King's Diversity Space Tool: A Leap Forward for Inclusion in Gaming

[Chilela]

So the story here is “people online got big mad that a silly tool nobody is actually using got reported”?

The "Nobody is actually using it" was done after the tool was originally announced, presumably as damage control.

[Bloodbayne]

Man...does this make the quality and quantity of content I pay for improve?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

this is perfectly in line with the nefarious woke ideology that has already infiltrated blizzard since years back. this WILL come eventually, shortly before blizzard goes bankrupt. go woke get broke. ALL problems within blizzard atm has its origin in the woke activists stirring up drama and shit for ideological reasons. it a pity that a institution as grand as blizzard will fall, but not even them are immune to the subversion of woke ideology.

Wait all of them problems? The multi million dollar law suit was just a false flag by woke activists stirring up drama they faked the whole thing for ideological reasons?

[Syncr]

The "Nobody is actually using it" was done after the tool was originally announced, presumably as damage control.

Yeah obviously lol.

Like they clearly are backtracking here, like they clearly thought everyone was goin to love this and if the reception was different they would have 100% gone in the other direction.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

The "Nobody is actually using it" was done after the tool was originally announced, presumably as damage control.

While ya it’s damage control The dev’s them selfs have also said they don’t use it and have bemoaned the suits for pretending that they do.

This was nothing more then a distraction from they’re other actions.

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Man...does this make the quality and quantity of content I pay for improve?

Depends on how much candy crush you play.

[NineSpine]

The "Nobody is actually using it" was done after the tool was originally announced, presumably as damage control.

If someone was gullible enough to think that this was actually in use, that is on them.

[Syncr]

If someone was gullible enough to think that this was actually in use, that is on them.

Gullible? You think they were trying to “trick us” into thinking this was used?

[varren]

LMFAO this shit is quite literally just a graph now. Most hilarious thing I have seen in a while.

[NineSpine]

this is perfectly in line with the nefarious woke ideology that has already infiltrated blizzard since years back. this WILL come eventually, shortly before blizzard goes bankrupt. go woke get broke. ALL problems within blizzard atm has its origin in the woke activists stirring up drama and shit for ideological reasons. it a pity that a institution as grand as blizzard will fall, but not even them are immune to the subversion of woke ideology.

This is the timeline:

1. Blizzard makes good games.
2. Blizzard is overrun by creeps.
3. Blizzard makes bad games.
4. Blizzard tries to correct course.

Now, maybe you have a different understanding of how "time" works, but generally speaking it flows forward, not backward, so I'm struggling to understand why we should blame 3 on 4 rather than on 2.

[bryroo]

Instead of rerolling characters to get an 18 in Str or Dex now you reroll until you're a blind palestinian lesbian who studies engineering at community College and hates cats

[Zigrifid]

"A Leap Forward "
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[Chilela]

While ya it’s damage control The dev’s them selfs have also said they don’t use it and have bemoaned the suits for pretending that they do.

This was nothing more then a distraction from they’re other actions.

If someone was gullible enough to think that this was actually in use, that is on them.

IMO, given the developers, it really wouldn't be that out-of-character for them to be using such a thing.

[NineSpine]

Gullible? You think they were trying to “trick us” into thinking this was used?

This is not hard stuff if you spend any time offline, touching grass, not thinking about twitter and not desperately seeking woke bogeymen around every corner.

The original post sounded like a half hearted promo for a silly idea that seven people at Activision ever actually saw and would never go anywhere.

[Relapses]

Gullible? You think they were trying to “trick us” into thinking this was used?

There's a strange overlap of people offended by this tool's existence and those who are inclined to, unprompted, write paragraphs upon paragraphs about how persecuted straight white males are in this, God's year two-thousand-and-twenty-two.

[NineSpine]

IMO, given the developers, it really wouldn't be that out-of-character for them to be using such a thing.

It's just a silly over-engineered solution to a problem. The absolute meltdown in response is hilarious.

[vincink]

It has to be one or the other because every thing that has come out about blizzard and it’s work Culture is the exact opposite of progressive culture to the point where it could Only be more on the nose if they had mandated MAGA Hats.

That's an unreasonable framing-- that there's only two kinds of people in the world: progressives or "MAGA Hats". Humanity is not that simple and even people within both movements are not that simple. You are also not that simple. Reductive categories make it easy to make hypothetical people who do not exist or exist in few numbers. By claiming that there's only progressives and "MAGA Hats" in Blizzard, you force the entire corporation of Blizzard employees into those categories and discard one category as undesirable. This is prejudice, reductive, and not at all helpful.

[Syncr]

This is not hard stuff if you spend any time offline, touching grass, not thinking about twitter and not desperately seeking woke bogeymen around every corner.

The original post sounded like a half hearted promo for a silly idea that seven people at Activision ever actually saw and would never go anywhere.

What on earth does this have to do with going outside? A company has a giant announcement detailing everything about a program they worked on for five years, and you think it’s obvious that this was just a “just for giggles” thing?

I honest to god can’t tell if you’re trolling. I don’t actually care about the tool at, no matter how dumb I think it is. But what on earth are you even talking about my friend.

[vincink]

It has to be one or the other because every thing that has come out about blizzard and it’s work Culture is the exact opposite of progressive culture to the point where it could Only be more on the nose if they had mandated MAGA Hats.

That's an unreasonable framing-- that there's only two kinds of people in the world: progressives and "MAGA Hats". Humanity is not that simple and even people within both movements are not that simple. You are also not that simple. Reductive categories make it easy to make hypothetical people who do not exist or exist in few numbers. By claiming that there's only progressives and "MAGA Hats" in Blizzard, you force the entire corporation of Blizzard employees into two categories and then discard people in one category as undesirable. At best, this straw-manning is unhelpful; at worst is prejudice.

[Memory]

They clarified it is not being used in active game development. That is, it is just virtue signaling, which apparently backfired.

[Syncr]

There's a strange overlap of people offended by this tool's existence and those who are inclined to, unprompted, write paragraphs upon paragraphs about how persecuted straight white males are in this, God's year two-thousand-and-twenty-two.

Ok? Lol.

I mean just because I think the tool is dumb and is hurtful in the long run doesn’t mean I think white people are being persecuted. This is that same mindset of people calling all woke folks white hating because some of them use it as a tool to actually hate white people.

But this guy has taken it in a very weird very conspiratorial-esq type of direction that’s super silly lol.