I didn't mean to insult you, but if I did... so be it, you had it coming for the word salad dig anyway.
What did I say anyway that was so insulting to you?
I'm sorry but my opinion is that if this sort of thing bothers you that much then you are way too invested in the culture war.
Its not healthy to interrogate every piece of entertainment content for political bias. Hell it doesn't seem like 5 mins ago we were roasting the Resetera mob for doing that exact thing.
"Invested in the culture war?"
Wake up. People are being blacklisted, professionally and socially ostracized, their livelihoods threatened in the industries they occupy, for doing nothing but taking positions on this (by your estimation) innocuous
"culture war". People are so invested because unfortunately it's gotten to the point where their very livelihoods are at risk if they dare to question things that goes against a particular ideological grain.....if you make a modicum in suggestion of impropriety......you're done. People always like to try to equate the anti-SJWs to the SJWs......yet I never see the former making concerted attempts to destroy the lives of those they object to, trying to leave their professional prospects in tatters, their social reputations as well, as the latter do. Show me where anti-SJWs are taking such collective initiative to destroy others because their ideology isn't being adhered to and is (heaven forbid) being challenged.
It's not healthy to interrogate all media for political bias, but it is imperative and very healthy to call it out when it's blatantly apparent, especially in this day and age, and as it is with TLoU II. And in doing such, people DON'T deserve to have their personal lives destroyed by the pathetic self-righteous sycophantic virtue-signaling mobs who believe they
don't have the responsibility to substantiate their positions, merely proclaim it superior based on the ambiguity of their own moral grandstanding before taking such initiative. Piss off with this shit and stop attempting to downplay it.
This should bother anyone with a reasonable head on their shoulders a great deal, as it does me. Unfortunate (yet not entirely unsurprising) that it doesn't you, among others on this board.
Agenda and forced politics are code words for we don't like diversity and I see them come up many times by people discussing the game.
Right.
Do you agree that agendas can exist, or not? If so, how do you make the distinction between an agenda existing and such motivations as
"we don't like diversity"? On what basis do you claim that, knowing nothing of the person who is making the argument? Do you believe that agendas can be harmful? If so, what's the distinction from those that aren't? It all seems to be very simplistic to you people. Agenda=not liking something. Done. Wow, what insight.
Here's a little clue for you guys: agendas exist. They can be benign, and they can be malignant. Just because someone calls out an agenda doesn't automatically equate their issue with an agenda with what that agenda is pushing. People can fully support the cause of an agenda and at the same time oppose it because it is harming that cause in manner of its execution. Agendas and the ideologies behind them are separate issues!