• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      They do this as a strategy of setting their standards as the cultural norm for the group. Audience members go on to act like what they heard is totally normal, and it normalises the behaviour and views.

      Eventually the end goal is spewing rword and nwords as totally and completely normal behaviour, thus shift cultural norm.

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    just like this upcoming presidential repeat, gamergate 2 is but a sad, pale shadow of the first one

    this is all they have. reboots and retreads of cultue wars i can’t fucking wait lea-huh

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    isn’t it amazing how quickly anything like this becomes as harassment campaign against women, wow, shocking., anyway here’s some bullshit that pops up from leddit when you google her name:

    So How About Helldivers 2’s Community Manager?

    So I just heard about the community manager for Helldivers 2 doing something incredibly stupid. Now, you’re probably wondering what that could be, so let me tell you.
    Katherine Baskin, the Community Manager, said that Helldivers 2…is woke. I think Baskin’s also pretty delusional in another comment that it amuses them that they (us the players of Helldivers 2), do not know that Super Earth is bad. We’re not idiots, we’re well aware of this. Heck this is the game that, like the film Starship Troopers, is a satire in regards to the Super Earth Patriotism and similar things. We’ve all known that for awhile, again, we’re not idiots. Makes you wonder though about Arrowhead if they have an individual like this being their Community Manager and saying things like this.

    it’s not woke, it’s not woke he continues to insist as he shrinks and transforms into a corncob 🌽

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    First it started with banning toxic people in their discord over anti LGBTQ posts. The company said it didn’t have plans for them and were banning people being toxic because they didn’t want the predicable hate mongering to follow .

    Once they didn’t get their fix via discord to bash the queers extremely disingenous spam posts on Steam Forums around rainbow capes (which the company supposedly said they had no plans for). Between “Geee I hope this company doesn’t go woke” to “I’m queer and I demand pronouns and rainbow capes and such” devolving into a reddit-logo anti woke feeding frenzy. They did this to farm markkks-juggalo jester points for one and to harass queer people playing the game to deny them an escape from the IRL suffering the fash were enacting by the state towards queer people.

    trump-feed

    frothingfash I DON’T WANT IRL POLITICS IN MUH MAN GAME GET HAT OUTTA HERE!

    When that didn’t produce the effects they wanted / got bored of they went out of thier way to attack the community manager for showing empathy asking people to listen to the suffering of Black people during BLM protests. She also said upfront Helldivers 2 is satire. Which melted many froths.

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      yeah they’ve been pretty strict in keeping spam and constant nagging people out of their server

      some LGBTQ+ people got banned for spamming and baiting, too

      it sucks but i understand it and of course this all happened which unfortunately proved them right in their stance to keep the game tongue-in-cheek because of what you’ve pointed out

      the moment they add in flags and capes that are america or thin blue line punisher skulls the assholes are going to feel vindicated and it has to be that nothing real-world-political overtly seeps in

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    GRIFTING POPCORN popcorn-time

    Of course a frothingfash doing it for a grift. Going by name of Grummdaddy / Grummz -IRL name Mark Kern - a serial abandonware grifter

    https://www.em8er.com/founderPacks.html

    Kern has criticized what he considers the influence of ESG standards and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on video game developers. Following what Kotaku described as a “fundamentally misinformed, GamerGate-esque firestorm” originating on Kiwi Farms against the Canadian narrative development studio Sweet Baby Inc. Kern became an outspoken critic of the company. In March 2024, he railed against “wokeness”, telling Fox News that there is a "coordinated effort to insert diversity politics into games

    CW CHUD MEDIA

    Video Game Producer Mark Kern Talks Sweet Baby Inc. and ESG in Gaming

    Former Team Lead For World Of Warcraft Mark Kern Explains How ESG Influences Video Game Developers And How It Will Kill Them

    https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/7vvvq8/mark_kern_grummz_on_twitter_the_real_reason_that/?rdt=58594

    Steam Forums link

    Gaming circlejerk with screenshots of Mark Kern’s crying about Helldivers wokeness.