Andromeda and SJW influence: Delusional Rage or Unfortunate Reality? (Discussion)

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it." (Niccolo Machiavelli)

I don't see how being welcoming of diversity and being against artificial or contrived diversity are mutually exclusive ideas.

For sure, they are not. Finding the right language to describe the views in-between the extremes is challenging.
Maybe someone else can describe them better. 

Begs the question of what defines a hot chick? Therein often lies the problem of the anti SJW crowd. Cora in her way is more along my definition of hot chick than some Pamela Anderson clone with lots of silicon and little in terms of personality. Another problem lies in the often voiced opinion that a red blooded hetero male shouldn't be confronted by gays, unless to have a good laugh at their expense. Not in so many words, of course, but there's no need to spell it out when the sentiment oozes from between the lines.

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Well as I Black man I can I say I hate "Black Characters" but love seeing "Characters That Happen to Be Black" in my video games. What I mean by "Black Charatcers" is paper-thin characters that exist solely to be Black and fulfil some kind of racial quota and make activists shut up. They're usually pathetic stereotypes and soap boxes that show up for a minute, have barely an impact on the plot, and ultimately have no real personality or depth besides being the Black Guy/Gal. Characters That Happen to Be Black on the otherhand are actual characters that aren't completely defined by their race and actually manage to surpise me with the amount of the depth or uniqueness that they have. Actually, now that I think about it, a good litmus between the two is whether you could honesty think of a discerning trait or personality feature that Black character has beyond  that their Black.

To Bioware's credit they've managed to avoid writing "Black Characters" and create a couple decent characters. I may not like Jacob but for the most part he isn't a walking stereotype and actually has a backstory that isn't defined by his Blackness. Liam and Isabela are better examples of this as well in my opinion.

Hell, I'd even say that the LGBT characters in Inquisition were actual characters and not boring stereotypes. Dorian's flamobolent attitude and daddy issues may have cringe-worthy but the guy still had other things about him going on like his genius, thoughts of faith, desire to redeem his country, and slavery apologism. Krem was trans but also a soldier that told interesting stories that had nothing to do with being trans. Sera had the Red Jennies and Dalish issues, Iron Bull had his conflicting loyalities, and Josephine was a kind diplomat. Point is all these characters were characters first and while their identities should have some measure of influence on who they are depending on the setting (am I not sure that ideas of race between humans even exist in Mass Effect's universe anymore) they shouldn't be their sole defining personality aspect.

Hopefully, all that makes sense.

I know I was just expressing my personal view showing all heteros aren't that way. I didn't take it that way.

It does make sense! No one wants to be a hamfisted token or badly written quota-filler.
No. one. wants. that. Stop suggesting this is what "SJWs" want.
I think that it's also important to remember that there are flamboyant gay men like Dorian irl. While pop culture attempts at including gay people have often depended on flamboyance (much as lesbian inclusion has depended on butchness), which has been a problem of stereotype and tokenizing, the solution isn't to eliminate flamboyance from all gay male representation but to make sure that flamboyance is not used as simply a Gay Signal! or something, as well as to include other types of gay men so that flamboyance doesn't become a metaphor/defining quality of gay identity.

Good points. And well said.

I'll still have to disagree about Cora and Peebee, not just for myself, but for the average gamer.

I totally agree that they are trying to capture more female gamer pie. Interesting that they are marketing Anthem to females, too. Heavily, based on that game-play trailer. 

I'm not convinced that large numbers of females will be attracted to Destiny style shooters, though. Unless Anthem has a lot of romance/story/NPC interaction, the AVERAGE female gamer will stay away.
 

I'd probably disagree with the italed if it made any sense. Some actual content would help. What idiosyncrasies are you talking about?

No you didn't, you accused anarchy65 of saying that anyone who questions the "SJW agenda" is a white supremacist, of tarring everyone who is anti-SJW as a white supremacist (which they didn't, since "some" doesn't mean the same thing as "every/any"). In fact, you didn't say anything about the propriety of bringing up the tragedy in Charlottesville, that was another poster (linksocarina). 

And if you don't want to give any fucks about misrepresenting what other people say, that's fine... but then you don't get to give any fucks about people misrepresenting you. Can't have it both ways. 

Wrong again. There was nothing partisan or biased about my comment, I didn't express any stance on the content of the discussion at all. My point- the one about pots and kettles- holds regardless of content or ideology; if you do X, you don't get to then complain when someone else does X, whatever X happens to be. 

Please. I'm not obligated to go point-by-point and respond to every word you said in your post. I quoted what I was responding to.


Yeah, I never said that. As it happens, I think its poor taste, or at the very least poor timing. But that doesn't negate my point about pots and kettles. I probably wouldn't have said anything at all if you hadn't added the "full retard" meme, but calling someone a retard for doing something that you just did (!!) is laughable hypocrisy.