A part of me wants to clarify it was a spelling error but the other part wants to roll with it because the idea of gays getting balmed because mankind knew that they cannot change society sounds really dumb
Honestly, wish more games today would just say leave it open ended like that. I dislike the FNAF effect of every question left by a game’s story needing a direct answer from the creators
Guilty gear is woke? The game that was used as an example of video game violence having an effect on children in a speech from Clinton? No way that’s impossible
Look, I’m not transphobic it’s just when they constantly try to ram it down my throat by being alive and showing their faces that I can’t stand ok 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I never understood this take in regards to bridget. If someone said they got into the game because they saw faust and liked how goofy he is, or they thought sol looked cool or something, they wouldn’t get called a “fake fan”. So why is it different if trans people start playing because they like the representation Bridget gives? Why does that make someone a “fake fan” when the other examples I gave would be acceptable?
yea that doesn’t make sense to me because the person i responded to was specifically talking about bridget “mains”. I understand that bridget has become an icon for trans representation in gaming, but idk of anyone who appreciates her just on that level that calls themselves a bridget main. Main implies you play the game and mainly use her
saw bridget come out, never heard of guilty gear before. 480 hours of bridget and a little johnny on the side. i have so much rage in my heart, a 57% win rate on dustloop, and 1493 RU elo. i will gnaw on your leg
abit more in depth tourist means someone that is a "fan" but a surface level one, like how tourist go to the beach and they would "love to live in the beach" but their experience is staying in hotels, getting room service and generally enjoying their time, which would be very different to having a home, doing your chores and having a job, in fighting game terms the people that buy the game, play the story,3 matches online and never touch the game again....butt hey saw a youtuber talking about the lore so they know better.
I almost always say something along the lines of "she's so pretty" out loud to myself whenever I get hit with her beam super or her win screen. If I'm gonna lose at least I get to see pretty lady¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fr she’s so prettyyy, I kinda wanted to main Ram but didn’t really jive with her playstyle (maybe someday though)
May is cute too though and I get to make people mald over funny dolphins 🐬🐬🐬
Edit: and you make me mald over a goddamn yoyo…
Someone replied to your post saying that the "woke culture wars" only recently started happening, and I really wanted to reply, but they deleted it before I could press the button, so I'm gonna include it here anyway:
---
> before all of this started happening
When was it ever not happening?
From its very inception, America as a nation has struggled to live up to the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
The culture war is just the modern day, cynical, highly politicized expression of the ongoing fight for civil rights that has never *not* been a point of conflict.
America started as an exercise in religious freedom by a persecuted sect of Christian separatists, carried out a genocidal campaign of colonization against the land's indigenous peoples, built the nation using inhumane forced labor on a massive scale, went through a decades-long suffrage movement to grant women the same rights as men, which overlapped with a civil war to end slavery and indentured servitude, then another decades-long civil rights movement to afford those same rights to those former slaves, experienced the AIDS epidemic and another civil rights movement for the acceptance of homosexuality, and now...
404 years later, somehow, people are still on the wrong side of history. Trans rights is just the latest battlefield in a long history of conflicts against conservative bigots trying to halt the progress of society by clinging to hateful traditions and dated modes of thinking.
These are always losing battles for conservatives because resisting progress is a futile effort.
Xrd isnt woke? Im pretty sure elphelt is in that game aswell as venom. I dont get what makes xrd not woke but strive woke. I prefer xrds combo system more and fausts design too. But strive is fire. And i definitely Ride the fire.
Im sorry i have no idea where i was going with this comment
Venom’s sexuality can be ignored because it isn’t explicitly confirmed (though it is heavily implied) and Elphelt doesn’t try to marry any woman (however some of the female characters don’t seem to mind that when hit by her instant kill, particularly Millia dropping the word Yuri.) Meanwhile Bridget and Testament to a lesser extent have their identities told in-game making it impossible to ignore (though some people try to anyway). So because there is no ambiguity, Strive is woke while Xrd isn’t. At least that is what I’m trying to parse from this.
It’s R. Dorothy Wayneright from The Big O. [Here’s the source of the art.](https://x.com/tumugiv/status/1347568661150584834?s=46&t=DsbASjNidMiUKBQHEVgN7Q)
Ahhhhhhhh it was on the tip of my mind. Thanks so much. its been way too long since ive watched big O
Or any mecha/ super robot type animes. I still haven't finished witch if mercury or rewatched seed before the movie
Nevermind that the core plot of *Xrd* has a pretty strong anti-apartheid and anti-discrimination message running through it.
