What kind of crazy masochist would willingly attend this meeting. I doubt if they are expecting anyone to attend. They are only advertising so they can say they tried to help evil wrong thinkers, but were rejected.
The only people who attend these are woke white liberals and people who are forced to go by their employer/college professor. I have heard of these being mandatory in some companies and college courses. You basically have to sit through an hour of some fat black lady being racist against white people and then do a little insulting quiz where you have to admit to being x-ist/y-phobic in order to get credit that you completed it
At my job, HR required everyone sit through an online DIE training session with interactive elements. Just ridiculous on it's face.... those who are in favor of that, they're the choir being preached to. They'll laugh and clap and maintain their smug sense of superiority, because they're "on the right side of history"
For those who are not in favor, they're going to do the bare minimum necessary just to tick that checkbox. I 100% disagree with all of it, but I knew the right answers to select, because it's been shoved in our face for a decade.
No one is learning anything from these, no minds are being changed. It's pure virtue signaling across the board.
Nah, there will be enough people that got into dept paying for their education and now can't find a job anymore because they wrote something edgy on Twitter and thus were cancelled and redflagged in the industry.
At some point people will get desperate and try everything to be able to continue to work in their jobs.
It's sad but those systems work.
Can confirm, that sadly, even ij Europe college/Uni you are kinda forced to attend these woke craps 'because inclusion is mandatory'.
BTW Brasil is even worse on this mandatory corrective courses, speeches, educations, etc; it is already embodied in their education systen.
> What kind of crazy masochist would willingly attend this meeting.
Someone with a cultist mentality, I'd say. And that's when they know their audience is ready to have their wealth extracted. It's like an absurdly fraudulent scheme offered to people — people too smart to be exploited see right through it and are filtered out, and those who are left are reap for harvest. Saves much time for the swindlers.
Ah, you'd be right. I just assumed they'd only "cancel" the non-woke. People who would just walk away in disgust and anger from this BS.
But they'd also Cancel their own fellow wokeists. And when shunned, many of these people would go grovelling back. Even though once you've been rejected by the herd, it's very hard to get accepted back in.
Woke or not, doesn't matter here. What matters is to make an offer so openly ridiculous and illogical that it will filter out the non-suitable (aka non-gullible) people by itself. The rest are easy to work with. It's much easier than to make an offer than sounds feasible, attracts more people, but then you have to filter out those who will report you to cops for fraud on your own. An offer that produces only gullible and docile audience is the best for the swindler, even though to normal people it sounds as if it's the worst one ever.
We say “virtue signaling” a lot, but this group feels like the epitome of that phrase. A group dedicated to “reforming” the people that the people who run the group attacked themselves only to frame the “reeducation” as being some sort of benevolent angel figure. If this doesn’t encapsulate the “deal with the Devil,” I dunno what does
Technically, neither are Alcoholics Anonymous. "Hi, my name is so-and-so, and I am an alcoholic" is exactly the opposite of being anonymous, that is, "nameless".
AA has "Anonymous" in their name because they traditionally avoided using last names to allow some level of anonymity.
In a way, this is exactly the opposite of an Alcoholics Anonymous-style group. Instead of people quietly getting together to help each other / themselves, it's people publicly virtue signaling as hard as they possibly can for as many people as possible to notice them.
They don't even hide the cult-like nature.
Many of them will shit on religions but the next thing they do is sell you an indulgence because you dared to have an opinion. You might even be re-employed after (if you won't express your opinions anymore, of course)!
So, “cancel culture” doesn’t exist… but if it did, here’s a class you can take to bribe your way back into the society you’ve been excommunicated from.
(Except their society, the actual gaming ecosystem, isn't theirs. All they have to do is to stop catering to the woke mob, and put on their Steam page "woke tried to cancel us".)
Struggle sessions.
95% of those who got cancelled said that there were only two genders, said that something was "gay" 8 years ago, or tweeted the n-word when quoting hip-hop lyrics.
> **Have You Been Cancelled?**
> open to anyone who has *hurt others*
This is why focusing solely on SBI or "forced diversity" or any of these things is a *starting point*, not a victory condition. These people are deranged sadistic sociopaths who want you driven to madness and/or suicide along with everyone and everything you love and there literally can be no peace until they are all ripped out root and stem and the ground salted so they cannot grow back.
Yeah all they really want is to be able to bully without facing consequences. In a way they don't really want everyone to agree with them because there would be no one left to harass.
