Daniel Vavra, European game writer who wrote the stories for Mafia 2 and Kingdom Come Deliverance, has been under fire during his career for refusing to bend the knee. He is also pro GamerGate.
Except that alot of people who critisized it got doxed, many email accounts were flooded with furry corn and hateful content, people were forced to move out and even leave city. Btw did you guys know that the GG logo is basically a reference to the daily dose? Look it up.
As a fellow GG veteran, after your previous video I was trying to write a reply to cheer you up a little but it was turning into a wall of text. Then this turn of events happened and did that work for me, glad to you hear you got a bit of a morale boost from it. It's not going to get better overnight, maybe not even in our lifetime, but as long as we keep living righteously and take these opportunities that is given us everything will be set right.
I can't believe I didn't notice GG even tho I was terminally busy playing games at the time. I guess I was too busy to be terminally online, unlike now when I hardly play anything at all. I could have been a vetran too, instead I'm the oblivious civilian who didn't notice the war going around me, lol.
It shows they like to target the cradle with their toxic information presented as sweat treats. Definitely in line with their doctrine of going after the children. Instilling operant trauma.
It’s really weird the world we are in. Most people won’t even entertain asking questions. I’ll ask people what’s the difference between modern COD or assassins creed titles and they can’t even tell me how it’s different. I think that’s a symptom of Gamer gate. It subconsciously tamed the masses and people just accepted cod is a 9/10 every year. The publishers and journos now got the confidence to move on to social engineering. Since they got away with uninspiring gameplay elements they moved to the story aspect.
It wasn't at all weird that the Xbox "podcast" they released about how their exclusive games were coming to Playstation was hosted by the former editor-in-chief of IGN. Totally normal industry stuff. Or that IGNs former lead Playstation editor got a job at Naughty Dog, a Playstation studio he covered. Or how Rich George, Audrey Drake and Jose Otero all covered Nintendo at IGN and got jobs, you guessed it, at Nintendo. There are so many more examples of this but the reason I even bother to mention it is how arrogant it was of the journalists to ever claim GG was about a million other things except the thing it was actually about which was the completely broken ethics in the access media industry that covers gaming.
Comicsgate was the first to figure out that journalists kiss up because they wanted jobs. The only difference was that was comics journos wanting work at the 'big two' when every comic publisher is now as skeevy as Tokyopop had been in their prime when Kodansha licenses like Fruits Basket spun lods of emone.
Gamers threatened their honey-pot and taking away their ladder climbing. UA-camrs, or gaming UA-camrs are turning into the new access media and will if it goes on long enough once traditional falls. They already only want to punch up and never criticize developers themselves. They don't want to jeopardize their own connections or not saying where they sympathize lie, but it's obvious when they never cover controversial things like this or ESG/DEI that directly effects games. Not even slight concern mention.
The main lesson I learned from GG is that, no matter how honest you are, the people in control of the media can get the masses to believe you are lying The articles about sweetbaby being all the same reminds me of "gamers are dead"
Glad to see you more white pilled Ptolemy. I know some people on our side say that normies will never wake up but I disagree. I was a normie before GG as many of us were. Blissfully unaware and apolitical. Then I woke up because I was shaken awake. That's bound to happen to a lot more of our people as our society becomes more Weimar.
It’s become so unavoidable that even normies won’t watch woke trash films anymore. That’s why the MCU is failing so hard with its most of its films. Pretty much everyone knows it’s happening now and can’t be gaslit anymore.
@@jackflynn412yeah the only ones who still watch that shit and defend all this BS are blind, deaf and dumb. Those are the ones who are truly lost and as Christ said “God has given them over to their reprobate minds”.
A prerequisite for becoming a gaming journalist is to not have any brain cells, so really it's more like "how to get a job when you have no more brain cells left: become a gaming journalist"
I have adopted this habit of listening to random Ptolemy's videos each time I have a long drive, it's very thought provoking and very calming the way he delivers the commentary - and even though I know what the subject of every video is, the more I go through the rabit hole and educate myself, the more surprised I am by the depth of the analysis and the bits he throws,the names and the history, it's like the tip of the iceberg. I have to admit, I'm in love with the intro, the VCR tape getting inserted, the weirdly unique music, the montage of several types of clips depicting entertainment, art, philosophy and politics - It feels like entering a world, a mysterious one - The intro has this immersive quality to it, kinda like turning the Playstation 1 vibe. You know the kind of good quality content we millenials grew up with. Then there is the tempo and the rythme of the commentary, the choice of words, the background music, the structure and the flow of ideas (although he goes into rants sometimes lol) - It's very refreshing, and there's no one else on the platform who does this quality content at least to my knowledge - Yeah lots of praise - Now I don't know if it's scripted or not, it surely doesn't seem that way, it's just very heavily edited - It's very impressive. But the very impressive quality that keeps me coming back to this channel is that : In a way he says what everyone else think and cannot communicate clearly. #GamerGate2 My friend
@@TunisianWeirdo I don’t know how old you are, but I can distinctly remember waiting at midnight releases for PS2 games, and then spending the rest of the night playing Call of Duty. If we weren’t sure about a game, we rented it at Blockbuster. I hate the industry today. Old games, obscure games and indie games are all I play anymore.
@@KratostheThird I am as old as when fully 3d video games weren't a thing lol I remember the vibe of video games industry BEFORE the all digital, day one patch, bug infested, formula driven, politics obsessed, sterile video games of modern age.
@@TunisianWeirdo Super Mario 64 was probably the first fully 3-D platformer. One might argue Crash Bandicoot, but that was 32 bit, not 64 bit. Deus Ex gets mentioned a lot. So does Fallout 1. Both contain lots of politics, but neither game had shoehorned politics. I could smell shoehorned politics in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 miles away. And we all know who was behind that, as this video points out.
If you ask me, for me it repeats, because if it rhyme it can be change but i dont see any change, compare with rome or others empires that fall, you see similar behavious, similar patrons, only difference now is the scale, i can see europe being reduce to the birth of civilization to a third world shit hole, because these lefties love scorch earth policy problem is scorch earth if abuse will leave nothing at the end, europe, is no longer europe, several zones of the us is no longer us, eveirhting will colapse and when no longer the society can mantain the majority of useless idiots those usless idiots will return to the shit holes or just die, honestly, many have been screaming. Same with videogame, rigth now only small companies can prosper, the sign of the decline of videogames is that majority of the market is mobile and are only ones that are improving and yet is the most volatile, majority of mobile games dont pass the one year mark, is a miracle it pass tree and is dominated by korean and chinese games, and now western want to infect that, i doubt they pass but they will do the same, demand change use tactis that will only leave nothing and everihting colapse, will arrive a point there is nothing to infect, the parasites will die
@PS2_Best_Era I saw people who got the game early on imageboard and some guy streaming it. So many things that are so bad (I expected it to be bad but damn). E.g.: Nanaki is transsexual now. The Cetra weren't "inclusive" according to the Gi tribe. Cid doesn't smoke and is a chauffeur. Cloud tries to kill Tifa at Gongaga and nobody asks why after this occurs. There are so many more but for the sake of brevity I won't mention the rest. In short, there is no narrative consistency. Especially between the original game. *Ptolemy was correct*
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Sweet Baby Inc. is just one of many companies influencing our media. They are not the only ones social engineering our games.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
'Member when Milo revealed that countless game journos were secretly colluding together against the customer? 'Member when Anita inserted herself into it for the grift? 'Member when John Flynt tried to get in on that action, too, and a totes real sniper threatened his life?
Unfortunately Japan isn’t immune to this, as Square Enix has been infiltrated by these people who feel intent to destroy everything beautiful and traditional. For me, buying the Final Fantasy pixel remasters is still supporting Square Enix, so I will say no. The only thing I can think of at this point is to boycott every gaming company that Sweet has grabbed hold of. Sony Santa Monica, Insomniac, and a bunch of others.
