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by ResetEra for being chuddy in his DragonAge Veilguard reveiw 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-thread.1020987/page-8#post-130773738
https://www.pcmrace.com/2024/10/28/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-pc/
This is why he was banned. He made it a CON that they focused so hard gender on identiy (You can make your character non-binary or trans THIS IS TRUE ONG 
) ResetEra stans devolve into seething about 'nazi' game reviewers.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-thread.1676719/post-269735487
This CHUD starts gloating in Neogaf ( 
) for being banned.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-thread.1676719/post-269735777
!chuds banned the transphobia 
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That line is ridiculous. Why are devs so insistent to include this stuff. How is this relevant to a fantasy
world 
where 
you could just transform yourself 
with magic.
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!nooticers !g*mers you fricking know why this exists.
This has been a rumor for a long time but if I recall a recent game's devs confirmed it (was it Suicide Squad?)
Basically if your game company isn't very wealthy you can get an investor but only if you bend the knee to whatever politics they believe in.
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So there's no chuds successful enough to fund video games
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all the teachers' unions' pension funds add up to over a trillion dollars. and the people who decide where they invest that money are easily swayed by arguments like "this one saves more trans lives."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway#Ethical_council
It looks to me like the biggest fund of the world at least will only consider the "environment" and weapon/ slavery part of ESG + also tabacco
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This isn't some clandestine thing that's just a rumor. Private equity firms like Blackrock have implemented ESG scores, which are essentially credit scores that reflect a company's commitment to making "positive" social impacts, as well as environmental policies and internal governance. A company's ESG rating works essentially as a credit score, and having a poor one makes it a lot harder for companies to court investors. It's suggested that they're more high-risk and prone to controversy.
https://www.blackrock.com/us/financial-professionals/investments/products/sustainable
They've allegedly been moving away from this program over the last year or so. Maybe the roghtoids have thrown enough
tantrums that progressive politics are becoming equally volatile. Idk frick all about investing beyond my TFSA and ETFs though so maybe a more Semitic person can explain it.
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When Zuckerburf said he only wants to make money to fuel making great services, everyone knows that's a lie. Investors would have dumped Facebook immediately if they thought he was intentionally losing them money. When Exxon says they care about the environment, everyone knows that's lie to avoid getting regulated. Yet rightoids think that on DEI topics, institutional investors forego their corporate double speak and are completely sincere about the dire need for gay fanfic in video games
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It's because rightoids almost always explain things in terms of grand conspiracies where the goal of their most powerful enemies is just to spite them.
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Its somewhat true yes, i wonder if it has to do with individualism vs collectivism or plain old autism
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It's because these slop products never make any money. And a lot of blue hairs seem to be among their staffers. So rightoids start thinking that a lot of it is genuinely held ideology.
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This suddenly makes a lot of sense.
So most of the time, when chuds cry "go woke go broke" the products are doing fine and it's just cope. Disney made back their investment in Star Wars a long time ago. They milked Marvel for more money than anyone thought possible. 2024 is the first year in which rightoids have potentially been right when attributing failures to politics and it takes a long time for massive companies to shift direction
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they money listens and no matter how hard blackrock or anyone else tries to spin it DEI is poison to a company and product. It's just not working and never has. It will still take years for enough people to get the memo and stop trying to force this shit (ie losing money hand over fist until you just can't make excuses anymore)
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Is there a fund which offers an anti-ESG product? So I can focus my money on companies that are committed to making harmful environmental and social impacts? If ESG is scores are actually being used by people hoping to get a warm fuzzy feeling by investing in them, low ESG scoring companies are likely undervalued.
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Yes there is an ETF i think by some contrarian fund
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Consumers actually changing their behavior over one
beer can must have them thinking twice.
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Its not just private equity. Go to most brokers and it will offer you something they call "impact investing" and its investing in high esg companies that make an impact environmentally and socially. So there is a lot of money traded in that area.
They said they are moving away, but imo they will just do the corporate thing and rebrand it repack and resell it
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Yeah but if you mention ANY of this you get called a conspiracychud, so it might as well just be a "rumor" still.
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I'm very suprised people haven't realized what esg investing really is and why all these companies have Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street as the main investors
Game and media companies are typically not a super attractive investment since their profits fluctuate based on trends and if people like the art, story, gameplay and their employee talent which can have high turnover if you press them
so they replace their goal to beat profit year by year with esg and suddenly you have a set of huge companies buying 40% of your stock float and all they want is a checklist to be completed
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As soon as Gaben dies they'll just buy up Steam and start gate keeping from that end.
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Isn't his poised successor basically just like Gabe though?
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he is?
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I think?
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I wonder why Vanguard and Blackrock could possibly have large stakes in companies, must be an evil conspiracy by the Jews. There's no way that Bioware employees would ever add LGBTQ characters of their own volition
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Yeah for BioWare this shit is on brand. This is the only company I would argue that DEI wasn't even involved. The writing was on the wall for this company wayyyy wayyyyy back
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Ok twist my words cute twink
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Don't investment companies see the backlash (especially from the past year) tho? Or do they just intially invest
and the trains 
take it as far as they want?
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Success or failure only really matters to investors if the stock goes down because of it. If line keeps going up, it's not a problem. Sure, eventually enough failures in a row will tank even the most propped up stocks, but it takes a while.
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i think they kind of propel each other, lots of neurodivergent and nerd or outcast people in game dev, esg is rewarding social aspects like lgbt pride and anti racism, then they feel validated by corporate, they celebrate it and fight more for it, esg sees support and so on
But judging by last earnings the investment funds i mentioned made record profits again so what can i tell you
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They have essentially unlimited money already. They only invest so they can leverage that money into social change.
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This, these companies buy up all new real estate, I'm not joking. It's the only explanation I can think of why they think houses could sell for 790k in my rural county.
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US goverment is also all in on that stuff. Point where US diplomats might just talk about gay stuff to their forgein counterparts.
Its strange situation. But clearly pendulum is swinging other dircetion
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Black Myth Wukong had a bunch of game journos sneeding about it specifically because they turned down this money.
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Yes there is some ESG score strings attached for some money.
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Because the devs are
s, duh
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Because foids only know how to self-insert
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Everything circles back to the wheelchair d&d shit
The HP game had the same thing, they had a
witch but somehow with all that magic, they still couldn't change their voice to sound female.
It goes beyond gender shit though. Realistically nobody in these magical universes should be crippled, blind, deaf, etc., but they include them anyways.
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Might as well have a mighty sorcerer who is really into Apple products.
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Something something you can't accept a bmw with optional heated seating?
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BMW is trash, so honestly......it should be the car of
s.
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It's the car for lower class trash trying to flex their "wealth", at least where I live.
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ok but imagine if JKR was involved and she wrote a plotline about trannoids stealing women's hair to make polyjuice potions so they could live as skinwalker clones of them. would have been hilarious
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activism
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"Mmmyyy gendddeeerrrrr!!!" - a fat lesbian woman hoping to see another fat lesbian be lusted after every other vidya character. The only fantasy they want is a haram fantasy.
Sad stuff.
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Mood.
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Because it's personally important to them and there aren't really many reasons NOT to do it
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That is… shockingly bad
Least immersion breaking DEI insert
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Years of hiring practices that force include women and trains into decision making positions
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Why are devs so insistent to include this stuff.
because new dev team want to attract people likek themselves to buy the game
have you seen how much xirs are now in bioware
@catdog
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