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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 79 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Remember kids: Concord failed, because it woke. Not because it came late to the party to imitate the very successful non-woke and incredibly un-diverse game... *checks notes* Overwatch.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Um, ackchually, Overwatch is a gooner game, it has a lot of porn made after its characters!

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

And remember! The high price tag attached to Concord had no influence on it's success! People will gladly pay for stuff that is offered for free elsewhere!

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And remember that Elden Ring is not woke because trans allegory goes over their heads

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

The fascist movement that keeps referencing the Matrix as an allegory for their fascist uprising doesn't get trans allegories? I'm shocked!

Til Elden Ring is trans.

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Could you please explain this joke? I've seen it before but I don't realy get it.

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

IMO it's making fun of how there's no solid definition of "woke" at least from the right wing perspective. Ask a 100 tories what woke means and you'll get 100 different answers. It means whatever they want it to mean.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

There’s no hidden message or anything. The simplicity that causes it to make no sense is meant to communicate how dumb and basic all the anti-woke conservative BS is.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Which aspect? There is no specific hidden pun regarding the engine being woke. It's just saying that the guy is angry with it because it's broken.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

This graph doesn't make sense. How can you even more reach the bottom part?

EDIT: This is what I mean

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

I see your edit so I wanted to come back and explain again that woke isn't an endpoint, it's an end-loop. In the graph all things considered WOKE will continuously be checked again until it reaches Not Woke (if ever).

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago

once something is determined woke by the grift, it can only be the focus as long as it is the right level of popular for anyone to listen to the scam. something to beloved or obscure won't achieve the desired outrage

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your media either gets labeled as "gooner" or "not woke".

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 12 points 1 month ago

Or gets stuck in a loop

[–] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 month ago

I actually found that part clever. Things do actually get declared "woke" and then become popular enough that the grifters declare it unwoke.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Have Minorities, Don't Sexualize them, and then you automatically move into the recurring loop.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is false, they will continue to argue content with minorities is "woke" and "is gonna go broke" even if it is widely successful and makes makes millions.

They aren't well known for being logical or competent, many are extremely high on cope and they believe that because they wish the producer of such content will go broke that they actually will.

[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an illustration to what you're saying, I recently saw a quote of someone asking if the failure of Baldur's Gate 3 will convince other companies to quit making woke games. The FAILURE. Of. Baldur's. Gate. 3.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

I've also seen people collectively losing their shit in the Terraria Steam forums for the past few weeks because 1.4.5 will remove the ♂ and ♀ symbols from the character creator. Many of the people who are angry are claiming that Terraria "went woke" and it's "gonna go broke". It's only fairly recently started to die down, but I imagine it'll pick back up again when the update drops.

Yeah these people really are inecredibly delusional if they think games like Baldur's Gate 3 and Terraria are going broke.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was messing with my nephew, telling him that I only play woke games, and that his favorite game, Rimworld is woke af because the communities are communists.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago

Please stop, you're going too wild!

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Needs more Saddam Hussein, plz

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago

Babe, new Loss just dropped

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To be clear, Minorities can include demographics other than racial Minorities, such as gay women or others.

I am not disagreeing with the meme, merely expanding on the nuance of it.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah it doesn't matter how popular something is chanting "Go woke go broke" makes you look like an idiot

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Anyone using “woke” in their criticism can be disregarded. They don’t have any valuable insights of why the media they criticize is bad.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

help am go in circles pls help

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~It means 10% of most wealthy minority, right? Right?~~

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s woke not because of what’s in it, but why. It’s performative politics. Token ensemble casts. Empty signaling. It’s not meant to make the world a better place, it’s meant to make money. It’s like cheap pride merch at Walmart.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Only Republicans talked about virtual signalling and empty signalling because they can't fathom someone actually caring about others.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

It’s not meant to make the world a better place

That's not something humans seem to want to work together to do.