re: Was enjoying the hell out of Spider-Man miles morales until….

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Representing or misrepresenting a political ideology is one thing. I mean, let's be real here, every post-apocalyptic game misrepresents capitalism as the cause of all the world's harms when the reality is that government intervention into capitalism is what creates dystopian results. I'm currently playing Cyberpunk, and it is a great example of this.

That is not the same as specifically mentioning an actual political group and supporting them.

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And if this were a completely different game universe, I might be inclined to agree. But this is a game with a young mixed race (half black, half hispanic) protagonist born in Brooklyn living in present day Harlem.

If we took a poll of young black kids in Harlem right now, how many do you think would have a favorable opinion of that mural being in their real life neighborhood? Does anyone actually think the favorable rating wouldn't be above 50%, and likely significantly above?

If someone isn't comfortable climbing into the shoes of that character, that's perfectly fine. But being upset that an utterly reasonable characterization conflicts with their personal political beliefs? That just strikes me as absurd.

Now, for the record, I do absolutely think that in game mural is pandering. And I would take no issue with people having that particular debate. But crying about it being an inappropriate injection of politics into a game? I'm just not buying that this is anything other than OP not wanting to be confronted with politics he doesn't agree with, which he's all but acknowledged in subsequent posts.

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It's a game, dude.

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Behold the prevailing attitude that continually allows the slide down the slope.

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Hollywood/entertainment media do not know how to create compelling black/diverse characters so they race swap or introduce lgbt traits to pre-existing characters. Cheap, lazy, but apparently profitable.

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Did you watch into the spidey-verse? I thought it was cool. and there have been so many different spider-men that i'm fine with 1 being black.

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a letter that says they're "happy to have a Spiderman who looks like us to protect us" or some other pandering nonsense like that because apparently Peter Parker only fought crimes in white neighborhoods and his legacy should be spit on, and even a BLM-inspired outfit that looks pretty cool but I'd never ever use because of the context. These are pretty game-ruining things for me.

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it just said happy to have spider-man as an ally

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it just said happy to have spider-man as an ally

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Okay. Same basic premise. "Ally" has a very specific meaning to BLM. I'd actually say the use of that specific word is more alarming than if they had said exactly what I said.

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you’re objecting to political statements you disagree with.

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you mean the lies blm push?

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you mean the lies blm push?

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I'm not having a political debate on the gaming board. You jackasses have already infiltrated the OT enough. If you want my input on a political issue, start a thread there. Or if you want your arse patted, start it on the PT.

Then by all means, if it's such a passionate topic, please tell me what you, or OP, are doing about the political statement in-game other than being mad and posting angry messages on TD gaming board?

Pissing and moaning here does absolutely nothing for the game or for future games.

there's so much more to be mad at in the world than this

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I don’t support a movement that is for one false statistically and does not support black lives. Name me one good thing the Black Lives Matter movement has done for black lives. I’ll hang up and listen.

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Joshjrn

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Why do y’all always skirt around these questions? I’ve never seen anyone answer this truthfully

I’m asking you, not the OT