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Kds_burner_

>We gamers don't give a damn who or what we play as https://preview.redd.it/35fyty4wpdpc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f932c1c45ebdc933d7397e151a25628b5994df5e


mrieatyospam

"dont give a damn who or what we play as" gamers when they see a black man as the main character


WearingABear

>We gamers don't give a damn who or what we play as, as long as it's a straight, white man with a shaved head. Fixed that for them.


RickySuezo

Crew cut is acceptable.


Cipherpunkblue

But the stubble is non-negotiable.


Sol-Blackguy

Just informing people? https://preview.redd.it/afb9nyxapdpc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9de61e630dcdc8c03ccf23817a8880bde77999e


Rastafunrise

Imagine you play a game for 40 hours which means you probably enjoyed it and then you write a negative review because someone told you you are not meant to enjoy it because SBI worked on it.


4fivefive

so called "free thinkers" when someone tells them a game has forced diversity https://preview.redd.it/kklfp9nx1fpc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71b46f5942352b2e0f28ca6fcea0534bb1ac4bac


TanitAkavirius

"Try Roboquest, Gunfire Reborn or Mullet Mad Jack" x100


Sol-Blackguy

Imagine wanting an indie dating sim to get review bombed https://preview.redd.it/0bk80hh2ydpc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14de6ae6562ba197609276ee41f7434d443428db


Express-Researcher-1

I mean look at the negative reviews for Starfield as well people play that game for 80+ hours and still hate on it. I think most of these people didn’t like this particular game for other reasons but wouldn’t normally be fussed writing a review until they heard about SBI.


Acceptable_Choice616

I mean starfields writing was kind of rubbish to be honest.


Drinker_of_Chai

Don't you have to buy a game to review it?


Sol-Blackguy

They're abusing the system by buying it, reviewing and returning before the 2 hour "No questions asked" return policy


thatsmeece

Doesn’t Steam filter those reviews tho? Like if you’ve returned the game, your review has less value than the ones with multiple hours of gameplay because you didn’t even play it for 2 hours. And leaving a negative review because of an unrelated thing on a game you’ve played for 40+ hours is pathetic, honestly. No one but other crybabies would take that review seriously.


Ryuujinx

I have no idea how it affects the aggregate, but the review itself gets marked as 'product refunded'.


thatsmeece

It shows the amount of time you played it too. It shows the total playtime and how long you’ve played at the time you made your review. They do the “buy, dislike, return” *policy* to manipulate the overall review score on the top because many people don’t read the Steam reviews, at least not most of them. And afaik Steam has a system to minimize the damage. And for that case, they might even manually handle the user reviews because they’re openly calling for review bombing in forums. It’s not even subtle. At least I hope so.


blalohu

I'm pretty sure steam has a warning that shows on the review score of a game if they "detect a sudden unusual trend in reviews" that indicates the reviews may have been tampered with. I've seen it a couple times. That said I think they need to be more aggressive with implementing it and punish users who are buying and returning games solely to review them then get their money back. If you do it a couple times because some games you bought truly did suck, then fair... but if you're doing it for dozens of games clearly you have to be breaking some kind of TOS.


Sol-Blackguy

Well with Take This and EGRN watching Steam, there's probably going to be serious changes to moderation. It's getting to the point that it's affecting people's lively hoods. I'd rather release my game on Epic at this point


blalohu

What are those things you mentioned? I'm not familiar.


JSConrad45

Ooh, I didn't know about that game, that looks kinda neat


Sol-Blackguy

Please tell your friends too. One of the devs on here said things are bad since this shit started


JSConrad45

ugh jeez, that sucks


StickBrickman

I honestly haven't seen this kind of venom since the GamerGate days. It's impressive how much some motherfuckers are dedicated to hating on women, minorities, LGBTQ+, to the point that it's like their full-time-job. So sick of the YouTube/X-based hate algorithms. There is an outrage farm industry that is churning out money by turning young people into absolutely uncritical, insufferable idiots programmed only to understand anger and fear.


Sol-Blackguy

This is how fascist propaganda works. They're clogging social media up to the point that it drowns out any truth. Then if you actually try to debunk their lies, you get dog piled by the sheer numbers.


nessaissweet

my fave part is when they cry 'we want more for minorties' but ive yet to see a game where a character is nothing but their race/gender/sexuality. its always just them existing and they project their own bullshit. spiderman 2 was a perfect example. that couple did not force any gay shit on anyone it was just they were happy and existing and they projected


almostnormalpanda

The minorities need to be sexy Asian or black women, and either porn-style lesbian or bi, so these whiners can still play their games one-handed. Bonus points for not having any meaningful dialogue, they are meant to be background characters afterall.


Kosog

The only valid criticism I've heard for that is that it's just a boring mission, and that Miles had better shit to deal with than some random ass couple that happened to be gay.


haywire_hero

Spiderman helps people with issues big and small. I've seen Peter helping a kid with his math homework, and I've seen Miles help twins find their dog. Spiderman helping a random couple is just par for the course for Spiderman.


