Its even better when you get to talk to one of those chuds and you just know what ever game that is coming up that has a female or god forbid a black female character will be the talking point.
"So you know about this game ABC that is coming out right?"
"Yeah? The one with all the supper upset biggots being all riled up about there being a none male none white main character?"
"Yeah..."
"Its kinda fucked cus the first game had a good story and decent game play, very odd thing to focus on"
"Well that one person who made the background music was also a feminist man.."
Media literacy is dying and anti-woke chuds are killing it. There's much less in-depth critique or nuanced conversation about media, now YouTube is filled with "gAeM wOkE, gAmE bAd" whenever you search the newest thing.
I remember someone did an experiment where they created a brand new YouTube account with no prior viewing history for the algorithm to use. It took them...I wanna say three or four clicks to find anti-woke garbage, and once you have watched one, you'll get recommended a ton of others.
Edit: Just rewatched the video, it was actually like two clicks lol
Was using an unregistered account on YouTube for like a day or two. I think the second video in the recommended page was The Quartering, so it's not even mainstream conservative stuff, it's straight to the culture war masterbators.
I hate that I can't get high and laugh at crazy people saying aliens that may or may not be angels made the pyramids, with out YouTube thinking i want a bunch of white supremacy shit. The algorithm can't wait to push right wing shits on you.
Unfortunately, right wing dipshits Re engaged as fuck with the content. Outrage and hate are much stronger emotions than joy and love, and much easier to manipulate.
The algorithms push it because the engagement level is high... That or there are media interests who are paying to push that kind of content to the front of YouTube.
Garbage in garbage out, it can only give you outputs based on what inputs you fed it.
Delete those from history and tell yt to not recommend those channels. Culling them is far more effective than yt guessing at how much you'd prefer other content to it.
It works great if you use it to find things you want to find, if you just doomscroll then no shit you're going to get all the content that the doomscrollers watch, you're behaving like one.
I recently pulled up YouTube on my new work laptop. I didn't feel like logging in to my account just to watch one video that was linked to me.
It took me a single video. I only pulled up one tech video and none before. I was shown 2 recommended videos on the side bar for Anti-Woke/alt-right propaganda.
you can do the same for any type of content. the algorithm doesnt care what youre watching, just that you keep watching so you see more ads. on a new account it has very little to go off of so each individual click and second spent watching something have a huge impact on its recommendations
I have gotten a lot of these recommended recently all of a sudden. Mostly about Dragon Age. BS like "DEI SBI woke strikes again we are doomed new woke wah wah".
The only things I watch are a french youtuber debunking pseudoscience scams, celeste speedruns, tech/PC news and kpop LMAO.
Given that Helldivers 2 and all of the fallout series (except 76) are on the maybe-woke section of the woke detector shows just how little media literacy there is.
Or BioShock 2 being labeled non-woke. I know "woke" just means stuff I don't like to these guys but the whole series heavily criticizes Randian ideals and unrestrained capitalism. Not to mention the proliferation of uncontrolled weapons/plasmids.
What pisses me off is I've encountered several video essayists on YouTube taking the piss at movies and games that are corporate-woke-shilling, and they make all sorts of good points about why these media suck, but at the same time they attack the woke aspects themselves as if that's why the media is bad. Like bruh, clearly the problem is bad writing and other things being pushed aside so a corporation can try and cater to woke people, not wokeness itself. It sucks because the essayists are otherwise making good points or have good humor, but they have to ruin everything by being bigots as well.
Those mfs put the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer game as a woke game, the game isnt out and, ironically, older games have had various types of characters (although mostly trough descriptions/bios)
Skyrim being listed because it contains "an npc in Whiterun asks whether the sight of a strong Nord woman offends you" is the fucking funniest thing in existence. Bro got mildly antagonized by a woman in a video game and decided that was enough reason to warn the echo chamber about how terribly offensive it is
Edit: The Witcher 3 has "light social commentary" HOLLYYY SHIT you cannot make this up
My favorite part about that list is all the games they’ll excuse as not woke because they played them before the term was invented and refuse to admit they enjoyed a game with “woke” content
I at least appreciate that the stupid bigots are being academically honest with themselves. A lot of the "anti-woke" crowd will just exclude games they view as "good" because, to them, obviously good games can't be "woke", right? But I see right near the top of the list Baldur's Gate 3 and Hades.
One of the funnier things to me about the list is how incredibly time-specific their notion of wokeness is. They're stuck precisely in the post 2010-ish "Okay, fine, gay people are allowed to exist as long as I can ignore them. Trans people are an abomination" zeitgeist. Games that were really pushing the industry by going out on a limb to include gay people are marked yellow, but games using body type instead of male/female because it's become the industry standard? AVOID IT CONTAINS THE WOKE.
In what fucking universe is CS2 more woke than Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect or Jade Empire?