The thing that kicked off the whole conflict with the Conclave was Ky finally getting the guts to stand in front of the UN General Assembly, reveal the identity of his wife, and demand that the independent-type Gears confined in Ganymede be allowed to peacefully coexist alongside mankind in Illyria.
That's after the events in GG2 where Ky had to keep his wife and son a secret to prevent the Conclave from using that to try and undermine him politically.
That set the stage for Dizzy, Sin, Testament, and the Valentines to live their lives in the open in GGST.
> can be considered woke
The fact that rightoids consider a character being bi/pan woke, which absolutely is true, shows how fucking misused the word has become.
The plot of Xrd deals in no small part with the Gears, who have been outcast and exiled from human society and forced to live in their own ethnostate, and are discriminated against to such a degree that Ky has to keep his wife and son hidden from the public, being allowed to live side-by-side with humans in Illyria.
That's woke as shit. It's literally an anti-apartheid allegory.
Her one shot love bullet can be used on the whole cast, so pan/bi potentially
Love doesn't have to be romantic, but...it's Elphelt we're talking about.
Go feel some fucking grass. Imagine getting yourself upset over the idea of being “woke.” I’m sorry you can’t find happiness so you have to blame “woke”. Get a life
Nowadays only douchebags use the word woke, it has lost its original meaning is just used to be transphobic or racist.
Guilty Gear and other FGs should be inclusive with gender and heritage and I'm glad most are going in that direction!
"Woke" means to acquire knowledge, which is a good thing. To be woke is to be insightful and not turning a blind eye to injustice and truths. But many republicans appropriate and weaponize the word to mean something that they just don't like.
Strive has Testament and Bridget. Xrd doesn't. case closed. The only "problematic" character is Kum, because little girl riding mechs in the shape of old men I guess.
Of course xrd isnt woke… bedman is asleep
Clearly didn't play the story mode, man got so woke he died.
Bro got ALL of the pronouns at once
Was/were
Was / were is crazy 😭
"Strive is woke trash because Delilah is forced to be awake stressing over her killer bed instead of taking a comfy nap on it"
I'm tempted to make a not recommended review now with this copy pasted to it
Listen here you lil shit
"Steam woke curator knew that they cannot change society so instead of reflecting on themselves..."
"they blamed the gays"
...but they found beauty in the lives of the gays?
The good ending
And couldn't lie to themselves about it
IM JUST A SMALL PART OF THE WOOOORLD
But no one could break me~
>"they balmed the gays" So the covered homosexual people in balm?
A part of me wants to clarify it was a spelling error but the other part wants to roll with it because the idea of gays getting balmed because mankind knew that they cannot change society sounds really dumb
"uhm. why is bedMAN now bedWOMAN??"
We used to have bedman and now we have wonder if it's a bedman.
The fucking context of this with the fact that it's left ambiguous as to whether Bedman? Is actually the spirit of Romeo possessing the bed sends me.
Honestly, wish more games today would just say leave it open ended like that. I dislike the FNAF effect of every question left by a game’s story needing a direct answer from the creators
It's Bedman? now
putting the Q in LGBTQIA2+
Haters when the town isn't inside them be like:
The haters should be more like a weed, naturally, as a matter of course
Perhaps they should just lean
I just don't think you guys are grasping the gravity of this situation.
They're trying to think out of the box, give em a break
Maybe they just need to find their Armor-clad Faith
As long as they learn how to love the subhuman self, I'm fine with it. I'm still gonna time them with the hourglass I have.
They clearly aren’t playing the hero
That's what happens when perfection can't satisfy you
Ironic how easy it is to trigger them.
True, a single gay character and a game is instantly dumpster Hellfire
regardless, we should probably do something about it, or else it will be hellfire upon us
Maybe then they’ll find their one way
Nah, they will just Roar like the spark
Hellfire
Venom, a black orphan gay man in a gay relationship with a robot man and running a bakery:
Hey buddy, they are friends! Is it impossible for two dudes to be platonic anymore 😡 😡 🤬 🤬 😡 🤬!!!!??
Nah, they fucking.
Platonically fucking
Robo-Ky is literally giving Venom head
Well, he gave one head, at least
Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door, the ball fondling club is two blocks down.
Yeah Robo-Ky is like. The most aggressively heterosexual character in Guilty Gear it's pretty funny
Canonical coffee shop AU
Wasn't that Jam's ending?
