This is a slightly off topic post, but one that I feel is tangentially related to Q and The Great Awakening.
Not sure how many gamers we have in The Great Awakening. I grew up with classics like Command & Conquer, and Red Alert. Over the years we've seen many phases in gaming culture. Among these have been both Gamer Gate 1.0 in the early 2010s, and more recently the Gamer Gate 2.0 which was kicked off when the discovery was made that there are woke consulting firms like Sweet Baby Inc who work in league with the woke journalists to pressure companies into compliance with their D.E.I agenda.
Well, gamers won a very big battle today. Evidently, Sony spent $250,000,000 and 8 years of development on their IP called "Concord." Search for pictures of this game and you will be met with some of the most bafflingly horrible character designs in entertainment history. They checked every D.E.I. box possible while managing to make every character look hideous and ugly. What did all those years of development and millions in cash net Sony? 700 peak concurrent players on Steam and a complete shut down and refund of the game only 11 days after launch.
For those who aren't aware, this type of failure is unheard of in the industry. There have been plenty of flops over the years, but never one of this magnitude that a major publisher like Sony was backing and then subsequently pulled the plug on only two weeks after launch.
For comparison, there is another game called Black Myth Wukong developed by a Chinese studio that came out around the same time. It featured the famous "Monkey King" from Journey to the West as the main protagonist. It was in development for 4 years with a budget of $57,000,000 (20% of what Sony spent) and grossed nearly a billion dollars in revenue.
This is a major sign of where the general public stands with the woke narrative. The mainstream media continues to gaslight everyone with stories of how the woke leftists are all up in the polls and super popular.
In the end, money talks.
The woke narrative is getting buried in all forms of media, be it gaming, movies, television, etc.
That is all. Now back to your regularly scheduled Q digs and research! 😁
Concord also very prominently displayed each character’s pronouns on the selection screen.
There’s another (somewhat smaller profile, but still worthy) failure too:
Dustborn, a game funded by foreign governments, in which you literally use words to hurt people, and learn skills like how to “cancel” your enemies, is also apparently in shambles with a tiny player base.
Not to mention Homeworld 3 having a garbage DEI story that’s been widely panned by everyone.
Of course, the mental gymnastics that gaming Reddit is going through to blame everything but DEI for the failure of these games is a spectacle to see. The HW3 subreddit was downvoting and banning people who blamed DEI, yet the overwhelming consensus was that the story was absolute trash written by amateurs. They just can’t quite put their finger on why it was so bad, but it was NOT because it was woke, of course.
They refuse to even acknowledge woke exists, lol.
Every time I’ve ever mentioned it, like clockwork I get hit with “What is that word even supposed to mean?????”