I want to add it to my everyday vocabulary somehow

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        “I don’t know why therapy is a real thing. Every time I go for an “inkblot” test, they just show me pictures of my parents fucking for hours at a time, and I think that’s NOT cool. Anyway, here’s why this video game is woke and I hate it…”

        I can’t prove it, but I guarantee this is an accurate dramatization of real events.

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      It really is. The thinking really seems to go like this. In conclusion it’s woke. Now let’s have a look at it and see the why and how…

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      Reminds me of this nonsense I saw recently. The context is the Mega Man devs saying they’re adding more variety to boss designs in the upcoming game (first one revealed is named “Twinkle Girl”) and that female heroes are common now:

      text in image

      The design is not the greatest. But I never thought of the Robot Masters as sex coded (I do now, thanks Capcom and moderm humans) but I always thought of them as humanoid robots of things eg Man=Human-Android not Man = adult human male.

      As for popularity and special places in hearts and such… Yeah I can predict that kind of marketing outcome. Capcom staff/marketing team are coming from a fundamentally different place than social media illustrators I can guarantee you that. That said this kind of marketing and signaling is NOT going to produce demographic growth, it just invites the kind of audiences niche struggling franchises should avoid. You heard it from me now, if/when it happens don’t shoot the messenger.

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        That is an awful lot of words for them to just say “go woke, go broke”. I’d say the 99% of humanity who don’t have an aneurysm when they see wamens in video games are probably a good demographic to target.

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        I never thought of robot Masters as sex coded

        They literally all have the word “man” in their name, except for Splash Woman.

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    [Rockstar artists’ office, summer, daytime]

    “hey could you make the artwork for the trailer look more like a cucking ritual?”

    “a what?”

    “a cucking ritual. you know, give her a red mask, make it seem like she could have been driving, tucking the guy’s gun in his pants, a cucking ritual”

    jesse-wtf

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    Notice the title? VI? It’s code for the words “Vagina” and “I” - that’s right - the word for the self, the user, the gamer. This is about forced feminization of the gamer.

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      If heterosex is gay, then I must imagine doing any kind of sex is the ultimate in being cucked

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      It honestly doesn’t matter. The entire right wing could call this game woke, soy, etc., and it wouldn’t matter in the slightest.

      GTA 6 is going to be the single biggest launch of a game ever. It will basically sell like 20 million copies in 24 hours or something like that. (Im only halfjoking.)

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    I genuinely do not understand why so many of my fellow straight men have decided that a woman being a badass isn’t hot. Like imagine if Buffy or Xena or even fucking Red Sonja came out for the first time in the modern media climate. Any way you slice it the gta woman was still made with the male gaze in mind, she’s got a belly shirt showing off an hourglass figure and booty shorts!

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      I’m a genderfluid butch. Since coming out it’s so fucking weird how people treat me because of the dominant fragile culture.

      -I’ll have people double check if its okay for me to touch a ‘cute’ thing.

      -someone said “oh that’s right, it must make you feel more masculine to carry groceries” when I offered to take them from someone because the person was complaining earlier that their body was sore. And I was in better health at the time.

      -give me weird looks when I gush over something cute or get excited.

      Its like, I do not prescribe to toxic masculinity and work very hard to weed it out. I do not want that miserable life. Why are you trying to put that on me. Stop it!!

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        yeah people get upset on your behalf, super uncomfortable. its funny because its something they themselves are imposing on you and getting upset about

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    I think calling colours “feminine” and “masculine” is complete bullshit, but according to that bullshit, red is one of the most feminine colours…

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      peterson-pill-dinner

      jbp red is the color of Mars, the color of war, the color of blood, which is masculine

      peterson-pain but blood is also a symbol of menstruation, which is feminine

      peterson-red and the commies! The damn commies and their red flags! They’re super red-hot and confident, willing to fight for what they believe in, which is masculine, but for feminine reasons. And women, they wear makeup to give the illusion of sexual desire because flushed cheeks are a biological indicator of sexual arousal, so wearing makeup is intentional deception, but also why don’t women wear makeup anymo—

      family-guy-death-pose

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    If dudes don’t have a big roid vein on their forehead and a massive dick bulge they’re not masculine enough.

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    IDGaF about GTA 6 because I know for a fact that Bugstar will release an overpriced buggy mess filled with micro-transactions. But just to make those frotting chuds mald more I might buy the game.