this was the whole idea behind identity politics......you cant fire me bc i'm a poc, gay, female, lesbian, trans, etc i have a protected status shield to save me from merit criticism
@@mobilemetal4554 No. They wanted to make it a catchphrase. I agree with @tonyfleury - let the game die and be consigned to the composting toilet it belongs in.
Oh nooooo not just yet. I'll download it from Gamepass, start it up and then uninstall it just so I can leave a 1 star review with "Matt Hansen" as the description. THEN I'll cancel Gamepass and leave Matt Hansen as to why I cancelled
Every cult does the same it's probably the main thing that really defines what a cult is, the haterd and refusal to associate with non remembers, and that is usually 99.99999999999% of the global population
What's funny is that "CHUD" was an Acronym for "Cannibalistic, Humanoid, Underground, Dwellers". It used to be a slang term used by Generation X pre- Web 2.0. See there were two movies by that name, "CHUDS" and "CHUDS 2: Bud The Chud". They were stables of independent VHS rental places, and thus sort of a shared viewing experience among Gen-X, across different cliques, and became a sort of joke, especially since the movies... while terrible... did inspired a lot of references in other VHS era films, as well as a few unofficial sequels. At any rate to Gen X, a CHUD was someone who was totally dysfunctional and who stereotypically lived in their parents or family's basement, literally underground, had poor personal hygiene, and acted like a know it all, typically being one of the people who would go around getting banned from various BBS and Echo systems as even online they couldn't find ways to fit in. Millennials started just using the term "Basement Dweller" as they didn't get the full reference, but then as Gen X laughed at them and gently corrected them, especially given how many Millennial "social justice warriors" fit this bill... Millennials in general trying to dedicate themselves to long resolved social issues, especially the mal-adjusted ones, figuring that as long as they targeted what were supposed to be "the right people" they could be heroes and give themselves some kind of meaning. The irony of the Millennial+ "social justice warrior" being that none of them would ever say confront an actual gay basher, or have rocks thrown at them after an ABIGAYLES meeting acting as an "ally" to add security, like Gen X did, in part because those problems only existed because such people felt they had to. Gen X started using the term "CHUD" to designate these people so they could know the difference between the real deal, and what was being dealt with, and it hurt, so they decided to try and re-take the term to some extent, which is funny, as they are using a term they don't even understand, which Gen X (my generation) in many cases finds even more hilarious. You have the CHUDs calling normal people living in the real world that... it's no wonder how far this snapped back. At any rate, if your curious, sometime try and take a look at when "Basement Dweller" transitioned into "CHUD" and you'll notice it wasn't like one thing, but how that interplay tended to happen, and where it happened. I merely point this out because well... I'm bored, and while I guess it's impossible to prove in any definitive way, it's one of those oddly specific pieces of old slang that made a come back, being used improperly by younger people. "Woke" is another term like that, for Gen X it meant something different, and we popularized that, and of course we actually knew it started with black culture BUT we turned it into our version as an intentional parody, and then it got turned into this by people "doing it wrong" and then not wanting to admit it.
It's also been used as a derogatory term in the past...in addition to now. Weird that ppl supposedly against stereotypes and inequality seem to propagate it...
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
I've been pointing this out for a decade, no one pays attention. We're lost. We are watching the death throes of the western civilisation live, in living colour. Enjoy a couple hundred years of dark ages before it *MIGHT* get better.
Oh my god. The HR at my company brought up the idea of inviting employees to include their pronouns in their emails. I immediately spoke up (I'm on the equity committee with senior leadership, including HR director, at my job). It's a stupid idea. If people want to put their pronouns in their email, great. But it should not come from the company. All it does is draw lines in the sand. Some people don't want to be forced to express themselves, or forced to express an opt-out. "Oh, so-and-so didn't put their pronoun in their sig. They are against us!" Or, maybe even worse, you have someone who wishes to keep that portion of their personal life private. Maybe I appear as a male, but internally I'm struggling with who I am. Maybe I'd rather not reveal to my co-workers that I prefer she/her, or he/him, or they/them, or whatever. Maybe I want to keep that part of my life separate from work. Work was going fine until HR prompted everyone to lift the curtain on that part of their life, whatever their stance or identity may be. And what does all this have to do with coming in to work every day to do a job? Absolutely nothing. It's inviting drama where there was none, and making it worse in places where there was already drama. I was able to talk it down for my own company. I was hoping a huge megacorp like Microsoft would have the money to hire people with more common sense. As a liberal myself, these people are nut jobs. This crap is not progressive. It's counterproductive.
The ONLY excuse I can realistically see from a corp's perspective on pronouns in bios is if they have a gender neutral name like Jessie, Jordan (worked with a male and female Jordan once), etc. You don't need fkking pronoun announcements for Mark, Tiffany, John, or Carolina. It's literally just virtue signalling at that point.
You're a liberal, so you are part of the problem. We don't want you here. Your politics and evil actions have nearly destroyed this country. Also, you are allied with the ideology that birthed the KKK, NAMBLA, BLM, ANTIFA, Etc. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. No replies will be seen
Imagine the atmosphere at the Obsidian office right now....this unhinged psycho is the most talked about thing in the entire industry right now...and he potentially just sabotaged the sales of the game they have been working on every single day for the past 5-6 years.
The others probably agree with him. These types weaseled thwur way in and then worked like the mafia, only hiring imbeciles that think alike. Slowly, the industry was filled with these idiots and that led us to where we are.
And somewhat coincidentally, David Gaider did something similar for Dragon Age Veilguard with his petulant "F**king tourists" rant on Bluesky shortly before the game was released.....
I cant get over how bad that name is for this game. Every time I think to check the steam page for funny posts or youtube for news I completely forget what the game is even called and have to look it up on google. What is up with games now having the most bland generic forgettable names possible?
@@Chud_Budthe new echo chamber leftards ran to after the elections because they're butthurt about other people being able to express their opinions on Twitter.
I have a short story to tell about a Protestant church I used to go to every since I was a child and how it has been fully taken over, and run, by people that smack what being a true Christian is diretly in the face. I grew up in Puerto Rico and there is a church named Union Church that was once a wonderful place for mainland Americans who lived on the island to congregate and attend. The church at its peak was when the island of Puerto Rico had a company tax incentive to be based on the island. For a time in the late 70’s and early 80’s the island became a powerhouse but had to give up the incentive due to so many states complaining that PR was getting preferential treatment. After the incentive was killed the companies slowly but surely left the island back to the mainland. So Union Church lost its main core base of Americans and struggled to keep afloat and hire good pastors to lead. The problem: the Church currently has a pastor who is… gay. What is happening now is a converstion not unlike what has happened to these AAA studios. If your leader is gay, and word of mouth gets out into their community, then the original audience gets pushed out for the “new new.” I had moved off island about 9 years ago but my mother still attended that church. She would call me complaining of what sacrilege was occuring and I would reply that she needs to leave the church and ket it go as it is gone to what the bible describes as the sinners. She refuses to let go and wants to fight for her church, bless her, but what is done is done. This is precisely where “live and let live” leads to. As we want to be peaceful and tolerant we have let in the crazies and the intolerant to not only coexist in our once “safe spaces” but also to take over and rule them.
Hiring activists is a company getting cancer... It can be fought, the fight is always painful and not always successful. Promoting a Activist to a manager role... is that cancer growing to stage 3, the prognosis is bad the the patient (Company) will likely die. The cancer will rapidly spread (hires more activists) unless treated right away. If the activists (cancer) ever get promoted to a executive role... The cancer has gone terminal and its highly doubtful treatment will save the patient (Company).
Perfectly said. I've always described them as a virus, whose entire focus is to infect the cells of the host company, rewrite the function of those cells to replicate the virus, and turn the company into a vector for further infection
I like the comparison, but I would rather associate them as "parasite", so once the host (company) dies, they latch onto another host, repeating the cycle.
@@friedrichjunztYour "both sides" might be true if it wasn't entirely theoretical. I'd love to hear even a single example of conservative activists infiltrating and ruining a company from the inside like a cancer. Meanwhile, at literally every corporation on the fortune 500:
Boycott the entire organisation if they refuse to fire him. That also applies to Microsoft. I still see too many people, even here, praising Gamepass. You guys realise MS is 100x more woke than this guy, right?
Dude has admitted to giving or withholding preferential treatment and even jobs based on race. he might not think it’s “racism” by the technical and legal meaning it certainly is.
There has been a real trend amoung certain groups the past few years to use a reworded/alternative definition as the only definition. So they can claim their actions do not fall under the bad word. Words can have multiple definitions and they only recognize a narrow one with extra caveats attached instead of the most general one which is closer to the legal meaning.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere. Obsidian on the other hand... It may just implode from this. But Microsoft has the 2nd highest net worth in the world, behind Nvidia (excluding Blackrock and Vanguard obviously)
Yeah, MS isn't going anwhere anytime soon but ObsiDEIn will be in trouble if this game flops. Besides, you're right. If companies produce mediocre or downright bad products, they absolutely deserve to fail.
