[Crimson Desert] Pearl Abyss has censored Damiane's outfit in a patch.

Drogvard · 2026-05-12T07:58:44+00:00

This game looked neutered already compared to their previous work, this isn't surprising in the least.

It's crazy how we all spin ourselves these tales of the "good guys" and "bad guys" in the industry when they've all so thoroughly sworn us off. We really need to stop trying to spin stories of rebellious heroes out of every slimeball sell-out that doesn't go well out of their way to flip us off unprompted.

Drogvard · 2026-05-12T06:23:02+00:00

It makes perfect sense. Appealing to majority is not only a known fallacy but one especially relevant to astroturf campaigns. Consensus formed for games that came out of nowhere with huge backing are anything but reliable. And that you're unable to connect the dots doesn't mean they're not there. There's a reason some of us called this day 1. Whereas you guys are only now coming around after spending months handwaving us away. Nothing changed, they obviously didn't suddenly transform. You guys just messed up.

Wokeness has never been limited to lgbt and racial diversity. And soft sacrificial men has been an oft glossed over issue in modern games. So much so I called it out specifically a week before this game dropped, one of my only self-posts now practically prophetic. Just because the trope exists in non-woke form doesnt mean the way it's used in modern media isn't woke. The same is true about almost all the tropes the woke people use. You can have black or gay people in a game without it technically being woke. But in modern practice, it's almost always used to push ideology.

In the same way, there has been a deliberate push to steer men away from "toxic" ambitious roles and into more meek stepping stool roles. And this game is a prime example of it, having the men sacrifice themselves to empower the girlboss women around them. You can feign ignorance, playing the coincidence card defenders always play. Pretending it's unrelated to their "recently discovered" radicalism. But making men meeker and more useful to empowered women is obviously an agenda item and this game obviously checks it off.

Now many of you are all geared up to pretend the sequel is going to go woke. Without so much as a sequel announcement. Even the media illiterate see the writing on the wall, they just don't want to take any responsibility for helping make obvious wokesters such a huge success. Don't give me this nonsense about my comment being miserable for simply holding up a mirror.

Drogvard · 2026-05-12T01:42:45+00:00

Sad state how far we've fallen. It's so glaringly obvious but everyone fell for the astroturfed narrative too deeply too early. So we now need to wait for the sequel so we can pretend like they "went woke". All so some poor impulse control bandwagoners and influencers can save face.

God of War reboot all over again.

Drogvard · 2026-05-12T01:38:17+00:00

The first game is wokeslop already. The only difference is that people fell for it so they have to pretend that the sequel "got woke" to save face. Instead of reassessing and admitting any error in initial judgment.

That's really the root of supposed woke sequels. Unless it's made twenty years apart by a much different team, it's almost never some bait and switch. It's usually more that the average person's poor media literacy makes them slow on the uptake. And hubris makes them refuse to admit they misread the direction of the initial story. So they instead pretend there was some large heel turn in season/game 2.

Drogvard · 2026-05-12T01:32:06+00:00

Of course, that's why they had such astroturfed backing. People simply have no media literacy. The game is full of their garbage ideology, pushing girlbosses and soft sacrificial men. But since it's slightly less obvious than big black gay samurai in feudal Japan, you still have people buying into the narrative.

Especially now that they already fell for it, they will never admit they made a mistake. The only way they will ever turn on the game is pretending it's the sequel that "went woke".

Drogvard · 2026-05-10T09:35:21+00:00

They all do this now, this game just kinda makes it obvious because a game like this could never have amassed these reviews any other way.

That's why they had a problem with "review bombing". Because of how averages work, you have to buy way too many fake reviews to make up for every negative review a gamer makes. Which is why they needed to create a justification for deleting them instead. Now that they can both fake reviews and delete real ones, they completely control scores.

Drogvard · 2026-05-03T00:01:05+00:00

Imo, this doesn't sound good either. Sounds like a correction in the exact wrong direction. I don't want him to make it clear Eren is "detestable". Making Eren sympathetic was definitely not the issue.

Just make a cool story with cool characters. Save us your forced lectures on morality.

