This is HANDS DOWN the best video about the topic in the entire site. Awesome work, Alex! Thank you for spending the time to make a video of superlative quality!
38:28 OK, serious question: What video game in recent years has depicted all men as evil or incompetent and all women as heroic and perfect? Because in my experience, claims like that tend to be rather exaggerated.
@@YeOldEntertainment I'm not sure why companions don't count; they're the characters you're going to be spending the most time with, after all. But even if you ignore them, I remember Kesten Garess being at least somewhat heroic. Most of the defaced sisters are also pretty clearly evil.
*1:07** **_Wizards of the Coast_** is one of their clients. That means that both **_Dungeons & Dragons_** and **_Magic: the Gathering_** have been contaminated and infected with the taint of **_Sweet Baby Inc._* 😕
Yeah, we do need a broader "DEI Detected," but I'm glad that we have a start with an unambiguous company that the usual disingenuous fellow travelers can't pretend doesn't exist EDIT: "ESG Detected" exists and has existed since the start of March
And you want to know what... Fellow Travelers are good at what they do... really good actually... unfortunately... they are also on board with this trend... :(
Lol. 80% of your video clips of RUclipsrs I listen to. Always good to listen to different POV. You should cross pollinate with Side Scrollers, Tuesday Night Main Event, or Friday Night Tights
Oh, and as the opportunity presents itself: Thanks for suggesting Tainted Grail - Conquest! I had known about it, but felt like it wasn't really for me. Turns out I was wrong and it has proven quite enjoyable.
Because it isn't really a card battler. it's an RPG that uses card mechanics as means of combat. The rest is hyper immersive arthurian dark fantasy! I love it!
I appreciate that you were able to call out the ridiculousness of cosmic justice/SBI without yelling and acting clownish. Just good ol fashioned down to earth common sense pointing out why it's wrong, that's rare on RUclips. Liked that you highlighted Sowell too, he's a very intelligent guy I respect him. Also, I heard SWOT analysis a few videos ago and now the four marketing Ps? Did you go to school for business admin by chance?
Oh man, the Outward teasing is strong in this one…! :D Have you seen the trailer for the sequel? I’m mildly hyped, also wondering whether it’ll be your video on Outward or the sequel releasing first. XD Besides that, really great seeing you weigh in to the discussion with a very nuanced perspective!
That video WILL happen this year. Well I am VERY hyped about Outward 2! I usually never buy on release date. And that's probably going to be a BAD idea with Outward 2 (the first one shipped with lots of issues that got fixed later) but darn... I'm excited about it!
@@YeOldEntertainment Nice, something to look forward to this year haha! Did you spot the shovel in the trailer? I’m already imagining all sorts of treasures we might be able to dig up!
@@YeOldEntertainment Is it me or the vibe in "GamerGate 2.0" completely different that 10 years ago. Maybe it is because "traditional" digital media has detoriated. But my view is that "Gamergate 1.0" never ended. In other word everything is as it has been. Just more people (DC fans I suppose due to Rocksteady's flop) have gotten an interest.
Highly appreciate your take on this topic. I think a lot of what you talked about was spot on and the video is packed with impressive background knowledge on culture war, marketing and ESG. Really helped me understand the connections. I also agree with most big brands failing to bring back the magic of former times in the forseeable future, which is truly sad. Maybe now is the time for small and indie studios to step up... Thank you very much!
This was probably the best video I've watched on the subject. My only gripe is your insistence on misspelling and -pronouncing "customer" as "costumer". Regardless, your research is invaluable and clarified a lot of issues in this debacle. Well done.
Wow 17:23, Mapita is an absolute CHAD! She speaks as normal sane person with the good grace of common sense and in this day and age it literally sounds like some profound wisdom from a sage. Mapita, you rule!
Spot on! You've covered and explained this whole situation better than everyone else. Love your channel man, im cool with more of these videos or just stick to covering games. Either way is good.
Thanks my man. But this video was a pain to make and I feel like it took away time from the ones I enjoy the most. So it's likely going to be game coverage as usual from now on. But thanks!