@@Kossy-x4x Obsidian is already in trouble before the game releases. They haven't made a great game since Fallout New Vegas. That was 2010. 14 years ago. Outer Worlds was mid. Now with this happening, it's going to be game over. They have no leg to stand on unless they fire that guy, delay the game and remove the DEI stuff. I highly doubt they'll do that though. I'm a woman and I'm tired of the white male hatred and ugly women in these new games. I want my character to be pretty. I don't want pronouns. I don't want forced political views. And I'd like some handsome white guys please. At least Baldurs Gate 3 did it right. It was woke, but it executed it right and made an amazing game. It didn't shove politics in your face constantly
@@toxicgracie3772 Yeah, the Outer Woke was the first sign of trouble. The "female" characters in that game were nightmare fuel. Bald Guy's Gate 3 is one of maybe 4 woke games that aren't a complete dumpster fire so wokesters desperately cling to that game a full year after its release to say "See, see woke doesn't equal broke. Checkmate Chuds" while ignoring the literal dozen or so woke games this year alone that have tanked entire game studios. Completely agree that I'm sick of seeing female uggos in games to appeal to screeching blue hairs.
@@toxicgracie3772 Agreed. The uggos in gaming were the tipping point for me. No point in doing that other than to appease feminists and [redacted]women.
Chris Avellone was the genius behind all the great games Obsidian ever made. And he left the company in 2015 when xbox took over. It was all downhill from there.
You're doing a great service to the games industry JT. Just so you know, on steam someone posted a link to this video in the comments section of the main update in "recent events & announcements" section on the avowed store page. It's literally nothing but people talking shit about dei/racism in gaming. I'm noticing a major shift in average mainstream attitude towards issues like this. Steam comments sections used to be a battleground of two sides yelling at each other. Now it's almost universally hated and there's like 2 people with 10 clown awards who speak in favor of woke crap.
They know that they're losing. For us more hardcore gaming fans, we've been privy to this nonsense since The Last of Us 2. For your average normie, I would say they started noticing and disliking the trend since Concord since that was supposed to be a new, huge IP from their precious Sony. Now even they have seen what we've saying for years now that wokeness will NEVER make a game better, but can certainly make it worse.
2 years ago I was SA'd by Matt Hansen while i worked for Obsidian. It happened one night during a crunch session. I took a quick nap on the couch in the lounge. When I woke up Matt Hansen had his hand down my pants. He said he would fire me if I said anything, so I kept quiet
Cancelled mine in January. Bailed on Xbox /Microsoft 2021. But you're absolutely on target. Mass cancellations of game pass would really put the cat amongst the pigeons.
His racial self hatred against his own people is pathetic and needs to be called out and stamped out. He deserves nothing but scorn and mockery for it. Absolutely no tolerance for anti-white bigotry!
Because they likely dont share your interpretation of his behavior and often those type of people know how that what they do alienates a core part of their audience. Thats the point.
Saw a chick on the channel Caleb Hammer who just has terrible finances say she prefers "to be referred to as liege. That's a thing." Liege. My liege..... just done lost our dang nabbit minds
It’s quite easy to take over, especially with identity politics. And they will absolutely implode your company because they, in general, are devoid of any useful skill set, especially one that’s irreplaceable. That’s why you have to reject ESG and DEI initiatives because they do not have the best interest of anyone involved in mind. You let them in, you better start the countdown because your crap is about to get bankrupt.
I have heard it called language control. Basically making people go through hoops to even talk to you and you have the power to punish them for any misspeaking.
You do realize how childish this all is with pronouns, a male is a he, a female is a she. There is no such thing of mispronouncing pronouns! There is no such thing as transgender, because you can not change your gender, that is an impossibility! You are either man or woman, you can not be neither or nonbinary, nonbinary is just a made up word for a gender that does not exist!!! I'm 52 years old and when I went to school in the 1980's, none of this preferred pronouns bullsh*t, was ever thought of and was never taught because it never existed!!!
Oh, it existed. All of this has been done before, to similarly destructive conclusions. Encouraging people to question their sexuality, encouraging people to outright change their sex, sexualizing children, all of this last happened in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution when various thinkers decided Russia hadn't turned into paradise because they hadn't destroyed human nature thoroughly enough. Germany was their petri dish, and when the Germans finally got fed up with children's bodies being sold on the streets the architects of this evil fled west - especially to America, their travel paid for by their wealthy banker relatives, and quickly got established in media and academia.
I want to share an experience with a project manager. I was hired on a one-year contract, but for the entire year, I was placed "on the bench." I would clock in and clock out every day without being given any tasks. When my contract finally ended, they showed me the door and didn’t offer to rehire me. This is the harsh reality of the gaming industry-people in higher positions do whatever they want, with no accountability for their actions. After eight years in QA, I had to put my career on hold due to the slander and lies I experienced. That job left a mark, and after it, I struggled to find work, even though I had the qualifications and the drive. Most people in charge are copycats and will do Unfair business practices without any remorse.
I miss when developers weren't operated like corporations. We'll never have another time like the development of the first Halo trilogy, for example. It was a bunch of nerds who were dead set on making something fun and cool for the fans. Even with the development hell of Halo 2, they still released a fantastic and beloved game. Today, it would've been released as a live service title, packed full of microtransactions, and with a transgender Master Chief banging the Arbiter, with sexual harassment allegations going on in the studio.
@@97Crazysteve Gaming going mainstream was a mistake, it should have stayed niche. Greedy publishers have ruined gaming. Thank God for the indy gaming scene.
Matt deserves some street justice, so tired of people talking mad shit about others from the safety of their keyboards. Man, social media really has cursed this world.
It's never as easy as "I don't care what you do in the bedroom." They want to demand that you are on board with their choices. My guess is because they lack self confidence in their life choices.
Well it's a different issue depending on the demographic. With sexual orientation, they just want celebration as if they're the majority of the population. With trans, it's that their belief system relies on others 'affirming' their subjective interpretation of reality. It's like if Christians required everyone to acknowledge the Christian god is the true god (or really, Muslim extremists). There's no compromise to that, when one side is saying "do you own thing and keep kids out of it," and the other side is saying "you must affirm me, and yes we'll take your kids." (Hansen even literally made the last claim out of anger.)
To be fair this is largely the TQA part using us LGB as a sort of shield for their screwed up ideology. Sure I am happy to have gay characters in games but not when they are shoehorned in there to check some box for ESG scoring. These assholes always make it about them.
It went from "Why do you care what consenting adults do alone in the privacy of their bedrooms" to "Why do you care if kids are exposed to kink during pride?" Real quick.
@ebonsoule5275 what would be a better boycott than just refunding the whole gamepass? It is so that the big corpos understand that mid games don't belong alongside the peak, skins be damned. The real scary part is when people move on from skins as a valuable component. That will be truly interesting
Games are more influential than TV, movies and newspapers/magazines combined so of course the CIA has completely taken over. What else do you think they do.
@mywifesboyfriend5558 Sadly you're probably right. This is why I just buy indie games for the most part now a days. I'm completely done with giving developer's anymore money for openly spitting in my face.
Dude said "I can't wait until he sees the default" in reference to Elon Musk in a repost. It makes me wonder what the default is. How to tank a game 101.
Bro is really determined to sabotage a game he’s been working on for years and might possibly bankrupt the company he works for and get all of his coworkers fired just so he can piss off a man who is not only one of the richest people in the world, but likely had no idea he even existed until he was tagged in a tweet. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Hansen definitely seems like someone who goes on a power trip and abuses people making them miserable. He doesn't belong anywhere in this industry and needs the boot. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
And the trigger of that power trip was the acquisition by Microsoft. They were the ones that greenlit woke culture, and inside agents like Hansen were like "Say no more, I got you covered!"
@@thelegendaryklobb2879 I mean this is exactly what covid did. A bunch of formerly fringe, feeble-minded individuals were deputized by the government to snitch on their neighbors and harass people in the street who weren't complying with guidelines. You give these kind of people any power and it goes straight to their head.
Surprise Surprise Surprise, as activists moved in, gaming industry turned to (redacted). The critical drinker was right that activists rather burn an industry to ground for sake of The Message since its not their companies and not their money.
Ahh but it IS their companies and their money in the long run. They were just banking on The Message taking over society by force, ending with them in control of everything. But their gambit is failing, badly, and it's putting all these Woke companies into a panic.
Exactly, when did the CEO's become doormats? Last I checked, they're the shotcallers and when someone's yelling and demanding this or that, there's no second chances and it's time that person's shown the door and not a seat on my chairs.
It's weird, the CEO had the perfect chance right there to fire some of the people rotting the company, with cause, and instead he relented? They handed themselves over on a silver platter and he was like "Nah, they can stay" for some reason?
@@Zso-VIII Again, being doormats and in their eyes is has to be sunk cost fallacy kicking in by this point. I strongly believe that dev when he said Microsoft doesn't care about the quality of the games anymore as there's been an increase of f2p and other games like it on Game Pass while they force us to pay more for less quality games. Come January, we've have both Genshin Impact & ZZZ as well as Marvel Rivals and whatever Fragpunk will be. It's obvious where the effort's going now and that's gachas and more f2p games while trash like Avowed and the leftovers from aging franchises and more pointless remakes and remasters make their way over onto Xbox. How does that make sense when we're in an economic downturn and people barely are able to feed themselves but let's release games that are predatory and full of traps for the vulnerable and gullible of us?
