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[Raven117]

The 'anti-semetic trope' I don't get, but I'll be damn if I'll click that link and read that garbage.

If they had any integrity, they simply wouldn't given it a review.

That’s the thing….. they see racism everywhere because they are the racists. They just package it up as they are “identifying it” and maybe are “sorry for it.”

As always, it comes down to something like this:

 

[Cyberpunkd]

She(?)

 

[DeepEnigma]

Ironically the game is actually really politically correct, with a trans character and a large cast of ethnic minorities. It’s also clearly been put together with a huge amount of hard work, care and passion, something these nutcases wouldn't know anything about.

The best thing people can do to fight this woke cancel culture that is a cancer in our society is to buy the game and enjoy it.

It's never good enough as they eat their own tail.

 

[Wooxsvan]

ah... the hardcore left. the REAL bigots.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

She should be fired. No journalist can write objective article with agenda in mind

They can, but professional journalists hide it way better.

 

[mansoor1980]

hopefully this thread wont get locked (like the DF one yesterday)

 

[Ammogeddon]

Review starts off “Yikes, Y’all”

Just fuck off.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I hope they do include this on OpenCritic/Metacritic. I hope it’s the lowest score on the site, and tons of people click it to see what it’s all about.

Nobody is looking at this review and thinking “well if Wired says it’s 1/10 it must be bad”. Lots of people are thinking “what a bunch of fucking lunatics”.


I canceled my Wired sub over the summer after subscribing for years. Such a joke of a publication. It’s like 50% barely-disguised advertisements, 40% lifestyle/identity/woke stuff, 10% interesting tech-related articles that I actually enjoy reading.

They’re insanely lucky they even survived this long. Articles like this are just accelerating their decline into irrelevance

 

[balls of snow]

Remember when the first piece of info we got of the ps5 was a wired article. Sony bypass all the usual gaming sites and gave the exclusive to Wired because it was a highly respected tech site.

"Yikes, y'all." indeed

 

[ACESHIGH]

As a lowly foreigner in this mostly American forum please enlighten me: what the hell happens inside all those west coast college campuses? All these amazing ideologies that added unprecedented value to mankind over the past 10 or so years started there right?

 

[Gexxy1]

 

[DeepEnigma]

They can, but professional journalists hide it way better.

Do they though? Less caricature, sure, but you can see it plain as day in current year. Or maybe we become more perceptive to it as we get older.

 

[Chozoldman]

As a lowly foreigner in this mostly American forum please enlighten me: what the hell happens inside all those west coast college campuses? All these amazing ideologies that added unprecedented value to mankind over the past 10 or so years started there right?

 

[Thirty7ven]

Brainless hipsters. Go fuck yourself.

 

[DeepEnigma]

As a lowly foreigner in this mostly American forum please enlighten me: what the hell happens inside all those west coast college campuses? All these amazing ideologies that added unprecedented value to mankind over the past 10 or so years started there right?

Indoctrination, comrade.

 

[Majormaxxx]

This is embarrassing for wired. I remember when its name had gravitas. Now... Yikes y'all

 

[Umbasaborne]

 

[night13x]

Let's send that reviewer at wire a Harry Potter dildo wand. Since she is into reviewing sex toys, she won't know what to do and may fall into a permanent state of confusion.

 

[aries_71]

As a lowly foreigner in this mostly American forum please enlighten me: what the hell happens inside all those west coast college campuses? All these amazing ideologies that added unprecedented value to mankind over the past 10 or so years started there right?

Drugs?

 

[Rob_27]

The faces are worth a 5 at least

 

[Dusktildawn48]

So now review bombing is a good thing? Riiighhht.....

 

[semiconscious]

She should be fired. No journalist can write objective article with agenda in mind

someone hasn't gotten the memo:

'newsrooms that move beyond 'objectivity' can build trust' - washington post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/30/newsrooms-news-reporting-objectivity-diversity/

can't make this stuff up...

