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omg they made lemmy political

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)
[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I had no idea who the second guy was. He's a racist/sexist ex-Blizzard employee.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kern

Kern has become an outspoken critic of the company and criticized such environmental, social, and governance standards and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives effects on video game developers. In March 2024, he railed against wokeness, telling Fox News that there is a "coordinated effort to insert diversity politics into games".

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

In 2016, Kern began seeking crowdfunding for Em-8er, a "spiritual successor" to Firefall. Kern did an interview with YouTuber Upper Echelon in Sept 2024, claiming that about 600K has been raised so far for Em-8er.

This is specifically the part that they are getting his ass on.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How the fuck is Ubisoft cool? They should seriously give their PR-Manager a raise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if they saw the absolutely stupid way people shit their pants about Yasuke, and realized there was no winning with these losers.

It’s funny seeing the about face - the controversy over “we don’t have female protagonists because they would be difficult to model” feels like another universe now.

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