CD Projekt boss pushes back on 'conspiracy theories' against diversity in gaming: 'We live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it'
We also live in times where game developers can lie to you about a game and its contents for like ten fucking years, and then on release day try to shrug it off like it’s no big deal that it’s a buggy half-baked mess
Conspiracy theories are popular because people often prefer easy answers to reality. And "gays womens disableds bad" is a very easy answer, as it absolves [thanks maccentric] people that are not in those groups from blame.
Which isn't going to happen if enough people vote along the lines of completely insane conspiracy theories. The candidate who says "I'm going to turn off the Jewish space lasers!!!" is almost certainly not going to be the one who makes the lives of normal people better through empathetic listening.
This sounds weird to me. What is easier than just trusting the official information? This is exactly what conspiracy theorists are complaining about actually. That ordinary people just trust the information they are given by credible sources.
If anything, people who believe the standard information are the laziest, no?
So the "easy answers" part sounds a bit weird. The easy answers are right there on TV and the internet on the first search hit.
It's more that those answers don't make sense to conspiracy theorists. I guess you can tell them to get a degree in science and then it will make sense to them, but that won't happen.
But it's interesting how others can appearently explain how things work to conspiracy theorists in a way so they feel they understand and don't doubt the information. Because it makes intuitive sense to them.
Maybe too much of science is hidden behind complicated layers that normal people just don't understand and can't understand.
"Easy answers" in that they're simple, fit into their existing worldview, and don't require them to change anything. Not easy as in the easiest to find. That's why it's a conspiracy, the simple answers that they want to be correct are being hidden from them.
It's more that those answers don't make sense to conspiracy theorists
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What is easier than just trusting the official information?
It's easier to say "This doesn't make sense, so it must be wrong" than it is to say "This doesn't make sense, so I must learn more to figure out how it could make sense."
It's easier to say "I know more than everyone else because I am critical thinker watch YouTube videos that express views that go against mainstream knowledge" than it is to actually have the skills to engage in critical thinking, and to have the knowledge to be able to determine a good source of information from a bad one.
I guess you can tell them to get a degree in science and then it will make sense to them, but that won’t happen.
See, the problem here is that I actually DID do that, and it's explicitly because I did that, that I know for a fact that the "official" sources are completely (and seemingly deliberately) wrong. Like how the initial imperial college model used to predict a 7% covid death rate was wildly irresponsible, or how "social distancing" and plexiglass barriers and cloth masks do not actually do what the "credible official sources" were insisting they do, or how literally changing the definition of vaccine so they could call a novel genetic therapy a vaccine is simply wildly unethical.
The problem is that official sources can be every bit as corrupt as any other human organization, and our society USED TOO have a sober recognition of that fact, which is why modern western society was founded on the idea that government officials are public servants rather than rulers.
And then random idiots online tell me to go get the education I already have, because they're simply parroting what people they've never even met told them, and they believe it so strongly that they assert the existence of a world they know nothing about.
It's been taken off Wikipedia but there was a video a few years ago pointing out fox news only became profitable when they switched to the brown people bad and fear rhetoric. There was a theory name for it but it's since been scrubbed from the internet. That's the basis of conservativism.
How is what you're imagining any better than simply "gays womens diableds good" as a lazy and simple answer, so you can put the blame for society's problems on other people, and take no responsibility for learning and growing as people yourselves?
We live in times where making up bullshit is consequence free, even if you get called out on it. People seem to value if you can speak well more than if you're speaking the truth.
But hey, it's free speech in the marketplace of ideas, so maybe it's actually a good thing.
Jason Shrier pointed this out multiple times in his podcast. He HAS the insider knowledge and shares it when appropriate and he will still see Twitter folks just blaming DEI for the issues any game is having. Sweet Baby Inc is a good one because some YouTubers grabbed on to this company simply because it’s a DEI consulting group, and now it spread like wild fire and you will even see comments on Reddit and Lemmy blaming Sweet Baby Inc for things that no one really know what aspects they worked with and how much.