@@Ziko577 The CEO probably became just a puppet after the Microsoft aquisition. They keep him in position for the brand name and trajectory, but he's no longer making the important decisions.
excellence video. JT is so well spoken and breaks down HOW it all falls into place. He is the citizen journalism we NEED. Bring these things to light and call it out.
I remember my days at IGDA when I met with the Obsidian crew pretty frequently. They were a good bunch and I always respected their work. I won’t forget the time I saw my two friends at E3 after watching the south park fractured “butt whole” trailer and went to congratulate them. Unfortunately it was premature given that I didn’t even realize they didn’t develop it. They both said they’d they didn’t understand why Ubisoft had passed over them for the sequel given the success and acclaim stick of truth had. Part of me wonders if the company getting perpetually snubbed by AAA publishers is what led to the rot beginning to fester. In the conferences afterwards I noticed less and less familiar faces at Obsidian during the IGDA meetings. Eventually I barely recognized anyone at the company and I can tell the culture at Obsidian was shifting for the worse prior to 2016. It saddens me to see what it has become come. Thank you JT for getting the word out. It only confirms I was smart to get out of the industry when I did.
I think it likely will. This progressive stuff doesn’t sell and then you add on top of that the fact that he’s openly mocking his core customer base, I think the game is doomed. To do this in a new IP is pretty much financial immolation.
Need more than the game failing for these knobheads to sit up and understand. Gonna need to organise mass cancellations of game pass. That might just put the Xbox executives in enough deep shit to start rolling back the nonce- sense.
The 'brainwashed' and 'good intentions' excuse is no longer valid after years of seeing the outcome,if they stood by watching those people are just as much to blame as Hansen
Exactly. Even when they get the acceptance they aren’t happy. They want everyone to join their cult. If you dare to stand up for yourself you’re called a bigot and forced out.
It's not enough that you accept them. You must APPLAUD them. Constantly. They're people with identity crises who need their identity to be propped up at all costs. Anything less than adulation is an attack to them.
Hansen clearly has the "Loner" perk from FoT. "Your solitary childhood and upbringing mean that you work much better when alone. Get +10% to all rolls when outside the influence of other squad members." It requires
How long until we get a witch-hunt to all gaming whistleblowers? Because chirst this is now a second huge blow by a developer risking his career to expose these villainous activists to save gaming. Great video JT, and keep on Smashin.
"Why does this keep happening?" It happens from the top. Microsoft's largest shareholders include BlackRock and Vanguard. The head of Xbox is the embodiment of DEI. And Obsidian of course is based in Southern California, bastion of wokeness. Getting an agenda-free game in this environment would be getting blood from a stone.
No, it's not mainly from top down. The woke thing spreads among liberal people because it's so easy for radical activists to demand stuff without almost nobody daring to oppose them.
Blackrock also consists of zionists aka literal genociders. Once again, proven that LGBT propaganda has been zionist propaganda, on top of Israel being the safest place for LGTV crowds, pdfiles & degenerate SAs (this is a a real thing btw).
That will not happen anytime soon. Blackrock has a lot of money. And games like ragnorak and spider man 2 were a succes as far as i know and they still had the same propaganda just less in your face than this.
Firstly. Power doesn't always corrupt and sometimes people deliberately seek positions where they can abuse the power they have. Now, i don't know what this Matt Hansen fellah started as but it's clear what he is now. It's also always fascinating how something that starts small and in a state where everyone's ass is on the line EVERY MONTH, on whether or not the product and service is good enough for the place to make ends meet or even produce a surplus of wealth, at some point changes into utterly something different and disconnected from any even remotely accountable. A machine run by the evil or indífferent, and the only thing a good person is can do is either deal with the abuse, fight in a pointless battle they are destined to lose, or leave, and hope the wolves don't follow them. Second. I do hope all these good people find each other and create new companies where they can shine and do the same thing they did before their former homes became twisted. Any time i hear games made by people like that, i give them a chance and they certainly have my attention.
I've worked with some crazy mofos, but I can't imagine working for someone that batshit crazy for more than a few hours without some sort of altercation.
They just got used to the easy ride and it sure is nice to not have to drive to the office everyday. But when it comes to actually getting shit done, I can't imagine not wanting to be in the office, it must be a fucking nightmare working on a collaborative project like a video game and never seeing your co-workers. I would certainly never do it by choice.
It saddens me when I hear about whistleblowers speaking out. I mean, it's good, but it also means there are sane people whose paychecks are on the line.
I love your segment about how their wokeness is a religion. I totally agree with you. I am a religious person, specifically a Christian, and my convictions are built upon historical, scientific and philosophical inquiry. The problem with their religion is that it lacks a coherent foundation, and that it's all about "me, me, me."
And most of the time, finding even the tiniest flaw in their logic is enough to destroy their entire narrative. Which is why they love censorship so much - they know they can't defend their stances.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. It's what I've started calling "The New Church". I think this is why so many of us are giddy while indulging in politically incorrect content. It is an act of blasphemy. They really can't stand the idea of heretics. More importantly they hate fun.
You think even all of Chaos wants this? My newly saved bit of Night Lords memes for you. "My Primarch, it seems we cannot Mansplain, manipulate or manwhore our way out of this one." Konrad Curze, smiling:"Manslaughter it is, then."
I don't mind pushback to stay homeoffice, especially in US, who would like to work 8-12 hours a day and spend comunal 1-4 hours on top of that? When IT can work from home. No issue with that, they should go to office once a week or something. The cult and social bubble is the issue, that's pushed by DEI quotas.
Agreed. I work as a software engineer at a company of just over 150 people, and we do just fine with coming into the office once a week. Even then, that one day a week doesn't buy my team much if anything in terms of collaborative benefits.
13:20 "you will always have my priority. We got too many white dudes" retweeted by josh sawyer, the game director of avowed and basically Hansen's boss at obsidian studios.
@Phantasm6969 that’s why i tried pointing out that avellone was the bigger driving factor in the writing of new vegas than sawyer. Sawyers always come off as an odd duck.
@@dylanbell268 JS has been around a long time and he's at a point in his career where he can go anywhere and do just about anything he wants. Essentially anyone that had a large role on the NV team can waltz their way into any studio and be treated as a superstar. That goes to your head *really* quickly. It's worse when you feed someone who already thinks highly of themselves. Todd Howard is essentially the exact same as JS. The irony is, they don't actually like each other very much lol! I guess that's what they say when two strong personalities try to occupy the same space...
@Phantasm6969 i funnily enough clued into that ego Sawyer has when he released his survival overhaul mod for NV and titled it after himself. I can see why Bethesda rarely references new vegas if that todd and Josh never getting along comment is true.
@@thomasmumby4307 Because politics are downstream from culture. If they can raise the next generation in an environment where this is all they see or know then they won't need to convince anyone politically because they'll make the "correct" choice by their own will.
@@thomasmumby4307They did. Games and all entertainment culture ARE politics. Think about it. Millions of eyes on your products, forced to see "the message" , same with comics, tv, movies, etc. It's all political now, and that's not gonna change.
Ah the "please put your pronouns into your profile" I had that at my previous games company as well and I never did it. Why should I, I didn't understand why and where that is coming from and didn't care about mine. Should be obvious if I don't pick anyway I thought. They at least never seemed to force it really. I can totally believe the stuff you described since similar things happened with some of my former colleagues and buddies that decided to leave (me too later on but for other reasons) and how individuals started changing stuff, company started pronouns in Slack and profiles. Juniors got offended when talking about food/drink colors when out after work at a bar. No joke, I got told I should not say it like that when talking about a drink type that I liked. The person was not even part of that conversation but suddenly jammed in between with that. Was years ago already. I didn't see the signs I guess
Microsoft has become desperate as the last-place usually unprofitable game console. It doesn't help that their HQ is in Leftist Seattle. Even so, they may just out-endure Sony who has just completely borked themselves and has been getting harsh criticism from investors who want the games part of the business spun off and may get it now.
The problem is.....THEY CARE.... they care ALOOOOOT. I think some of them wouldn't even be LGBTQ if it didn't make them apart of the oppression Olympics and a spectacle. If I ran a games company I would ask them "What do you identify as" the top answer and an absolute hire, would be for them to laugh at me, second would be "Game dev, family man or refuse to answer" Those are potential hires.
@@hikaruk.981 Personally, I think they do it bc they are afraid/ashamed to be white, so they separate into another sub-group that they feel gives them protection and distinguishes them as "NOT A PART" of that group of people they plan on mass oppressing in retaliation for their own inadequacy and biased historical delusions. A new religious sect of the fruits and nuts has emerged, and it's being weaponized as sword, and as shield.
Don't get me wrong. If I was working for Obsidian with Matt Hansen I would also not want to return to work in office or to any work and would just prefer sitting at home and not working and telling him I can't work but need to get paid because of "mental health problems".