I wonder if the people taking their time to tell you to be quiet about politics and stick to videogames do the same on other videogame channels when they see the other side of this opinion. I might not agree with everything you said, but you clearly did your research and expressed your opinion in a structured and interesting format, and you have my respect for that. Congratulations on the awesome work. The video was really nice to watch!
I went to the Steam curated list and I'm surprised that there are more indies and small games than AAA. This type of consulting must not come cheap. I don't care about any of those, except Shadow gambit since I'm currently playing Shadow tactics and it's great. Must be all the undead representation...
It's kind of because in the past up to around late 00s, indie games were seen more as passion projects than some ex AAA dev starting up an indie or AA studio. Mount and Blade, Kenshi and Starsector are very good example of these end of 00s indie games which were feature full and basically the baby of their devs. In the 10s with the rise of kickstarter we started seeing more previously AAA devs coming into the indie sphere to work on indie games projects as a job, instead of a project. By the early 20s most of these indie studios found themselves yet again under publishers. Now for why I had the blurb above. These experienced AAA devs DO NOT want to live like indie devs of the earlier days working jobs while on their passion projects, they want everything to be budgeted out and they want a salary while working on these games. Enter ESG during the early 2020s as the cheapest loan alternative but the caveat that they have to provide evidence that their products have sufficient ESG score. TLDR: Most of what you think are indie games are in fact not indie games, but funded by large scale investment firms via various DEI related loan schemes.
Great video. Sad thing is, theres no greater sucker then a gamer. I dont see gamers stopping this. Its going to become the norm and gaming will be pretty much conquered like everything else This only ends when our economy goes totally under and thats not far off. So hey, silver lining i guess.
The demographic that plays video games will slowly but surely shift from mostly guys and White to, well the type of people the games now appeal to. It's all part of the plan, and all the big players are in on it. It's no longer about profit, it's an agenda and as long as this agenda is followed, funding from major AUM players like Blackrock will ensure they can continue. The "problems" and "harrassments" and all this is may have some truth to it, but it's mostly artificial and as this video explains, abused by people and coorporations to advance for their own personal benefits rather than fighting the cause as a whole. Im certain this is all according to plan, they want guys to stop playing video games, and may be thats for the best in the end. But things as coordinated as this do not happen by accident or random chance.
Great vid, you encapsulate basically everything I hate about the current state of gaming and sadly the reason why those politics just won't go away from video games for a while... no matter how much I wish they could. A lot of people, myself included, play games to escape reality, not to be further immersed in it with all those different agendas being pushed down my throat and basically trying to make me hate myself cause I am white, but oh no, I am in the victimized group for just simply being a woman... yea? Hell no. I reject that, too. I just want good games, with somewhat challenging combat and with deep stories being told. ME trilogy being one of my favorites, DA series being pretty damn good too, DAO being the best of the lot and imho a true masterpiece. Heck I've even got the OG Fallout 1 and 2 installed and replay 'em once in a while... You wanna know what's funny? I have been called an "internalized misogynist" for the type of games I prefer and my reasons as to why I like them so much. Freaking wild!
bruh what agendas are in these games that make you hate yourself because you are white? Is there anything that says "white people's inherent genetic characteristics makes them horrible"? or something, or are you just being sensitive?
Man.. you're soo out of your wheelhouse on this one. Your whole point here seems "I like things I like and don't like things I don't. And I don't want crap that I don't like in my games." Which is fair. Even hating something ain't a crime. Hate crime's a crime. But when you say "I have a black friend who says this and a trans friend who says that", ok, I have a trans and black friend who says the opposite, that they always wished to play The Witcher as a non-binary trans-person. Or maybe I don't because I don't have friends, but see the problem? Unless you imply that they're all the same to you. Hope not. And then you kinda say that big corps are trying manipulate market with all the insidious tools and methods available to them to maximize both profits and their stock price. Which they do. So far so good. The thing is ESG and DEI might not affect customer satisfaction, fair, but they do affect stock value. That's why it's there. The moment it stops it will be out. And when you have something designed by committee or by corporate it turns out crap. Never seen that before, oh, wai... ET wasn't diverse, but it was a corporate product that crashed the industry (it's a myth, but I stand by my point). And somehow given all that - it's the people that want a change you personally don't agree with are the issue, the root of cause of it all. Are they, really? A relatively small and also very vocal percentage of people want a change. Some want it sincerely, some want it for clout, some are in for money or some other gain. They use all the tools available to them. You could even say they 'conspire' together, sure. But it's also normal, that's how things are done. It just happens to be the bunch that you particularly don't like, it seems. So maybe stick to Dragon Age videos. Or don't and go all the way down the right-wing conspiracy spiral if you're so inclined, or anything, I'm not telling you what to do.
