Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use those “wokism tiers” that you usually see from bigoted idiots to check out new games that I’ll probably like

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is literally how I discovered Signalis.

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  • Goatboy@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You have to be way down the rabbit hole to think Signalis is too woke. Nothing it does would have been out of place in '02 or so.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on where the curator draws the line, and you can’t apply sane criteria to what they consider “too woke”. Sometimes a game is put on a woke list because it has a female lead, or a physically strong female character, or non-heteronormative character dynamics, or people of color are present in it… I’ve seen one that was marked as woke because it referenced climate change. I think it was some popular shooter or something.

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      • Goatboy@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Some are more consistent than others.
        Once you start making lists of games to avoid based on thematics, though, you’ve already taken a step to cuckoo land.

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• Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I occasionally go through the lists posted by chud curators for small indie titles that would have escaped my notice. I don’t have time to scrutinize every title on Steam, but these guys seemingly have infinite time to ensure every unheard of title with a case of LGBTQ+ representation gets criticism from them. Ironically, they’re fantastic for finding small, progressive passion projects I would have otherwise missed.

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  • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They probably have infinite time because seemingly everything is too woke for these fucks.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree with that, but negative reviews also affect the algorithm. If enough of those reviews drown out positive ones it will reduce the chance you see the game at all.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not as much as you’d think. I get recommended games that are negative way to often. What matters most is people who play the same games you do playing it. People who play city builders will get recommended a new city builder even if its review is overwhelmingly negative.

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• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you know that you explicitly disagree with somebody on certain aspects, their opinion will be just as useful to you as if you liked exactly what they like.

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why I always look at negative reviews. I often come across “downsides” that aren’t downsides to me, or outright appealing.

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a big list of “woke games” that would be a great source for finding new games to play, if it didn’t include almost every game ever made making it meaningless.

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