Being big mad and furious at return to office isnt necessarily that unreasonable depending on how they rolled out and described wfh on its implementation
I worked once at a company that had it's logistics department separate from the main office. New boss decided they should move into main office so he can keep an eye on them 😀 They staged a protest, singed petitions, complained to no end but then he showed up and stood there in silence until they all packed their stuff and moved 😆
The right answer should have been: "You have to come to the office either way to get your personal belongings or we will throw them away, regardless of what it is."
It isn't just Microsoft its Sony as well. The only reason Nintendo hasn't been shown to be affected by this madness is because of the Japanese culture.
Nintendo also isn‘t buying that many studios. They always point out that they want to grow organically. But buying studios seems like a fools errant anyway if you going to push away all the original talent. Bioware is perhabs the example of the year. Veilguard looks and feels nothing like Dragon Age…
@@Matixmerbioware hasnt been buoware since they were bought out by EA back in 2008 or something. People are just barely opening their eyes. Better late than never
Smash, you need to be more ambiguous when discussing insiders. This is the one time using they/them pronouns makes sense. Spiteful people do not need to know it’s whether guy or girl. Protect these people in every way because they are risking a lot to inform you.
Matt Hansen is the reason there’s a chair in the corner of motel rooms.
Bruh. 🤣
And it's not meant to be the VIP chair.
Lol
Ouch ! That one burns !
I thought that was sneako
I really miss when companies could fire people for doing a bad job rather than keep people on for office politics bias.
It's because these bad people have information that can expose the boss, so they keep them out of fear.
Is it because it cost a LOT of money and also afraid of any responsibility?
this was the whole idea behind identity politics......you cant fire me bc i'm a poc, gay, female, lesbian, trans, etc i have a protected status shield to save me from merit criticism
They'd have to say they wen't backwards in diversity metrics, they can't be seen doing that. That ain't progress.
Woke terrorism. Sad to see.
Firing people over misgendering someone? Can’t they just do some push-ups instead?
Underrated comment.
@@TonyFleury I think the quicker we all stop referencing anything Veilguard, the better.
You mean pulling a barv? Lol
@@phattjohnsonIt won’t bring back Veilguard from oblivion. Calm down
@@mobilemetal4554 No. They wanted to make it a catchphrase. I agree with @tonyfleury - let the game die and be consigned to the composting toilet it belongs in.
The Hansen guy just has a clear "my wife's boyfriend bought me these suspenders" kind of energy ngl
So Destiny basically…
He'd be like, meh, nothing wrong here. I'll just go about my day
I did buy him those. Really regretting it.
more like "uh, did you just assume my wife's boyfriend's gender??"
Cancel Gamepass. Cite Matt Hansen. Don’t buy the game. We can’t support this sort of behavior.
can't cancel something I never had to begin with, but you have the exact right idea if you do!
Oh nooooo not just yet. I'll download it from Gamepass, start it up and then uninstall it just so I can leave a 1 star review with "Matt Hansen" as the description. THEN I'll cancel Gamepass and leave Matt Hansen as to why I cancelled
Yup, I did this so a re my friends. Enough is enough, I'm not giving my money to anyone that treats me as an enemy.
"Chuds" is a weird way to say "overwhelming majority of human beings".
Every cult does the same it's probably the main thing that really defines what a cult is, the haterd and refusal to associate with non remembers, and that is usually 99.99999999999% of the global population
I'd rather be a chud than an insane clown
They really believe the majority of straight men support their weird lgtv shite...
What's funny is that "CHUD" was an Acronym for "Cannibalistic, Humanoid, Underground, Dwellers". It used to be a slang term used by Generation X pre- Web 2.0. See there were two movies by that name, "CHUDS" and "CHUDS 2: Bud The Chud". They were stables of independent VHS rental places, and thus sort of a shared viewing experience among Gen-X, across different cliques, and became a sort of joke, especially since the movies... while terrible... did inspired a lot of references in other VHS era films, as well as a few unofficial sequels.
At any rate to Gen X, a CHUD was someone who was totally dysfunctional and who stereotypically lived in their parents or family's basement, literally underground, had poor personal hygiene, and acted like a know it all, typically being one of the people who would go around getting banned from various BBS and Echo systems as even online they couldn't find ways to fit in. Millennials started just using the term "Basement Dweller" as they didn't get the full reference, but then as Gen X laughed at them and gently corrected them, especially given how many Millennial "social justice warriors" fit this bill... Millennials in general trying to dedicate themselves to long resolved social issues, especially the mal-adjusted ones, figuring that as long as they targeted what were supposed to be "the right people" they could be heroes and give themselves some kind of meaning. The irony of the Millennial+ "social justice warrior" being that none of them would ever say confront an actual gay basher, or have rocks thrown at them after an ABIGAYLES meeting acting as an "ally" to add security, like Gen X did, in part because those problems only existed because such people felt they had to. Gen X started using the term "CHUD" to designate these people so they could know the difference between the real deal, and what was being dealt with, and it hurt, so they decided to try and re-take the term to some extent, which is funny, as they are using a term they don't even understand, which Gen X (my generation) in many cases finds even more hilarious. You have the CHUDs calling normal people living in the real world that... it's no wonder how far this snapped back.
At any rate, if your curious, sometime try and take a look at when "Basement Dweller" transitioned into "CHUD" and you'll notice it wasn't like one thing, but how that interplay tended to happen, and where it happened.
I merely point this out because well... I'm bored, and while I guess it's impossible to prove in any definitive way, it's one of those oddly specific pieces of old slang that made a come back, being used improperly by younger people. "Woke" is another term like that, for Gen X it meant something different, and we popularized that, and of course we actually knew it started with black culture BUT we turned it into our version as an intentional parody, and then it got turned into this by people "doing it wrong" and then not wanting to admit it.
It's also been used as a derogatory term in the past...in addition to now. Weird that ppl supposedly against stereotypes and inequality seem to propagate it...
Division, Exclusion, Intolerance
🎯
the direct consequences of feminism.
Didn’t Earn It
What DEI truly stands for
Diversity Exterminates Interest, aka Go woke, Go Broke.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
I really enjoyed "The Screwtape Letters". I was thinking of reading it again.
I've been pointing this out for a decade, no one pays attention. We're lost. We are watching the death throes of the western civilisation live, in living colour. Enjoy a couple hundred years of dark ages before it *MIGHT* get better.
This is good shit
The irony that these tyrants have integrated themselves amongst the robber barons...
If you want to be based, ditch that gay 666 in your name.
Oh my god. The HR at my company brought up the idea of inviting employees to include their pronouns in their emails. I immediately spoke up (I'm on the equity committee with senior leadership, including HR director, at my job).
It's a stupid idea. If people want to put their pronouns in their email, great. But it should not come from the company. All it does is draw lines in the sand.
Some people don't want to be forced to express themselves, or forced to express an opt-out. "Oh, so-and-so didn't put their pronoun in their sig. They are against us!"
Or, maybe even worse, you have someone who wishes to keep that portion of their personal life private. Maybe I appear as a male, but internally I'm struggling with who I am. Maybe I'd rather not reveal to my co-workers that I prefer she/her, or he/him, or they/them, or whatever. Maybe I want to keep that part of my life separate from work.
Work was going fine until HR prompted everyone to lift the curtain on that part of their life, whatever their stance or identity may be.
And what does all this have to do with coming in to work every day to do a job? Absolutely nothing. It's inviting drama where there was none, and making it worse in places where there was already drama.
I was able to talk it down for my own company. I was hoping a huge megacorp like Microsoft would have the money to hire people with more common sense. As a liberal myself, these people are nut jobs. This crap is not progressive. It's counterproductive.
I want you out the door with the rest of them
Lunatics running the asylum and companies intentionally hiring them for quotas
The ONLY excuse I can realistically see from a corp's perspective on pronouns in bios is if they have a gender neutral name like Jessie, Jordan (worked with a male and female Jordan once), etc. You don't need fkking pronoun announcements for Mark, Tiffany, John, or Carolina. It's literally just virtue signalling at that point.
The Bigger the Corp., the more vulnerable they are to the poison.
You're a liberal, so you are part of the problem.
We don't want you here. Your politics and evil actions have nearly destroyed this country.
Also, you are allied with the ideology that birthed the KKK, NAMBLA, BLM, ANTIFA, Etc.
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
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Imagine the atmosphere at the Obsidian office right now....this unhinged psycho is the most talked about thing in the entire industry right now...and he potentially just sabotaged the sales of the game they have been working on every single day for the past 5-6 years.
They almost certainly back him. F em
Yea interesting thought. I hope they are in turmoil.
The others probably agree with him.
These types weaseled thwur way in and then worked like the mafia, only hiring imbeciles that think alike. Slowly, the industry was filled with these idiots and that led us to where we are.
And somewhat coincidentally, David Gaider did something similar for Dragon Age Veilguard with his petulant "F**king tourists" rant on Bluesky shortly before the game was released.....
Oh, the industry is responding... by trying to get player counts suppressed.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Avowed? More like Avoid.
I cant get over how bad that name is for this game. Every time I think to check the steam page for funny posts or youtube for news I completely forget what the game is even called and have to look it up on google. What is up with games now having the most bland generic forgettable names possible?