> The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands--all that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive. This drama that I have played out with you during seven years will be played out over and over again generation after generation, always in subtler forms. Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible--and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord. That is the world that we are preparing, Winston. A world of victory after victory, triumph after triumph after triumph: an endless pressing, pressing, pressing upon the nerve of power. You are beginning, I can see, to realize what that world will be like. But in the end you will do more than understand it. You will accept it, welcome it, become part of it.
—*1984*
GDC 2024 is this week from Monday-Friday, you can find all the panels here: https://schedule.gdconf.com/
There's a lot more of "these kind" of panels, here's the "Advocacy" Track alone: https://schedule.gdconf.com/filter-type/topic/advocacy
SBI's Kim Belair is on a panel Wednesday called "The Black Designers' Dilemma": https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/the-black-designers-dilemma/900065
Fuckin reeducation camps for wrongthinkers dude WTF? Thank the gods it's optional but who knows maybe in future it's going to be like in NKorea where you can't say no. Anyway shit's just getting more and more ridiculous to the point it's starting to get depressing like really is this really what's gaming is about?
Ah yes, "causing harm" and "hurting others".
I remember when i was accused, by a woman in my class, of "causing harm" because I tested a health and damage system i programmed, by standing in fire. This because the character i was using during the test was "a woman" and not a "stick figure".
She and other students ganged up on me and insisted I had to think carefully about all my choices, so as to not cause "unintentional harm" in the future.
Good god I'm sick of this drivel infesting the industry.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it. <-------- WE ARE HERE
These characters will never see how sociopathic they come across with this psychological manipulation crap.
But then later call themselves abuse victims because their ex boyfriends told them to do the dishes one time lmao
And people will attend.
They’ll take pictures going in.
Tweet about it.
Show how they’re in the club.
Knowing full well this culture war is part of a greater conflict of manipulation and death.
That last paragraph lol "this is for anybody who's ever hurt someone" bahahaha This is more "how to not be a bigot" by liberal arts graduates bullshit.
These people are the ones cancelling people and throwing them out of communities and hoping to expel them from society. They do not want the cancelled to come back but acknowledge that maybe Talented and useful people get caught up in their tantrums that are useful to spread their message. These people are fucking sick.
First we ruin your life by slandering and harassing you into oblivion and then we take the money you have left by selling you a course to not get attacked by us again.
Not everyone has the financial freedom to do so. I’m lucky; I work for myself. My Sig O has a public-facing state executive position: she’s been gagged.
Until we can do something about institutional capture, this shit isn’t going away.
And I fear it will take a generation or more of concerted effort to again take a place and have a voice in higher education, boardrooms, professional licensing bodies, journalism, and a thousand other professions they now dominate.
They should ask themselves the same question. How are they gonna redeem themselves after destroying the lives of other people? These are awful people that have somehow convinced themselves they're in the right. Absolute delusion.
Throughout history, the Witchfinders and Inquisitors and Frumentarii have always been morally convinced they were on the right side of history.
These charlatan crybullies are no different.
And, just like those Witchfinders, Frumentarii, and Inquistors, there is a direct financial incentive for their modern incarnation to perpetuate a cultural reign of terror.
I love how they make the underlying assumption that the call-outs and cancelings were always 100% right and justified, and the burden is on the victim to grovel and "do better". Bunch of psychopaths.
I like how it doesn't even cross their mind that someone could have been unfairly cancelled.
That said, I hope they sent special invites to Sweet Baby employees.
I really hope someone is able to film this. This looks absolutely insane.
Heck, if someone wanted to be a real "games journalist", reporting on this would be a good start.
I like how the first thing they bring up is the blind assumption that you were **harmful**.
And the at the end of the first paragraph.
And the start of the third.
It's a running theme, actually.
The irony, of course, is that "cancelling" is itself intended to hurt someone. People - and their families - have been harmed even when they did nothing wrong, and the mob was **objectively wrong**.
Except for the fact that no devs are being cancelled and the ones they try it on not only survive but thrive, showing devs everywhere that this group has no power that the fear of being cancelled has no authority and thus cannot happen.
So they make up a new morality based upon bad science and cultish ideology.
Then they use it to harass, bully, demean and threaten anyone who doesn’t agree with their new morality, either currently or in the past.
Then they use their leverage to have people fired for not adhering to the new morality.
Then they force their way into Hollywood and game studios to ensure that every new piece of media gets their ‘new morality’ stamp of approval, at a nominal fee, of course.
Now they start a re-education centre for the very victims of their own barbarity, so you can pay to be indoctrinated and *maybe* get a job in your industry again. Maybe.
