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Someone with an unhealthy degree of culture war, is devoted to "put an end to culture war" in regards to videogames made a Google Doc listing the of games that warn others about the wokeness DEIness of modern games (1980s to 2020s) for their curated Steam Group. Up to a small selection 1400 games in total, or whatever the latest version of this link that you can check down below:
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You know this is gonna be a doozy when the first non-recommend game on this list fucking Bloons Tower Defense 6. and it's more petty and aimless as it goes.

lets check it out and highlighting the more baffling examples.

I like how a good chunk of games I talk about in my stream threads is in the Not Recommended List.

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I also like how most of the Non Recommended games on there are either in my library already or on my wishlist's.

I guess I'm woke guys.

I can't believe "A Gay Love Story About Gay Love" features homosexual romance what the fuck.

bloons tower defense 6 is in the woke section. i'm going to need the heavy drugs for this aren't i?

why the fuck are games with "no woke content" in the "woke content detected" list

at least the list got the fact that the gender options in terraria's character creator will be removed in 1.4.5 right?

since when is "transhumanism" considered "woke"?

final fantasy 7 "contains subtle pro-climate action messaging". nah i'm pretty sure barrett saying "the planet's dyin', cloud!" when talking about the mako reactors and their effect on the planet is overt lmao

honestly surprised that final fantasy 13 is in the "no woke content" section, considering the main character is a girl

i find it so hilarious how there are literal porn games on this list

bro i was not ready for how stupid this was, and i skipped like 90% of the games listed lmao

i know right

"what the fuck do you mean 'i got BLACKMAILED by a FUTANARI' contains a hermaphrodite?"

Hermaphrodite is basically the characteristics of both male and female, specifically in both sexual reproducing systems. and since it's outside the standard two genders, its consider woke.

and yes, there are more futa games on that list.

Traitors 2 America: Wokegeddon

So basically, every game that isn't the racist "Moon Man Mod" for Doom is a woke game.

nah, there's quite a few games on there that are considered "not woke" that aren't outright "killing minorities simulator 2024", or even objectionable in the slightest, such as sea of stars (great game, by the way) and frostpunk (also really good, if you're into the unusual combination of "city builder game" and "survival game")

WAIT HOW DID I GLOSS OVER THE FACT THAT BORDERLANDS 2 AND PRE-SEQUEL HAVE "subtle pro-lgbtq+ messaging" WHEN SEVERAL PLAYABLE CHARACTERS ARE OUT AND OUT GAY (athena is confirmed to be romantically involved with janey springs in the claptapstic voyage dlc, axton is confirmed to be bisexual, i think maya is asexual? not sure, and i think nisha is also bisexual, but i'm even less sure on that one)

there's also the fact that tales from the borderlands is not recommended because zer0 is non-binary in that game, yet the section for borderlands 2 doesn't bring that up at all, despite the fact that zer0 is in that game as well

this fucking list keeps getting better lmao

i know using this word as an insult is outdated, but this group is so fucking gay. I was in some guy's discord server and one of users there checked notes on Futa games. all of them were not recommended.
When I saw Baldur's Gate 3 being not recommended with Quake 2 and Portal 2 being informational, I knew this Steam group list is bunch of phonies.
Even Sweet Baby Inc. Detected was more informational than this.

This group is what happens when you focus more on culture war than the quality of games.

This group watched American Krogan once, but they decided to watch Synthetic Man more.
Also, American Krogan called anime satanic pedophile shit so I do not trust that guy.

Like someone else said elsewhere, I'm pretty sure these folk think more about LGBT+ folk than actually LGBT+ people do. This level of rent free feels like it should be illegal.

they never moved on. when i saw them write futa stuff, i laughed my ass off

Speaking seriously for a moment this list just proves that anyone who talks about woke/dei is going to be incredibly inconsistent about it to justify their favored games of old.

Like look on here and you'll see Cyberpunk 2077 is woke for having "overtly pro-Transhumanism messaging" but Deus Ex: Human Revolution only has "subtly pro-Transhumanism content". Don't even get me started on For Honor's "Features front-line female combatants" line compared to the rest of the list here.

Anyone who uses woke/dei unironically I never expect any level of consistency from when it comes to seriously analyzing or critiquing games. The only semi-consistent thing about them is that they're usually kinda racist/homophobic if this list is anything to go by.

this is going to corrupt to the point that if the game features a SINGLE WOMAN it will be considered woke lol

It does remind me a bit of Chris Chan, who famously would inject his opinions on gay sex into all sorts of places where it didn't need to be and no one asked for it. The mere phallic shape of pickles was enough to trigger him with intrusive thoughts, and when asked why he hates the gays, he answered that it was because they tempt him away from being straight like that's a normal thing to say.
Chris's exit from the bisexual closet was the least surprising plot twist in history.