DISAVOWED!
Avoided!
Disavowed
Avoidable
"We are in the business of forcing behaviors"
Larry Fink.
Oy vey
@@PunkpsychobillyShut it downiwitz!
@@Punkpsychobilly Glowie.
@@Satyr42 - No.
@@PunkpsychobillyDon’t you notice patterns, now. lol
Matt privated his Bluesky account after getting exposed.
Someone should @ him and call him a sad sack of sh*t too lmao
wtf is bluesky?
@@Chud_Budthe new echo chamber leftards ran to after the elections because they're butthurt about other people being able to express their opinions on Twitter.
Twitter alternative since they can't be creeps on twitter anymore@@Chud_Bud
@@Chud_Bud Like X (Twitter) but for people with an agenda.
I have a short story to tell about a Protestant church I used to go to every since I was a child and how it has been fully taken over, and run, by people that smack what being a true Christian is diretly in the face.
I grew up in Puerto Rico and there is a church named Union Church that was once a wonderful place for mainland Americans who lived on the island to congregate and attend. The church at its peak was when the island of Puerto Rico had a company tax incentive to be based on the island. For a time in the late 70’s and early 80’s the island became a powerhouse but had to give up the incentive due to so many states complaining that PR was getting preferential treatment. After the incentive was killed the companies slowly but surely left the island back to the mainland. So Union Church lost its main core base of Americans and struggled to keep afloat and hire good pastors to lead.
The problem: the Church currently has a pastor who is… gay. What is happening now is a converstion not unlike what has happened to these AAA studios. If your leader is gay, and word of mouth gets out into their community, then the original audience gets pushed out for the “new new.”
I had moved off island about 9 years ago but my mother still attended that church. She would call me complaining of what sacrilege was occuring and I would reply that she needs to leave the church and ket it go as it is gone to what the bible describes as the sinners. She refuses to let go and wants to fight for her church, bless her, but what is done is done.
This is precisely where “live and let live” leads to. As we want to be peaceful and tolerant we have let in the crazies and the intolerant to not only coexist in our once “safe spaces” but also to take over and rule them.
Your church has become satanic. Im sorry
This took me a long time realize
"It all seemed harmless."
I feel like we've heard that tale somewhere before.
Hiring activists is a company getting cancer... It can be fought, the fight is always painful and not always successful.
Promoting a Activist to a manager role... is that cancer growing to stage 3, the prognosis is bad the the patient (Company) will likely die. The cancer will rapidly spread (hires more activists) unless treated right away.
If the activists (cancer) ever get promoted to a executive role... The cancer has gone terminal and its highly doubtful treatment will save the patient (Company).
Perfectly said. I've always described them as a virus, whose entire focus is to infect the cells of the host company, rewrite the function of those cells to replicate the virus, and turn the company into a vector for further infection
I like the comparison, but I would rather associate them as "parasite", so once the host (company) dies, they latch onto another host, repeating the cycle.
it's worse than cancer. Cancerous tumours don't spread from person to person
Yeah, activists in general, not only one side of the political spectrum are like cancer to a company.
@@friedrichjunztYour "both sides" might be true if it wasn't entirely theoretical. I'd love to hear even a single example of conservative activists infiltrating and ruining a company from the inside like a cancer. Meanwhile, at literally every corporation on the fortune 500:
Boycott Obsidian?
Boycott Obsidian.
People are already doing that. Their games don't sell at all.
I game PlayStation (mostly for VR) and also still use my switch but I believe PC is the future. I'm done with console for future purchases.
this is the way! It was once my favorite game developer company, but I've been boycotting since Chris Avellone left, and the Outer Worlds was woke af.
Been doing that since fallout new Vegas 🤮
Boycott the entire organisation if they refuse to fire him. That also applies to Microsoft. I still see too many people, even here, praising Gamepass. You guys realise MS is 100x more woke than this guy, right?
Pronouns are really just a sneaky way to see if someone is willing to recite a slogan. It's 100% a new age religion.
Sex cult
Mental issues and cult like behavior to gain power over someone else doesn't mix well.
The modern sodom and Gomorrah
@@xavierhouston4650 death cult*
@@xavierhouston4650PDF file cult you mean 👀 they are groomers and pedos
Dude has admitted to giving or withholding preferential treatment and even jobs based on race. he might not think it’s “racism” by the technical and legal meaning it certainly is.
There has been a real trend amoung certain groups the past few years to use a reworded/alternative definition as the only definition. So they can claim their actions do not fall under the bad word.
Words can have multiple definitions and they only recognize a narrow one with extra caveats attached instead of the most general one which is closer to the legal meaning.
'I don't want to see Microsoft and Obsidian fail." Nah. They have to fail. Companies that put out crap product should fail.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere. Obsidian on the other hand... It may just implode from this. But Microsoft has the 2nd highest net worth in the world, behind Nvidia (excluding Blackrock and Vanguard obviously)
Yeah, MS isn't going anwhere anytime soon but ObsiDEIn will be in trouble if this game flops. Besides, you're right. If companies produce mediocre or downright bad products, they absolutely deserve to fail.
@@Kossy-x4x Obsidian is already in trouble before the game releases. They haven't made a great game since Fallout New Vegas. That was 2010. 14 years ago. Outer Worlds was mid. Now with this happening, it's going to be game over. They have no leg to stand on unless they fire that guy, delay the game and remove the DEI stuff. I highly doubt they'll do that though. I'm a woman and I'm tired of the white male hatred and ugly women in these new games. I want my character to be pretty. I don't want pronouns. I don't want forced political views. And I'd like some handsome white guys please. At least Baldurs Gate 3 did it right. It was woke, but it executed it right and made an amazing game. It didn't shove politics in your face constantly
@@toxicgracie3772 Yeah, the Outer Woke was the first sign of trouble. The "female" characters in that game were nightmare fuel. Bald Guy's Gate 3 is one of maybe 4 woke games that aren't a complete dumpster fire so wokesters desperately cling to that game a full year after its release to say "See, see woke doesn't equal broke. Checkmate Chuds" while ignoring the literal dozen or so woke games this year alone that have tanked entire game studios. Completely agree that I'm sick of seeing female uggos in games to appeal to screeching blue hairs.
@@toxicgracie3772 Agreed. The uggos in gaming were the tipping point for me. No point in doing that other than to appease feminists and [redacted]women.
I mean dude just looks like he can't be within 1 mile of a school zone.
I have issues with some modder on Nexus to point I hate him and I rarely hate anyone. He wears the scarf tied around his neck also, weirdly!
he has that little scarf thing on that you put on ur dog to make it look silly
Or sunshine.
The phenotype never lies. People who look like touchers usually are.
He has 10yr old size hands. He can't be trusted.
He's a wannabe tough guy that doesn't have the skills to survive in the woods nor jungle
But, he has suspenders and a beard. I’m sure he thinks that’s enough. Certainly he’s a vegan, so he can just forage. 😂
@@twistedfocus and a flannel jacket in every color
@@twistedfocus if the vegetables dont fight back that is
Looks like he never ate a steak in his life.
He doesn't even have the skills to survive in a store when shopping without calling everyone else insults for getting something he doesn't like
Why is Obsidian always, ALWAYS, following Bioware?
Bioware and Bethesda. They have been ripping them off for years. Now both suck and they keep ripping them off.
Chris Avellone was the genius behind all the great games Obsidian ever made. And he left the company in 2015 when xbox took over. It was all downhill from there.
Blind leading the blind.
@@randalthor6872 xbox took over Obsidian in 2018, he had already left
@@randalthor6872yeah that was a big loss.
You're doing a great service to the games industry JT. Just so you know, on steam someone posted a link to this video in the comments section of the main update in "recent events & announcements" section on the avowed store page. It's literally nothing but people talking shit about dei/racism in gaming. I'm noticing a major shift in average mainstream attitude towards issues like this. Steam comments sections used to be a battleground of two sides yelling at each other. Now it's almost universally hated and there's like 2 people with 10 clown awards who speak in favor of woke crap.
They know that they're losing. For us more hardcore gaming fans, we've been privy to this nonsense since The Last of Us 2. For your average normie, I would say they started noticing and disliking the trend since Concord since that was supposed to be a new, huge IP from their precious Sony. Now even they have seen what we've saying for years now that wokeness will NEVER make a game better, but can certainly make it worse.
2 years ago I was SA'd by Matt Hansen while i worked for Obsidian. It happened one night during a crunch session. I took a quick nap on the couch in the lounge. When I woke up Matt Hansen had his hand down my pants. He said he would fire me if I said anything, so I kept quiet
Well now he's fucking everyone else up, reeeally wish you'd reported that.
Cancel Game Pass subscription. Reason: Matt Hansen.
I did
Yep. I can go past call of duty. It all looks cheap anyhow.
I think I'll have to. Not playing much other than Alice: Madness Returns anyway. I'll just buy it for the $1.00 on Steam for PC :P
@@phattjohnsonDefinitely a goated game.
Cancelled mine in January. Bailed on Xbox /Microsoft 2021.
