Splash Damage

An ex-Sweet Baby Inc. game developer working on the upcoming Black Panther game openly admitted to not hiring white people while working on an indie game because they make her feel “unsafe.” We discuss this blatant (and illegal) discrimination while highlighting all the ongoing Sweet Baby Inc. drama, including an interview with the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected page on Steam, Kotaku writers and developers weighing in, and more. Plus, we cover the Game Developers Conference nonsense, such as a reeducation panel for canceled devs.

Smaller games like Palworld, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Helldivers 2 are becoming increasingly popular while major studios are seeing major layoffs. Could one of the reasons be that these games aren’t tainted with the woke mind virus that seems to permeate the gaming industry as a whole? Sweet Baby Inc. is one example of a company determined to make games worse by inserting specific political ideologies into every game they consult on. We discuss the controversy surrounding the company that some are saying will spark Gamergate 2.0.

Crystal Dynamics remastered the original Tomb Raider trilogy and included a long trigger warning about how racist the games are. We discuss this virtue signaling along with the creator of Stellar Blade’s based opinion about attractive characters in media and the Xbox news that came about after a week’s worth of rumors about the end of the brand.

A Ubisoft executive recently said in an interview they want more players to get comfortable with the idea of not owning video games, instead turning to subscription-based models that have proven time and again to be detrimental to the fans. We discuss this growing trend along with bureaucrats telling Japanese developers to censor their games, Stellar Blade doing its best to ignore such advice, and some concerns with the upcoming live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

A Final Fantasy vocalist was going to appear at a convention, but when permanently online Twitter users discovered she had merely liked certain “problematic” tweets, her appearance was canceled. We discuss the ludicrousness of this decision along with the double standards in sexy mods, Snow White having dwarves again, and reactions to South Park: Joining the Panderverse.

The developers of the highly anticipated Spider-Man 2 game, Insomniac, have proven themselves to be the ultimate hypocrites by inserting an absurd amount of woke messaging into the game but censoring it all in the Middle Eastern version of the game. We discuss the irony of this decision along with League of Legends developers being equally hypocritical with their ogling of male characters, voice actors’ role being segregated by race, Magic: The Gathering removing the word “witch” because it’s a “real” religion, and plenty more.

Developers are bad at their jobs, so naturally, fans are going to mod games to their liking. However, certain mods, such as one to remove pronouns in Starfield’s character creator, are being banned from hosting platforms. We discuss wokies trying to control what others enjoy in their games along with the inevitable censorship in the upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw remake, Bungie getting blasted on Twitter for being woke, the race-bending of the upcoming live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie, and spooky games we’re enjoying this Halloween season.

We spend a lot of time on this show pointing out the ridiculous cultural trends of video games and other nerdy hobbies, but that’s only because we love it all so much. To celebrate our 100th episode, we discuss some of our favorite games, books, and shows and why, at the end of the day, they’re worth fighting for.

The Witcher TV show is likely going to be canceled, and Feminist Frequency is finally ending. We discuss both and how their deaths are well deserved along with the controversy surrounding Skullgirls and the weird wokeness prominent in players of games like Dungeons & Dragons.

In a confusing but unsurprising move, Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed game based in feudal Japan is rumored to feature a female samurai and a black shinobi as the two playable characters. We discuss the odd choice to shoehorn in genders and races where they don’t make historical sense along with the increasing price and decreasing quality of AAA games, Call of Duty changing an operator’s name to avoid offending anyone, challenges to Hollywood’s diversity initiative, Disney’s choice to remove the dwarves from the upcoming Snow White remake, and the ironic decision to rename the new Captain America movie.