 

[Woggleman]

I remember back in the day when Harry Potter books were really big some on the religious right claimed they promoted devil worship and we as a society rightfully told them where to stick it. This crowd should be treated the same way since they are cut from the same cloth in many ways.

 

[Fart Knight]

hopefully this thread wont get locked (like the DF one yesterday)

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[Alebrije]

The author:

The only problem of being faster than light is that you always live in darkness.

Sanic.

 

[dave_d]

Yeah their advocacy is bullshit and only thing it will create is possible next gamer gate or something like that. After all that"wokescold 4chan" is fully of PR people from companies and exec, so sorry if I am getting little bit conspirational...

But given the war twittering which I am doing since feb 22, I see a lot and currently I see a lot of small account of people who simply wants to exists, getting scared, what this outrage do to them. And that's fucked up.

Oh taking a media sabbatical? I've been doing that and have been trying to avoid a lot of this. (I don't plan on going back to sites like twitter, facebook, et al until April 1.) Definitely recommend it. People should try it since I think it's good for your mental health to break the cycle of stupidity. Anyway it's given more time to play games out of my backlog and watch DVD/Blurays out of my backlog.

 

[ShivinN]

I would be willing to bet this person didn't even play this game for even an hour...probably googled a bunch is snippets that fit their narrative.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Rowling is my new cougar crush

 

[ShadowNate]

This is hilarious actually, in light of how the game is actually doing and how much of a product of love it seems to be.

So more of this please. I need the laughs.

 

[Wunray]

The author:

This is the person they let review the wizard game?

They look like they belong on a list and banned from playgrounds.

 

[Chozoldman]

This is the person they let review the wizard game?

They look like they belong on a list and banned from playgrounds.

Is anyone surprised that this human's main job on the site is to shove stuff up their ass and then review it? It's almost like their entire persona is built around what they like to fuck or get fucked by...feel like there is a pattern here.

 

[Brigandier]

I just checked it's twitter and some of the shit the LGBTQ+-&_£#@/)(?!; community are saying about people buying/streaming this game is ridiculous.....

Fuck me these crazies are absolutely fucked up beyond saving, All this outrage over a game

 

[mdkirby]

Sadly I fear this whole toxic saga could stand to do some serious damage to the trans community. I’d like to think the hate being directed to the game and those who play is just coming from an extreme and vocal minority and not the broader LGBTQ community, but regardless they are increasingly alienating a huge number of people. Given games are more popular than film and music combined, and this could well be the biggest game of the year.

There’s a non binary girl in my wife’s pole/hoop class who has posted on her socials that if any of her friends play it they should just unfollow her. My wife is scared of posting that she’s playing and loving the game, it’s the first game she’s been excited by in years, and grew up loving Harry Potter.

As this gains more traction, and the level of venom and toxicity increases it could turn a lot of people against the trans community. Given Donald trumps main new platform he’s running on for the next election seems to be focussed around “woke gender identity politics”, promising to codify in law that there’s only two genders, I can’t imagine it’ll be long until the right wing press start going wild with these stories and using it to drive votes. The last election was actually very close (just 20,000 ish votes in the right places would have flipped the electoral college). They don’t need too many people to start to feel alienated and bitter, and then receptive to their messaging to tilt the outcome. This won’t do it alone, but it certainly will not be helping. It’s all extremely damaging and self destructive.

For a game that goes out of its way to ensure inclusivity and diversity, it’s a real shame.

 

[Silver Wattle]

Just another example of the mental gymnastics the people with extremists ideologies perform inside their heads.

 

[Esppiral]

Best thing you can do is ignore this shit, not even talking about it otherwise you are feeding them.

 

[baphomet]

I mean, as someone who has probably never been fucked, shes probably perfect for reviewing the best stuff to shove up your own ass.

 

[tommolb]

I just checked it's twitter and some of the shit the LGBTQ+-&_£#@/)(?!; community are saying about people buying/streaming this game is ridiculous.....