@PS2_Best_Era The Frankfurt school was largely 19th/20th century Marxism. They perfected the ‘road to hell is paved with good intentions’. Convince the people that your philosophy is a good thing. But here’s the thing. I want my male spaces. I want my nerd culture. And it’s all gone. The reason the internet seemed better 20+ years ago was because there was a higher bar to entry. Stacy simply wasn’t interested in computers, and neither was Chad. The geeks, who are now having to scramble to find any comfortable space in existence, made up the bulk of the internet. Why am I saying this? Because the old internet was unfiltered. Anything went. And it was largely independent. To this day I still remain independent. To cater to either political side in the States means I give up my independence. The same applies to the UK, which is also on a crash course going downward. Why then, was our society more intact over 20 years ago? I will leave that for you to answer.
@PS2_Best_Era I just want to let you know if I haven’t said this already, your comment here cannot be read normally. Only by clicking on the avatar of your account was I able to read your statement.
I think apart of Ptolemy's charm is the fact he doesn't have a super high frequent release schedule like many slop channels. That's just my opinion, your mileage may vary.
As some people have noted, this will probably be forgotten in a couple of months. And I think they're right, I just kinda hope these companies bleed a lot, before it's forgotten.
In the worst part after all this they expect us to watch the game summerfest live streams and expected to get excited and will end up not touching these products
6:09 yes, it is a tactic of those groups, but there is another group that makes up those groups, and they are known for "Crying out in pain as they strike you"... for thousands of years this has not changed... and they have been ejected from our lands over 1500 times in the past for this behavior.
The truth contrasts hard against lies. Fortunately for us, too many people know the truth about how Gamergate 2 started. And the more they lie the worse it will be for them in the long run.
In no other industry do corporations and journalists DARE to antagonize and demonize their audience as in modern entertainment. They will never miss a chance to tell us we aren't good enough for their "products" and that is baffling on its own.
Great vid as usual, good to see the old intros returning too. I hope you're right about this being a resurgence of some kind, and not just something they can sweep under the rug.
@@MaximilianReyCartwrightTo add to this, ActMa'am has now caught wind of the SBI controversy and is riding the Popular Thing wave, pretending that he hates it and that they've gone too far in trying to inject the very ideology that he was perfectly happy to use as a weapon against HvB to call him the usual mean names and signal to Leftists that he's one of them.
Act Ma'am is a grifter. People on Reddit and Twitter were dunking on Az so he thought he could capitalise on the drama too. Now that Sweetbabyinc. is the new hot talking point he's on Twitter pretending he never knew nuffin about ESG scores and woke infiltration pushing identity politics in games (while still trying to maintain that had nothing to do with Starfield). I guarantee this is just him pretending to suddenly see the light so he can make a video talking about SBI and not get called a massive hypocrit for flip-flopping like the unsufferable centrist that he is.
I had a bit of a meltdown last month over the Tomb Raider remaster. I've had a personal family tragedy. The remaster trilogy couldn't have come and a better time. 90s escapism. Then I found out a day before release about the disclaimer... you know... the one about how the content in the game is 'inexcusable'? Had been promoting the game for months. Got trolls to leave, from both political isles. 'Clearly this is a classic 90s remaster, there is no way they could inject modernity into it' I'd argue. I refunded the game. Don't congratulate me just yet. A huge argument was cropping up from all sides that this was Crystal Dynamics trying to sabotage the product. I bought that argument and rebought the game. Don't know if I made the right call or not. Anyway... feeling something in regards to culture I haven't felt in a long time... hope. I'm ready for GG 2.
Those old Tomb Raider games are products of their time. This is no different from cultural elitists labeling the American TV sitcom All in the Family offensive because it contains jokes that are considered highly inappropriate for modern audiences. When it fact it was a 1970’s sitcom, long before most of us were even born. Injecting modernity into a product from an older era just doesn’t work. I almost fell off my seat when I read that disclaimer on Tomb Raider.
@@KratostheThird The absolute absurdity of the situation is even worse than you could possibly imagine. So, Core Design created the classics. They've had nothing to do with the series since Angel of Darkness. Crystal Dynamics, the ones who wrote the disclaimer, have had control of the series since (don't know if they own it, but they make them). Most people are assuming the disclaimer has to do with a tribe of cannibals in the South Pacific in Tomb Raider 3. Crystal Dynamics created the last mainline TR game, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Guess what was featured in the game? Cannibals... and they are portrayed as animalistic, grunting, growling, screaming, crawling on hands and knees. The cannibals in TR 3? Upright, walk and fight like men. Difference? Cannibals in TR 3 are of a darker skin tone. The hypocrisy is at critical overdose levels.
@@porchpirateofpestulon I strongly doubt anybody at Crystal Dynamics actually played those Tomb Raider games on the PS1. Somebody higher up probably told them to throw that disclaimer in the collection.
@@porchpirateofpestulon Double standards is another description. Killing a bunch of white, porcelain skin people in a video game? Not a problem. Killing a bunch of darker skin people in a video game? Automatic red flag, must either censor or throw in disclaimer. Featuring attractive, white, porcelain skin, traditional women in a video game? Another automatic red flag. Can't let the nerd gamers stare at them. Ugly, unattractive women like Debra Wilson? Not a problem. I can't think of a better time of 'rules for thee but not for me' than this right here.
Gamergate was the canary in the coalmine for western civilization as a whole. I feel like we are on the cusp of a Naruto Reverse Situation on a lot of these things e.g. Elon Musk tweet about the sticker man, random people standing up to the crowds of islamic and liberals.
This issue spans far beyond GG. The real problem I think is the fact that we have officially entered the era of late capitalism. Instead of keeping to how the system was working a few decades ago, the elites keep ramping things up while the middle class continues to shrink. Everything that the current establishment is doing is messing with the average everyday person. The lack of 'third spaces' for people is one such example. What used to be pizza parlors and skating rinks for people to hang out in have been replaced by large concrete blocks of a brutality architecture. What used to be a university for the best of the best has been replaced by identity politics. I am of course talking about Harvard. And because video games have been the #1 entertainment medium, it was only a matter of time before the elites got their hands on it. Now the industry has been infiltrated, just like Hollywood and comic books were before it so we get to eat the slop provided.
@@MaximilianReyCartwright Shouldn't surprise anyone. Young men have been denied opportunities time and time again. This is a feminist dominated society we live in.
About SBI drama, big channels only started to speak about because now algorythm favors it. Its disgusting grifting, nothing more. When you spoke this thing months ago, it was not true, lol
Yup. I'm willing to bet Az and others will still praise FF7R:2 to high heaven, though. People were talking about Tifa booba nerf but couldn't be bothered to discuss how they took a huge steaming dump on the story (since "Remake"). Also, stuff about SBI was on /v/ for yonks (they had the lead on the story). As Ptolemy stated, SBI aren't the only consulting company that engages in this behavior. The journo class and those that carry water for them can't be bothered to simply tell the truth.
@@arturliviu Indie is a double edged sword. Some good stuff like Hollow Knight, but a lot of garbage. Shovelware is technically considered indie, and there's been no shortage of that on Steam.
@@KratostheThird while that is true You could say the same for any type of game, be it A AA or AAA you will always some good and some bad But what im trying to say is, indie just has more variety and I also feel like many game genres were perfected with indie titles Platforming (celeste, super meat boy, pizza tower, n++) Rogue like (tboi, enter the gungeon, nuclear throne, hades) Metroidvania hollow knight Rpg ebf5 And other types of games like: the escapists 1 and 2, plague inc evolved, worldbox god simulator, gravity circuit
I’ve worked in IT for the last 25 years+ and my experience is there is little to no value in consultants. They will leave you holding the bag when it all goes south (and one day it will). Minor caveat - hiring individual resources from the Big4 works well. But this just makes them contractors which is fine.
Gamergate phase 2. If you're tired of all of these bad AAA games, go after the journalists and "consultants" that are literally in bed together. They came for Hollywood decades ago. Eventually people just stopped watching movies and turned to anime and gaming. Obviously those two would become the next target of these cultural iconoclasts. Stop buying AAA titles and start pirating them. Better yet, just don't play them. Don't participate in the discussions surrounding them. We absolutely need to be willing to die on this hill. These people are evil. They seek unfettered power and control over the mediums you find enjoyment in. They will not allow you to seek refuge from the culture war even inside of your own living room. Please never stop making these videos.
