tl;dr a bunch of non-LGBT left-wingers are yelling at Game Company for making a thematically & genre-consistent representation of a dystopian corporate city where yes, even the LGBTs aren't excluded from #pride advertising.
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Replying to @listmouse
Is it at cdpr or Ubi? Because when I search stuff I can't find it.
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Replying to @Edriffles @listmouse
cdpr google the name of the current political football title plus trans ad
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Replying to @chaosprime @Edriffles
tl;dr a gay art director at the company was like "'yo we should make it realistic and give the el gee be tees significant buying power which means they get objectified just as much in marketing" and the world is like "how dare you depict dystopian hellscape in dystopian game"
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Replying to @listmouse @Edriffles
i'm seeing mostly "in order for your work to contain the bad thing being done for corporate benefit, you, a corporation, must do the bad thing and benefit from it", which... yes? and "that's only okay if you critique it directly" which, enh, not feeling it
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mostly it just scans as '77 got pattern matched to outgroup early so now every random thing is a chance for everybody to jump on the bandwagon and run up their score
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Replying to @chaosprime @Edriffles
outgroup is a dumb word that devalues the argument you're making but other than that i agree for the most part.
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Replying to @chaosprime @Edriffles
my respect for even the closest of mutuals goes down when they use either of those words either ironically or unironically. it's just the dumbest pair of words ever.
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found the non-sociologist
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Replying to @chaosprime @Edriffles
i'd liken it more to being the one sane person in a group of facebook moms and trying to be like "'yo stop recommending people forego blood transplants and vaccines that's going to kill your kids you are not a doctor you're just an overly self-assured and easily-manipulated dick"
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Replying to @listmouse @Edriffles
wait, so it's not so much that "ingroup" and "outgroup" are dumb words/concepts, it's that using them is dangerous?
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