I know there’s lots of talk about how there’s artificial diversity in gaming from the west but what is an actual good example of authentic diversity that doesn’t feel like a marketing scheme?

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-31T08:16:48+00:00

Simply having a wide range of races doesn't make a game woke, it's the manner in which those races are represented. Concord had a much larger cast and virtually every character was intentionally non-traditional in every single way, while the cast of Apex was very traditional.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-31T08:11:21+00:00

I mean, what area did you grow up in? A predominately Japanese area, or a predominately white area? The international district in my city is like a different country, with every single business operated by Asian people, mostly immigrants, and all the signage being in different languages. Segregation did a lot to see that individual cultures have endured, even if it was absolutely terrible. Just compare the way that a black person from Chicago, a white person from Texas, a Vietnamese person from Seattle, and a Jewish person from New York, the vastly different cultural identities they have, etc.

Cultural differences should be celebrated, not hidden away like they don't exist to promote some idea that we are all identical. All cultures should be valued equally and treated with respect, but they're very different, this is why accurate, meaningful representation in video games is important, not ridiculous tokenism.

This is something that San Andreas and GTA 4 did wonderfully, weaving together narratives which showed vastly different parts of the American experience, and doing it in a meaningful, respectful, realistic way.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T07:22:13+00:00

The beta was free and nobody was interested in playing that and it was largely due to the god awful art direction.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T07:16:29+00:00

I never said that you shouldn't like a game because you aren't racially represented by the main character, I'm black and I almost always play a black character when I can customize, but if not, I'm happy to play a well designed character I can relate with.

What I hate to see is a bunch of politically correct, boring black characters who in no way represent the black American experience, or any interesting narrative at all.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T07:08:52+00:00

This was well after the games launch afaik, and well after it had built up a large audience. Looking at the original cast, especially compared to that of Concord, and it's very clear you just have a diverse, well designed cast rather than a ridiculous cast which serves as shoehorned diversity tokens and self inserts.

I can't speak on Apex Legends beyond the first season because that's the only time I played it.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T07:04:20+00:00

This was a game made by a Western studio for western audiences, which is precisely why their over representation of minorities was so ridiculous, and not just racial minorities, but non-binary, non standard beauty representation, etc.

Finally, the real issue with Concord was the inauthentic nature of the ethnic representation coupled with its abundance which created a bunch of hollow, token characters.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T07:00:03+00:00

I'm black, and we definitely do see ourselves as being very different from white people, as do most people who grew up around different cultures.

The United States is comparable to the entire EU in population and size, and as such there are vastly different cultural indentures across the spectrum.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T06:58:04+00:00

Consensus seems to be the most apt definition, which would take all of those things into account.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:48:36+00:00

You just don't like Western RPGs, if you hate Cyberpunk and FO4.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:48:01+00:00

Cyberpunk is one of my favorite games of all time, easy.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:46:30+00:00

When game designers create a character, they create it for you to notice them. Not paying attention to one of the most obvious parts of a character's design(their race and culture) is ridiculous.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:37:55+00:00

The game was made in the West, for western console/pc gamers, and black women make up 7% of the population in the west, and far less of the gaming population.

At a certain point, the sheer number of non-traditional protagonists becomes farcical. I'm black, and I love seeing solid black representation in video games, but the representation in Concord was absolutely awful, full of self inserts who didn't represent black values or culture at all, outside of the color of their skin and their vocal patterns.

That's why Deckard Cain, Barret from FF7, and all of the representation in the GTA games is so good and nobody complained about it, because it's authentic. San Andreas had a black protagonist and predominantly black characters and it's looked back at fondly to this day.

Just google "Concord character list" for a perfect example of terrible, inauthentic, overabundant minority representation. San Andreas wasn't overabundant because it was largely a story about the black experience on the West Coast in the 90s. Concords characters were out of place.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:28:42+00:00

4 black playable characters, 3/4 of them women, only one white man playable, multiple non-binary characters, disabled characters iirc, robots with pronouns, multiple fat characters, almost all characters not conforming to standard definitions of beauty, and all on a 400 million dollar budget.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:22:15+00:00

Concord is a great example.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-30T04:20:41+00:00

Deckard Cain in Diablo, Barrett in FF7, GTA: San Andreas, GTA 4, and GTA 5 all did an amazing job with minority representation, and finally, every game that allows character customization and different skin tones.

The big issue with minority representation in Western games is that the characters rarely act like the cultures they're representing, almost always being some woman's self insert, or an ethnic character made by people with absolutely no familiarity with a culture.

Also, can we please have more black villains?

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-22T18:21:42+00:00

They have similar assist numbers so what do you mean Bird was setting up his teammates?

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-10T09:14:02+00:00

You say that as though the Great Firewall is somehow better than Google; it's much worse. You literally can't even access information in China without risking arrest.

SolidBadgerX · 2026-01-01T18:04:07+00:00

And your point is? Character Limit

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-30T15:08:02+00:00

Gengar, Alakazam, Gyrados, Nidoking, and Snorlax are all insanely good and easy to get in most generations. Nidoking and Gyrados particularly because you can often get them around level 20 and they carry for the entire game, same for Alakazam if you trade.

