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nintendo has also started doing this which is the only reason i care

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anyway the goal of activision blizzard isn't to tell interesting stories or make good art but to produce highly-optimized fandom bait which manages to target as broad of an audience as possible with as little investment necessary from the relevant team, i just personally find it to be a repugnant approach to storytelling is all

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like this would only work IN THEORY if you then went and hired writers whose identities at least somewhat matched the identities you defined

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hand them over to your straight white male writing team to try to build something out of??

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activision blizzard's tool is horribly broken and simply will not work for its intended purpose because the way it attempts to model diversity (as a flat metrical unidirectional deviation from a norm) does not in any way actually model diversity

BUT EVEN IF IT WORKED, like, you have all these diverse characters, what do you do now?

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imagine, if you will, being able to create a diverse cast of characters with surgical precision, and then being utterly incapable of using them to tell a compelling story

what a literal representation of “centring whiteness”

20somethings really be like “i am not interested in dating women in their 30s” and then go listen to florence welch

the succeeding track is titled “Dream Girl Evil”

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Florence + the Machine released a new album and it has a song titled “Girls Against God”

the games literally do not make sense in the third person

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a lot of fans want a legend of zelda movie without understanding how absolutely horrible that would actually be

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what fans don't like to admit is that the legend of zelda tv show is accurate to link's character

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i have probably talked about cishet women authors as a group at some point relatively recently

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when is the last time i used the term cishet to like, describe a group of people

but i’d rather my art embrace human sexuality than erase it, personally

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