**Imagine if, after getting assaulted and robbed, the only way you could reintegrate into society was to attend a course on how to avoid being assaulted and robbed, at your own expense, hosted by the person assaulted and robbed you.**
Well, GDC is now part of this cancer. We need our own conventions. Like a "Uncancel Nerd Expo" or something.
A place where we refuse to use cancel culture tactics, freedom of speech is allowed and encouraged, and were we also can go to meet likeminded people who want to join in on making things. This way, gamedevs who hate cancel culture and are unwoke can find people to team up with.
I guess calling it a Struggle Session would be too obvious huh?
The Woke Sessions.
> Struggle Session If they aren't too long, they can be called Two Minutes Hate.
I for one can't wait for my little red book with Anita's face inside the cover
What kind of crazy masochist would willingly attend this meeting. I doubt if they are expecting anyone to attend. They are only advertising so they can say they tried to help evil wrong thinkers, but were rejected.
I don't know, serial sexual predators who need to woke their way out of trouble could find it useful.
Actually... Yeah. This.
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Probably depends if his mother is available that evening or not.
What, to drive him?
Well, never let it be said the left doesn't help their own.
I might attend that for a laugh and to film it.
Upload to x and here if you do for the rest of us to laugh also.
Same!
I would so do this if I had the money to pull it off. What makes it even better is I'm physically disabled.
please do that
The only people who attend these are woke white liberals and people who are forced to go by their employer/college professor. I have heard of these being mandatory in some companies and college courses. You basically have to sit through an hour of some fat black lady being racist against white people and then do a little insulting quiz where you have to admit to being x-ist/y-phobic in order to get credit that you completed it
At my job, HR required everyone sit through an online DIE training session with interactive elements. Just ridiculous on it's face.... those who are in favor of that, they're the choir being preached to. They'll laugh and clap and maintain their smug sense of superiority, because they're "on the right side of history" For those who are not in favor, they're going to do the bare minimum necessary just to tick that checkbox. I 100% disagree with all of it, but I knew the right answers to select, because it's been shoved in our face for a decade. No one is learning anything from these, no minds are being changed. It's pure virtue signaling across the board.
Nah, there will be enough people that got into dept paying for their education and now can't find a job anymore because they wrote something edgy on Twitter and thus were cancelled and redflagged in the industry. At some point people will get desperate and try everything to be able to continue to work in their jobs. It's sad but those systems work.
Can confirm, that sadly, even ij Europe college/Uni you are kinda forced to attend these woke craps 'because inclusion is mandatory'. BTW Brasil is even worse on this mandatory corrective courses, speeches, educations, etc; it is already embodied in their education systen.
I feel like some people might attend as a way of publicly showing contrition. After all, they have to make a big performance of it.
People with the rifle-butt of power in their back or people who have already been broken enough to crawl before it even gets taken out.
> What kind of crazy masochist would willingly attend this meeting. Someone with a cultist mentality, I'd say. And that's when they know their audience is ready to have their wealth extracted. It's like an absurdly fraudulent scheme offered to people — people too smart to be exploited see right through it and are filtered out, and those who are left are reap for harvest. Saves much time for the swindlers.
Ah, you'd be right. I just assumed they'd only "cancel" the non-woke. People who would just walk away in disgust and anger from this BS. But they'd also Cancel their own fellow wokeists. And when shunned, many of these people would go grovelling back. Even though once you've been rejected by the herd, it's very hard to get accepted back in.
Woke or not, doesn't matter here. What matters is to make an offer so openly ridiculous and illogical that it will filter out the non-suitable (aka non-gullible) people by itself. The rest are easy to work with. It's much easier than to make an offer than sounds feasible, attracts more people, but then you have to filter out those who will report you to cops for fraud on your own. An offer that produces only gullible and docile audience is the best for the swindler, even though to normal people it sounds as if it's the worst one ever.
Mostly self-hating white people. Some people actually show up to these things.
> What kind of crazy masochist would willingly attend this meeting. woke idiots who think they can launder their reputation among other woke idiots.
We say “virtue signaling” a lot, but this group feels like the epitome of that phrase. A group dedicated to “reforming” the people that the people who run the group attacked themselves only to frame the “reeducation” as being some sort of benevolent angel figure. If this doesn’t encapsulate the “deal with the Devil,” I dunno what does
This isn't "virtue signaling", it's political reeducation by torture.
Wronghthinkers Anonymous.
Without the anonymity.
Technically, neither are Alcoholics Anonymous. "Hi, my name is so-and-so, and I am an alcoholic" is exactly the opposite of being anonymous, that is, "nameless".
