With @King_Games' innovative Diversity Space Tool, the character design process now has a tangible way of avoiding tokenism, stereotypes, and exclusion.
— Activision Blizzard (@ATVI_AB) May 12, 2022
Learn more about this new system on our Newsroom: https://t.co/MYRAv7KigQ
Every attribute is given a score from 1-10.
Reactions range from annoyed to mainly just baffled as Activision Blizzard once again stick their foot in it
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Chad gamedevs being radical centrist and pissing off both sides
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Oh my God, he even has 5 on gender identity
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based programmer autist creating a completely useless 'enterprise' tool that companies will pay shitloads for just so they don't look out of touch
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That is impressively creatively bankrupt
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>the person in the replies talking out her butt about the how the tool's okay because she "spent years in research" the "research and methodology" (which isn't even described) is sound
>later talks about how diversity should be "implemented in a dual objective and subjective method"
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It turns out that "Black Feminist Scholarship" is based around anecdotes over facts as an explicit core value. Realizing that incredibly smart people are literally incapabke of seeing the problem is one of the leadups to me getting an autism diagnosis, but now I feel like I'm forcing myself not to schizopost irl at all times. Apparently the "Believe Science" crowd has just done a complete end run around an empirical epistemology, so Science unironically means "whatever i say goes, and you losers who didnโt go into academia have no say".
Anyway post a link to the person you're talking about.
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When it comes to something like overwatch a lot of these points actually make sense from a character design perspective. You want distinct silhouettes (body type/race) distinct voices (culture=accent) and in general a lot of thing which would affect appearance are good.
Its just the orientation/gender thats bizarre
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It's strange that Ana scores so high on gender too. She's cis.
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Cis foid bodies objectively contain more gender juice than cis moid bodies.
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Socioeconomic background lmao
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lol, basketballs forever being stuck as the "ethnic" category
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/r/drama in a nutshell.
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I fricking hate the middle class.
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nig people here seem to have been in absolute poverty growing up
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Lmao poorcels
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Can we do this for real life too?
Commodify and model identity by some numerical metric so that my neurodivergent brain can objectively measure how much social capital I have according to American radlibs.
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Hey, why are all the Jewish characters 1 SD above on Cognitive Ability?
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Only Activision Blizzard could have united all sides.
Everywhere i checked, everyone hates this
Congrats Activision you solved Goobergate
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Bruh Blacks aint gonna buy your video games, thats whiteshit
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They're doing this for the crackas and mayo adjacent ethnics, though AFAIK black people in the US are proportionally most LGBT out of all races as well.
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Wh... what about Tekken, Smash Bros, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai?
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the only Blacks that play those are bleached
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And those are the worst kinds of people
Racism is no more
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It actually bums me out that there aren't enough white guys in Overwatch. New character coming out is a black canadian foid
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Vanilla male could be a great new slur
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TF2 is literally nothing but generic russian, generic medic, generic man with gun, generic sniper, generic engineer and thats the only good hero shooter
The only characters that veer into interesting archetypes are soldier, - because of the bucket helmet - spy, pyro and demoman because hes the black scottish cyclops but even then he kinda fits into an archetype anyway. Just because hes black doesnt mean hes not generically scottish
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Hes drunk, wears a skirt, his mother hates him and he murders people. Hes both generically scottish AND generically black
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is that irl william wallace?
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vanilla gorilla
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I hope Nintendo makes Mario queer and Latinx in the next major release
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Mario is an Italian king.
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An italian little king
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Until he eats a Tha mushrooms.
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Skinny should give points for body diversity. Fatties outnumber us.
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"What does it say about xir's diversity score?"
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Oh ok.
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Finally some representation for old bastards
, , train, troid, TIM, Ellen Page, Steve Akins
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this is what happens when you let a very loud minority of people berate you in to changing your vision/product/art/whatever. they've brought this on themselves with their ridiculous "you have to put every race and gender and orientation in to your thing or you are nothing but a sexist racist bigot nazi chud!".
like recently how they were throwing huge hissy fits about that vikings movie being white people. THIS is what they wanted. they don't now get to say this is bad!
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manly chicks no longer fail at being feminine, they succeed at questioning gender identity, apparently granting them more in that category. yeah, everyone succeeds!
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Leave it to an autist to quantify this r-slur shit and create a matrix for it. Just make good game mechanics and tell good stories. Nincompoops.
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These are actually character attributes for their upcoming Overwatch cRPG.
Fighters with high Race do extra damage to buildings.
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no, no, no. I want to see winston's diversity chart.
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This is Blizzard we're talking about.
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They donโt like it because it brings the absurdity of
Burger IDPol into focus, despite it being something that does exactly what all of them were clamoring for in the first place
โNo, itโs way too cringe! Why not just LISTEN TO PEOPLE!โ
Have you ever considered itโs because most peoples opinions are trash? The tool provides some kind of metrics to at least measure their ridiculous task by.
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Same vibe as resetera seething over Cyberpunk for... adding a trans character in background art.
Seeing the banal reality of corporate-manufactured social trends shatters the illusion they've built their personalities around. Imagine viewing yourself as a plucky rebel fighting the system, only to realise you are the system.
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Doesnt the tool literally just listen to people anyway
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You must be able to find the clit (male) instantly
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I have 100 time orientation (2 weeks)
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Boy am I glad Sal is grassed.
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If only ww2 generals know what would become of their kidsโฆ
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einstein should have stayed in germany and given hitler the nuclear bomb. we would have had ubermensch by now.
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More likely the whole globe will be a third world country shithole with some tards orgying to death in the Fรผhrer sexbunker in Berlin
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Every single man that was mowed down on beaches of Normandy would be considered a fascist today.
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And thats a good thing!
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It's their fault for kittying out on Operation Unthinkable
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