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"Play is an integral part of human evolution and learning," she says, mentioning that this is a topic she covers in her book. "Gaming, being the most refined form of play in our time, has much to offer. Instead of focusing on what gaming is not, it's more effective to showcase its true essence. The industry's effort to create a more diverse range of games, beyond merely violent and intense ones, will help showcase the broad spectrum of gaming as an expression of creativity."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  1. I provided a screenshot as an example. Obviously I'm not going to link to every fucking bigoted comment. Those were the top three comments; two of which were useful to my point.

  2. Note that zero of these comments are complaining about diversity

Here, let me make one bigger for you:

They "think" adding more diversity in the form of inclusion and LGBT representation would make the game worse, since apparently that point wasn't as clear as, say, a fucking foghorn.

  1. Do you know what people are referring to when they use that word?

Yes. "Woke" means "anything that threatens my worldview of white masculine superiority and reminding me that non-white, non-straight, non-male people exist and should be represented in art hurts my fee-fees."

But sure, explain how it's really about "ethics in gaming journalism".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Can you make that bigger? ๐Ÿ˜›