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Famous woke game Overwatch adds a person with mental problems, then gives him an asylum inspired skin
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Mental health continues to be the least important topic to the world at large when it should be the most.
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Don't worry, if they can queerbait and add lgbt stuff on side stuff, they will have a LORE EXPLANATION on why this exists at all
Basically on the order of those old local THESE APPLIANCE DEALS ads that everyone rightly clowns on
Background for folks not fluent in the Overwatch like me:
LMAO literally yesterday there was an article where Michael Chu was saying that they weren't trying to evoke a mental health or asylum thing at all
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Also going hard on the barefoot loon trope by shoving them at the centre of his win poses, disgusting lack of awareness from Blizzard.
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You can write a character with mental struggles without that being his whole thing. Both personality, character and skin, so yeah
big fat no for you
I want to see the responses to the early defenders of Blizzard. Your Overwatch farted out an argument that Blizzard embracing a character who has mental health was a bold move that should essentially be applauded.
You can explore sensitive topics and backgrounds, but if you step your entire foot in the shits then you will get critiqued accordingly. It's simple.
You can explore sensitive topics and backgrounds, but if you step your entire foot in the shits then you will get critiqued accordingly. It's simple.
Those sprays and that skin suck. Though I can't say that I'm surprised given that this is very in line with how mental illness is usually depicted.
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Only flying cars, the rest is the fucking same as today it seems
Why not? A character tackling their mental problems and figuring how to to come to terms with it seems pretty compelling.
It's funny, though. My momma always told me if I was gonna step my foot in shit, I should at least have some fucking shoes on.
Often against their will, causing a lot of suffering for them and their family.
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So for you man a person with mental issues has to be called Crazy Crazy Joe, being in an asylum all his life, all his attire reminds you about the fact he is crazy
theres nothing else about crazy crazy joe but the fact he is indeed crazy.
sounds like garbage, hope you enjoy it
I like the Skin and yeah that dude would probably need one in real life with all those abilities lol.
I don't see the problem. This is an extremely unrealistic type of "mental illness" being portrayed here. It's sci-fi shit, and at one point he was in an asylum. I'm just not seeing how people with real mental illnesses are being portrayed as anything here. There is a very big disconnect.
This is unfortunately not surprising because when it comes to mental illness people tend to forget the lessons learnt with other minority groups. It's how you can get folks calling others "crazy" in a derogatory way as if it was normal or how you can get people dismissing very obvious signs of mental health deterioration because of the inconvenient side effects of it. This is just another example of that :(
Some people in a minority group actually doing the things that negative stereotypes say they do doesn't make it OK to portray those negative stereotypes in a non-ironic fashion. That's especially true when those negative stereotypes are pretty real symbols of suffering for a lot of people.
Some people in a minority group actually doing the things that negative stereotypes say they do doesn't make it OK to portray those negative stereotypes in a non-ironic fashion. That's especially true when those negative stereotypes are pretty real symbols of suffering for a lot of people.
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You haven't a metal issue or anyone like that in your whole life and it shows, stay quiet.
I mean his backstory sounds pretty interesting to me and makes me a lot less weary. I don't think anyones gonna look at him as the bastion of mental health representation, doesn't even seem like the goal of the character.
They could have just given him the orange jumper he had in his reveal trailer. That looked to be his 'research subject' uniform, and doesn't evoke the ham fisted, draconian example of mental patients that this does.
I have never played Overwatch so can someone catch me up on how this character is a poor depiction of mental health, please?
As someone who has been in a mental institution multiple times, I don't really see anything wrong with this. Hell, I even kinda like it.
For everyone asking what the big deal is this is the only character with noted mental health issues and there running with the "crazy bad guy in a straightjacket" look.
If they based his condition on an actual mental illness and gave him this skin, yeah, that would be super fucked up.
This is a fictional (at least for now, I don't know anyone who was exposed to a black hole) illness and has no bearings on reality.
So, why is it insensitive? Legitimately curious.
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User banned (3 days) and thread making privileges suspended: Creating a thread without being interested in discussion, dismissive of members with mental health issues, hostility over a series of posts
congrats?
I didn't say any of that. I was thinking more "a beautiful mind" or "one flew over the cuckcoo's nest". Stories about people dealing with mental disorders, how society treats them and their journey towards improvement. Stories like that focus entirely on fact that the characters have some mental problems but they can teach us so much about mental health and those who are affected by it.
It's a video game, lets not get overly silly here. Batman: Arkham Asylum will be next on the list.
I didn't mean what you think I meant.
The potential issue here is that people with mental illness are being portrayed as crazy people in asylums. But that doesn't really seem to be what's happening
He isn't a guy suffering from a some real world mental illness. He was physically damaged and fundamentally altered as a human being..... by a black hole. It's so far out that I don't think you can draw parallels between this and real mental illness.
If it matters, I've spent time in places for mental illness, so I'm not speaking out of lack of empathy.
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