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Here's the thing about Cyberpunk: it's everything The Woke SAY they want: diversity, multiculturalism, representation, normalization. It's consciously political, critical of status quo. It allows players to experiment with gender. It's exactly what The Woke claim to desire.
Problem is, The Woke don't actually want what Cyberpunk offers them on a silver platter. It never was in the first place.
When The Woke say they want games to be political, they mean political with their own politics, in black and white: moral lessons to indoctrinate the audience, to paint them as unambiguous heroes and everyone else as strawman cartoon villains.
Then The Woke say they want diversity, they mean superficial, literally skin-deep diversity. Their "diversity" is people with the same ideology going through the same heroic victim narrative, in accordance with the progressive stack.
When The Woke say they want to feel "included", what they actually want is for everyone else to get kicked out, something they can lord over their "haters" and "-phobes" as some great victory they will immediately forget because their goal is eternal outrage.
When you can get a sex change from a vending machine, the very concept of "transgender" is rendered meaningless. It removes "trans" from The Stack. There's no social currency for being trans when it's so normalized that you're no longer being oppressed for it.
As an interesting thought experiment, I've often pondered about what that would be like; how they'd react if, for example, aliens, having taken Woke wishes literally, came and shared gene/body modification devices, in such a way that literally everyone would have access to it.
The device would alter you at the biological, genetic level, along with the physical level, rendering "trans" meaningless. It would also give non-binary people what they ostensibly want, with options for different and various body presentation and genital combinations.
No one could argue that a former man who is now physically and biologically female isn't a woman. No one could argue non-binary people aren't naturally they way they're supposed to be; it would be in their genetics and so widespread as to be normalized.
So long as the process would be painless, I can't think of a more perfectly catered solution to the trans question, or a more fatal disaster for trans identity politics. This is what Cyberpunk offers a glimpse of, and this is why The Woke are screaming and wailing about it.
CD Projekt Red has called their bluff. In Cyberpunk, they've offered this fantasy on a silver platter, and they HATE it. They hate that we, as gamers and escapists and sci-fi/fantasy enthusiasts, DON'T hate it.
Moreover, The Woke have overextended themselves. They tried so hard, using bullying and threats, to associate the game with transphobia, GamerGate, etc., that they've completely shown their hand. The mask slipped, and they made damn sure everyone was watching when it did.
Everyone now sees either that these people are unsatisfiable; insatiable, or that the game is an anti-SJW GooberGrumble edgelord incel gamer game. And when - NOT "if" - it becomes a triple platinum mega-hit, other companies WILL be taking notes.
This, I think, is the reason for the salt. They're salty because they're afraid. They tipped their hand. The genie's out of the bottle. They told the genie to make them a sandwich, and it turned them into sandwiches.
Be careful what you ask for.
You just might get it.
Be careful what you ask for.
You just might get it.
Thread heavily inspired by a reddit post.
You may find this thread interesting, @ConceptualJames