But you're absolutely on target. Mass cancellations of game pass would really put the cat amongst the pigeons.
His racial self hatred against his own people is pathetic and needs to be called out and stamped out. He deserves nothing but scorn and mockery for it.
Absolutely no tolerance for anti-white bigotry!
He's one of us when attacking us but suddenly joo-ish when attacks turn towards him.
I think he needs to be deported tbh
I wonder if he wears blackface to work? You know, to hide the fact he’s part of the group he’s attacking.
He is not white
@@TheMasterpiecePDoy vey stop noticing things 😮
He literally looks exactly like that meme that was being passed around last year: "Honey! Bring your boyfriend in here! They got him! They got Trump!"
I can't find this meme
@@bootleg6477 Just ask your wife's boyfriend. He might know.
He looks like someone who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a school.
Maybe that’s why he is so avid against Trump. 😆 after all stereo types came to exist for a reason.
@@Kaesemesser0815 c'mon mane you ain't gotta do me like that...
Only my wife's boyfriend can do me like that.
Total lack of professionalism. The CEO needs to grow a backbone.
It's all about delivering "the message" for those mentally unwell people. We need "the message" exiled from video games permanently.
How are these people who are so unprofessional and destructive for a company keep their fucking jobs.
Because they likely dont share your interpretation of his behavior and often those type of people know how that what they do alienates a core part of their audience. Thats the point.
dei
its a rat king. that is all you need to know.
These people are getting jobs by design.
Because they all think the same or out of fear
Matt Hansen was once asked "Would you rather be trapped in a forest with a Man or a Bear".. He said "The Bear".
...but only if it was a Black Bear
I thought you meant beer...because if he wasn't drunk posting then idk wtf to believe anymore
Funnily enough i recently read some black bears do "hunt" humans sometimes.
Yeah because he loves BBC inside his backend.
Of course ...
Brings to mind that Kids in the Hall skit about surviving being attacked by a bear.
The pronoun games have always been about gaining the upperhand; to see it play out in the whole org hierarchy is wild.
Saw a chick on the channel Caleb Hammer who just has terrible finances say she prefers "to be referred to as liege. That's a thing." Liege. My liege..... just done lost our dang nabbit minds
A bully making someone else squirm.
It’s quite easy to take over, especially with identity politics. And they will absolutely implode your company because they, in general, are devoid of any useful skill set, especially one that’s irreplaceable. That’s why you have to reject ESG and DEI initiatives because they do not have the best interest of anyone involved in mind. You let them in, you better start the countdown because your crap is about to get bankrupt.
It's playing out globally via government and other massive corporations as well
I have heard it called language control. Basically making people go through hoops to even talk to you and you have the power to punish them for any misspeaking.
You do realize how childish this all is with pronouns, a male is a he, a female is a she. There is no such thing of mispronouncing pronouns! There is no such thing as transgender, because you can not change your gender, that is an impossibility! You are either man or woman, you can not be neither or nonbinary, nonbinary is just a made up word for a gender that does not exist!!! I'm 52 years old and when I went to school in the 1980's, none of this preferred pronouns bullsh*t, was ever thought of and was never taught because it never existed!!!
It is insane but our civilization has declined rapidly in the last 20 years.
the worst part is those loonys somehow convinced a rather large part of this world that impossible can be achieved...
It didn't even exist when I graduated in the mid-2000s. All this insanity came up in the last 10 to 15 years.
Oh, it existed. All of this has been done before, to similarly destructive conclusions. Encouraging people to question their sexuality, encouraging people to outright change their sex, sexualizing children, all of this last happened in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution when various thinkers decided Russia hadn't turned into paradise because they hadn't destroyed human nature thoroughly enough.
Germany was their petri dish, and when the Germans finally got fed up with children's bodies being sold on the streets the architects of this evil fled west - especially to America, their travel paid for by their wealthy banker relatives, and quickly got established in media and academia.
Right on!😠
Wallet closed permanently ( Followed by a Tom Cruise Laugh )
I want to share an experience with a project manager. I was hired on a one-year contract, but for the entire year, I was placed "on the bench." I would clock in and clock out every day without being given any tasks. When my contract finally ended, they showed me the door and didn’t offer to rehire me. This is the harsh reality of the gaming industry-people in higher positions do whatever they want, with no accountability for their actions. After eight years in QA, I had to put my career on hold due to the slander and lies I experienced. That job left a mark, and after it, I struggled to find work, even though I had the qualifications and the drive. Most people in charge are copycats and will do Unfair business practices without any remorse.
What is the purpose of wasting such company resources?
I miss when developers weren't operated like corporations.
We'll never have another time like the development of the first Halo trilogy, for example. It was a bunch of nerds who were dead set on making something fun and cool for the fans. Even with the development hell of Halo 2, they still released a fantastic and beloved game. Today, it would've been released as a live service title, packed full of microtransactions, and with a transgender Master Chief banging the Arbiter, with sexual harassment allegations going on in the studio.
@@97Crazysteve Gaming going mainstream was a mistake, it should have stayed niche. Greedy publishers have ruined gaming. Thank God for the indy gaming scene.
@@Mayhzon Making me feel worthless and hoping to break my spirit. (plot twist: they failed at it)
@@Sunartica33 i heard its a common practice in many big japanese gaming studios too, it was reported many times.
Matt deserves some street justice, so tired of people talking mad shit about others from the safety of their keyboards. Man, social media really has cursed this world.
Sounds like you were in high school in the 90's...my brother ;)
Bro wouldn't last a day in the MW2 lobbies
Matt Hansen genuinely looks like a cartoon villain.
He looks like an extremely low testosterone beta-male with a bad case of male-pattern baldness.
He looks like doctor Ivo Robotnik, the villain from the Sonic franchise.
The cravat adds to the pretentiousness, that's for sure.
If my employees started behaving that unprofessionally on a call, I would have them all fired.
they can not be fired they are unionized by the ADL.
I love how smach JT become the Julian Assange of gaming
It's never as easy as "I don't care what you do in the bedroom." They want to demand that you are on board with their choices. My guess is because they lack self confidence in their life choices.
Well it's a different issue depending on the demographic. With sexual orientation, they just want celebration as if they're the majority of the population. With trans, it's that their belief system relies on others 'affirming' their subjective interpretation of reality. It's like if Christians required everyone to acknowledge the Christian god is the true god (or really, Muslim extremists). There's no compromise to that, when one side is saying "do you own thing and keep kids out of it," and the other side is saying "you must affirm me, and yes we'll take your kids." (Hansen even literally made the last claim out of anger.)
It's definitely a lack of self confidence in their beliefs. Normal people don't need their beliefs reaffirmed by others.
To be fair this is largely the TQA part using us LGB as a sort of shield for their screwed up ideology. Sure I am happy to have gay characters in games but not when they are shoehorned in there to check some box for ESG scoring.
These assholes always make it about them.
Remember when the religious right used to mention the slippery slope and everyone else in America mocked them?
It went from "Why do you care what consenting adults do alone in the privacy of their bedrooms" to "Why do you care if kids are exposed to kink during pride?" Real quick.
Even if Avowed cost 5 bucks I wouldn't buy it at this point, I refuse to knowingly give money to racists like Matt Hansen.
Also sexists and anti-family.
It looks like it costs $5 from fisher price
I dont understand what people see in this game at all
@@-pressxtostart-i mean, pronouns, misgendering, passive-aggression and funny hair - seems like all these are hallmarks of "woke"
Unfortunately I think its on gamepass, so it would be hard to boycott completely.
@ebonsoule5275 what would be a better boycott than just refunding the whole gamepass? It is so that the big corpos understand that mid games don't belong alongside the peak, skins be damned. The real scary part is when people move on from skins as a valuable component. That will be truly interesting
It's really unfortunate that games can't just be about having fun anymore.
Games are more influential than TV, movies and newspapers/magazines combined so of course the CIA has completely taken over.
What else do you think they do.
We all keep saying "Bethesda, let Obisidian do another Fallout" but the truth is that Obisidian from New Vegas doesnt exist anymore
I'm a life long gamer and Capitalist so I believe that the best ideas should be the winner.
Let's bring back excellence and love of gaming.
I fear those days are over. The rot has gone too far.
@mywifesboyfriend5558 Sadly you're probably right.
This is why I just buy indie games for the most part now a days.
I'm completely done with giving developer's anymore money for openly spitting in my face.
Dude said "I can't wait until he sees the default" in reference to Elon Musk in a repost. It makes me wonder what the default is. How to tank a game 101.
Black lesbian they them
I didn't get very far in Pillars of Eternity so I might be way off, but I'm guessing the default is they/them because "Gods don't have a gender".
They've been hiding material in their demos... particularly the character creator.
Bro is really determined to sabotage a game he’s been working on for years and might possibly bankrupt the company he works for and get all of his coworkers fired just so he can piss off a man who is not only one of the richest people in the world, but likely had no idea he even existed until he was tagged in a tweet.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Literally cursing the gods & getting hit by lightning lmao
Hansen definitely seems like someone who goes on a power trip and abuses people making them miserable. He doesn't belong anywhere in this industry and needs the boot.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
I agree. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, hope you had a great day!
