So imgame character was rapist too?, but with new name comes clean backstory.
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What's more cringe, the faux outrage that led to the change, or the faux outrage over the change?
Cringeception.
Thanks for the ad-hominem; it supports your inability to support your argument.
I would be fine with this is they at least gave McCree one of those fake glasses, nose, and moustache things to wear. Play off this thing as a joke and pretend McCree is in witness protection or something.
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Peak corporate cringe posting. Beating a dead horse at this point, does anyone even play Metawatch.
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. "
- General Jack D. Ripper.
Like many things that get renamed because of social justice authoritarianism, the name itself is tied to what it refers to in-context. A passel of pixels in the shape of a Western character in a video game is called McCree. Players don't generally know or care that it has significance beyond the name of a character in a video game. And in fact, even if they do know that it's named after someone at a video game company, it has no bearing on how they interpret its in-context meaning. If I said the name "Gordon Freeman", likely the first thought to a gamer is, the mute protagonist from the Half Life series. If I tell you he's named after Freeman Dyson, you might think that's interesting but you still think of Gordon Freeman as the mute protagonist from the Half Life series and merrily continue swinging the crowbar when you play the Half-Life games.
The "low" that Blizzard has slipped to is that without any hesitation, they memory-hole'd the names of characters whose names were only ever connected to the in-game characters themselves and not their namesake in the minds of their paying and playing customers. The players are ultimately punished here even if Blizzard did not intend to: McRee, a name memorable to all the Overwatch players, is now verboten, and is now replaced with this approved name.
I'll grant you that it is extreme to be emotionally traumatized by the change but both the optics and effects of it are clear. Blizzard is behaving like a chef who so far had served an excellent meal but then served a side-dish a few did not like. Upon seeing their sour-faced responses to the side-dish, the chef scrambles like mad to fix the main course and other side-dishes because in his mind he assumes the whole meal might be offensive-tasting to them and others. In the end, it was only a few patrons who disliked the one side-dish but now the quality of the rest of the meal suffers as do those who were enjoying the meal without issue. Why must the many suffer for the few?
All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride. I never wanted to bleed the species to its marrow, reaving half the galaxy clean of human life in this bitter crusade. I never desired any of this, though I know the reasons for which it must be done. But all I ever wanted was the truth.
will probably be called McCree for quite a while. Wouldn't surprise me if casters, depending on event producer, will be banned from using that name though.
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Will still call him Mcree. It rolls of the tongue much nicer than the stupid name they gave him.
If you ever wonder how dumb people really are then consider this: even in the golden age of smart heals dumb people still find ways to die.
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The chef analogy holds if we were discussing a title blizzard released that flopped or was bad tasting, like WC3 reforged I suppose. I wouldn't compare company misconduct becoming global outrage to a side dish.
More like, the chef you loved and thought cooked up some amazing food had a few sous chefs working for him who were into touching kids. So now they have to rename an item on their menu called "tasty tots" to "diced fried potatoes"
I dig 'Cassidy', not so much 'Cole'. Whatever, there'll probably be a period I keep referring to him as 'Jesse' or 'McCree' until I get used to the new name.
Now that I think about it I'd have liked "Joel Cassidy" more.
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Now you see it. Now you don't.
To me, the most surprising thing about this is the fact that there are still people who play Overwatch for some reason.
The absolute state of Warcraft lore in 2021:
Kyrians: We need to keep chucking people into the Maw because it's our job.
Also Kyrians: Why is the Maw growing stronger despite all our efforts?
Dunno why they went with what sounds like a pornstar name when Jesse Shimada was right there, but okay I guess.
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