Dirty Bomb Did not won the Tiga's diversity award

(GatoCommodore) #1

remember this discussion?
http://forums.dirtybomb.nexon.net/discussion/32707/vote-to-make-dirty-bomb-tigas-game-of-the-year/p1

turns out it didnt won the Diversity Award.

this won
https://www.nextgenskillsacademy.com/career-development/nextgen-training/nextgen-aspiring-women

i dont get it, is this a game?
is the award for the game or developers?

my head hurts
i mean what in actual fug?

what in tarnation is this.

Edit: Nevermind, the award is for game industry so the game that was created does not count at all.

(DankBeretField) #2

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(Jostabeere) #3

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(Brycko) #4

Pooey. DB is BY FAR the most fair, gender-equal, diverse character-driven game. Continues laughing at OW’s ‘diversity’.

Seriously though. Blizzard goes on about OW’s diversity, and then is afraid to openly disclose which one of their characters is LGBT. And don’t even get me going on the stereotypes, some of which are so over-the-top its offensive.

(GatoCommodore) #5

the thing is DB dont even matter since they only judge the diversity of the developers.

man what kind of fucking award is this.

(Terminal_6) #6

[quote=“sweetColumn;215042”]the thing is DB dont even matter since they only judge the diversity of the developers.

man what kind of @$!# award is this.[/quote]

I guess it’s just a pat on the pack for hiring minorities. Why would they even ask people to vote for this?

(Jostabeere) #7

[quote=“Brycko;215030”]Pooey. DB is BY FAR the most fair, gender-equal, diverse character-driven game. Continues laughing at OW’s ‘diversity’.

Seriously though. Blizzard goes on about OW’s diversity, and then is afraid to openly disclose which one of their characters is LGBT. And don’t even get me going on the stereotypes, some of which are so over-the-top its offensive. [/quote]

Why is our society on the level that there HAS to be some homosexuals if you want to call something diverse?

OW has no homosexuals and DB has one. One homosexual person. DB is so much more diverse because of one homosexual woman…
Let’s compare the games because I wanna show you that you should not hate OW for the sake of hating OW and making up stuff.

-OW has 11 nationalities from across the globe.
-Dirty Bomb has 10 when we count England as one thing and 12 if we say English, Scottish and Welsh are completely different things.
-OW has a robot. And a Cybord. And a talking ape. If we add them as their own, OW has 14 different nationalities.

DB has 6 women and 13 men. Very gender-equal.
While OW has 10 women and 10 men.
3 genderless robots/cyborgs. Much less gender-equal than DB…Not.

Besides that, DB is full of stereotypes:
Black men with thick African accent.
British girl with British accent.
Blonde German woman with a fake Hollywood German accent who says words which make no sense in German.
Asians with Asian accent and an Asian woman who screams “Kawaii”
Russians with the Hollywood Russian accent.

Please Inform yourself before you call something something bad just because you do not like it as much as something else.
Like it or not, but OW is objectively more diverse than DB. Period.

(Brycko) #8

@Jostabeere I was actually more referring to the stereotypes in OW. DB is full of stereotypes, but at least it doesn’t go as far as to sexualize them (Symmetra, Widow, Pharah etc…) or imply them on other cultures (Torbjorn, Mercy, Zenyetta). Embracing it is one thing, at that is something that OW does very well. But it also ruins the culture that they represent. Swedish people are not all dwarves. French people are not all unreasonably sexy. Swiss people are not all pacifists etc…

DB, in comparison, recognizes this. Everyone in DB is stereotyped to some extent, but it doesn’t go so far as to define the character.

DB is ‘so much more diverse’ because of one homosexual women, but at least it doesn’t have problems expressing it.

FWI I love OW. I regularly alternate between DB and OW because they are both incredibly great games. I main Ana and D.va and if you ever run into me let me know, my username is Brycko as always. I just think that both games tackle diversity in very different ways.

(watsyurdeal) #9

Honestly work diversity is a joke, I’d rather have people who can do the job, rather than hiring someone slightly less qualified so we can meet a quota or say our team is diverse.

(Jostabeere) #10

So when OW makes one Swedish guy a dwarf it means they stereotype every Swedish as a dwarf by what you say.
But when DB makes a German woman blonde and blue-eyed and a lesbian, it does not stereotype all Germans as blonde, blue-eyed and homosexuals but shows diversity?

Also where does the nationality not define a character in DB?
Fletcher is African. His skin colour and his thick accent do define him.
Bushwhacker talks like a redneck from the South. And he’s Texan. This defines him pretty much.
You just bend it the way you want for the sake of arguments because you visibly like DB more than OW.

(Brycko) #11

[quote=“Jostabeere;215075”]So when OW makes one Swedish guy a dwarf it means they stereotype every Swedish as a dwarf by what you say.
But when DB makes a German woman blonde and blue-eyed and a lesbian, it does not stereotype all Germans as blonde, blue-eyed and homosexuals but shows diversity?

Also where does the nationality not define a character in DB?
Fletcher is African. His skin colour and his thick accent do define him.
Bushwhacker talks like a redneck from the South. And he’s Texan. This defines him pretty much. [/quote]

At least Fletcher doesn’t wear his tribal clothing to battle and bush isn’t wearing suspenders and a straw hat (though he does get pretty close). Nader is not dressed as 'little Heidi with a grenade launcher because that’s not the point. National pride isn’t central to DB, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t diverse. You’re also totally ignoring my point about the sexualization issue in OW.

[quote=“Jostabeere;215075”]You just bend it the way you want for the sake of arguments because visibly like DB more than OW.
[/quote]

Right back at you. Look, we could spend years on this argument. How about we don’t.

(Jostabeere) #12

But OW heroes all run traditional clothings and behave overy [put their nationality here] beyond the point someone would do, right?

Edit: I ignored sexualization completely because it’s very subjective. One may find something overly sexualized, while someone other not.

P.S. Yes. we could spend years on this. Because you say something that is not true and fail to understand that this is objectively not true.
OW is still objectively more diverse than DB. And I say that even though I never played OW and like DB more than OW.

(GatoCommodore) #13

TL;DR not real diversity is not real

(TheVulpesFox) #14

“British girl with British accent”, I think generally people from Britain have British accents…

(TheFluffyOne) #15

Yeah, that one confused me too.

(Your worst knifemare.) #16

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(CyberVonCyberus) #17

“OW heroes all run traditional clothing”
“sexualization is very subjective”

without hating on OW i must say
i don’t think wearing skin tight latex suits with a huge cleavage is a traditional french or british or korean clothing (widowmaker,tracer,d.va)

and well sorry to say while i’m not a feminazi who shouts "UMG YOU SHOWED A FEMALE BUTT YOU DAMN SEXIST "
i must say it’s a little ridiculous how much the female characters in OW almost all have giant butts in thier skin tight suit

all that said i’m not hating on OW but i honestly don’t think it deserves a character diversity award

also “a british with a british accent”

that was a great one i couldn’t stop laughing good job sir

(DirtyDav) #18

I thought I was the only one who was thinking this…literally googled “overwatch sexualization” and all I found was about that tracer scandal picture thingy…

Although I don’t really care about this sort of thing, I really thought for a T-rated game they were pushing it too far. It just looks like a cheap way to rack up 12 year olds imo

(Chilled Sanity) #19

Thank god.