Everyone, I lied. I woke up with trying to find an idea for something to bring to you. My apologies for not having done a video in a month but …soon, I promise. Matter of fact, tomorrow 3/15/2024, I’ll try to get back on the tarot videos again. I’ll have a few videos tomorrow explaining my lengthy absences, promise.
In the meantime, I want you all to meet Kim Belair. Why should you care about Belair? For many of you, she means nothing to you and I respect that, however, for the sake of this missive, this is what I keep finding. People just like Kim who do and say some things that we should care about. Especially if you’re a gamer.
See, here, Kim says the quiet part out loud. Give me what I want. Do not question me…or else.
Awhile back, that might have worked but now, not so much. Let me put something in front of you. There were a couple of ham-fisted scenes in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla where my character, Eivor, was propositioned by another man named Broder. Granted, you have the choice of saying yes, no or “Have another horn of mead.” Still, it’s an awkward and ham-fisted moment that really had no business being in the game.
There are many of these moments in there. That’s Sweet Baby Inc’s “consultancy” but ultimately, the responsibility lies squarely on Ubisoft for including it. Thankfully, there aren’t all that many moments like this. If you choose a female Eivor which would be in keeping with the name as Eivor, historically is a female name, then you have another can of worms. The Love Triangle between Sigurd, Randvi and Eivor and the romance between Eivor and Petra. It became a bit tiresome, however, these were somewhat easily overlooked.
Personally, I picked a male Eivor, rejected the advances of Broder, initially romanced Petra a bit and then dumped her for Randvi. I had hardly been aware that Eivor could have both and yes, that’s something that can take place. Seems they didn’t factor jealousy into the equation. I made the choices that were logical for me. Petra was great, nothing at all wrong with her but Randvi…there was a settlement involved and I had to work closely with her. Also, with Sigurd compromised, it made logical sense.
I digress though. Fact of the matter is that these romance options in the game were shoehorned in. I didn’t really care about those. The game could have done without them and that space for code that could have gone to something else. Something that improved game play. But it didn’t. Now, we have a ton of this in our games.
…and we’re all sick of it.
So let’s get back to it. What does this have to do with Kim Belair? Well, she’s advocating for terrorism. The entire object of terrorism is to promote the concept of terror to get what you want. Where the sales pitch fails, terrorize the person into acquiescence.
I also want you to meet Kabrutus, a man from Brazil who created this curated list on Steam called Sweet Baby Inc Detected.
Kabrutus curated the list, taking time out of his day to list all of the games that Sweet Baby Inc provided “consultancy” …actually, let me inject a few ccs of honesty into this dying patient that is gaming “journalism” and call it what it is…sensitivity reading. Sorry, Kabrutus curated the list of games that SBI worked on or provided their sensitivity reading for.
That’s when they completely lost their shit.
Chris Kindred went completely unhinged, have a look for yourself…
Alyssa Mercante from Kotaku managed to get into the Discord server and loudly proclaim that she was there to talk about how racist and bigoted everyone on the server was, after some had come in, expressing racist ideas and epithets and were promptly removed.
She was removed herself and played it off as “I don’t know why…”
Well, Alyssa, we’re not saying you created that problem but the timing is what’s suspect here. We’re also aware of how Kotaku has handled people who love games so, there’s that too.
Take This Inc decided to weigh in on this as well when the “gaming journalists” were essentially BTFOed to hell and gone…but check out where they’ve received grant money…
For those of you who think government wouldn’t take part in gaslighting people, now’s the time to wake up and smell that gas leak you have in your homes.
If you don’t believe me, and you don’t have to, then believe Kim. Remember her? She said the quiet part out loud again…
That didn’t work either, they were called out on their gaslighting, their blogs and outlets are failing left, right and center. They had to think up something quick. Believe it or not, they did just that…
That’s right. Now the FBI and DHS, they’re closely examining you and anything you say, remember this, can and will be used against you in a court of law.
In just a couple of short weeks, how did we get here? What did Kabrutus really do?
Kabrutus only did what any sensible person would do, acted as a consumer watchdog. He let us know where this was and, here’s the thing, he left the decision up to us.
Also…since we’re going after the alleged sources here, I think it’s important to note something very obvious, or it should be.
These are screen shots from Sweet Baby Inc’s own website. They did what Kabrutus did well before Kabrutus did it!
This is what happens when you mouse over the games that they advertise. They tell you exactly what they did.
Representation of what, I wonder?
Here’s something foolish. The studio could have simply bought the most popular run of Spider-Man comics and centered a game around that, letting you affect the outcomes of the stories…and spent far less money.
And these are all the companies that have employed or have been extorted into purchasing their “services.”
Some of you may be thinking that WoTC may just be employing their services for Baldur’s Gate III but…that wouldn’t be entirely accurate as this was their portrayal of Aragorn for the Lord of The Rings Expansion for Magic The Gathering.
If you’re one of the normies out there or one of the people who wants to love what you play and just play what you love, I can respect that. I can even applaud it. Just understand that these people, their movement is dying and they’re in a panic. They’re cornered and, when you’re desperate, cornered and you see no way out, you resort to desperate measures.
Bullying isn’t working so now they want the full weight of the government to come after you. You don’t really have to do anything for that to happen, either. Look at how little sets them off. If you’re as sick of it as I am, do the smart thing and just turn off the console or PC. Stop video gaming and go back to tabletop RPGs. Plenty of those indies out there who would appreciate your money.
That’s also the best part. We don’t have to harass or try to bully them. Call out their lying, yes. Expose them. Shine that light on the cockroaches when they expose themselves. Pour it on when and where you can but ultimately, the investment money is running out. Close your wallets en masse to these people. Let their sales suffer. Lean on the games already in your library and don’t communicate via voice over the game channel. Post nothing you wouldn’t want your parents, a predator or a priest to find. Just make it a wasteland. Sure they’ll ramp up again, but to what? If there’s no one there to buy those games, SBI’s services could not be afforded.
If you want to be even safer, make up your own games. Do some solo gaming for once. Whatever you do, the only sound that these companies and the likes of Sweet Baby Inc should hear are the sound of wallets snapping shut, including yours.