They went for Hollywood because it was the #1 profit making entertainment industry. The 80s and 90s saw an influx of blockbusters, and the crows saw the advantages they could get. Gaming has been #1 since the late 2000’s, early 2010’s. Remember how based everything was in the PS2, early PS3 generations? Nothing good lasts forever.
GG was when I stopped trying to find common ground with these people and bought in to what I was raised to believe, because the attempt to do contrary kept demonstrating that I was parented correctly and that these people were, for lack of a better word, evil. But there have been many claims about "GamerGate 2" in the past. This is the first time it looks the same, mostly because the younger generation didn't see it.
It would not suprise me at all if Elon Musk(Who has played The Elden Ring alot) would invest or start an own game studio just to make good games again. He would just make sure that the studio would have talanted driven game developers and storytellers and that the studio would be free from ESG or DEI influence.
Pesonaly I'm kinda blackpilled. I think that grifters will jump the bandwaggon and eventually harras this one company out, so the'll rebrand or be replaced by different company and nothing will change. Because people will fail to see the bigger picture. Like do you really need to know sbi was involved to tell a game is woke?
You don't, but the fact that they are involved in a woke game is proof that it's social engineering propaganda. Before, when we said that "woke games are social engineering", we were deemed crazy. But now, with the actual presence of a consulting company with a weird name injecting this demonic propaganda in the industry, we have proof that this is actually the case.
I'm really interested in how this will go, because the outcome of this will be a very clear reflection of where we're heading as a society. A model, if you will. Will it go differently from GamerGate? I wonder.
Cleopatra was given bad advice by 'the merchant's that led to the fall of the Ptolomeic dynasty The people who run journalism have been at this for a long time :'(
so people can get in uproar and create groups against the purchase of games like Hogwarts legacy, commit actual harassment against streamers and players, but this steam group is apparently the most hateful thing....
The only choice we have is not to play their game. We have to refuse to give them any money and support people fully who are doing the complete opposite. I am going to buy Stellar Blade.
I'm already boycotting everything SBI worked on. I already didn't like GoW 2018, GoW Ragnarok is now a game I will avoid especially now that we know SBI worked on it.
The future is bright and I am optmistic. With the development of technology, it has never been easier to create games than it is today. Meaning you don't need a huge amount of money or expensive hardware in order to make them. You can study, train and practice and you will be just as competent as the geniuses who made gaming so great. And with the absolute fuckery that the AAA industry finds itself today, many will go to indie titles. It's already happening. As long as passionate, intelligent and competent independent creators can create and have their games acessed by players, gaming will be safe. Cry of Fear is one of the greatest horror games of all time and it was a fucking half life mod from 2012 made by 5 swedes on a tiny ass budget.
My big issue is AI regulation and gatekeeping. They are already for certain hording certain technologies they don't want the masses getting. That being said, we do have things a lot easier than in the past. As long as they allow AI to be free and open, I'm all for furthering technology into our hands.
The bigger problem is that the new generation of game devs and idpol commissars are being "taught" by the current idpol commissars. If the industry doesn't crash and burn to ash we'll keep repeating this, until some madlad takes it too far and start stacking gamer journos and "insiders"
The system is the core of the problem. The bureaucracy is the problem. We used to get talented programmers in the tech field. Nowadays most people in the tech field are only in it for the clout and money. The actual programming and talent get placed on the backburner.
@@MaximilianReyCartwright Offices used to serve more of a purpose. Take a look at MS today. Have many of their offices actually get work done? I will bet very few if any. It's a giant trillion dollar multi-national that sold its soul long ago. And Bill Gates was never a saint. Read up on what he was doing back in the 1980s and 1990s.
Nice Elden ring gameplay, makes me miss it! With the DLC and obviously now Wukong I haven't played the base game in a while. Also I'm struggling with Wukong. I'm a couple of bosses into 3rd part, most of the hard bosses are taking 10-15 try's and frankly I'm worrying that I'm going to get stuck at some point on a mega hard boss, I already had to cheat and look up how to do the boss you jump on the rocks for. It's an amazing game, very beautiful and the gameplay is absolutely amazing, I'd love to know how they developed the gameplay, I get vibes from hack and slash games I played as a kid, but it seems so new and exciting, just amazing :) My Dad was a journalist, now this was back in the 70's maybe early 80's, in the UK and for local papers and then a tabloid newspaper, which all had distinct political leanings. So my Dad's boss asks him to write a story on this that or the other, the press runs at 2.00 am sharp! My Dad's a sharp cookie, he's read the paper he's writing for he knows what his boss wants him to say! Of, course he has integrity even probably some journalistic integrity. He admires top journalists, working for better papers, or independently wealthy and able to say what they want fearing no financial consequences. Likely he disagrees with some of what his bosses (coming from his bosses boss etc.) would want, maybe on a good day he weaves a subtle sub-narrative that leaves the reader questioning or doubtful. Most days, a bit tired, kids (me) playing up "bloody hell the my job is to do this, errr well I better do that then". I expect it's a bit different in the US and now, but I bet it's roughly the same. Why fixate on journalists as the root of all evil, they are small fry. Have you guys not heard of what marketers get up too! Or psychologists, who work as consultants on many games advising on fundamental design, usually to make the game more addictive. I'm cynical I follow the money. It's not fucking Kotaku making big money off the gaming scene today is it.
History may repeat but i hope that the outcome does not, this time. Companies like Sweet Baby and Gaming Developers that support them are hurting. Don't let up and continue to vote with your wallet. Subsidies only last for so long and we're seeing the result of that.
@@KratostheThird probably because back then people used to make games to make something fun and enjoyable Now its just microtransaction city, bugy releases, ugly models, enfises on story rather than gameplay, etc.
@@arturliviu The PS2 era was great for that. Today even 're-imaginings' have a disgusting aesthetic. I've also noticed that purple, green, some red and blue are colors of choice for the leftists. Next time you see an indie game or bigger budget title with an abundance of these colors, the devs are probably woke.
13:30 eh, the gamergate additions to the alt-right to dissident right pipeline were certainly significant, but it is the larger political landscape that is driving it, it's a natural human immune response to alien communism.
@whitewolf555-ey2wo Can’t leave out the Amiga. Some great titles from the late 80’s, early 90’s. From Software is probably the best ‘modern’ developer right now. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is the newest AA/AAA title that I enjoyed.
If they go, we will have, affordable consoles, i imagine wont be inmediat, but something more or less, no more constant necesity for bigger hardware, not so expensive games, the revival of old genres or at least more game variety, sexy females, please bring sexy females again, entire games with only sexy females please, better gameplay and bring back new ideas for gameplay mecanics, not constant copy and paste, games that actualy feel adult with touches of mature and sometimes wacky. Honeslty i would love see that back, but i am black pill, even if the truth is bring back and the infection drive out with fire, how long will be before wamans start ree again, i dont know, i would love to have your optimism
The very fact we have a bunch of dead gaming franchises from 15 - 20 years ago speaks volumes. Xbox gave up. Sony just focuses on cinematic open world storytelling slop.
@@KratostheThird Indeed, i am old enougth and love old games enougth to see how many amaising ideas for gaming were, it was so full of life, gaming was full of life and ideas, is so sad
@@KratostheThird I remember, i reember, going when i was a child every sunday when we finish eating in mi grandomthers house, i remeber in the capital an arcade street figther 3 and tetris and many other, i remember, i remember yes they eat quarters and you have fun, i remember old games and how fun were
I love seeing these huge budget, super long development cycle games loose money. You can’t sell games to an imaginary audience. Have you seen the character design for the main character in the new Mana game? It’s supposedly a man but looks like a woman. Something every game does now, because apparently every gamer is some gender confused gen z soy freak. Of course this is modern square enix so I didn’t have high hopes. A new Mana game could have been awesome but this alone is enough to ruin it for me.
Nobody wants to be lectured playing as Spider-Man. The entire story of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was trash. Miles was completely intended to replace Peter Parker.