Best video on the topic I've seen so far, honestly. Good work. And omg.. plz tell me Kevin Smith didn't fall for the delusional narcissists' wokie bullshit.. I mean, I can see it, but still. -_-
The context for that statement about markets is usually criticism of capitalism. So it sounds particularly strange when it shows up in this different context. It honestly almost feels like an attempt at leftist virtue signalling. The statement mostly refers to financial markets though, so - again - it's just seems strange and out of context.....
It's like they all want the fame of being Martin Luther King Jr, but have no actual injustice to fight, so they create one. Just seems like such a shallow and meaningless existence. ..unfortunate.
Hey man, I generally like your RPG stuff, but in general I don't like too much "political" (whatever that even means these days) stuff dropping in my RUclips feed most of the time. Just makles me nervous when I just want to kick back and relax. Sometimes I hesitate clicking on your other videos sometimes because of the fact that I'm a little scared that it will contain some more political stuff as well when I'm just not in the mood for that shit. I really don't mind you voicing your opinions on this kind of stuff, even though I think we probably disagree on quite a few things. It's just not always fun to have this mixed up with your other more game-related stuff. Wouldn't it be good fodder for a second channel or something? Anyway, hope you don't mind me whining about this, just hoped to give you some constructive feedback.
Nah, I wouldn't have enough material, or time or content for a second channel about the culture surrounding games. I also find that time consuming and irritating. This is probably going to be a one-and-done video, but I just felt like I had to make it.
As a person from the MENA, I think this video is too american for me. Don't really care about the downfall of the empire who oppressed me an mine for generations.
Lol that whole region gave rise to the most prolific slavers in history. Actually some places still practice slavery. But yea, you're opressed by America lol
@@patrickclark9430 how idiotic are you lol just because another group oppresses some other group doesn't mean its okay for others to do the same, its the equivalence of "well other people are doing it" like bruh.
This is HANDS DOWN the best video about the topic in the entire site.
Awesome work, Alex! Thank you for spending the time to make a video of superlative quality!
Thanks my man. It was really hard to make.
I love getting caught up in gaming drama that I had never heard up until now.
The overall concepts I know about, but i didn't know specifically about "gamer gate." in academia, this obviously plagues the us as well.
What to say, Alex... This video is nothing short of exceptional: well thought and laid out, articulated and nuanced. Kudos!
Thanks my man!
38:28 OK, serious question: What video game in recent years has depicted all men as evil or incompetent and all women as heroic and perfect?
Because in my experience, claims like that tend to be rather exaggerated.
In my book Pathfinder Kingmaker (companions aside) is pretty damn close to that. Siege of Dragonspear is nor far off either.
@@YeOldEntertainment I'm not sure why companions don't count; they're the characters you're going to be spending the most time with, after all.
But even if you ignore them, I remember Kesten Garess being at least somewhat heroic. Most of the defaced sisters are also pretty clearly evil.
@@benl2140 what video game in recent years was all that what these... inclusivity trainers are accusing all gamers of?
@@VM-hl8ms I don't know. If you could refer to specific claims made by actual people, that would be helpful.
@@benl2140 see absolutely anything that anita sarkeesian said about gamers.
*1:07** **_Wizards of the Coast_** is one of their clients. That means that both **_Dungeons & Dragons_** and **_Magic: the Gathering_** have been contaminated and infected with the taint of **_Sweet Baby Inc._* 😕
Yeah, we do need a broader "DEI Detected," but I'm glad that we have a start with an unambiguous company that the usual disingenuous fellow travelers can't pretend doesn't exist
EDIT: "ESG Detected" exists and has existed since the start of March
And you want to know what... Fellow Travelers are good at what they do... really good actually... unfortunately... they are also on board with this trend... :(
@@YeOldEntertainment That's why they're disingenuous. "It's not happening, and it's a good thing that it is!"
