State of Play, September 24th 2024

[Alabtrosmyster]

Yeap but they game's controversies are not changing at all.
Looks more like PR stuffs than actions.

Very likely, we will see... but also, given that they had to delay a project that cost hundreds of millions of dollars with all the backlash I suspect at least something it going on internally.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

I think the Board of Directors is launching an investigation on the overall state of the company.

 

[Exicide]

I don't care who she is. Just that she is not a correct role.
We are gamers. They should choose a presenter and games towards the audience. Just as it always was.
Gaming is mostly a manly hobby. but now we get non manly games and non manly show as a whole.... Which means I am not the audience anymore. idk anymore.
I am just frustrated.

Sorry for calling people fat but know that I am fat myself

Gaming is actually ~50/50, i think the number is 48% women and 52% men last I checked the statistics. Gaming in general isn't a gendered hobby anymore (if it really ever was).

 

[Exicide]

I'll get lost in translation but... You could have said it louder but not more clear.

The good thing is that the pendulum always swings back with more force. We are 5 years from a new era of 90s/00s attitude in games.

It also goes beyond Sony. Look at Fable from MS... even the Japanese studios are contaminated. And that going to look so passe on them as they got REALLY late to the party. Hopefully the Japanese boycott all their games until they course correct.

What's wrong with Fable man? The actress literally looks like that, she looked even better with the last peek we got from a bit ago. People just keep using old, zoomed in, blurry screenshots taken from an odd angle and just use to sow hate and disgust.

It's gross.

 

[Exicide]

And no one cares. It's funny how only Xbox is doing this stuff.

Not true, Playstation did the same thing with Xbox's show.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Gaming is actually ~50/50, i think the number is 48% women and 52% men last I checked the statistics. Gaming in general isn't a gendered hobby anymore (if it really ever was).

The gendering appens in the type of games people play, CoD is mostly guys, while many mobile cutesy games are largely female.

I think Mario and other stuff of that nature is truly neutral ground.

This is like saying everybody likes TV or music, sure, but there are differences in who enjoys what (in general obviously).

 

[ksdixon]

Their Uncharted game already had two (non-white) females, both androginized and uglyfied versus previous games, where most bad guys and dumb/weak characters were white males.

But seems pretty likely that in the next game the main character will be the daughter, or will be a transitional game with Nate and the daughter as due and they kill him somewhere in the game.


In my case, I don't have an issue with playing with a female/non-white/no-hetero/etc, or with putting a female lead in a GoT game, or with this specific character (the mask, hat and costume looks cool). If only would be with this game, or with some (let's say they choose half of their main IPs with human protagonists to do it proportional to the population or maybe their audience) would be ok.

I mean, TLOU1 had a (lesbian) female co-lead. Everybody was perfectly ok with it and nobody complained about it. GoT had the Asian guy, everybody was perfectly ok with it (normal for a samurai/ninja game) and nobody complained about it. They were both iconic and charismatic and didn't feel like a tokenism replacement, there wasn't woke lecturing in their story etc.

The issue comes from seeing most Sony IPs with human protagonists being replaced by tokenized characters, like replacing males for females or putting a female companion -such replacement/comanion normally not as charismatic and likable as the iconic protagonist- preparing the replacement for the next entry. Same goes with LGTB, non-white etc.

You get tired of seeing all the iconic characters you love being removed, specially when the reason is that these woke folks have an issue with their skin color, gender or sexuality. And also with having female characters appealing to males as if males being attracked by females would be something evil (for them is). And even more when it did happen with all of them with maybe only Kratos (whose series also got wokenized a bit, but not to that point) as exception.

Their focus should be to make cool, charismatic, likable, iconic characters and stories. Not to replace what their aundience loves for a social engineering agenda that Blackrock, Rockefeller or Bill Gates want to set hidden in nice words like 'diversity', 'representation', etc.

Holy shit, Bing's gone rouge!

On the subject of Bill Gates though, momentarily off topic question, but why the fuck is he buying up all the farmland? That still seems as suss to me as the jab was.

 

[ksdixon]

Show seemed meh, but I think that's just me/the examples used by Sony?

Like... Lunar Collection is a PS1 port/remake(?). Never played Lunar's genre, but if it was some other PS1 game series I liked, I'd be totally happy?

I'd be happy if Sony just threw engineers/manpower towards BC efforts? Imagine if Lunar Collection was instead RE 1-3 Collection (regardless of recent remakes for GOG, we talking PS here), or Dino Crisis 2 was coming alongside DC1 to PS+ catalogue.

I'd rather they take some money and do these type of things than blow it on the likes of Concord and Destruction Allstars.

 

[Yurinka]

On the subject of Bill Gates though, momentarily off topic question, but why the fuck is he buying up all the farmland? That still seems as suss to me as the jab was.

Who knows.