I had no idea any of this was happening. But looking in the list of affiliated publishers on SBI's site and seeing Ubisoft and Square Enix definitely lays out much more of an understanding of what's going on lmfao. Though, when you said SBI is close with a lot of government agencies and can force developers to add in these themes, would you mind providing a couple sources on that? I'm having trouble finding things along those lines and of course using Google to search definitely isn't helping- but how I understand it, SBI is just a third party that publishers can contract to come in and say "put a chick in it and make her lame and gay" and the publishers go "my God, of course!" I know SBI are probably really shitty about it and *pressure* these devs and publishers to "be better" by making their requested changes, but I'd still like a couple sources on all that deeper, more malicious stuff beyond "we get paid to make devs make their games gayer"
You wont find any sources besides the employees bragging about it. But you have to realize this is all very closely tied in with Blackrock and Vanguard. Two of the largest investment brokers / asset handling companies think multiple trillions. Look at the companies SBI has worked with and then look at majority shareholders for those companies. It's blackrock and vanguard. These companies have a system called ESG rating which basically means the woker it gets the more money they are willing to invest. Meaning that companies like SBI get called into make it woke and the incentive is large investments. This is the leverage they use to bully these companies into bending the knee along with other tactics. The people behind SBI are pretty well known for their cancelling strategies and they have sucessfully managed to get people ousted and financially ruined in the past from the entertainment industry.
SBI has close ties to these agencies which is one of the main reasons why shoehorned politics are in everything now. I just want a good, worthwhile AAA game that I can look back on and say my money was well spent.
@@KratostheThird Yeah I hate that it's so hard to find modern releases that are just quality, fun games without political or social issues themes. Indies are 50/50 in that regard, because for every Penny's Big Breakaway, there's a Goodbye Volcano High. Usually Nintendo's first party stuff is a surefire bet, but even that's had a couple holes poked in it with stuff like Yuzuriha/Juniper from Xenoblade 3 being nonbinary
@@aortaplatinum The last western AAA game I actually really liked was Red Dead Redemption 2. Unfortunately this also contained pro-feminist talking points, in an era when women didn't even have the right to vote. Everything else has been meh at best, and hideous at worst.
Kim Belair (the co-founder and CEO of SBI) said at GDC “If you’re a creative working in AAA which I did for many, many years: put this stuff [writing consultancy and inclusion] up to your higher-ups. And if they don’t see the value in what you’re asking for when you ask for consultancy, when you ask for research: go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility if they don’t give you what you want.” Basically she's encouraging woke devs to pressure their bosses and co-workers who may not see the "value" in hiring a consultancy firms like SBI to wokeify their games or else they're games won't sell (which is BS) and will be labeled racist, homophobic etc.
I listen to both sides of this issue and neither side ever presents ideas so that a middle ground can be achieved. It’s always very all or nothing mentality.
One side is we "want to make games shitty and gay" The other side is "Don't, leave us alone" If they want to make there own bad games to appeal to whatever imaginary audience they have, go ahead, just leave the rest of the gaming industry intact.
And what would a middle ground be in this instance? I'm not being derisive here btw, I just want to know if you have any actual proposals beyond the typical "both sides" remark.
@@carpainter9497 I’m not going to pretend that I have a solution cooked up and ready to go, because I don’t. But, I mean, just look at the first dudes response. We can SO much better than that. It’s like he doesn’t even recognize that there are different kinds of people in the world. Most levelheaded developers/publishers aren’t going to exclusively make games for people in the LGBT community. It’s just not going to happen. And it shouldn’t happen. But they can tastefully appeal to everyone without being too overly preachy or heavy handed with messages. Hell, even the Japanese managed to insert a homosexual character in FF16 and it was done tastefully without screaming in the players ear “THIS CHARACTER IS GAY!”. However some people can’t help but to instantly get offended when they see anything they perceive as “woke” in a piece of media. A female main protagonist. A non white character. A homosexual character, ect. There’s kinda no hope for those people. And on the other side there’s IS a real conversation to be had about inclusion in games, but some people get overly offended if they feel there isn’t inclusion in EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE. Or the kind of people that complained about the previous RE5 being “a white dude gunning down scores of black people.” That was absolutely ridiculous. Those people are equally hopeless. It’s a very complex issue, but I know a middle ground can be found if people were just willing to, I don’t know, understand each other.
@@AstonishingRedWhat were you expecting? America and the rest of the western world have been brainwashed. The average Millennial is either a seething leftist, or a stupid right wing dude who doesn’t take any responsibility to correct course. Propaganda works wonders. Shapiro wants you to be a neo-con. Joe wants you to be a lemming left wing activist, to allow more illegals to take the jobs you worked hard at. There is no middle ground anymore.
I like to think of Ptolemy as a friend to all those who desire to howl the gamer word every time they see a full moon.
Daily Reminder: Gamergate Did Nothing Wrong
Daniel Vavra, European game writer who wrote the stories for Mafia 2 and Kingdom Come Deliverance, has been under fire during his career for refusing to bend the knee.
He is also pro GamerGate.
@@JokerX350 Boomers to be more specific. But I know little about European politics. Things are just as bad if not worse here in the United States.
Except that alot of people who critisized it got doxed, many email accounts were flooded with furry corn and hateful content, people were forced to move out and even leave city.
Btw did you guys know that the GG logo is basically a reference to the daily dose? Look it up.
@@Standupforyour_rights Nonsense.
@@LordEriolTolkien Okay. Thanks for your opinion though.
Reminder that Sweet Baby Inc's logo resembles a CIA-confirmed boy-lover symbol.
@MaximilianReyCartwright Larry is evil.
@MaximilianReyCartwright Can you elaborate on the DARPA connections?
@MaximilianReyCartwright Exactly, DEEPSTATE illuminati. You see what's going on. If you know you know.
I love that
As a fellow GG veteran, after your previous video I was trying to write a reply to cheer you up a little but it was turning into a wall of text. Then this turn of events happened and did that work for me, glad to you hear you got a bit of a morale boost from it. It's not going to get better overnight, maybe not even in our lifetime, but as long as we keep living righteously and take these opportunities that is given us everything will be set right.
I hope you're right. Otherwise we might be in need of a "new Napoleon."
the left did not get where they are in a day.
I can't believe I didn't notice GG even tho I was terminally busy playing games at the time. I guess I was too busy to be terminally online, unlike now when I hardly play anything at all. I could have been a vetran too, instead I'm the oblivious civilian who didn't notice the war going around me, lol.
Sweet Baby is a very bizarre name for a company and there's more to it.
there is another one dragon baby that does translations and wokefy them.
It shows they like to target the cradle with their toxic information presented as sweat treats. Definitely in line with their doctrine of going after the children.
Instilling operant trauma.
Adr3no harvesters 😂
Even the logo sets of alarms, with a quick search and yup as suspected.
@@holidayturnpikeIt’s always in the spiral in the logo
Welcome back, friend.
It’s really weird the world we are in. Most people won’t even entertain asking questions. I’ll ask people what’s the difference between modern COD or assassins creed titles and they can’t even tell me how it’s different. I think that’s a symptom of Gamer gate. It subconsciously tamed the masses and people just accepted cod is a 9/10 every year. The publishers and journos now got the confidence to move on to social engineering. Since they got away with uninspiring gameplay elements they moved to the story aspect.
The old COD was all about fun. Fond memories of playing the OG MW2 with buddies on Xbox 360, when we were younger and had a bit more free time.
I remember the pre mw2 COD games. The historical ones. Use to play them with my big bro.
Make Gaming Great Again 2024
RIP Mr. Toriyama you made my childhood better and you will be missed
He influenced an entire generation.
We must rise up with the zoomers and alphas. It is our struggle, brothers.
I’m a Millennial, but we’re all in the same boat.
@KratostheThird millenials are the gamergate 1 veterans.
@@michaelk9080 Because we were old enough 10+ years ago. Gen X was too old to care. Zoomers were still minors.
Just another example of "something" cries in pain as he backstabs you.
We didn't gatekeep our hobby, we were welcoming and they took it as invitation to take over our past time and exile us
It wasn't at all weird that the Xbox "podcast" they released about how their exclusive games were coming to Playstation was hosted by the former editor-in-chief of IGN. Totally normal industry stuff. Or that IGNs former lead Playstation editor got a job at Naughty Dog, a Playstation studio he covered. Or how Rich George, Audrey Drake and Jose Otero all covered Nintendo at IGN and got jobs, you guessed it, at Nintendo. There are so many more examples of this but the reason I even bother to mention it is how arrogant it was of the journalists to ever claim GG was about a million other things except the thing it was actually about which was the completely broken ethics in the access media industry that covers gaming.