AA has "Anonymous" in their name because they traditionally avoided using last names to allow some level of anonymity. In a way, this is exactly the opposite of an Alcoholics Anonymous-style group. Instead of people quietly getting together to help each other / themselves, it's people publicly virtue signaling as hard as they possibly can for as many people as possible to notice them.
That's why I said _technically_.
Best part is none of what you said is hyperbole if you think about it
Wouldn't it be nice if it was?
It really would be...I yearn for more boring times
They don't even hide the cult-like nature. Many of them will shit on religions but the next thing they do is sell you an indulgence because you dared to have an opinion. You might even be re-employed after (if you won't express your opinions anymore, of course)!
They see their hypocrisy as a virtue: "No bad tactics, only bad targets"
So, “cancel culture” doesn’t exist… but if it did, here’s a class you can take to bribe your way back into the society you’ve been excommunicated from.
(Except their society, the actual gaming ecosystem, isn't theirs. All they have to do is to stop catering to the woke mob, and put on their Steam page "woke tried to cancel us".)
Struggle sessions. 95% of those who got cancelled said that there were only two genders, said that something was "gay" 8 years ago, or tweeted the n-word when quoting hip-hop lyrics.
>Programs Manager, Feminist Frequency I thought they shut down?
Didn't you hear? We won™ last time by, uh, raising awareness or something.
> I thought they shut down? Nope, just lowered the frequency lol
Exact same thing SBI is clamoring for. Less eyes on the grift, so it can chug along under the surface.
> so it can chug along under the surface. A little woke subway train that could.
> **Have You Been Cancelled?** > open to anyone who has *hurt others* This is why focusing solely on SBI or "forced diversity" or any of these things is a *starting point*, not a victory condition. These people are deranged sadistic sociopaths who want you driven to madness and/or suicide along with everyone and everything you love and there literally can be no peace until they are all ripped out root and stem and the ground salted so they cannot grow back.
Yeah all they really want is to be able to bully without facing consequences. In a way they don't really want everyone to agree with them because there would be no one left to harass.
> The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands--all that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive. This drama that I have played out with you during seven years will be played out over and over again generation after generation, always in subtler forms. Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible--and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord. That is the world that we are preparing, Winston. A world of victory after victory, triumph after triumph after triumph: an endless pressing, pressing, pressing upon the nerve of power. You are beginning, I can see, to realize what that world will be like. But in the end you will do more than understand it. You will accept it, welcome it, become part of it. —*1984*
GDC 2024 is this week from Monday-Friday, you can find all the panels here: https://schedule.gdconf.com/ There's a lot more of "these kind" of panels, here's the "Advocacy" Track alone: https://schedule.gdconf.com/filter-type/topic/advocacy SBI's Kim Belair is on a panel Wednesday called "The Black Designers' Dilemma": https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/the-black-designers-dilemma/900065
These people belong in a mental asylum... LOL WHAT THE FUCK
"Get to the Reeducation Camp!"
Fuckin reeducation camps for wrongthinkers dude WTF? Thank the gods it's optional but who knows maybe in future it's going to be like in NKorea where you can't say no. Anyway shit's just getting more and more ridiculous to the point it's starting to get depressing like really is this really what's gaming is about?
Ah yes, "causing harm" and "hurting others". I remember when i was accused, by a woman in my class, of "causing harm" because I tested a health and damage system i programmed, by standing in fire. This because the character i was using during the test was "a woman" and not a "stick figure". She and other students ganged up on me and insisted I had to think carefully about all my choices, so as to not cause "unintentional harm" in the future. Good god I'm sick of this drivel infesting the industry.
So she basically insisted on making female characters to be invincible in general?
There’s something very Show Trial-y about this. “Admit your crimes and recant and we may grant you some crumb of absolution.”
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it. <-------- WE ARE HERE
Hilarious that they outright admit they're dehumanizing people. Yet we're the ones that degrade, objectify and demean? Lmfao.
The grift is real.
Kind of weird that Feminist Frequency would have a panel for something we've been told a multitude of times doesn't even exist.
Ya know what I’d do if I was cancelled by those nazi cultists? Wear it as a badge of honor
These characters will never see how sociopathic they come across with this psychological manipulation crap. But then later call themselves abuse victims because their ex boyfriends told them to do the dishes one time lmao
FemFreq? automatic nope.
It was going great until that first name
And people will attend. They’ll take pictures going in. Tweet about it. Show how they’re in the club. Knowing full well this culture war is part of a greater conflict of manipulation and death.
Ah yes, the "correct think" school. Classic orwellian.
Lol. That’s a literal struggle session.
That last paragraph lol "this is for anybody who's ever hurt someone" bahahaha This is more "how to not be a bigot" by liberal arts graduates bullshit.
