#12805539, By Huggybear Cyberpunk 2077 - CDProjectRed and Mike Pondsmith - Sandbox Cyberpunk

Huggybear 8 Dec 2020 08:53:45 1,807 posts
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Your-Mother wrote:
I liked the Polygon review. It highlighted that some of the progressive stuff is just surface and mostly shallow tokenism. Like, yeah, you can make yourself properly transgender ftm/mtf, but it’s meaningless in-game even on a cosmetic level, and potentially problematic in some areas (like your pronouns being tied to whether your voice is feminine or masculine, sex scenes suggesting the character is cis, borderline racist stereotypes with only vague flavortext hints of subversion). Checkbox representation, basically, and it seems like they might as well have not bothered.

Nothing can possibly ever be woke enough for everyone, so it's probably best to not even try?

Which, incidentally, is why attitudes change very slowly or not at all. Small steps not good enough, giant leaps unrealistic.

Hillary Clinton not progressive enough for you? Here's four years of Trump and Pence instead, please enjoy.