Barbie And Baldur’s Gate 3 Prove That Go Woke, Go Broke Doesn’t Exist

Politics@beehaw.org – 210 points – 11 months ago

Barbie and Baldur's Gate 3 have undeniably progressive elements and are unstoppable money-making machines.

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As much as "go woke, go broke" has become common wisdom among right-wingers, shows of progressivism are only damaging in cases where the product's base skews conservative and where there are plentiful other options.

Yeah, I mean of course. the whole article can boil down to this one line. Conservatives weren't going to watch Barbie or play BG3 to start with. They will however watch nascar and drink beer. However, Nascar can go woke all it wants because there is no alternative.

Yeah, having progressive elements in a game or movie meant mainly for conservatives is like a pickup truck that only comes in pink or this flag:

I'd love that pickup truck

Ok, bad example since, unlike the traitor flag, pick up trucks are used by lots of non-bigoted people 😁

It does sort of make me dream of a federation of ancom communities, but I like to do that anyhow...

Not sure if it still holds now that most people will stumble upon the history of the confederate flag and how it has been flown since in the US, but as an 80s Eurokiddy, back in the day when we were even more clueless than we are now - it just had some vague "rebel" association. Then people started reading stuff, clued the rest of us in about what it actually represents (inadvertently prodding us out of clueless enthusiasm & into some circumspection), but it took time for that message to get heard enough for the flag to vanish from circles who'd never had flown it had they known.

Anyhow, loathe this version for drawing false equivalences, yet find it grossly fascinating for how it obliquely manifests so many truths about our society under Capitalism.

We're long accustomed to the commodification of causes & the trivialisation of same, but one can look on this and see, endless tidy light grey boxes lit with rows of long lights posed as unflickering mimics of fluorescent tubes, chewing time to unfold tidy folded wraps of glossy paper, encapsulating shine-worn gloss of ticket home (&back) on hard-lit long trains ticking & tilting bright-lit to aching, fretful sweat sotted beds, unfurling blankets... but, for now must choose. By committee.

Or, they laid off 70% of their workers, one of the remainder prompted a chatbot to provide an icon which would "appeal to all Americans" & here we are discussing it, giving them free publicity & putting the pandering fucks at the head of our mind.

Bollocks, have rambled & clean forgotten what I was trying to say. Apologies.