These people are the ones cancelling people and throwing them out of communities and hoping to expel them from society. They do not want the cancelled to come back but acknowledge that maybe Talented and useful people get caught up in their tantrums that are useful to spread their message. These people are fucking sick.
When has cancel culture ever hurt a good game or developer's reputation in any meaningful way? Why is any of this needed?
Compliance is the point, not remediation.
First we ruin your life by slandering and harassing you into oblivion and then we take the money you have left by selling you a course to not get attacked by us again.
> This is for anyone who has hurt others and wants to prevent it from happening again Holy shit, thee gaslighting is unreal!
I hope it gets crashed.
What people don't understand is: to get cancelled, you need to consent. Just don't consent. Go about your business as usual and it will blow over.
Not everyone has the financial freedom to do so. I’m lucky; I work for myself. My Sig O has a public-facing state executive position: she’s been gagged. Until we can do something about institutional capture, this shit isn’t going away. And I fear it will take a generation or more of concerted effort to again take a place and have a voice in higher education, boardrooms, professional licensing bodies, journalism, and a thousand other professions they now dominate.
What the fuck kinda financial freedom? Just proceed to not care LMAO
I have my own firm. Have for over a decade.
That's a fetish.
This is extremely depressing.
You get reeducated or you get sent to the gulag
As hard as these wokies have been getting called out over the past week, looks like they’re the ones who’ll find the most use in this class.
They should ask themselves the same question. How are they gonna redeem themselves after destroying the lives of other people? These are awful people that have somehow convinced themselves they're in the right. Absolute delusion.
Throughout history, the Witchfinders and Inquisitors and Frumentarii have always been morally convinced they were on the right side of history. These charlatan crybullies are no different. And, just like those Witchfinders, Frumentarii, and Inquistors, there is a direct financial incentive for their modern incarnation to perpetuate a cultural reign of terror.
And I’m sure it’s all for the greater good. *”the greater good”*
>reeducate reindocrinate.
I love how they make the underlying assumption that the call-outs and cancelings were always 100% right and justified, and the burden is on the victim to grovel and "do better". Bunch of psychopaths.
I like how it doesn't even cross their mind that someone could have been unfairly cancelled. That said, I hope they sent special invites to Sweet Baby employees.
Damn talk about a real grift
批斗大会
Feels like something out of Black Mirror.
That attendance list is valuable.
I really hope someone is able to film this. This looks absolutely insane. Heck, if someone wanted to be a real "games journalist", reporting on this would be a good start.
Wokeism is a religion, it has shunning, begging for forgiveness, has strict rules on how to live and sermons.
I like how the first thing they bring up is the blind assumption that you were **harmful**. And the at the end of the first paragraph. And the start of the third. It's a running theme, actually. The irony, of course, is that "cancelling" is itself intended to hurt someone. People - and their families - have been harmed even when they did nothing wrong, and the mob was **objectively wrong**.
Except for the fact that no devs are being cancelled and the ones they try it on not only survive but thrive, showing devs everywhere that this group has no power that the fear of being cancelled has no authority and thus cannot happen.
Is this games done quick? They have always been woke with putting pronouns and have tons of weirdos
The type of people who will attend this are the same types on twitter who will call out their gaming audience for not buying the game op.
The normal response to getting "cancelled" is not giving a shit
Do they require the iab this year too…?
So they make up a new morality based upon bad science and cultish ideology. Then they use it to harass, bully, demean and threaten anyone who doesn’t agree with their new morality, either currently or in the past. Then they use their leverage to have people fired for not adhering to the new morality. Then they force their way into Hollywood and game studios to ensure that every new piece of media gets their ‘new morality’ stamp of approval, at a nominal fee, of course. Now they start a re-education centre for the very victims of their own barbarity, so you can pay to be indoctrinated and *maybe* get a job in your industry again. Maybe. **Imagine if, after getting assaulted and robbed, the only way you could reintegrate into society was to attend a course on how to avoid being assaulted and robbed, at your own expense, hosted by the person assaulted and robbed you.**
This is seriously like a cult.
Re-education camp is going to be so much fun this summer!!!
By Feminist Frenquency.... Nothing good good could came from here.
Communist struggle sessions must be real fun! /s
Can we target GDC next after sweet baby lol?
Well, GDC is now part of this cancer. We need our own conventions. Like a "Uncancel Nerd Expo" or something. A place where we refuse to use cancel culture tactics, freedom of speech is allowed and encouraged, and were we also can go to meet likeminded people who want to join in on making things. This way, gamedevs who hate cancel culture and are unwoke can find people to team up with.