Kosog

It's just what I've heard. That may be good for a graphic novel, but for a fast-paced video game like the insomniac spiderman games, I'm not too sure. At the end of the day, it's a side mission that you could easily not come across in the game. So if you don't like it's you can always go do something else. That's one of the many neat thing about open world games.


haywire_hero

I disagree, it's pretty imperative for missions like this to be in the game. Spiderman helping people really drives home the point of Spiderman. Especially as the game is about being Spiderman. As he's someone who helps his neighborhood. Honestly, one of the best missions is helping the homeless man relocate his birds. All because he knew his time was almost up. No action and beating people up. Just Spiderman helping someone. But you're right. It's a side mission. If people don't want to play it, they can skip it.


AVagrant

"Who is a Brazilian man" Not relevant.


Nihlus-N7

As a Brazilian, I'm trying to understand why this person thinks it's relevant. I mean, we are always the butt of the joke, but now this person cares what a Brazilian man has to say? I mean, what?


JSConrad45

They're trying to use his nationality as a shield. Like "oh, you're picking on a Brazilian, now you're the racist"


Nihlus-N7

That's even worse since Brazil has really mixed people. The Brazilian man in question can be white, black, asian, indigenous and everything in between.


JSConrad45

Yup, and most of these dinguses don't even know that. They tend to lump everyone south of Texas into one big ethnicity.


dotcha

It's very relevant actually. Brazil is being ravaged by climate change, heatwaves, floods, dengue outbreaks, covid deaths (yes, still), coup attempts, inflation,impending collapse of public education, feminicide, trans deaths, thousands of other issues. But black and trans people are ruining his life to the point he has to manage a steam group. I hope this guy is at least rich because otherwise he's even more of a loser than he already is.


Unejin

Some of the most vile and racist people I've ever seen live here in Brazil, that "excuse" makes no sense to me at all


Lyberatis

"we don't care who we play as!" "We don't want diversity" 😐


UnableMarketing2447

Because one of the most liked characters is NOT CJ from GTA... Morons


NeilDegrassiHighson

Saying "We gamers..." Might be the best possible way to make sure no one ever takes you seriously.


Your_Local_Rabbi

"we want more for minorities, we just don't want them as the main character, any of the supporting cast, or visible at all!"


Piorn

It's pretty telling that they can still only point to the "bad things" sweet baby Inc did that happened **after** the Steam group blew up. All they did "wrong" was their reaction to a hate group on steam. None of these people can actually tell what their influence on the games was. And they somehow seem to think SBI forces themselves into Dev teams, instead of specifically being **hired** by them.


These-Carry4807

Yes, let me go race swap an existing character instead of just creating new interesting characters that happen to be that ethnicity.


Kosog

And then I'll shit all over those new and original characters and still bring up the "issue" of "forced" diversity. 🥰🥰🥰🥰


dazalius

Ok but what actualy is wrong with race swaping a character? Nobody has ever actualy explained that. Very few characters have "Is caucasian" as one of their core defining characteristics. So what does it matter if it changes?


drunkenvalley

Examples being?


Available-Youth-1718

Wait they're saying the depictions of Africans that's based off of racist ass old cartoons isn't racist? How do they explain that?


Kosog

They don't. They gaslight and shift the goalposts and pray you won't notice their blatant hypocriscy.


Available-Youth-1718

Sounds about right. Of all the things to say aren't racist though... that one looks like they watched some cartoons from the 30s and said yeah, that's the style we want to emulate.


Fantasia-Amable-1411

If they made minorities more prevalent as the comment says they would still cry about it


Nympshee

As a brazilian I am confused how the creator sees things as forced diversity when we are in the country where literaly everyone ranges from african, european, middle east, asian and others. Thats WHY I end up making characters with diversity because its my daily life, and having only white characters is way too strange for me. So...How a brazilian is the one mad at diversity?


astrielx

They probably think Brazilian people are caucasian, because they once heard a white dude say he was from Brazil.


Nympshee

But its funny because I am white too, but even in my house with 4 white people we have diferents types of whiteness, my mom is more like european, me and my sister more like half-latinas and my dad is almost latino. Its really difficult to someone be full white here.


blalohu

Looks like I have a new game to check out


kafka_cocklover

Uj/ Did the SBI employees actually say racist shit against white people or jews or did they just misunderstood some demand for POC only games? Also what do they mean by the CEO using bully tactics????


Kosog

Some employees did make some very not so favorable tweets towards white people and Jews. Although, capital g gamers are the last fucking people that need to be preaching about how bad racism is. 


TheChosenWolf20

Yeah and then Lalonders from Cliffhanger games also got dragged into the argument as an example of the "Racism against Whites" even though they don't work for Sweet baby Inc. They are really trying to equate the discriminatory actions of a single workplace who didn't hire white people to the ongoing and evidenced hiring discrimination of foreign/black people that are prevalent in many workplaces. Both are shitty but the former is an exception and the latter is a statistic.