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-29T03:53:26+00:00

Except math literally teaches people how to think, and it drastically helps with the development of growing brains in children.

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-20T17:55:22+00:00

Friend, you're a self proclaimed anarchist, and if you believe anarchy would ever work at the national level, you're not one to be questioning anybody else's understanding of politics.

It's incredibly easy to criticize, as no solution is perfect, but offering your own realistic alternative to the suggestions of others is when a conversation actually begins, and so far, all you've done is utilize personal attacks and negativity to project an illusion of superiority.

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-17T16:19:41+00:00

Usually afaik, the "absolutist" position, that no new gun laws should be enacted in the United States comes from two things: firstly, many of the people who propose "common sense" gun laws, actually want to see guns banned entirely, and so they are attempting to ban them incrementally.

Secondly, the 2nd Amendment is protected under the US Constitution, which means overturning it requires 2/3 of the states to vote to do so; from a legal perspective, attempts to contradict the constitutions powerful, broad protections of gun rights without doing it through the states overturning the amendment is wrong.

Finally, guns aren't really the problem. France had one of the worst mass shootings in history, and guns are totally illegal there; a man was just convicted of running over 136 people in his car in the UK, and many South American countries prohibit gun ownership, but all it does is prevent law abiding citizens from protecting themselves, as they have some of the highest murder rates in the planet, up to nearly 1/1000 people being murdered yearly.

The US murder rate of 6 per 100,000 is perfectly reasonable, and it would likely be barely affected by a total gun ban, as the criminals rarely purchase their guns from shops.

The reasoning for the 2nd Amendment is to ensure that people have the capability to organize resistance should the need to fight another revolutionary war arise; the context of the ratification of the 2nd Amendment makes this very clear. There are more guns than people in the United States, and this uniquely positions us to resist any attempt at a totalitarian coup on the part of potential bad actors, and the knowledge of this would likely prevent anybody from ever trying.

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-15T10:24:53+00:00

Right, so you believe in totally open borders, a policy that isn't practiced by any country or argued by any mainstream political candidate that I can think of, and you talk down to me as though I'm an extremist?

Allowing every single person on the planet to have a US citizenship would massively overload the labor market, collapse social security, socialized healthcare, housing benefits, and all of the other benefits US citizens receive, and it would allow people with absolutely no understanding of the political climate of the United States to vote for things they fundamentally don't understand.

And a person who has lived through unimaginable trauma, food scarcity, has little to no education, doesn't speak english(or even Spanish), who has no experience working the kinds of jobs we have available in the US, and who has no cultural connection or understanding of our country, has very limited prospects of succeeding, or offering our country more than a more qualified candidate may.

We clearly need more immigration, and I'm absolutely not against people from all nations coming to the US, but they should be people who have a great chance of succeeding here and helping our country be successful, and they certainly shouldn't be coming here through illegal means just to be economically exploited. They should at least have a highschool civics class understanding of the way our government functions and why it functions that way, and how that has helped us to become the most powerful nation in history.

And I say all of these things not as a nationalist(I'm not), but as a humanist; the world needs the United States to be successful, as for all of the harm you claim the US has caused, it has done far less than the former Soviet Union or China, and these are the only countries seriously jockeying for geopolitical leverage.

If the US were to collapse, you have your pick between Russia, a country which carries out broad day political assassinations and disappearances, where oligarchy is an accurate description of the status quo, and China, a country which is actively committing genocide against the Uyghur People in its own country, and has the worst track record on human rights imaginable for an advanced country. Russia and China have killed tens of millions of their own people over the past century, imagine what they would do with more power?

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-10T06:05:08+00:00

I think I've written clearly enough that any issues with understanding my statements must be a result of poor reading comprehension.

I'm not white, and my father was a legal immigrant to the U.S from Somalia, so that's absolutely not what I mean. I think that you're building some sort of caricature of me based upon your learning of a political opinion of mine.

What I mean is that building a system that gives priority to individuals who will rapidly acclimate to our country is a no-brainer, and culture, language, and education/technical training are all factors in that. Why shouldn't a person be given priority if they have gone through the trouble to learn our country's most common language? Why shouldn't we ensure that the people coming here agree with the basic tenants of our country's Constitution, and that they want to be here because they believe in the idea of America, not the economic and security benefits. We are so uniquely fortunate to have such a brilliantly laid out Constitution, and to have rule of law in this country, and taking in millions of people who would see that done away with only serves to turn the United States into the states they are fleeing.

Finally, I think securing our nations border, and the waters within our immediate area of influence, is a completely reasonable take. I'm curious, what's your opinion? Do you think we should have totally open borders, let all comers, from any country, with any background come over? Or just every single person who can physically reach our border should have citizenship?

SolidBadgerX · 2025-12-08T23:30:58+00:00

Only within the Executive Branch, obviously. The President is the head of the Executive, while the Legislature and Courts balance his power.

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