[hemo memo]

The world is pretty diverse so they're not wrong.

Where is a hijab-wearing protagonist then? An Arab non terrorist main? Or the diversity definition is just for LGTQ and blacks?

 

[Fatmanp]

It baffles me why in an age where the big boy games media of yesteryear are desperately trying to cling on to relevance decide to platform such divisive people. They know full well this is going to hurt more than help. If someone actually takes her up on her offer the grievance grift is going to be staggering and only the idiots will defend her.

2016 really did break the west didn’t it.

 

[BlackTron]

I think i figured out why all this bullshit bothers me so much.....im from the Atari age and thats when i started gaming and still game today.

Gaming has always to me been an escape from reality, from the worlds negativity, politics and drama. These last several years have been terrible in that regard. All of this DEI, Sweet Baby bullshit, see my pronouns, woke stories, etc....being more and more injected into games has pretty much eliminated that true escape feeling. I dont game to experience real life, i game to get away from it

You will continue to consume product, and you will slowly accept that everything crammed into that product is as normal as things ever were.

 

[Clear]

It baffles me why in an age where the big boy games media of yesteryear are desperately trying to cling on to relevance decide to platform such divisive people. They know full well this is going to hurt more than help. If someone actually takes her up on her offer the grievance grift is going to be staggering and only the idiots will defend her.

2016 really did break the west didn’t it.

The depressing thing is there's no interest in solutions, or finding a path forwards; all they care about is the "fight".

When's the last time you heard anyone say something to the effect of "yes, I agree that prejudice and discrimination is bad, but this isn't an effective way of ending it. This is actually not only unproductive but is creating more division and animosity." ?

We've had years of this, and things are not getting better because all we ever get is people pledging their allegiance to one side or the other. There's no self-analysis or critique on process. Its just the "fight". Thought leadership outsourced to charlatans and psychopaths who's only interest is in playing status games for money, power, and influence.

 

[kyussman]

I thought this woman learned her lesson back when she did this on G4TV.......dyeing her hair isn't gonna throw me off,she must think I'm stupid or something!

 

[Woopah]

The world is much bigger (and far, far more conservative) than the progressive bubbles these nutcases live in.

And still diverse. The world being more conservative doesn't change that.

Where is a hijab-wearing protagonist then? An Arab non terrorist main? Or the diversity definition is just for LGTQ and blacks?

There should be more of those characters yes.

 

[BlackTron]

The depressing thing is there's no interest in solutions, or finding a path forwards; all they care about is the "fight".

When's the last time you heard anyone say something to the effect of "yes, I agree that prejudice and discrimination is bad, but this isn't an effective way of ending it. This is actually not only unproductive but is creating more division and animosity." ?

We've had years of this, and things are not getting better because all we ever get is people pledging their allegiance to one side or the other. There's no self-analysis or critique on process. Its just the "fight". Thought leadership outsourced to charlatans and psychopaths who's only interest is in playing status games for money, power, and influence.

If the problem got solved, there would be nothing to bitch about anymore, which is the whole point. They would need to contrive something else to fight about. When all other problems are solved, they will split themselves apart to fight each other.

 

[Outlier]

This is how things fall apart. You bring on people who don't just rock the boat, but knock it into a different trajectory. Then you'll end up hit rocks and sink.

 

[Audiophile]

There's a whole thing going on now, usually with people on this side of the argument where they act really proud with themselves as they say what they're saying. The entire demeanour, the mannerisms...it's almost like an act of public masturbation for their ego. There's a self-assured smugness to it that is painfully off-putting. Just the delivery by itself is repulsive.