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[–] Goatboy@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to be way down the rabbit hole to think Signalis is too woke. Nothing it does would have been out of place in '02 or so.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Depends on where the curator draws the line, and you can't apply sane criteria to what they consider "too woke". Sometimes a game is put on a woke list because it has a female lead, or a physically strong female character, or non-heteronormative character dynamics, or people of color are present in it... I've seen one that was marked as woke because it referenced climate change and climate action. I think it was some popular shooter or something.

[–] Goatboy@lemmy.today -1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Some are more consistent than others.
Once you start making lists of games to avoid based on thematics, though, you've already taken a step to cuckoo land.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I disagree. Avoiding media because of certain themes is perfectly fine. I for example will not play games like Hatred or Nazi Games, no matter how good they could be. It's the kind of themes they try to avoid which show how scared they are of everybody around them.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

No wolfenstien?

[–] Goatboy@lemmy.today -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yet by not playing it, you're relying on somebody else's description of what's in it, which can be very misleading.

For example, the discourse around Horses.

Its fine not to like certain themes but obsessing over not seeing them to the point that you're making lists is not really healthy.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I can rely on plenty of people's description of Ayn Rand to know that I don't have to read any for myself.