Replies were bombarded with harassment and enbyphobia, trotting out the usual, “Why did you say their? Is she a group?” talking point, like a wall of Buzz Lightyear toys repeating their stock phrase. Others ask how to un-back the project, some describe the announcement as a “threat,” and then come the usual buzzwords: Erika Ishii is a “toxic activist,” a “woke idiot,” “Antifa terrorist,” and a few blatantly racist descriptors we obviously won’t repeat here. Understandably, Double Fine turned off the comments.
Drinks at Nazi bar, is surprised by Nazi patrons.
Stop fucking using Twitter to announce anything. “We go where the people are” is no longer an acceptable excuse for your business keeping any presence on Twitter.
This right here. Its very annoying that some businesses and celebs have decided to stay on that shithole.
Yes. Absolutely floors me. Given the research on bots vs humans, fascism, etc. that plagues Twitter, playing the “but the audience” card holds no merit.
“Since this is the only platform where people can’t seem to be normal about this, the comments have been locked”
Not sure why you’d even bother announcing anything on X these days, really.
Honestly kind of asking for that reacting at that point.
People who talk this shit are never the fans, they’re never someone who might have bought it, it’s a fools errand to even acknowledge them.
Yup. Noticed this with plenty of “fans” opening thread after thread of hateful drivel on Steam forums, e.g. for Paralives. These people are clearly not interested in the game. Some even confessed to having been incited by alt-right streamers.
Oh I got excited for a moment thinking the cancelled paradox sims game got made after all, but it’s a different one. Is it good? What’s the controversy anyway, did they allow creating characters that conservatives don’t find attractive or something?
It’s a very barebones and buggy game right now. Might want to give it another year or two before buying, since it can’t even hope to compete with “the” life sim at the moment, let alone stand on its own feet. Right now, it’s just a foundation upon which a good game could be built.
As for the controversy, there isn’t one, of course, apart from manufactured nonsense. The usual “outrage” about the game allowing players to create people that exist in real life, but that conservatives want to kill.
I’m no more likely to read Steam forums than X for the most part. The only exception is if a post comes up as a search result when I’m troubleshooting some issue with a game, and even then it’s an odds-on chance it’ll be useless. Otherwise, stay away!
Yeah, zero chance people like that were actually going to play paralives to begin with.
Not too long ago, I ended up randomly on one of those “curator” lists where they review basically everything in terms of wokeness. You know, so you can buy responsibly or something. That shit is hilarious.
Like half of the “nope” have no reason but “there’s gay marriage in it”, but wait, Skyrim has that too… “Err yeah, but we like that one so, it’s okay. For… reasons.”
And I remember one game getting a “Not Recommended” with the only line in the whole review being “In the trailer, you can see a man who’s knitting”.
you can tell none of these dumbos have ever consumed any of erika’s content. they’re just a fucking gremlin. an amazingly talented gremlin but a gremlin nonetheless. i don’t understand how you can not love erika.
I’m pretty sure they unknowingly HAVE consumed some media where they have been involved. Destiny 2, WoW and CP2077 aren’t small titles.
But these chuds don’t criticize the quality of work, because they are utterly unable to discern good from bad work. They attack anything they perceive as different, regardless of the nonexistent threat to their lifestyle (outside of the minor facts that sexism, bigotry and racism are to be shunned. These people REALLY REALLY REALLY want to be able to use slurs, because they mentally never left high school and in many cases were the bullies there).
I doubt they ever played anything from double fine based of their reactions. Just harassing for the sake of it. I don’t get why or how people get like that. Gotta be lead poisoning or some deeper illness because I genuinely don’t understand how someone could become that antagonistic towards others who have done nothing wrong.
Also as a side note, it baffles me that people use “antifa terrorist” as a label. It is helpful in immediately outing the crazies as crazy though
Man, I fucking love Erika. They play a character on Hello From The Magic Tavern nicknamed “Sword Bro” who’s a dude who’s really into swords, but also low-key but high-key appropriates dragon culture and constantly wants to become a dragon lmao
It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to that, but I didn’t realize that was them.
I highly doubt any of them have even played a Double Fine game.
I mean, I tried to watch some of L.A. By Night and didn’t really love them there, to be honest. Didn’t make me dislike them as a person or anything though, or as a voice actor. I think they’re talented. Just made me stop watching the show.
you should watch them on dropout, they’re an absolute menace.
Should I know who this person is, or…?
Voice actor for Atysu in ghosts of Yotei I believe. They identify as gender fluid and a believe has partner. Asian, LGBTQ, the two capital troglodyte chud capital “G” Gamers nerve popping trigger points…or at least that’s what they’re told should be their trigger.
They were also Ana Bray in Destiny 2
Because Jin Sakai is dead (it’s centuries after Tsushima) and Suckerpunch chose to have a gasp WOOMEAHN be the main lead this time, chuds were told to be angry and threaten her because Erika represents the “woke” movement that their God emperor wants to erase permanently.
Cause they’re all fucking goostepping Nazis
I know them from frequent guest spots in Dropout comedy shows. Very funny person with big energy.