Comicsgate was the first to figure out that journalists kiss up because they wanted jobs. The only difference was that was comics journos wanting work at the 'big two' when every comic publisher is now as skeevy as Tokyopop had been in their prime when Kodansha licenses like Fruits Basket spun lods of emone.
Gamers threatened their honey-pot and taking away their ladder climbing. UA-camrs, or gaming UA-camrs are turning into the new access media and will if it goes on long enough once traditional falls. They already only want to punch up and never criticize developers themselves. They don't want to jeopardize their own connections or not saying where they sympathize lie, but it's obvious when they never cover controversial things like this or ESG/DEI that directly effects games. Not even slight concern mention.
@@blumiu2426 Traditional > Modernity
The main lesson I learned from GG is that, no matter how honest you are, the people in control of the media can get the masses to believe you are lying
The articles about sweetbaby being all the same reminds me of "gamers are dead"
Glad to see you more white pilled Ptolemy. I know some people on our side say that normies will never wake up but I disagree. I was a normie before GG as many of us were. Blissfully unaware and apolitical. Then I woke up because I was shaken awake. That's bound to happen to a lot more of our people as our society becomes more Weimar.
I was still a geek. But in our youth, we were also into more normie stuff.
It’s become so unavoidable that even normies won’t watch woke trash films anymore. That’s why the MCU is failing so hard with its most of its films. Pretty much everyone knows it’s happening now and can’t be gaslit anymore.
@@jackflynn412yeah the only ones who still watch that shit and defend all this BS are blind, deaf and dumb. Those are the ones who are truly lost and as Christ said “God has given them over to their reprobate minds”.
I got redpilled by IRL interactions with chews
intro goes hard
how to lose all of your braincells in one go: become a gaming journalist
A prerequisite for becoming a gaming journalist is to not have any brain cells, so really it's more like "how to get a job when you have no more brain cells left: become a gaming journalist"
They had credibility 25 - 30 years ago. Mostly because they loved the games.
I have adopted this habit of listening to random Ptolemy's videos each time I have a long drive, it's very thought provoking and very calming the way he delivers the commentary - and even though I know what the subject of every video is, the more I go through the rabit hole and educate myself, the more surprised I am by the depth of the analysis and the bits he throws,the names and the history, it's like the tip of the iceberg.
I have to admit, I'm in love with the intro, the VCR tape getting inserted, the weirdly unique music, the montage of several types of clips depicting entertainment, art, philosophy and politics - It feels like entering a world, a mysterious one - The intro has this immersive quality to it, kinda like turning the Playstation 1 vibe. You know the kind of good quality content we millenials grew up with.
Then there is the tempo and the rythme of the commentary, the choice of words, the background music, the structure and the flow of ideas (although he goes into rants sometimes lol) - It's very refreshing, and there's no one else on the platform who does this quality content at least to my knowledge - Yeah lots of praise - Now I don't know if it's scripted or not, it surely doesn't seem that way, it's just very heavily edited - It's very impressive. But the very impressive quality that keeps me coming back to this channel is that :
In a way he says what everyone else think and cannot communicate clearly.
#GamerGate2 My friend
I’ve known Ptolemy for a few years now. He is a hidden gem.
@@KratostheThird He is.
@@TunisianWeirdo I don’t know how old you are, but I can distinctly remember waiting at midnight releases for PS2 games, and then spending the rest of the night playing Call of Duty.
If we weren’t sure about a game, we rented it at Blockbuster.
I hate the industry today. Old games, obscure games and indie games are all I play anymore.
@@KratostheThird I am as old as when fully 3d video games weren't a thing lol
I remember the vibe of video games industry BEFORE the all digital, day one patch, bug infested, formula driven, politics obsessed, sterile video games of modern age.
@@TunisianWeirdo Super Mario 64 was probably the first fully 3-D platformer. One might argue Crash Bandicoot, but that was 32 bit, not 64 bit.
Deus Ex gets mentioned a lot. So does Fallout 1. Both contain lots of politics, but neither game had shoehorned politics.
I could smell shoehorned politics in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 miles away. And we all know who was behind that, as this video points out.
History repeats itself. Or does it rhyme like pottery?
Jar Jar is the key to all this
If you ask me, for me it repeats, because if it rhyme it can be change but i dont see any change, compare with rome or others empires that fall, you see similar behavious, similar patrons, only difference now is the scale, i can see europe being reduce to the birth of civilization to a third world shit hole, because these lefties love scorch earth policy problem is scorch earth if abuse will leave nothing at the end, europe, is no longer europe, several zones of the us is no longer us, eveirhting will colapse and when no longer the society can mantain the majority of useless idiots those usless idiots will return to the shit holes or just die, honestly, many have been screaming.
Same with videogame, rigth now only small companies can prosper, the sign of the decline of videogames is that majority of the market is mobile and are only ones that are improving and yet is the most volatile, majority of mobile games dont pass the one year mark, is a miracle it pass tree and is dominated by korean and chinese games, and now western want to infect that, i doubt they pass but they will do the same, demand change use tactis that will only leave nothing and everihting colapse, will arrive a point there is nothing to infect, the parasites will die
Import the third world, receive the third world.
@@PtolemySL "How wude!"
@@Shieftain Elmer Fudd quote if I ever saw one.
Good to have you back!
Things have gotten worse.
@PS2_Best_Era yeah XD
@PS2_Best_EraFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth for anyone wondering.
@PS2_Best_EraMan, it is trash. Checked some parts of it, like what that "remake" is trying to be?
@PS2_Best_Era The masses sure seem to be enjoying livestreaming it and posting game footage.
@PS2_Best_Era I saw people who got the game early on imageboard and some guy streaming it. So many things that are so bad (I expected it to be bad but damn). E.g.: Nanaki is transsexual now. The Cetra weren't "inclusive" according to the Gi tribe. Cid doesn't smoke and is a chauffeur. Cloud tries to kill Tifa at Gongaga and nobody asks why after this occurs. There are so many more but for the sake of brevity I won't mention the rest. In short, there is no narrative consistency. Especially between the original game. *Ptolemy was correct*
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Sweet Baby Inc. is just one of many companies influencing our media. They are not the only ones social engineering our games.
If they were the only one then they couldn't have convinced all the journalists, devs, and other organisations to speak up in their defense.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
'Member when Milo revealed that countless game journos were secretly colluding together against the customer?
'Member when Anita inserted herself into it for the grift?
'Member when John Flynt tried to get in on that action, too, and a totes real sniper threatened his life?
Yes.
Unfortunately Japan isn’t immune to this, as Square Enix has been infiltrated by these people who feel intent to destroy everything beautiful and traditional.
For me, buying the Final Fantasy pixel remasters is still supporting Square Enix, so I will say no.
The only thing I can think of at this point is to boycott every gaming company that Sweet has grabbed hold of. Sony Santa Monica, Insomniac, and a bunch of others.
@PS2_Best_Era Why did it have to come to this?
@PS2_Best_Era The Frankfurt school was largely 19th/20th century Marxism. They perfected the ‘road to hell is paved with good intentions’. Convince the people that your philosophy is a good thing.
But here’s the thing. I want my male spaces. I want my nerd culture. And it’s all gone.
The reason the internet seemed better 20+ years ago was because there was a higher bar to entry. Stacy simply wasn’t interested in computers, and neither was Chad. The geeks, who are now having to scramble to find any comfortable space in existence, made up the bulk of the internet.
Why am I saying this? Because the old internet was unfiltered. Anything went. And it was largely independent.
To this day I still remain independent. To cater to either political side in the States means I give up my independence. The same applies to the UK, which is also on a crash course going downward.
Why then, was our society more intact over 20 years ago? I will leave that for you to answer.
@PS2_Best_Era Let me guess, were you thinking of the WEF?
They ruined the new Mana game with that hilariously androgynous main character.
@PS2_Best_Era I just want to let you know if I haven’t said this already, your comment here cannot be read normally. Only by clicking on the avatar of your account was I able to read your statement.