Lol talk about obsession

This is probably gonna be a hot take: But this list is incredibly suspicious, it's in the little things, like using the term "non-cis", nobody I know who's legitimately Anti-Trans is going to use the term "cis" unironically, Elon Musk tried to make it a slur, remember? Same goes for the term "genderqueer" nobody I know who's hardcore anti-LGBT would unironically use the word "genderqueer" Same goes for stuff like "anti-patriarchy" (they'd say "misandrist" or "feminist" instead), same for "POC" (they'll either say the specific race or say "minority").

And as some of you may remember, as the resident Anti-Environmentalist, we don't really use the terms "climate action", we tend to just call them… Environmentalist.

Weird stuff like this, where they don't really talk like someone that's legitimately "Anti-Woke" and are using terminology that people that are against certain beliefs and ideals wouldn't use because they reject the beliefs and ideals that lead to the creation and use of said terminology mixed with the overreactions to stuff most "Anti-Woke" people I know are okay with, like the frequent complaints about cyborgs and hermaphroditic monsters and aliens, combined with the fact that they keep reviewing futa porn for some reason leads me to believe that this is either someone not "Anti-Woke" trying to make "Anti-Woke" groups like SBI Detected look bad that doesn't understand the actual beliefs and culture of the people that compose "Anti-Woke" groups, resulting in reviews that are completely nonsensical no matter what perspective you look at them from, or the person behind this list is some Sinfest-esque schizo that's not really a good example of any political leanings and more just unchecked mental illness.

Plus, the Steam Group's discussion page is full of other Anti-Woke people questioning the criteria for the list. I don't trust whoever is making this list to not be either a troll or a schizo.

deus ex human revolution and cyberpunk 2077 isn't that great of an example, when you think about it.

firstly, there's the immediately prevalent issue in the deus ex universe that basically every augmented person on the planet has to take what was it called, "neuropozyne" or something like that, to prevent potentially lethal augmentation rejection (which is apparently an actual issue that could crop up if cybernetic prosthetic technology is ever pursued in real life? can't remember that part too clearly)

this part i might be confusing with detroit: become human since they're both set in detroit and also have strong undertones of racism and prejudice against synthetic/augmented people, but there's also the fact that most non-augmented people were fired from factory jobs in favor of augmented people, forcing the non-augmented people to either find new jobs elsewhere or get themselves augmented, which cannot be cheap to do, in order to keep their jobs. this causes quite a few people to become prejudiced against augmented people (which also mirrors the whole "illegal immigrants from mexico are stealing our jobs" shtick, but that's for another place), and the game, to my knowledge, never outright says this way of thinking is bad

then there's the end of the game where hugh darrow causes all of the augmented people to go absolutely apeshit and start killing people in a psychotic frenzy, that event kicking the already-present anti-aug sentiment into overdrive, which is explored further in mankind divided.

i haven't played cyberpunk myself, and i probably won't anytime soon, but from what i have seen, it seems like it deals more with the issues of living in a city where every job and every thing is made and owned by an insanely powerful, faceless, and immoral mega-corporation, instead of prejudice against augmented people or whatever they're called in the cyberpunk 2077 universe.

it feels more like cyberpunk runs with the whole "cybernetically augmented people are cool" thing, while deus ex tries to apply alot more realism to a universe where cybernetically augmented people exist.

also, yea i'm pretty surprised that none of the games on that list with female leads are considered "woke", i thought having a female lead was a pretty good candidate for a "woke" game. maybe i'm completely misinformed on what classifies "woke".

Something I found funny from the "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" brief:

Contains the Wallace add-on which allows the player to play as the gay character Wallace Wells.

Looks like a good way to find games to play and what games to avoid: avoid the nonwoke ones LMAO

I loathe progressive pandering, but I also see a lot of games I enjoyed included.

Oh, my god, I was wrong, it was woke all along. You finally made a wokie out of me!

That's because the bar for "progressive pandering" according to this list is basically "a non-white and/or non-straight person dares to exist".

One Youtuber I watch mock these people by using a clip from South Park in which the owner of City Wok yells: "CITY WOK!"

Oh thank god. I almost thought wed have to play as the notoriously straight Wallace Wells.
Also I love how games like Darkest Dungeon get black marks for having women be frontline combatants but then other games where you play as/have the option to play as a woman on the front lines of battle and combat are just fine.

yea, this list is as inconsistent as it gets

which actually makes kaijin's suspicions about this list being bullshit alot more believable

This guy thinks btd6 is woke by the way

THIS GAME:

THE ONE WITH MONKEYS POPPING BALLOONS!!

the reason that btd6 is in the "woke" section is because "there is a pride flag item available in the trophy store with a pro-pride message" psi is referred to using 'they/them' pronouns." which atleast is actually true, unlike quite a few of the lists entries lmao

also, why the fuck does netflix have a trailer for btd6 they have nothing to do with the game

Netflix Games is a thing now. Think they announced it in June? They're full of mobile games and some not mobile games like Dead Cells.

I really feel the anti-woke is eventually going to inadvertently get a very slimy politician elected that will completely abolish free speech.

Like the kind of politician that watched that one episode of Justice League along with that one episode of The Orville and said "Yep, this is exactly how we should run society.".