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If Bethesda released Skyrim today, they would have made it woke

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Specifying a ‘racist conservative’ is redundant.

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    • cadekat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We just got the Canadian Future Party, and even though I’m pretty left leaning (both financially and socially), it gives me some faith for conservatives here.

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    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It absolutily isn’t. Get your head out of the sand.

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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No point fighting. Just remember its the same people that don’t understand a scholarship only for “people of color” is by definition racist. If a “white people” only scholarship is racist so is the one for people of color.

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    • sunbunman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ubisoft has proven otherwise

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  • Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Small corrdction but pelinal was a time traveling cyborg, but being gay is close

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    • falcunculus@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      According to MK, he was written to be gay, but higher-ups had him make his relationship with Huna ambiguous.

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      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Huna dies at the hands of the Ayleids Pelinal goes on what is arguably the greatest slaughter ever perpetrated by one single being in the full history of the gd universe, culminating in not just the overthrow but freaking extinction of the Ayleid race

        “They were just good friends”

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  • omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What about a politician who sexually harasses an employee and making that employee read their erotic interspecies fan fiction.

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    • MellowSnow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hey, don’t talk shit about The Lusty Argonian Maid, it’s a classic!

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Aye, I could do that.

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    • Tehgingey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Hey kid, ya wanna be Hortator?” - Harvey Weinstein voice

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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If buy that

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    • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But how many times and on how many platforms?

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      • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        All of them

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Todd Howard wants to know your location

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  • alienanimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Somebody has been hitting the moon sugar a little too hard.

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have stock if you have coin…

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Morrowind is a basically the thesis of Things Fall Apart in video game form, with a good deal of Dune. It’s an examination of colonialism. Every detail of that game is dripping with politics. The Dunmer are racist and engage in horrific chattel slavery - but does that mean it is right for the Empire to colonize them and take their resources? There’s substantial evidence that your character is a spook sent to “fulfill” an indigenous prophecy to tighten the Empire’s control.

    There’s also a hermaphrodite male presenting god who has had hundreds of children with something quite close to the Devil.

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    • brognak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is literally the first time I have seen Things Fall Apart mentioned since high school, 20yrs ago.

      Good book, kinda got ruined by the typical over analysation of a HS English class though.

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  • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Isn’t all Daedric Prince genderless? They just assume the form they like, some are just a pile of tentacle.

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    • DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In a literal sense, yes. But they present themselves as male or female usually. So it’s still appropriate to refer to Boethia as “genderfluid” because they send to switch it up.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good, now make it gayer!

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let’s hear it for badly written caricatures of racists that are so over-the-top that they allow real racists to say to themselves “I’m not actually a racist, because I’m not extreme as this flimsy caricature of a racist, which is what racists are really like.”

    I hate the idea that we have to write more well-developed racists just to get racists to recognize that they’re, you know, fucking racist, but god damn it, it needs to happen. Skryim is just one of many offenders, video games alone are just one of many offenders as well. Really its the whole US media landscape that has nothing but flimsy, weak caricatures of racists. I personally think these weak caricatures are part and parcel to why it’s hard to get racists to have self-reflection because we’re not actually doing the hard work of writing realistic racist characters who don’t start so extreme. Becoming a virulently violent racist takes time and doesn’t happen overnight, and those events that lead to it fall under the umbrella of what’s often called “character development.”

    /end unrelated rant

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    • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Worth noting that whenever the subject comes up, people will defend the Stormcloaks, praising Ulfric’s fight for the province’s right to self-govern and-

      Wait.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “They would have made it woke” is the dumbest fuckin attitude to take, gtfo

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds like you gotta brush up on your elder scrolls lore my dude. You completely missed the joke that TES was always “woke”.

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      • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I suspected but you never know

        My bad

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  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bro, same for Star Trek

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dagoth Ur is woke as fuck and he will awaken all you sleepers.

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  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In RL Vivek is the racist one.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They all racist AF, except for Bosmer. They think everyone is equally tasty.

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I miss TrueSTL

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We can do better. TrueSTL had a lot of “joking” real racism IMO.

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      • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I remember there being jokes that seemed like they were drawing parallels between TES racism and IRL racism (like how the Dunmer like calling non-dunmer “N’wah”, which sounds suspiciously like “n-word” if you slur the words as you say them) or making fun of racism in the series. I don’t remember TrueSTL using jokes to actually make fun of IRL minorities though.

        I could be wrong, it’s been a while, but I don’t remember seeing anything that came off as being intentionally malicious. I will also concede, however, that there were definitely things that might come off that way to a passerby with no TES lore knowledge.

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  • FJW@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Even worse, imagine how woke the books of Karl May (not to be confused with Karl Marx) the most successful German author of all time that were originally published in book form in the 1890s [sic] would be if they came out today:

    The foreword to the main trilogy would be so spicy that no modern English translation would include it. Like: He would call out the genocide of the native Americans as such and explicitly assign the full guilt for the decline of their cultures to the whites.

    He would have the self-insert heroes telling people that the N-word that “Once they scrape you into the ground, your white-skinned body will become straight and exactly as much a stinking carcass as a negro corpse. You will admit that, and now have the goodness to list your other merits!”

    He would have trans coded characters being presented in an unambigously positive light.

    And so many more incredibly woke things, like trash talking Christians that don’t respect all other humans and do evil shit…

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  • butter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is the crusader gay?

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    • AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. Also a cyborg.

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      • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Legend. The Elf Slayer. Pelinal Whitestrake

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  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So like, are you saying the racists aren’t bad guys?

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    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No they didn’t?

      If I’m not getting whooshed from you playing the act:

      The joke is that everything in the meme is already in the established TES canon. But capital G Gamers™ (which I hate that those assholes made that word negative), being media illiterate and being “anti woke”, often don’t see what their loved games contain, even if they complain about those things.

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      • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Whoops I got woodshed

        I’ve never played Skyrim lol

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    By all modern shithead alt-righters, Skyrim is “ultra woke”: It promotes ultimate equality and the ability to be anything you want to be, and freely become someone else later.

    Or maaaaaybe people who use “woke” unironically just lack the brain capacity to comprehend even a game like Skyrim. 🤷

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