Absolutely disgusting.
"Let's play Balkanize gaming!"
Irrelevant SJW hipster welfare recipients who make "games" that no one but their own fart sniffing clique gives a damn about.
I love the "end white CIS gender able bodied man as the default," as though this is actually an issue. There have been plenty non-white, non-male, protagonists in vidya for decades. (Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Bushido Blade, The Suffering, etc.)
I don't give a damn what a game's protagonist is into sexually as it typically has 0 bearing on the game.
The mentally ill gender dysphoric demographic (my opinion (not referring to intersex individuals just the recent popularity of being an oppression olympian/social media whore)) are a miniscule (but in social media terms, inordinately loud) fraction of the global population.
You want representation, then make your own damn games because we all know that you'll be the first to take to social media to screech about "stereotypical/inaccurate representation" were those same horrible "straight white CIS male devs" to attempt to create a game which offered the snowflake demographic representation.
Video games have traditionally allowed people to play as an individual more powerful than themself; whether or not the player shared the same gender, ethnicity, etc. used to be irrelevant because as a player, you wanted the character to succeed because you were playing them, not because you shared some token aspect of the character's identity, but maybe that was an Xer/Boomer thing.
I think that the Zelda games are kids' trash, but it looks like a diverse range of people can still identify with some noodle armed, anime eyed, elfin kid and still desire to see him succeed.
Games like Surgeon Simulator or Goat Simulator play off the idea of playing as something less powerful/inept as a gimmick, but in the end, their appeal is limited.
Who wants to play as a bumbling moron/animal when everyday life already offers that?
Apart from an exercise in empathy, why would people even want to play as a disabled (handicapped) protagonist through multiple titles unless that character also possessed some sort of extraordinary powers?
It's not a selling point for the able bodied or disabled. If anything, I would imagine (I may be wrong in this respect) that the disabled would prefer to experience a game in a body capable of doing the things they cannot, just like the able bodied players who desire to play a character capable of things which they are not (i.e. magic, feats of strength, extreme bravery, etc.)
"Capitalism's bad, mmmkay..." say the millenial dipshits who have likely never left their Western home country; much less visited a former/present communist/socialist country.
Capitalism has plenty of faults, but having been to Russia, Sweden, Cambodia, China, Cuba, and Vietnam, I am of the opinion that you could definitely do worse; nevermind that the only reason democratic socialism somewhat works in the countries in which it is practiced has more to do with their (relative to the U.S./E.U.) size.
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