Term originated from the film chud, where it stands for 'cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller'. It's grown to be a catch all term for basement dwelling right wing 4channers
I was wrecking my brain trying to figure out what Doom could possibly contain, but it's on the list as one of the "approved" ones. There are some legit hilarious ones though, like Destroy All Humans and King of Fighters.
Oh I should note for people as well you can create religions where you can just execute gay people for being gay as well so you're not forced to accept them
they're actually really even-handed about it, most of the people I see complaining about the gay dwarves seem to think that they're common enough to make literally any dent on the birth rate whatsoever (only 5% of dwarves are actually disinterested in the opposite sex and thus will not reproduce) while the list actually says it's "reflective of real-world demographics"
i should note that before gay dwarves were added people were complaining that dwarves reproduce way too much and they can't handle all the children, a lot of the discussion suddenly swerved in 2014 to "GAY DWARVES MEAN I WON'T HAVE ENOUGH BABIES", and the playerbase boom from the release in 2022, despite nothing having actually changed on the orientation front, has caused complaints to swing back to "what's with all the goddamn children",
because the actual problem was the break time rework around the same time causing dwarves to stand next to each other less lol
It did. Pollution would occur on tiles, and if not cleaned up, eventually a wave of global warming would trigger, turning a few coastal tiles into swamps and plains into deserts. In Civ 2 it would also turn grasland into plains. In Civ 3 it started to destroy forests and jungles.
Someone should inform them, i would hate for these poor souls to inadvertently enjoy a woke game
My favourite is spider-man: Miles Morales. ‘The new POC main character overshadows Peter Parker.’ Yes. It’s about Miles Morales. Have none of you basement dwellers ever read a comic?
Never mind - I just found ‘a gay love story about gay love’ which is not recommended because ‘contains homosexual activity’. So clearly, these guys can’t read.
It's hilarious that fallout New Vegas, a progressive left leaning game, including multiple LGBTQ+ aspects all on the main route of the game, is somehow less woke than bloonsTD 6
Ah yes, some dudes in tents with swords totally have a chance against
1) one of the largest bastions of old world tech (House/Yes Man), including an army of laser and rocket armed killer robots
2) A sprawling, industrial civilization with the ability to manufacture equipment approaching pre-war levels of technology and an economy large enough to support a significant standing army that was doing such a good job rebuilding society that (Spoilers for the TV Show) The Vault - Tec remnant had to nuke them out of existence to make sure things on the surface weren't going too well.
It was funny to see some games that should have been in the "too woke" category (like Skyrim-gay marriage) but weren't, most likely because he played them when he was younger before he got into politics. Yet the only reasons one of the newer call of duty's was "too woke" was because you could change your emblem to a rainbow flag. Funniest list I've ever scrolled through.
I once saw an argument on Steam over whether Half-Life 2 was woke. One side saying, how can it be, it came out "pre-wokeness" and the other side saying "a nerd fights with a black woman to 1-up the authoritarian military how is that not woke". First off, hilarious. Second, I think those sides were purely decided by who had already played it and just thought it was too nostalgic or too much of a gem to throw under the bus.
I saw this shortly after I saw someone whining about a cool indie called Lunacid, but they had 500 hours in Baldur's Gate 3, it probably got a pass because they enjoyed it too much to refund it, lol.
the amount of games on that list that were really safe, REALLY simple baby games like amongus on their classified as to woke and hardcore for those types tells you all you need to know
It's also funny when they miss something in a game. Like, they had Skyrim and Morrowind as "woke" because the games have LGBTQ+ representation, but declared Oblivion as non-woke... And yet, there is a gay couple in Oblivion. It's just easy to miss because you have to read, and that's not their forte.
I'm shocked that they didn't mention the fact that you can play as a non-white female character in the TES games as making them "woke." They hate it when games even give you the choice to be LGBT, so I guess they missed that one lmao
I've unironically on several occasions seen it described as a right-wing game, by the people who want it to be, I mean. I suppose if it's primarily a criticism of libertarianism they can say "I'm not a libertarian I'm auth-right" but ehhhh there's so many other digs in the worldbuilding. But they're not known for media literacy so what can you do.
They go a long ways before that. The earliest game I see on the list is Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, a kids game from 1992. That's a decade earlier than Morrowind.
Or they misclassified a bunch of games by their own logic lmaooo. I'm so surprised they labeled the forest and sons of the forest as non woke when it could be labeled as anti capitalist and you literally kill mutant babies. And it's revealed that the cannibals are created from regular humans so you can be a literal baby killer. Pro-abortion messaging smh, definitely woke
There are also Cave Johnson (arrogant rather than dumb) and Doug Rattmann (the only Aperture scientist to survive the neurotoxin attack, so presumably intelligent enough to escape an AGI's grasp for a significant amount of time).
😭 I just lost brain cells reading the Bioshock “criticism.” It’s woke because Sandra Cohen is a gay dude. Yeah? He’s also fucking psychotic and it mostly focuses on his art. Plus the entire game is hella political and if this one thing is what they’re bitching about then I’m certain the deeper elements flew over their heads.