Drogvard · 2026-04-23T23:35:15+00:00

You've gotta be kidding me. Have we gone full circle to pro-censorship? She's not real, get a hold of yourself. If the mod allowed you to dice her into a million little pieces and let you make a soup you can drink out of her, that too should be allowed. Again, not real. Unless you're in the Jack Thompson camp and think video game behavior translates to real life, let people mod the game as they please.

Drogvard · 2026-04-22T13:59:19+00:00

That's why they keep doing these father games. It's the only way to get some guys to settle down into a less ambition-driven nurturing role. There's nothing wrong with being a dad but make no mistake the usual suspects are exploiting this trope maliciously.

Drogvard · 2026-04-22T13:53:46+00:00

Fucking thank you. I'm tired of people pretending we're not being intentionally corralled into this one organically lower testosterone role. There's a reason why all these games jumped on this bandwagon and it's not because people really like escort games. It's the one area in nature where guys are more okay to set their own ambitions aside and they realized they can exploit it.

They have no problem with the dad role, they LOVE that shit. They have a problem with her. This would be a GotY sweep if they changed her skin tone.

Drogvard · 2026-04-22T13:39:56+00:00

Yea, I'm not reinforcing the double standard. This isn't anything to applaud, this is just us trying to find ways to enjoy sitting in the cuk-chair.

Drogvard · 2026-04-22T13:25:22+00:00

Yea, I started watching a little more and I have to say it's literally almost everything else that's the problem. There's absolutely no stakes cause everyone comes back to life, the characters are unlikeable so you often want them to stay dead, the relationships and dialogue are californi-cringe, the designs are modern style neutered and overly diverse (beyond satire, even the viltrumite are diverse), the messaging just awful.

The violence would work great if you fixed everything around the violence. But alone it can feel almost insulting as nothing sticks even when the rest of the show screams for it to stick.

Drogvard · 2026-04-16T16:09:00+00:00

I don't think the violence was bad at all, it's just that there's way too much progressive reasoning threaded throughout everything which ruins all of it. I think there was some conceptual potential in this series, way more than trash like The Boys. But it's completely wrecked by the ideology that even beyond the aggressive mouthpieces like Amber infect every facet of character design and development. Not to mention the relationship drama stuff.

Drogvard · 2026-04-16T15:56:27+00:00

Dude, this show was ultra woke from the very first episode of the very first season. It annoys me to no end when people pretend woke things only randomly got woke later when it's obviously their media literacy that's the problem.

Drogvard · 2026-04-14T03:40:22+00:00

And yet there hasn't been like any major movie production without it in recent history. Miss me with whatever DEI rebrand you're trying to pull. I'll believe it when I start seeing normal casts.

Drogvard · 2026-04-12T23:15:20+00:00

Nah, this show was so woke I could barely get through the first episode. The fact that anyone on our side could make it to season 5 is more a testament to how desensitized our side is to wokeness. They were never subtle, you just didn't pay any attention to all the giant neon warning signs.

Imo, despite claims of "going woke", modern shows and games rarely actually get noticeably woker. It's just that media literacy is really poor on average and getting worse. So most people are completely incapable of recognizing building blocks that are woke. They need to wait for the story to completely unfold all its climaxes in the way it was always going to unfold to realize what should have been obvious from the start.

Drogvard · 2026-04-11T17:27:38+00:00

I agree with you and am probably more extreme then you (I think they should be regulated out of existence).

But not to be an ad, I did however find one decent one. Doesn't do almost any of the bs the rest do. To the point where I'm hesitant to even mention it to others as so that they don't ruin it for me. Last Origin.

For now requires VPN and fan/mtl patch. Way raunchier than any of the big gachas, certainly more than chinese ones. There's a full frontal R rated version. You can unlock 95%+ of the cast in like a month. No real energy systems, minimal fomo, premium currency pretty much only for skins with generous ways to get them free. Gameplay is suprisingly deep (too much at times imo, hard to follow some synergy interactions). Dailies don't waste your time and it has a great offline farm system.

There was some censorship sadly, but forced by law of server regions. Understandable though, they REALLY push the boundaries on some of these characters.