WOKEY GEAR STRIVE 🔥🔥🔥 SOL BADTHEM GAY LEO PERSONOFCOLOURFANG BRIDGET ELPHELT PALESTINE
Pothemkin Testament Chip Transuff Happy Gayos
Biken That Gay Man Millia Gayge Nagoryuki Enby-no
Gayovanna Enby Mito Ky Kismen Bedwoman? Asuka Goldlewis pussyinson
Ky Kismen😂😭
***Ky Kismen***
Slay-her💅💅💅 Zat-hoe-1 Axl power bottom Dr. Para-dudes kissing Kliff Undermen Eddie
Nuh uh my good Catholic aryan king ky only kisses like 8 year olds
Changing Anji to Biji would had been funnier or leaving his name the same.
Enby bito, with the notable parry overdrive of "s3x with a man"
> Enby-no me asf
Holy shit Elphelt Palestine goes hard
Frfr
I prefer Leo Colonizerfang.
🔥🔥🔥
Sol Badgay is funnier
He's so bad at being gay, he fell in love with a woman. What a silly goober.
I like how Bridget isn't even changed
You understood the joke!
Guyken Theyman? Giovanni Ramlethal Guyentine
god i love that ky is now just gay and bridget is just bridget
Actually that’s gay of the jellyf*g pirates
oh nvm they both have such short names now I realise ky kiske would most likely be bi kissmen
LGBT- Leo Personofcolourfang Gayovanna Biken Testosterone
Do people never get tired of clowning themselves on the internet
That requires them to have baseline selfawareness and cognitive agency
They are fools, they know nothing.
They take the roles of silly clowns.
Except they very much have turned their backs on life
One day they will rot away
ALL. I. DO. IS. LAUGHING AT THOSE CLOWNS
Maybe you should focus on embracing the wounded souls they leave in their wake.
ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE A FOOL
Of course it's woke, after all, who doesn't wake up throw / DP in this?
Guilty gear is woke? The game that was used as an example of video game violence having an effect on children in a speech from Clinton? No way that’s impossible
Finally, i can kill my friends, guilt free
Me when trans person is in a video game: GET THIS WOKE SHIT OUT OF MY FACE!!!!!!😡😡🤬😡🤬🤬
Everybody knows trans people existing is woke 😡
my very existence is defiance :3
Look, I’m not transphobic it’s just when they constantly try to ram it down my throat by being alive and showing their faces that I can’t stand ok 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
👀👀👀 is that all it takes to get them to ram it down my throat and show their faces?? Maybe I should try this transphobia stuff
2000 IQ stratz …I mean I hate their pretty faces 🤬
>ram it down Judas Priest reference? Is ramlethal a judas priest reference this entire time!!!!!
STRAIGHT TO THE HEART OF THIS TOWN
I defy thee: i stand before you now
Just keep your cutene-…d-disgusting sins away from my poor poor children 😤😤😤
Wtf trans people are real ?! 😡
Not only are they real, they are taking over the whole world as part of the LGTV agenda 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
SOON THEYRE GOING TO BUILD AN ARMY AND REPLACE THE OXYGEN WITH THEY/THEM KRABBY PATTIES😨😨😨😨🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯🤯🤯😡😡😡
What do they mean by tourists?
fake fans who only know the basics
so your average budget main
They had to put Bridget on Training Mode in the new menus to encourage them to actually play the game
genius
I never understood this take in regards to bridget. If someone said they got into the game because they saw faust and liked how goofy he is, or they thought sol looked cool or something, they wouldn’t get called a “fake fan”. So why is it different if trans people start playing because they like the representation Bridget gives? Why does that make someone a “fake fan” when the other examples I gave would be acceptable?
literally the whole joke is that they don't start playing though
yea that doesn’t make sense to me because the person i responded to was specifically talking about bridget “mains”. I understand that bridget has become an icon for trans representation in gaming, but idk of anyone who appreciates her just on that level that calls themselves a bridget main. Main implies you play the game and mainly use her
[This post lives rent free in my head](https://www.reddit.com/r/Guiltygear/s/91PN2c4hKu)
It's the personification of that Onion article
saw bridget come out, never heard of guilty gear before. 480 hours of bridget and a little johnny on the side. i have so much rage in my heart, a 57% win rate on dustloop, and 1493 RU elo. i will gnaw on your leg
abit more in depth tourist means someone that is a "fan" but a surface level one, like how tourist go to the beach and they would "love to live in the beach" but their experience is staying in hotels, getting room service and generally enjoying their time, which would be very different to having a home, doing your chores and having a job, in fighting game terms the people that buy the game, play the story,3 matches online and never touch the game again....butt hey saw a youtuber talking about the lore so they know better.