And the trigger of that power trip was the acquisition by Microsoft. They were the ones that greenlit woke culture, and inside agents like Hansen were like "Say no more, I got you covered!"
@@thelegendaryklobb2879 I mean this is exactly what covid did. A bunch of formerly fringe, feeble-minded individuals were deputized by the government to snitch on their neighbors and harass people in the street who weren't complying with guidelines. You give these kind of people any power and it goes straight to their head.
At this pace, Smash JT might become the channel for hope and freedom in the entertainment industry.
Smash JT, Doctor Disaster...there's a couple more that I can't remember.
Vara Dark is also good at exposing all the nonsense from poseurs that have intruded the industry.
ENDYMION is good too
as Mike Tyson would say, the internet made everyone feel too comfortable with not getting punched in the face
Appreciate the work you're doing man, a glimpse of reason in a world of madness.
Please keep protecting your sources.
Great job Smash!
Isn't it just great how he collects a new whistleblower for every controversy?
Thx Craig! Trying my best here 🙏
@lobstrosity7163 I don’t ask people to reach out to me lol
@@lobstrosity7163 Surely it gets tiring waking up every morning just to put on all that clown makeup and act like a total retard on the internet
@@lobstrosity7163 Are you suggesting that he is lying?
Surprise Surprise Surprise, as activists moved in, gaming industry turned to (redacted). The critical drinker was right that activists rather burn an industry to ground for sake of The Message since its not their companies and not their money.
Ahh but it IS their companies and their money in the long run.
They were just banking on The Message taking over society by force, ending with them in control of everything.
But their gambit is failing, badly, and it's putting all these Woke companies into a panic.
The same kind developed the "Samson Option" but for the whole world. So not a surprise.
when you have employees yelling at the ceo, those need to be ex employees
Exactly, when did the CEO's become doormats? Last I checked, they're the shotcallers and when someone's yelling and demanding this or that, there's no second chances and it's time that person's shown the door and not a seat on my chairs.
It's weird, the CEO had the perfect chance right there to fire some of the people rotting the company, with cause, and instead he relented?
They handed themselves over on a silver platter and he was like "Nah, they can stay" for some reason?
@@Zso-VIII Again, being doormats and in their eyes is has to be sunk cost fallacy kicking in by this point. I strongly believe that dev when he said Microsoft doesn't care about the quality of the games anymore as there's been an increase of f2p and other games like it on Game Pass while they force us to pay more for less quality games. Come January, we've have both Genshin Impact & ZZZ as well as Marvel Rivals and whatever Fragpunk will be. It's obvious where the effort's going now and that's gachas and more f2p games while trash like Avowed and the leftovers from aging franchises and more pointless remakes and remasters make their way over onto Xbox.
How does that make sense when we're in an economic downturn and people barely are able to feed themselves but let's release games that are predatory and full of traps for the vulnerable and gullible of us?
The Tribe thinks they’re above everyone else.
@@Ziko577 The CEO probably became just a puppet after the Microsoft aquisition. They keep him in position for the brand name and trajectory, but he's no longer making the important decisions.
excellence video. JT is so well spoken and breaks down HOW it all falls into place. He is the citizen journalism we NEED. Bring these things to light and call it out.
I remember my days at IGDA when I met with the Obsidian crew pretty frequently. They were a good bunch and I always respected their work. I won’t forget the time I saw my two friends at E3 after watching the south park fractured “butt whole” trailer and went to congratulate them. Unfortunately it was premature given that I didn’t even realize they didn’t develop it. They both said they’d they didn’t understand why Ubisoft had passed over them for the sequel given the success and acclaim stick of truth had. Part of me wonders if the company getting perpetually snubbed by AAA publishers is what led to the rot beginning to fester.
In the conferences afterwards I noticed less and less familiar faces at Obsidian during the IGDA meetings. Eventually I barely recognized anyone at the company and I can tell the culture at Obsidian was shifting for the worse prior to 2016. It saddens me to see what it has become come. Thank you JT for getting the word out. It only confirms I was smart to get out of the industry when I did.
What a piece of crap. I severely hope this game fails on a scale that sends shockwaves throughout the entire industry.
I think it likely will. This progressive stuff doesn’t sell and then you add on top of that the fact that he’s openly mocking his core customer base, I think the game is doomed. To do this in a new IP is pretty much financial immolation.
Need more than the game failing for these knobheads to sit up and understand. Gonna need to organise mass cancellations of game pass. That might just put the Xbox executives in enough deep shit to start rolling back the nonce- sense.
"Gradually and then suddenly"
The 'brainwashed' and 'good intentions' excuse is no longer valid after years of seeing the outcome,if they stood by watching those people are just as much to blame as Hansen
Exactly, feeding the crocodile hoping he eats you last is not a valid strategy
By now, it's about as invalid as "I just followed orders".
That's what it's always been about. Not acceptance, nor tolerance. They want conformity.
Exactly. Even when they get the acceptance they aren’t happy. They want everyone to join their cult. If you dare to stand up for yourself you’re called a bigot and forced out.
It's not enough that you accept them. You must APPLAUD them. Constantly. They're people with identity crises who need their identity to be propped up at all costs. Anything less than adulation is an attack to them.
These people didn't want to return to work so they could get wasted all day and night, not because they feared for their lives.
Hansen clearly has the "Loner" perk from FoT.
"Your solitary childhood and upbringing mean that you work much better when alone. Get +10% to all rolls when outside the influence of other squad members." It requires
How long until we get a witch-hunt to all gaming whistleblowers? Because chirst this is now a second huge blow by a developer risking his career to expose these villainous activists to save gaming.
Great video JT, and keep on Smashin.
"Why does this keep happening?" It happens from the top. Microsoft's largest shareholders include BlackRock and Vanguard. The head of Xbox is the embodiment of DEI. And Obsidian of course is based in Southern California, bastion of wokeness. Getting an agenda-free game in this environment would be getting blood from a stone.
No, it's not mainly from top down. The woke thing spreads among liberal people because it's so easy for radical activists to demand stuff without almost nobody daring to oppose them.
@gulanhem9495 the top uses those radical leftists to push their ideology. It does come from the top. Radical leftist are useful idiots.
Blackrock also consists of zionists aka literal genociders. Once again, proven that LGBT propaganda has been zionist propaganda, on top of Israel being the safest place for LGTV crowds, pdfiles & degenerate SAs (this is a a real thing btw).
The only way this stops is for gamers to withhold their money and for those being discriminated against to file lawsuits.
That will not happen anytime soon. Blackrock has a lot of money. And games like ragnorak and spider man 2 were a succes as far as i know and they still had the same propaganda just less in your face than this.
Piracy is a virtue. But most of the stuff coming out isnt worth stealing
Firstly. Power doesn't always corrupt and sometimes people deliberately seek positions where they can abuse the power they have. Now, i don't know what this Matt Hansen fellah started as but it's clear what he is now. It's also always fascinating how something that starts small and in a state where everyone's ass is on the line EVERY MONTH, on whether or not the product and service is good enough for the place to make ends meet or even produce a surplus of wealth, at some point changes into utterly something different and disconnected from any even remotely accountable. A machine run by the evil or indífferent, and the only thing a good person is can do is either deal with the abuse, fight in a pointless battle they are destined to lose, or leave, and hope the wolves don't follow them.
Second. I do hope all these good people find each other and create new companies where they can shine and do the same thing they did before their former homes became twisted. Any time i hear games made by people like that, i give them a chance and they certainly have my attention.
The tides are turning thanks to your reporting. Keep calling them out. Keep calling their games out.
why does a lowly art director have any power at al whatsoever
Even artists have an art boss.
Yoji Shinkawa is like Kojimas right hand man and has been for decades. Pretty sure art directors are important
@@-pressxtostart-but we never really heard of Matt Hansen before
Who else is going to be responsible for that team?
I’ve seen it happen. Art/Creative Directors with a successful vision can have a company by the cholas.
I hope matt gets a lawsuit
He’s a left wing guy, chances are he should be on a register
Musk should buy obsidian just so he could fire him personally.
I've worked with some crazy mofos, but I can't imagine working for someone that batshit crazy for more than a few hours without some sort of altercation.
Thank you for covering this but aslo... damm, I'm sad as hell now, I used to love Obsidian so much. Why are all those studios getting so terrible...
When we had to go back to the office the younger devs lost their shit.
The rest of us were like "Have you people never worked before?"
They just got used to the easy ride and it sure is nice to not have to drive to the office everyday. But when it comes to actually getting shit done, I can't imagine not wanting to be in the office, it must be a fucking nightmare working on a collaborative project like a video game and never seeing your co-workers. I would certainly never do it by choice.
It saddens me when I hear about whistleblowers speaking out. I mean, it's good, but it also means there are sane people whose paychecks are on the line.
I love your segment about how their wokeness is a religion. I totally agree with you. I am a religious person, specifically a Christian, and my convictions are built upon historical, scientific and philosophical inquiry. The problem with their religion is that it lacks a coherent foundation, and that it's all about "me, me, me."