@@YeOldEntertainment Hey, there is now an "ESG Detected" Curator on Steam
Kabrutus is making a DEI Detected website.
Lol. 80% of your video clips of RUclipsrs I listen to. Always good to listen to different POV. You should cross pollinate with Side Scrollers, Tuesday Night Main Event, or Friday Night Tights
Except those guys are HUGE... and I'm a tiny blot in a corner of youtube. But thanks for the vote of confidence
@@YeOldEntertainment I sent a superchat in Side Scrollers a while ago to mention you. Just a seed
Thanks man
I just came back to this comment to inform you that they reached out to me. I suspect that is your doing, so thanks a million my man!
@@YeOldEntertainmentI hope the seed will bear fruit
What game is that on 22:50?
@@RodrigoMirandaSantana Pillars of Eternity and after that Breath of Fire 2.
@@YeOldEntertainment Nice, I knew I recognized it from elsewhere, I played a bit of POE 2!
Great video! Thanks!
Thank you for watching it
Oh, and as the opportunity presents itself: Thanks for suggesting Tainted Grail - Conquest! I had known about it, but felt like it wasn't really for me. Turns out I was wrong and it has proven quite enjoyable.
Because it isn't really a card battler. it's an RPG that uses card mechanics as means of combat. The rest is hyper immersive arthurian dark fantasy! I love it!
I appreciate that you were able to call out the ridiculousness of cosmic justice/SBI without yelling and acting clownish. Just good ol fashioned down to earth common sense pointing out why it's wrong, that's rare on RUclips. Liked that you highlighted Sowell too, he's a very intelligent guy I respect him. Also, I heard SWOT analysis a few videos ago and now the four marketing Ps? Did you go to school for business admin by chance?
I knew I liked you for more than your sense of humor.
Thanks for proving me right.
This is an amusingly well made video.
Thanks my man!
Oh man, the Outward teasing is strong in this one…! :D
Have you seen the trailer for the sequel? I’m mildly hyped, also wondering whether it’ll be your video on Outward or the sequel releasing first. XD
Besides that, really great seeing you weigh in to the discussion with a very nuanced perspective!
That video WILL happen this year. Well I am VERY hyped about Outward 2! I usually never buy on release date. And that's probably going to be a BAD idea with Outward 2 (the first one shipped with lots of issues that got fixed later) but darn... I'm excited about it!
@@YeOldEntertainment Nice, something to look forward to this year haha!
Did you spot the shovel in the trailer? I’m already imagining all sorts of treasures we might be able to dig up!
That's great Mr. Alex, but what I didnt get what does this Sydney Sweeny person have to do with this story?
One does not simply leave he out in a discussion about this topic. It's almost internet etiquette by now XD.
@@YeOldEntertainment Is it me or the vibe in "GamerGate 2.0" completely different that 10 years ago.
Maybe it is because "traditional" digital media has detoriated. But my view is that "Gamergate 1.0" never ended. In other word everything is as it has been. Just more people (DC fans I suppose due to Rocksteady's flop) have gotten an interest.
Good stuff. Appreciate your vids
Thanks my man
I play only indie. All those dramas are beneath me.
haha. spoken like a trve!
Congrats man very well made and comprehensive video. I'm glad I subscribed a few months ago. Hope the vid will catch on!
Thanks man! But it's going to be back to video games reviews after this one. This one was a pain to make.
Highly appreciate your take on this topic. I think a lot of what you talked about was spot on and the video is packed with impressive background knowledge on culture war, marketing and ESG. Really helped me understand the connections.
I also agree with most big brands failing to bring back the magic of former times in the forseeable future, which is truly sad. Maybe now is the time for small and indie studios to step up...
Thank you very much!
This was probably the best video I've watched on the subject. My only gripe is your insistence on misspelling and -pronouncing "customer" as "costumer". Regardless, your research is invaluable and clarified a lot of issues in this debacle. Well done.
Dammit, you're right.