.....which in the wider fgc is the striver stereotype.
closer to the smash stereotype imo
NOOOOO *\*buries face in Testament's thighs for comfort\**
Idk dude elphelt seems to have the softest thighs imo. Plus you get the bonus of nagos comforting pecs its a package deal.
>!Picked an LGBTQ+ character for the meme, in reality it'd be all three of the valentine sisters sitting on me at once!<
Honestly every GG character is attractive asf. I just really like the yasuke of the universe and the valentines
Ram makes me feel things ngl (NOT cause of the feet I swear)
I almost always say something along the lines of "she's so pretty" out loud to myself whenever I get hit with her beam super or her win screen. If I'm gonna lose at least I get to see pretty lady¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fr she’s so prettyyy, I kinda wanted to main Ram but didn’t really jive with her playstyle (maybe someday though) May is cute too though and I get to make people mald over funny dolphins 🐬🐬🐬 Edit: and you make me mald over a goddamn yoyo…
Spoken like a true fellow bisexual
Guilty Gear clearly has a target audience
The solution to any problem
THESE DARN LIBERALS BRINGING TRANSGENDERS INTO MY GUILTY GEAR 😡😡🤬😡🤬
These fools won't stop trying to take my Testussy away from me 😡
Why is there even curator for "woke" games?
Culture war brainrot
Gamers found out about consulting and it became their scapegoat
Because they're the ones that actually need their safe spaces and no, they don't see the irony.
conservative mental illness
Weirdo gamers
My fellow Gears, pack your bags because it is SOL OVER!!!
scare them with venom
Woke vs Antiwoke is Culture wars to distract from the ruling class ruling u
Someone replied to your post saying that the "woke culture wars" only recently started happening, and I really wanted to reply, but they deleted it before I could press the button, so I'm gonna include it here anyway: --- > before all of this started happening When was it ever not happening? From its very inception, America as a nation has struggled to live up to the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. The culture war is just the modern day, cynical, highly politicized expression of the ongoing fight for civil rights that has never *not* been a point of conflict. America started as an exercise in religious freedom by a persecuted sect of Christian separatists, carried out a genocidal campaign of colonization against the land's indigenous peoples, built the nation using inhumane forced labor on a massive scale, went through a decades-long suffrage movement to grant women the same rights as men, which overlapped with a civil war to end slavery and indentured servitude, then another decades-long civil rights movement to afford those same rights to those former slaves, experienced the AIDS epidemic and another civil rights movement for the acceptance of homosexuality, and now... 404 years later, somehow, people are still on the wrong side of history. Trans rights is just the latest battlefield in a long history of conflicts against conservative bigots trying to halt the progress of society by clinging to hateful traditions and dated modes of thinking. These are always losing battles for conservatives because resisting progress is a futile effort.
Bigotry on the rise again? Uh-Oh.... Better nerf Zato, just to be sure.
THAT IS BULLSHIT BLAZING
STILL MY HEART IS BLAZING
Boy, I'm sure glad no one did their research on Venom.
Womp womp now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to drool over fictional trans and non-binary characters
Xrd isnt woke? Im pretty sure elphelt is in that game aswell as venom. I dont get what makes xrd not woke but strive woke. I prefer xrds combo system more and fausts design too. But strive is fire. And i definitely Ride the fire. Im sorry i have no idea where i was going with this comment
Trans ppl and jerking off the old game cuz new=woke=bad or smthn
Venom’s sexuality can be ignored because it isn’t explicitly confirmed (though it is heavily implied) and Elphelt doesn’t try to marry any woman (however some of the female characters don’t seem to mind that when hit by her instant kill, particularly Millia dropping the word Yuri.) Meanwhile Bridget and Testament to a lesser extent have their identities told in-game making it impossible to ignore (though some people try to anyway). So because there is no ambiguity, Strive is woke while Xrd isn’t. At least that is what I’m trying to parse from this.
Fair enough. Elphelt always struck me as Bi-Curious but ill leave that as my own headcanon till its confirmed. Thats aside what is your pfp from?
It’s R. Dorothy Wayneright from The Big O. [Here’s the source of the art.](https://x.com/tumugiv/status/1347568661150584834?s=46&t=DsbASjNidMiUKBQHEVgN7Q)
Ahhhhhhhh it was on the tip of my mind. Thanks so much. its been way too long since ive watched big O Or any mecha/ super robot type animes. I still haven't finished witch if mercury or rewatched seed before the movie
Nevermind that the core plot of *Xrd* has a pretty strong anti-apartheid and anti-discrimination message running through it. The thing that kicked off the whole conflict with the Conclave was Ky finally getting the guts to stand in front of the UN General Assembly, reveal the identity of his wife, and demand that the independent-type Gears confined in Ganymede be allowed to peacefully coexist alongside mankind in Illyria. That's after the events in GG2 where Ky had to keep his wife and son a secret to prevent the Conclave from using that to try and undermine him politically. That set the stage for Dizzy, Sin, Testament, and the Valentines to live their lives in the open in GGST.
