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"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says "'Woke' is ruining gaming," he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

I don't think it even goes that far tbh. Especially for less political, more gamer-type "conservatives", it just means "the other side", forcing so many girls (1) into their game. Maybe it's just to deflect having to admit to being a misogynist.

And when an American politician calls himself "anti-woke", he's saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he'd prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

Yes, exactly. No sane person would call themselves "anti-woke". Unless they're successful in subverting its meaning to be "those we'll put in concentration camps". Oh wait, that still wouldn't make you sane.