A few days ago, famed company Capcom released a new intellectual property game called Pragmata. The setting is on the moon, with Hugh, a spacefarer from Earth, along with an android who acts like a 6 year old girl called Diana. They must work together to fight an AI called ADUS, and then return to Earth.
The characters are very well writtern. The stoy is simple yet very emotional. Gameplay seems extremely fun and fast paced (I haven't played it - I just watched someone played it).
But the main drive of this game is how Hugh protects and cares for Diana, even though she has no relations with Hugh, who is single (i.e. not married, no kids). Hugh was an orphan and was adopted, so he does not believe the idea of a family has to be biological. Which means, if they take care of each other, they're family. Throughout the game Hugh became a father figure to Diana, thus a Nuclear family.
The Internet LOVED their interactions. Appropriately, they called it "Dad Simulator" and "Dad Space," a reference to another game "Dead Space" because of their similar settings. Fathers commented their nostalgia with their own kids, while non-parents want to start a family. One commented that it's according to Shizo Abe's plan (increasing birth rate). In one word, it is "wholesome."
It sold 1 million copies in 2 days, a sales success. Interestingly it took 6 years to develop, which bypassed COVID, the entire Biden Administration, along with prime ministers Suga, Kishida, and Ishiba. Capcom's rationale was to refine the gameplay, but I also think the political landscape plays a role also.
Something interesting happened. The woke influencers started whining and attacking the game VERY aggressively. Their immediate reaction when they see Diana are vile thoughts (think Cuties). The fact that both Hugh and Diana are White seemed to trigger them even more. These people said Capcom should've consulted with Western companies (i.e the woke ones like Sweet Baby Inc). The Internet rightfully called them out - their thoughts reveal more about them if they think the game is about PDFs and men shouldn't be fathers.
This game, along with another action game called Stellar Blade (which got attacked too), seem to mark a shift after all those woke games being shoved upon us for the past decade. We regular people are rejecting the woke games due to extreme fatigue and the influencers have overplayed their hand. Good days are certainly coming.
It's definitely a solid step. And a great game.
The biggest issue with the video games scene though, aren't the games.
It's the "journalism" around them. Every review has a dash of tds, or anti musk, or anti Saudi Arabia (which is now big owners in game and film companies). I can even tell when the article is written by a female from the first few sentences.
And when these dipshits post stories about the industry? Good God, bordering on Communist manifesto. Really really bad stuff.
It is a problem in open Source as well. Think: X-libre, the Unix/Linux new Display manager as a successor to X11.
It is interesting to note a couple of things:
1. Pushing Solutions: X11
X11 is the legacy display manager for UNIX/LINUX. The New versions of Debian, Red Hat/Fedora have pushed it. It is not ready. It is not ready after 17 years of development. But these solutions are pushed by a well funded group.
It is interesting to note that big IT companies actually have a large saying in the direction of Linux/Unix. (see seats at linuxfoundation).
To make matters worse, the nuclear coder for X11, noted that his improvements to the code were sabotaged, postponed or outright rejected or reversed. Why? Wayland. It had to be pushed. X11 was to die and not be maintained, made better, sleeker, more fitting for new solutions.
He finally came out and forked X11 and integrated all his solutions, creating XLibre. Of course, the liberal blue hair revenge did not wait very long. All his repositories, his work, his emailaddresses were simply deleted and his associations were ended.
Nasty people.
2. Best code vs Ideological Aligned Code.
A couple of years ago, their was a serious push to realize "inclusiveness" in coding. No, not the best code or merit is of import, but under the guise of trying to create safe-spaces via codes of conduct, what actually was happening, was serious good coders were pushed out in favor of ideological aligned coders.
It necessitates of course rolling releases. Or rather, rolling releases facilitates and hides mediocre or bad code. The other thing is, with Unix/Linux success comes envy. It is untouched profit potential for certain companies. They have a vested interest to make sure this garden of openness and voluntary cooperation, is pissed and pooped in, as it undermines the very foundation of UNIX/Linux.
Linus Thorvalds had to pull a 180 on this inclusiveness bullshit, even though he was against it
3. Client side restriction
Current hot debate is the age verification. Previously, I wrote that I wished them luck. Why? There is always somebody who forks the code and changes it.
So, what do these inclusiveness (imprisonment) ideologues come up with? DSA. The Digital Services Act. If you go into the reeds, you will find lofty words by all kinds of Rules Based International Order - organizations, where The Netherlands plays a very important role. Quietly, these organizations attempt to define rules to subject open source software to, who can disseminate them and in what way. Fact is that if open source does not support gatekeeper and control role, it is out of the question it can be used.
IF there comes a split, which is quite possible, then it would not be surprising if certain service providers (VPS) will demand or make impossible to host your own UNIX/LINUX version lest they approve it in advance. For your protection , of course. To make the world save for .....democracy (i.e. save for humans; Really?)
As Trump said: WOKE, everything goes to shit.
Good to see Capcom going the right way. A lot of new games coming out are getting less and less woke. Crimson desert has a deep "humility/kindness is true strength" vibe to it, along with the risks of unfettered power.
I would never have heard of this if not for the wokists screaming their pained gibberish and rage into the void like they were doused with holy water. Which all the more sane influencer cliques immediately started mocking.
Politics is downstream from culture indeed.