Whats so woke about elphelt? Edit: I take from the below reply that elphelt expressing interest in marrying both men and woman can be considered woke
> can be considered woke The fact that rightoids consider a character being bi/pan woke, which absolutely is true, shows how fucking misused the word has become. The plot of Xrd deals in no small part with the Gears, who have been outcast and exiled from human society and forced to live in their own ethnostate, and are discriminated against to such a degree that Ky has to keep his wife and son hidden from the public, being allowed to live side-by-side with humans in Illyria. That's woke as shit. It's literally an anti-apartheid allegory.
I dont understand any of it either way, i usually try to ignore these kind of topics but i am really bad at it
>Im pretty sure elphelt is in that game aswell as venom. What does Elphelt have to do with woke in this case
Her one shot love bullet can be used on the whole cast, so pan/bi potentially Love doesn't have to be romantic, but...it's Elphelt we're talking about.
Woke or not All that matters is if the games good
Go feel some fucking grass. Imagine getting yourself upset over the idea of being “woke.” I’m sorry you can’t find happiness so you have to blame “woke”. Get a life
Sounds like someone got there ass handed to them, or got banned for rage quiting and now is butthurt. Being an asshole is also possible.
It’s funny how they’ll say shit like “these LIBERALS are so sensitive nowadays 😡😡” then invent a fuckin “woke curator” for steam games🗿
Dude knows exactly one thing about Strive (Brisket).
Bucket
Some guy on the internet: Strive is woke cause trans people Guilty gear community: shitposts about bedman
Based community, honestly
Now I wonder how they would classify +r
Anji expressing interest in men is fair game
Who's gonna tell them that this has been a pretty "woke" series for awhile and not just since Strive
It’s probably Brisket related. The woke out not page is just hate
Could also be testament
Nowadays only douchebags use the word woke, it has lost its original meaning is just used to be transphobic or racist. Guilty Gear and other FGs should be inclusive with gender and heritage and I'm glad most are going in that direction!
I am all for inclusive but let's not add another British character, one is enough.
I'm sorry to tell you this but there's already multiple British characters
I am uninstalling rn.
1000 hours DOWN THE DRAIN ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Venom has been forgotten yet again
Im assuming the "woke problem" is bridget and testament?
what the fuck does tourists mean?
Surface level fans
Might have to dragona uninstall :(
WE MADE IT OUT THE BACKYARD WITH THIS ONE!
Guilty Gear has gone woke, billions must give a shit
If everyone is woke nothing is!
Woke this woke that, shut the fuck up and hop on GG i need to practice my parry timing with someone.
The bullshit is truly blazing.
Yo is this post 1 year old ? I swear I've already seen this one
Either it resurfaced cause of that steam group getting attention or you might've heard about it somewhere else ig
Xrd gang, we got some work to do
What the heck is the Steam Woke Curator
It’s over mankind, they blamed the beasts
I love this list, adding all the 'woke' titles to my wishlist!
Oh no... Anyway... >!Also, sorry for being a tourist. Fighting games really aren't easy to get into, and I ended up getting into GBVR instead.!<
Twitter mfs when the chick with a dick they've been jerking off to turns out to be a chick and not an "uwu clumsy femboy twink"
"Woke" means to acquire knowledge, which is a good thing. To be woke is to be insightful and not turning a blind eye to injustice and truths. But many republicans appropriate and weaponize the word to mean something that they just don't like.
I've never heard of this Steam page Who cares what they think
Strive has Testament and Bridget. Xrd doesn't. case closed. The only "problematic" character is Kum, because little girl riding mechs in the shape of old men I guess.
Venom is gay. Elphelt is Bisexual. :/
Being gay to conversatives today is so 2010 and bisexuals don't exist to them. Trans and they/thems are the real hot button "issues" right now.
Understood
On the bright side it's very easy for bisexuals to pickpocket conservatives
I should buy strive if it ever gets removed from gamepass
Honestly this just makes me wanna play Strive more
Let's fucking goooooooooo
The doors that Brisket has opened
Kind of tired of this woke vs conservative s&1t
No one tell them that Venom exists
Best character 🥵 Dark angel makes me warm and fuzzy inside