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Nintendo fails miserably when analyzed by Blizzards new Diversity Tool
Azurro
Banned
That's the progressive thing to do now, grooming children, so it's on brand.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Nintendo should hire more people who get drunk on the job in the morning and molest female coworkers. This can't go on like this. Not enough diversity!
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Ironically, the staff at Activision like to be diverse with where they stick their miserable tools.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Why is Gran Turismo running away with this poll?
Arcadialane
Member
Good. I would never want to play anything that ''passes'' this dystopian ai bot
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darkangel-212559
Banned
We'll always have retro my friend. We'll always have retro.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Unless your sexuality has actual relevance to the story, as in romeo and juliet being straight because, hey they're deeply in love, keep that shit away.
Nobody cares, it has no relevance. I don't need to know. So fuck off with this sexuality obsession.
When you don't know the sexuality of a character, it's up to your interpretation.
Anf if 90+% of characters are straight, so what? So is the real world.
Unless your sexuality has actual relevance to the story, as in romeo and juliet being straight because, hey they're deeply in love, keep that shit away.
Nobody cares, it has no relevance. I don't need to know. So fuck off with this sexuality obsession.
When you don't know the sexuality of a character, it's up to your interpretation.
Anf if 90+% of characters are straight, so what? So is the real world.
Davevil
Member
it is because even today it is not known who the mother of Bowser Jr is
GymWolf
Member
I thought it was bowsette.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Porcile
Member
Nintendo is more diverse than any other company
Is that a cock ring in her mouth?
TidusYuna
Member
Probably. It is certainly not a hairband, that's for sure.
spookyfish
Member
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BbMajor7th
Member
American middle-class cultural hegemony doing its thing again.
Most Western-developed games do a hideous job of representing any kind of outlook or value set that isn't typical of the western, middle-class, white-collar demographic that create them. Even in settings far removed from our own, characters are uniformly coded with the same behaviour patterns that the average Californian aspires to. Living in dire, post-apocalyptic wastelands, heroes (regardless of their race or gender) are always more concerned with moral justice than where their next meal is coming from.
They all talk in complete sentences, rarely curse and almost never stoop to innuendo or lewdness. As such, you'll never catch them belching, farting, scratching their arses or picking their noses - despite being downcast, their sense of social propriety is impeccable (in fact, you'll only see these characteristics displayed in villains). They never speak about things like money either and seem completely immune to economic hardship, poverty or deprivation. Even when they're written as tribal outcasts, working-class outlaws, jobbing mercenaries or down-at-heel law enforcement agents, they'll rarely if ever say or do anything that wouldn't be said or done by the kinds of people who create these games. Imagine a post-apocalyptic protagonist, in a mature rated game, turning to a companion and saying, 'I must've eaten something off yesterday - I've been up since a quarter to six shitting my brains out. I swear to God, it smelt something had crawled up my arse and died'.
In the same way, protagonists will never be overtly religious or conservative either: post-apocalyptic settings almost always love a gruff, outdoorsy, working-class American (who in real-life count a huge number of committed Christians among them) and yet you'll never find a Bible in the apocalypse - you'll never catch characters praying or clinging to their crucifixes or asking god for help.
I'm just scratching the surface here, but there are dozens more examples, just inside America and countless more if you look abroad. If I create a tool to test the cultural diversity of most Western developed games along these lines, I think they'd fail miserably. And none of this is to imply the better representation across gender and racial divides is not important, but to pretend that this is only type of diversity worth pursuing is unreasonable and not a bit condescending.
Most Western-developed games do a hideous job of representing any kind of outlook or value set that isn't typical of the western, middle-class, white-collar demographic that create them. Even in settings far removed from our own, characters are uniformly coded with the same behaviour patterns that the average Californian aspires to. Living in dire, post-apocalyptic wastelands, heroes (regardless of their race or gender) are always more concerned with moral justice than where their next meal is coming from.
They all talk in complete sentences, rarely curse and almost never stoop to innuendo or lewdness. As such, you'll never catch them belching, farting, scratching their arses or picking their noses - despite being downcast, their sense of social propriety is impeccable (in fact, you'll only see these characteristics displayed in villains). They never speak about things like money either and seem completely immune to economic hardship, poverty or deprivation. Even when they're written as tribal outcasts, working-class outlaws, jobbing mercenaries or down-at-heel law enforcement agents, they'll rarely if ever say or do anything that wouldn't be said or done by the kinds of people who create these games. Imagine a post-apocalyptic protagonist, in a mature rated game, turning to a companion and saying, 'I must've eaten something off yesterday - I've been up since a quarter to six shitting my brains out. I swear to God, it smelt something had crawled up my arse and died'.
