The Woke thread AKA Liberal Kaynesplaining

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My god you guys are weird

Can only see 40 year old men being offended by true lies.

Just wait until the fascist guy hears about Radagast the Brown.

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Shut up Cubby, True Lies is great. You can't just turn up after years away and say this shit.

I know. You're right.

Mmm, read about what happened during the making of T2 with Eddie Furlong and his on-set tutor for some more seediness.

Yeah, I read about that, it's unbelievably fucked up and how she dodged any kind of consequence to her life.

There's something odd happening with World of Warcraft. We all know the Activision Blizzard lawsuit and stuff, but following that the devs have been going on a bit of a crusade and replacing in game text and references to be more PC.

Some of the changes range from understandable stuff - renaming of NPCs named after some of the ex-employees named in the scandal. Other changes seem fair enough, others seem a bit arbitrary.

One quest in particular has a kind of riff on Don Quixote, an NPC trying to save "damsels", the joke being that the "damsels" are NPCS just trying to go about their daily business.

I can sort of see how maybe the devs want to move away from the helpless damsel storytelling trope, but by replacing "damsel" with the word "town dweller" it turns a quest chain that was already a critique of that trope into something quite nonsensical. Its not clear if its the word "damsel" they found objectionable, or if it's that one of the "damsels" is a male blood elf mistaken for a female, it's all a bit weird. Especially as nothing seems to have really been done about the actual work culture.

just feels like they're doing ctrl shift on any terms that seem slightly objectionable and replacing it without really thinking things through. Just a bit heavy handed and its not always clear what the intention is.

Is that the updated post-Cata questline in Un'Goro? Been a long time since I've played through that on Retail, but I seem to recall it wore its sending-up/parodying badge pretty heavily on its sleeve, clearly intended to be tongue-in-cheek and actually emphasizing the ridiculousness of the trope.

It's hard, man. I want to be very supportive of the Devs who are trying to pick up the pieces of this absolute mess, especially given that Acti-Blizz have still not responded to their semi-unionized requests, which let's be honest clearly suggests that old Bobby and co seem intent on riding this scandal out if at all possible, together with the fact that there is so much vitriol and hate slung about by the gamergate anti-SJW morons within that community already, but sadly being overly zealous (or even giving the impression of being so in the slightest of ways) is just going to be red meat to those arseholes. Sigh. What a mess.

I haven't played WoW for years, but I remember that quest and I don't think there's anything objectionable about it in isolation. However, in the wider context of male blood elves being considered (by idiots) too girly and called "traps" and stuff, I can see why some dev might have taken a look at it and thought "let's not feed into that crap".

Meanwhile FFXIV online has semi-naked dancing catgirls, scantily clad all-female playboy bunnies as a playable race, a vibrant erotic role playing subculture and yet also a reputation for being a wholesome game and community.

What I'd really love to see is them conduct a campaign to bring Enid Blyton's old racist stuff back from the memory hole. She's one of our greatest children's authors, but she was CANCELLED. Disgusting. You can't say anything these days.