And most of the time, finding even the tiniest flaw in their logic is enough to destroy their entire narrative. Which is why they love censorship so much - they know they can't defend their stances.
Theirs is a religion of pure narcissistism and self entitlement that would make a spoiled prince blush.
@@hunty.0 yep, 100%
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. It's what I've started calling "The New Church". I think this is why so many of us are giddy while indulging in politically incorrect content. It is an act of blasphemy. They really can't stand the idea of heretics. More importantly they hate fun.
It doesn’t meet the standards of a religion. It’s a cult
Sounds like what a Chaos cult in Warhammer 40k would do. Inquisitor over here, need some Holy Fire
"We're gonna need a heavy flamer for this heresy."
-Battle-Brother Badger
Hmmm, no I don't agree. Forcing the worship of false gods is more what a genestealer cult would do.
You think even all of Chaos wants this? My newly saved bit of Night Lords memes for you.
"My Primarch, it seems we cannot Mansplain, manipulate or manwhore our way out of this one."
Konrad Curze, smiling:"Manslaughter it is, then."
Stuff like this is why work from home is abused far far far more than anyone likes to admit.
I don't mind pushback to stay homeoffice, especially in US, who would like to work 8-12 hours a day and spend comunal 1-4 hours on top of that? When IT can work from home. No issue with that, they should go to office once a week or something. The cult and social bubble is the issue, that's pushed by DEI quotas.
Agreed. I work as a software engineer at a company of just over 150 people, and we do just fine with coming into the office once a week. Even then, that one day a week doesn't buy my team much if anything in terms of collaborative benefits.
13:20 "you will always have my priority. We got too many white dudes" retweeted by josh sawyer, the game director of avowed and basically Hansen's boss at obsidian studios.
i'm not x user so i don't rly know how it work, but does retweeting mean that josh agreed with matt statement or no? genuine question
@@airooria9686 Yes it does, and if you know anything about JS or have watched his interviews that shouldn't come as a surprise.
@Phantasm6969 that’s why i tried pointing out that avellone was the bigger driving factor in the writing of new vegas than sawyer. Sawyers always come off as an odd duck.
@@dylanbell268 JS has been around a long time and he's at a point in his career where he can go anywhere and do just about anything he wants. Essentially anyone that had a large role on the NV team can waltz their way into any studio and be treated as a superstar. That goes to your head *really* quickly. It's worse when you feed someone who already thinks highly of themselves.
Todd Howard is essentially the exact same as JS. The irony is, they don't actually like each other very much lol! I guess that's what they say when two strong personalities try to occupy the same space...
@Phantasm6969 i funnily enough clued into that ego Sawyer has when he released his survival overhaul mod for NV and titled it after himself. I can see why Bethesda rarely references new vegas if that todd and Josh never getting along comment is true.
Thanks for being an actual games journalist.
Hansen tryna rock an Ascot thinking he's Fred Jones.
That ain't you, chief.
Tbh, nobody should be rocking an ascot.
It's a neon sign telling people you're a douchebag.
Didn't know they were making Horrible bosses 3.
I genuinely can't fully comprehend how things got this stupid
Liberalism, and people saying "I just wanna play games and grill, bruh!"
Politics affects EVERYTHING.
When companies are more into politics, then what their making its only going to go one way
Thats their goal
@TOAOM123 so why not leave the gaming industry and go into politics. Make it make sense
@@thomasmumby4307
Because politics are downstream from culture.
If they can raise the next generation in an environment where this is all they see or know then they won't need to convince anyone politically because they'll make the "correct" choice by their own will.
@@thomasmumby4307They did. Games and all entertainment culture ARE politics.
Think about it. Millions of eyes on your products, forced to see "the message" , same with comics, tv, movies, etc.
It's all political now, and that's not gonna change.
Obsidian is same shell of company bioware is. All competent people that carried this company on their backs left.
Road to 100k man, let's gooo, expose more bad practices in video games, keep up the good work
Ah the "please put your pronouns into your profile" I had that at my previous games company as well and I never did it. Why should I, I didn't understand why and where that is coming from and didn't care about mine. Should be obvious if I don't pick anyway I thought. They at least never seemed to force it really.
I can totally believe the stuff you described since similar things happened with some of my former colleagues and buddies that decided to leave (me too later on but for other reasons) and how individuals started changing stuff, company started pronouns in Slack and profiles. Juniors got offended when talking about food/drink colors when out after work at a bar. No joke, I got told I should not say it like that when talking about a drink type that I liked. The person was not even part of that conversation but suddenly jammed in between with that. Was years ago already. I didn't see the signs I guess
...was Hansen unironicly wearing an ascot? Fred, he ain't.
follow the money, Its Microsoft and one step up is Blackrock / Vanguard, Statestreet pushing this shit!!!
It's the government, black rock, vanguard are just doing what the government tells them to.
Politicians < Corporations < Conglomerates (Blackrock) < Central banking cartel (The Fed) < Zionist Israel.
Now you know the chain of command.
@alexis1156 Now, ask yourself what all three of those have in common. Hint: it rhymes with shoes.
Microsoft has become desperate as the last-place usually unprofitable game console. It doesn't help that their HQ is in Leftist Seattle. Even so, they may just out-endure Sony who has just completely borked themselves and has been getting harsh criticism from investors who want the games part of the business spun off and may get it now.
@@ps3beatswii The public isn't ready to have that conversation, yet.
The problem is.....THEY CARE.... they care ALOOOOOT. I think some of them wouldn't even be LGBTQ if it didn't make them apart of the oppression Olympics and a spectacle. If I ran a games company I would ask them "What do you identify as" the top answer and an absolute hire, would be for them to laugh at me, second would be "Game dev, family man or refuse to answer" Those are potential hires.
They absolutely wouldn't be if it wasn't such a big part of left-wing politics.
@@hikaruk.981 Personally, I think they do it bc they are afraid/ashamed to be white, so they separate into another sub-group that they feel gives them protection and distinguishes them as "NOT A PART" of that group of people they plan on mass oppressing in retaliation for their own inadequacy and biased historical delusions.
A new religious sect of the fruits and nuts has emerged, and it's being weaponized as sword, and as shield.
Obsidians march to oblivion
Don't get me wrong. If I was working for Obsidian with Matt Hansen I would also not want to return to work in office or to any work and would just prefer sitting at home and not working and telling him I can't work but need to get paid because of "mental health problems".
Being big mad and furious at return to office isnt necessarily that unreasonable depending on how they rolled out and described wfh on its implementation
Whaaat? A crazy person is also a bad boss?! I'm shook. Shooketh.
Ok, I'm almost 7ft tall. I identify as a dwarf with a height problem. My pronouns are "Hi Ho!".
my pronouns are I/Me , I identify as a unique snowflake.
...Kermit the frog here. I identify as a muppet.
my momma so stupid, when she heard "hi ho! it's off to work we go!" she ran right out to the streets
Woah, calm down big-dget. 😂
Ho ho ho GREEN GIANT!
Of course he is poor evil. He's a classic narcissist.
All liberals are
I worked once at a company that had it's logistics department separate from the main office. New boss decided they should move into main office so he can keep an eye on them 😀 They staged a protest, singed petitions, complained to no end but then he showed up and stood there in silence until they all packed their stuff and moved 😆
So I have been permanently banned from the avowed subreddit for asking in a post “Isn’t the art director being hateful though?”
White people need to start suing these companies for discrimination.
"guys, either you are back at the office by next monday or you can pack your stuff!" is the only legit answer to that
The right answer should have been: "You have to come to the office either way to get your personal belongings or we will throw them away, regardless of what it is."
Yeah? What if that office is DEI infested? I'd want to stay away too!
and one wonders why multitudes of studio acquisitions by Microsoft (starting with Rare), always result in pretty much nothing. Pathetic
It is astounding how they go out of their way to buy studios, only to ruin them and make them useless. The worst company in the world.
It isn't just Microsoft its Sony as well. The only reason Nintendo hasn't been shown to be affected by this madness is because of the Japanese culture.
@@shredenvain7 Their localizers are BALLS DEEP in this shit, though.
Nintendo also isn‘t buying that many studios. They always point out that they want to grow organically. But buying studios seems like a fools errant anyway if you going to push away all the original talent. Bioware is perhabs the example of the year. Veilguard looks and feels nothing like Dragon Age…
@@Matixmerbioware hasnt been buoware since they were bought out by EA back in 2008 or something. People are just barely opening their eyes. Better late than never
Matt Hansen hates himself for being bald.
Trying to compensate with a beard.
He should rock the bald. Breaking Bad made it cool to be bald! Bald is beautiful!
@@irvinmorales1409Nah
@@irvinmorales1409he would still try (and fail) to grow hair elsewhere
Someone needs to tell matt that gluing pubic hair on your face doesnt make him look rugged.
Dont forget short as well.
I agree with what the Whistleblower said, but I just don't see betterment on the horizon.
Smash, you need to be more ambiguous when discussing insiders. This is the one time using they/them pronouns makes sense. Spiteful people do not need to know it’s whether guy or girl. Protect these people in every way because they are risking a lot to inform you.