In the same way, protagonists will never be overtly religious or conservative either: post-apocalyptic settings almost always love a gruff, outdoorsy, working-class American (who in real-life count a huge number of committed Christians among them) and yet you'll never find a Bible in the apocalypse - you'll never catch characters praying or clinging to their crucifixes or asking god for help.
I'm just scratching the surface here, but there are dozens more examples, just inside America and countless more if you look abroad. If I create a tool to test the cultural diversity of most Western developed games along these lines, I think they'd fail miserably. And none of this is to imply the better representation across gender and racial divides is not important, but to pretend that this is only type of diversity worth pursuing is unreasonable and not a bit condescending.
Kssio_Aug
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MiguelItUp
Member
Can't wait for this tool to implode and be swept under a rug somewhere.
Scotty W
Gold Member
I agree with you generally, but if you ise Romeo and Juliet as an example leftists are going to come back at you and point out that Juliet would have been played by a man in Shakespeare’s day.
I disagree with that. What you're talking about is not leftists, but left-wing extremists. Two different things.
Captain Toad
Banned
Man. Remember the good old days when all these whack jobs were contained in San Francisco? Now, they're everywhere.
Fight the good fight, Nintendo.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I know right, it's only the most diverse set of shapes and sizes, colors, sounds, national origins, performance, etc.
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Pagusas
Elden Member
Because fat people can't fit into sports cars, so they want mini vans added so they don't feel shamed.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
In a few years we went from:
Maybe games should have more female/ethnicity representation, etc. In them to....
No white dudes, unless they have blue air and are flamingly gay!... Even then, it would be preferable if this was a bold and powerful black women with curly hair!
Seriously, everybody sees it now... Even in other media types. It has become so bland and boring, because they all use the exact same mold, they make the games less challenging in the name of diversity, they dumb down movies and TV shows for easy translation, etc.
I wish it was only about skin shades and body types.
Maybe games should have more female/ethnicity representation, etc. In them to....
No white dudes, unless they have blue air and are flamingly gay!... Even then, it would be preferable if this was a bold and powerful black women with curly hair!
Seriously, everybody sees it now... Even in other media types. It has become so bland and boring, because they all use the exact same mold, they make the games less challenging in the name of diversity, they dumb down movies and TV shows for easy translation, etc.
I wish it was only about skin shades and body types.
Too many Japanese cars.
Even though there are many cars in the game, they're all 4 wheeled cars, which doesn't allow any room for the 2 or 3 wheeled cars.
Although the cars have varying engine sounds, they're all predominately "male".
The cars sexuality although seemingly ambiguous is clearly hetero.
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Gamer_By_Proxy
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Wildebeest
Member
People didn't care about it then because they were called King, not Activision or Blizzard, and they shouldn't care now.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
This 'tool' is algorithmically enabling cultural appropriation.
they should be ashamed of themselves, this tool is not a good look, they they should know better.
they should be ashamed of themselves, this tool is not a good look, they they should know better.
Flutta
Banned
Guy_who_thinks_hes_cool
Member
that's funny XD
Oddvintagechap
Member
Why create this tool, are eyes not enough?
itsjustJEFF
Member
How is that possible? Nintendo is probably the most diverse, they've got Dragons, Gorillas, Mushrooms, Dinos, Pokemons, and whatever Kerby is.
Blizzards new "diversity" tool doesn't seem diverse enough. What is it just counting humans?
Blizzards new "diversity" tool doesn't seem diverse enough. What is it just counting humans?
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Which movie is this?Tell that to Disney!
Bombolone
Gold Member
Lunarorbit
Member
All I can think of is the smash roster... Do they have any minorities on the roster?
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Asexual Toad incoming!
Barakov
Gold Member
You forgot the none option.
The Mario series isn't diverse enough, according to Activision Blizzard's new tool
Following Activision Blizzard's reveal of its Diversity Space Tool, a video of a GDC 2017 presentation has resurfaced o…www.eurogamer.net
Truly shocking stuff.
Blizzard is adding so much to gaming right now.
What other series can this invaluable tool help us understand better?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Out of all the employees in game companies, these are the people trying to skew characters to their diversified liking.
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