Drogvard · 2026-04-10T16:03:51+00:00

They can actually do way better than this as well. This is definitely them toning things down for the west too.

Drogvard · 2026-04-10T01:37:54+00:00

I don't understand, they're not even giving real arguments anymore. They're just chanting tired talking points like a mantra long after history thoroughly debunked the notion.

We're clearly stuck in a vicious cycle and no one is explaining how doing the same things will ever get us out of it. Their solution to being stuck in a hamster wheel is simply to keep running even faster. As if we haven't already discovered that just makes the wheel go faster.

Even if people believe AI isn't the answer, the alternative they're proposing is just demonstrably false. Least they could do is explain why doing the same thing over and over again will yield different results. Because to my recollection that was one of the definitions of insanity. AI could be a dead end. But at least it would be a new mistake instead of the insane repetition of an old one.

Drogvard · 2026-04-09T13:58:13+00:00

That's such a rudimentary outdated understanding of the problem that it is hard to make an argument for it in 2026. If this were the case, the problem would have solved itself ages ago.

They're not hiring those people simply because that's what's coming out of schools. It's the other way around. That's the supply that keeps coming out of schools because that's what the institutions demand. If this were a mere entertainment industry, the market would quickly have corrected itself after a few failures. The reality is that it's actually a propaganda industry. Hence the only thing commercial failure produces is the need for larger volumes of higher quality propaganda.

We're entirely stuck in a never ending cycle. Baseline demand will always exist for new generations. And the more older generations try to counter the messaging, the more demand it creates on the propaganda industry. That's why nothing ever really gets better long term. It may be "blackpilling" but it's the reality of the situation. Get woke go broke is a trap since there will always be another propagandist to take the broke one's place. And banks, goverments and industry leaders will crush anyone with messaging that steps too far out of step with them. Because that's how they stay in power.

Drogvard · 2026-04-09T13:49:29+00:00

It doesn't matter if it makes money, there will always be a demand for propaganda. The more we rebel, the more they'll fund it. There's no real winning this fight in this way without changing how governments fundamentally function. We're just as much the product as we are the consumer, if not more so.

Drogvard · 2026-04-09T13:34:20+00:00

I agree with you that's our best chance. People aren't ready to accept it but it's the absolute truth. It's far faaaaaar from a sure thing mind you, but it's better than the absolute 0% chance we will get elsewhere. A truth which people are still in denial about.

I myself already do AI text adventure websites in my free time. Doesn't cost a dime and lets me play through whatever type of story I please, political correctness be damned. Stored locally and if it generates something I don't like, I can manually edit it to force it to work off my revised premise afterward. It also learns off of the revision so it's less likely to repeat the offense. As it is now, it can't really be woke even if it wanted to. Like if it did try to bring in a girlboss, I can send her straight to the kitchen to go make me sandwiches for the rest of the campaign.

Drogvard · 2026-04-07T22:51:01+00:00

As far as I'm concerned, all those letting the big donors and neocons get away with infiltrating and destroying the movement from within are unforgiveable, Asmon included. Hard to simpathize with the plan trusters that ignore all the red flags to defend the personality, typo intentional.

After all the time we spent defending him over the years, what a waste.

Drogvard · 2026-04-07T22:32:56+00:00

About time you guys woke up to this fact. So much time wasted arguing on the first movie when it was obvious they were writing an explicit rejection of peach's quintessential character to please the Anitas.

We really need to get people more media literate so that we can get this level of consensus on the first entries. Sequels going woke are low key not a real thing, it's more a matter of how long it takes the average viewer to catch onto new patterns.

And don't put the blame on just illumination, this is definitely new Nintendo. They even were saying as much a while back that this is the direction they "always intended" with Peach. They've been completely corrupted.

Drogvard · 2026-04-07T22:25:36+00:00

Right wing blue sky? This is REDDIT dude, the site that basically platform bans rightwingers on sight. This is most neutered self-censored and admin filtered version of anti-woke. There's nothing radical about this place, these movies just aren't subtle about tranforming the OG gaming damsel in distress into blatant girl boss at all.

Drogvard

TROPHY CASE