And yet they still managed to confuse the Cuban flag for the Puerto Rican flag, all while injecting inclusive Western “latinx” dialogue into their latest game.
We’ve gone over the topic of Insomniac Games’ hacking and the juicy leaks that came from it, however this leak is most tragic of all in my personal opinion, because it encapsulates why the gaming industry as a whole is simply beyond repair, alongside giving us a definitive answer as to why modern games favor pushing political agendas and identity politics over actual gameplay.
It’s bad enough as it is knowing that modern developers are lazy hacks compared to developers from more than a decade prior, as hardware advanced at a rapid rate allowing for newer and greater opportunities game development has spiraled out of control. Developers no longer compress files, we can no longer physically play games after just inserting a disc, games are released prematurely with massive day one updates being essential, the optimization of PC ports has completely gone downhill as well.
Thankfully we have fake bullshit such as DLSS, XeSS and FSR to supplement and support developer ignorance with artificial upscaling techniques, which further snowballs into more regressive PC ports as there just isn’t a need to optimize games knowing that fake upscaling techniques salvage performance.
Another concern in contemporary game development is the turnover of staff. There seems to be a trend of replacing experienced individuals with newcomers, often fresh graduates from industry bootcamps. Additionally, there is a notable emphasis on inclusivity across Western businesses, leading to situations where hiring decisions are influenced more by the gender and racial background of candidates rather than their actual abilities and skills.
These newcomers often tend to be predominantly women, many of whom identify as feminists. While they may lack extensive experience in the field, their input is not necessarily overlooked. They frequently critique established game development tropes, asserting that designing an attractive female character is inherently sexist.
Despite their advocacy for diversity and inclusivity, these feminists are criticized for their inability to create a cohesive and well-crafted character or story, simply because they don’t deserve to be employed in the first place over actual competent and skilled applications and talented writers.
If you’re a White man in this modern world you’re viewed as an aggressor, the problem with society as a whole, everything that apparently is wrong falls entirely upon your shoulders, you are scrutinized by media outlets, corporations and society as a whole.
You’re judged based on your skin color, you’re not seen as an individual but rather as a race / ideology that apparently deserves to be replaced, which is one of the major caveats that come with supporting ESG.
Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) as a whole is about inclusivity and diversity, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing however to achieve such goals competent employees are being shunned and turned away in favor of malicious hiring practices entirely based upon race and gender.
To me it does not matter what race or gender you happen to be, if you are competent and qualified for the job you should be hired, however this isn’t the case anymore.
Modern society specifically targets White people, scrutinizes White people, for the sake of “diversity” we must bastardize and put down White people who apparently deserve such tyranny.
Which is why inside the leaked files from the Insomniac Games hacking, it has been discovered that their employees have undergone mandatory “inclusivity studies” and protocols.
This is just one of the many reasons as to why modern games are absolute garbage, rather than crafting exciting stories with well written characters, developers are forced to watch and learn about supposed cultural elements of various marginalized groups and races, based on race and gender.
All in the vain of ensuring that they don’t offend anyone who is Asian, who is Black, or homosexual, transgender or whatever else.
Again, skilled and competent applications are rejected because they don’t meet certain diversity criteria’s that western corporations particularly favor in regards to boosting their own ESG score which mandates inclusive hiring practices favoring marginalized groups as women and non-Whites.
Pretty women are bad, Tomb Raider is horrible and sexist. Women can’t be strong yet attractive. They need to be realistic!
It’s not enough that games feature marginalized characters of varied races, genders and more but apparently “LGBT experts” proclaim that these inclusions feel one dimensional and half-arsed, this is another main attributor as to why modern games have ballooning development costs associated with them, these companies spend too much goddamn time undergoing racial awareness programs to crafting the most “authentic” depictions of such characters inside their games.
7 LGBTQ Women
13 Afro-Latinx – 8 Males/5 Females
9 African American – 4 Males/5 Females
Korean American – 2 Males/5 Females
The concept of “diversity” presented seems rather limited. Judging from the demographics, it appears that sweeping conclusions are being drawn from a mere 45 randomly selected non-white residents of New York City.
Notably absent are Chinese or Japanese Americans, Latino Americans (except Afro-Latinos, labeled with the term “Latinx,” deemed by some as culturally imperialistic), and white Americans, despite “white” encompassing various European groups with distinct regional cultures resulting from immigration at different times.
Additionally, there is an absence of Indian Americans, American Indians, and a lack of representation for LGBTQ men. The gender distribution is also noteworthy, with very few Korean American men compared to women, and all five “experts” being women. Overall, it’s evident that the study carries inherent biases, favoring specific perspectives and lacking a comprehensive representation.
Especially with the assistance of Sweet Baby Inc, it’s all about authenticity and awareness which is why Mary Jane has had her femininity replaced with masculinity, which is why Peter Parker has been portrayed as an ignorant moron across Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, with Miles Morales taking over as Spider-Man moving onwards.
Their approach to inclusive studies is one of the most unpleasant, divisive, and racist things I’ve encountered. The issue lies in their desire to categorize individuals into distinct groups solely based on their skin color.
It essentially implies that one’s uniqueness and contribution are solely attributed to their skin color when working for them. I always thought that avoiding racism meant not attributing significance to skin color and seeing it merely as a physical characteristic. However, these feminists seem fixated on skin color, unable to see beyond it.
The most amusing aspect of this baseless assertion is that none of the quotes displayed on the page genuinely support it, rather they’re just pushing an agenda, it certainly could use a citation if anything unless they’re implying that those who complain about obvious racial swaps of previously established iconic characters are the minority despite being the vocal majority.
They are openly and blatantly admitting to discriminating against or sidelining individuals based on their skin color, particularly if it doesn’t fall within a specific range of white or dark shades. This discriminatory behavior extends even to those with lighter or mixed skin tones. Their explicit statements reveal an intention to treat people better or more favorably solely based on the preferred shade of their skin.
Such practices are straight up racist.
Insomniac Games employees were forced to attend mandatory Discord calls with advocates of African American, Asian, and Queer groups. To understand their struggles and properly convey accurate “tropes” to characters inside their games.
And it works, majority of the developers themselves are feminists, again it’s hard to forget the sheer amount of forced diversity side-missions inside of Spider-Man 2, such as how you can play as a deaf black woman vandalizing buildings with BIPOC advocacy graffiti.
Black Cat is now a lesbian, she also happens to be the only “attractive” female character across the entire game, Mystique is gay, their overt efforts to manipulate individuals with their insincere and pandering tactics are undeniably racist.
And yet the freaks on Twitter and Reddit attempt to gaslight you into believing that there is “no agenda” when it comes to how modern games are crafted with these soulless and offensive character tropes, always remember that you’ll never be as racist as a Liberal trying to not be racist.
ESG has killed creativity, it’s all about racial awareness and compliance now. Everything must be about race or gender and yet if you mention this you’re slandered as a racist transgressive bigot.
While their games are filled with offensive (and racist) appropriated “Latinx” dialogue because these progressive feminists absolutely love marginalized groups so goddamn much they’re going to ignore them, their heritage and language to instead culturally conquer them with genderless Western abbreviations because other Liberal feminists from California agree that Spanish is problematic.
This nonsensical forced compliance isn’t actually about authentic depictions of marginalized characters, it’s actually a cult, a cult that despises White people, which just so happens to be majority of the audience for such products as video games. I honestly had little to no incentive of actually supporting Insomniac Games simply due to the lousy and uninspiring cinematic games they’ve continued to produce over the past decade, but now there’s another reason to boycott them entirely.
