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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't understand the hate for women in video games, If the next Doom game comes out with a female protagonist I'd be going "HELL YEAH RIP ITS HEAD OFF!!!" the same way I do in Doom Eternal

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From shitty YouTuber influencers.

A guy from work constantly tells me how I should feel about a game based on a YouTuber he watches. He doesn't play it, he just parrot that shit. Often it's the most sexist, disgusting take.

And most of these influencers are outright basement dwellers with pride.

So like, they're getting shitty takes from shitty human beings who are proud of being shitty?

[–] localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah basically that neckbeard guy who just rages against anything that doesn't help his fantasies of being a real man. Can't remember the channel, want to say the ~~fappening~~ but it's not that.

E: shit I mean the quartering, have a cold and no sleep for 2 days. That's something completely different...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't understand it as a rational thing, understand the hate as a cancer with its growth being juiced and accelerated by the ruling class because incels are the easiest demographic to scam into violently acting against their own interests.

A cancerous process is by definition irrational from the perspective of the body it acts upon, the reason the cancer exists and grows is not because of a motive, desire or need but rather because the cancerous process consumes all the space and oxygen in a room at a faster rate than anything else can compete with while remaining invisible to the body as a threat.

Toxicity towards women displaces other topics and viewpoints specifically because the men pushing those topics want to monopolize the discussion and framing and often centrist types don't challenge that at all because of some self-perceived high ground to tolerating intolerance (not something you tend to believe in if you have experienced serious hate).

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Generally speaking im absolutely for a better representation of women and minorities. However, theres on criterium for it: it must fit with the lore. If the lore makes sense with a woman, go for it. If you just replace the main character with a woman, but don't adjust the lore in a way that its clear that its an entire new storyline or so, than I'm against swapping out the main character. Inclusion shouldn't lower the quality of a game.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Agreed.

Ciri is a huge part of the Witcher games.

They prepped us for her becoming a Witcher or something adjacent to it in TW3.

There’s no conspiracy to turn you gay or trans here. It’s just a continuation of the series.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Though talking about the lore, that had better not be regular witcher alchemy in that potion. She explicitly hasn't had the special diet, trial of grasses or the mutations so witcher potions should basically be poison she can't process at all.

Canonically she's witcher trained but not subjected to any of the mutations, but she's also of the Elder Blood and a Source. So compared to a traditional witcher you'd expect her to be slower and weaker (because she lacks the mutations) but have greater access to magic (because she's a Source). You'd also expect her to use most witcher tools and gadgets, but not potions (because they should just be poison to her, not having the altered gut of a witcher).

Don't know anything about the Witcher, but assuming that it is as you said, than that's a good thing.

[–] Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So maybe it's not actually the DEI itself that makes the game bad but actually the shitty game design and writing that makes the game bad and lore suck.

That's a pretty good description. Inclusion for the same of inclusion sucks.

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

So like, in this case, ciri makes perfect sense as she's by pore, essentially the next be of kin.