Wow 17:23, Mapita is an absolute CHAD! She speaks as normal sane person with the good grace of common sense and in this day and age it literally sounds like some profound wisdom from a sage.
Mapita, you rule!
And yes i can read spanish just fine, the translation is perfect. Just letting other viewers know that.
@@gottinrod She is awesome, yes!
Spot on! You've covered and explained this whole situation better than everyone else.
Love your channel man, im cool with more of these videos or just stick to covering games. Either way is good.
Thanks my man. But this video was a pain to make and I feel like it took away time from the ones I enjoy the most. So it's likely going to be game coverage as usual from now on. But thanks!
Fuck yes, I love ye old..... gonna crack a beer and listen to the drama unfold while playing Last Epoch!
I wonder if the people taking their time to tell you to be quiet about politics and stick to videogames do the same on other videogame channels when they see the other side of this opinion.
I might not agree with everything you said, but you clearly did your research and expressed your opinion in a structured and interesting format, and you have my respect for that. Congratulations on the awesome work. The video was really nice to watch!
Thanks man!
I went to the Steam curated list and I'm surprised that there are more indies and small games than AAA. This type of consulting must not come cheap.
I don't care about any of those, except Shadow gambit since I'm currently playing Shadow tactics and it's great. Must be all the undead representation...
It's kind of because in the past up to around late 00s, indie games were seen more as passion projects than some ex AAA dev starting up an indie or AA studio. Mount and Blade, Kenshi and Starsector are very good example of these end of 00s indie games which were feature full and basically the baby of their devs. In the 10s with the rise of kickstarter we started seeing more previously AAA devs coming into the indie sphere to work on indie games projects as a job, instead of a project. By the early 20s most of these indie studios found themselves yet again under publishers.
Now for why I had the blurb above. These experienced AAA devs DO NOT want to live like indie devs of the earlier days working jobs while on their passion projects, they want everything to be budgeted out and they want a salary while working on these games. Enter ESG during the early 2020s as the cheapest loan alternative but the caveat that they have to provide evidence that their products have sufficient ESG score.
TLDR: Most of what you think are indie games are in fact not indie games, but funded by large scale investment firms via various DEI related loan schemes.
Great video.
Sad thing is, theres no greater sucker then a gamer. I dont see gamers stopping this. Its going to become the norm and gaming will be pretty much conquered like everything else
This only ends when our economy goes totally under and thats not far off. So hey, silver lining i guess.
Thanks you for watching!
The demographic that plays video games will slowly but surely shift from mostly guys and White to, well the type of people the games now appeal to.
It's all part of the plan, and all the big players are in on it. It's no longer about profit, it's an agenda and as long as this agenda is followed, funding from major AUM players like Blackrock will ensure they can continue. The "problems" and "harrassments" and all this is may have some truth to it, but it's mostly artificial and as this video explains, abused by people and coorporations to advance for their own personal benefits rather than fighting the cause as a whole.
Im certain this is all according to plan, they want guys to stop playing video games, and may be thats for the best in the end. But things as coordinated as this do not happen by accident or random chance.
Loved this video, you should make more about the gaming scene ! Im so aligned with your POV mate...
Thanks man. Further thoughts over in WhatsApp:D
You're getting caught up in it.
Nah, it's a one-and-done deal. (specially after how much of a pain it was to make)
Gigachad Alex always delivers! Thanks for another awesome video, man!
I'm glad you liked it!
Se tenía que decir y se dijo! 🔥
#asimismo
Great vid, you encapsulate basically everything I hate about the current state of gaming and sadly the reason why those politics just won't go away from video games for a while... no matter how much I wish they could. A lot of people, myself included, play games to escape reality, not to be further immersed in it with all those different agendas being pushed down my throat and basically trying to make me hate myself cause I am white, but oh no, I am in the victimized group for just simply being a woman... yea? Hell no. I reject that, too.