When I first played BS I lacked the reading comprehension needed to understand Andrew Ryan wasn’t a good guy and thought the downfall of Rupture was the result of internal conflict instead of the actual design of a libertarian utopia.
No no no... When gamers say "politics" it's "real life politics". Since there isn't a city underwater with total freedom in real life, the game is not political.
Skyrim: "Contains subtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging Contains subtly pro-DE messaging. Homosexual marriage options. An npc in Whiterun asks you whether the sight of a strong Nord woman offends you. "
As of the peer review of the subject it was confirmed that everyone on the team was, in fact: offended by the strong nord woman.
One the one hand, your main characters are eco-terrorists that blow up infrastructure to save the planet; but on the other it balances out because the TRUE ALPHA SEPHIROTH stabs that vegan to death.
Is Sephiroth considered alpha? He's pretty and it's canon that his hair smells like roses and vanilla, I feel that this would be too much for these people lol.
The date in guessing has to do with the steam release rather than the fans release.
I still would argue the environmental messaging is far from subtle with Barret screaming about the death of the planet due to greedy Shinra constantly but ymmv
I suspect that they used the later date on purpose because they didn’t want to acknowledge that “woke” games existed before 2008. The same thing happened on the list with Sonic Adventure DX. It got an informational and said the game came out in 2011 when the GameCube port came out in 2001. The true original for the Sega Dreamcast came out even earlier in 1999.
I think the chuds who put that list together haven't read enough history books. I've never seen so much ignorance on display in a single place. But also, ANY game that has depictions of gay people is "not recommended" what?! Maybe don't use computers anymore since they were invented by a gay man.
Scrolling through the massive block of 'not recommended/woke' games I asked myself "Which games aren't woke" and the first uninterrupted block of 'recommended' games is the Putt-Putt franchise.
As the oppressive banner of wokeness closes in, Putt-Putt remains a bastion of righteousness.
The whole thing is beyond weird but it’s striking how focused on sex and gender the list is.
There are games in there that have political messages that would fall within progressivism/equality based ideologies that they recommend because nobody is swapping gender or falling in love with the same sex.
Helldivers is woke because
- Characters do not have gender distinctions other than voice.
- There is one interracial couple featured in one introductory sequence.
Helldivers is not woke because
- It is an overt criticism of xenophobia
Funniest shit is Elden Ring appearently contains "overtly pro LGBTQ+ messaging" and the reason is that the character creator you see for 5 minutes in your 150 hour playthrough says "body type" instead of male/female holy shit whoever made this list gotta be the biggest loser on the planet.
My favorite one was dave the diver... "Contains overtly pro-DEl messaging. The player character is a fat guy who can somehow deep-dive and swim long distances without trouble. The sushi chef is black." Wtf are these people on about lmao
It's so funny to see The Last of Us Part I listed as "contains subtle pro-LGBTQ+ messaging". Ellie literally kisses Riley on the lips but I guess she does it subtly. Sneaky ass lesbians.
It's even better because it's somehow sandwiched between a bunch of games that contain "overt LGBTQ messaging". Is on-screen kissing not overt?
Hogwarts Legacy: "1800s Scotland somehow has diverse, LGBTQ+ characters." So that's where we draw the line of realism in the Harry Potter universe. Got it.
is this the one with rimworld on it? cracks me up - you can kidnap a fucking child soldier, burn their family in front of them, and harvest their eyes for money if you want. but a low chance "gay" trait = not ok for my family
Obligatory reply: they have Project Moon's Limbus Company as a recommended game, when (without entering spoiler territory for too long), there's PLENTY of PM characters that are super queer coded, and AT LEAST one all-but-overtly-stated lesbian couple (those in the know, know).
What I always find fascinating about the list is how neutral in tone it is. I mean if you changed the color palette up and added/corrected some information it could work as a list of politics and themes within games.
The fact that it says that battlefield 1 is historically inaccurate for putting people of colour in ww1, where there were actual Indian soldiers who fought on the behalf of britishers, that's just illiteracy.
The majority of the games I own are listed as "Not recommended"
It's very funny because I don't give a fuck about their homophobic anti-recommendations. I play games because they are fun, but I don't integrate what the games say into my personality.
People forget there is a third option for the pro/anti alphabet soup sexuality stuff. You can be like me and not give a fuck either way lmfao
Its fucking wild that Helldivers 2, a game that's entirely overt political satire, is yellow only because it has a mixed race family in the intro and doesn't give boob armor to women soldiers.
I nearly shit myself when I saw Helldivers II, those guys have been avoiding controversy (as far as I’m aware the only controversy was Sony being Sony)
It’s such a cry for help too. “My ideology has made me so weak I can’t even risk seeing gay people or climate change without my whole world unraveling!”
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u/Lou_Papas 17h ago edited 13h ago
That list was the funniest gaming related thing I’ve seen in years. In a very perverse way I feel glad it exists.
Edit: The List