• Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
    6·
    17 days ago

    God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity.

    It was obnoxious enough with pineapple pizza hate and clown fear.

    • Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      17 days ago

      God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity

      Honestly? Maybe sometime around mid-late 2015 after Donald announced his first run for president.

      The moment he was taken seriously, it emboldened all the chuds.

      Upon further thought, I believe that year also marked the start of what led to Brexit as the UK Conservative Party won a majority. Not a great year.

    • coyootje@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 days ago

      And the possibility of it turning into a Playstation exclusive once again. Or at the very least a game developed for Playstation with a terrible PC port.

    • dvlsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      And having to wait a year and a half.

      Or longer, if they decide to go the bloodborne route.

    • Cossty@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 days ago

      Yep, the main thing I worry about. But the parent company that the Sony is considering buying owns only like 65% of From Software. So maybe from software will have some leeway and they can put their foot down and say they don’t want to use PSN. Maybe? Hopefully? Otherwise, elden ring will be the last game that I bought from them.

  • 3 dogs in a trenchcoat@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    where you can change pronouns of your main character

    As if choosing your player character’s gender hasn’t been a common thing in video games for decades

    • tmyakal@lemm.ee
      1·
      16 days ago

      Dark Souls 2 has a mechanic to swap your character’s gender whenever you want to. From is already okay with genderfluid protagonists.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      The very idea of having a choice feels threatening to their tiny minds. Like, just choose to be a white cis man if it’s really all that important to you.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      0·
      17 days ago

      Why would they? Actors, politicians, etc openly show hate and there’re no meaningful consequences. It’s accepted now…

      • cheers_queers@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        guess it’s time to be as aggressively anti-bigot when they are being aggressively racist/homophobic 🤷🏻

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    17 days ago

    Elden Ring already has gender fluidity, a strong female POC, people with physical and mental disabilities, and homosexual implications. “Wokeness” should be the least of their concerns about what Sony could do to From.

  • Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    16 days ago

    What if from software makes a character that’s biologically male, but gets raised as a woman because of his moon powers? That would be so woke.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    16 days ago

    Black people and homosexuals? Omg, can you imagine trying to play a game when the NPCs have a different race or sexuality than you do? It must be impossible.

    Do I need the /s?

  • Commiunism@beehaw.org
    0·
    16 days ago

    I mean, I get it - as a gamer myself, when buying a new title I don’t really care about things like if the game is fun or good or has a healthy community/playerbase, these things don’t matter. How many non-straight characters are there, now that’s much more important - in fact, if you feature too many it might bring the end of the western world or something.

    • SybilVane@lemmy.ca
      2·
      16 days ago

      Sometimes characters in my games have pronouns and I still play those games, but I’m always weirded out by it. Why do people need to talk about them and not use only their name?

      Oh no, now I am using pronouns! The woke people have corrupted my mind!

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      2·
      17 days ago

      and by realism, they mean “Everyone is white and all women meet their standards of what is attractive”, because of course, white men and supermodels are the vast majority of the human population in real life /s

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
    0·
    16 days ago

    Any time sometime terrible happens, the worse people will try and claim it as a victory. Sony buying From Software is terrible, but not because of some imagined spector called DEI.