I knew this would get a video out of you. Wish you would upload more
I think apart of Ptolemy's charm is the fact he doesn't have a super high frequent release schedule like many slop channels. That's just my opinion, your mileage may vary.
I can't believe we're all in Current Year + 10 now. Damn, time flies, it's true.
Ptolemy, the myth and legend!
Modern journalists are not fed by their viewers but their sponsors.
I beg to differ, maximum disdain involves helicopters.
Pinochet was a (((controlled opposition puppet))), do not glorify him.
As some people have noted, this will probably be forgotten in a couple of months. And I think they're right, I just kinda hope these companies bleed a lot, before it's forgotten.
Volition Games is already forgotten.
I'm mad at myself for being so late to your channel. You're great man keep it up, subbed
In the worst part after all this they expect us to watch the game summerfest live streams and expected to get excited and will end up not touching these products
6:09 yes, it is a tactic of those groups, but there is another group that makes up those groups, and they are known for "Crying out in pain as they strike you"... for thousands of years this has not changed... and they have been ejected from our lands over 1500 times in the past for this behavior.
The truth contrasts hard against lies. Fortunately for us, too many people know the truth about how Gamergate 2 started. And the more they lie the worse it will be for them in the long run.
hold the line 👑
Vivian James is back, based & green & purple pilled.
In no other industry do corporations and journalists DARE to antagonize and demonize their audience as in modern entertainment. They will never miss a chance to tell us we aren't good enough for their "products" and that is baffling on its own.
Great vid as usual, good to see the old intros returning too. I hope you're right about this being a resurgence of some kind, and not just something they can sweep under the rug.
Actmam reap what he sow.
Can you give a quick summary? I saw some videos about subject, but no gonma watch some youtube-drama
@@MaximilianReyCartwrightTo add to this, ActMa'am has now caught wind of the SBI controversy and is riding the Popular Thing wave, pretending that he hates it and that they've gone too far in trying to inject the very ideology that he was perfectly happy to use as a weapon against HvB to call him the usual mean names and signal to Leftists that he's one of them.
@@MaximilianReyCartwright Ah, it was about this one, again. Yeah Ptolemy did mention this stuff couple videos ago. Well, Actmam can rot for I care
Act Ma'am is a grifter.
People on Reddit and Twitter were dunking on Az so he thought he could capitalise on the drama too.
Now that Sweetbabyinc. is the new hot talking point he's on Twitter pretending he never knew nuffin about ESG scores
and woke infiltration pushing identity politics in games (while still trying to maintain that had nothing to do with Starfield).
I guarantee this is just him pretending to suddenly see the light so he can make a video talking about SBI and not get called
a massive hypocrit for flip-flopping like the unsufferable centrist that he is.
@@brownsauce0921 Act Man and the CEO of SBI would get along well.
Stay forever based Ptolemy!
Just adding another comment because Ptolemy deserves the exposure. Keep up the good work king.
You was ahead about this years ago
I had a bit of a meltdown last month over the Tomb Raider remaster. I've had a personal family tragedy. The remaster trilogy couldn't have come and a better time. 90s escapism. Then I found out a day before release about the disclaimer... you know... the one about how the content in the game is 'inexcusable'?
Had been promoting the game for months. Got trolls to leave, from both political isles. 'Clearly this is a classic 90s remaster, there is no way they could inject modernity into it' I'd argue.
I refunded the game. Don't congratulate me just yet. A huge argument was cropping up from all sides that this was Crystal Dynamics trying to sabotage the product. I bought that argument and rebought the game. Don't know if I made the right call or not.
Anyway... feeling something in regards to culture I haven't felt in a long time... hope. I'm ready for GG 2.
Those old Tomb Raider games are products of their time.
This is no different from cultural elitists labeling the American TV sitcom All in the Family offensive because it contains jokes that are considered highly inappropriate for modern audiences. When it fact it was a 1970’s sitcom, long before most of us were even born.
Injecting modernity into a product from an older era just doesn’t work. I almost fell off my seat when I read that disclaimer on Tomb Raider.
@@KratostheThird The absolute absurdity of the situation is even worse than you could possibly imagine. So, Core Design created the classics. They've had nothing to do with the series since Angel of Darkness. Crystal Dynamics, the ones who wrote the disclaimer, have had control of the series since (don't know if they own it, but they make them).
Most people are assuming the disclaimer has to do with a tribe of cannibals in the South Pacific in Tomb Raider 3.
Crystal Dynamics created the last mainline TR game, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Guess what was featured in the game? Cannibals... and they are portrayed as animalistic, grunting, growling, screaming, crawling on hands and knees.
The cannibals in TR 3? Upright, walk and fight like men.
Difference? Cannibals in TR 3 are of a darker skin tone.
The hypocrisy is at critical overdose levels.
@@porchpirateofpestulon I strongly doubt anybody at Crystal Dynamics actually played those Tomb Raider games on the PS1.
Somebody higher up probably told them to throw that disclaimer in the collection.
@@porchpirateofpestulon Double standards is another description.
Killing a bunch of white, porcelain skin people in a video game? Not a problem.
Killing a bunch of darker skin people in a video game? Automatic red flag, must either censor or throw in disclaimer.
Featuring attractive, white, porcelain skin, traditional women in a video game? Another automatic red flag. Can't let the nerd gamers stare at them.
Ugly, unattractive women like Debra Wilson? Not a problem.
I can't think of a better time of 'rules for thee but not for me' than this right here.
Gamergate was the canary in the coalmine for western civilization as a whole. I feel like we are on the cusp of a Naruto Reverse Situation on a lot of these things e.g. Elon Musk tweet about the sticker man, random people standing up to the crowds of islamic and liberals.
This issue spans far beyond GG.
The real problem I think is the fact that we have officially entered the era of late capitalism. Instead of keeping to how the system was working a few decades ago, the elites keep ramping things up while the middle class continues to shrink.
Everything that the current establishment is doing is messing with the average everyday person. The lack of 'third spaces' for people is one such example. What used to be pizza parlors and skating rinks for people to hang out in have been replaced by large concrete blocks of a brutality architecture. What used to be a university for the best of the best has been replaced by identity politics. I am of course talking about Harvard.
And because video games have been the #1 entertainment medium, it was only a matter of time before the elites got their hands on it. Now the industry has been infiltrated, just like Hollywood and comic books were before it so we get to eat the slop provided.
@@MaximilianReyCartwright Shouldn't surprise anyone. Young men have been denied opportunities time and time again.
This is a feminist dominated society we live in.
Basedness of the highest order.
don't use that word while saving bug eyed japn***er shit to your pc
About SBI drama, big channels only started to speak about because now algorythm favors it. Its disgusting grifting, nothing more. When you spoke this thing months ago, it was not true, lol
Yup. I'm willing to bet Az and others will still praise FF7R:2 to high heaven, though. People were talking about Tifa booba nerf but couldn't be bothered to discuss how they took a huge steaming dump on the story (since "Remake"). Also, stuff about SBI was on /v/ for yonks (they had the lead on the story). As Ptolemy stated, SBI aren't the only consulting company that engages in this behavior. The journo class and those that carry water for them can't be bothered to simply tell the truth.
The DEI money runs out and immediately the industry collapses. We all knew it was coming we just didn't realise how much they had behind them.
The last time the western industry had any merit was back in 2009 - 2013.
Gaming urinalist.
This man has the most intelligent takes on YT.
Gaming is dead
Has been for a few years now.
@@KratostheThirdindie isnt
@@arturliviu Indie is a double edged sword.
Some good stuff like Hollow Knight, but a lot of garbage. Shovelware is technically considered indie, and there's been no shortage of that on Steam.
@@KratostheThird while that is true
You could say the same for any type of game, be it A AA or AAA you will always some good and some bad
But what im trying to say is, indie just has more variety and I also feel like many game genres were perfected with indie titles
Platforming (celeste, super meat boy, pizza tower, n++)
Rogue like (tboi, enter the gungeon, nuclear throne, hades)
Metroidvania hollow knight
Rpg ebf5
And other types of games like: the escapists 1 and 2, plague inc evolved, worldbox god simulator, gravity circuit
@@arturliviu You left out Rogue Legacy.
