The price for calling your games art is that, much like other media, you run the risk of the public not liking your experimentation. The best modern artists, for instance, all had classical backgrounds. They knew the rules before they broke them.
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So while the harassment and threats from
#GamerGate are clearly inexcusable, the underlying sentiment was that gamers / comics fans (even many female ones) generally didn't like identity politics being pushed on them or even elevated above overall quality.
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a person making a game (that is then, apparently, shown by a third-party to those hostile towards art) is hardly "pushing identity politics"
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The topic's too broad for tweets, but if you want some examples from the opposing side, go on YT and look up "Diversity Games Suck" or "Diversity in Comics" to see their criticisms. They're like the mirror version of
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Replying to @MarushiaDark @jeremyredhead and
In general, I don't think even so-called anti-feminists or anti-SJWs have an issue with diversity in media, so long as it's done seamlessly and not at the expense of story, gameplay, immersion, or other things. If diversity makes sense in context and arises naturally.
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Replying to @MarushiaDark @jeremyredhead and
As if it's "natural" that so many things feature white men and marginalize other folks. That didn't happen naturally either. That's not apolitical. It's a deeply political reality.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @jeremyredhead and
I mean in the sense that there's a reason for them being a certain way, or at least there not being a reason they can't be. That it's not JUST "we need more representation." So like making Elsa black in medieval Sweden would be a reach, which is why she's white and Tiana's not.
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Replying to @MarushiaDark @carolynmichelle and
To your point, yes, historically many times they just happen to arbitrarily be white males. But if the only reason you're making Mario black is to make Mario black because we need more black characters ... I can see why people'd take issue with that. It doesn't add anything.
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Replying to @MarushiaDark @carolynmichelle and
okay, that's taking an established character and changing them, which seems to bother some people. but many others get upset if someone makes like, a game with a black protagonist, b/c "white people are being erased" or whatever, which is just silly
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Replying to @jeremyredhead @carolynmichelle and
Can you name an instance in which that's the case? Where it's not otherwise swapping an established character or shoe-horning it in just to appease diversity quotas?
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Again, this whole notion of "diversity quotas" is absurd IMO. For so many white characters, there's no reason why they "need" to be white. Why then do we need to justify creating characters of another race? White is not a neutral, default setting on humanity.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @jeremyredhead and
And I completely agree with you. Make whatever you want, just make new stuff and make it good. Unlike these:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUaGKxv76Q …
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Replying to @MarushiaDark @carolynmichelle and
White is not a neutral, but white is also not a nothing either. Building up to equality is fine; and I'm not saying that you are guilty of this, but simply recognize that others fear equality means a tearing down to the lowest common denominator: https://marushiadark.wixsite.com/darknessfiles/single-post/2017/11/04/The-Hegelian-Dialectic …
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