I just want good games, with somewhat challenging combat and with deep stories being told. ME trilogy being one of my favorites, DA series being pretty damn good too, DAO being the best of the lot and imho a true masterpiece. Heck I've even got the OG Fallout 1 and 2 installed and replay 'em once in a while... You wanna know what's funny? I have been called an "internalized misogynist" for the type of games I prefer and my reasons as to why I like them so much. Freaking wild!
bruh what agendas are in these games that make you hate yourself because you are white? Is there anything that says "white people's inherent genetic characteristics makes them horrible"? or something, or are you just being sensitive?
nice work man!
keep that shit out of gaming, a good game is a good game, either or not is has this LGBTQ-Approval ....
god dam it aint easy being a marginalized gamer
very good vid
Thanks my man!
Man.. you're soo out of your wheelhouse on this one. Your whole point here seems "I like things I like and don't like things I don't. And I don't want crap that I don't like in my games." Which is fair. Even hating something ain't a crime. Hate crime's a crime. But when you say "I have a black friend who says this and a trans friend who says that", ok, I have a trans and black friend who says the opposite, that they always wished to play The Witcher as a non-binary trans-person. Or maybe I don't because I don't have friends, but see the problem? Unless you imply that they're all the same to you. Hope not. And then you kinda say that big corps are trying manipulate market with all the insidious tools and methods available to them to maximize both profits and their stock price. Which they do. So far so good. The thing is ESG and DEI might not affect customer satisfaction, fair, but they do affect stock value. That's why it's there. The moment it stops it will be out. And when you have something designed by committee or by corporate it turns out crap. Never seen that before, oh, wai... ET wasn't diverse, but it was a corporate product that crashed the industry (it's a myth, but I stand by my point). And somehow given all that - it's the people that want a change you personally don't agree with are the issue, the root of cause of it all. Are they, really? A relatively small and also very vocal percentage of people want a change. Some want it sincerely, some want it for clout, some are in for money or some other gain. They use all the tools available to them. You could even say they 'conspire' together, sure. But it's also normal, that's how things are done. It just happens to be the bunch that you particularly don't like, it seems. So maybe stick to Dragon Age videos. Or don't and go all the way down the right-wing conspiracy spiral if you're so inclined, or anything, I'm not telling you what to do.
The difference is your friends are lame. And no one should listen to a bad take regardless of the source.
@@patrickclark9430 that's actually fair. Well, the second part more so..
Yuck.
I liked some of your other game videos but this anti-woke nonsense is really putting me off, tbh.
Too bad.
Cry moar
Best video on the topic I've seen so far, honestly. Good work.
And omg.. plz tell me Kevin Smith didn't fall for the delusional narcissists' wokie bullshit.. I mean, I can see it, but still. -_-
The context for that statement about markets is usually criticism of capitalism. So it sounds particularly strange when it shows up in this different context. It honestly almost feels like an attempt at leftist virtue signalling. The statement mostly refers to financial markets though, so - again - it's just seems strange and out of context.....
It's like they all want the fame of being Martin Luther King Jr, but have no actual injustice to fight, so they create one. Just seems like such a shallow and meaningless existence. ..unfortunate.
Spot on!
I mean, there still exists injustices to this day tho...
Hey man, I generally like your RPG stuff, but in general I don't like too much "political" (whatever that even means these days) stuff dropping in my RUclips feed most of the time. Just makles me nervous when I just want to kick back and relax. Sometimes I hesitate clicking on your other videos sometimes because of the fact that I'm a little scared that it will contain some more political stuff as well when I'm just not in the mood for that shit. I really don't mind you voicing your opinions on this kind of stuff, even though I think we probably disagree on quite a few things. It's just not always fun to have this mixed up with your other more game-related stuff. Wouldn't it be good fodder for a second channel or something? Anyway, hope you don't mind me whining about this, just hoped to give you some constructive feedback.
Nah, I wouldn't have enough material, or time or content for a second channel about the culture surrounding games. I also find that time consuming and irritating. This is probably going to be a one-and-done video, but I just felt like I had to make it.
As a person from the MENA, I think this video is too american for me. Don't really care about the downfall of the empire who oppressed me an mine for generations.
Looking forward for the DAO review tho.
That's the very next video
Lol that whole region gave rise to the most prolific slavers in history. Actually some places still practice slavery.
But yea, you're opressed by America lol
@@patrickclark9430 how idiotic are you lol just because another group oppresses some other group doesn't mean its okay for others to do the same, its the equivalence of "well other people are doing it" like bruh.