I’ve worked in IT for the last 25 years+ and my experience is there is little to no value in consultants. They will leave you holding the bag when it all goes south (and one day it will).
Minor caveat - hiring individual resources from the Big4 works well. But this just makes them contractors which is fine.
Gamergate phase 2.
If you're tired of all of these bad AAA games, go after the journalists and "consultants" that are literally in bed together.
They came for Hollywood decades ago. Eventually people just stopped watching movies and turned to anime and gaming. Obviously those two would become the next target of these cultural iconoclasts. Stop buying AAA titles and start pirating them. Better yet, just don't play them. Don't participate in the discussions surrounding them. We absolutely need to be willing to die on this hill. These people are evil. They seek unfettered power and control over the mediums you find enjoyment in. They will not allow you to seek refuge from the culture war even inside of your own living room.
Please never stop making these videos.
They went for Hollywood because it was the #1 profit making entertainment industry. The 80s and 90s saw an influx of blockbusters, and the crows saw the advantages they could get.
Gaming has been #1 since the late 2000’s, early 2010’s. Remember how based everything was in the PS2, early PS3 generations?
Nothing good lasts forever.
GG was when I stopped trying to find common ground with these people and bought in to what I was raised to believe, because the attempt to do contrary kept demonstrating that I was parented correctly and that these people were, for lack of a better word, evil. But there have been many claims about "GamerGate 2" in the past. This is the first time it looks the same, mostly because the younger generation didn't see it.
Bro, what is your opinion about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth? You know, Zack and Cloud vs Sephiroth, S0 AwEsOmE XDDDDDDD
The moral: don't use drugs
The Smith-Mundt Act getting slain by Barakka-obongo has been disastrous for media.
@@WeeG-bwc77 We have to be clever because whenever we say his actual name, our comments get hidden.
It would not suprise me at all if Elon Musk(Who has played The Elden Ring alot) would invest or start an own game studio just to make good games again. He would just make sure that the studio would have talanted driven game developers and storytellers and that the studio would be free from ESG or DEI influence.
Pesonaly I'm kinda blackpilled. I think that grifters will jump the bandwaggon and eventually harras this one company out, so the'll rebrand or be replaced by different company and nothing will change. Because people will fail to see the bigger picture. Like do you really need to know sbi was involved to tell a game is woke?
You don't, but the fact that they are involved in a woke game is proof that it's social engineering propaganda.
Before, when we said that "woke games are social engineering", we were deemed crazy. But now, with the actual presence of a consulting company with a weird name injecting this demonic propaganda in the industry, we have proof that this is actually the case.
Very smart, very insightful and very depressing.
Because this is the reality we live in today.
@@KratostheThirdyes
I'm really interested in how this will go, because the outcome of this will be a very clear reflection of where we're heading as a society. A model, if you will. Will it go differently from GamerGate? I wonder.
2024 is already bleak. The cards are already in place.
Sadly I can see this going by way of the Roman Empire.
Akira Toriyama died maybe say something about that, rest in peace Toriyama ur a real legend
He gave us Dragonball. He influenced an entire generation.
18:39 Correct. I expect them to unalive the orange God, they've exhausted *all* other options.
I was there for GG and I remember perfectly what it was about -- what it wasn't about is that slanderous wikipedia article, full of lies
Cleopatra was given bad advice by 'the merchant's that led to the fall of the Ptolomeic dynasty
The people who run journalism have been at this for a long time :'(
Great video. Can you release a video of your intro on repeat for 10 hours, please?
We are back!
so people can get in uproar and create groups against the purchase of games like Hogwarts legacy, commit actual harassment against streamers and players, but this steam group is apparently the most hateful thing....
The only choice we have is not to play their game. We have to refuse to give them any money and support people fully who are doing the complete opposite. I am going to buy Stellar Blade.
I'm already boycotting everything SBI worked on. I already didn't like GoW 2018, GoW Ragnarok is now a game I will avoid especially now that we know SBI worked on it.
The future is bright and I am optmistic.
With the development of technology, it has never been easier to create games than it is today. Meaning you don't need a huge amount of money or expensive hardware in order to make them. You can study, train and practice and you will be just as competent as the geniuses who made gaming so great. And with the absolute fuckery that the AAA industry finds itself today, many will go to indie titles. It's already happening. As long as passionate, intelligent and competent independent creators can create and have their games acessed by players, gaming will be safe.
Cry of Fear is one of the greatest horror games of all time and it was a fucking half life mod from 2012 made by 5 swedes on a tiny ass budget.
My big issue is AI regulation and gatekeeping. They are already for certain hording certain technologies they don't want the masses getting. That being said, we do have things a lot easier than in the past. As long as they allow AI to be free and open, I'm all for furthering technology into our hands.
@@interdimensionalharmony Google Gemini anyone?
Where's the FFVii Rebirth Review?
not even my ex held a grudge for this long like these people with gg
you are so close to naming them...
He already did...did you not hear him say "Loxist"?
The bigger problem is that the new generation of game devs and idpol commissars are being "taught" by the current idpol commissars. If the industry doesn't crash and burn to ash we'll keep repeating this, until some madlad takes it too far and start stacking gamer journos and "insiders"
The system is the core of the problem. The bureaucracy is the problem.
We used to get talented programmers in the tech field. Nowadays most people in the tech field are only in it for the clout and money. The actual programming and talent get placed on the backburner.
@@MaximilianReyCartwright Offices used to serve more of a purpose.
Take a look at MS today. Have many of their offices actually get work done? I will bet very few if any. It's a giant trillion dollar multi-national that sold its soul long ago.
And Bill Gates was never a saint. Read up on what he was doing back in the 1980s and 1990s.
Well said
Nice Elden ring gameplay, makes me miss it! With the DLC and obviously now Wukong I haven't played the base game in a while. Also I'm struggling with Wukong. I'm a couple of bosses into 3rd part, most of the hard bosses are taking 10-15 try's and frankly I'm worrying that I'm going to get stuck at some point on a mega hard boss, I already had to cheat and look up how to do the boss you jump on the rocks for. It's an amazing game, very beautiful and the gameplay is absolutely amazing, I'd love to know how they developed the gameplay, I get vibes from hack and slash games I played as a kid, but it seems so new and exciting, just amazing :)
My Dad was a journalist, now this was back in the 70's maybe early 80's, in the UK and for local papers and then a tabloid newspaper, which all had distinct political leanings. So my Dad's boss asks him to write a story on this that or the other, the press runs at 2.00 am sharp! My Dad's a sharp cookie, he's read the paper he's writing for he knows what his boss wants him to say! Of, course he has integrity even probably some journalistic integrity. He admires top journalists, working for better papers, or independently wealthy and able to say what they want fearing no financial consequences. Likely he disagrees with some of what his bosses (coming from his bosses boss etc.) would want, maybe on a good day he weaves a subtle sub-narrative that leaves the reader questioning or doubtful. Most days, a bit tired, kids (me) playing up "bloody hell the my job is to do this, errr well I better do that then".
I expect it's a bit different in the US and now, but I bet it's roughly the same. Why fixate on journalists as the root of all evil, they are small fry. Have you guys not heard of what marketers get up too! Or psychologists, who work as consultants on many games advising on fundamental design, usually to make the game more addictive. I'm cynical I follow the money. It's not fucking Kotaku making big money off the gaming scene today is it.
such a good intro
11:45 this guy gets it..
Remember the false flags during gg
17:30 ohh, now i remember why i subbed this channel..
We need a steam group that promotes games with no woke shit in it.
History may repeat but i hope that the outcome does not, this time.
Companies like Sweet Baby and Gaming Developers that support them are hurting. Don't let up and continue to vote with your wallet. Subsidies only last for so long and we're seeing the result of that.
its been too long, time to make Ezekiel 25 17 a reality
Nothing has changed, and if it does, it will only get worse.
Things change, but not for the better.
@@KratostheThird in the words of pewdiepie
"Its evolving just backwards"
@@arturliviu Why were we more intact 20 - 30 years ago?
@@KratostheThird probably because back then people used to make games to make something fun and enjoyable
Now its just microtransaction city, bugy releases, ugly models, enfises on story rather than gameplay, etc.
