Gamers Are Getting Upset Over Forced Diversity, But This Straight White Dude Shuts Them Down In A Viral Twitter Thread
Back in the day after i was into video games, the issue of variety never occurred to me. I performed games like Tekken and Mario Kart, happily changing between a number of characters from an Italian plumbing engineer to a kickass Japanese woman, the mushroom and a Russian robot commando. I was indulged for choice for diversity, and not once thought that I needed the character ‘ like me’ in order to feel represented. The idea of playing video gaming was to escape to a fantasy planet and be ‘ someone else’ for some time. Image credit: Image credits: Twitter thread , self-described “ straight white dude” gamer FightinCowboy decided to explain why this hassle is unjustified and give his viewpoint on why diversity in video gaming is important. Fightincowboy Billie Lurk (Dishonored: Dying of the Outsider) dishonored Image credits: Picture credits: Picture credits: Image credit: Image credits: Image credit: … Continue reading













