I’m so disappointed at the lack of content for Kolivan and Keith interacting. Let them bond and let Kolivan be a positive influence in Keith’s life that pushes him toward becoming a better leader!! It’s the content we deserve!!!!
walk into the party. almost every single guy has a purple cup. most of the girls have blue cups, but the purple cups are ONLY hitting up the girls with green cups (who range from “in a bitter breakup” to “i have a crush on my yoga instructor”). you walk into the backyard and there’s two people screamfighting with pink cups while a purple cup dude bolts past you and back into the party, zipping up. you put arsenic in a green cup and chug it in front of everyone and then they cheer and you don’t remember the last part because youre dead now so i guess ur relationship status is indeed complicated
There is nothing more frustrating than seeing a group of people trying their best to respectfully create a piece of inclusive media and watching the people it was supposed to be created for rip it to pieces.
We criticized that they only showed off white, thin, androgynous nbs. They responded by showing us PoC, and thick and thin body types.
Now people are pissed that the black nb is “beefy”.
We worried that they didn’t have a team broad enough to handle having PoC, trans, and nonbinary characters. They responded by making sure their team is diverse, containing all the demographics in game.
Now people are claiming the Devs are racist even though PoC are involved.
They literally can’t win. Every little thing is met with fire and brimstone…and the game isn’t even fucking out yet. We don’t even have the product to judge and people won’t stop for a fucking second with the grossly over-inflating the “racist intent” of the game devs, telling the Devs to never make games again, even going so far as to tell the Devs to kill themselves.
You cannot demand representation and then tear apart every project that might have something wrong with it. That kind of hostile environment will stop people from trying to make inclusive media.
No, you shouldn’t make inclusive media for Woke Points. But fuck if I can blame anyone for quitting and not even trying when the response a maybe-misstep is hundreds of abusive messages and suicide baiting.
This attitude creates an environment where people have to worry about being punished for making mistakes. And everyone makes mistakes. We have to give creators some breathing room. Cos this shit? It’s smothering. We’re never gunna get what we want, or what we need, if we can’t take a step back, let people fuck up, and guide them through how to improve. We can critique respectfully, we can be upset when things go wrong, we can be disappointed when people fuck up. We can’t hold them to an impossible standard where they aren’t allowed to fuck up or they’re automatically shit forever and always.
As a black, trans, queer, autistic content creator: Don’t fucking murder inclusive media before you can even fully consume it. Cos this makes me terrified to create my own content and put it out there. This says to me “fuck the stories you want to tell if they aren’t perfect in every way”. It tells me my voice doesn’t matter, and that my creativity and passion for inclusiveness is worthless.
This is not the environment we want to foster.
There is an old saying that I think applies very well here: Perfect is the enemy of good. If we demand perfection we will never get anything, because no media will ever be perfect. Office Types is not perfect, nor will it ever be perfect no matter how much reworking and fixing they do. And I would suggest that it is ultimately less beneficial to us to demand perfection even if it were achievable.
Here is why: Office types being perfect only matters, ultimately, if it is the only time we ever get NB inclusive media. Right now people are demanding that it be perfect representation for all these groups that normally get zero representation, and I really understand that. This happens every time inclusive media comes out: We all want our shot, so to speak, in case it is our only shot. And we all want our one shot to go off perfect, so we make very big demands.
The problem is this kind of demand focused one shot mentality kills any creative desire people have to experiment with art and diversity. Right now there are dozens, maybe hundreds of smaller and maybe even larger devs keeping an eye on office types and how all this goes. I know this because I am one of them. We are all watching, seeing how this plays out. We are not afraid of larger cultural backlash from conservative types, they were never going to be our target audience if we are considering including, say, a black nb character. What matters is how the more progressive audience takes it. And I can tell you right now the prospect is fucking grim.
Right now every dev considering being more inclusive in their design is taking a serious look if they can afford this type of backlash from within their target audience. Larger studios are thinking about the massive PR nightmare that they will have to navigate at the most important time in the advertisement of their game. Smaller studios are considering how one small mistake could tank their project and perhaps their entire company as a result. Super small, 1-3 person teams are looking at this, knowing that they will mess something up because they are not perfect and wondering if this just kills the prospect of even ever releasing their game and maybe kills their life long dream of being a content creator.
Making large steps towards inclusiveness is very difficult from a purely creative standpoint. It almost always involves stepping past your own point of view. Creators know their art is flawed. I have never met an actually decent content creator that thought their art was perfect. The first thing most artists will say when you ask to see their work is “It isn’t very good, but I hope you like it.” If you tell us we have to be held to perfection we will just never show you our work. Because we know it is not perfect. And with a project like a commercial video game that must be shown to the audience, well, we just wont make it. Because we know that failure is predetermined, and by definition professionals rely on their art for their lively hood.
So instead of what we want to do we will reach for something more attainable and achievable. Something where we can look back at what previous artists have done for guidance and for which there is a lot higher tolerance for mistakes.
This is, frankly, why we get so many white lesbians and gay dudes in progressive media. It is a manageable level of risk with precedence and enough saturation that you are not going to get the kind of destructive focus Office Types has. It’s maybe not what you wanted to do, but it is something.
Thank you. This is a fucking perfect expansion of what I’m trying to get across.
When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.
This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.
This is disgusting regardless of the reason the person is vegan. It doesn’t have to be religious or an allergy, people who have stopped eating meat have done so because it is IMPORTANT to them, and when your trust is violated on this level it is VERY damaging to us. Just because YOU don’t understand the importance of it, doesn’t mean it isn’t important.
Imagine the dads rage if they would give him a vegan burger without his knowing.
And even if they didn’t stop eating meat for health reasons, it still might make them sick to give it to them depending on how long it’s been since they’ve actually eaten meat
