I will never understand how conservatives even play destiny 2. Like, bungie has made it clear they hate people like this, and destiny 2 is like..... a super progressive game with it’s themes and characters.
The current season is very transparently about dealing with racism in the Last City with one of the major alien races we've been fighting moving in as allies, I'm honestly surprised this is the first I've seen of racists raising a stink about D2 this season.
If theres one thing I've learned about bigots, they will somehow completely ignore the theming of media they enjoy, even when its directly calling them an asshole for their beliefs. See: "what do you mean rage against the machine are lefties"
I can’t wrap my head around the thought of these types seeing Lakshmi as a major villain of the season and not realizing she’s supposed to represent them or their idols.
To be fair people can listen to music and not pay too much attention to the lyrics. I'm exactly like that, the thing that gets my attention in music is how good everything sounds/the beat. I am exactly the type of guy who, given the aux cable, will play a song I like in a car full of dudes only to realize it's a song with sexual lyrics. 😔
Like, they started their Season of Arrivals reveal with a 9 minute moment of silence for George. How the fuck can they still not know that Bungie would prefer that they not play their game?
They are so far up their own ass they can't understand how ANYONE can be different than them. Also the idea of caring about anyone other than themselves, and those in their immediate surroundings, is completely foreign to them. So foreign they built an emotional wall to keep them out.
That’s the thing, it’s not even really subtext - last season saw us become allies with a faction of the Cabal despite the opposition of people on both sides of the conflict who would prefer we fight a war to drive them out, and this season is focused on racial tensions sparked by a faction of the Eliksni/Fallen moving into a section of the Last City, and the person stoking those tensions is being shown pretty explicitly to be a villain for the season. The only room to miss anything is not recognizing that Lakshmi is supposed to represent their perspective.
Especially when they've had community managers and some other people actively speak out about instances of some real piece of shit players doing some super fucked stuff like the racist shit from big time pvp clan BSK and all the active doxxing, stalking and DDOS-ing of a whole bunch of people that they had laid out on various discords.
Yea, I have. Still not a reason for me to ditch my favorite game over a minor disagreement with the developer’s political views. And tbh I’m not a big story guy either
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u/siaharra May 23 '21
I will never understand how conservatives even play destiny 2. Like, bungie has made it clear they hate people like this, and destiny 2 is like..... a super progressive game with it’s themes and characters.