• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Weird, I have a sudden urge to talk about nothing but feminist propaganda, covid and China’s game industry policies.

  • towerful@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    CohhCarnage said something about this.
    Game Devs often include requests along these lines for sponsored segments of a stream (and only the parts of the stream paid for), including talking about COVID during the high point of the COVID pandemic.

    The odd part that he noted is some of the specific wording, that he attributed to mistranslation - like “feminist propaganda”.

    I have no idea about the parts relating to Chinese game dev.

    The benefit of the doubt in me says: this is some bad translation and culture disconnect.
    The pragmatist in me says: this guides content creators. So, take such content with a pinch of salt in these regards - play the game if it actually seems decent.

    I feel like the pragmatist is pretty much default these days, all content guides you to some conclusion. So do what the fuck you want.
    🦜☠️ (Idk what the emoji is. I’m sure you understand) If it really rubs you the wrong way

  • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Fuck right the fuck off, dude. I get the part about using offensive language and insulting other streamers/players but actively forbidding them from mentioning politics, feminism, whatever is weak. Tf is feminist propaganda even?

          • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            3 months ago

            Someone ran a DND game from a module, but decided to switch the gender of everyone in the module without telling the players.

            The players were convinced there was some secret conspiracy to get rid of the men, because the only man they could find anywhere was the unnamed spouse of the blacksmith.

            All men: business as usual. All women: there must be a secret conspiracy to erase the men.

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              3 months ago

              20 years ago, our DM invited a guy he knew at work. Dude was new in town, moved there for school, and they got to talking about DnD. After a few months, seemed like a nice, reasonable, guy with compatible interests. Dude was immediately weird once he showed up. After a few games he stopped showing up, much to the relief of the group.

              Few months later DM said the guy came to him, angry, that he didn’t tell him that half the party were “feeeemales”. This was before the archetype of an incel/neckbeard was a thing. So, he was just an awkward loser. Seems he felt like DnD was not something for “feeeemales”. We were just glad he came off as kinda cold, maybe a little hostile, for the couple games he showed up for. That could have been a much worse situation, but he showed his ass quickly, in private. DM said the guy stopped talking to him after he told him that if he felt that way, he wasn’t welcome. Then, at the end of the school year, he left DM an e-mail just going on an unhinged incel rant.

              Edit: holy shit, this was 25 years ago now. gonna go not think about this now.

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    3 months ago

    By “feminist propaganda” they are probably referring to the false sexism allegations that game journalists have been using to slander the company.