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

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[–] wccrawford@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Intent does matter.

But the vast majority of complaints about a game being "woke" are just the inclusion of a character this a minority in some way. The complaint isn't about how they're included, just that they are, usually as a main or highly visible character.

[+] ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world -21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I disagree.. of course in countries like America you would have some outspoken actual racist n shit...

But the vast majority of people just don't like casting for castings sake..

Nobody bitches about sigourney weaver in alien.. nobody bitches about Denzel playing leading roles cos he's black, calling it 'woke. '

Why don't people call that woke?

Because its obvious. When a project is hiring just to fill a quota, often...it is extremely obvious.

The vast vast vast majority of people don't care what race, gender,sexuality you are, just as long as those things werent being taken into account when trying to get a job.

Yaknow.. basic equal human rights stuff.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So if that's all it's about, why is there so much complaining about the race or gender of fictional characters in a video game?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why don't people call that woke?

Because this whole woke bullshit is a recent gamergate thing of the past decade or so, especially after US politics became even nuttier and "conservatives" completely started to lose their plot.

And please. Just go into the Steam forums of a game that has for example a poc woman as main character, or uses body type A & B instead of "male" & "female". There's literally countless of examples of people completely losing their shit over games, movies and shows over the recent years. Hell, even in this very comment section here we see people who think they as a white man are apparently underrepresented nowadays.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah. The vast majority of people identify as male or female.

When the game goes to “body type A and body type B” they are erasing those people’s opportunity to feel represented in the game.

Diversity does not mean removing options for a person to feel represented.

This is an excellent example of where the concepts of “woke” and “diverse” not only differ but are in opposition to one another.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When the game goes to “body type A and body type B” they are erasing those people’s opportunity to feel represented in the game.

Diversity does not mean removing options for a person to feel represented.

No, they're not. There literally was no option that got removed, just something changed to include more people than before.

But thanks for proving my point. Maybe I shouldn't give the Cybertruck defender the benefit of the doubt here.