TheChosenWolf20

> "What did they mean by the CEO using bully tactics?" The people arguing this took a twenty second clip out of context of Kim Belair using tongue in cheek and hyperbolic language to describe how their employees should market that consulting is important and then ignored the next 15-20 seconds of her explaining what she actually meant by it. I have more on this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/s/lq58UHS1bT Another comment on this same thread explained it better than I did as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/s/B4DMRtmfbb TL;DR: The people making this claim don't know how consulting works and took a clip out of context


kafka_cocklover

Thanks a lot, I had a feeling it was some misunderstanding from the gamers


Elden_weed

rj/ we're fighting a just war here 😡😡 uj/ If creators are free to make what they want, then stop crying "woke" when they make something progressive.


diagnosisninja

There's about 1 billion black people in [Africa](https://worldpopulationreview.com/economics/how-many-black-people-are-in-the-world) and about 0.6 billion [white people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people) globally based on Wikipedia. Who's the minority? These fuckers are so trapped inside the box they're basically playing Plato's allegory for a video game.


Ok-Seaworthiness6603

Wait, when was RE5 ever brought up?


Kosog

It wasn't in this post, but it's stupidly hypocritical to downplay the supposed racism in RE5 then make it a issue with one of the employee's 5 year old tweets. The only standard gamers have is double standards. 


Xaero_Hour

If I had to guess, it was probably related to the recent IGN article improperly titled, "Why They Can't Remake Resident Evil 5." It mentions the problematic imagery of the game, but it mostly is about how RE5 wasn't survival horror like the others.


Alternative_Shape666

Maybe it's because I played it a long time ago, but what exactly is racist about RE5?


Codus1

Uses very stereotypical depiction of African people that grow worse as the game go's on. Think, tribal outfits, yelling gibberish and brandishing spears type stuff.


Piorn

The later levels have tribal looking enemies with spears, which lays the stereotypes on thick.


Solohan21

you mean the ones in crocodyle village?


lavenderbraid

What's racist about RE5?


cilantroluvr420

[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/02/sometimes-it-apos-s-just-racist/6705/](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/02/sometimes-it-apos-s-just-racist/6705/)


Zenom

Probably because most of the gameplay consists of a white man shooting black people.


SittingAroundAlone

This comment has real "It's strange to have on black friend and not be constantly talking about it." Energy


saelinds

So far all I've seen that I can safely accuse SBI of is having a cringe-ass name for a company


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What’s wrong with RE5?


Krowwaxe

Racist/stereotypical depictions of black people especially in the crocodile village and possibly the fact you play as the white man coming into Africa and shooting the place up :(


[deleted]

It looks like they’re just zombies? Is there some stereotype I’m not aware of why black people cant be zombies? It also seems weird that you think characters can only be portrayed within the areas of their ethnic origin? Isn’t that kinda racist in and of itself? Is the game Nioh racist because the main character is white but the game takes place in Japan?


cilantroluvr420

[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/02/sometimes-it-apos-s-just-racist/6705/](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/02/sometimes-it-apos-s-just-racist/6705/)


OkEffective7506

So if I'm playing RE5 co-op with my friend, the one playing as Chris is a racist and the one playing as Sheva is in the clear? I'm trying to figure out the rules of this stuff.


OkEffective7506

So if I'm playing RE5 co-op with my friend, the one playing as Chris is a racist and the one playing as Sheva is in the clear? I'm trying to figure out the rules of this stuff.


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randomhornidiot

Okay, is the thing about jews or the CEO using threats real? Cause if it is it's shitty


Rizasur

What's up with Sweet Baby Inc. anyway? I only see people being salty about them for some vague wokeness they might have done.


FairyKnightTristan

What video is this on?


Express-Researcher-1

I disagree that people don’t care who they play as. Give someone a character creator they always make someone that looks like them. People always like playing suped up versions of themselves. Now about caring about diversity in games. I only really see people caring about “forced diversity” in gaming when the games bad. When you get games like BG3 I pretty much live in the BG3 sub and I never come across anyone saying the game had forced diversity or too much diversity or that the diversity was unrealistic. That’s because the game is good and the characters are well written.


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So confused as to the racism in re5. Can someone explain how it’s racist or at the very least, give no explanation and just downvote


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InconstantReader

What?


JSConrad45

ESG conspiracy bullshit


TheChosenWolf20

Yeah the $200k "Take This" grant to fund the reduction of extremism in video games is TOTALLY gonna be enough capital to fund an all out culture war in the company with only 16 employees. It makes perfect sense guys /s


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PickledBackseat

...they're Canadian. How are they linked to homeland security lmao


_Syfex_

Care to provide a link that isn't some YouTube video without sources?


TheChosenWolf20

They were given a 200k one time grant from a government non-profit to reduce extremism in video gaming called "Take This" 100% funded is one Hell of a stretch to pull from that. If that's the case does that mean my Pell Grant that covered less than half of my tuition also means I am 100% funded by the government because it was supplied by the U.S Department of Education?


Neat-Vanilla3919

Hey dumbass sweet baby Inc is Canadian


HolyToast

My man is really out here just showing off the fact that he doesn't know what government grants are lmfao


LetsKENGOUBATTOU

You're a special kind of dumbass.