Fuck me these crazies are absolutely fucked up beyond saving, All this outrage over a game

Can we reword this please to "some of the shit some of the LGBTQ+-&_£#@/)(?!; community are saying..." ? Not all folks in the LGBTQ+ community have stupid views on JK Rowling or this game.

 

[TVexperto]

I mean, as someone who has probably never been fucked, shes probably perfect for reviewing the best stuff to shove up your own ass.

a shemale gives this game 1/10 meanwhile he/she reviews sex toys on wired? what in the world is happening

 

[ShivinN]

Sadly I fear this whole toxic saga could stand to do some serious damage to the trans community. I’d like to think the hate being directed to the game and those who play is just coming from an extreme and vocal minority and not the broader LGBTQ community, but regardless they are increasingly alienating a huge number of people. Given games are more popular than film and music combined, and this could well be the biggest game of the year.

There’s a non binary girl in my wife’s pole/hoop class who has posted on her socials that if any of her friends play it they should just unfollow her. My wife is scared of posting that she’s playing and loving the game, it’s the first game she’s been excited by in years, and grew up loving Harry Potter.

As this gains more traction, and the level of venom and toxicity increases it could turn a lot of people against the trans community. Given Donald trumps main new platform he’s running on for the next election seems to be focussed around “woke gender identity politics”, promising to codify in law that there’s only two genders, I can’t imagine it’ll be long until the right wing press start going wild with these stories and using it to drive votes. The last election was actually very close (just 20,000 ish votes in the right places would have flipped the electoral college). They don’t need too many people to start to feel alienated and bitter, and then receptive to their messaging to tilt the outcome. This won’t do it alone, but it certainly will not be helping. It’s all extremely damaging and self destructive.

For a game that goes out of its way to ensure inclusivity and diversity, it’s a real shame.

I would unfollow that person...There is a militancy to this movement that really makes it hard to find a common ground.

 

[zcaa0g]

I'm canceling my subscription to Wired! Oh, I don't have one and neither does anyone else. I'm getting really tired of heterophobic media resources such as Wired.

 

[baphomet]

a shemale gives this game 1/10 meanwhile he/she reviews sex toys on wired? what in the world is happening

I'm fairly sure it's just a fugly woman.

Or their Adam's apple is perfectly hidden by the extra chin.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

The author:

"how to trigger era in 3 pictures"

stay safe out there folks and mix it up!

I would really love to win as I cannot afford this game right now

^ the resemblance is uncanny

 

[FBeeEye]

If you already didn't know, there are alot of activists masquerading as journalists in the media. This is no exception.

 

[SaucyJack]

I hope they do include this on OpenCritic/Metacritic. I hope it’s the lowest score on the site, and tons of people click it to see what it’s all about.

Nobody is looking at this review and thinking “well if Wired says it’s 1/10 it must be bad”. Lots of people are thinking “what a bunch of fucking lunatics”.


I canceled my Wired sub over the summer after subscribing for years. Such a joke of a publication. It’s like 50% barely-disguised advertisements, 40% lifestyle/identity/woke stuff, 10% interesting tech-related articles that I actually enjoy reading.

They’re insanely lucky they even survived this long. Articles like this are just accelerating their decline into irrelevance

I cancelled my Wired sub quite a few years ago now.

Their decline from an indispensable and insightful publication to complete trash is only matched by The Economist.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Are they included on Metacritic? If so then they should be given a lifetime ban. Talk about the game and review the game ffs.

 

[skneogaf]

Hardly impartial

 

[Aesius]

Fuck man, I used to love Wired Magazine in the 90s and 00s. Wokeism ruins everything it touches.

 

[Viz108]

Well, I guess we know Wired doesn't get paid off for reviews at least. Doesn't mean they practice any form of journalistic integrity, but at least now we know they do it for free.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Ok I'm intrigued what does the sign say, mean please?

Work will set you free, it was the exact sign Nazis put in the Auschwitz concentration camp so I this one has me scratching my head a bit what was the intention. It's an obvious reference to Auschwitz, not sure how that fits with Harry Potter lore since I'm not into that shit anyway, but weird reference regardless