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CD Projekt boss pushes back on 'conspiracy theories' against diversity in gaming: 'We live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On the one hand, having representation limited to villainous roles is bad. (See early depictions of black people and think about "Cowboys vs. Indians")

On the other hand...there are plenty of women in villainous roles. I can also think of a few notable gay and disables villains.

Hell, Breaking Bad is a great example of having all of them, and even though it aired before "woke" became a bad word to some people, nobody ever complained about it being too progressive or anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I can also think of a few notable gay and disables villains.

Basically every Disney animated movie? Sure the villains weren't boning other dudes or anything, but there was a lot of "queer coding" going on.

The trick is to not imply that someone is a villain because of their gender, gayness, ethnicity, etc. Villain that happens to be gay, whatever. Villain that's gay and really creepy about it and seemingly motivated by their gayness to be evil... yeah that's really bad.

But I think things have improved a lot. Giancarlo Esposito is the villain in basically everything now, and I don't think anyone is complaining. The dude is just really good at playing villains, so why not? It's not his ethnicity that makes him a villain, it's just that he's really good at playing a cold and calculating sociopath and people enjoy his performance.