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Can someone provide the opposite of the tl;dr? A too short, didn't understand?

Not gonna lie. It sounds like Sweet Baby should be putting their name on things they work on. Their reputation should reflect their body of work. If their poor writing is the reason people are disappointed in games, then people have a right to know. The problem is that it sounds like what they actually do isn't writing, it's some sort of EO QC. From what I have been able to find online, it seems like they get hired by game developers to sanitize games in a way that would appear (to some people) to be inclusive ways. However, just because you're not a fan of their choice to make a male character female or vice versa, doesn't necessarily mean you're a bigot. This sounds like the same sort of thing WoTC is doing with their own IP by trying to change Drow etc. I don't agree that Drow are problematic.

I don't intend to spend money on new IP made products that seem to want to change lore and such with the intent of "being more inclusive" or less problematic.

Specifically because I feel like this wasn't a conversation people were having until some people who are not negatively effected by the black = evil stereotype in media have all the sudden decided to white knight a movement against it in the most ham fisted way possible and it's often pretty insulting.

I have said repeatedly that inclusivity works when the differences aren't highlighted and there is a successful and not forced way to make that a part of most media, but making it the singular feature of a character in any media (that their existence is there just to fill a quota) is just tokenism.

Looking at the curator list, whatever the intent, it's actually a very handy list of titles with mid to astoundingly poor writing, a lot of which apparently even SBI seems to disown, since they're not on their website (but they are credited by the games themselves).

So yeah, I don't think I need it cause I already didn't waste my money on any of those on their own merits, but it's funny to see there's a common thread.

No idea who Sweet Baby were, or I thought so.

They worked on the writing of quite a few famous things, and surprisingly, they made one niche full game themselves that I have played, one of the playdate's initial games.

Yeah, that curator's crusade against them doesn't smell too good, very gamergate-y. That said the call to flag the curator en masse could get them in trouble. Probably not the right solution.

They really put the Streisand effect to good use here, huh? Nichegamers screenshot showed 9,000ish followers and they're at 87,000 at the time of this comment.

some people need education on the Streisand effect :)