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The fact that people are downvoting you for speaking an objective fact is a travesty. Diversity is only as political as the writer chooses to make it, and having characters of different races, genders and orientations without putting in the effort to make them feel three-dimensional will not magically make a badly-written game into a good one.
They're getting downvoted because their real concerns with game writing is getting tangled together with culture war buzz words.
Game writing isn't bad because it gets political. It's bad because the writers aren't very good. Halo 5 doesn't really do much in the way of topical political commentary, but it's not better or worse for it. It has bad writing because there's this weird feeling like all the cutscenes had their opening and closing segments cut. Take this one for instance. It's like the writers thought the player wouldn't have the attention span for more then a minute and a half.
Maybe they think I'm doing a dog whistle of some sort.
Maybe they are mad because I didn't name AAA games which do that, I found it difficult to name examples because I haven't played any recently.
Or
Hear me out
Or it's fully idiotic that existence of girls that likes girls and shit like that has nothing to do with politics?
Is it possible maybe that the only cognitive mistakes possible that lead to uttering something that stupid, or even engaging in the "debate" about if these people should be allowed to live or not, or exist in video games, is the stupidest possible thing to call "political"
It's not political is just systematic hate, aka fascism, aka so obvious that even the onion has no problem putting out an article like this and everyone understands intuitively who they are making fun of,. and what idea they are making fun of, which happens to be this very fucking stupid ideas uttered
Which we as a society have moved on pretty far away from it, except some very immature people that don't understand that it doesn't count as politics to opress people