@@arturliviu The PS2 era was great for that. Today even 're-imaginings' have a disgusting aesthetic.
I've also noticed that purple, green, some red and blue are colors of choice for the leftists. Next time you see an indie game or bigger budget title with an abundance of these colors, the devs are probably woke.
The backing track is so perfect. :') Please, what be it called?
13:30 eh, the gamergate additions to the alt-right to dissident right pipeline were certainly significant, but it is the larger political landscape that is driving it, it's a natural human immune response to alien communism.
collab with Synthetic Man when?
ngl Gamergate was honestly my first "redpill" that brought me over to more conservative ways of thinking.
>in their own societies
More like host societies
Based af
From what i saw, indie games are getting the same problem. i hate this soooo much, for god sake how much can they kill
That’s why I generally go to older games.
@whitewolf555-ey2wo Can’t leave out the Amiga. Some great titles from the late 80’s, early 90’s.
From Software is probably the best ‘modern’ developer right now. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is the newest AA/AAA title that I enjoyed.
If only Metokur is back....
Metokur doesn't really give a shit. He just wants to sell you hats while laughing at it all.
@@Edmund_Christo I know It great. and He did do stream on this but not engage about it much but still funny.
Metokur is a fed.
Accelerate.
If they go, we will have, affordable consoles, i imagine wont be inmediat, but something more or less, no more constant necesity for bigger hardware, not so expensive games, the revival of old genres or at least more game variety, sexy females, please bring sexy females again, entire games with only sexy females please, better gameplay and bring back new ideas for gameplay mecanics, not constant copy and paste, games that actualy feel adult with touches of mature and sometimes wacky.
Honeslty i would love see that back, but i am black pill, even if the truth is bring back and the infection drive out with fire, how long will be before wamans start ree again, i dont know, i would love to have your optimism
The very fact we have a bunch of dead gaming franchises from 15 - 20 years ago speaks volumes.
Xbox gave up. Sony just focuses on cinematic open world storytelling slop.
@@KratostheThird Indeed, i am old enougth and love old games enougth to see how many amaising ideas for gaming were, it was so full of life, gaming was full of life and ideas, is so sad
@@Krysnha Remember when people went to the arcades to have fun?
@@KratostheThird I remember, i reember, going when i was a child every sunday when we finish eating in mi grandomthers house, i remeber in the capital an arcade street figther 3 and tetris and many other, i remember, i remember yes they eat quarters and you have fun, i remember old games and how fun were
You guys still haven't explain how SBI was blackmailing developpers exactly.
It feels like you never cared about it.
Remember to just PLEASE stop buying these shit games! Vote with your wallet!
I love seeing these huge budget, super long development cycle games loose money. You can’t sell games to an imaginary audience. Have you seen the character design for the main character in the new Mana game? It’s supposedly a man but looks like a woman. Something every game does now, because apparently every gamer is some gender confused gen z soy freak. Of course this is modern square enix so I didn’t have high hopes. A new Mana game could have been awesome but this alone is enough to ruin it for me.
Nobody wants to be lectured playing as Spider-Man. The entire story of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was trash.
Miles was completely intended to replace Peter Parker.
Ngl don't think there's any bouncing back. Just impotent complaining. Amazed we got anything good in this short life. It's over.
Eat the slop. Own nothing and be happy.
I had no idea any of this was happening. But looking in the list of affiliated publishers on SBI's site and seeing Ubisoft and Square Enix definitely lays out much more of an understanding of what's going on lmfao.
Though, when you said SBI is close with a lot of government agencies and can force developers to add in these themes, would you mind providing a couple sources on that? I'm having trouble finding things along those lines and of course using Google to search definitely isn't helping- but how I understand it, SBI is just a third party that publishers can contract to come in and say "put a chick in it and make her lame and gay" and the publishers go "my God, of course!"
I know SBI are probably really shitty about it and *pressure* these devs and publishers to "be better" by making their requested changes, but I'd still like a couple sources on all that deeper, more malicious stuff beyond "we get paid to make devs make their games gayer"
You wont find any sources besides the employees bragging about it. But you have to realize this is all very closely tied in with Blackrock and Vanguard. Two of the largest investment brokers / asset handling companies think multiple trillions. Look at the companies SBI has worked with and then look at majority shareholders for those companies. It's blackrock and vanguard. These companies have a system called ESG rating which basically means the woker it gets the more money they are willing to invest. Meaning that companies like SBI get called into make it woke and the incentive is large investments. This is the leverage they use to bully these companies into bending the knee along with other tactics. The people behind SBI are pretty well known for their cancelling strategies and they have sucessfully managed to get people ousted and financially ruined in the past from the entertainment industry.
SBI has close ties to these agencies which is one of the main reasons why shoehorned politics are in everything now.
I just want a good, worthwhile AAA game that I can look back on and say my money was well spent.
@@KratostheThird Yeah I hate that it's so hard to find modern releases that are just quality, fun games without political or social issues themes. Indies are 50/50 in that regard, because for every Penny's Big Breakaway, there's a Goodbye Volcano High.
Usually Nintendo's first party stuff is a surefire bet, but even that's had a couple holes poked in it with stuff like Yuzuriha/Juniper from Xenoblade 3 being nonbinary
@@aortaplatinum The last western AAA game I actually really liked was Red Dead Redemption 2. Unfortunately this also contained pro-feminist talking points, in an era when women didn't even have the right to vote.
Everything else has been meh at best, and hideous at worst.
Kim Belair (the co-founder and CEO of SBI) said at GDC
“If you’re a creative working in AAA which I did for many, many years: put this stuff [writing consultancy and inclusion] up to your higher-ups. And if they don’t see the value in what you’re asking for when you ask for consultancy, when you ask for research: go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility if they don’t give you what you want.”
Basically she's encouraging woke devs to pressure their bosses and co-workers who may not see the "value" in hiring a consultancy firms like SBI to wokeify their games or else they're games won't sell (which is BS) and will be labeled racist, homophobic etc.
infinitum
I listen to both sides of this issue and neither side ever presents ideas so that a middle ground can be achieved. It’s always very all or nothing mentality.
One side is we "want to make games shitty and gay" The other side is "Don't, leave us alone"
If they want to make there own bad games to appeal to whatever imaginary audience they have, go ahead, just leave the rest of the gaming industry intact.
@@EdgyPuer Case in point.
And what would a middle ground be in this instance? I'm not being derisive here btw, I just want to know if you have any actual proposals beyond the typical "both sides" remark.
@@carpainter9497 I’m not going to pretend that I have a solution cooked up and ready to go, because I don’t. But, I mean, just look at the first dudes response. We can SO much better than that. It’s like he doesn’t even recognize that there are different kinds of people in the world. Most levelheaded developers/publishers aren’t going to exclusively make games for people in the LGBT community. It’s just not going to happen. And it shouldn’t happen. But they can tastefully appeal to everyone without being too overly preachy or heavy handed with messages. Hell, even the Japanese managed to insert a homosexual character in FF16 and it was done tastefully without screaming in the players ear “THIS CHARACTER IS GAY!”. However some people can’t help but to instantly get offended when they see anything they perceive as “woke” in a piece of media. A female main protagonist. A non white character. A homosexual character, ect. There’s kinda no hope for those people. And on the other side there’s IS a real conversation to be had about inclusion in games, but some people get overly offended if they feel there isn’t inclusion in EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE. Or the kind of people that complained about the previous RE5 being “a white dude gunning down scores of black people.” That was absolutely ridiculous. Those people are equally hopeless. It’s a very complex issue, but I know a middle ground can be found if people were just willing to, I don’t know, understand each other.
@@AstonishingRedWhat were you expecting?
America and the rest of the western world have been brainwashed. The average Millennial is either a seething leftist, or a stupid right wing dude who doesn’t take any responsibility to correct course.
Propaganda works wonders. Shapiro wants you to be a neo-con. Joe wants you to be a lemming left wing activist, to allow more illegals to take the jobs you worked hard at.
There is no middle ground anymore.
What accent does this guy have, Andrew Tate, Andy Ngo, Elon Musk, etc. where’s this “Twitahhh” SEO Accent coming from? Hahaa!