Woke Versus Gamers

I haven't played computer games in a couple of decades. Mostly because I was living on a boat starting in 2002, and while I had a decent laptop, it isn't what I would have called a gaming computer. But I do love the controversies that surround gaming, and music, and movies... What can be lumped under the heading Popular Culture. And I love watching the Woke Scolds lose.

Ryan Kinel is the quintessential angry white man. While some people think its an act, I think he's just angry. More to the point, he is authentic. And he usually has some interesting things to say about gaming, TV, and movies.

The Right likes to think that they are sober, serious people who don't have time for video games, and comic books, and movies, or whatever. The Right forgot that politics is downstream from culture, and pop culture, IS culture. Now they are shocked to discover that politics are screwed up. They abandoned everything to do with teaching, and are surprised that the Left turned it into indoctrination. I don't have much patience for that part of the Right.

The latest controversy is the game Black Myth Wukong out of China. It is based on a classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, and follows an anthropomorphic monkey based on the character of Sun Wukong from the novel. The Western Gaming press, who is becoming more irrelevant by the week, tried to sabotage the game, because it is not Woke. IGN, for example, took some quotes from the development team, and mistranslated those quotes, they then proceeded to take those mistranslated quotes of cultural idioms, and tried to attack the developers, even though the lies have been debunked by actual Chinese speakers. Yes the quotes are vulgar, but they are not sexist, and yes they are common in China. The lies told by IGN have been repeated all across the gaming press as if they were fact. This was clearly an effort to destroy a game outside the Woke agenda.

There was even a report that the development team turned down the "offer" to pay $7 million to a DEI consulting firm to smooth the waters. Most people, outside of the Gaming Media, called that $7 million of extortion. "Nice game you have there. Be a shame of the Woke police spoiled the launch."

Anyway, Black Myth: Wukong just released and became the most-played single-player game in the history of Steam, the gaming platform. It is the 2nd most-played game of all time on that platform. That isn't the only platform it released on, but Valve and Steam are pretty good about publishing usage numbers.

Are we shocked to learn that the gaming media is not as relevant as they think they are?

So the first video, which is embedded, is about Black Myth: Wukong. There are a couple more below the video, that cover other current stuff in pop culture.

This the RK Outpost video Black Myth: Wukong Haters SEETHE After MASSIVE Launch | Woke Gamers And Journalists Have A MELTDOWN. It is 7 minutes long, so grab a coffee.

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  A movie based on a video game. It is being pulled from theaters after just a couple of weeks.

• Woke Disney Star Wars Fans MELTDOWN After The Acolyte Gets CANCELLED | The Show Made For Them FAILED

One of the things I like about Ryan's videos is that they are short. It is rare for one of them, except for the live-streams, to be 10 minutes long. Most of them are more like 5 minutes.