He has different businesses: one is (as I remember the main) brand of artificial eatable meat, so maybe he might want to fight traditional farms. Another one reason could be a promising tech for next gen nuclear plants he's investing in, so may want land for them.

According to him, it's just real estate investment. Not only he's buying a lot of land, but also other billionaires like Bezos, or hedge funds.

But controlling the farmlands means they control key resources on them: food and water. That gives them power, and allow them to control what chemicals they put there, or maybe control or affect the availability or pricing of certain water or food. Keeping farmlands in less hands also means their price grows, so they profit just from that too (real estate speculation).

Regarding water, there are places where there are shortarges for the people (at least here in the South of Europe) but at the same time they are also opening new huge datacenters that use a shit ton of water to cool down those servers. And do you know who has maybe the biggest chunk of dataservers? Microsoft.

And well, farmlands for pasture (food for cows or sheeps) is valued lower than farmlans to grow eatable stuff there like corn, soy etc. So they also profit from buying lands for animals and if possible to turn them into a place to grow vegetables.

For them (or Gates in particular) is a better business if you stop eating cow and move to become a vegetarian/vegan or eat that artificial meat crap.

Random video explaining part of it (I have no idea about this channel but what he says I saw it in different reliable sources):

 

[Vertigo]

Who knows.

He has different businesses: one is (as I remember the main) brand of artificial eatable meat, so maybe he might want to fight traditional farms. Another one reason could be a promising tech for next gen nuclear plants he's investing in, so may want land for them.

According to him, it's just real estate investment. Not only he's buying a lot of land, but also other billionaires like Bezos, or hedge funds.

But controlling the farmlands means they control key resources on them: food and water. That gives them power, and allow them to control what chemicals they put there, or maybe control or affect the availability or pricing of certain water or food. Keeping farmlands in less hands also means their price grows, so they profit just from that too (real estate speculation).

Regarding water, there are places where there are shortarges for the people (at least here in the South of Europe) but at the same time they are also opening new huge datacenters that use a shit ton of water to cool down those servers. And do you know who has maybe the biggest chunk of dataservers? Microsoft.

And well, farmlands for pasture (food for cows or sheeps) is valued lower than farmlans to grow eatable stuff there like corn, soy etc. So they also profit from buying lands for animals and if possible to turn them into a place to grow vegetables.

For them (or Gates in particular) is a better business if you stop eating cow and move to become a vegetarian/vegan or eat that artificial meat crap.

Video explaining part of it:

Warmongers, big pharma and big agriculture poisoning our bodies/food are a threat to humanity. Yes, bill gates is a villainous piece of shit that deals in bs corpo philanthropy to buy goodwill and the media. Let’s leave it at that.

This is the ozempic generation . Disgusting shit. Both lazy and drug addicted.

 

[Yurinka]

Warmongers, big pharma and big agriculture poisoning our bodies/food are a threat to humanity. Yes, bill gates is a villainous piece of shit. Let’s leave it at that.

It's a good summary. I'd add that with the upcoming great improvement in AI and robotics they won't need the giant workforce they needed before, which before produced them profit and now will be an issue if most of them got unemployed.

 

[Kokoloko]

Who knows.

He has different businesses: one is (as I remember the main) brand of artificial eatable meat, so maybe he might want to fight traditional farms. Another one reason could be a promising tech for next gen nuclear plants he's investing in, so may want land for them.

According to him, it's just real estate investment. Not only he's buying a lot of land, but also other billionaires like Bezos, or hedge funds.

But controlling the farmlands means they control key resources on them: food and water. That gives them power, and allow them to control what chemicals they put there, or maybe control or affect the availability or pricing of certain water or food. Keeping farmlands in less hands also means their price grows, so they profit just from that too (real estate speculation).

Regarding water, there are places where there are shortarges for the people (at least here in the South of Europe) but at the same time they are also opening new huge datacenters that use a shit ton of water to cool down those servers. And do you know who has maybe the biggest chunk of dataservers? Microsoft.

And well, farmlands for pasture (food for cows or sheeps) is valued lower than farmlans to grow eatable stuff there like corn, soy etc. So they also profit from buying lands for animals and if possible to turn them into a place to grow vegetables.

For them (or Gates in particular) is a better business if you stop eating cow and move to become a vegetarian/vegan or eat that artificial meat crap.

Video explaining part of it:

One thing to do is buy some cheap land near clean water, in a relative safe country. I know a good few off griders. My friend’s done in south of Osaka city, 5K house, lovely area

 

[Yurinka]

The gendering appens in the type of games people play, CoD is mostly guys, while many mobile cutesy games are largely female.

Yes, demographics change meaningfully depending on the genre or the platform. Here you have the results of a giant study made with a sample of almost 300K players: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Genre_preferences

Not also regarding gender, but also in terms of regions or age.