palestinians asked people to boycott for several years in a row and nobody listened
this actually has been upsetting me so much since 2019 bc even people who could normally be counted on to show up for palestinians couldn’t bring themselves to boycott this mediocre (and lowkey euro nationalist) talent show. “can’t even boycott chick fil a” kind of atmosphere
The Overwatch Diversity Index thing is so funny to me bc I feel like Alan Grant seeing dinosaurs roam for the first time, I’m like “How can you exist, you were supposed to die years ago…”
It feels like an artifact that was transported to the present from the mid 2010s when people did act like diversity was quantifiable. Like God of course you soulless weirdos would have this bizarre setup where you funnel points into Ethnicity like you’re allocating points into DnD attributes or some shit, and God only knows how many people in 2016 would have seen that and been like “Wow this is a great tool to help you diversify your characters!”
(I mean I’m sure there are still people like that now but I like to imagine that for the most part people have grown tired of that kind of shit and largely demand higher quality rep)
You know what it is, this is just those 4chan Privilege Quizzes only instead of mocking minorities it’s saying “Actually this is GOOD, please don’t ask us to tell you how we came up with the numbers for the Ethnicity Scale”
Okay I’m sorry I have to know more about what kind of fuckin race science is being employed to quantify this shit. Why is “Arab” a 7? What is above and below that. What about Culture? How many options did you even list and what were the parameters for quantifying THAT? Do they go into negative values, say if you’re rich? What the fuck is Cognitive Ability and once more, what phrenology ass pseudoscience was employed to quantify this. I must know
I went DEEP into this and found like the dev talking about it and God it’s such a good idea IN CONCEPT if they just made markers that get numbers based on how many of an identity you’ve included in your game (like 2 CIS 2 HET 1 WHITE 3 MEN kind of thing) but instead they deciding to QUANTIFY IT INSTEAD
The result is the torbjorn is more OLD than Lucio is BLACK. And torbjorn is more DISABLED than zarya is RUSSIAN. And Zenyatta is equally attractive as mercy and Moira is more Cisgender than Lucio and it’s like WHAT ARE YOU SAYING WHAT IS THIS
Oh also the head dev of the project is a white rich woman who loves Elon Musk and the NBA
This explains a lot, but also I wish there was a way for you to have heard the noise I made when I read “Torbjorn is more old than Lucio is Black”. This is so bad!!! This is so bad!!!!!!!
I need yall to also see Winston’s cause it’s making me lose my mind
The blizzard diversity thing is the funniest thing in the world. Blizzard can’t go a month without a PR disaster and not only did they think they could use data analysis to make a character the right amount of diverse, and not only did this concept get pitched and approved and actually developed, but then they somehow got the idea that this would be a good idea to post publicly. Blizzard has had many many complaints about the way they handled how diverse their characters were and they thought that after everything, all the PR disasters and allegations that they should post their fucking diversity chart publicly
should we also mention that by their metric, torb has more diversity points than lucio?
being a horror fan that experiences panic inducing paranoia fucking sucks like ill just be like wow i cant wait to go watch scary shadow creature video number 74 and then spend the rest of the night clutching my phone with the flashlight on and playing five nights at freddys 4 in real life
like im aware that watching horror stuff at like 3am is going to make me think that slenderman is in my kitchen but also im a dumb bitch who sees scary video thinks yay i love scary video :) and immediately watches it
Fascinated by what the draws you people to horror content
i like when theres some kind of creature or perhaps a guy
