OK, mindless at best, absolutely deliberate and backed by full comprehension and support at worst.Mindlessly? That's giving Sweeney a lot of benefit of the doubt.
OK, mindless at best, absolutely deliberate and backed by full comprehension and support at worst.Mindlessly? That's giving Sweeney a lot of benefit of the doubt.
It's all about straightness and whiteness and maleness being cast as normal/default in the minds of so many people and mainstream culture on the whole. In the mind of people like Sweeny, there is a distinction between "normal" art and "political" art. "Normal" art is about men like himself, always pure of ill-intention and generated by nothing but un-compromized artistic expression; while "political" art is about those who in his mind are not default. "Normal" art can be created for a profit and "political" art is suddenly impure, wrong or gross if it is made for a profit as well or considered in a business sense at all. His 'To Kill A Mockingbird' tweet says it all. To him, diversity and money making are supposed to be mutually distinct and there's no concept of wanting to create a valuable and diverse work of art while also making money off of it. To him only "normal" art gets to be uncritically made and consumed and only "normal" people get to matriculate into jobs and positions of influence without being scrutinized as greedy "diversity hires" and always solely about pure "merit".I don't get people not wanting to support diversity because it's "shoehorned" and coming from a greedy positioning, but still supports non-diverse casts which clearly comes from the same greedy positioning of appealing to a supposedly larger demographic of uneducated people lol
In that sense, gaming has learned a lot from film media's history and culture and the gatekeepers therin. "Take us seriously and take our creative work seriously while on the side and behind closed doors, we spend decades excluding, silencing and desperately ignoring the voices and efforts of the marginalized and disenfranchised who love the medium as much as anyone else."Gamers scream they want other industries to treat video games like a legitimate medium, but dont want it to be take on legitimate issues, while crowing about the amount of revenue of the industry. And damn anyone that want to move the game industry forward to the social responsibility level of other mediums.
Racing games imply that it's OK to burn fuel and release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere for fun.
The person you quoted was being serious?Rolling my eyes. Forza isn't making any political commentary on the pros or cons of fossil fuels... It's simply a fun racing game to play. This is what people mean when they want to separate politics from games. Not concocting some silly narrative by examining a game through your political lens that the developers never intended. Can games be political? Sure. Should games be political? Some of them, absolutely. Is every game political? Of course not.
Wanting to be respected as big boys but still wanting their diapers changed when they shit themselves.Gamers scream they want other industries to treat video games like a legitimate medium, but dont want it to take on legitimate issues, while crowing about the amount of revenue of the industry. And damn anyone that want to move the game industry forward to the social responsibility level of other mediums.
"Games are art and they should be treated like it!"Gamers scream they want other industries to treat video games like a legitimate medium, but dont want it to take on legitimate issues, while crowing about the amount of revenue of the industry. And damn anyone that want to move the game industry forward to the social responsibility level of other mediums.
Man, Tim is really trying to get the r/fuckepic Gamer crowd on his side, huh
"Games are art and they should be treated like it!"
games gets subjected to criticism and make political statements visible enough for even gators to understand
"Wait not like that, RESPECT MY NICHE NERD CULTURE!"
Should we start banning EGS discussions in here? Or at least giving a proper reminder in every thread?
The thought that we're promoting the store and its games so that this asshole get even richer gives me the creeps.
I like what Sweeney is saying to be honest. The industry should be accepting of both conservative viewpoints and liberal viewpoints. No need to polarize the space
I like what Sweeney is saying to be honest. The industry should be accepting of both conservative viewpoints and liberal viewpoints. No need to polarize the space
Fuck off with that bullshit conservative "viewpoint" should never be accepted since it's by default racist and backwardI like what Sweeney is saying to be honest. The industry should be accepting of both conservative viewpoints and liberal viewpoints. No need to polarize the space
Lol. fuck off.I like what Sweeney is saying to be honest. The industry should be accepting of both conservative viewpoints and liberal viewpoints. No need to polarize the space
I respect Sweeney and Carmack for their development chops and their huge contributions to gaming, but both have revealed themselves over time to be such socially regressive asshats.
Carmack? I follow him on Twitter, and as far as I can tell, he pretty much exclusively talks about random nerdy programming stuff.
Has Sweeny always been a POS or did the Fortnite money go to his head?
But that's basically just handwaving the current issue, and this is not the first time he said something like this. Yes, there are other rich assholes that share the same view as Tim, but he's not a regular figure in the video game industry. Many people, from users, developers, publishers, and journalists look up to him. If he's getting away with this kind of view, what would the future of gaming look like?He would have to keep going pretty deep for that to ever happen there are alot of rich assholes that say similar stuff. I think if he ever starts quoting race bait shit then ERA will.
I like what Sweeney is saying to be honest. The industry should be accepting of both conservative viewpoints and liberal viewpoints. No need to polarize the space
I like what Sweeney is saying to be honest. The industry should be accepting of both conservative viewpoints and liberal viewpoints. No need to polarize the space
Video games should just be fun, man. No need for that real world stuff in my games. By the way, did you know Bioshock is great.Gamers scream they want other industries to treat video games like a legitimate medium, but dont want it to take on legitimate issues, while crowing about the amount of revenue of the industry. And damn anyone that want to move the game industry forward to the social responsibility level of other mediums.
Yep, another rich tech-bro asshole that thinks that technology is a grey thing without biases.He continues to sound like a privileged libertarian asshole. No surprise there I guess.